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Crow Screen, Japan, 17th century, Seattle Art Museum

3,639 words

Translator anonymous, ed. by Greg Johnson

Zen may be regarded as the last discovery of Western spiritualistic circles in sympathy with Oriental wisdom. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, C. G. Jung, D. T. Suzuki, Dadaism, existentialism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, psychoanalysis, reprints, surrealism, Taoism, Traditionalism, Zen | Comments closed

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The Right to One’s Own Life in East & West

Julius Evola

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Death of Seneca,” c. 1615, Museo del Prado, Madrid

3,577 words

Translation anonymous, ed. Greg Johnson

In these short notes I shall not attempt to deal with the question of the right to life in general, but with the right to one’s own life, which corresponds to the ancient formula of jus vitae necisque; it is the right to accept human existence or to put an end to it voluntarily. I intend to compare certain characteristic points of view which have been formulated in this connection in the East and in the West. However, the problem will not be considered from a social point of view, but rather from an interior spiritual one, whence it appears in the shape of a problem of responsibility only to our own selves. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julius Evola, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, reprints, Stoicism, suicide | Comments closed

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The “Mysteries of Woman” in East & West, Part 2

Julius Evola

2,963 words

Part 1 of 2

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, no. 4 (1958): 349–55. This is chapter 15 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, Read more …

Published: April 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, hinduism, Julius Evola, love, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Initiatic Centers & History

Julius Evola

Nicholas Roerich, “Tibet, Himalayas,” 1933

2,150 words

Translated by Cologero Salvo

Given the confusions that abound in this area, it is opportune to clarify first what we mean, in general, by “initiatic centers” and “initiatic organizations.” Read more …

Published: March 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Holy Grail, Islam, Julius Evola, Rene Guénon, reprints, Rosicrucianism, Sh'ite Islam, Sufism, Tibet, Titus Burckhardt, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Remembering Sven Hedin

Savitri Devi

2,071 words

Editor’s Note:

We are presenting the following excerpts from Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews in honor of the birthday of the great Swedish explorer Sven Anders Hedin (February 19, 1865–November 26, 1952). For a brief account of his life and work, see his Wikipedia article.

Published: February 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged And Time Rolls On, book excerpts, Hermann Göring, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Savitri Devi, Sven Hedin, World War II | Comments closed

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Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

Julius Evola

1,076 words

English original here

V polední době se objevila spousta spisů o postavě, o níž se, i přes její mimořádný význam ve vřavách první světové války, ví jen málo: mluvím o Romanu Mikolaji Maximilianu von Ungern-Sternbergovi.

Ferdinand Ossendowski byl prvním, kdo o něm, s využitím patřičných dramatizačních efektů, psal ve svém slavném a docela kontroverzním díle Bestie, lidé a bohové. Read more …

Published: August 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, Ferdinand Ossendowski, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Mongolia, Rene Guénon, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, Traditionalism, weaponized Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Podcast no. 14
Interview with Charles Krafft, Part 1

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time: 56:15 / 7,643 words

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Published: April 29, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alan Watts, art, Charles Krafft, Corneliu Codreanu, Counter-Currents Radio, Laibach, modern art, Morris Graves, painting, podcasts, popular music, postmodernism, Rammstein, Romania, sculpture, Slovenia, the Iron Guard, Von Dutch | Comments closed

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The King of the World

Ferdinand Ossendowski

4,316 words

Editor’s Note:

The following chapters constitute the concluding Part V of Ferdinand Ossendowski’s Beasts, Men, and Gods.

Published: April 5, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Agartha, Ferdinand Ossendowski, Rene Guénon, secret societies, Shambhala, the king of the world, Tibet, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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To Re-Read Hesse

Miguel Serrano

Hermann Hesse, 1877–1962

474 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

Unfortunately, the deep writer and poet Hermann Hesse was falsified and vulgarized by a world in decline. He needs to be re-read today by the same eyes that were once shaken by his mystery.

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Published: March 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. G. Jung, Demian, Hermann Hesse, literature, Miguel Serrano, North American New Right, reprints, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Recollections of Ungern-Sternberg

Ferdinand Ossendowski

4,492 words

Editor’s Note:

Ferdinand Ossendowski, 1876–1945

The following two chapters from Ferdinand Ossendowski’s Beasts, Men, and Gods give a good sense of Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg’s qualities and vision. Ossendowski joined the baron’s army as a commanding officer of one of his self-defense troops. He also briefly became Ungern-Sternberg’s political advisor and chief of intelligence. Ungern-Sternberg sent Ossendowski on a diplomatic mission to Japan and the United States, and when the baron’s regime collapsed, Ossendowski stayed on in the United States and wrote Beasts, Men, and Gods, which was published in 1922.

Published: February 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, book excerpts, Ferdinand Ossendowski, Mongolia, North American New Right, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, weaponized Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

Julius Evola

1,598 words

Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, 1885–1921, photographed in 1921

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

Translator’s Note:

The following text, published in 1942 or 1943 under the title “Baron von Ungern Venerated in Mongolian Temples,” deals with one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic figures whom I first encountered in the pages of Ferdinand Ossendowski’s brilliant Beasts, Men, and Gods.

Published: February 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, Eastern philosophy, Ferdinand Ossendowski, Julius Evola, Mongolia, originals, Rene Guénon, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, Traditionalism, translations, weaponized Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

Greg Johnson

1,500 words

Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at age 15. In 1941, while Watts was living in New York City, his first wife Eleanor had a mystical vision of Jesus. This led him to return to Anglicanism.

Published: January 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Anglicanism, articles, Christianity, commemorations, Eastern philosophy, Greg Johnson, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Rene Guénon, Taoism, the 60s counter-culture, the Beatniks, the left hand path, Traditionalism, Vedanta | Comments closed

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The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts:
A Review of Does it Matter?

Greg Johnson

2,242 words

Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
New York: Vintage, 1971

Does it Matter? is one of my favorite Alan Watts books, to which I have returned again and again. It is also an excellent introduction to Watts’ work. Thus I was delighted to discover that, at long last, it has been reprinted, hence this review.

Published: December 11, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, book reviews, dandyism, Does it Matter?, drugs, Eastern philosophy, ecology, economics, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Social Credit, Taoism, the 60s counter-culture, the Beatniks, Third Way economics, Vedanta, vegetarianism | Comments closed

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