" What was new in this book was my willingness to acknowledge the
‘traditional’ side of Catholicism. Nevertheless, I could not avoid express¬
ing certain reservations. Firstly, I maintained that Catholicism ought to be
distinguished from primitive Christianity, and that the latter is to be held in
lesser esteem. In other books of mine (including Revolt), I was later to em¬
phasise the negative, problematic aspects of Christianity from a historical
perspective - which is to say: those aspects of Christianity antithetical to the
Classical and Roman worldview. On the other hand, I acknowledge the fact
that primitive Christianity' potentially provided a desperate, tragic path of sal¬
vation for both the mass of outcasts devoid of any tradition who originally
embraced the Christian message, and, more generally, for a specific human
type. The idea of a choice to be made once and for all in this life between
eternal salvation and eternal damnation — an idea conveyed all the more ex-
asperatingly by resorting to frightening descriptions of the afterlife and of
the Final Judgment. . . was a way to fill certain individuals with an extreme
tension which, combined with a predisposition to the supernatural, might "

― Julius Evola , The Path of Cinnabar