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Further Representation of Evola


Unlike the two others, this account is not a caricature. It puts the
stress more on Evola's work than on his life, and, therefore, the
chance of making blunders are less high ; yet, some have been made,
they are just less blatant, and not of the same kind as those which
the two other texts are riddled with. Written from the democratic
point of view, it is also affected by the obtusity which is inherent
to that point of view, and yet, to a lesser extent than the two
others. Elst's got some points. For instance, his reading of Evola's
criticism of Fascism is rather accurate ; after all, it's the least
one could expect from an anti-Fascist scholar.

As a collaborator of the Bharatvani Institute, it must be understood
that Elst needs to make it clear he distances himself from Fascism,
insofar as the Bharatvani institute is a group linked with a
publisher of Hindutva tracts and Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist
organisation, or, more exactly, the principle on which any Hindu
nationalist organisation claims to be based, has been accused of
Fascism. As a matter of fact, the Bharatvani institute has been
called "a cyberspace outlet of the Hindutva filth factory". It must
be also understood that Hindutva has established more than cordial
relations with pro-Zionist organisations
(http://ghadar.insaf.net/June2004/MainPages/zionism.htm).

Julius Evola is said to have forbidden the re-edition of his books on
the racial question as well as that of 'Imperialismo pagano'. Leaving
aside the fact that he did not forbid it legally, the matter is far
more complex than assumed by those who claim he forbid it, and, in
due time, we will go back over this issue. For now, let's just draw
attention to the fact that, in the 1960's, to an Italian former SS
man who had re-published 'Imperialismo pagano' without asking him
permission to do it, and who ended up writing him to let him know
about it, Evola sent a letter which started with those words :

"Dear Sir, a former SS man does not apologise".

Just to give you a foretaste of the terms of the reply which Evola
would have sent to Mr Elst, if ever the latter had dared to tell him
that "there is no excuse for his writing a foreword to the Italian
translation of the anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion." Incidentally, and still in due time, it will be shown that
Evola never considered "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as
a "forgery", as can already be realised by those who have read with
attention "Men among the Ruins".

Evola never "ingratiated himself with the Fascist regime". To be
convinced of this fact, we need only read the criticisms launched by
Fascist party members against the racial theory put forward by Evola
which were gathered by del Ponte in the short preface to the third
edition of 'Sintesi di dottrina della razza' (Ar edizioni, 1994) ;
far from being "occasional", they were launched as soon as Evola put
it forward. They were "highlighted", not only by "his remaining
followers", but by Evola himself, in the 1930's and in the early
1940's.

"Evola's assumption that the spiritual caste (sic) is subordinate to
the martial caste (sic)" may be seen as a distortion from a certain
point of view. As far as Evola is concerned, he never made the
opposite mistake, that which consists in assuming that the "martial
caste" is subordinate to the "spiritual caste", a thesis which is
only the expression of the Brahmanical-sacerdotal standpoint adopted,
among others, by Guénon, and, "whether Guénon likes it or not, is
only one of the possible points of view, and cannot claim to have an
absolute and exclusive value", as stated in 'Autorità spirituale e
potere temporale', one of the many essays of 'Ur and Krur' which were
not published in 'Introduction to Magic'. Possibly the best text ever
written by Evola on the problem of the relations between spiritual
authority and temporal power, insofar as his later writings on this
matter, especially the post-war ones, made some concessions to the
guenonian standpoint.

We are then assured that "it took a top-ranking scholar genuinely
rooted in a genuine tradition, the Brahmin art historian and
philosopher Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, to correct the deviations of
the Western enthusiasts of "Tradition"." We leave you to judge for
yourselves whether an Hindu who studied and graduated in the poshest
Anglo-Saxon schools and spent most of his life in the West, and who
managed to write a book on Hinduism and Buddhism without ever
referring to the Aryan content of those 'religions', focusing
exclusively, instead, on the Hindu teachings which can be connected
with the Judeo-Christian's according to one of the dogmas of
the 'traditionalist' school, can be considered as a man "genuinely
rooted in a genuine tradition."




--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "brightimperator"
<brightimperator@y...> wrote:
>
> Elst seems somewhat less obtuse than the previous ones.
>
>
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/downloads/books/aid.htm#Chapter1Sec
> tion1SubSection6
>
> "The caste system as a religiously sanctioned hierarchical
> organization of society has exerted a fascination on Western
> nostaligics who felt lost in the modern world and longed for a kind
> of restoration of the pre-modern world. Among these nostalgics, one
> of extraordinary stature was certainly Julius Evola (1898-1974), an
> Italian aristocrat and an independent Rightist ideologue who, after
> years in the margin, ingratiated himself with the Fascist regime by
> developing a "truly Italian" version of the Race Theory, "more
> spiritual than the purely biological German Rassenlehre". Thus, he
> rejected biological determinism in favour of will-power, preferring
> chivalrous values like courage over the modern rigid bio-
materialist
> subjection of man to the verdict of his genes. On the other hand,
his
> occasional conflicts with the ideologues and the authorities of
> Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, now eagerly highlighted by his
> remaining followers, hardly suffice to make him acceptable, e.g.
> there is no excuse for his writing a foreword to the Italian
> translation of the anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the
Elders
> of Zion.
>
> "Though a declared racist, his views were at odds with those of
most
> White racists, e.g. he glorified Asian cultures because of their
> hierarchy and traditionalism, esp. the martial virtues as preserved
> (or so Western romantics thought) in imperial Japan. (22) He
> professed a premodern aristocratic "horizontal racism": the
European
> aristocracy was one "race" bound to intermarry, the common people
> were the other "race", with national borders and identities being
> less important. After being hit during a bombardment in Vienna at
the
> end of World War 2, he spent his last thirty years in a wheelchair,
> writing political-cultural essays and fairly accurate but
> always "traditionalist" accounts of Oriental religions. Evola is
> interesting because he presented a premodern (and anti-modern)
> viewpoint, a living fossil in the 20th century.
>
> "Those who have been duped by the dominant Marxist discourse into
> classifying Fascism as Rightist would do well to study Evola's
> Rightist critique of Fascism. He attacked Fascism on the following
> points: its anti-traditionalism and zest for newness and youth (as
> exemplified by its term Duce/"leader", i.e. one who takes the
people
> to a distant goal, a utopia, as opposed to the premodern "ruler"
who
> merely maintains the existing order); its superficial modernist
> optimism (best seen in Fascist, Nazi, Stalinist and Maoist visual
> art); its equalizing "Jacobin" nationalism which minimizes class
> differences; its totalitarianism, as opposed to premodern culture's
> sense of measure and division of powers; its secularism, which
> creates an opposition between the political and the sacred; its
> socialism; its personality cult (one ought to revere the
institution
> of kingship, not the person of the king); and its natalist policy
> based on the vulgar cult of numbers, neglecting quality for the
sake
> of quantity. (23)
>
> ...
>
> "A related distortion was Evola's assumption that the spiritual
caste
> is subordinate to the martial caste, an assumption which he
> maintained even in the analysis of a Vedic ritual in which the
> king "marries" his priest. (24) The traditional and Vedic view is
> that worldly action is subordinate to contemplation, so that
> ritually, the king is the bride and the priest is the groom. Evola
> turned this upside down, affirming the primacy of the royal
function:
> partly, this was an exaggerated exaltation of the martial function
> typical of the interbellum period (when marching in uniform was an
> almost universal style for all kinds of movements, due to the
> militarization of a whole generation in World War 1); partly, it
was
> a projection of a medieval conflict in the Holy Roman Empire
between
> the Emperor and the Pope, a conflict in which Evola's retrospective
> sympathies lay with the Emperor.
>
> "At any rate, it took a top-ranking scholar genuinely rooted in a
> genuine tradition, the Brahmin art historian and philosopher Ananda
> Kentish Coomaraswamy, to correct the deviations of the Western
> enthusiasts of "Tradition". He commented: "As it is, Evola's
argument
> for the superiority of the Regnum, the active principle, to the
> Sacerdotium, the contemplative principle, is a concession to that
> very `mondo moderno' [= modern world] against which his polemic is
> directed." (25) But the problem with the Traditionalist school is
> that they never listen: why should they listen to an Oriental
> scholar, when they already have Evola's or Guénon's version of
> Oriental wisdom? So, the subordination of genuine Asian tradition
to
> the pet concerns of some Western seekers and weirdos has continued.
>










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Elst seems somewhat less obtuse than the previous ones. http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/downloads/books/aid.htm#Chapter1Sec tion1SubSection6 "The caste...
brightimperator Offline Send Email Oct 21, 2005
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Unlike the two others, this account is not a caricature. It puts the stress more on Evola's work than on his life, and, therefore, the chance of making...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Oct 22, 2005
5:39 pm

Coomaraswamy is not the only one; many Indian scholars obtain their qualifications elsewhere – in the case of Hinduism students their prime choice of...
Savitar Devi
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Oct 23, 2005
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Since we are talking of India, I might just venture into current affairs for a moment - not only has the 'congress' government of Manmohan Singh (presumably of...
Rowan Berkeley
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Oct 23, 2005
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Thank for that link - I have interest in keeping up with the activities of the BJP but sometimes I fall behind. I think the BJP has actually mellowed somewhat...
Savitar Devi
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Oct 25, 2005
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That divergent geopolitical opinion on the concept of "Ariya" and/or Aryans sounds like the one on the BhagavadGita. Someone considers it the "song divine" of...
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For what it's worth, Savitar, I dismiss the BJP protestations, as exactly similar to the ultra-right protestations in Israel that Bush is trying to snatch away...
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