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Dear Sir,

I am not dogmatist. I sincerely appreciate the citation provided.

In terms of his deeper ontology of the spirit, especially regarding the
afterlife, Evola is indeed critical of Orphic-Pythagorean thought--akin to
Nietzsche here, regarding it as "plebeian-tellurian"--opposite to his "Ouranian
soteriology."

Yet the truth is many-sided.

I am speaking of J. Evola's early meta-philosophical development. Within his
intellectual expansion and especially regarding Evola's *Hermeticism* ("The
Hermetic Tradition", etc.), the Orphic-Pythagorean teaching is indeed present,
admittedly not as a dominating element, but still an element among others in his
almost unearthily wide-ranging metaphysical world-view. "The Hermetic Tradition"
is the most visible manifestation of this current.

Speculatively, the Hellenistic Orphic-Pythagorean lineament was transmitted by
the Italian Masonic-Theosophical circles Evola intellectually traveled in
initially, and also specifically by Arturo Reghini, and the "Fraternity of
Myriam" of Kremmerz...

Therefore, while Evola *synthetically integrated* data of Orphic and Pythagorean
teaching within his own "schemata of thought", you are indeed correct these
parts of Hellenistic theosophy Evola rejected, in the end, as plebeian distorted
fragments and lower-class mythoi. "Revolt Against the Modern World" confirms the
validity of your thesis strongly--most significantly, in Evola's elucidation of
the art of postmortem theosis, or deification in the afterlife... Evola is
indeed an upholder of "immortal-soulism" *truly understood*, and a most vigorous
foe of "totemic dissolution into the 'lemures' and 'manes'", and the
"'Sisyphean' spiritual recycling" of fate that is the destiny of the average
"soul" upon death...

I only assert Evola's *selective incorporation* of certain intellectual strains
of Orphic-Pythagorean doctrine in the early, and developing, Hermetic-Gnostic
philosophy of Evola.




Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:07 pm

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Evola derives Tradition from pure integral metaphysical Being itself; yet humanly, the locus of Evola in mundane philosophic history is best characterized...
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Apr 8, 2012
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What is "neo-idealism?" Do you meantranscendental Idealism like Kant and Fichte? Let me guess, you are a Heidegger-guy? That would be the only way this pointed...
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I am not a Heidegger guy--except where Heidegger resonates with medieval theology. Anyway--"neo-Idealism" is just a term--is "post-Kantian Idealism" less...
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Apr 9, 2012
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Your question is basically impossible to answer. The closest thing to understanding the intellectual strains of Evola's major works would be to read "The Path...
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Apr 9, 2012
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Impossible? I think not... I am no amateur post-modernist twit, thank you... I know the intellectual strains of Evolian metaphysics by heart and in...
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Apr 9, 2012
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"Kantian sexual teaching of Otto Weininger" you really blew your cover with this one. and my god you know so many words! ________________________________ From:...
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Apr 9, 2012
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"Kantian sexual teaching of Otto Weininger" you really blew your cover with this one. and my god you know so many words! To a Heidegger-guy everyone is Kantian...
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Apr 9, 2012
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This is J. Evola's assessment of Pythagoreanism, as made in 'Revolt of the Modern World' and as recalled a few weeks ago here : "In Greece Pythagoreanism...
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Apr 9, 2012
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Dear Sir, I am not dogmatist. I sincerely appreciate the citation provided. In terms of his deeper ontology of the spirit, especially regarding the afterlife,...
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Apr 13, 2012
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What is the point of trying to categorize Evola’s philosophy? It can only be misleading without first firmly grasping precisely what that philosophy is. You...
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Apr 9, 2012
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