r/JuliusEvola • u/SadObligation5208 • 3h ago

What did Julius evola think about freemasonry?

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As of recently, I’ve been looking into the tenants of Freemasonry (And I have a lineage that are of the order of Demolay) and the Scottish rite talks a lot about Hermes trismigestus and bases a lot of it’s philosophy and ethics on Neoplatonism. And it made me wonder what would Julius ever think of Freemasonry?

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Saggi sull'Idealismo Magico - "Essays on Magical Idealism" 1925
L'uomo come potenza - "Man as Potency" 1925
Imperialismo pagano - "Pagan Imperialism" 1928
Fenomenologia dell'individuo assoluto - "The Phenomenology of the Absolute Individual" 1930
La tradizione ermetica - "The Hermetic Tradition" 1931
Maschera e volto dello spiritualismo contemporaneo - "The Fall of Spirituality" 1932
Rivolta contro il mondo moderno - "Revolt Against the Modern World" 1934
Tre aspetti del problema ebraico - "Three Aspects of the Hebraic Problem" 1936
Il Mistero del Graal e la Tradizione Ghibellina dell'Impero - "The Mystery of the Grail" 1937
Il mito del sangue - "The Myth of the Blood: The Genesis of Racialism" 1937
Metaphysics of War 1930s/40s
Sintesi di dottrina della razza - "Synthesis of the Doctrine of Race" 1941
La dottrina del risveglio - "The Doctrine of Awakening" 1943
Gli uomini e le rovine - Men Among the Ruins 1953
Lo Yoga della potenza - "The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way" 1949
Orientamenti, undici punti - "Orientations, 11 Points" 1950
Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex - Metafisica del sesso 1958
L'«Operaio» nel pensiero di Ernst Jünger - "The Worker in the Thought of Ernst Junger" 1960
Cavalcare la tigre - Ride the Tiger 1961
Il cammino del cinabro - The Path of Cinnabar 1963
Il Fascismo, saggio di una analisi critica dal punto di vista della Destra - Fascism Viewed from the Right 1963 (not 1974)
L'arco e la clava - The Bow and the Club 1968
Introduzione alla magia - Introduction to Magic: Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus 1971
Ricognizioni, Uomini e problemi - Recognitions: Studies on Men and Problems from the Perspective of the Right 1974
Meditazioni delle vette - Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest 1974

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Baron Julius Evola (1898-1974).

Evola was a Sicilian aristocrat who was born, lived most of his life, and died in the eternal city, Rome. Early in his life he struggled immensely with the state of the world around him and lived a somewhat bohemian life until he was in his mid 20s. He studied engineering, was an artist and poet, was an Artillery Officer in the Italian Army in World War I, and spent several years traveling and hiking around Italy and Europe, occasionally secluding himself in his family's estates to delve into works of history, philosophy, and all manner of esoteric material. He also developed a passion for mountaineering during this period.

After this journey Evola was a changed man, he had begun the path to discovering his nature (φύσις). As a result of his life experiences and his intellectual and spiritual studies he came to understand that the source of his struggle was in his environment and the era in which he lived. Modernity and the rise of bourgeois power was destroying the authenticity of life and replacing it with a lifeless, uninspiring, soulless, and meaningless existence. Evola belonged to a different world, he belonged to the pre-modern world, he belonged to the world of Tradition.

Evola became a writer and philosopher and he initially had hopes that modernity could be overcome. He held out some hope, if with caution, that the revolutionary conservative and fascist movements would have some success in fighting back against modernity's influence. Evola is described by some bourgeois academics as a fascist thinker, when in actuality he had a rather complicated and often bitter relationship with fascism. He saw fascism as too materialist, too crude, and not consistent enough with Tradition.

With fascism's failure Evola's outlook on the world began to change. In the early post-WWII years Evola saw Western Europe come under the boot of American imperialism. Everything that was wrong with the world that he had recognized decades before was becoming worse, not better. Modernity was a metastasizing cancer in his beloved Italy and Europe.

In response to the post-WWII world Evola came to a profound realization: modernity was the Kali Yuga - something so powerful that humanity was going to have to suffer through it no matter what efforts were summoned to fight it.

Facing this realization Evola developed a philosophy for men like himself to confront existence and have the most meaningful and harmonic existence possible, in the abrasive conditions of modernity and bourgeois existence. Evola (along with Arturo Reghini and Giovanni Colazza) founded the Italian esotericist association UR Group in 1927 for the study of Traditionalism and Magic. His philosophy was fully developed in his work Ride the Tiger (1961) and directs such men to lead lives of introspection, self-improvement, and deference to the ancient world.

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