Julius Evola and the Occult Roots of Right-Wing Extremism
This week’s Black Sun reading on Colin Jordan, the Kali Yuga, and political mysticism
This is Julius Evola, one of the most popular right-wing influencers you’ve likely never heard about.
His books Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) and Ride the Tiger (1961) became classics in the Manosphere and its related online spaces. To many men in those circles, Evola became a prophet who foresaw the coming collapse of society under egalitarianism, liberal democracy, and secularism.
To combat those corrosive forces, Evola emphasized tradition, masculine excellence, and hierarchy. He saw history moving in cycles of rise and decline, as civilizations drift from spiritually driven achievement into materialism, dissolution, and collapse.
He was also an occultist. Evola drew heavily from Tantra, Buddhism, and Western esotericism. He despised Christianity for its teachings on humility, moral restraint, and the equality of souls.
And when I mentioned his name on X in the summer of 2025, some “Christian masculinity” leaders attacked me—which tells you something about the questions we’re not allowed to ask.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke devotes a whole chapter to Evola in Black Sun, which we’ll dig into this Wednesday.
I dedicate this edition of the Book Club to all the men who say, “But Evola said some good things!”
Maybe so. But his foundations are utterly rotten.
Don’t take my word for it. Read it and see for yourself.
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Will Spencer Book Club — Meeting #2
Wednesday, January 21
2:30pm Pacific / 5:30pm Eastern
Assigned Reading — Black Sun (Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke)
• Chapter 2: The British Nazi Underground
• Chapter 3: Julius Evola and the Kali Yuga
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