Evola refers to the traditional distinction between soul and spirit
in countless occasions, and explains it, from 'Revolt against the
Modern World' to 'The Hermetic Tradition' and 'Sintesi di dottrina
della razza', in which it is mentioned that the body-soul-spirit
trichomotomy corresponds to the Aristotelian and scholastic
conception of the 'three souls', the vegetative one, the sensitive
one and the intellectual one, to the Hellenic triad of soma-psyché-
nous, to the Roman triad of mens-anima-corpus, and to the Indo-Aryan
trinity of sthûla-çarîra, linga-çarîra and kârana-çarîra.
Experience is everything, to quote an alchemist quoted by Evola
in 'The Hermetic Tradition'.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "savitar_devi"
<savitar_devi@y...> wrote:
>
> After scrutinizing the multitude of previous posts on this list, I
> feel (suprarationally) that I am now reasonably up to date with the
> progression through the chapters.
>
> However, I have in the process of assimilation, found two queries.
>
> Firstly, does Evola provide a description of the distinction
between
> soul and spirit?
>
> And secondly, from this supra-rational insight cited below, is it
> correct to infer that this is something which can only be correctly
> described by one whom has experienced it - also implying that one
> whom does not experience it can never fully understand it?
>
>
> > But this is precisely the power of "insight" to which Evola lays
> claim: to
> > be able to become conscious - by means of a direct intuition - of
> such
> > "world views". This intuition is not irrational, but rather
> suprarational.
> > It does not come from the experimental sciences of the world,
> since its
> > source is transcendent to the world. Evola traces it back to
race,
> not in
> > its biological sense, but in its spiritual sense, from which the
> biological
> > form is simply the expression.
>