' As mentioned, Evola held the SS, which Himmler strove to design according to the model of the Teutonic Order, to be this elite.

Evola argued that both Italian fascism and National Socialism held hope for a reconstitution of the primordial " celestial race.

Evola based his interpretation of Buddhism on the original Pali Canon, rejected western interpretations of Buddhism as a humanitarian religion of compassion for all beings, held reincarnation as a false tenet not found in the original Pali Canon and saw the Mahayana tradition as heterodox along with certain aspects of Theravada.

Evola held that politics, like everything else in life, should look upward and beyond the self.

Evola held that the physical mixture of races, particularly between Aryans and races that were ' alien ' ( i. e., non-Aryan ), was always hazardous — but mixture between ' related ' races might produce hybrid vigor.

During the early 1980s the Political Soldier wing of the NF held sway within the party and was on good terms with chairman Andrew Brons who, although a Strasserite by conviction rather than a disciple of Julius Evola and ruralism, largely supported the young radicals and co-operated with them to remove Martin Webster, the former ally of Brons ' predecessor John Tyndall, from the party in 1984.

In the same work, Evola argues " the Jewish notion of a Messiah and the Christian notion of God's Kingdom, which many people believe to have greatly influenced the medieval imperial myth, are nothing but an echo of the ancient and pre-Christian Aryo-Iranian concept " of the Saoshyant as " lord of a future, triumphal kingdom of the God of Light " and " slayer of the Ahrimanic dark forces " ( ibid., p. 39 )

Not only did Evola make a point of identifying Karl Marx, one of the architects of the modern world of materialism, inferiority, pretended equality, and cultural decay, as a Jew -- but he spoke of a Jewish capitalistic yoke that obstructed every effort at racial regeneration " ( Mussolini's Intellectuals, pps.

For Evola this text represented a manipulation by occult powers trying to hide behind the Jewish and Freemasonic historical drive toward a merchant society soon to be replaced by the chaos of " mass society " which could eventually turn against both.

Evola argued that not only Jews, but even non-Jews " Judaicized in their souls " must be combated by a " coherent, complete, impartial " anti-Semitism given the means to " identify and combat the Jewish mentality.

" Evola supported the Nazi anti-Semitic view that there was a hidden form of Jewish power and influence in the modern world ; he thought this Jewish power was a symptom of the " modern " world's lack of true aristocratic leadership.

In a 1938 article Evola accused Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Cesare Lombroso of being " proponents of Jewish materialistic culture in the nineteenth century ; two years later, in an essay entitled " Jews and Mathematics ," Evola characterized Judaism as the antithesis of " Aryan civilization ," and broadly attacked a range of what he considered examples of Jewish influences, from Pythagoreanism to mathematics.

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 Otto Skorzeny in 1943.

Evola rejected pacifism as it, according to him, was materialistic and made people comfortable and weak in their existence, while war breaks the routine of " comfortable life " and offers a transfiguring knowledge of life: " life according to death ".

Evola believed that a race of " Nordic " people, anciently emanating from Golden Age Arctic Hyperborea, originally semi-immaterial and " soft-boned ", had played a crucial founding role in Atlantis and the high cultures both of the East and West.

Other prominent, philosophically foundational influences for Evola include the ancient Aryo-Hindu scripture that teaches the concept of " detached violence ", the Bhagavad Gita, and the Aryan kshatriya sage Siddartha Gotama, the historical Buddha ( Evola, " Il Cammino del Cinabro " 1963 ).

What constitutes a superior race for Evola is the spiritual orientation of a given stock, the subsumption of the requisite biological material ( and that did mean the Aryan races ) under a qualitatively elevating form, namely reference to the realm of the spirit.

Given his generous notion of what constituted an Aryan race ( Evola was convinced of the Hyperborean origins of most Europeans, the indigenous peoples of North and South America, as well as those of the Indian subcontinent ), those candidate races Evola considered to be truly ' alien ' were never explicitly catalogued — except in terms of Semites and the deeply pigmented peoples of sub-Saharan Africa ( see Evola, ' Psicologia criminale ebraica ,' Difesa della Razza 2, no.

As has been noted by Joseph Campbell in Mythology and others, Bachofen's theories stand in radical opposition to the Aryan origin theories of religion, culture and society, and both Campbell and writers such as Evola have suggested that Bachofen's theories only adequately explain the development of religion among the pre-Aryan cultures of the Mediterranean and the Levant, and possibly Southern Asia, but that a separate, patriarchal development existed among the Aryan tribes which conquered Europe and Asia.

In his works Evola calls for the " reawakening of heroic ideals " and spiritualism through war.

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.

The group's devotion to the likes of Evola and Codreanu also damaged its chances as these thinkers were virtually unknown in Britain and as such the ONF's ideas were considered too foreign to be relevant to a British context.

Alongside the arguments introduced by Daniel Dubuisson, criticism of Mircea Eliade's political involvement with antisemitism and fascism came from Adriana Berger, Leon Volovici, Alexandra Lagniel-Lavastine, Florin Ţurcanu and others, who have attempted to trace Eliade's antisemitism throughout his work and through his associations with contemporary antisemites, such as the Italian fascist occultist Julius Evola.

After the war, attracted to the avant-garde, Evola briefly associated with Filippo Marinetti's Futurist movement, but became a prominent representative of Dadaism in Italy through his painting, poetry, and collaboration on the shortly published journal, Revue Bleu.

A reference point is needed according to Evola, and this point can not be reached with senses or logic but with transcendental experiences achieved through symbolism of the heroic element in Man.

In his Metaphysics of War, Evola describes how adapting the language of war can be a means through which the warrior can be called to a higher form of spiritual existence.

In The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way and also Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, Evola described the practice of sexual magic as an asceticism of action that allows one to achieve transcendent states through physical action, primarily sex.

Evola accused Jews, as well as what he termed the " semitic spirit ," of having a corrosive effect on the " Nordic " race ( a race that was, in Evola's mythology, analogous to the Nazi's " Aryans ").

" Gregor writes that, " Evola opposed literally every feature of Fascism.

In his introduction to the 1938 Italian edition of the Protocols, Evola wrote that the tract had " the value of a spiritual tonic ," that Jews " destroy every surviving trace of true order and superior civilization ," and that, " above all, in these decisive hours of western history, Protocols tract cannot be ignored or dismissed without seriously undermining the front of those fighting in the name of the spirit, of tradition, of true civilization.

Shnirelman wrote that in Bailey's teachings, " Jews were depicted as the ' human product of the former Solar system ,' linked with ' World Evil '"; he identified " similar ideas " in the works of Bailey and Evola.

Just as Evola affirmed the natural hierarchy between different individuals of the same race, so he affirmed a natural rank ordering of the different human races.

The TP rejected both capitalism and socialism, looking instead to found a political and economic Third Position, with its main influence being Julius Evola.

In his sexual philosophy, Evola followed the esoteric Hindu and Buddhist schools in the teaching of retention of semen as a means of ontological energization and ultimate self-mastery.

After the 1960s, he, together with Evola, Louis Rougier, and other intellectuals, offered support to Alain de Benoist's controversial Groupement de recherche et d ' études pour la civilisation européenne, part of the Nouvelle Droite intellectual trend.

Boutin mentions that in Evola's 1968 collection of essays, L ’ Arco e la clava ( Milan, 1968, revised 1971 ), there is a chapter on " America Negrizzata ," in which Evola criticizes the " Telluric " Negroid influence on popular American culture, while acknowledging that there has been little actual miscegenation.

Evola notices that the mere word ' Negro ' had connotations of offensiveness in the left-wing atmosphere of the era: " la tabuizzazione che porta fino ad evitare l ' uso della designazione ' negro ,' per le sue implicazioni ' offensive '" ( ibid., p. 276 ).

An interest in yoga ( especially Kundalini ) led Evola to write L ’ uomo e la potenza ( Man as power ) in 1926 ( revised in 1949 with the new title The Yoga of Power ).

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Though never a member of the National Fascist Party ( and rejected for not being a member ), or the Italian Social Republic, and constantly criticizing fascism and declaring he was an anti-fascist Evola regarded his position as that of a sympathetic right-wing intellectual, saw potential in the movement and wished to reform its errors, to a position in line with his own views.

Evola never joined Mussolini's National Fascist Party, he considered himself an anti-fascist, and cataloged fascist squadristi as peasants.

Evola was one of a number of right-wing ideologues who opposed Benito 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.