Evola on Orders

The monographs published by the Ur Group, therefore, were primarily aimed at providing the reader with
a taste of the aforementioned science. This aim was to be achieved by ‘outlining methods, disciplines, and
techniques’, and by an in-depth analysis of symbolism; by means of ‘a description of genuine
experiences’, and ‘the republication or translation of rare or little-known texts and extracts, both Eastern
and Western, elucidated and commented.’ (The various texts we republished included the first Italian
translation of the Greek Mithras Liturgy from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, a few chapters from
one of the Tantras, Hermetic texts like the Turba Philosophorum, a few songs of Milarepa, the
Pythagorean Golden Verses, passages of the Buddhist Milindapahña, as well as extracts from Meyrink,[1]
Kremmerz[2] and Crowley[3]).[4] Finally, the monographs were aimed at providing ‘synthetic doctrinal
outlines’ and a critical investigation of the subject matter. The reader was to be presented with the
different teachings of various esoteric schools, which he was free to choose from on the basis of his
personal inclinations.
[J. Evola, “The Cinnabar Path” p. 12]
22.11.07:The essential task ahead requires formulating an adequate doctrine, upholding principles that have been thoroughly studied, and, beginning from these, giving birth to an Order. This elite, differentiating itself on a plane that is defined in terms of spiritual virility, decisiveness, and impersonality, and where every naturalistic bond loses its power and value, will be the bearer of a new principle of a higher authority and sovereignty; it will be able to denounce subversion and demagogy in whatever form they appear and reverse the downward spiral of the top-level cadres and the irresistible rise to power of the masses. From this elite, as if from a seed, a political organism and an integrated nation will emerge, enjoying the same dignity as the nations created by the great European political tradition. Anything short of this amounts only to a quagmire, dilettantism, irrealism, and obliquity.- Chapter two, p. 132'
In its deeper aspect, Ghibellinism more or less claimed that through the view of earthly life as discipline, militia, and service, the individual can be led beyond himself and reach the supernatural culmination of human personality through action and under the aegis of the Empire. This was related to the character of a nonnaturalistic but "providential" institution acknowledged in the Empire; knighthood and the great knightly Orders stood in relation to the Empire in the same way in which the clergy and the ascetic Orders stood in relation to the Church. These Orders were based on a idea that was less political than ethical-spiritual, and partially even ascetic, ac-cording to an asceticism that was not cloistered and contemplative, but rather of a warrior type. In this last regard, the most typical example was constituted by the Order of Knights Templar, and in part by the Order of the Teutonic Knights. – Chapter 10, p. 207
== Branching ==
See more generally: Evola; Orders.