Visst finns det en grund där, men mycket av materialet är antingen extremt extrapolerat, eller också härlett från oredovisade sekundärkällor.

I slutreferensen konstaterar han att han baserar sin text på Cumont. I princip handlar just denna aspekt om individens autonomi contra hens upplösande i det hela, vilket blir väldigt intressant i ljuset av diskussionens om den antika grekiska förståelsen för känslor - flera teoretiker menar att dessa för förstådda som externa väsen med förmåga att besätta, och det är i denna tradition Evola ställer Mithraskulten. Han lägger på en skuggtolkning av likheten mellan kristendom och mithraskult, och anlägger ett intressant perspektiv där han ställer Mithraskultens ideal mot Isiskultens. Nevertheless, he should not be considered primarily as a political thinker, but rather as an exponent of the wider Traditionalist School that encompasses the work of such individuals as René Guénon, Titus Burckhardt and Frithjof Schuon.Įvola beskriver sin tolkning av Mithrassymboliken, och gör det bra. Since his death, also in Rome, his writings have influenced right-wing, reactionary and conservative political thought not only in his native Italy, but throughout continental Europe and, increasingly, the English-speaking world. The author of many books on esoteric, political and religious topics (including The Hermetic Tradition, The Doctrine of Awakening and Eros and the Mysteries of Love), his best-known work remains Revolt Against the Modern World, a trenchant critique of modern civilisation that has been described as ‘the gateway to his thought’. For Evola, ‘the center of all things was not man, but rather the Transcendent.’ This metaphysical conviction can be seen to have determined both Evola’s stance on socio-political issues, and his antipathetic attitude towards ‘all professional, sentimental and family routines’.

Yet behind it all lay a singular emphasis on, and pursuit of, a ‘direct relationship to the Absolute’. Despite this, his life was characterised by ‘an anti-bourgeois approach’ hostile to both ‘the dominant tradition of the West – Christianity and Catholicism – and to contemporary civilization – the ‘modern world’ of democracy and materialism’.īy turns ‘engineering student, artillery officer, Dadaist poet and painter, journalist, alpinist, scholar, linguist, Orientalist, and political commentator’, he has been described as a 'rare example of universality in an age of specialization'. Born in Rome to a family of the Sicilian landed gentry, Evola was raised a strict Catholic. Julius Evola ( – 11 June 1974), born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esoteric scholar.

Julius evola the hermetic tradition