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can affect history
• Techniques for manipulating consciousness
• A great interest in paranormal phenomena and their combination with politics (visions,
oracles, prophecies)
• A magic/political understanding of the system of rituals in the service of the state
• Sexual magic practices for transforming erotic love and sexuality into worldly and spiritual
power (Kalachakra Tantra)
• The functionalization of the feminine principle for the purposes of politico-religious power
All these pillars of Tibetan Buddhist culture are likewise ingredients of the Kalachakra Tantra
constantly practiced by the Dalai Lama and the Shambhala myth this evokes. For centuries they have
determined the form of Tibetan monastic society, completely independent of any Western imaginings
or influence. Hence the question about neo-fascism's inordinate interest in Tibet and its atavistic
culture is easily answered: fascists of the most varied persuasion see their own “political theology”
confirmed by the Tibetan Buddhist religious system, or discover new images and practices in it with
which they can enrich and extend their ideologies.
Some (not all) of the above-mentioned Tibetan cultural elements to which the new right has helped
itself were also to be found in the Europe of old, yet these were either disempowered or relativized by
the Enlightenment and “modernity” — only to be reactivated in the history of fascism and national
socialism. In traditional Tibet (up until 1958), in the community of Tibetans in exile, but above all in
the figure of the Dalai Lama and his clergy, in the holy texts and the rituals (the tantras), these images
and archetypes were able to survive without pause. Through the active presence of the lamas in the
West they are now visible and tangible once more and play an ever greater role in Western popular
culture. Yet it is not just in comics and kitsch films that the Dalai Lama is portrayed as a god-king, but
also both the respectable and the down-market western press, a label which gains fundamental
significance in the political theology of fascism and is combined there with the Führer principle.[4]
Julius Evola: A fascist Tantric
It was not just the ideologists and theoreticians of national socialism who were closely concerned with
Tibet, but also high-ranking intellectuals and scholars closely linked to Italian fascism. First of all,
Giuseppe Tucci, who attempted to combine Eastern and fascist ideas with one another, must be
mentioned (Benavides 1995).
A further example is the work of the Italian, Julius Evola (1898-1974), for a time Benito Mussolini’s
chief ideologist (mainly in the forties). In numerous books and articles he has investigated and further
developed the relationship between tantric rituals and power politics. He has followed “tantric trails”
in European cultural history and come across them everywhere: among the Cathars, the troubadours,