It is a singular though not necessarily original blend of several intorduction and traditions, including German idealism, Eastern doctrines, traditionalism, and the all-embracing Weltanschauung of the interwar conservative Revolution with which Evola had a deep personal involvement. There is a discussion of the serious lack of congruence between how Joseph Smith, Jr.
At the height of this age of chaos, the dragons decide to intervene, making their presence known to the mortals through the healer Myrilandel. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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The goal is the experiential knowledge of a substance beyond all form, a substance barren and absolute. I give Evola credit for being original, and as mentioned there are passages of irrefutable prescience along the way. The first part of the book deals with the concepts of the Traditional world; its knowledge of the bridge between the earthly and the transcendent worlds.
The masculine is still and self-subsistent; the feminine is reactive and dependent. Metternich was the reevolt great European. However, a rebellious substratum remains. Rites renew the god and identify the celebrant with the god. No trivia or quizzes yet. But Evola takes it several steps further in a defending the Hindu caste system and in an open attack on Christianity. Echoing Coulanges, he says that the difference between patricians and plebians was that the former had ancestral rites and the latter did not.
Evola differs from the early mythographers only in his insistence that magic works. In early Buddhism, the self was not believed to reincarnate, but only a craving conceived in an earlier life. It is a mass of lifeless bronze.
Finally, regard the entire body with this conscious thought: "All my muscles are relaxed. They are totally relaxed. I feelI AM relaxed. I am calm. I am relaxed. Everything in me is relaxed, untied. I am calm, calm, I am rhythmical proportion, cosmic harmony. Do them self-consciously and with zeal. Soon, it will be possible to completely relax your body at will, through the mere mental command, or through the mere evocation of a plastic mental image.
Bodily sensations have disappeared, thoughts become less frequent and slower, while you remain without being impatient, dwelling in a conscious calm. Realize this formula: "The external world has disappeared. I am alonedeep within my- self. I remain silent. I think and feel that I am complete calm. I am calm and everything in me is calm. Everything in me is calm and infinite peace.
Iamfree calm Remain in this state. Allow the occa- sional plastic, living image to flash through your mind. Calmas in a distant, deep, abandoned grave. Calmas at the bottom of a clear, transparent alpine lake. Calmas a night filled with stars. Calmas a small town under the blazing summer sun, deserted, calm, noiseless, completely spread out, waiting for the cool of the night.
In fact, you are here waiting for the night in which the spiritual sun rises and in which occurs the miracle of interiority, the birth of the spiritual man. In this calm, the mind is dissolved.
And the thought that is evoked there and prepared according to the Hermetic artis magic. The organs of the physical body have a physiological function that is partially accessible to scientific investigationand a function of relation- ship with a subtle body, the vehicle of life.
Through the latter comes another order of relationships with a third body, of a higher nature. These ways are permeated by the sensory perception and by the motoric exernalization of impulses. Normal consciousness gives and receives only that which the brain can transmit.
Spiritual activity avoids the brain and travels through other organs, in which the consciousness of normal man cannot yet estab- lish itself. When in an ordinary person the consciousness of the tired brain shifts into other organs, it becomes obscured and sleep is produced.
Simulta- The initiate can retain consciousness during the shift from the brain to another organ: then he becomes conscious of supersensible worlds that ordinary people see only in dreams. If he succeeds in maintaining the po- larity of bodies and preventing the detachment, he has a vision of those worlds in the waking state. The repair of the forces during sleep is due not only to "rest" but also to two other factors: the first is the ceasing of the tension of waking con- sciousness before the material world.
The other is the contact with occult. This is why many people, when first beginning to experiment with preliminary initiatic techniques, succumb to a sense of sleepiness and evasion, which is induced by their consciousness. Their consciousness lags behind in respect to the shift of plane already mentioned. There are also those who, having misunderstood the whole thing, give up and do not go any further. They are the forces that have organized our material body and that alone are capable of keeping it together and of remedying its losses.
Many people have the possibility of acquiring spiritual knowledge and yet do not realize it because they are looking for sensational methods, far removed from their daily activity. With what we have communicated so far in this book, one can make good progress toward esoteric realization. It is a matter of using patience, perseverance, and acute observation.
Many people are very close to revelations capable of transforming them deep inside, and yet do not realize it, since they look far away for sensational phantasms. Spiritual consciousness is perennial, continuous, and always active: it is necessary to feel the failure of consciousness that occurs during sleep as a pause due to a temporary limitation.
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