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Postby 8bitagent » Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:47 am

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This guy was a ready made comic book super villain, monacle and all.
Surprised I havent heard more about this fellow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola


Julius Evola, also known as Baron Giulio Cesare Evola, (May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974) was an Italian philosopher, esotericist, occultist, author, artist, poet, political activist, soldier and most significantly described as a Radical Traditionalist. Evola is primarily known for his involvement in Italian Fascist politics until the movement was defeated in World War II; since the war, his works have inspired a succession of New Right and neo-fascist groups in Italy and beyond.[1][2][3]

His theories were often mixed in with his occult writings, with themes such as Hermeticism, the metaphysics of sex, Tantra, Buddhism, Taoism, mountaineering, the Holy Grail, the essence and history of civilizations, decadence and various philosophic and religious Traditions from the East and the West. He considered himself a representative and upholder of "Tradition" in an age of spiritual oblivion and organized deviancy. Evola's core trilogy of works are commonly regarded to be Revolt Against the Modern World, Men Among the Ruins and Ride the Tiger.

Evola attempted to influence both Italian Fascism and National Socialism from the late 1920s through the collapse of the Italian Fascist regime in 1943, although only with a brief period of success in 1942. After the regime's collapse, Evola fled to Nazi-ruled Germany. He opposed the Salò Republic, and worked with the SS Ahnenerbe on research on Freemasonry. In the post-war period, he returned to Italy where his writings enjoyed popularity among some on the far right, especially young neo-fascist groups. Many Radical Traditionalist, Nouvelle Droite, Conservative Revolutionary, Aryanist, and Third Positionist groups and intellectuals have been influenced by Evola to various degrees. According to one scholar, "Evola’s thought can be considered one of the most radically and consistently antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular systems in the twentieth century

Entry into esotericism

Around 1920, his interests led him into spiritual, transcendental and "supra-rational" studies. He began reading various esoteric texts and gradually delved deeper into the occult, alchemy, magic, and Oriental studies, particularly Tibetan Lamaism and Vajrayanist tantric yoga.

In 1927, along with other Italian esotericists, he founded the Gruppo di Ur. The group's aim was to provide a "soul" to the burgeoning Fascist movement of the time through the revival of an ancient Roman Paganism.[6]

[edit] Involvement with Fascism

In the late 1920s, Evola expressed his support for a Radical Fascist revolution to sweep modern Judeo-Christianity out of Italy and replace it with a "Pagan Imperialism" (à la Ancient Rome).[7] He was one of a number of fascist ideologues who opposed Mussolini's Lateran Accords with the Roman Catholic Church and rejected the Fascist party's nationalism and its focus on mass movement mob politics; he hoped to influence the regime toward his own variation on fascist racial theories and his "Tradionalist" philosophy. Early in 1930, Evola launched Torre, a bi-weekly review, to voice his conservative-revolutionarism and denounce the demagogic tendencies of official fascism; government censors suppressed the journal and engaged in character assassination against its staff (for a time, Evola retained a bodyguard of like-minded radical fascists) until it died out in June of that year. From 1934 to 1943, he edited the cultural page of Roberto Farinacci's journal Regime Fascista.

Mussolini read Evola's Sintesi di dottrina della razza in August 1941, and was impressed enough to personally meet with Evola and offer him his praise. Evola later recounted that Mussolini had found in his work a uniquely Roman form of fascist racism distinct from that found in Nazi Germany. With Mussolini's backing, Evola launched the journal Sangue e Spirito. While not always in agreement with German racial theorists, Evola traveled to Germany in February 1942 and obtained support for German collaboration on Sangue e Spirito from leading Nazi race theorists.[8]

Evola supported Fascism for his own ends, but was rebuked by the regime because his ends were not always theirs. When World War II broke out, he volunteered for military service in order to fight the Communists on the Russian front; he was rejected because he had too many detractors in the bureaucracy (Hansen 2002). Italian Fascism went into decline when, during the midst of the War, Mussolini was deposed and imprisoned. Evola, although not a member of the Fascist Party, and despite his apparent problems with the Fascist regime, was one of the first people to greet Mussolini when the latter was broken out of prison by Nazi commandos in 1943.

After the Italian surrender to the Allied forces in September 8, 1943, Evola moved to Germany, where he spent the remainder of World War II, also working as a researcher on Freemasonry for the SS Ahnenerbe in Vienna.

It was Evola's custom to walk around the city during bombing raids in order to better 'ponder his destiny'. During one such Soviet raid, in March or April 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralyzed from the waist down, remaining so throughout his life (Stucco 1992, xiii).

[edit] Evola and the SS

"But in spite of all these negative aspects, there was something in National Socialism that attracted Evola: the concept of a state ruled by an Order, which he felt was embodied by the SS. 'We are inclined to the opinion that we can see the nucleus of an Order in the higher sense of tradition in the 'Black Corps,' he wrote in Vita Italiana (August 15, 1938). Again in Vita Italiana (August 1941, 'Per una profonda alleanza italo-germanica' [For a Deep Italian-Germanic Alliance]) he writes: 'Beyond the confines of the party and of any political-administrative structure, an elite in the form of a new 'Order'—that is, a kind of ascetic-military organization that is held together by the principles of 'loyalty' and 'honor,' must form the basis of the new state.' As mentioned, Evola held the SS, which Himmler strove to design according to the model of the Teutonic Order, to be this elite.

The castles of the SS Order, with their 'initiations,' the emphasis on transcending the purely human element, the prerequisite of physical valor, as well as the ethical requirements (loyalty, discipline, defiance of death, willingness to sacrifice, unselfishness), strengthened Evola in his conviction. He also was of the opinion that the ethics of the SS were borrowed from the Jesuits" (Dr. H. T. Hansen in "Julius Evola's Political Endeavors" introduction to "Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist" p. 61-22).

[edit] Post-World War II

After World War II, Evola continued his work in esotericism. He wrote a number of books and articles on sexual magic and various other esoteric studies, including The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way (1949), Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex (1958), Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest (1974), The Path of Enlightenment According to the Mithraic Mysteries (1977). He also wrote his two explicitly political books Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist (1953), Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul (1961), and his autobiography Il Cammino del Cinabro (1963).

In the post-war years, Evola's writings were held in high esteem by members of the Neo-fascist movement in Italy, and because of this, he was put on trial from June through November 1951 on the charge of attempting to revive Fascism in Italy. He was acquitted because he could prove that he was never a member of the Fascist party, and that all accusations were made without evidence to prove that his writings glorified Fascism (Evola - "Autodifesa/Self-Defence" in appendix to Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist 1953).


It has long been my view, that from the Serbian Black Hand to the Thule order and the SS itself; the globalist occult hand of invisible hands have long been manipulating all world wars and events...for a very long time.

The obsession with Tibet, which continues to this day, is always quite interesting. But this guy sounds like a serious player.

Also note the Italian fascist networks, which reared their fascist head again with the P2 Masonic-CIA-NATO staged terror events of Gladio/Strategy of Tension.
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Postby cptmarginal » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:13 am

Here's a link to the only complete online version of Evola's "Weapons of the Occult War"; highly recommended reading.

part 1
part 2
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Postby jingofever » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:23 am

Got this link from some poster on this board - forget who. Has some Julius Evola writings along with a lot of others. Never had the energy to look through it too thoroughly.
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Postby OP ED » Tue Sep 30, 2008 2:58 am

brilliant writer.

its unfortunate so many gifted occultists find themselves in the clutches of bigotry.
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Postby 8bitagent » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:31 am

OP ED wrote:brilliant writer.

its unfortunate so many gifted occultists find themselves in the clutches of bigotry.


Thats what Im thinking.

It's like they are gifted to peer into all these metaphysical studies and all its meaning...yet, fall for the most generic of racial bigotry.

Like Helena Blavatsky, what was up with some of her "inferior race" topics?

Or Albert Pike...now I know, "product of his time"...but still.

How do you draw influence from the realms of esoteric Judaism, Egyptology, Asian metaphysics, ect and still espouse "racial superiority/inferiority" bs?
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:02 am

Metaphysical insight on its own doesn't automatically cancel out other character flaws.

Thats why any meta physical system or tradition worth anything tries to teach its students self discipline and compassion, and a sense of "self improvement". Cos otherwise BFD, someone can understand the universe is all one, and so is consciousness and even your toenail clippings have that - then they can go maim and kill with impunity, cos they are just manipulating the oneness of consciousness - not raping, thieving from and murdering people.
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:22 am

Thats why any meta physical system or tradition worth anything tries to teach its students self discipline and compassion, and a sense of "self improvement".


Forgot to add humility, thats a bit freudian.
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Postby nathan28 » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:55 am

Evola is an excellent thinker, and tends to know the territory. The problem is he's also fascinated with the cultivation of power, both exoteric and exoteric. I tend to subscribe to his and Guenon's theories about spiritual degeneration and especially "the Great Wall".

The curious thing is that Evola was an ardent critic of the Theosophists, yet he seemed to largely subscribe to their "root races" theories. During the late 19th and early 20th Century much revisionist history was really into "race theory"--i.e., the concept of "race" began to coalesce into its modern form in that period, unhappily being fueled by Darwin's theories... this is essentially the origin of eugenics (which was as much about class--"useless eaters"--as about race).

Now, that said, i think that what 8-bit is getting at here is essentially a synarchist conspiracy, i.e., rule by secret societies. Look at how Evola rejected Theosophy but still espoused the same of the racial history Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre invented. That's like ten red flags right there, not so much on Evola, but the oddly coincidental continuity of the St. Yves synarchist egregore (also refered to as a "zeitgeist"...)
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Postby FreeLancer » Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:08 pm

As smart as the guy was, he didn't have the good sense not to walk around a city during a bombing run.
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Not surprised

Postby norton ash » Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:12 pm

Assuming a God's-Eye view of your fellow humans is generally not amenable to tolerance and mercy. Mystic and Fascist too often go together like a horse and carriage.
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Postby maurice » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:03 pm

cptmarginal wrote:Here's a link to the only complete online version of Evola's "Weapons of the Occult War"; highly recommended reading.

part 1
part 2

"When the secret forces of world subversion are fearful of exposure or realize that, due to special circumstances, the direction imparted from backstage has become obvious, at least in its major effects, they employ the scapegoat tactic. They try to shift the enemy's attention onto elements that are responsible only partially, or in a subordinated fashion, for their own wrongful deeds. A reaction is unleashed against those elements, which then become the scapegoats. Thus, after a pause, the secret front may resume its work, because its opponents believe they have identified the enemy and dealt with it. Talking about the Protocols, I have mentioned a possible example of such tactics in reference to the part attributed to Jews and Masons. Thus, we must beware of any unilaterality and never lose sight of the overall picture of the secret front."



This is of utmost importance. Jews have been used for centuries if not millenia as scapegoats... I believe they were the ones that had the doubtful privilege of handling money in the middle-ages, since they were considered as subhuman, and were a diaspora, so they could handle money everywhere in Europe. Also, since they are a spiritual people at the root, having them handling money emitted by banks, that slowly devaluate its value by way of usury and the resulting inflation, must have had a catastrophic influence on their spiritual destiny. Satan: it which divides, money submitted to inflation/usury: its value is divided more and more... A bit far-fetched but it somehow makes sense as for example some interpretation of the Qu'ran absolutely forbid lend with interests on the ground that its satanitic or really really bad.
Also Jews have been stigmatized for being the Christ's murderers for quite a while now.

That a racialist and quite the anti-semite Evola was, strongly reminds readers that the Jewish-Masonic plot is a smokescreen, should make it obvious that all the Jews did 9/11 and Israel Controls USA is blatant disinfo. And Ahmadinejad's rantings too (is he a western puppet btw? wouldn't be surprised he is).
I wish i knew an enlightened ultra-orthodox rabbi, maybe he could shed some light on this occult war.

Anyway, Revolt Against the Modern World is a great and documented read. Just take with a bit of salt all the racialist stuff.
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Postby Truth4Youth » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:31 pm

Was reading a few Evola related articles in Disinfo's The Book of Lies on the bus home from school recently. Blew my mind. don't know what else to say.

FreeLancer wrote:As smart as the guy was, he didn't have the good sense not to walk around a city during a bombing run.


I'm sure Evola knew what would happen or at least understood what could happen. He was sticking the middle finger up at the world. And I view it as being very courageous.
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Postby 8bitagent » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:43 pm

nathan28 wrote:Evola is an excellent thinker, and tends to know the territory. The problem is he's also fascinated with the cultivation of power, both exoteric and exoteric. I tend to subscribe to his and Guenon's theories about spiritual degeneration and especially "the Great Wall".

The curious thing is that Evola was an ardent critic of the Theosophists, yet he seemed to largely subscribe to their "root races" theories. During the late 19th and early 20th Century much revisionist history was really into "race theory"--i.e., the concept of "race" began to coalesce into its modern form in that period, unhappily being fueled by Darwin's theories... this is essentially the origin of eugenics (which was as much about class--"useless eaters"--as about race).

Now, that said, i think that what 8-bit is getting at here is essentially a synarchist conspiracy, i.e., rule by secret societies. Look at how Evola rejected Theosophy but still espoused the same of the racial history Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre invented. That's like ten red flags right there, not so much on Evola, but the oddly coincidental continuity of the St. Yves synarchist egregore (also refered to as a "zeitgeist"...)


Look how the Nazis were enshrouded in secret socities, yet
tried to wipe out all of European Freemasonry, killing over 30,000 innocent Masons. You dont hear the conspiracy people talking about that fact. Then Hitler aligned with hardcore Salafist Islamic militants, when Salafism literally came from the heads of Cairo Grand Orient Freemasonry.

Hitler claimed to want to wipe out all forms of "the occult", but he and the Nazis were enshrouded in the darkest regions of the occult.

Like the founders of Planned Parenthood, and a lot of the American/English/Canadian medical establishment, the Nazis were obsessed with racial eugencis. So its disheartening when you find
this same "race root" obsession with some of the more famous occult writers out there. when you mix racial superiority beliefs with fascism, social Darwinism, Malthusist ideas and occult thinking its never a good mix.

The idea that the Nazis "were Christian", or that the elite are "Christian fundamentalists" is laughable. These guys are all theistic Satanists, whether they realize it or not. Not that, I feel Christ is the answer.
Certainly the idea that one "race" is better than another certainly is not.
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Postby 8bitagent » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:52 pm

maurice wrote:
This is of utmost importance. Jews have been used for centuries if not millenia as scapegoats... I believe they were the ones that had the doubtful privilege of handling money in the middle-ages, since they were considered as subhuman, and were a diaspora, so they could handle money everywhere in Europe. Also, since they are a spiritual people at the root, having them handling money emitted by banks, that slowly devaluate its value by way of usury and the resulting inflation, must have had a catastrophic influence on their spiritual destiny. Satan: it which divides, money submitted to inflation/usury: its value is divided more and more... A bit far-fetched but it somehow makes sense as for example some interpretation of the Qu'ran absolutely forbid lend with interests on the ground that its satanitic or really really bad.
Also Jews have been stigmatized for being the Christ's murderers for quite a while now.

That a racialist and quite the anti-semite Evola was, strongly reminds readers that the Jewish-Masonic plot is a smokescreen, should make it obvious that all the Jews did 9/11 and Israel Controls USA is blatant disinfo. And Ahmadinejad's rantings too (is he a western puppet btw? wouldn't be surprised he is).
I wish i knew an enlightened ultra-orthodox rabbi, maybe he could shed some light on this occult war.

Anyway, Revolt Against the Modern World is a great and documented read. Just take with a bit of salt all the racialist stuff.


It's so obvious what's been going on to me. The Satanic elite rulers
have long made Jewish people the scapegoat...spreading the "Jews control the banks/world" meme for sometime. Then they got the idea
to create Israel, so the world really could have a living breathing scapegoat. They could use Israel to conduct evil, because all theyd have to say is "you're being anti-Semitic to criticize Israel!" Hell I wouldnt be surprised if one of the reasons the elite did WW2 was to create Israel, along with the UN, the cold war, ect.

It's all an engineered clash of civilizations in my view. The Abrahamic and other faiths have long been used to control and wage war against eachother. Well I wouldnt be shocked if it was dark spiritual entities and not an "angel" talking to the Prophet Mohamed.

It's interesting you bring it up, because "the Jews did 9/11" was the first theory...within days of Sept 11th, that the elite pushed. 9/11 to me has
Satanic written all over it, and the "Jews/Masons/Zionists" run the world is a smokescreen...in reality its literal devil worshippers of all races though primarily of a European bloodline. Well, in my humble opinion.
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Postby tazmic » Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:20 pm

Mystic and Fascist too often go together like a horse and carriage.


Zen At War Mandala book review

Zen At War Atheism.com book review:

"Victoria relies extensively on the writings of Japanese Zen Masters between 1868 and 1945.
He shows how they transformed Buddhist messages of compassion and selflessness into
doctrines that war was a manifestation of compassion (members of “lower” cultures
deserve to die if they don’t submit to more “enlightened” cultures like in Japan) and true
selflessness means unquestioning obedience to the state."
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