Now for the first time in English Introduction to Magic collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act 'magically' on the world.

In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers.

Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time. By studying the practices and realizations within, the reader will be liberated from conventional dogmas-religious, political, scientific, and psychological-and see with the clearer eye of realization.The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages. However, there is incalculable value in this volume even for the less heroic. Its goal was the 'Absolute Individual,' the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization.

It was their term for an active and affirmative attitude toward individual development handed down from a 'primordial tradition' and discernible in alchemy, Hermetism, esoteric religious doctrines, indigenous practices, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West. In its pages you'll discover that the 'magic' of the UR Group has nothing to do with sorcery or superstition. Volume III, more than the others, bears the personal stamp of Julius Evola. This volume, the third in the series, complements the first two, yet they are not strictly sequential, and their contents can be read in any order. Reveals the ultimate magical goal of the 'Absolute Individual,' the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization.Explores esoteric practices for individual development, handed down from a primordial tradition and discernable in alchemy, Hermetism, religious doctrines, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West.

Introduction to magic evola