Spiritual Virility

The rite was rather a ´divine technique´, a determining action upon invisible forces and inner states similar in spirit to what today is obtained through physical forces and states of matter.

What was at stake was to be able to understand such relationships so that once a cause was established through a correctly performed rite, a necessary and constant effect would ensue on the plane of ´powers´and invisible forces and states of being.

Thus, the law of action reigned supreme. But the law of action is also the law of freedom; no bond can be spiritually imposed on beings who neither hope nor fear, but rather act.

The king possesses the primordial substance, he affects the divine more than being affected by it.

In the higher forms of Aryan spirituality, whether in Greece, ancient Rome, or the Far East, the role played by doctrine was minimal, only the rituals were mandatory and absolutely necessary.

Orthodoxy was defined through rituals and practices and not through dogmas and theories. Sacrilege and impiety did not consist in ´not believing´ but rather in neglecting rites.

PURE LAW OF SPIRITUAL ACTION

Magic should be understood on the basis of the forms in which it was preserved in an active, luminous, and conscious way. These forms coincide with what I have called the ´spiritual virility´ of the world of Tradition.

An individual became a member of the group of true men who control the community only through the new life awakened in him by initiation, almost as if he partook of a ´mystery´or joined an order.

The Egyptian sahu, created by the rite, thanks to which the deceased go on to live in the company of solar gods, indicates a body that has achieved a high degree of knowledge, power, and glory, and that has becoe everlasting and incorruptible.

This body is referred to in the following formulation:

Your soul lives, your body germinates eternally at Ra´s command without any diminuition or defect, just like Ra´s.

In this context the attainment of immortality or the victory over adverse powers of dissolution is related to wholeness, namely, to the inseparability of the soul from the body - better yet, from a body that does not undergo decay.

There is a very suggestive Vedic formula:

´Leaving behind every fault, go back home. Filled with splendor, be reunited with your body.´

The Christian dogma of the ´resurrection of the flesh´that will take place on Judgement Day is the last echo of this idea, which can be traced back to prehistoric times.

To free human beings from the dominion of the totems, to strengthen them, to address them to the fulfillment of a spiritual form and a limit; and to bring them in an invisible way to the line of influences capable of creating a destiny of heroic and liberating immortality - this was the task of the aristocratic cult.

path of the gods - solar path - leads to the bright dwelling of the immortals. This dwelling was variously represented as a height, heaven, or an island, from the Nordic Valhalla and Asgard to the Aztec-Inca ´House of the Sun´, that was reserved for kings, heroes, and nobles.

This path, leading to Brahman, namely, to the unconditioned state, is analogically associated with fire, light, the day, and the six months of the solar ascent during the year, it leads to the region of thunderbolts located beyond the ´door of the sun´.

-Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World, from Chapter 8