Black Sun #2: RETVRN to Rome Was Never About Rome
Julius Evola, the Kali Yuga, and the ideas quietly discipling young men online
In the first Book Club session for Black Sun, I wanted to establish something foundational to why I chose this book: Neo-Nazism is not merely radical politics or ironic internet provocation.
It’s a spiritual movement with explicitly religious roots and ambitions.
That truth only becomes more clear as the book continues.
In our second session, we worked through Chapter 2: The British Neo-Nazi Underground and Chapter 3: Julius Evola and the Kali Yuga.
The first chapter shows how quickly fascism reconstituted itself after World War II. Within five years of Germany’s defeat, Neo-Nazi groups were organizing internationally. These movements weren’t born from social media, economic anxiety about inflation and home ownership, or even the “post-war consensus.” They emerged immediately, while Germany was literally still in ruins.
British figures like Colin Jordan openly revived Nazi symbolism. Their grievances centered on immigration and racial identity, but those concerns quickly gave way to full-throated antisemitism and veneration of Hitler as being “right.” British groups were also explicit in their belief that Nazism was a religious worldview incompatible with Christianity.
An important pattern emerged every early on: Neo-Nazi political grievances were a gateway, not the destination. The movements inevitably drifted past material concerns and into deeper questions of metaphysics, myth, and dark spirituality.
In other words, it wasn’t just about headlines and policy proposals. Within two decades, Neo-Nazis were crafting a new theology that encompassed history, race, and destiny. All of which legitimized violence towards what they saw as a corrupted world.
When Fascism Becomes a Spiritual System
That drift accelerates dramatically beginning in Chapter 3.
Julius Evola was where neo-Nazism fused with occult spirituality, Eastern mysticism, masculine elitism, and metaphysical rebellion against Christ.
Evola was not a street agitator or a propagandist in the prosaic mold of Rockwell or Jordan. Instead, he was an aristocratic intellectual who drew explicitly from tantra, magic, esotericism, Theosophy, Vedanta, and Gnosticism.
His worldview rejected Christianity as weak, feminine, egalitarian, and corrosive to hierarchy and heroic virtue. He taught that history moves in cycles of rise and fall, not a linear path redemption.
Evola was the first Westerner to claim that we are allegedly living in the Hindu “Kali Yuga,” a prophesied dark age of decline marked by egalitarianism, materialism, and moral decay.
To Evola, collapse was inevitable. Therefore, destruction was necessary. To him and his followers, violence became not only morally justified, but spiritually meaningful as the timeless path to civilizational renewal.
This is not fringe trivia. Evola’s ideas are foundational to much of the modern online right, especially in masculinity spaces. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “immanetize the eschaton,” that idea traces to Evola.
Evola’s Fingerprints on the Modern Right
Other popular right-wing conceps like:
“Return to Rome” / RETVRN
“Enjoy the decline”
The “Longhouse” critique of modern feminist society
… all trace directly back to Evola’s writings.
Bronze Age Pervert did not invent these ideas. He laundered Evola’s worldview into 4chan meme culture. Other influencers have done the same, often without naming their source.
What troubles me most is not simply that these ideas circulate in pagan or secular spaces like the Manosphere. It’s that they have quietly crossed into Christian environments, sometimes defended with the claim that, “Evola says some good things!” or that his insights can be selectively mined.
They unequivocally cannot.
This Is Spiritual Poison for Christian Men
Evola was a tantric occultist who believed in spiritual hierarchy, sex-magical self-transcendence (Tantra), and the destruction of Christian moral order due to its weakness, democracy, and effeminacy.
Evola’s worldview is not compatible with Christianity at any level. It’s not neutral philosophy. It’s a spiritual poison.
After reading Evola, men aren’t merely adopting talking points. They’re absorbing a metaphysical story about the world that reshapes how they view women, power, authority, violence, history, and even God Himself.
Even worse, these ideas don’t stay theoretical. Every movement documented in Black Sun ultimately expresses itself in radicalization and deadly violence. The trajectory is consistent.
I’ve lost good friends to this pipeline. I’ve watched intelligent, capable men I thought I’d be friends with forever slowly detach from reality, grow embittered and isolated, and then begin making dark conclusions about the world and their place in it. What begins as irony or curiosity hardens into conviction and separatist identity.
Scripture warns us that false spiritual systems enslave before they destroy. This false spirituality today promises strength, clarity, and transcendence for men.
What it actually produces is pride, contempt, alienation, and finally, destruction.
What Christ Actually Calls Men To Become
Christ doesn’t call men to nihilism or romantic fantasies of civilizational collapse. He calls men to obedience, humility, courage, endurance, love of neighbor, and faithfulness across generations.
Long, slow obedience in the same direction isn’t glamorous, but it’s how civilizations like the West are built and preserved. Because it’s how a man’s household is built first!
If you have sons, brothers, or young men under your influence, you can’t afford to ignore what is shaping their imagination online. It’s my hope that the material in Black Sun will equip you to recognize these patterns, symbols, and language early, before they metastasize into something with real consequences.
Below you’ll find the full video and audio from our second Book Club meeting, along with an AI-assisted summary and detailed outline to help you navigate the discussion.
This material is heavy. It’s definitely not entertaining. But I believe it’s urgent.
Let’s continue the work.
NEXT BOOK CLUB MEETING
Wednesday, February 11
3:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Eastern
For discussion:
Chapter 4: Imperium and the New Atlantis
Chapter 5: Savitri Devi and the Hitler Avatar
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Savitri Devi is crucial to understand in order to see how we get from Nazism being about the German people to Neo Nazism being about “white people” as a whole.
She is an ESSENTIAL bridge. All the moreso because she’s a woman, undercutting the misogyny of the movement.
The Book Club is available to all paid subscribers:
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