If anyone wants to know more, it would be difficult to find it in any written exposition. Enough reference points have been given to the discerning reader for going a good distance on his own, in study or in practice and with a certain variety, intended to suit individual inclinations. As for what we have offered, each will use it as he thinks best, and according to his qualification and interest. We have not set up any “occult” scenery, and have spoken with sufficient clarity not to deceive anyone with sensational promises or with the mysterious ceremonial that seems obligatory to many who are hawking the by-products of esotericism and yoga today. In the three volumes of these essays we have communicated whatever we could, following the task mentioned.
Compared to other attitudes even within the initiatic domain, this is a direction that gives special importance to concepts of freedom, of power, and of spiritual virility. Consequently our main concern has been to give out a body of teachings relating above all to practice and to realization, corroborating them with accounts of real, lived experiences, as well as traditional texts and references, varied but always converging in a single direction. At the same time we have denounced all confusion of initiatic reality with the fields of competence of profane science, and with the world of mysticism, morality, and religion. We have explained what should be thought of psychoanalysis and metapsychology, recent concotions that have made such an impression on provincials of the spirit. We have precisely drawn the frontier that separates these disciplines from the “spiritualist” and occultist forms, sources of mystification and often run by charlatans, which currently enjoy an epidemic of diffusion among a mindless and dilettantish public. We have been addressing the few whom a higher vocation renders unsatisfied by the values and accomplishments of ordinary human life, in order to give them a sense of the paths, the truths, and the horizons of what is called the initiatic or the secret tradition. Now that the task the Ur Group set itself in-organizing this collection of essays-is virtually done, it is time to say a few words of farewell to those who have followed us up to now. By studying the practices and realizations within, the reader will be liberated from conventional dogmas-religious, political, scientific, and psychological-and see with the clearer eye of realization. However, there is incalculable value in this volume even for the less heroic. Its goal was the “Absolute Individual,” the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization. It was their term for an active and affirmative attitude toward individual development handed down from a “primordial tradition” and discernible in alchemy, Hermetism, esoteric religious doctrines, indigenous practices, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West. In its pages you’ll discover that the “magic” of the UR Group has nothing to do with sorcery or superstition. Volume III, more than the others, bears the personal stamp of Julius Evola. This volume, the third in the series, complements the first two, yet they are not strictly sequential, and their contents can be read in any order. Reveals the ultimate magical goal of the “Absolute Individual,” the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization.Explores esoteric practices for individual development, handed down from a primordial tradition and discernable in alchemy, Hermetism, religious doctrines, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West.
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