Since the publication of Joscelin Godwin's book on 'The Polar Myth',
the original concept has extended to encompass a wide range of occult
myths of the Arctic, such as that of the 'Hollow Earth', that of
the 'UFO's', that of the hidden kingdom of Shambala and Agartha, and
that of the Third Reich in Antarctica. To Evola and to other authors,
it was limited to the theory according to which the terrestrial seat
of Hyperborea, of Thule, was the home of the original man, that is,
of the original Aryan man.
Guénon himself, who, for reasons explained by Madison Grant in the
fifth chapter of 'The Decline of the White Race', was right and wrong
at the same time in contesting the existence of an 'Aryan race' in
the 'Introduction to the Studies of Hindu Doctrines', acknowledged
both the actuality of a terrestrial Hyperborea and its symbolic
dimension : "Almost every tradition has its name for this mountain,
such as the Hindu Meru, the Persian Alborj, and the Montsalvat of
Western Grail legend. There is also the Arab mountain Qaf and the
Greek Olympus, which has in many ways the same significance. This
consists of a region that, like the Terrestrial Paradise, has become
inaccessible to ordinary humanity, and that is beyond the reach of
those cataclysms which upset the human world at the end of certain
cyclic periods. This region is the authentic 'supreme country' which,
according to certain Vedic and Avestan texts, was originally sited
towards the North Pole, even in the literal sense of the word." (The
King of the World')
"To say that the Aryans come from a polar region does not exhaust
completely that mystery", if you refer to the thesis according to
which they come from space, which Evola never considered, even in the
article you mention : 'I "Dischi volanti" non sono palle a fulgore'
(''Flying saucers' are not fireballs'), 'Il Meridiano d'Italia', 21
November 1954, followed, one month after, still in the same paper,
by 'Attendiamo che cadono' ('We are waiting for them to fall'). The
former is based on the information gathered on the UFO's by... the
secret services of the US air force. Who said Evola didn't have any
sense of humour? In the latter, he made a prudent judgement on the
phenomenon, about which, according to him, it is premature to draw
conclusions, since "no UFO has ever fallen on earth" and, therefore,
no one has been able to examine them in a scientific manner to
determine whether or not the technology they are based on is human or
not.
This article ends up with a question which anyone conscious of
the 'occult war' should ask oneself : "WHAT'S THE AIM OF THE
APPARITION OF THE FYING SAUCERS?"
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok@a..."
<vandermok@l...> wrote:
> I did not mean Evola has been cautious on polar myth but about the
mysterious origin of Aryans race, at least to me. To say that Aryans
come from a polar region does not exhaust completely that mystery. I
would desire a world more about. That's all.
>
> About the underworld, we already pointed out the ambiguity of this
concept. It is not casual that some people believe that the UFO come
from that Hollow Earth and/or from the future. By the way, even if
Evola quoted sometimes the flying saucers, unfortunately he was
evasive about; but after all, even if we have today more information
than him, the conclusions are scanty all the same.
>
> F.