Julius Evola's farewell Essay to the Krur Journal, and introduction to La Torre (The Tower), a biweekly publication focused on cultural and politics from the perspective of Tradition.
He wrote this a century ago; conditions today are even more extreme. To your point, Luigi Valli points out that for Dante, if the Empire had been functional in the world of the middle ages, then salvation (on the shining hill in canto 1, guarded by the three beasts) would have been free and easy, even for rather average everyday people. Today things still stand as in Dante’s time -transcendent development is difficult for the many, but still possible for the few.
Thanks for the follow. Original writing is still on Gornahoor, but Substack is great for longer form translations like this.
"The times, today, are as sad as ever; as ever, they are adverse to every possibility of transcendent development."
Times are sad perhaps, but they are not adverse to transcendent development. Man only starts blinking to wake himself up after a nightmare.
No nightmare, he keeps dreaming. Black is the first stage in Hermeticism as we know.
"The darkest hour is right before dawn, and The day of the Lord is Darkness and not Light."
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He wrote this a century ago; conditions today are even more extreme. To your point, Luigi Valli points out that for Dante, if the Empire had been functional in the world of the middle ages, then salvation (on the shining hill in canto 1, guarded by the three beasts) would have been free and easy, even for rather average everyday people. Today things still stand as in Dante’s time -transcendent development is difficult for the many, but still possible for the few.
Thanks for the follow. Original writing is still on Gornahoor, but Substack is great for longer form translations like this.