Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga by Julius Evola

Author:Julius Evola [Evola, Julius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body; Mind & Spirit, Hermetism & Rosicrucianism, Philosophy, Political, Social Science, Customs & Traditions, Philosophy/History
ISBN: 9781620558546
Google: OTZcDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear
Published: 2018-07-12T22:00:00+00:00

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The Cycles of Decadence and the Heroic Cycle

In relation to the period preceding the Flood, the biblical myth mentions a race of "heroes of old, the men of renown" (Gen. 6:4), born of the union between the sons of heaven and the daughters of men. This union is an example of the miscegenation that caused the primordial spirituality to give way to the spirituality of the age of the Mother. The offspring of this union was the race of the Giants (Nephilim in Hebrew), whom the Book of Enoch refers to as "the people from the Far West." The biblical myth relates that the earth became filled with violence and wickedness, thus drawing upon itself the catastrophe of the Flood.

The myth of a fantastic "androgynous" race of powerful beings that the gods themselves feared constitutes another example of nonhuman races; in order to neutralize these beings, the gods broke them into two halves, into "male" and "female."1 The symbolism of the "inimical pair," found in several traditions, sometimes refers to a similar division that destroys the power feared by the gods; this motif is susceptible to a historical and even a metaphysical interpretation. The primordial powerful and divine race of androgynous beings may be related with the period in which the Nephilim were "men of renown"; it is the race of the Golden Age. After this race, a new division occurred; the "One" generated the "Two," the couple, or the dyad. The first of the two elements is the Woman (Atlantis), the second is Man. This Man was no longer pure spirit and he eventually rebelled against the lunar symbolism by either affirming himself or by pursuing violent conquests and by attempting to usurp certain spiritual powers.

This is the myth of the Titans. They are the Giants. This is the Bronze Age. In Plato's Critias violence and injustice, yearning for power, and covetousness are the qualities ascribed to the degenerated inhabitants of Atlantis.2 In another Hellenic myth it is said that "men living in primordial times [to which Deucalion, who survived the Flood, belonged] were filled with arrogance and pride; they were guilty of many crimes; they broke oaths and were merciless."

An essential feature of myth and symbol is that both are apt to convey multiple meanings, which must be separated in a clear-cut fashion and assigned methodically to different categories by means of adequate interpretations. This is also the case of the "inimical pair" and of the Titans.

On the basis of the duality Man-Woman (in the sense of a materialized virility and of a merely priestly spirituality), which is the premise of the new types of civilization derived by involution from the primordial civilization, it is possible to define the following types.

The first type of civilization is the Titanic one, in a negative sense, and refers to the spirit of a materialistic and violent race that no longer recognized the authority of the spiritual principle corresponding to the priestly symbol or to the spiritually feminine "brother" (e.g., Cain vs.

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