The racial view of man cannot stop at a simple biological level, otherwise it would be worthy of the accusation of the Jew Trotsky that it is merely \u201czoological materialism.\u201d Nor is it enough to say, as Walter Gross did, that \u201cby the concept of race we mean the fullness of human life, in which body and spirit, matter and soul, are fused into a higher unity,\u201d nor to decide which of the two is determined by the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether the physical form is determined by the soul or vice versa is an extra-scientific, metaphysical problem that is not a view of racialism. Even less satisfactory is the following statement by Alfred Rosenberg: \u201cWe do not agree with the proposition that the spirit creates the body, nor with the converse, that the body creates the spirit. There is no clear boundary between the spiritual and the physical world: Both form an indivisible whole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If race is no longer to be considered a myth, but as an object of doctrine, then one cannot stop at these levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concept of race takes on different meanings, not only applied to man and animal species, but also in relation to different human types. We must therefore make a primary distinction: that between the “races of nature” and those of a higher, more human and spiritual concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a methodological point of view, it is absurd to consider racialism as an independent branch instead of strictly dependent on a general theory of man. The way in which man is conceived affects the essence of any racial doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If conceived in a materialistic way, this materialism will manifest itself in the corresponding concept of race. If it is spiritualistic, then so will the racial concept. Even when we examine what is material in man and depends on the laws of matter, racial doctrine must never forget the hierarchical position and functional dependence which matter occupies in the totality of the human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man is distinguished from the animal by his participation in a supernatural, superbiological element, and only by this participation can he be free or be himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In man the distinction of the three different principles of body, soul and spirit is fundamental to the traditional vision of man. In a more or less complete form, one finds this distinction in all ancient traditions, and it continued during the Middle Ages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aristotelian-Scholastic conception of the “three souls” (vegetative, sensitive and intellectual); the triad of body, soul and mind; the Roman of corpus, mens and anima; the Indo-Aryan triad of the “three bodies” 2 stula \u2013 sarira, linga \u2013 sarira and karana \u2013 sarira, should not be considered as a particular “philosophical” interpretation among many others, but as an objective and impersonal knowledge, which adheres to the very nature of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a basic explanation of the three concepts, it can be said that the spirit, in the traditional conception, has always meant something supernatural and supra-individual. It has therefore nothing to do with the common intellect and even less with the pale world of “thinkers” and “men of letters”. On the contrary, it is the element that gathers and focuses the basis of any manly ascent, heroic elevation or effort to achieve in life that which is “more than life”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In classical antiquity, the spirit, as “mind” or anima [The word anima is Latin and means soul, vital force, spirit or breath. In psychology, especially in Jungian analysis, it refers to the archetype of the feminine side (inner soul) that exists in the unconscious of man, while the corresponding masculine side in woman is called animus], was opposed to the soul as the masculine principle is opposed to the feminine, or as the solar element is opposed to the lunar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The soul already belongs to the world of Becoming more than that of Beings, it is connected with the vital forces, as well as with all perceptual faculties and with any passions. With its unconscious ramifications, it creates the connection between spirit and body. From this point of view, one must recognize that the inequality of humanity is not only physical, biological or anthropological, but also psychic and spiritual. Men differ not only in body, but also in soul and spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to them, the racial doctrine must be formulated in three stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.<\/strong> Races of Nature and Higher Races<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Man, instead of placing the center of himself where it is natural, e.g. in the spirit, can place it in one of the secondary elements, the psychic element or the physical element, which will then take over as the guiding part of his existence and reduce the higher elements to the role of organs. Extending this point of view, from the unit to those larger individualities called races, one arrives at the aforementioned distinction between the races of nature and the truly human races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some races can be compared to the man or the animal who, by degrading himself, has reached a purely bestial way of life: such are the races of nature. They are not illuminated by any higher element, by any power from above in which their life is played out in space and time. Because of this, the collective mass elements dominate in them, as an instinct, as characteristic of the species, as the spirit and unity of the horde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other races, the naturalistic element retains its normal function as the vehicle and expressive instrument of a higher, suprabiological element which is the first, the leading, as in an individual the spirit is for the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In these races, behind a race of body, blood and soul, there is a race of spirit. Such a truth was clearly felt where history attributed a \u201cdivine\u201d or \u201cheavenly\u201d origin to a given race, lineage or caste and supernatural, \u201cheroic\u201d characteristics to its leader or primordial legislator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Second-degree racialism \u2013 the Race of the Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By second-degree racialism we mean a theory of the race of the soul and a typology of the soul of the race. This racialism must recognize the primary and irreducible elements that act from within, so that groups of individuals manifest a stable mode of Being or a stable style \u2013 \u201cstyle\u201d in their actions, thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here we come to a new concept of the racial purity of a given type: it is no longer a question, as in the first-degree race (based on purely biological considerations), of ascertaining whether a given individual exhibits this particular set of physical characteristics. It is a question of ascertaining whether the race of the body that a given individual bears is the adequate, consistent expression of his race of the soul, and vice versa. If this is the case, the type is clear from the point of view of the second stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can consider the \u201cRacial Psychognosy\u201d (Rassenseelekunde) or \u201cPsychoanthropology\u201d of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss 3 as a racialism of the second stage. He emphasized the necessity of such research with convincing examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us consider, for example, the phenomenon of mutual understanding: In everyday life there are many cases of individuals who have the same natural race, the same generation or sometimes even \u2013 as in the case of brothers or fathers and sons \u2013 the same origin, who fail to understand each other. A boundary separates their souls and the way they feel and see is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A common race of body or a common lineage is not enough to bridge such differences. The possibility of understanding, and therefore true solidarity, can only exist where there is a common race of soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Third Degree Tribalism \u2013 The Race of Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The racial research of the third stage, as is well known, concerns the races of the spirit. It is indeed the research that seeks to conceive and understand the races to their ultimate root, whether they are normal civilizations or higher human generations. A root that communicates with superpersonal, superethical and metaphysical forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For such a research, the specific way of conceiving and understanding both the sacred and the supernatural, as well as the relationship of man to himself, the vision of life in its highest meaning and the entire world of symbols and myths, all of these constitute a very positive and objective subject, just as facial features and cranial structures constitute positive determinations for the race of the first stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the field of the racial doctrine of the third stage, the signs of “vertical,” suprahistorical heredity are of the utmost importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a first step, it is necessary to eliminate the evolutionary myth in all its forms, since it is obvious that, if one continues to believe that the further back in time one goes, the more one sinks into the horror of bestial barbarity, then it would be madness to pretend to derive from prehistoric research anything valid and applicable to the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wherever there is any evolutionary hypothesis, the investigation of origins and the emphasis on the principle of heredity would inevitably lead to deviations such as those contained in certain psychoanalytic explanations similar to Freud’s “Totem and Taboo.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our official culture, which calls itself \u201cserious\u201d and \u201ccritical\u201d and which is deplorable and largely represented in our schools, insists on considering myth either as an arbitrary creation of the \u201cpre-philosophical\u201d consciousness, or as something related to forms of lower religions, or as superstitious interpretations of simple natural phenomena, or finally as \u201cfolklore\u201d. (Not to mention here the \u201cdiscoveries\u201d of psychoanalysis and the so-called \u201csociological school\u201d, which are both typical creations of Judaism.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n We must return to the conception and understanding of myth and symbol as they were perceived by ancient, traditional man, e.g. as an expression peculiar to a super-logical reality, almost as a seal of those metaphysical forces that operated in the depths of tribes, traditions, religions and historical and prehistoric cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julius Evola<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n FOOTNOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.<\/strong> Walter Gross (1904-1945) was a German physician and a key ideologist of the Nazi regime. In 1933 he took over the leadership of the “Enlightenment Office for Population Policy and Racial Welfare”, which was renamed the “Racial Policy Office” in 1934. His goal was the long-term education of Germans in racial thought, promoting Aryan procreation and undermining the individual bourgeois concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gross published pamphlets and the popular magazine “Neues Volk”, while in 1934 he published the book “Rasse und Politik”, arguing that human inequality is a “fact of nature” and that the “racial body” prevails over the individual. He contributed decisively to the formulation of the eugenic laws and the Nuremberg racial laws. Unlike other ideologists, he avoided extreme Nordicism so as not to alienate the Germans and emphasized hereditary psychology. In 1938 he became a professor at the University of Berlin. He continued his propaganda during the war, emphasizing racial purity and the threat of “antisocial” elements, whose problems he attributed to heredity. He committed suicide in 1945, shortly before the surrender of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.<\/strong> According to Hinduism, the human being consists of three bodies (sarira), which arise from ignorance (avidya) and cover the Atman. The Stula Sarira is the gross, material and mortal body, made of the five elements. It functions in the waking state and is subject to birth, aging, and death. The Linga Sarira (subtle or etheric body) is the vehicle of consciousness and vital energy (prana). It leaves the physical body after death, carrying the tendencies of previous lives and acting as an intermediary between the physical body and the higher soul. The Karana Sarira (causal body) is the deepest level, the \u201cseed\u201d of the other two. It is associated with deep sleep and blissful ignorance, and it stores all previous impressions (samskaras) and karma, thus leading to reincarnation. Transcending the causal body through self-realization brings liberation from the cycle of births and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. <\/strong>Ludwig Ferdinand Clau\u00df (1892-1974) was a German psychologist and racial theorist, a student of the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl. He served in the navy and in World War I, and from 1920 he was involved in nationalist and anti-Semitic associations. In 1923 he published The Northern Soul, which angered Husserl, but Clau\u00df always considered racial psychology to be an extension of phenomenology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He traveled extensively in Norway, the Balkans, and the Middle East, where he converted to Islam. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and collaborated with Hans G\u00fcnther. He became a lecturer in Berlin in 1936 and in 1941 was appointed to a seat in Posen, but the intervention of Walter Gro\u00df and his wife’s denunciation of his affair with the Jewish collaborator Margarete Land\u00e9 led to his expulsion from the party in 1943. Nevertheless, he continued to work, while hiding Land\u00e9 and saving her. In 1944 he joined the Waffen-SS as a war correspondent in the Balkans, where he studied Muslim divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the war, his pension applications were rejected due to his Nazi activities, although he received a small pension in 1962. His works were banned in the Soviet zone. In 1979 he was honored as a Righteous Among the Nations for rescuing Land\u00e9, but the distinction was revoked in 1996 due to his party involvement. Clau\u00df developed a physiognomic-mimic method for racial classification, emphasizing the “form” (Gestalt) rather than the hierarchy of races, and significantly influenced racial psychology. presentation, whole or organization. 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