The Traditionalist viewpoint as described by Julius Evola is, in a nutshell:
1) Accept that the downward trajectory cannot be stopped or reversed. It must play out.
2) Build yourself up spiritually, become a master of yourself, cultivate non-attachment. Do not allow the happenings of the world to destabilize you.
3) Work to serve Justice and Truth, regardless of whether you win or lose. Fight because it's the right thing to do, because you are the kind of person who cannot do any less, no matter the cost or reward.
This question about what do we DO, practically, always seems to assume a change to be made, an outcome to be achieved. How do we force the external world to shift from point A to point B?
Traditional man doesn't try to figure out how to get to a certain outcome. Traditional man focuses on what he must do to live with honour and integrity, regardless of circumstances. Traditional man is focused on creating the Golden Age within himself because he knows that people with Kali Yuga souls can never manifest a Golden Age.
The only real prescription for the malaise is the transcendent quest. But this is not the answer that people attached to outcomes like to hear. First, break the attachment.
1) Accept that the downward trajectory cannot be stopped or reversed. It must play out.
2) Build yourself up spiritually, become a master of yourself, cultivate non-attachment. Do not allow the happenings of the world to destabilize you.
3) Work to serve Justice and Truth, regardless of whether you win or lose. Fight because it's the right thing to do, because you are the kind of person who cannot do any less, no matter the cost or reward.
This question about what do we DO, practically, always seems to assume a change to be made, an outcome to be achieved. How do we force the external world to shift from point A to point B?
Traditional man doesn't try to figure out how to get to a certain outcome. Traditional man focuses on what he must do to live with honour and integrity, regardless of circumstances. Traditional man is focused on creating the Golden Age within himself because he knows that people with Kali Yuga souls can never manifest a Golden Age.
The only real prescription for the malaise is the transcendent quest. But this is not the answer that people attached to outcomes like to hear. First, break the attachment.
This doesn't mean you withdraw from action and let the world burn. But it does mean that your actions are motivated by doing what's right, not because you hope to get what you want.
It means you work to secure dharma in the world, to be an instrument of God's will.
Sometimes it means losing on the material plane in order to gain a Victory on a higher plane. This is often a bitter pill to swallow and those who are still attached to outcomes will choke on it.
But this is what allows you to take on the most black-pilled situations, the most hopeless causes, and still fight with everything you have. And when people can do that, then we have a real chance for a miracle. Why?
Because that's when people will have created Golden Ages within their souls and then we will have the Menschenmaterial from which a better world can be born.
That is the ONLY path to lasting Victory. If you are content to win ground only to lose it and fight for it again with each generation, then continue focusing on material outcomes, but know that you are only passing the fight on to your children.
It means you work to secure dharma in the world, to be an instrument of God's will.
Sometimes it means losing on the material plane in order to gain a Victory on a higher plane. This is often a bitter pill to swallow and those who are still attached to outcomes will choke on it.
But this is what allows you to take on the most black-pilled situations, the most hopeless causes, and still fight with everything you have. And when people can do that, then we have a real chance for a miracle. Why?
Because that's when people will have created Golden Ages within their souls and then we will have the Menschenmaterial from which a better world can be born.
That is the ONLY path to lasting Victory. If you are content to win ground only to lose it and fight for it again with each generation, then continue focusing on material outcomes, but know that you are only passing the fight on to your children.
Tomorrow, I’ll be discussing fate and free will with Aarvoll, this time on my channel. Hope you can join us for the stream!
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Fate and Free Will
Are our lives completely in our own hands or are we slaves to the whims of fate and fortune? Aarvoll and I discuss!
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Many people, desperate for a drop of spiritual nourishment, turn to the East, either seeking it in the rich dharmic religions or through cultural sampling of hidden tribes. But the spiritual destiny of Western Man does not lie in the East.
The more we find in the East, the more it makes us inwardly divided, homeless in our own lands. We simply become cultural hitchhikers and spiritual beggars. The solutions we find there may offer us useful tools on our quest, but do not provide the ultimate and fundamental answers to our existential predicament.
Westernkind chose a Faustian path for itself. We left the path of the eternal Sun and so our destiny is to chase the setting Sun beyond the western horizon.
And this is at the core of the spiritual tradition that lies buried at the very roots of Western civilisation. Not Christianity, not even the folkish paganism of Europe, nor the solar traditions of Egypt, but even further back- a primordial Ur-religion. And it laid the foundations for all of the disciplines that made the West remarkable: chemistry, biology, astronomy, physics, rhetoric, logic, etc.
At the heart of it is the art of dying. Because we all die, in this realm of Becoming where death is both master and the only way off this ride. And this is what it means to follow the path of the setting Sun. To go into underworld and be resurrected. To be twice-born. To be TRANSFORMED.
And for this task, ultimately the East cannot help us with it. It is not their path or destiny. If we are to heal our spiritual malaise, we must make contact with this ancient tradition again. There is no other way forward. We don’t need to look outside ourselves- everything we need is lying dormant at our own roots, just waiting to be awakened.
But there is a price to paid for that contact with our roots and it’s because for so many generations people were not willing to pay that price that we now find ourselves in a spiritual wasteland. And that price is what it has always been: ourselves and our willingness to be transformed.
This was Odin’s “sacrifice of himself to himself”, in order to gain the wisdom of the runes. It is Purusha’s eternal sacrifice to create the universe. It is the sacrifice of one’s lower nature to their higher, an alchemical transformation. Nothing less will pay the bill that has come due.
This tradition didn’t exist merely to enlighten or amuse or even to inspire. It existed to call us home. It is the path of our RETVRN, for we cannot go back the way we came. Lost Hyperborea sings the Minnelied in our blood and we must listen.
The more we find in the East, the more it makes us inwardly divided, homeless in our own lands. We simply become cultural hitchhikers and spiritual beggars. The solutions we find there may offer us useful tools on our quest, but do not provide the ultimate and fundamental answers to our existential predicament.
Westernkind chose a Faustian path for itself. We left the path of the eternal Sun and so our destiny is to chase the setting Sun beyond the western horizon.
And this is at the core of the spiritual tradition that lies buried at the very roots of Western civilisation. Not Christianity, not even the folkish paganism of Europe, nor the solar traditions of Egypt, but even further back- a primordial Ur-religion. And it laid the foundations for all of the disciplines that made the West remarkable: chemistry, biology, astronomy, physics, rhetoric, logic, etc.
At the heart of it is the art of dying. Because we all die, in this realm of Becoming where death is both master and the only way off this ride. And this is what it means to follow the path of the setting Sun. To go into underworld and be resurrected. To be twice-born. To be TRANSFORMED.
And for this task, ultimately the East cannot help us with it. It is not their path or destiny. If we are to heal our spiritual malaise, we must make contact with this ancient tradition again. There is no other way forward. We don’t need to look outside ourselves- everything we need is lying dormant at our own roots, just waiting to be awakened.
But there is a price to paid for that contact with our roots and it’s because for so many generations people were not willing to pay that price that we now find ourselves in a spiritual wasteland. And that price is what it has always been: ourselves and our willingness to be transformed.
This was Odin’s “sacrifice of himself to himself”, in order to gain the wisdom of the runes. It is Purusha’s eternal sacrifice to create the universe. It is the sacrifice of one’s lower nature to their higher, an alchemical transformation. Nothing less will pay the bill that has come due.
This tradition didn’t exist merely to enlighten or amuse or even to inspire. It existed to call us home. It is the path of our RETVRN, for we cannot go back the way we came. Lost Hyperborea sings the Minnelied in our blood and we must listen.
For those who got their panties in a twist about my post yesterday, you are cordially invited to attend a livestream discussion tomorrow in which my guest and I will be exploring the path of the setting sun in great detail. Hopefully we can clear up some your confusion and assuage your irrational anger. 😉
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The Initiatic Quest for the Grail
I'm joined by a special guest to discuss man's quest for transcendence in the context of the Grail legends, the ancient Indo-European koryos traditions, and lots of other interesting little tangents!
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I forgot to announce on this platform that we were going live but, uh, the show is up now! 😁
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The Initiatic Quest for the Grail
I'm joined by a special guest to discuss man's quest for transcendence in the context of the Grail legends, the ancient Indo-European koryos traditions, and lots of other interesting little tangents!
https://www.koryosacademy.com/
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BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT: The Quest for Truth in a Temporal World
Tired of the same old 'left vs right'? What if there's something more to politics, something that goes beyond power games and taps into a universal truth?
New article on Substack: https://philosophicat.substack.com/p/beyond-left-and-right?sd=pf
Tired of the same old 'left vs right'? What if there's something more to politics, something that goes beyond power games and taps into a universal truth?
New article on Substack: https://philosophicat.substack.com/p/beyond-left-and-right?sd=pf
New Substack article: THE POWER OF DUTY
Basically, what to do when don’t know what to do with your life
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-power-of-duty?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Basically, what to do when don’t know what to do with your life
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-power-of-duty?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
The Hot-Crazy Matrix: A Humorous Insight into a Profound Metaphysical Truth - a new Substack article
https://philosophicat.substack.com/p/the-hot-crazy-matrix-a-humorous-insight
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The Hot-Crazy Matrix: A Humorous Insight into a Profound Metaphysical Truth
A Traditionalist look at what a meme can tell us about the nature of the feminine
Forwarded from ArtistiCat
Finished painting this under the Pisces full moon last night. Didn’t plan it that way, just a funny coincidence!
Painted with Procreate, August 2023
Painted with Procreate, August 2023
New Substack article about why men can't stop thinking about ancient Rome, complete with a useful visual aid drawn by yours truly:
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-eternal-echo-of-rome?r=1bepqq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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New Substack article: TRUTH, TACT, AND TRADITION
When should you be nice and when should you be honest? How far can you take politeness before it becomes a lie? To what extent can you tell “harsh truths” before you’re just a jerk?
Managing this balancing act is not easy, but fortunately we can find some guidance on this with the Bushido honour codes of the Samurai warriors.
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/truth-tact-and-tradition?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
When should you be nice and when should you be honest? How far can you take politeness before it becomes a lie? To what extent can you tell “harsh truths” before you’re just a jerk?
Managing this balancing act is not easy, but fortunately we can find some guidance on this with the Bushido honour codes of the Samurai warriors.
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/truth-tact-and-tradition?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
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New Substack article: THE POWER OF DUTY Basically, what to do when don’t know what to do with your life https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-power-of-duty?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
This article has been released from the paywall and is available for everyone to read and share
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The Power of Duty
Resetting your compass in an age of nihilism
THE ESOTERIC LIBRA
New Substack article exploring the esoteric significance of the sign of Libra.
If you don't know anything about astrology, that's ok! This isn't a technical article on interpreting it in a natal chart, but rather a more meta discussion of what it has to tell us about the transcendent solar quest of man. Anyone interested in symbolism and myth can enjoy it.
Non-subscribers can still read it for free with a 7 day trial
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-esoteric-libra?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
New Substack article exploring the esoteric significance of the sign of Libra.
If you don't know anything about astrology, that's ok! This isn't a technical article on interpreting it in a natal chart, but rather a more meta discussion of what it has to tell us about the transcendent solar quest of man. Anyone interested in symbolism and myth can enjoy it.
Non-subscribers can still read it for free with a 7 day trial
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/the-esoteric-libra?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post