Notes On The End Of The Age
"What will become of our civilisation, and of man himself, if
the hydrogen bombs begin to go off, or if the spiritual and moral darkness
of State Absolutism should spread...We have no reason to take this threat
lightly, everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered
by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches
ready with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas except the critical
reason of a single, fairly intelligent, mentally stable stratum of the
population."
- C. G. Jung
"...Technology had inveighed her victims into putting themselves
into her power by selling them new lamps for old. She had bribed them with
'the pictures' and 'the wireless' into selling their souls; and the outcome
of this ruinous cultural 'new deal' was the spiritual wilderness which
Plato had dismissed as a 'Commonwealth of Swine,' and Aldous Huxley had
satirized as a 'Brave New World.'"
- Arnold Toynbee
"Races of slaves will become masters of the world. Leaders
will be by nature violent. Leaders instead of protecting their subjects
will despoil them. The only union between the sexes will be that of pleasure.
The earth will only be appreciated for its mineral wealth. Life will become
uniform at the heart of a universal promiscuity. He who hands out most
money will dominate men. Every man will imagine himself to be the equal
of a spiritual authority. Folk will fear death and the thought of poverty
will appal them. Women will become no more than sexual playthings."
- *Vishnu Purana
"We are introduced to a fantastic and inevitable event which
comes nearer with every day that passes: the end of all life on our globe,
the ultimate phase of the phenomenon of man"
- Teilhard de Chardin
"Never mind how bloody the final crash may be! Never mind what
old treasures may perish for ever in the redeeming conflagration! The sooner
it comes the better. We are waiting for it - and for the following glory
- confident in the divinely established cyclic Law that governs all manifestations
of existence in Time: the law of Eternal Return. We are waiting for it,
and for the subsequent triumph of the Truth persecuted today; for the triumph
under whatever name, of the only faith in harmony with the everlasting
laws of being; of the only modern 'ism' which is anything but 'modern,'
being just the latest expression of principles as old as the Sun; the triumph
of all those men who, throughout the centuries and today, have never lost
the vision of the everlasting Order, decreed by the Sun, and who have fought
in selfless spirit to impress that vision upon others. We are waiting for
the glorious restoration, this time, on a worldwide scale, of the New Order,
projection in time, in the next, as in every recurring 'Golden Age,' of
the everlasting Order of the Cosmos."
- Savitri Devi
"...an irreligious time which coincides exactly with the idea
of a world-city is a time of decline. True. But we have not chosen this
time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of...Civilisation....Everything
depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realising
that though we may lie to ourselves about it we cannot evade it...."
- Oswald Spengler
"Suppose that, in future generations, the most gifted minds
were to find their soul's health more important than all the powers of
this world; suppose that, under the influence of the metaphysic and mysticism
that is taking the place of Rationalism today, the very elite of intellect
that is now concerned with the machine comes to be overpowered by a growing
sense of its Satanism (it is the step from Roger Bacon to Bernard of Clairvaux)
- then nothing can hinder the end of this grand drama that has been a play
of intellects, with hands as mere auxiliaries."
- Dr. Alexis Carrel
"The positive possibilities (of the reign of the machine) can
only concern a tiny minority, namely those beings in whom the dimension
of transcendence pre-exists or in whom it can be awakened...They alone
can give a completely different value to the 'soulless world' of machines,
technologies, modern cities, in short, of everything that is pure reality
objectivity, which appears cold, inhuman, menacing, devoid of intimacy,
depersonalizing, 'barbarous'. It is precisely by entirely accepting this
reality and these processes that the differentiated man will be able to
realize his essence and form himself according to a valid personal equation..."
- Julius Evola
"The day has come to begin the work of our renovation...We
must arise and move on. We must liberate ourselves from blind technology
and grasp the complexity and the wealth of our own nature...But we are
still immersed in the world created by the sciences of inert matter without
any respect for the laws of development. In a world that is not made for
us, because it is born from an error of our reason and from the ignorance
of our true self. To such a world we cannot become adapted. We will, then,
revolt against it. We will transform its values and organise it with reference
to our true needs...We know how we have transgressed natural law. We know
why we are punished, why we are lost in darkness. Nevertheless, we faintly
perceive through the mists of dawn a path which may lead to our salvation."
- Dr. Alexis Carrel
"There are two ways to surpass the bourgeois order...the first
possibility leads lower still, towards a collectivist humanity... The second
possibility is to fight the bourgeois order in order to rise above it.
The New Man will be anti-bourgeois, but on the basis of a superior, heroic
and aristocratic conception of existence... The man who has held himself
upright through the purifying fire which has devastated his life - such
a man, just as he refuses to be the instrument of a pseudo reaction, so
he will be attached to forces and ideals that are superior to the bourgeois
world and the era of economics. By such an attachment, he will create his
lines of defence and consolidate the positions from where, at the opportune
moment, he will move to action and reconstruction."
- Julius Evola
"Those who will be successful in overcoming all these obstacles
and in triumphing over the hostility of an environment opposed to all spirituality
will doubtless be few in number; but, once again, it is not numbers that
count here, for this is a realm where the laws are quite other than those
of matter. There is therefore no occasion for despondency; and even where
there is no hope of achieving any visible result before the collapse of
the modern world through a catastrophe, that would still not be a valid
reason to refrain from embarking upon a work extending in scope far beyond
the present time. Those who may feel tempted to give way to discouragement
should remind themselves that nothing accomplished within this order can
ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can enjoy no more than
a specious and purely ephemeral triumph, that every kind of partial and
transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the great equilibrium
of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power
of truth; for their motto they should take the one adopted in former times
by certain initiatory organizations in the West: Vincit omnia Veritas."
- Rene Guenon
According to the Hindu tradition of cosmology, we are now nearing
the end of the Kali Yuga (the Age of Iron) which is the final and most
negative of four evolutionary Yugic cycles. Each Yuga is like the season
of a super-cosmic year, even greater than the cosmic year of the precession
of the equinoxes. When the Earth came into its current phase of manifestation
and the first Yuga began ('Satya' Yuga, meaning 'Purity') humanity was
barely removed from its original state of God-like innocence. This was
the original Golden Age. As time progressed the planet underwent the influence
of a negative descending spiral, and the quality of life in each successive
Yuga became further and further removed from the knowledge of truth and
natural Law (in other words, 'Reality'). In the second, Treta Yuga (Silver
Age) spiritual awareness decreased by one fourth and by the time of Dvapara
Yuga (Copper Age) negativity had a 50% holding. In the Kali Yuga the vibration
has become pretty murky a! nd hum anity is labouring against heavy odds.
Righteousness (right-use-ness) has diminished to scant one fourth of its
original strength. Throughout our current history we have created and been
assailed by all the evils of Pandora's box. No wonder the human race is
having such a difficult time. But the turning point has now arrived, and
the dawn once more sheds its light on a confused and ignorant planet. The
Vishnu Purana, one of the oldest sacred texts of India says about the Kali
Yuga, "The leaders who rule over the Earth will be violent and seize
the goods of their subjects... Those with possessions will abandon agriculture
and commerce and will live as servants, that is, following various possessions.
The leaders, with the excuses of fiscal need, will rob and despoil their
subjects and take away private property. Moral values and the rule of the
law will lessen from day to day until the world will be completely perverted
and agnosticism will gain the day among men." There are many other
references to this division of time. For instance, in the Bible, Nebuchandnezzar's
dream (Daniel 2:31-45) was of a bright and terrible image with a head of
finest gold, chest of silver, hips of brass and legs of iron. The feet
and toes were of iron mixed with clay. This image was destroyed by stone,
unmade by human hands, which crushed the feet to dust and the pieces blew
away in the wind. Although Daniel the prophet interpreted the various metals
as the world empires which succeeded Babylon, the dream also has a more
cosmic meaning. It represents the great yugas. The iron legs are the Iron
Age or Kali Yuga which deteriorates at the end of its cycle into the present
unstable civilisation symbolised by the feet of iron and clay. The prophet
interpreted the stone as the true kingdom of God which would replace the
other civilisations as the real and lasting Kingdom.
Rene Guenon "Crise of Modern World"
THE END OF A WORLD
This end only appears to be the "end of the world," without
any reservation or specification of any kind, to those who see nothing
beyond the limits of this particular cycle; a very excusable error of perspective
it is true, but one that has nonetheless some regrettable consequences
in the excessive and unjustified terrors to which it gives rise in people
who are not sufficiently detached from terrestrial existence; and naturally
they are the very people who form this erroneous conception most easily,
just because of the narrowness of their point of view. ...the end now under
consideration is undeniably of considerably greater importance than many
other, for it is the end of a whole Manvantara, and so of the temporal
existence of what may rightly be called a humanity, but this, it must be
said once more, in no way implies that it is the end of the terrestrial
world itself, because, through the "reinstatement" that takes
place at the final instant, this end will itself immed! iately become the
beginning of another Manvantara...if one does not stop short of the most
profound order of reality, it can be said in all truth the "end of
a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.
Rene Guenon's The Reign of Quantity and The Signs of the Times.
"Dahlke sums up the matter, saying that one characteristic
of Western superficiality is the tendency always to identify religion as
a whole with religion based on faith. Beyond those who 'believe' are those
who 'know', and to these the purely 'mythological' character of many simply
religious, devotional and even scholastically theological concepts is quite
clear. It is largely a question of different degrees of knowledge. Religion,
from religo, is, as the word itself indicates, a re-connecting of a creature
to a Creator with the eventual introduction of a mediator or of an expiator.
On the basis of this central idea can be built up a whole system of faith,
of devotion and even of mysticism which, admittedly, is capable of carrying
an individual to a certain level of spiritual realisation. However, it
does so to a large extent passively since it is based essentially on sentiment,
emotion and suggestion. In such a system no amount of scholastic explaining
will ever completely resolve the irrational and sub-intellectual element.
"We can easily understand that in some cases such 'religious' forms
are necessary...but we must also realise that there may be some who have
no need of them and who, by race and by calling, desire a way free from
'religious' mythologies, a way based on clear knowledge, on realisation
and on awakening. An ascetic, whose energies are employed in this direction,
achieves the highest form of ascesis."
- Julius Evola
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