Notes on the Third Reich by Julius Evola

Author:Julius Evola [Evola, Julius]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781907166860
Publisher: Arktos
Published: 2013-04-24T22:00:00+00:00

A positive requirement in some National Socialist circles and those close to the movement could have been the study of origins and the return to origins. In this case, it would have been a question of Germanic and Nordic origins. But the mentality and the prejudices we have been discussing again prevented the achievement of anything really positive in the very field in which some apostles of Germanism had ventured early on. We shall mention some of these initiatives when we speak of the SS. In the context of the Party, however, matters went little beyond the exhumation of some ancient customs in an almost folkloristic way. Among the mass demonstrations, however, one that presented a certain spectacular and suggestive character was the ritual lighting of a fire and the movement of a swastika formed of squads of men carrying torches in the Berlin Stadium on the day of the summer solstice. The ancient Germanic signs, the ‘runes,’ were also exhumed as identifying marks of some organisations (the SS again). In the field of symbols, however, — a field with important connections to the traditional worldview — the aforementioned lack of comprehension for the dimension of transcendence constituted an insuperable handicap. Even with the runes, their ancient ‘magical’ aspect was ignored. What is more, in this field, namely, what concerns the proper comprehension and use of symbols of origins, we may wonder whether, starting with Hitler himself, there was a real understanding of the central symbol of National Socialism, the hooked cross or swastika. According to Hitler’s own words, it stood as a symbol of ‘Aryan man’s mission of fighting for victory, for the triumph of the idea of creative (sic) work, which has always been anti-Semitic.’[167] This assumption is truly primitive and ‘profane,’ because it is hard to see in Aryan origins what the swastika could have to do with creative work’ (!) and Judaism. In addition, this symbol does not figure only in areas of Aryan culture and, in second place, it was never explained why the hooked cross as a National Socialist sign was turned upside down, that is, marked by a movement of rotation in the opposite direction to the one that was prevalent in its use with a solar or ‘polar’ significance. We can reject the idea that in this choice they knew what some people have suggested, that is, that the reversed movement concerned the meaning of the sign as a symbol of power, while the movement in the normal direction would have been related to ‘wisdom.’[168] When the hooked cross was chosen as the Party’s symbol, Hitler and his associates had absolutely no clue of notions like these.

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