# Metaphysics of Power

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**ID**: LIB-0024
**Author**: Evola, Julius
**Category**: Esotericism
**Tags**: esotericism
**Figure Coverage**: FIG-0032
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## Summary

Metaphysics of Power (2021) collects Julius Evola's articles critiquing modern society via Traditionalist metaphysics, emphasizing a hierarchical four-caste system (king, warrior, merchant, laborer) rooted in ancient spiritual authority as the true basis of state power and order, against egalitarian decay. Arktos, Goodreads

## Project Relevance

Links esotericism/power via initiation as transcendent state-change enabling hierarchical rule; draws from Western (Roman imperial) and Eastern (Hindu varna) mystery traditions, where hidden gnosis differentiates true elites; connects to the mystery schools project through its Western-Eastern canon synthesis. Arktos

## Key Themes

Traditional caste hierarchy as metaphysical power foundation; aristocracy's spiritual revival; state/empire legitimated by transcendent authority; critiques of modernity (feminism, bureaucracy, individualism). Figures: divine kings/emperors. Arktos, Goodreads

## Scholarly Reputation

Obscure recent collection; Evola controversial (fascist/esoteric ties), influential in far-right/Traditionalism, marginal/critiqued in academia as reactionary pseudo-philosophy. PhilPapers, Jacobin