Metaphysics of War : Battle, Victory and Death in the World of Tradition (2 ed)

In "Metaphysics of War", Evola considers the spiritual aspects of war in different spiritual traditions, including the Vedic, Iranian, Islamic and Catholic.

In so doing he concludes that war can, in certain circumstances, have a 'sacred character' through which man may achieve self-realisation.This collection of essays is about war from a spiritual and heroic perspective.

Evola selects specific examples from the Indo-European and Islamic traditions to demonstrate how traditionalists can prepare themselves to experience wars in a way that could allow them to transcend the limited possibilities of life in our materialistic age, entering the world of heroism, i.e., achieving a higher state of consciousness, an effective realisation of the meaning of life.

His call to action, however, is not that of today's armies, which ask nothing more of their soldiers than to become mercenaries in the service of a decadent class. Rather, Evola presents the warrior as one who lives a cohesive and integrated way of life - one who adopts a specifically 'Aryan' view of the world, which sees the political aims of a war not as war's ultimate justification, but as being merely a means through which the warrior realizes his calling to a higher form of existence.