Hoping that 'darkiexx' do not be shocked at the fact my eyes are not 'ice blue' but only green/grey, I confirm that the warrior civilisation of the ancient Rome had nothing to do with the 'Papist Latin'.
Today the 'war of machines' can teach mostly the sense of discipline and hierarchy but hardly could involve the sacred 'furor belli' (war fury). The 'furor' drove some warrior till to sacrifice himself to the underworld's gods for achieving the collective victory (see for instance the episode of the consul Decius in Titus Livy, Historiae VIII, 9,1).
Evola wrote about, but on the light of the alchemical process, here and there in 'La Tradizione Ermetica'.
Anyway, the 'furor' of the warrior, after the victory, was ritually 'closed' into the temple of Janus (Mars, Hercules, Quirinus and Janus being hypostasis of the same 'force') to avoid every backstroke to the fatherland, because after the possibility of a 'mors triumphalis' (triumphal death) during the battle, there was also a temporary 'pax triumphalis' (triumphal peace).
Since the only existing god or force is the one we can experience inside, it seems to me not being indiscreet to remember you (H. F.) already answered in part by yourself the interrogative on the Army and the today's approach to the 'war of machines' when time ago you said me personally: "I might have to try and see for myself".
frederick_of_hohenstaufen <slugg3r@...>
wrote:
In 'Le Chemin du Cinabre', Evola writes:
"Dans la guerre moderne se déchaîne l'élémentaire (le terme est à
prendre comme lorsqu'on parle des forces élémentaires de la nature),
l'élémentaire lié au matériel c'est-à-dire à un ensemble de moyens
techniques d'une extrême puissance destructrice (les "batailles de
matériel"). C'est comme une force non-humaine éveillé et mise en
muovement par l'homme, à laquelle l'individu-soldar ne peut échapper:
il doit se mesurer à elle, il doit devenir l'instrument de la
mécanique et lui tenuir tête en même temps: spirituellement, et non
pas seulement physiquement. Cela n'est possible que si l'on se forge
soi-même en tant que type humain nouveau qui, précisément au milieu de
situations destructices pour tout autre, sache saisir un sens absolu
de la vie." (p.191)
The same analysis can be found in "Le "Travailleur" et les falaises de
marbre" at http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id59.html. English-only
speakers can refer to Jünger's 'The Worker' ('Der Arbeiter'). Briefly,
the main idea from the quotation above is that the destructive,
elementary discharges of modern war may be used for the man with the
right spiritual qualification for a transcendent -- or mehr-als-leben,
to use an expression Evola borrowed from Simmel -- experience.
Those considerations become truer as the years go by and as every
aspect of existence increasingly depend on technology and
mechanization, to the extent that today, in the field of war, we may
objectively and non-figuratively speak of a "war of machines."
Considering the above, the following questions might not be out of
place: is the military today still a legitimate direction for the man
seeking an opening to transcendence, and if so, to what extent?
Regards
"Dans la guerre moderne se déchaîne l'élémentaire (le terme est à
prendre comme lorsqu'on parle des forces élémentaires de la nature),
l'élémentaire lié au matériel c'est-à-dire à un ensemble de moyens
techniques d'une extrême puissance destructrice (les "batailles de
matériel"). C'est comme une force non-humaine éveillé et mise en
muovement par l'homme, à laquelle l'individu-soldar ne peut échapper:
il doit se mesurer à elle, il doit devenir l'instrument de la
mécanique et lui tenuir tête en même temps: spirituellement, et non
pas seulement physiquement. Cela n'est possible que si l'on se forge
soi-même en tant que type humain nouveau qui, précisément au milieu de
situations destructices pour tout autre, sache saisir un sens absolu
de la vie." (p.191)
The same analysis can be found in "Le "Travailleur" et les falaises de
marbre" at http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id59.html. English-only
speakers can refer to Jünger's 'The Worker' ('Der Arbeiter'). Briefly,
the main idea from the quotation above is that the destructive,
elementary discharges of modern war may be used for the man with the
right spiritual qualification for a transcendent -- or mehr-als-leben,
to use an expression Evola borrowed from Simmel -- experience.
Those considerations become truer as the years go by and as every
aspect of existence increasingly depend on technology and
mechanization, to the extent that today, in the field of war, we may
objectively and non-figuratively speak of a "war of machines."
Considering the above, the following questions might not be out of
place: is the military today still a legitimate direction for the man
seeking an opening to transcendence, and if so, to what extent?
Regards