Name: Audiobook: Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola, Part One, Chapter 20
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Description: Chapter 20: Man and Woman In this chapter, Evola discusses the traditional views on the roles and relationships between men and women. He highlights how traditional societies viewed the masculine prin

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Chapter 20: Man and Woman

In this chapter, Evola discusses the traditional views on the roles and relationships between men and women. He highlights how traditional societies viewed the masculine principle as stable and self-sufficient, while the feminine principle was seen as dynamic and centrifugal. These perspectives influenced the roles and relationships between the sexes, emphasizing complementary functions and the importance of maintaining distinct male and female identities. Evola explores the symbolic and ritualistic aspects of gender roles, contrasting them with modern views on gender equality and the resulting societal changes. He critiques the modern emancipation of women, arguing that it leads to the loss of traditional values and the natural order between the sexes.

Footnotes:

1. Further metaphysical and mythical references are found in J. Evola, Eros and the Mysteries of Love: among the philosophers of the Sung dynasty we find the teaching that Heaven “produces” men while the Earth “produces" women; therefore woman must be subjected to n.; n as the Earth is subjected to Heaven.

2. In the erotic symbolism of these traditions the same meaning is expressed through the figuration of the divine couple as they engage in the so-called viparfta-maithuna, an intercourse in which the male is still while the iakti moves her body.

3. “Apart from their husbands women cannot sacrifice or undertake a vow or fast; it is because a wife obeys her husband that she is exalted in heaven." The Laws of Manu 5.155. It is not possible in this context to discuss the meaning of female priesthood and to explain why it does not contradict the abovementioned example. Female priesthood traditionally had a lunar character, rather than representing another path available to women, it expressed an affirmation of feminine dharma as an absolute elimination of any personal principle so as to make room for the voice of the oracle and of the god. Further on I will discuss the alteration proper of decadent civilizations in which the lunar, feminine element usurps the hierarchical peak. We must also consider the sacral and initiatory use of women in the “path of sex.”

4. In an ancient Chinese text, the Niu-kie-tsi-pien (5) we read: "When a woman leaves the house of her father to join the house of her husband, she loses everything, including her name. She does not own anything in her own right; whatever she has and whatever she is belongs to her husband." And in the Niu- hien-shu it is said that a woman must be in the house "as a shadow and as a mere echo.” Quoted in S. Trovatelli, Le ci villa e le legislation! dell'antico Oriente (Bologna, 1890), 157-58.

5. Analogous customs arc also found among other Indo-European stocks: among the Thracians, the Greeks, the Scythians, and Slavs. In the Inca civilization the suicide of widows, though it was not decreed by a law, was nevertheless common practice: those women who had not the courage to commit suicide or believed they had good reasons not to commit it, were despised by their community.

6. “The woman who is not unfaithful to her husband but restrains her mind and heart, speech, and body reaches her husband’s worlds after death, and good people call her a virtuous woman.” TheLawsofManu 9.29.

7. "In this fire the gods offer a person. From this oblation the man arises having the color of light.” B/iiad- Sranyaka Upanifad 4.2.14. Sec also Proclus, In Timeum, 5.331b; 2.65b.

8. In The Laws ofManu it is written: “A girl, a young woman or even an old woman should not do anything independently, even in her own house. In childhood a woman should be under her father's control, in youth under her husband’s, and when her husband is dead, under her sons’” (5.147-48). And also: ‘‘A virtuous wife should constantly serve her husband like a god, even if he behaves badly, freely indulges his lust, and is devoid of any good qualities" (5.154).

9. The sacral offering of the body and of virginity itself has been sanctioned in a rigorous form in what amounts to yet another cause of scandal for our contemporaries, namely, in sacred prostitution, which was practiced in ancient Syrian, Lician, Lidian, and Theban temples. The woman was not supposed to offer her virginity out of a passional motive toward a given man; she was supposed to give herself to the first man who tossed her a sacred coin within the sacred enclosure, as if it were a sacred offering to the goddess of the temple. A woman was supposed to get married only after this ritual offering of her body.

10. According to some statistics gathered in the 1950s (C. Freed and W. Kroger), an estimated 75 percent of North-American women are “sexually anesthetized," while their “libido” has allegedly shifted in the direction of exhibitionist narcissism. In Anglo-Saxon women, the neurotic and typically feminine sexual inhibition'was typical of their culture and was due to their being victims of a false ideal of “dignity” in addition to the prejudices of puritan moralism. The reaction of the so-called sexual revolution has only led the masses to a regimen of quick, easy, and cheap sex treated as an item of consumption.

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