Northern Light

Here Evola characterises six basic types of traditional civilisation that came after the primordial golden age. These modes of tradition are split into the Demetrian and Titanic cycles respectively. He associates the Demetrian spirit with the “Southern Light”, a feminine and non-transcendent “lunar” spirituality concerned with fertility and “Mother Earth” style cults that arose after spiritual power began to split from the regal figure and rose in the priestly caste. Aphroditism is an even further degenerated form of Demetrism that replaces the mother figure with that of the lover and focuses on the erotic relationship between phallic man and woman. Amazonism was a later reactionary attempt at restoring the feminine spirituality after Titanism had risen. Evola associated Titanism with that of the “Northern Light” characteristic of the primordial golden age, which was a masculine and transcendent “solar” warrior spirituality concerned with conquering the self and establishing order, orientated upwards. Titanism is described as a degeneration of the Northern Light, stripped of its transcendent qualities and left with a materialistic and chaotic will to power in the lowest sense of the term. Dionysism was a further degenerated masculine spirituality oriented around reaching frenzied, ecstatic and mystical states typically through erotic and demonic experiences. Clearly Evola views both the Demetrian and Titanic cycles as aberrations of the traditional spirit and instead views Heroism as the restoration of the Olympian spirituality typical of the primordial and solar golden age that is capable of overcoming the figures of both the Mother and the Titan.

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