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you're welcome

Nietzsche talks about this too somewhere
I'm trying to hunt it down
He does a good job in explaining the divergence too

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I got you, bro.

Thinking that something psychic, occult, and esoteric was the origin of Evola’s impairment, René Guénon wrote of this not in a fictional literary text but in some of his correspondence with Julius Evola. These letters have fortuitously come down to us. The philosopher wrote to him at the end of 1946 from Bad Ischl, but he never received the first reply from Guénon. The second reply on December 30, 1947, did reach him. On February 28, 1948, the French thinker wrote:
>According to what you tell me, it would seem that what really prevents you from recovering is more of a psychic nature than physical; if this is so the only solution without a doubt would be to provoke a contrary reaction that comes forth from your own self. . . . Besides, it isn’t at all impossible that something might have taken advantage of the opportunity provided by this lesion to act against you; but it’s not at all clear by whom and why this may have occurred.

Having given an example of what had befallen him in 1939, after he had been paralyzed for six months due to the “evil influence” from a person who was later expelled from Egypt, thereby ending his paralysis, Guénon concludes: “I convey this to you because by reflecting upon it you may see if something similar could not have been around you.” We do not have in our possession Evola’s reply, but he himself would sum it up in Il cammino del cinabro: “I explained to Guénon that nothing of the sort could be of value for my case and that, on the other hand, he would have had to come up with a most potent spell to cast because it would have had to determine a whole set of objective circumstances: the air strike, the moment, and the point of the bomb release, and so on.”

The French thinker substantiated his hypothesis in an unpublished letter to Guido De Giorgio dated “Cairo, 8th of March, 1948,” which is ten days after his above-quoted missive to Evola, yet we do not know if in the meantime the denial and refusal to believe him had come into his hands from his Italian correspondent, which has been abstracted from Il cammino del cinabro. In any event, he wrote:
>I received yet another letter from Evola in which he writes that he intends soon enough to return to Italy, although his condition remains about the same, and he is still unable to walk. What is especial is that it seems that what prevents him from walking is more of a psychical than physical nature; while he hasn’t any lesion, he feels it is impossible to react, as if it were specifically the will that had been affected. Who knows what connection there may be to ancient magical pretensions?

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