Empire Invisible
Julius Evola, Das Mysterium des Grals. Special edition limited
to 999 editions. Can be ordered for 78 DM from Archiv f|r Altes und
Geheimes Wissen, Lothar von K|belstra_e 1, 76547 Sinzheim Germany (Fax
number: 07229/307689)
AFTER A LONG PERIOD one of Julius Evola's major works is available in
German once more. A preface by the well known Evola expert H.T. Hansen
facilitates a comprehension of this demanding work.
The Mystery of the Grail is not about some esoteric abstraction,
it is concerned with a central mythos of the West: "In all major
traditions of Antiquity and especially in the Indo-Germanic one the
conception of a powerful world ruler returns again and again in one form
or another, an imperceptible empire towering over every visible kingdom;
the conception of a place that in the highest sense signifies a pole, an
axis, an immutable mite point, a fixed land in the middle of the ocean
of life, as a holy, untouchable area, represented by a land of light or
land of sun". (Gralsmysterium und Kaisergedanke).
The theme of this book is therefore the empire. An empire which at the
present time can only be an inner empire. Evola sought to help this
inner empire to materialise itself externally, viz. to emerge as
political reality.
With sensationalistic titles about the Grail all the rage, the Grail as
extra-terrestrial machine (Fiebag, Die Entdeckung des Grals), as
an extension of the body of Christ (Lincoln, Baignet, Leigh, Der
Heilige Gral und seine Erben) or simply as a literary topos, a book
like this is of the highest value. Evola demonstrates that the Grail
legend is neither a literary curiosity nor an original Christian legacy
but a foundation of Indo-Germanic tradition in Christian and literary
disguise.
Evola writes,
"To understand and to live the symbol of the grail in its purity would
signify the awakening of powers which might supply a transcendental
point of reference for what could emerge after a great crisis in 'the
form of an epoch which transcends the nations': the epoch of the
Imperium, das Reich, the empire which is yet to come and will
come when once its incompleted predecessors have run their course to the
end.
The hefty price apart, this is an admirable publishing initiative.
Dominic Campbell
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