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NEW on the PRAV Perspectives Substack: The Lead Editor of PRAV’s Foundations of Eurasianism series, Dr. John Stachelski, reports from St. Tikhon’s Monastery in Pennsylvania. Read the article

PRAV founder and Editor-in-Chief Jafe Arnold has just released the first part of an extensive, groundbreaking study that not only promises to recover a missing chapter in the history of Traditionalism, but also intersects with the history of PRAV Publishing: https://jafearnold.substack.com/p/a-translators-dharma-harold-musson This essay is a must-read appendix to Andrea Scarabelli’s Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life.

Ladies and gentlemen, readers and friends, anons, feds, and bots, Once you’ve finished placing your orders for Alain de Benoist’s Ideas in the Right Place, I have a surprise for you: The launch of my very own Substack is imminent. You are hereby invited to subscribe: jafearnold.substack.com (But that’s not the surprise...) The surprise is the first article which you, dear subscribers, will catch wind of — in your inbox, among the notifications on your phone, or via a strange feeling in the aether. The debut article is the first in a series. It tells the story and explores the pathways of an intelligence officer who was commissioned for his skills as a translator and deployed as an interrogator and spy-hunter. One day, while hospitalized, the intelligence officer came across a book by someone on the target list — a Traditionalist. He was changed forever. After translating the book and sending it off to the publisher, he abandoned everything and moved to an island in Asia, where he became a Buddhist monk and was living out the rest of his days in a hut in the jungle, until [redacted]… When I was traveling around Asia a few years ago, preparing to launch PRAV Publishing, I had his primum opus in my hands without knowing it… Intrigued? Join me on this and other odysseys: jafearnold.substack.com

«A BOOK OF BEGINNINGS» 6 years ago, PRAV Publishing released its very first title: Polemos: The Dawn of Pagan Traditionalism by Askr Svarte (Evgeny Nechkasov) translated by Jafe Arnold, with a foreword by Richard Rudgley 402 pages — available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook.

NEW on the PRAV Perspectives Substack: “Guénon, Evola, and Tantra with Nietzsche” — excerpt from Andrea Scarabelli’s Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life Read the excerpt Get the book — join the historic moment

NOW on the PRAV Perspectives Substack: — One of the most crucial, controversial, and classic early essays of Alexander Dugin — “Counter-Initiation: Critical Remarks on Some Aspects of the Doctrine of René Guénon” Read it now

The monumental biography awaits you: Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life is available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook from Arktos and PRAV Publishing.

Mark Sedgwick reviews Andrea Scarabelli’s Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life in Compact Magazine: https://www.compactmag.com/article/julius-evolas-many-lives/

Now on the PRAV Perspectives Substack: “The Rite of Heaven: Chinese Noölogy and the Cultivation of Humanity” by Xantio Ansprandi https://pravpublishing.substack.com/p/the-rite-of-heaven-chinese-noology

« With the help of his local guide, the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres is studying the most remote tribes along the tributaries of the Amazon. The two of them are making a boat trip downstream and back. The river divides tribes which are actively at war with each other. Some of them have never seen other people. On the way back, Clastres and his guide make a stop and are hosted by one of the riverside tribes. From another tribe they’ve brought a batch of a sacred root which has psychotropic effects and is used in local rituals. Rejoicing at this encounter, the tribe decides to arrange a festival. Another tribe, fully armed, comes from out of the depths of the jungle to join. After a whole day of ceremonies, scenes, and rituals, after sunset and by firelight, the men of the two tribes consume the root and arrange a ritual dance with their spears, bows, and knives. Somewhere off to the side, Pierre Clastres is sitting and watching. This is in the 1960s. There are no satellite phones, no telegraph, and no roads. For hundreds of kilometers in every direction, there is only jungle and warring tribes. There is frankly nowhere to run, and in this very moment Clastres is absolutely cut off, excluded from, and lost to his own civilization. No one in the world even knows where he is and whether he is alive. He is in the midst of an archaic ritual, an ecstatic dance of warriors, which has been performed for thousands of years on these shores under the oversight of local spirits. An absolutely modern person has come into contact with the bare nerve of authentic life and under the most direct threat of death. It is difficult to imagine the existential rapture and horror that Pierre experienced that night. This scene from his book The Archaeology of Violence is one of the strongest images and contrasts in anthropology. In relation to our own tradition, we should be not only our own “Pierre Clastres,” but also boldly tear off our shirts, sink our teeth into the root of the spirits, and throw ourselves into the barbaric dance of spears to the music of blades. So that the river’s water might wash away the “traces of modern man” from the shores of our consciousness. » — Askr Svarte, What the Gods Have Left (PRAV Publishing, 2024).