In the whole, we can say that it is a classicism of action and domination, a love for clarity, for diversity and personality, an Olympic ideal of divinity and heroic super-humanity together with an ethos of faith, honor, and truth that characterizes the spirituality of the Aryan race. ~ Julius Evola

The Egregore of Gornahoor

It has always been the goal to write as though everything in Tradition were true, and then to draw out the consequences of that. I don’t want to write a catechism at this point, but perhaps a summary will be necessary at some future date. However, the principle of sufficient reason is worth remembering: everything occurs for a reason or has a cause.

If you chose to be born in the Kali Yuga, it is because you have an affinity for it. That is, it is compatible with your spirit, compossible with the existing order of things. The obvious explanation is that this is what you deserve, it suits you, and there is no injustice. If you cannot find a religion or church that is worthy of you, that is because you are on the same level or lower, it is all you deserve. If gurus are not knocking at your door, recruiting you like some high school athlete for their initiatic organization, that is because you are not the star athlete you presumed to be. The majority of readers here got “participation trophies” just for playing, win, lose or draw. You may want a participation trophy for life, go ahead and get one, they are cheap if bought in bulk. But no real man would display it on his wall.

There is another possibility. You may have such a strong personality that you accepted birth in the Kali Yuga as a test. There are few people in the West who are remotely interested in anything to do with Tradition. Of those, there are even fewer who can begin to understand it. If you think you are among those few, then you must try to remember why you are here and what you expect to accomplish.

As you wander through your dream world, there are carefully placed cues and triggers to awaken you. You must pay attention to them for, like the disappearing book, they will tell you when to wake up. There will be obstacles: persons, places, things, and events that keep you involved and asleep. You will also encounter allies, if you recognize them.

So you regular readers of Gornahoor, this is as good as it gets for you. Gornahoor is one of your allies, if you let it. If you could do better, you would be doing so already. One of the readers thinks that Gornahoor tries to prevent people from reading it. That is not true if he understood the distinction between quantity and quality. Ordinarily, topics dealt with here have traditionally been done in private, among a small group of men pledged to confidentiality. There is more that could be revealed online. Concentration, meditation, and techniques to create one’s own triggers could be taught; that cannot be done in a public forum. Unfortunately, given present conditions, this is the best I can do.

Yet, it is true that we have discouraged certain types from visiting. There were unserious passers-by, there were those who misunderstood our point of view for some other more vulgar one, some who had an agenda of their own and tried to use Gornahoor as their forum, and even some malicious types who deliberately spread slander. Is it wrong to uproot the weeds? You can look at the comments from a year, or two years, ago and see how much the quality has improved. The readers now are more sophisticated and in general agreement with the main principles. Don’t forget that we have no desire to convince anyone or to prove anything, at least as commonly understood.

Whether a bond can be created is a separate question. That bond would be tied to the awakening of an elite in the West, as described by Rene Guenon in the Crisis of the Modern World. The details of this awakening will be re-addressed soon. But one thing we will say now is that this awakening is not dependent on external forces, but rather on the strength and the force of men, men remember their quest, pursue it relentlessly, and hope for success.

Translation Schedule

One of our goals has been the creation of a historiography of the right. This has been outlined in a general way by Guenon and Evola as the degeneration of castes, but not in specific detail. One of the techniques is to investigate the roots of certain types of thinking, which are implicitly accepted but not often explicitly known, and to follow the consequences. This is not so easy to do, so there is room for trial and error here. The one thing to avoid is represented the rampant tendentious attempts nowadays to simplistic explanations not based on any principles. This attempt at a science of historiography is motivated by these two thoughts that I had put into a comment:

Ultimately, different spirits will create different worlds, based on their particular worldviews. Human typology is an important esoteric science. Evola used the concept of “spiritual races” to explain these types and their associated worldviews. I have selected several essays from the 34 Evola published in the journal, La Difesa della Razza that are useful for this task. There are also many unpublished sections from Sintesi della dottrina della razza that I have not made generally available. These can lead to discussions of historiography, or why things are the way they are.

Unfortunately, in our climate, such writings are prone to misunderstanding. This must be balanced by our desire for clear communication. I will probably publish them as review articles, with extensive quotes within a commentary. If so, I may make the full texts available on the moribund Society of Independents mailing list. Perhaps after a certain delay, it can be made useful, given some more pruning.

I will also be commenting on Coomaraswamy’s small, but densely packed, book, Hinduism and Buddhism. It is necessary to supplement, and oftentimes, to correct Evola’s interpretation. Tradition in the West cannot reawaken by ignoring the elephant in the room. AKC’s goal is not only to demonstrate the fundamental spiritual unity between Brahmanism and Buddhism directly, but also indirectly to include the Medieval tradition in that unity. It is that worldview that makes religious teachings even plausible. The modern mind, if he doesn’t outright reject that worldview, tends to understand religion in sensual, materialist and moral terms. That is what must be cracked.

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