/lit/ - Literature

I just started reading Evola's The Holy Grail because I was going to follow this guide. However, I think I am too dumb to get it. I understand half of it and the other half just reads like gobblydigook. Like I literally can't make sense of it. I was really excited to read some esoteric shit too. Am I too dumb for this kind of literature or if I keep reading will I pick it up? In the case that I am too dumb, what should I be reading?

Hijacking thread instead of starting a new one.

Am I too brainlet for Evola?
I just read the first chapter of The Mystery of the Grail and while some of it I understand, a large portion of it just reads like word soup to me. I literally do not understand the point of whole paragraphs. Does it get more digestible later on or what? It's my first Evola book because I was following the guide (picrel).

>>18847428
>they are all a chore to read
I don't read for fun anyway.
>>18847476
>so if you’re going to look into anyone go with him
That's what I thought. Is this reading guide legit?
>>18847511
Do you have anything better?

>>18703033
Im going off this chart for now. It’s the best Evola guide I’ve found anyway.

Yes, they could, and they should. It's important to note that Evola and many others in the early Traditionalist school lived during a time where evolutionism was a lesser known and less rigorously proven belief. Even though he was intelligent, he wasn't a biologist. He rejected evolutionism on spiritual grounds, believing it merely was an extension of progressivist logic, and a violation of the perennial principle that things like consciousness can only progress from higher to lower, not the other way around.

It'd be absurd to deny natural scientific truth. Biological history doesn't change the truth of perennial science as a model for human spirituality.

>>18488474

It's best to read Evola's more elementary work before you dive into his other books mentioned there. Otherwise you'll both miss the larger context of his worldview and you could misinterpret an author whose already highly misunderstood.

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>>16921502
Just read the big 3, unless you really like hermeticism
Revolt -> Ruins -> Tiger

>>15940231
the reading list

In your opinion, what are some necessary prerequisites to Evola's work? Which companion texts are useful?

I've thoroughly read most of the big names in continental philosophy pre-1900, as well as a decent number of commentaries on major works. I'd like to avoid becoming a "dogmatist" of these schools, however, as happens to certain readers (particularly those who use these thinkers to legitimize reactionary politics) - however much guys like Jonathan Bowden might entertain me, I want to seek as clear a picture as possible of this literary tradition (sans neo-reactionism). I'd appreciate any guidance from scholars on this board.