Audiobook: Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola, Part Two, Chapter 22
Chapter 22: The Doctrine of the Four Ages
In this chapter, Evola explores the Doctrine of the Four Ages, which contrasts modern views of progress and evolution with traditional beliefs in regression and decay. He discusses the idea that humanity has declined from higher, divine states to more mortal and contingent conditions. This concept is articulated in various ancient traditions, including Greco-Roman, Hindu, Persian, Chaldean, and others, which describe the ages using symbols like gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Evola challenges the Darwinian perspective, suggesting that superior races existed in the past and that current primitive populations are degenerate remnants of these once-great civilizations.
Footnotes:
1. Hesiod, Works and Days, 5.109 ff.
2. The Laws of Manu, 1.81-83.
3. Dio Chrysostom, Oraliones, 36.39.
4. Daniel 2:31-45.
5. Cicero, De legibus 2.11: “Antiquitasproxime accedit addeos"(Ancient times came very close to the gods).
6. Gen. 6: 4—13.
7. Plato, Critias, 110c; 120d-e; 121a-b: “As long as the divine element in their nature survived, they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin. But when the divine element in them became weakened by frequent admixture with mortal stock, and their human traits,became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their spiritual legacy with moderation.”
8. Douglas Dewar, The Transfomist Illusion (1957).
9. J. de Maistre, Soires de St. Petersburg (Paris, 1924), 1.63.
10. Ibid., 1.82. One of the things de Maistre points out is that the ancient languages are more essential, organic, and logical than modern ones; they reveal a hidden formative, nonhuman principle, especially when the ancient or “primitive" languages obviously contain fragments of even older languages that have either been lost or fallen into disuse, an eventuality hinted at by Plato himself.
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