RE: [evola_as_he_is] Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 9
Chapter 9, “Importance of the Theory
of the Inner Races”, may serve to begin to clarify precisely what Evola
is “seeing”.
The fundamental doctrine of this theory
is:
“The outer is a function of the inner,
the physical form is the instrument, expression, and symbol of a psychic form.”
The conception of pure race, then, is of a
“harmonious, coherent, unified type”. The soul of such a race
resided “in a body really able to express it and make it aware”, so
it can find expression free of “any obstacle or contradiction in the
qualities of character”. Such a pure type, however, is rare in any
existing peoples, because they are ethnically mixed.
Racialist research, therefore, can never
be an empirical science, since the pure race is not manifested quantitatively
in a people, but rather qualitatively in its best exemplars. To understand the
inner race, one must understand the original unity, out of which the various
racial elements emerge. From this understanding, the outward (physical)
features of a people may be seen as the expression of the inner race. Evola
points out that this requires an “intuitive
and introspective faculty” [emphasis mine].
Thus, the form of the physical body is not
fortuitous and inconsequential – it is the exact expression of the inner
race. As such, it will express racial unity or dispersion.
The consequences for racial education is
to promote the “exact correspondence between the contained and the
container, between interiority and exteriority”, that is, “men made
in one piece, unified and coherent forces.” It opposes promiscuity and a
romanticism that “revels in a tragic interpretation of spirituality.”
The superior race “manifests itself in the calm domination of the spirit
over the soul and the body which appear to it as adequate instruments of
expression, in order to reflect its race in their style and their laws.”
The theory of the inner race shows that
cross-breeding lead to an “inner laceration and contradiction, to a
rupture of the inner unity of a human being of a given race. They make it
possible for souls of one race to find themselves in bodies of another race.”
The sense of the inner race vanishes, “to be replaced by an amorphous,
limp substance” and “internationalist and cosmopolitan myths”
take hold.
To oppose this, we must begin with an “inner
examination”, meant to discover the fundamental element in us or “spiritual
race, in accordance with which we must essentially act”. Next “we
must seek to give to our being as much coherence and unity as possible”.
Politically, “we must commit
ourselves to the task of applying to the nation as a whole the criteria of
coherence and unity”. This task is the Evola’s “central
motive”.
Since the distance between corporeality
and spirituality seems to be a continuum, Evola proposes the nation adopt some
cultural and racial limits. These limits are creative, in the sense that they
do not bar the way upwards, but rather toward the bottom.
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