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To the best of our knowledge, no one has picked out that most
interesting correspondence. Neither Guénon nor Evola, nor even Avalon
have mentioned the symbolic colour ascribed to the gunas ; the red,
to rajas ; the white, to sattva ; the black, to tamas, even though
the yellow is attributed to it in some texts - since tamas is
obscurity, ignorance, inertia, the black colour suits it perfectly,
at any rate.

As to whether this is coincidental or deliberate, no one knows. All
we know exactly in this respect is the origins of the 'schwarz-weiß-
rot' flag.

In 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution which was sweeping the
German states, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on the 9th of
March, to plan the unification of Germany. The same day, they adopted
a flag, the black-red-gold ('schwarz-rot-gold') flag. These colours
had come to be regarded as the national colours of the German
Confederation in the first half of the nineteenth century. Some say
that that sequence originated in the black uniforms with red facings
and gold buttons of the 'Lützow Freikorps', a militia comprised
mostly of university students, which formed in the last stage of the
struggle against the Napoleonic occupation of much of Germany ;
others claim that it is derived from the black eagle on gold on the
Imperial coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire, an eagle who had also
a red beak and red talons.

However, Prussia, the most powerful and influential German state,
withstood that liberal and nationalistic movement, and worked to
establish a unified Germany more favourable to its interests. A great
step towards unification was the establishment of the North German
Confederation in 1867, which, on the 25th of June of that year,
adopted a flag which combined the Prussian colours (black and white)
with the colours of the Hanseatic League (red and white) into a new
black-white-red ('schwarz-weiß-rot') horizontal tricolour. It became
also the flag for the subsequent German Empire from 1871 to 1918.

The future of both flags through the successive regimes which Germany
has experienced since 1919 show us that the use of a flag is never
innocent. Following Germany's defeat in World War I, the 'schwarz-
weiß-rot' flag was abandoned and the new Weimar Republic officially
reinstated the 'schwarz-rot-gold' on the 11th of August 1919. Strong
controversies as to what flag to use soon arose, with, interestingly
enough, the monarchists supporting the re-adoption of the 'schwarz-
weiß-rot' flag. In 1926, it was allowed to be used in the foreign
service of Germany again. When Hitler came to power in 1933, the
black-red-gold flag was eliminated and replaced with the 'schwarz-
weiß-rot' flag, but not for long, since, on the 15th of September
1935, all German governmental flags were substituted for designs
based on the swastika flag, which featured the same colours as the
Imperial flag. Later, the 'schwarz-weiß-rot' flag was dismissed and
banned as "reactionary". As for the National-Socialist war flag, it
was a red field, black cross with swastika in the middle and Iron
Cross in dexter chief.

After World War II, the occupation government banished and outlawed
all existing German national flags. The black-red-gold flag was once
again re-established as the federal flag for the Federal Republic of
Germany on the 9th of May 9 1949, while the German Democratic
Republic, if it used the same flag, introduced in 1959 communist
emblems to its centre : a hammer and a pair of compasses inside ears
of grain.

For a few weeks, we exchanged views with a member of this list on the
swastika, which some have tried to compare, especially in one of the
forms it takes in Hinduism, with the star of David. One of the
striking differences between them is the lack of centre in the latter.




--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, Savitar Devi
<savitar_devi@y...> wrote:
>
> The symbolism of the svastika is very interesting – it may
interest you that the depiction of two overlaid svastikas, one
clockwise, one anti-clockwise is the foundation of the construction
for all yantras and some mandalas also. This overlapping technique is
used to form the form gate constructions that enclose the yantra or
mandala.
>
> The left handed svastika is female, the right one is male. The
svastika is also used outside of yantra for more occult purposes, in
which a single svastika is often used, female ones being utilized for
female deities and right for male.
>
> In Hindu esoteric arts the NSDAP use of the svastika is the
auspicious one.
>
> Has any one ever mentioned the fact that the colours (red, white
and black) also correspond to the three gunas of Hinduism? Is this
purely coincidental, or part of the design?
>
>
> evola_as_he_is <evola_as_he_is@y...> wrote:
> Hitler describes it in 'Mein Kampf' as follows : "(As National
> Socialists) In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white
> the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle
> for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the
victory
> of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and
> always will be anti-Semitic."
>
> In 1933, Guénon considered the use of the swastika by the National
> Socialists 'arbitrary', and yet, if he had lived long enough to
> read 'Il Fascismo visto dalla Destra. Note sul Terzo Reich', Volpe,
> Rome, 1970), he would have most likely agreed with Evola that "it
is
> ludicrous to uphold, as some have done within the context of
> a 'diabolical' interpretation of Hitlerism, that the reversed
> rotation of the swastika was an unintentional but clear sign of
> its 'diabolical' character'." As a matter of fact, Guénon made it
> clear in 'Le symbolisme de la croix' (1931), that there is no
> difference of value between destroverse swastika and sinistroverse
> swastika. Both versions could be found in early Vedic culture.
Still
> in 'Il Fascismo visto dalla Destra. Note sul Terzo Reich', Evola
adds
> that, contrary to what some people think, those who chose the
> destroverse swastika as an emblem for the NSDAP were not aware of
the
> fact that that version, that is the one with the "reversed
> rotation", "is a symbol of power, while the movement in the normal
> direction (sinistroverse) is a symbol of 'wisdom'."
>
> We must say that it's taken us some time to understand Evola's
point,
> and that, for a long time, we almost came to think that there was a
> misprint in that sentence we've just quoted. For us, the 'normal'
> direction is the clockwise one, that of the Hitlerian swastika, and
> not the anticlockwise one, if it may be spoken of 'normal'
direction
> and 'reversed' direction in the case of a symbol which is found in
> the Aryan civilisation in both versions, and whose respective
> meanings, in that civilisation, far from being opposed, are
> complementary. It should be pointed out, however, that, here, Evola
> seems to look at things from the standpoint which has come to
prevail
> with respect to the orientation of the swastika, that from which
the
> destroverse swastika is looked at as a 'reversed' version of
> the 'sinistroverse' one purely because, in Buddhism in particular
and
> in Far-East Asia in general, sinistroverse swastikas happen to be
> more common than destroverse swastikas. This standpoint seems to
us,
> to say the least, arbitrary, not to say tendentious, and...
reversed.
>
> In 'La croce uncinata' (this article is found in a small anthology
> published in 1989 by 'Circolo di cultura politica'), Evola wonders
> about the origin of the swastika. "Is it true that it is the symbol
> of a special race, of the Aryan or Indo-Germanic race? This is what
> was assumed in certain circles in the past century and what is
still
> assumed by some people today. Ernst Krause and Ludwig Müller uphold
> precisely that that symbol was peculiar to the Indo-Germanic stocks
> in ancient times. This thesis, however, has proved to be untenable.
> Further research have enable to bring to light that it was spread"
in
> most of the areas of the world, in California, Korea, Central
> America, Mesopotamia, Japan, South Africa, and so on, "areas which
> cannot correspond to ancient seats of the Indo-Germanic
> race". "Futhermore, Evola adds, any symbol, by its nature, is
> universal".
>
> Yet, that doesn't mean in any way that the value of a given symbol
> found in all cultures is the same in all of them. This point, which
> never seems to spring to the mind of traditionalists, could never
> been emphasised enough. Not to take it into consideration would be
to
> make a great mistake in the interpretation of symbols and of the
race
> of the spirit of the respective peoples who use them.
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:13 pm

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Although it has been suggested that Hitler's use of the swastika and the ceremonial of his rallies were inspired by his childhood experiences of Catholic...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Nov 19, 2005
7:35 pm

The symbolism of the svastika is very interesting – it may interest you that the depiction of two overlaid svastikas, one clockwise, one anti-clockwise is...
Savitar Devi
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Nov 20, 2005
10:49 am

To the best of our knowledge, no one has picked out that most interesting correspondence. Neither Guénon nor Evola, nor even Avalon have mentioned the...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Nov 21, 2005
1:14 pm

"The hypothesis goes that it derived from the relations between Gurdjieff and Karl Haushofer, the founder of 'geopolitics', who was an important character in...
Rowan Berkeley
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Nov 20, 2005
10:49 am

Indeed, the assertion goes something like this : "The swastika was originally a wonderful, holy symbol for people all around the world. The swastika was...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Nov 20, 2005
1:09 pm

I don't think either Evola or Guénon ever associated the 'gunas' with any colour, but the latter, in a series of articles called 'L'Archeomètre' and ...
vandermok
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Nov 20, 2005
10:44 pm

One may rightly regard the fact that Guénon ascribed the colour blue, not the colour yellow as is more usual, to the third caste, as a mere detail. However...
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8:37 pm

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