A Gentle Introduction To Julius Evola

Julius Evola is a radical right-wing traditionalist. This video attempts to gently introduce his ideas to the viewer.

Arktos:

Morgoth:

PhilosophiCat:

Kali Yuga:

Jonathan Bowden on Evola:

[fearlessleader]

You know someone is an elitist when they have a monocle.

I approve

[Adrian-qiii]

I think you got something wrong: Evola didn't regard the priestly and the warrior caste as superior to each other, Guénon regarded the priestly caste as superior, instead Evola believed that in the beginning both castes were just one, the fusion of both temporal and spiritual powers, some sort of warrior monks caste like in Assyria, Egypt and all the ancient empires, a divine royalty would be at the top.

[munkydelarocha]

I discovered Evola within the library of a Jesuit university. I consider it one of the biggest takeaways from my academic program.

Thank you for addressing the man and his works.

[fauxiconoclast]

VERY excited for this - will you be covering The Myth of the Blood and more generally his mysticism?

[DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman]

English lacks a good word to define "becoming", but romance languages have always two very different words to define what is eternal in a being and what is temporary. The English word that comes close to define the temporary being is the word "stay", which is something that is now, but may not "stay" that way if something happens. But even so in English you can't say "You stay rich.", you have to say "You are rich.", still as wealth is not a part of your being permanently, in other romance languages you would have to say "You stay rich".

[LavishPatchKid]

The weirdest thing to me about Evola and Guenon, is their spiritual beliefs are extreme outliers (hinting of secret 'hermetic-esque' esoterism) - yet, they clearly are 100% against the wants of the prevailing hermetic orders of their day. Clearly, there are different factions at play, in such things.
Or at least there were.

[fearlessleader]

I am a simple man, I see a Charlemagne video and I like.

[malthus]

This is gentle?? Can't you do one of those real time animations with crayons or something?

[Auto_Learning]

Damn, how did I just find this channel. YouTube really hides the good stuff

[jaredwilliams]

"Being/Becoming" are pretty significant in Hegel and the Idealists, more generally. "Thing in itself" gets more than a little attention in Kant, come to think of it.

[photosyntheticzee]

Another way of looking at it might be that the warriors are higher than other castes in the spiritual hierarchy because war, properly viewed, is a way into spirituality, and a higher one than simply performing one’s economic role in society.

In other words, the warrior is where the material action and spiritual thought meet. In war they are one. The priests may do their rituals, but their utility is not material. The servants may view their role as a transcendent duty, but their actions are of little spiritual import compared to the material function of them.

War does not produce anything, but actions and their results within war are observable, although the connection is often chaotic and muddied by too many variables to rationally describe, unlike the actions of sacrifice and prayer, whose results are entirely inscrutable in a material way.

In war there are definitely psychological and physical causal links, but they are so complicated as to be near-spiritual in nature. As in, only a divine figure could perceive a war or battle so fully as to control it as a scientist might control an experiment, to craft strategy as surely as a weaver might a basket.

Because all plans only stay intact until contact is made with the enemy, it must be the case that success in war comes through something that can’t be known or explained by reason, only intuited. In other words, divine inspiration.

War produces nothing, but we value the act in itself, especially when it is contingent on a typically non-material good: sovereignty, dominion, supremacy, in a cultural or political sense.

As a wimpy nerd who has never even been in a real fight, this is of course pure speculation based on what I have read in fantasy novels and fascist literature ;)

[TureRight]

Someone knows why the Kali Yuga channel has been deleted? His videos were GOLD. Someone still has them?

[skinfaxi]

My favorite author. Reading the hermetic tradition rn.

[Caligula]

Amazing timing... i just got Revolt Against
The
Modern World
engraved on my Zippo today.

[Rewwgh]

Metaphysics of War is one of my favourite books ever.

[Veto]

They deleted Kali Yugas channel lmao. Scared modernists

[nickmoser]

I always was curious if Julius Evola ever met Jünger or Mishima

[kingdm]

The metaphysics of war reminds me of the thoughts and mindset of Ernst jünger almost feels like he read the book

[LinearCarp]

His explanation of The Warrior kind of "self-actualizing" for the sake of a higher purpose/God sounds basically like the conformity of the Will & subjugation of the Body/Creation to the Will of God, except for the Christian this is perfect in Christ who became a slave & humiliated, offering his holy life in spite of the threats of Satan and those under his Dominion.

The slave is the worst caste for Evola, but the "greatest" for the Christian. And additionally the Christian isn't supposed to hate (per se hate) the material realm, but only keep it in the proper subjugation to the higher, spiritual reality.

Servant > Warrior, but for God not Man. The combination that separates Christianity from the Pagan and the Communist.

[datredhat]

Basically, if you couldn’t understand like me, he:
-believed in a hierarchy
- was anti modernism
- was anti Christian and democracy
- was a traditionalist (basically ancient culture)
I think that’s a good list of things. If anyone feels more knowledgeable on Evola, please comment.