New Man

The creation of a new State and of a new civilization will always be ephemeral unless their substratum is a new man.

The original Roman spirit was based on a human type characterized by a group of typical dispositions. Among them we should include self-control, an enlightened boldness, a concise speech and determined and coherent conduct, and a cold dominating attitude, exempt from personalism and vanity.

To the Roman style belong virtus, in the sense not of moralism but of virile spirit and courage, fortitude and constancy, namely, spiritual strength; sapientia, in the sense of thoughtfulness and awareness; discipline understood as love for a self-given law and form; fides, in the specifically Roman sense of loyalty and faithfulness; dignitas-gravitas-solemnitas...a studied and moderate seriousness.

The same style is characterized by deliberate actions, without grand gesturesñ a realism that is not materialism, but rather love for the essentialñ the ideal of clarity; an inner equilibrium and a healthy suspicion for every confused form of mysticism; a love for boundaries; the readiness to unite, as free human beings and without losing one´s identity, in view of a higher goal or for an idea.

religio-pietas - attitude of respectful and dignified veneration for the gods, and, at the same time, of trust and reconnection with the supernatural, which was experienced as omnipresent and effective in terms of individual, collective, and historical forces.

Talk little, do much, and be more than you appear to be.

"Pobre en palabras pero in obras largo" - ancient Spanish aristocratic type

I evaluate a man by his power to delay his reactions.

The capability of control, equilibrium, continuity in feeling and in willing must not lead to a withering and mechanization of one´s Being, as seems to be the case with some negative traits of the central European and Anglo-Saxon man.

What matters is not to suppress passion and to give to the soul a beautiful, regulated, and homogenous, though flat form; but rather to organize one´s being in an integral way around the capability of recognizing, discriminating, and adequately utilizing the impulses and the lights that emerge from one´s deep recesses.

A style of simplicity and sincerity, first of all toward one´s soul, is essential for a superior human type, as is the natural precept of being strict with oneself but understanding and cordial with others.

-Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins - pg 262

-Julius Evola