"We remember on this subject a conversation we had in Bucharest in 1938 with Corneliu Codreanu, the leader of the Rumanian Iron Guard, one of the brightest and most idealistic figures of the 'nationalist' movements of the preceding period.
To indicate the differences between Fascism, National Socialism and his own movement, Codreanu referred to the three principles of a human organism: its form, its vital force, and its spirit. He said by way of analogy that a movement of political resurgence, while not neglecting the other two, could appeal especially to one of them, in the vaster organism corresponding to the nation. For him, Fascism had concentrated its interest on the element of 'form', like the Roman doctrine of the state. National Socialism emphasised the vital force by its references to 'race' and Volk. Codreanu himself wanted to start from spirit and give a religious colour, or rather a mystical one, to his movement."

- Julius Evola, Fascism and Tradition

The Question is not whether one should make his own history—for it is not made but understood.

Rather shall he ponder on the true questions of his life:

Shall he be a carved rock, or a dot on the Book of Man? Or shall he be a howling thunder echoing across ages?

“For—believe me—the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is—to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the time will be past in which you had to be content living hidden in forests like shy deer!”

- Friedrich Nietzsche.

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

-John Muir.

‘Apollo Crowning a Poet and Giving Him a Consort’

We are not of today or of yesterday, We are of an immense Age!

The machine has no dynamis, no intent or will, it only reflects its makers and users.

Techne brings the titanic inner struggle of the underworld to the foreground of our lives.

It is only as evil as we fail to overcome ourselves under conditions of ever-increasing temptation.

We were a band of fighters drunk with all the passions of the world; full of lust, exultant in action. What we wanted, we did not know. And what we knew, we did not want! War and adventure, excitement and destruction. An indefinable, surging force welled up from every part of our being and flayed us onward.

Ernst von Salomon, Die Geächteten.

Who does not recall the poem by Robert Graves in which it is dreamt that Alexander the Great did not die in Babylon but that, having strayed away from his army and gotten lost, he penetrated ever deeper into Asia?

After wandering about that unknown geography, he came upon an army of yellow men and, since his trade was warfare, he joined their ranks.

Many years passed, and, on a certain pay day, Alexander gazed with some astonishment upon a gold coin which had been given him.

He recognized the effigy and thought: “I had this coin struck, to celebrate a victory over Darius, when I was Alexander of Macedon.”

Zen school, the ‘religion of the samurai’, this ‘vision of the world and of life’ really strives to lift the possessor’s sense of his own true identity to a transcendental plane, leaving to the individual and his earthly life a merely relative meaning and reality.

The first notable aspect of this is the feeling that earthly life is only an episode, its beginning and ending are not themselves to be found here, it has remote causes, it is held in tension by a force which will express itself subsequently in other destinies, until supreme liberation.

The second notable aspect, is that the reality of the ‘I’ in simple human terms is denied. The term ‘person’ refers itself to the meaning that it originally had in Latin, namely the mask of an actor, a given way of appearing, a manifestation. one cannot speak of tragedy because the irrelevance of the individual in the light of the possession of a meaning and a force which, in life, goes beyond life.

— Evola, Volti dell’eroismo, Regime Fascista.

In post-World War I Zurich, out of the conflict's sobering aftermath, there was born an artistic movement that preached a baffling, radical-yet-whimsical philosophy of creativity.

Random and meaningless by definition, calculatedly irrational by design, the movement spread like revolt to America and across Europe, voicing the delightfully bizarre protest of a brave new community of artists, poets and writers.

https://youtu.be/sdBaS8fgwNs?si=TqsCGawobXveJIC3

Music is the greatest of the fine arts. It is the most refined and sweetened language of man. The finest and fairest, gentlest and loveliest expression of human speech is song. The early sages and seers skilled in the art of music, have clothed their sublime thoughts in songs.

“Alexander personified a human type, the legendary seeker for the world’s end, whose purpose, in Tennyson’s unforgettable phrase, is always “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

—Anthony Everitt on Alexander The Great.

All we can know for certain is that it will end as violently as it began.

The entire world is becoming torrentially conservative, out of self-protection, to protect its heritage, from a duty to capture once again the elements that have been shaken together, each in a different way, us ourselves - in the most difficult of all: the re-overthrow of the overthrow, the negated and negating negation, the revolution against the revolution.

Jünger argued that the principal struggle was not between social classes or political parties but between man and technology.

He was not anti-technological in a Luddite sense, but regarded the technological apparatus of modernity to have achieved a position of superiority over mankind which needed to be reversed.

He was concerned that the mechanized efficiency of modern life produced a corrosive effect on the human spirit...Junger espoused a “metropolitan nationalism” centered on the urban working class.

Nationalism was the antidote to the anti-particularist materialism of the Marxists who, in Junger’s views, simply mirrored the liberals in their efforts to reduce the individual to a component of a mechanized mass society.

The humanitarian rhetoric of the left Jünger dismissed as the hypocritical cant of power-seekers feigning benevolence.

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours."

- Hermann Hesse