The Doctrine of Awakening

Julius Evola
Evola during the 1920s
Born	Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (1898-05-19)19 May 1898 Rome, Italy
Died	11 June 1974(1974-06-11) (aged 76) Rome, Italy
Cause of death	Respiratory-hepatic problems
Nationality	Italian
Notable work	Le Parole Obscure du Paysage Interieur (1920) Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) Synthesis of the Doctrine of Race (1941)
Website	www.fondazionejuliusevola.it
Era	20th century
Region	Western philosophy
School	Traditionalism
Institutions	School of Fascist Mysticism
Main interests	History, religion, Western esotericism
Notable ideas	Fascist mysticism, spiritual racism
Influences Gautama Buddha Laozi St. Athanasius Nietzsche Plato Papini Spengler Guénon de Maistre Donoso Cortes Jünger Wilde Michelstaedter Benn Vico Tzara Weininger Stirner Dostoevsky Eckhart Novalis Croce Merezhkovsky Gurdjieff
Influenced Hesse Serrano Moynihan Limonov Dugin de Benoist Rauti Scaligero Eliade Saviano Godwin Yourcenar Yockey Levkin Kopff Tucci Pinchbeck Karlsson

Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛːvola]; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974), better known as Julius Evola (/ˈdʒuljəs ɛˈvoʊlə/), was an Italian philosopher, painter, and esotericist. According to the scholar Franco Ferraresi, "Evola's thought can be considered one of the most radical and consistent anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-popular systems in the twentieth century. It is a singular (though not necessarily original) blend of several schools and traditions, including German idealism, Eastern doctrines, traditionalism, and the all-embracing Weltanschauung of the interwar Conservative revolutionary movement with which Evola had a deep personal involvement".

Historian Aaron Gillette described Evola as "one of the most influential fascist racists in Italian history". Evola was admired by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. He idolized the Third reich’s Schutzstaffel (SS). He admired SS head Heinrich Himmler, whom he knew personally. Evola spent World War II working for the Sicherheitsdienst. During his trial in 1951, Evola denied being a fascist and instead referred to himself as a "superfascist". Concerning this statement, historian Elisabetta Cassina Wolff wrote that "It is unclear whether this meant that Evola was placing himself above or beyond Fascism".