This presupposes that the royal condition enjoys a higher power of knowledge. The capability to deeply and perfectly understand the primordial laws of human beings is the basis of authority and command in the far East. The Mazdean royal "glory" is also the virtue of a supernatural intellect. And while according to Plato the philosophers should be at the top of the hierarchy of the true state, for him the abovementioned traditional idea takes on an even more specific form. For Plato, wisdom or "philosophy" is understood as the knowledge of "that which is," rather than the knowledge of illusory visible forms. The philosopher is one who can effectively formulate laws conforming to justice precisely because he has the direct knowledge of that which is supremely real and normative. The conclusion that Plato draws is:
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophers, and political greatness and Wisdom meet in one, and these commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, nor the human race itself.
-Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World - from Chap.3 on Polar Symbolism
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