In the 1920s he delved into the occult he wrote on Western esotericism and of Eastern mysticism, developing his doctrine of " magical idealism". He said he considered suicide until he had a revelation while reading a Buddhist text. He became a Dada artist but gave up painting in his twenties. He served as an artillery officer in the First World War. An eccentric thinker in Fascist Italy, he also had ties to Nazi Germany in the post-war era, he was known as an ideological mentor of the Italian neo-fascist and militant right. Evola regarded his values as aristocratic, monarchist, masculine, traditionalist, heroic, and defiantly reactionary. Giulio Cesare Andrea " Julius" Evola ( Italian: – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue.
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