/lit/ - Literature

>>22909895
In vino veritas!

>>22870786
Well worth it mate. Merry Christmas.

>>19271652
Ah, I have read a fair bit of Evola, though I admit that his book on the Hermetic Tradition was a little obscure for me.
My main bone of contention with you is "the spirit-principle has to be freed in life, while it still has a form to attach to". You seem to think that each spirit-principle has precisely one shot at liberation (Hermetic Red Work, Buddhist nibbāna), and if this is not achieved by the end of the allotted lifespan, it just reintegrates to the Monad from whence it came, which to me sounds like you think the White Work (= henosis) just automatically transpires for all who die, even those who die in ordinary, impure states of consciousness, and that the only distinct cases would be of those who so pure that they surpass the Monad into total liberation. If this is the case, it sounds to me like there is an implicit "end of the world" in your interpretation: an equilibrium at which point all souls have either reintegrated into the Monad (never to fall back out into the material world) or attained freedom outside it, all while the material and psychic elements of samsara just continue dying and rebirthing all through eternity, without any souls. This is an interesting interpretation, but I imagine I've misunderstood, since the traditions I'm familiar with do not posit any permanent afterlife other than that achieved by liberation.
I'm curious if you've read Evola's Yoga of Power, and if you haven't I would strongly recommend that, particularly the appendix on the Bardos, which precisely lays out the fate of the spirit-principle after the breakup of the body. Briefly: depending on the degree to which it was purified in its previous lifetime, it can reach liberation, otherwise one of three immediately lower stages, otherwise merely rebirth into another body (though a womb-door, as the Tibetans put it). There is no permanent afterlife other than liberation, only continued passage through the womb-doors and the stages closer to liberation. The closest I could link this to your explanation is that, in order to even face the higher bardos or, failing that, choose the next womb-door, one must be able to overcome the swooning of death and maintain the spirit-principle without bodily support, which I imagine is what you mean when you say you want to avoid the "loss of personality".
Anyway I've poured over and rewritten this post for almost an hour now, I'll just put it up. Nice to have someone intelligent to talk to instead of christfags seeting about solus christus and calling traditional doctrines satanic.

>>11743211
Godspeed friend.