Apr 23, 2010

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Man’s Devolution Across Cycles: Radical Traditionalism on Anthropogenesis, Part 2

The Atlantean Silver AgeHesiod’s poem continues with a discussion of a second age, “which the Celestials call the Silver years.”[24] In this period, man became subject to sickness and mortality. He no longer lived according to the absolute principles provided by his divine tutors during the Golden Age, and paid the gods themselves “no honors.”[25] It is with the...

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Apr 22, 2010

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Man’s Devolution Across Cycles: Radical Traditionalism on Anthropogenesis, Part 1

Concerning the genesis of modern humanity, there are two primary theories that receive credence in anthropological circles. One is the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, which argues that today’s humans are the evolved descendants of a primitive race of hominids that, 70,000 years ago, departed its homeland in Africa and spread across the globe. Upon entering Asia and Europe, these...

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Dec 7, 2009

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French Visions for a New Europe

Raymond Abellio claimed that the Flemish occultist S. U. Zanne (pseudonym of Auguste Van de Kerckhove) was amongst the greatest initiates of our time. But hardly anyone knows who he is. Some have placed Abellio in the same category — though he too is a great unknown for most. And those that have looked at Abellio, have largely concluded that he was a fascist politician, who...

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Oct 1, 2009

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Traditionalism and the French “New Right”

For those who read French… A new paper on Traditionalism and the French “New Right:” Stéphane François, “Contre le monde moderne: la Nouvelle Droite et la ‘Tradition’” (Religioscope, études et analyses n° 21, July 2009).François traces the Traditionalist current within the French New Right (notably, the GRECE of Alain de Benoist) from...

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Jul 16, 2009

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Julius Evola on Tradition and the Right
(La Vera Destra)

Men Among the Ruins:Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalistby Julius EvolaRochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2002Baron Julius Evola (1899-1974) was an important Italian intellectual, although he despised the term. As poet and painter, he was the major Italian representative of Dadaism (1916-1922). Later he became the leading Italian exponent of the intellectually rigorous...

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