Greetings
We at Integral Tradition Publishing (www.integraltradition.com)
are happy to annouce the premier issue of the new traditionalist journal The
Initiate.
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Bringing together academic research by both well
known and up and coming authors, The Initiate is the first major venture of its
kind in the English language. The journal tackles a wide range of themes and
issues pertinent to the fields of Traditionalism and traditional studies,
including history, metaphysics, folklore, initiatory studies, myth and
comparative religion.
The defining feature of The Initiate is that all
its articles are based on objective sources and the most recent research in
their field. Not restricting itself to the study of one particular tradition or
ideology, The Initiate pioneers an inter-disciplinary approach that places it at
the cutting edge of traditional studies research.
Edited by David J.
Wingfield, David Griffiths and Charles Collicutt.
A four-issue
subscriptions is Euro 25 (you save 7 Euro (22%)), and a single issue 8 Euros.
The Initiate is issued bi-anually.
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Synopsis
From the Editorial:
"...The analysis and
predictions of twentieth century Traditionalists have to a large extent been
vindicated. The decline of the West has indeed continued unabated.
Traditionalists have become experts at accurate cultural criticism but have been
unable to make any significant impact in the objective world. Several broad
schools of Traditionalist thought have emerged, as a result of different
intellectual responses to changing social trends and philosophies. The
Evolian/Guénonian School of "Perrenialist" Traditionalism gives a conservative
critique of the modern world whilst looking for evidence of innate or universal
forms lying behind the diverse expressions of different traditional societies.
The Radical Traditionalist movement bases its approach on a reconstruction of
folkish pre-Christian social ethics and religions as an antidote to the
dissolution of the modern world and the non-European focus provided by
Christianity. The 'New Right' identitarian movement seeks the revolutionary
rebirth of European identity and culture from a post-modern position...
"This brings us, at the start of the new Traditionalist project that The
Initiate represents, to the vexed question of "Tradition" itself. What is this
concept we understand as Tradition? What are its defining features and, more
pressingly, why do we feel that it is important to protect, extend, rediscover
and/or reinvent it? Can there, in fact, be any definable sense of Traditionalism
or Traditionalists, when the term has meant, and continues to mean, so many
different things to so many different people?
"Is Traditionalism to be
understood as a cultural movement, a primarily political concern or an
antiquarian interest in social anthropology, linguistics or crafts? Is the
exclusive focus of some identitarian and New Right groups on "metapolitics", or
cultural struggle bringing about the brave birth of a new culture from within, a
tacit realization of their profound political impotence? What is a
Traditionalist stance on the pressing concerns of our age in the West:
immigration, the Muslim Question, capitalism, alienation from the land,
biotechnology, the welfare state, Europeanism and Nationalism and so on? What do
self-styled "(Radical) Traditionalists", "(Revolutionary) Conservatives",
"National Anarchists", "Nationalists", "Third Positionists", "Odinists", "New
Rightists", "Identitarians" etc. have in common, if anything, beyond a general
opposition to modernity? Are these coherent positions, and to what extent do
they overlap, complement or contradict each other?
"In the course of its
life, The Initiate aims to field these questions, strip them, debate them, and
maybe, just maybe, find some resolution. ..."
Articles
Include
THE CLAN
by David Griffiths
THE METAPHYSICS OF
HISTORY
by Kerry Bolton
THE CONCEPT OF INITIATION
by Julius
Evola
ANTHROPPTHEISM
by Sergio Knipe
THE WEST
REBORN?
by David J Wingfield
THE GREAT TRIAD AND NORSE RELIGION
by Martin Häggkvist
MISSA ASINORUM
by James Todd
HEATHENDOM
by Tage Lindbom
Plus editorial comment,
book reviews and original artwork by Emma
Parkin.