Ernst Jรผnger, "At the Wall of Time": the "breaking level" and access to the "original fund"

On the occasion of Ernst Jรผnger's birth anniversary (March 29, 1895) we are republishing our article focused on his work At the wall of time previously published in Barbadillo, Eumeswil and Il Centro Tirreno, here slightly revised and expanded.

Nocturnal voices at the Sublicio bridge

Broadcast for the first time on September 24, 1995, the television drama written by Pupi Avati and directed by Fabrizio Laurenti is now twenty-six years old. Let's go over, for the occasion, the esoteric and occult elements that emerge from the vision of the five episodes that compose it.

On the traditional conception of figurative art and its sacral function

As stated by historians of religions such as Coomaraswamy, Zimmer, Eliade and by esotericists such as Guรฉnon and Evola, in traditional societies every profane art or science is always accompanied by a "sacred science", which had "an organic-qualitative character and considering the nature as a whole, in a hierarchy of degrees of reality and forms of experience, of which forms the one linked to the physical senses is only a particular ยป. Examples of this conception of art can be found in the bas-reliefs of Hindu times, but also in the rock representations dating back to the Cromagnon era.

The mask of the Daimon: Gustav Meyrink and the "Metamorphosis of the blood"

Thanks to Bietti editions, "The metamorphosis of blood", a spiritual autobiography of Gustav Meyrink, an Austrian writer of the early twentieth century, whose literary mythopoiesis was influenced by his esoteric and occult studies, is an ideal continuation of the collection of essays "At the frontiers of the occultโ€Recently published by Arktos editions.

โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: Ernst Jรผnger's prophecies about the Age of the Titans

125 years ago, on March 29, 1895, Ernst Jรผnger, one of the most important and original thinkers of the short century, was born in Heidelberg. Sixty years have passed since the publication of his work "At the wall of time" which, reread today, can only amaze us at the punctuality of the prophecies it contains about the world to come, the world in which we find ourselves living today: from the figure paradigmatic of the "unknown soldier" to the advent of the so-called "mass-man", passing through the phenomenon of the "disappearance of borders" and finally coming to highlight the work of destruction of the natural rhythms in which man has always been inserted, accomplished by means of the "titanism" of Science.

โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: the question of history and the crisis of the modern world

Ernst Jรผnger's work on cyclical time, published 60 years ago, marks the apex of what was called the "culture of the crisis", a current of thought focused on becoming aware of the drama of History and Historicism and on the image of time as an impetuous flow that overwhelms everything: intuitions that, before Jรผnger, were brought to the surface by Oswald Spengler, Renรฉ Guรฉnon, Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade.

Towards โ€œTimeWave Zeroโ€: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna

In addition to being one of the "prophets" of the psychedelic Counterculture of the second half of the last century, Terence McKenna was able to build, in the course of thirty years of studies and experiments, a real eschatological system for the Third Millennium, in view of final explosion, based on the recovery of shamanic practices, on a new interpretation of the Sacred as "Mysterium Tremendum" and on the vision, beyond the ordinary dichotomy between life and death, of what he called an "Ecology of Souls".

Kawah Ijen: Hell & Heaven

We made an excursion, among the indigenous sulfur collectors, on the slopes of the only volcano in the world that erupts blue lava: the Kawah Ijen on the Indonesian island of Java. The nocturnal catabasis and the morning ascent, similar to those of Dante in Dorรฉ's illustrations, gave rise to meditations in us on the power of the cataclysmic events that have always affected the Pacific "belt of fire", and on the necessity on the part of the man to accept them and to come to terms with them.

The "revival" of Astrology in the 900s according to Eliade, Jรผnger and Santillana

The revival of the astrological discipline in the last century has aroused the attention of some of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, who analyzed the phenomenon philosophically and from a mythical-traditional point of view: from Ernst Jรผnger to Mircea Eliade, up to the "Fatalism" by Giorgio de Santillana.

The Pole, the incorporation, the Androgyne

The mythical traditions from all over the world speak of an auroral golden age in which Man lived "in the company of the gods": this can perhaps be related to creation "in the image and likeness of God" and to tradition of the Platonic primordial Androgynous, homologue of the kabbalistic Adam Kadmon?

The lonely path of cinnabar

"Misunderstood by friends and enemies, he fought alone against the modern world": this obituary to Julius Evola highlights the 'Promethean-Luciferian' daimon that accompanied him throughout his entire earthly journey, making him a unique thinker in the panorama of ' 900, as clearly emerges from his most autobiographical work, "The journey of the cinnabar", recently reprinted by Edizioni Mediterranee.

The end of the primordial age and the "Fall of Man"

Notes of a mythical-traditional nature on the esoteric history of humanity in the present Manvantara: from the Golden Age to the "Fall", from the "Sleep of Adam" to the "Original Sin", from the tripartition Adam-Eve-Lilith to the revolt of the Bear against the Boar.

"Underground" civilizations in myth, occultism and "alternative reality"

Simultaneously with the publication of our article on "Underworld Civilizations in Fantastic Literature" appeared in Cosmic Dimension, we have drawn up here a brief excursus on the same topos in the sacred traditions, in the esoteric sphere and in the "alternative reality" of the twentieth century

The myth of concealment in Eurasian traditions

Brief excursus along the historical, philosophical and religious path through which the theme of the concealment of the divine in the great Eurasian space developed: a theme that once again demonstrates the primordial spiritual unity of this vast inner continent

Von Ungern-Sternberg's religiosity: between Buddhism, shamanism and Christianity

di Amodio of War

There are characters that history puts on the back burner.ย The Great History, the one with a capital "S", the one taught at school, high school, university, marginalizes, forgets, excludes these characters.ย I have never found the name of Roman Fรซdoroviฤ Nicolaus von Ungern-Sternberg in those โ€œfashionableโ€ encyclopedias, in โ€œofficialโ€ books, in university manuals. When we talk about the Russian Civil War, and especially the White Army, the names of the admiral are always mentioned Kolchak, of the generals Vrangel ', Kornilov, Denikin, but I have never heard of the name "von Ungern-Sternberg".