Superiority does not rest on power, but power rests on superiority. To need power is impotence; the one who truly comprehends this will perhaps understand in what sense the path of renunciation (manly sacrifice that rests on 'not needing,' on 'having enough') can be a condition for the way to the highest power, and he will also grasp the hidden logic according to which ascetics, holy men and initiates suddenly and naturally manifest suggestive and supernatural powers that are stronger than any powers of men and things...
A true ruler, imperial by nature, is he who has access to this higher quantity of being, which automatically also means a different quality of being by which others are inflamed, attracted, overpowered without his even wanting them to be. It is he who imposes himself, so to speak, through his mere presence: like an embracing and threatening gaze that others are unable to resist; akin to that calm and relaxed greatness that magically stops even the armed man and the attacking beast; that immediately commands respect and the desire to obey, to sacrifice oneself, to search for the meaning of one's own truer life within this vaster life...And so it is he who can say at the zenith: 'I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE,' and thus give a unity, meaning, and justification to countless individuals, to that whole system of life's inferior determinisms that they did not have before. For the inferior person never lives his own life as perfectly as when he is certain that this existence has a center and a goal in something superior.
-Julius Evola, from "Men Among the Ruins"
No comments:
Post a Comment