‘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.

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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

The Tiger, in the sense envisaged by Evola, is the dissolving and destructive force that comes into play towards the end of every cosmic cycle.

In the face of this, Evola says, it would be vain to maintain the forms and structure of a civilization that is already played out; the only thing to be done is to carry the negation beyond its dead point, so that, by a conscious transposition, it may end up, not in nothingness, but in a 'new empty space, which may perhaps be the premiss of a new formative activity.

"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men. For they may act on their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."

Lawrence of Arabia

...I would burn my right hand in a slow fire
To change the future…I should do foolishly. The beauty of modern
Man is not in the persons but in the
Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the
Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.

-Robinson Jeffers