![]() In AH 24 and AH 37-38, Hermēs talks about the ensoulment of statues to have gods and daimones reside on Earth with us this was the temple-based precursor to consecration of talismans generally, and anticipates magical rituals of consecration like that of PGM XII.270-350. As for my citing Hermetic texts to make my points, I'd hope you would realize that I do so as a means for showing what actual Hermetic wisdom and practice looks like as informed by actual Hermetic texts, but if that's lost on you, then I'd encourage you to take another look and see why I cite the things I do. Besides, all the texts /u/elemahoh13 cites have little to do with Hermeticism in any meaningful way-esotericism, sure, but not Hermeticism, and even then, given the abundance of esoteric authors, thinkers, mystics, and practitioners across the many centuries available to us, I'd think that one could do much better than a flunked-out fascist idiot. Evola solidily falls into that category for many reasons, and his isn't a case where one can extract their works and spirituality from their politics and worldviews. I have a personal policy of not reading materials by assholes, as their ideas are rarely so original or worthwhile when there are so many people throughout history who are at least as good without being brought down by their own trash and baggage. It's not a good look.)ĮDIT: Seeing how /u/elemahoh13 saw fit to make a series of replies to this post and other comments below but then subsequently blocked me so that I can't reply to any of them, I'll do so in the main post here. ![]() In my own Hermetic community on Discord, I've noticed a strong correlation between those who stan or otherwise unflaggingly support Evola and those who show their whole ass with rancidly fascist takes in short order. (This was a comment in reply to a now-deleted thread, but given how often it crops up whether here or in other Hermetic communities, I wanted this preserved and kept public for other people to see as well. ![]() The sooner people drop his shit and leave him to be swallowed by the sands of time in favor of literally anyone better, the better off we'll all be. Why, then, do people consider him to be some sort of grand luminary? I mean, I can guess: the man was an egotistical, hyperfascist, woman-hating, violent abuser of not just other human beings but of human dignity itself. In those few years, magic failed him because he failed at magic. JMG's article also points out something really neat: Evola was literally just involved in magic for, like, three years. I mean, heck, even John Michael Greer talked once upon a time about how bad Evola was, not just politically but also magically, especially in "Introduction to Magic" but also touching on how short-lived and paltry Evola's magical career was. Naturally, having completely failed at designing effective magic, they turned to politics that gave them permission to murder anyone who disagreed with them.Īs a result, there is nothing that meaningful or worthwhile that you can learn from Evola's (or the Ur Group's) texts that you can't learn from some other, less obnoxious, less odious, less overweening, and overall better source in the century since or the many centuries before. ![]() They all became convinced that they were, each of them, the Only True Source of Light, and so the organization exploded. The thing about Evola that modern occultists really need to know is that he founded a magic society based on a series of solar rituals that were grossly unbalanced, turning all its members into egotistical megalomaniacs who couldn't get along or organize for a common purpose. If you want to learn about Hermeticism proper, Evola ain't it.īut, to be fair, Evola is someone to completely avoid regardless. When he uses the term "Hermetic tradition", he refers to his own take on medieval and Renaissance alchemical symbolism informed by Theosophically-influenced Vedic and Hindu spirituality. By Evola's own admission in his introduction to "The Hermetic Tradition", the book has nothing to do with Hermeticism as it is. ![]()
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