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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.

 

 

 

 




Thu Dec 8, 2005 3:30 am

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Evola now expands on his understanding of race in this chapter entitled "Spirit and Race". Evola accepts the traditional tripartite understanding of man and is...
Tony Ciopa
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Jul 12, 2005
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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...
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Dec 8, 2005
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This is how Evola describes the man of race: Soul: The soul experiences the world the world as something before which it takes a stand actively, which regards...
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Dec 8, 2005
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Chapter 10 is titled "The Face of the Various Races". Evola explains that the broad racial categories of white, black, yellow, red, etc. do not suffice. He...
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Dec 9, 2005
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In this chapter, "The Problem of Spiritual Races", we reach the core of Evola's project. As previously mentioned, race manifests itself not only in body and...
Tony Ciopa
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Dec 19, 2005
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This chapter holds the key to everything Evola. It is clear that he opposes the Enlightenment ideal that reason and the empirical sciences will create a body...
Tony Ciopa
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Dec 19, 2005
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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...
savitar_devi Offline Send Email Dec 21, 2005
4:22 pm

Evola refers to the traditional distinction between soul and spirit in countless occasions, and explains it, from 'Revolt against the Modern World' to 'The...
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5:06 pm

This is why it is helpful to have the text ready at hand, rather than to rely on a summary. The race of the soul is "connected to life", that is, the "quality...
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Dec 22, 2005
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Everybody knows the hermetic transposition of body, soul and spirit was sulphur-salt-mercury, while in the Olympian hierarchy are the three divine brothers,...
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Dec 22, 2005
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The title of Chapter 12 is "Races and Origins" in which Evola points out the importance of the study of origins and prehistory. But first, he must dispose of...
Tony Ciopa
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Dec 24, 2005
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I do not know how much reliable, but here is an evolian solstice thought on 'ex oriente lux': S. H. Nasr refers that when he met Evola in Rome and asked about...
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Dec 25, 2005
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Evola certainly did not show the leniency you are displaying towards the current Italian people, since he added that post-war Italy had become the kingdom of...
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8:44 pm

I thank the owner to quote the Evola's reference to pizza and gondolas: now I feel more at home here, but my intention was only to point out the uselessness of...
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Dec 27, 2005
2:32 pm

In several places, Evola explains what he means by "seeing", or direct intuitive knowledge of reality. He opposes this type of knowing to its alternatives: the...
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Dec 30, 2005
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In Hinduism the term for this type of 'sight' (applicable only in a metaphorical sense and not a direct epistemological one) is Darsana. This is the type of...
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Dec 31, 2005
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It would be better to know the thing directly rather than the most precise definition of the thing. ... From: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com...
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Dec 31, 2005
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In this chapter entitled "Nordic-Western Migrations", Evola introduces a fundamental theme of his doctrine of race, viz., that the primordial origin of the...
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Jan 3, 2006
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Evola clarifies "the Problem of "Latinity" in this chapter. He takes pains to dispel the idea of "Latinity" as applied to Italy at that time. The Latin myth is...
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Jan 9, 2006
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Chapter 15 is entitled "Race, Romanity and Italian History". Here, Evola enunciates the principle that "in order to progress form racial theory to practice,...
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Jan 23, 2006
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In <evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com> Tony Ciopa <hyperborean@...> wrote. ... Are you sure on the word Church, or is a lapsus for Ghibellinism?...
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Jan 23, 2006
8:35 pm

This is the full passage: "In the Middle Ages, as is well known, the Church tried hard to resuscitate the supranational symbol by combining with it the ideas...
Tony Ciopa
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Jan 24, 2006
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I see: it depends on the quibbles in translating. Since the verb "to produce" is not present in the original, I read better the sentence this way: "combining...
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Jan 25, 2006
11:22 am

First, Evola is not used to being 'allusive', especially in his political or racial works. Second, the Italian 'ingegnarsi' is the precise equivalent to the...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Jan 27, 2006
10:08 am

In chapter 16, "The Type of our Super-Race", Evola goes into some detail regarding the characteristics of the Roman-Aryan man, which is the 'super-race' from...
Tony Ciopa
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Jan 27, 2006
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This may seem overly pedantic, but why does Evola feel it necessary to ascribe a set of given physical attributes to the 'man of race'? Does this mean that a...
Savitar Devi
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Dec 10, 2005
9:19 am

Before going back over your question, just a hint at your remark on "muscular stature" with respect to race : the ancient Chinese called the original race,...
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10:57 am

Does that relate to the Indian theory of matter being made manifest by the gradual manifestation of matter via the principle of Tamas? If it refers to beings...
Savitar Devi
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Dec 11, 2005
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This booklet contains the barest outline of Evola's ideas on race. Since I had never been particularly interested in that topic until I read this, I am not...
Tony Ciopa
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Dec 10, 2005
4:43 pm

Agreed. "Evola's point is that the race of the spirit and soul is expressed through the body", and that's precisely what was to be pointed out in this respect,...
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