The Myth of the Blood: The Genesis of Racialism by Julius Evola

Author:Julius Evola [Evola, Julius]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: nordic race, aryan, racism, racial biology, Hitler, dinaric, race of the soul
ISBN: 9781912079407
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2018-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter VII

The Arctic Myth

Exploration of the origins. The civilization of the reindeer. The Nordic-Atlantic race. Sanguineo-serologic research. Primordial solar monotheism.

Oswald Menghin, dean of the University of Vienna, wrote these characteristic words: “More than any other discipline, the science of prehistory has carried itself and yet more must carry itself to the center of the spiritual battle of our times. I do not believe I am wrong in affirming that, along with physics, general prehistory will be the science which will guide the next generations.” Germany in the most recent years has lived this impulse toward the origins in a very characteristic way. The origins are presented under a special metaphysical light. One comes again to intuit that the primordial times lived meanings and spiritual symbols in a yet pure state, meanings and symbols which were subsequently lost, obfuscated, or adulterated. Prehistorical research, carried from a plane of disanimate scientistic-archaeological or anthropological positivism to a plane of spiritual synthesis, promises therefore to open new horizons for the true story of civilization.

We have already seen in more than one case the influence of racism on prehistoric research. Given that present humanity appears more or less as an ethnic chaos, to give foundation to the theory of pure and originating races, it was necessarily to return to prehistoric times and to seek to force the mystery of prehistoric humanity. Here however up until recently a synthesis in the grand style was lacking. Those of Wilser or of Merkenschlager were naught but attempts above all limited to anthropology. The schemes on type of Gobineau, no matter how brilliant, were already old, incapable of comprehending the later developments of knowledge regarding the ancient civilizations. On the other hand, precisely due to that development, the concept of the “Nordic Race” began to become problematic. Once the characteristics of this race as a European race had been fixed in relation to the characteristics of a type of culture and spirituality, little by little one was forced to ascertain analogous characteristics also elsewhere, a little bit throughout all the world. Already we have seen how Günther was constrained to admit that to see the characteristics of the Nordic spirit in the most authentic state, it was necessary to refer to other civilizations and traditions rather than those which were considered Nordic par excellence, that is of the Germanic Europeans. In terms of symbols, a characteristic example for such a state of affairs is offered to us by the hooked cross. The hooked cross for a certain period was considered as the symbol proper to the Arya-Teutonic races. Save that from the entirety of successive research it appeared that this symbol is to be found in Korea, in California, in Central Asia, in Africa, and even amongst certain Semitic peoples; in short, in a whole group of places which lie absolutely beyond those places which up until yesterday one maintained the Arya colonies and migrations had reached. A similar difficulty presents itself in other fields, with the threat of

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