Evola opposes the totalitarian Folk-State and the Socialism of the Nazis with the idea of the Order-State. The SS was supposed to have been the vehicle of this Order-State. But what spiritual principle was to lead the new Order? The "positive Christianity" of the National Socialist creed signified a rejection of so-called "negative Christianity." According to this, the negative aspects of Christianity included the Jewish thought in the Old Testament; cutting off the European folk from their pre-Christian roots, to the extent of destroying the folk altogether through denial of their national connection; exclusive fixation on the after-life; and the life-denying attitude. But what alternative did the SS offer? Evola's opinion was that with their neo-heathen naturalism and pantheism, they not only failed to overcome "negative Christianity," but lacked any transcendent orientation on even the lowest spiritual basis. Nor could there be any question of reviving the pre-Christian Teutonic religion. Hence the SS went into battle with no transcendent principle to lead them: neither the ancient Germanic war-god Thor, nor the Christian archangel Michael, who since the Synod of Mainz in 819 had been the Patron of the Empire.
No one can accuse Evola of only having made this criticism after the fact. In the remarkable article
Reich und Imperium als Elemente der neuen Europδischer Ordnung (Europδische Revue, February 1942), we find his opinion clearly expressed:
"We are well aware of the anti-Roman prejudices that are cultivated in certain circles. However, they mostly rest on one-sided comparisons. For example, they substitute for true Roman law a kind of law that would better be called Napoleonic, marred by unversalism and an abstract normativism that occurred only incidentally in the organic concept of earlier Rome's 'imperial space.' It is equally wrong to compare the Roman Empire with the Catholic Church. Certainly we admit that Rome worked in concert with Catholicism to create the imperial culture of the Middle Ages; but we have to be clear about what sort of Catholicism was involved then. True Roman law was not "universal" in the modern, rational sense, marked by the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, but was the form of a well-ordered imperial space or empire, which had as its basis an equally well-ordered cultural and human ideal. Medieval Catholicism was likewise related to a Christianity which largely identified itself with the community of Aryan European nations. This community was conceived as an organic and military unity, and the ethics of honor and loyalty counted far more in it than the virtues of renunciation and the universal brotherhood of humanity. [...]
"One must not forget that for many European peoples, Catholicism represents the tradition of many centuries, which cannot be discarded overnight without destructive consequences. In this respect, a suitable adjustment and selection will serve the true common goal far better than outright rejection. [...]
"It is, in any case, essential to be realize that the new Order will need a fulcrum analogous to that which Rome already provided for forming the Medieval culture of Europe. If Imperialism signifies a power-system in which the governing part oppresses and exploits the other parts, the Empire or Imperium, in contrast, represents leadership and the higher justice of the 'unum, quod non est pars' [unity that is not a part]."
In the Eastern part of Europe the Orthodox church has made the synthesis of nation and Christianity possible, but outside of Romania the Roman and therefore the true Imperial spirit would have been missing. The Legionaries show clearly the living Roman influence in Romania which completed the Dacian heritage and the Christian tradition to the New Man of the Iron Guard - modelled after the exemple of the heroic life and death of Corneliu Codreanu.
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