Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest

by Julius Evola

Evola articulates the close relationship between the physical rigors of mountain climbing and the ascent of the initiate toward self-transcendence. Julius Evola, a leading exponent of esoteric thought, was also an ardent mountain climber who personally scaled the peaks of the Tyrols, Alps, and Dolomites. For Evola the physical conquest of a mountain, with all the courage, self-transcendence and mental lucidity that it entails, becomes an inseparable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892816570
• ISBN13: 9780892816576
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Inner Traditions International
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"