Tag Archives: Rene Guénon

2,111 words

English original here

« Le problème avec nos païens occidentaux modernes, c’est qu’ils ne croient pas vraiment en leurs dieux, ils croient seulement croire en eux. » (Cleary, Summoning the Gods, 21). Read more …

Published: January 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, caste, Collin Cleary, hinduism, in French, in translation, Jonson Miller, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, religion, Summoning the Gods, Traditionalism, yoga | Leave a comment

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More Aryan than Human:
The Return of Repressed White Wisdom in Rob Zombie’s Firefly Family Films

James J. O'Meara

5,694 words

“Our bodies come and go, but this blood stays forever” — Otis B. Driftwood

I am not a great fan of the horror film, at least in its current, Judaicly inspired “torture porn” incarnation. I did occasionally enjoy exposure to the “horror core” or “psycho-billy” music that started showing up here and there in New York in the early 90s. Read more …

Published: January 19, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aldous Huxley, articles, Christianity, dualism, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, movie reviews, non-dualism, North American New Right, originals, Rob Zombie, the Jewish question, Traditionalism | 8 Comments

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The Gods are Still Here:
A Response to Collin Cleary’s Summoning the Gods

Jonson Miller

1,995 words

French translation here

“The problem with our modern, Western pagans is that they do not genuinely believe in their gods, they merely believe in believing in them” (Cleary, Summoning the Gods, 21). Read more …

Published: January 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Asatru, caste, Collin Cleary, hinduism, Jonson Miller, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, religion, Summoning the Gods, Traditionalism, yoga | 35 Comments

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Interview with James J. O’Meara

Greg Johnson

3,471 words

Editor’s Note:

Before beginning this interview, I knew very little about James J. O’Meara. Read more …

Published: January 5, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alan Watts, Alisdair Clarke, drugs, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, Henry James, homosexuality, interviews, James J. O'Meara, John N. Deck, Julius Evola, literary criticism, male bonding, mysticism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, the Männerbund, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Remembering René Guénon:
November 15, 1886 to January 7, 1951

Greg Johnson

265 words

René Guénon was born on this day in 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right.

In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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A Band Apart:
Wulf Grimsson’s Loki’s Way

James J. O'Meara

2,682 words

Wulf Grimsson
Loki’s Way: The Path of the Sorcerer in the Age of Iron
Second Edition
Lulu.com, 2011

A few weeks ago I was privileged to receive this unsolicited manuscript, “the result of over 30 years of research, study and practice,” by Wulf Grimsson. Read more …

Published: September 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, book reviews, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, Loki's Way, magic, male bonding, neo-paganism, North American New Right, reprints, the left hand path, the Männerbund, the occult, Traditionalism, warrior ethics, Wulf Grimsson | Comments closed

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Tradice & Revoluce

Edouard Rix

497 words

Based on English translation here

Za co vlastně bojujeme? Každý politický voják si tuto otázku jednou bude nucen položit. Ačkoli to možná někomu může připadnout protikladné, obvykle odvětíme, že bojujeme ve jménu Tradice a Revoluce. Read more …

Published: June 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Edouard Rix, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, revolution, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Pan-Nationalism

Andrew Hamilton

3,908 words

“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,”
Essays: Second Series (1844)

Nationalism, as well as racial pride and consciousness, are potentially powerful unifying forces. Read more …

Published: May 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alain de Benoist, Aleksandr Dugin, Andrew Hamilton, articles, Eurasianism, European New Right, European unity, Eurosiberia, Francis Parker Yockey, geopolitics, Guillaume Faye, Heinrich Himmler, Jean Thiriart, Julius Evola, National Socialism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, pan-Angloism, pan-Germanism, pan-nationalism, pan-Nordicism, pan-Slavism, racialism, Sir Oswald Mosley, the Jewish question, the SS, Traditionalism, white nationalism, white racial consciousenss | 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, Buddhism, Ferdinand Ossendowski, secret societies, Shambhala, the king of the world, Tibet, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Man’s Devolution Across Cycles:
Radical Traditionalism on Anthropogenesis

Michael Bell

4,762 words

Hieronymus Bosch, "Garden of Earthly Delights," c. 1490–1510, center panel, detail

Concerning the genesis of modern humanity, there are two primary theories that receive credence in anthropological circles. One is the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, which argues that today’s humans are the evolved descendants of a primitive race of hominids that, 70,000 years ago, departed its homeland in Africa and spread across the globe. Upon entering Asia and Europe, these archaic humans displaced the indigenous Neanderthals through violent conflict and higher birthrates. They then adapted to their environments and gradually morphed into today’s human races through a process called localized evolution.

Published: March 1, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, devolution, evolution, Julius Evola, Michael Bell, North American New Right, reprints, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

Julius Evola

1,604 words

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

Translated by Greg Johnson

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, Buddhism, Eastern philosophy, Ferdinand Ossendowski, Julius Evola, Mongolia, originals, Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, Traditionalism, translations, weaponized Traditionalism | Comments closed

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James O’Meara on Henry James & H. P. Lovecraft
The Lesson of the Monster; or, The Great, Good Thing on the Doorstep

James J. O'Meara

2,000 words

The Annunciation by Simone Martini, 1333

We’ve been very pleased by the response to our essay “The Eldritch Evola,” which was not only picked up by Greg Johnson (whose own Confessions of a Reluctant Hater is out and essential reading) for his estimable website Counter-Currents, but even managed to lurch upwards and lay a terrible, green claw on the bottom rung of the “Top Ten Most Visited Posts” there in January.

Published: February 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged H. P. Lovecraft, Henry James, horror, James & Lovecraft, James O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, Oswald Spengler, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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The Eldritch Evola

James J. O'Meara

2,010 words

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom. — E. A. Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Published: January 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, cyclical history, H. P. Lovecraft, horror fiction, James & Lovecraft, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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French Visions for a New Europe

Stephan Chalandon and Philip Coppens

Salvador Dalí, "The Ascension of Christ," 1958

3,747 words

Raymond Abellio claimed that the Flemish occultist S. U. Zanne (pseudonym of Auguste Van de Kerckhove) was amongst the greatest initiates of our time. But hardly anyone knows who he is. Some have placed Abellio in the same category — though he too is a great unknown for most. And those that have looked at Abellio, have largely concluded that he was a fascist politician, who was also interested in esoteric beliefs.

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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.

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Against Nihilism:
Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity

Thomas F. Bertonneau

Julius Evola

5,326 words

With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898–1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the limitations – the contradictions and inconsistencies–in Nietzsche’s thinking.

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The Kali Yuga:
René Guénon’s Critique of Modernity

Thomas F. Bertonneau

René Guénon, 1886–1951

5,312 words

The Conservative critique of modernity is by no means a recent phenomenon; it begins rather with the responders to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Jacobin followers in the late Eighteenth Century. It is sufficient in this regard to mention the names of Edmund Burke (1729–1797) and Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) and of their successors, S. T. Coleridge (1772–1834) and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), to suggest the range and richness of immediately post-revolutionary conservative discourse. Read more …

Published: December 19, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, modernity, North American New Right, reprints, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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René Guénon: East & West

Julius Evola

2,918 words

Translator anonymous, revised by Greg Johnson

The new edition of René Guénon’s book The Crisis of the Modern World offers the opportunity for a critical account, which may be of some interest, of the author’s leading ideas. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Julius Evola, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Remembering René Guénon

Edouard Rix

René Guénon, 1886–1951

1,202 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

This essay and the one that follows are presented in commemoration of René Guénon’s birth on November 15, 1886.

On January 7th, 1951, the Frenchman René Guénon, one of the principal representatives of Traditional thought in the 20thcentury, died in Cairo. Read more …

Published: November 15, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Edouard Rix, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Biography of René Guénon

Harry Oldmeadow

2,358 words

René Guénon (1886–1951) was a French metaphysician, writer, and editor who was largely responsible for laying the metaphysical groundwork for the Traditionalist or Perennialist school of thought in the early twentieth century. Read more …