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"The only point we must take with a grain of salt in the texts is the
affirmation that in individuals of all castes all possible
potentialities, both positive and negative, exist in equal measure
(Majjh., 96)." "But, Evola adds, the Buddhist theory of sankhâra,
that is, of prenatal predispositions, is enough to rectify this
point. The exclusiveness of caste, race, and tradition in a
hierarchical system results in the individual possessing hereditary
predispositions for this development in a particular direction; this
ensures an organic and harmonious character in his development, as
opposed to the cases in which an attempt is made to reach the same
point with a kind of violence, by starting from a naturally
unfavorable base." (p.35)

From p.32 to that page, Evola goes though the arguments on the basis
of which an accusation of 'spiritual egalitarianism' is levelled
against Buddhism, and he dismisses them one after the other ; whether
they are convincing or not, his considerations on this matter can
hardly be said to be casual. Some of his clarifications, however,
don't really manage to resolve what looks like a contradiction of the
teachings of early Buddhism. "The problem, Evola writes, only
concerns the spiritual apex of the Aryan hierarchy, where historical
conditions required discrimination and revision of the matter; it was
necessary that the "lists" should be reviewed and reconstructed, with
the traditional dignities being considered real only on the "merits
of the individual cases". It seems to us that this consideration, as
well as others in the same chapter, refers to the fact that in the
kali-yuga, just as, on the racial plane, the race of the body doesn't
always correspond to the race of the soul and the race of the spirit
in a given individual, so, on the social plane, not all individuals
are born in the caste in which they should be born with respect to
their vocation and their qualification ; in short, to the involutive
phenomenon of the 'castes mixing'. In this case, and only in this
case, this "discrimination" and this "revision" are fully justified.
But, then, it would seem that, instead of not "upsetting the caste
system on the ethnic, political, or social plane", a caste system
which was already 'unjust' in the metaphysical sense, early Buddhist
teachings should have called it into question.

In any case, if the doctrine of awakening is to be seen as having
promoted 'spiritual egalitarianism', Christianity was far ahead of
its time in this respect. Likewise, when it comes to the precept
of 'non-killing', Judaism was far ahead of its time. In the doctrine
of awakening, however, this precept, as you know, is not conceived of
from a moral standpoint. In Buddhism, "as in every truly traditional
teaching, ethics have a purely instrumental value and are therefore
conditioned" (p.119). Now, if it is considered as an end-in-itself
and it is applied to the social plane, its unavoidable results are
those you indicate. This is precisely why applying principles of a
spiritual order to lower orders is at the root of any
subversion : "Diabolus Deus inversus" : "evil is not so much the
result of a negation as the inversion and the perversion of a higher
order" ('Sulla storia segreta della sovversione'). This fundamental
point cannot be emphasised enough. Those who are not fully aware of
it are exposed to all sorts of confusions and mistake genuine
traditional teachings for their modern caricature.

Still in 'Sulla storia segreta della sovversione', Evola gives an
edifying example of the consequences of this process of
inversion : 'On the plane of nature, equality is a nonsense : in
nature, there is nothing 'equal'. On a higher plane, we should speak
not so much of 'equality' as of 'parity'. Once again, this refers to
essentially aristocratic values. 'Parity' had a legitimate and virile
value only among 'free-men' and 'nobles', beyond any difference of
nature (...) The democratisation and the inversion of this idea has
led on the contrary to the equalitarian 'immortal principle' as
instrument of world-wide subversion."




--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "brightimperator"
<brightimperator@y...> wrote:
>
> The recent and excellent translation of the first chapter of
Evola's
> "The Doctrine of Awakening" has re-awakened certain questions in a
> seeker's mind.
>
> In the chapter, "The Historical Context of the Doctrine of
> Awakening", Evola states: "The only point we must take with a grain
> of salt in the texts is the affirmation that in individuals of all
> castes all possible potentialities, both positive and negative,
> exist in equal measure (Majjh., 96)."
>
> But isn't this innovating "spiritual egalitarianism" Evola casually
> dismisses as an insignificant error one of the central premises
> specifically characterizing Buddhism?
>
> Similarly, in discussing another central premise of Buddhism in the
> Chapter "Rightness", Evola argues that the Buddhist doctrine of non-
> killing has only a marginal and conditional value. Is this true to
> the spirit of Buddhism? Buddhism seems to have let fall the sword
of
> transcendental justice found in the Aryan Bhagavad-Gita. Wouldn't
> adopting the Buddhist ahimsa code invalidate the criminal justice
> systems of the world and lead to the dysgenic proliferation and
> usurpation of subhuman miscreants?
>
> As Evola challenges the two fundamental and innovating teachings of
> Buddhism, its spiritual antihierarchicalism and its antimartial
> emphasis, is he perhaps over-idealistic in his treatment of this
> religion?
>









Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:41 am

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I had always assumed that the rise of Buddhism was to some extent a protest against the caste system, but I am told this is not the case ... ...
Rowan Berkeley
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Oct 11, 2005
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"The only point we must take with a grain of salt in the texts is the affirmation that in individuals of all castes all possible potentialities, both positive...
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Thank you for the elucidations. Assuming the Buddhist theory of karmic formations (shankaras) provides coherence to the Traditional understanding of...
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7:47 pm

This teaching may appear to us as being addressed to an abstract humanity, but, at the time it was professed, there are strong grounds for thinking that it...
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Interesting you should mention Clairvaux, and in such a negative light too. It has been argued elsewhere that the real agenda behind the Templars was an early...
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Bernard de Clairvaux was an extraordinary man, humanly speaking. Yet, a tree is to be judged by its fruits, and, from a Nordic point of view, he cannot but be...
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"Many historians believe that the Knight Templars invented modern Banking System ; some even think that they learned banking, as well as Kabbalah, from the...
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Are we sure that it existed, in the first place? According to the report of the Templars trial, many people testified that they had seen it with their own...
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It is possible Templars derived some knowledge from the acolytes of the famous Fortress of Alamut. There is a vague hypothesis of a secret branch practising...
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I'm glad to hear this scholarly confirmation of the most logical solution to the 'Baphomet' riddle, namely that the name is a corrupt form of 'Mahomet'. Your...
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Evola's assessment of the Templars (incidentally a subject touching me personally) couldn't be clearer: "Among the various knightly orders, the Order of the...
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My dear Imperator, are you aware of how Judaeophilic the Mussolini regime actually was? Has it not struck you that Evola's ability to remain detached from this...
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The fact that Evola was a regular collaborator for years to the newspaper of one of the fiercest European anti-semites of the whole XXth century, namely...
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I never pretended Evola was unconditionally correct on all questions. Notice my question marks. But he certainly isn't a fool either. In this case he seems to...
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Isn't it also possible that the real plan of both Germany and Italy was to flatter the zionists into believing that they (the zionists, horribile dictu) were...
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Chairman of the Zionist Federation of Germany Berlin, 29 June 1933 To the Reich Chancellor Mr. Adolf Hitler Berlin. Mr. Chancellor of the Reich, The Zionist...
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By 1934, Jabotinsky and his Betar youth movement had made an alliance with Il Duce, when the Betar established a naval training academy at Civitavecchia,...
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The coldness of the answer of the German authorities to the request of the Chairman of the Zionist Federation of Germany is typical of the relations between...
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I see you favour the zionist agency's own version, since you have offered it in extenso: http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=585 ...
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We don't favour either Zionist positions or anti-Zionism positions, for reasons which we have already explained in extenso : when most people see things like...
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Today it seems that even the cat and the fox agree for looking at the dark side of the things... Evola judged fascism and nazism from on high, and it is also...
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As pointed out by Evola in 'The Doctrine of Awakening', in Buddhist canonical texts, the mind is sometimes compared to a monkey jumping from branch to branch....
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By 1934 the SS had become the most pro-Zionist element in the Nazi Party. Other Nazis were even calling them 'soft' on the Jews. Baron von Mildenstein had...
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"To commemorate the Baron's expedition, Goebbels had a medal struck : on one side the swastika, on the other the Zionist star." German humour is often...
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Thanks for the sly compliment: comparing me with Guénon. You freeze me, knowing I was referring to the disputable interview by that Jewish newspaper-woman,...
vandermok
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Oct 14, 2005
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You didn't say that Evola changed his mind about the so-called "final solution", but only about the methods by which it is supposed to have been implemented,...
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and thank you for the sly compliment of "the cat and the fox", Fulvio, and also for the nice painting of the baphomet. ...
Rowan Berkeley
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You went beyond my intentions, introducing openly that problem of a new approach by Evola. About the interview in "Ave Lucifer", I utilized the word...
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Evola's assessment of the Templars couldn't be clearer, indeed, and we are thankful to you for posting that excerpt from the American edition of 'Il mistero...
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Suppose the intention of Clairvaux was to create a permanent, securely defended, corridor, from Europe, through the Semitic Near East, to Aryan Persia and...
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