Evola's Pagan Imperialism: the Pagan Aspect
More on Buddhist scholar Julius Evola's strange little monument to fascism, especially with regard to spiritual matters.
https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/2020/10/evolas-pagan-imperialism-pagan-aspect.html
https://politicallyincorrectdharma.blogspot.com/2020/10/evolas-pagan-imperialism-pagan-aspect.html
Venerable Pannobhasa Mahathera has opened my eyes to Julius Evola. Make me proud to be a Theravada Buddhist and an NS.
I appreciate the Evola reviews on "Pagan Imperialism". He is a person very interesting to me. His takes on Nature and "phenomena" and various Esoteric traditions are fascinating. I am a fan of his "Doctrine of Awakening" as it seems to capture the "Warrior Ascetic Spirit" and he just has an overall "fresh" take (compared to many of today's standards of Buddhism) and for whatever reason it appealed to me. Still he is an enigma. You mentioned it at one point too but he is very much "self" centric and hermetic almost Luciferian at times. Seems to be obsessed sometimes with the arcane elementals and subtle external forces that many occultists are also obsessed with. I think, how could a man who found the Buddha Dhamma and speak so highly of the warrior ascetic path of renunciate Monks not renounce some of the practices he pursued. He seemed very caught up in ages and cycles and to me was a sort of hermetic wizard in love with the process of becoming while still also knowing what was involved and destined to come from such pursuits. I think he knew birth, aging, illness, and death quite well and despite it all still had a love for the process. He to me is a strange bird who was willing to take the good with the bad in regard to Samsara in the name of knowledge. He wasn't satisfied with, "The Handful of Leaves" which we (Buddhsits) cherish and find contentment with. He seems to have wanted to know it all and become master of Samsara. This is just my opinion of him obviously. Let me ask, do you suspect individuals like him are on some "Wheel Turning Monarch" path? He seems to love the golden age and driven to restore it. Would this aspiration be one of "Wheel Turning monarch"? Metta.
Maybe a wheel-turning monarch, maybe just an adept who surfs the waves of samsara, sometimes as a noble esotericist, sometimes as a deva, sometimes maybe a lion or something. But there are some who agree with Buddhist philosophy but nevertheless accept samsaric existence for various reasons, like they are willing to accept some dukkha in exchange for everything else, or they just feel that they're not ripe yet for full enlightenment and departure from the eternal cycle.