Does anyone have any insight into Evola's rejection of Pythagorism?
He aludes in Rivolta and Camino that there are southern, telluric ways in this path and that Reghini was trying to revive a type of Pythagorism.
Be that as it may, I do not understand the outright dismissal of this tradition. Just a few tidbits:
1. Geometrically and conceptually the foundation of all Hermeticism and alchemical symbolism (at least as far back as can be traced, with perhaps the exception of Egypt).
2. Esoteric, initiatory and aristocratic. The burning of its libraries came about from plebs who were rejected by the group. Many ascetic practices similar to early Buddhism.
3. Utterly entwined with tripartite doctrines
which led to much Platonic doctrine such as tripartite caste system, tripartite metaphysiology, etc., etc. Metempsychosis, wheel of life, etc., etc.