Rules for The Orders As Established by Julius C.

Evola

Basic Principles

1. The men of the Order have the duty, first of all, of being living testimonies to the values of pure Spirit,
understood as a transcendent reality, above any merely human value, any naturalistic,
‘social’, and ‘individualistic’ bond, and of defending and asserting them in appropriate forms.

2. The devastations that characterise the modern world

impose on the men of the Order the responsibility for the assumption,
and the assertion of such values as distinct from more or less historically conditioned institutions and forms.
The men of the Order, noting that at the present time there is no political or social system of a legitimate nature,
and true to higher principles, keep aloof from all these.
They could be present, and even accept offices or positions, in such institutions,
but for the sole purpose of exerting an influence of a transcendent nature, whether direct or indirect.
As for the distance to be kept from every particular religious form,
since the growing decay and secularisation of these forms is self-evident, any such participation must be justified
by the acknowledgment of basic values free from any conditioning.

3. Leaving this aside, the most important thing is that the men of the Order act
on an existential level through their presence, through absolute adherence to truth, uprightness,
ability to subordinate the person to the work, inflexibility and rigour of the idea,
indifference towards any outward recognition and any material benefit.
Recognising the correspondence between the interior and exterior human form,
it is desirable that the men of the Order be chosen from among those without physical defects,
and even from among those of imposing mien.

4. There are distortions specific to modern society, and to take a stand against them
is a natural and essential premise of adherence to the Order.
What is to be criticised above all in this connection is any form of democracy and egalitarian,
to which must be opposed a spiritually founding principle of authority and hierarchy.

Any proletarian and collectivist ‘social’ myth must be fought even more.
Contempt for the so-called ‘working classes’ is an essential point.
The men of the Order oppose any cronyism, any climbing of inferior forces to power
and any concept of rank, privilege and power defined in terms of money and wealth.
The task of the men of the Order is to assert the supremacy of heroic, aristocratic and
traditional spiritual values against the practical materialism, petty immoralism and utilitarianism of our times.
On every occasion they will stand up for these values and oppose and unmask what is in contradiction with them.

5. The Order recognises Truth as the most powerful weapon for its action. The Lie, the ideological falsification,
the suggestion and the anaesthetising action exerted on every ability of higher sensitivity and recognition
are actually at the root of the general work of subversion and distortion in the present world.

6. The center of gravity of the Order lies neither in any particular religious confession nor in any political movement,
and moreover, in its spirit, the Order stands aloof from all that pretends to be ‘culture’
in the modern, intellectualistic and profane sense.
The foundation of the man of the Order is on the contrary,
in the first place, a way of being;
in the second place, a given vision of life, as its expression;
in the third place, the elements of style for a personal attitude of rectitude and coherence in life,
together with a norm for the mastery of action.

7. Currents and bodies of ideas may be supported, inspired or favoured, according

to their opportune nature in relation to any given situation, by the Order,
but without its identifying itself with them.
It will only aim at acting on the plane of causes, not on the plane of effects and exteriority.

8. The whole Order will be behind each man of the Order.

Each member will have the duty of supporting, by any means,
any other member, not as an individual, but as an exponent of the organisation.
Each member of the Order should turn himself into a center of influence in any given circle,
and the unity of the Order will express, confirm and strengthen the natural harmony potentially existing
between these elements, cells or centers of action equally internally orientated, shaped by the same idea.