The superior man can make himself honorable, but he cannot ensure that others will honor him. He can make himself trustworthy, but cannot ensure that others will trust him. He can make himself useful, but cannot ensure that others will employ him.

And so, the gentleman is ashamed of not being cultivated; he is not ashamed of being maligned. He is ashamed of not being trustworthy; he is not ashamed of not being trusted. He is ashamed of being incapable; he is not ashamed of not being employed.

Thus, he is not tempted by praise, nor is he intimidated by slander.

~ Xunzi

"Representations of the beyond realize our desires, not because they point towards the far distance, but towards something that is very close to us; they are projections. In this sense, approach both confirms the religions and their greatness and at the same time it does away with them."

Ernst Jünger and Albert Hofmann

"In the politico-social field the phenomenon presents such definite forms that it is almost superfluous to linger on them. No one is so myopic as to fail to understand, by now, what the famous “social justice,” for example, really means. It is in no way true justice, the distributive justice of the suum cuique, based on a principle of inequality, and already defended by the classics beginning with Aristotle and Cicero. It is rather a partisan pseudojustice, at the exclusive service of the interests of the lowest classes, the socalled “workers,” and at the expense of all others. It exists under the sign of myths that serve only to pave the way little by little for the ascent of the leftist forces in the State." - Julius C. Evoal, Recognitions

"One should react, that is, not in the name of “proletarian” so-called “social” or collectivist values, but rather in the name of aristocratic, qualitative and spiritual ones: that which could bring about a yet more radical rectifying action, if only men could be found who are truly up to the heights, and who are armed with sufficient authority and power, so as to prevent or to smash, by a revolution from the heights, any such velleity or principle of revolution from below." - Julius C. Evola, Recognitions

"Because God's Son could not suffer in the Godhead and in eternity, the heavenly Father sent him into time, to become man and suffer. So, if you want to be God's son and yet do not want to suffer, you are wrong. In the Book of Wisdom it says that God proves and tests to find out who is righteous, as we prove and test gold by fire in a furnace (Wisd. 3:5-6). It is a sign that a king or a prince trusts a knight when he sends him into battle. I have seen one lord who sometimes, when he had taken a man into his retinue, would send him out by night and then attack him and fight with him. And once it happened that he was nearly killed by a man he wanted to test in this way; and he was much fonder of that retainer afterward than before."

- Meister Eckhart, The Book of Divine Comfort

"The kshatriya – the ‘knightly’ type – has a keen intelligence, but it is turned towards action and analysis rather than towards contemplation and synthesis; his strength lies especially in his character; he makes up for the aggressiveness of his energy by his generosity and for his passionate nature by his nobility, self-control and greatness of soul.

For this human type it is action that is ‘real’, for it is by action that things are determined, modified and ordered; without action there is neither virtue nor honour nor glory.

In other words the kshatriya believes in the efficacy of action rather than in the fatedness of a given situation: he despises the tyranny of facts and thinks only of determining their order, of clarifying a chaos, of cutting Gordian knots."

— Frithjof Schuon, The Meaning of Caste.

Those among kshatriya rulers who perform great sacrifices, who are possessed of a knowledge of the Vedas, and who gain victories in battle, become foremost of those that acquire many blessed heavenly regions hereafter... There is no higher duty for the kshatriya than defeating corrupt people.

Mahabharata, Raja-dharma-anushasana Parva, 60

Very often, too many intelligent people assume that the foundation of Europe is based upon the spread of Christianity. In fact, it is the merger of the Germanic and the Latin worlds what creates Europe as such—with slavs and Celts being subservient to Germanic peoples. The Germanic invasions are the seed of Europe and the West. With the isolation of the Byzantines from the Germanic influx and subsequent Islamic invasions, the Mediterranean and the Greek worlds became disconnected and this destroyed the Græco-Roman unity of antiquity. Let me offer an example. My country, Catalonia, is Latin and Mediterranean. Even though it built a vast empire overseas in the Middle Ages, its foundational lore is purely Frankish—thus Germanic. This is what creates the European bond of union in the nominally Christian space. Ultimately, what keeps together Latins and Germans isn't Christianity but the merger—the mixing if you want—between these two peoples. With all the nostalgia and admiration for the Roman past, the leadership, even if romanized, was Germanic in the West.

This is an incredibly ignorant and myopic take. The myth of a distinct, united, and continuous pan-European 'West' was simply never reality. It is quite romantic to picture the Germanic Middle Ages as the next great age of one continuous race and culture after the magnificent age of the Greco-Romans, but this is not what happened. Spiritually, culturally, and racially, that is not how things occurred across Europe as unfortunate as it is for the romantic Germanicist narrative. Nor were Slavs and Celts 'subservient' to Germans any more than the Germans were to them in other ages; by the time of the rise of the Germans the Celtic race had already seen its own glory days (MP's own Celtiberian blood, the Italo-Celtic Latins, the invasion of British Isles) and were on the decline (corrupted druid priest class) while the Slavs were yet to mature to their own age of greatness, or if their own claims of Scythian kinship have any merit at all, their age of greatness had long ago risen and fallen. But all these millenia of history of empires from one end of Europe through Asia is irrelevant—MP does not understand any of this nuance when he describes the isolated bubble of the Middle Ages of Central Europe. Exactly how much of the Germanic Middle Ages were Roman (with a Roman brand of Christianity coupled with re-found Greek philosophy) is up to some debate, but the truth is that the German spirit remained consistent and took the dominant place over the decadent Mediterranean spirit moreso than incorporated it and became anything new. What is even less ambiguous is how Germanic the rest of Europe became because of it. With the rise of the Germans came written history (as a Roman cultural influence) to all the "barbarians" and one should not make the mistake of attributing all the great aspects of this new German culture as precisely German when much of the same characteristics can be found in accounts of the ancient Celtic, Gaelic, Scythian, Nordic, and all the other Aryan races. This is the real issue, is that many use 'German' as a stand-in for what is more crudely 'white' or more properly 'Aryan' when there is no evidence that the German lineages better represent the ancient Aryan royal lineages any more than any of the other Aryan races did. The claim that Roman royalty was German is preposterous. There are distinctly German attributes of mind, body, and spirit that did not transfer to other peoples beyond the ones they directly conquered during Rome's fall: modern-day England (Scotland and especially Ireland remaining very Gaelo-Celtic), modern France, Switzerland/Austria, and bits of Eastern Europe. Beyond that, the changes were merely cultural if not negligible altogether. And here the nature of false unified 'West' becomes clear. The spirits of the races of the European continent were never one, nor were those races ever without influence from the North or East or South of the continent's mainland. There simply was not an unbroken chain or clear mixing of cultures, races, or spirits that passed the Greco-Roman torch to the Germans. At best some threads survived; Tradition was broken, and some German elements replaced some of the lost Greco-Roman, but the reality is that overall the chain linking them was cut.

Been working back over Spengler's Decline of the West, and two interesting points: 1. He absolutely rejects "Europe" as a valid category, 2. He refuses any continuity between Ancient Greece and Rome and our current Western Civilization.

We must confront these difficult arguments

"In an absolutely miraculous universe, miracles are unnecessary. For this reason, the Heavenly City has no temples or sanctuaries. And for this same reason, the miracles in the New Testament are much weaker than the parables. “Your son lives!”: this is not a miracle, but a parable that points to a miracle."

This parallels with many powerful realities. In an absolutely magical universe, 'magic' is unnecessary. 'Magic' is not real because everything is already magical, and so in truly spiritual living one does not occupy one's time performing rituals and crafting spells. The Golden Age empire, like Heaven, does not need to be dotted with grand temples and pre-occupy itself with lavish state ceremonies of a religious nature. Its mechanisms and way of being already perform these subliminally; holy ritual is built in to every action of the culture. There is little to no distinction between church and state, monk and warrior.

Or have you ever grasped [the Just itself, Beauty, or the Good] with any of your bodily senses? I am speaking of all things such as Bigness, Health, Strength and, in a word, the reality of all other things, that which each of them essentially is. Is what is most true in them contemplated through the body, or is this the position: whoever of us prepares himself best and most accurately to grasp that thing itself which he is investigating will come closest to the knowledge of it? Then he will do this most perfectly who approaches the object with thought alone, without associating any sight with his thought, or dragging in any sense perception with his reasoning, but who, using pure thought alone, tries to track down each reality pure and by itself, freeing himself as far as possible from eyes and ears and, in a word, from the whole body, because the body confuses the soul and does not allow it to acquire truth and wisdom whenever it is associated with it. Will not that man reach reality, Simmias, if anyone does?

Plato, Phaedo 65d-66a

People often wonder if there is a Western equivalent to meditation. This is it. This is the core of Platonism: the contemplation of Being, of reality in itself. Academics will write 500 page books about the Forms and somehow miss the most obvious fact: this is a meditation technique. By using our minds to peel open the metaphysical essence of things, we can gaze at pure Reality, pure Being.

Then, achieving holy silence, we move beyond Being.

Just open your eyes and see, for this alone is the eye that sees the great beauty.

Plotinus, Ennead 1.6.9

Let's look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans we know very well how apart we live. "Neither by land nor by sea you will find the way that leads to the Hyperboreans": Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, beyond the ice, beyond death our life, our happiness. We discover happiness, we know the way, we find the way out of whole millennia of labyrinth.
Who else found her? Is it the modern man? "I don't know how to get in or out; I'm everything that doesn't know how to get in or out" sighs the modern man.

Nietzsche

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

Nietzsche

'While we may speak of a denaturalisation, as far as the 'conversion' and Christianisation of the Germanic peoples are concerned, it is also true that a remote Nordic-Aryan heritage was awoken by the encounter with Rome, ultimately leading to that grand Romano-Germanic civilisation expressed and animated by a metaphysical tension: the Ghibelline Middle Ages.'

– Julius Evola: Romanness, Germanicness, and the 'Light of the North' (essay in the book The Bow and the Club).

The spirit of Rome must come back to European man.

For further context: The Mystery of the Grail by Julius Evola

For sure the Ghibelline Middle Ages were a great age for a great people. And surely they also expressed both Germanic and Roman characteristics, for a somewhat Romanized Germanic people. My contention is with the idea that this single great culture is the exemplary culture, as if it characterizes a great culmination of all prior European greatness, for all of Europe. This is foundational to the entirely modern idea of 'the West' as a unified entity, complete with a pan-European 'white' identity. Unfortunately this is not the historical reality. We today are as divorced from the crusading lords and their country serfs of yore as much as they were divorced from the Gallic and Germanic tribal stocks from which they came. What happened a millenia ago was a flourishing of the Germanic race after their contact with Rome. It didn't create 'Europe,' and it certainly doesn't define all that can be called 'European.' We can appreciate this time and place and the people who created it without feeding fundamentally modernist narratives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordine_Nuovo

You should know this page, and all the hyperlinks. This is the Evola lore they don’t teach in school.

Oh - and you should know Operation Gladio, considering Evola pretty much invented it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-four/operation-gladio