Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Evola Julius
Title : The fall of spirituality
Year : 1971

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The development. The question of how one might distinguish “authentic” schools of wisdom-those with “real” access to “transcendent forces”-from the schools that are merely pseudo-organizations has always been a highly contentious topic among esotericists. For Julius Evola, this question was one of central importance from an early point in his life. At the beginning of the 1920s, in the midst of his socalled philosophical phase, Evola came into contact with the teachings of Count Hermann Keyserling and his School of Wisdom (Schule der Weisheit) in Darmstadt, Germany. Even by that time, Evola had already developed serious demands when it came to esoteric groups. Above all, he required that genuine training had to take place in the form of self-realizations (autorealizzazioni) that have their basis in the absolute autonomy of the personality, as opposed to their being accomplished in a participation mystique (Levy Brühl). Evola’s requirements in this regard can be traced back to the situation of his deceased friend Carlo Michelstaedter and, as Evola clearly stated, Keyserling’s School of Wisdom did not live up to them. Evola’s verdict on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical Society at this time was even more harsh. He specifically attacks Steiner’s clairvoyance, which he contrasts with the intellectual intuition of Scholasticism. Unlike Steiner’s “spiritual science,” intellectual intuition concerns not only “psychic” regions but also penetrates into the highest, purely spiritual realm of ideas. Evola further criticizes the anthroposophists’ belief in progress, their ideology of reincarnation and karma, and their concepts of morality, humility, and grace, which are related to Steiner’s Christocentric worldview. ...