In
'Avvento del "Quinto Stato"' ('Fenomenologia della sovversione'),
Evola wonders whether this involutive process stops at the 'fourth
estate' ; whether there may be current symptoms of the emergence of a
'fifth estate', on the basis of a book published during the interwar
years by H. Berl, called, precisely, 'Die Heraufkunft des fünften
Standes', in which American gangsterism and some 'demonic' aspects of
Bolshevism are considered as symptoms of the emergence of that 'fifth
estate'. According to Evola, there does not seem to be any counterpart
of that 'fifth estate' in traditional hierarchy ; "it can only be
connected with a sort of substratum, with the shapeless, wild, and
almost sub-human element which was checked in traditional orders, in
which it was found in the latent state". In 'The Revolt against
Civilisation', which is meant to be an interpretation of modern
democratic revolutionary movements from a racial standpoint, and which
is mentioned in a footnote of 'Sintesi di dottrina della razza',
Lothrop Stoddard' shows that the biological substratum of their
representatives is a 'sub-humanity'. On that basis, it is not
unfounded to compare the leaders of the 'fifth estate' with the
Pariahs in Vedic society and with those who, in ancient Rome, had
"neither hearth nor home".
This is curious, as
someone has recently point this out to me from one of the Tantras:
Here is the extract from Avalon's Mahanirvana Tantra:
Shri Sadashiva said:
O Thou of auspicious Vows! in the Satya and other Ages
there were four castes; in each of these were four stages of life, and the
rules of conduct varied according to the caste and stages of life. In the Kali
Age, however, there are five castes–namely, Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya,
Shudra, and Samanya. Each of these five castes, O Great Queen! have two stages
of life. Listen, then, Adye! whilst I narrate to Thee their mode of life,
rites, and duties (4-6). I have already spoken to Thee of the incapacity of men
born in the Kali Age. Unused as they are to penance, and devoid of learning in
the Vedas, short- lived, and incapable of strenuous effort, how can they endure
bodily labour? (7).
O Beloved! there is in the Kali Age no Brahmacharya nor
Vanaprastha.
There are two stages only, Grihastha and Bhikshuka (8). O
Auspicious One! In the Kali Age the householder should in all his acts be
guided by the rules of the Agamas. He will never attain success by other ways
(9). And, O Devi! at the stage of the mendicant the carrying of the staff is
not permitted, since, O Thou of Divine Knowledge! both that and other practices
are Vedic (10). In the Kali Age, O Gentle One! the adoption of the life of an
Avadhuta, according to the Shaiva rites, is in the Kali Age equivalent to the
entry into the life of a Sannyasin (11). When the Kali Age is in full sway, the
Vipras and the other castes have equal right to enter into both these stages of
life
(12) The purificatory rites of all are to be according to
the rules ordained by Shiva, though the particular practices of the Vipras and
other castes vary (13).
Especially in the light of the fact that Evola personally selected
several of Avalon’s texts for inclusion in an Italian collection, it is
curious that he did not take note of this prediction of a “fifth caste”
in the Kali Yuga.
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