JEAN PARVULESCO
Star of an Invisible Empire
Alexander Dughin on Jean Parvulesco, translated by Victor Olevich
1. Profession - visionary
Jean Parvulesco - is a living mystery of European literature.
Mysticist, poet, novelist, literary critic, connoisseur of political intrigue,
revolutionary, friend and confidant of many European celebrities of the latter
half of the twentieth century (from Ezra Pound and Julius Evola to Raymond
Abellio and Arno Breker). His true personality remains a mystery. A Romanian who fled to the West in the 1940’s, he bacame one of the
most brilliant French stylists in contemporary prose and poetry. But no
matter how different were his works, from tantric stanzas and complex occult
novels to biographies of eminent friends (in particular "Red Sun of
Raymond Abellio"), his real calling was - "visionary," direct
and inspired contemplator of spiritual spheres, opened to the chosen behind the
sullen and trivial appearance of contemporary profane world.
At the same time, Parvulesco does not have anything in common with vulgar
representatives of contemporary neomysticism, so
widespread today as some sort of an instrumental compensation for
technotronic-informational routine of everyday life. Parvulesco’s vision is
gloomy and tragic: he has absolutely no illusions concerning the hellish,
infernal nature of contemporary world( in this sense,
he is most likely a traditionalist). He is completelety alien to the infantile
optimism of theosophers and occultists, and pseudomystical "goggles"
of the New Age. But unlike many traditionalists with an "academic"
temperament, he does not limit himself to sceptical preaching about the
"crisis of the modern world" and empty-worded, marginal condemnation
of materialist civilization of the end of Kali-yuga. Jean Parvulesco’s texts
are filled with the Sacral, which speaks in them directly, through a
dream-like, almost prophetic level of strange revelation,
"visitation," breaking out of higher spheres through magical blockade
of dark energies, which fill today’s world of collective and cosmic psyche.
Parvulesco is an authentic visionary, deep enough and ideologically prepared,
not to accept the first phantoms of subtle reality to come across, for "messengers
of light," but at the same time straining to the limit his intuition in a
dangerous and risky "voyage inwards," to the "center of the
Black Lake" of modern soul, without fear of going beyond norms fixed by
rational dogmatics (here originate the multi-level paradoxes that fill
Parvulesco’s books). Parvulesco’s message can be defined in this way: "The
Sacral has disappeared from daily reality of modern world, and it is completely
obvious that we live in the End of Times, but the Sacral has not vanished
(since it could not vanish theoretically, as it is eternal), but was
transferred to a nightly, invisible projection, and is now ready to come down
on human physical cosmos in a terrible apocalyptic moment of apogee of history,
at a point, when the world that forgot about its spiritual nature and disowned
it, will be forced to meet with it in a brutal flash of Revelation." As
long as this has not taken place, and humanity peacefuly sleeps in its dark,
materialist illusions, only the chosen, visionaries, members of the secret
brotherhood, the Apocalyptic Order, keep awake, secretly preparing ways for the
coming of the Last Hour, "
Jean Parvulesco sees in himself not a literary figure, but the herald of this
Invisible Empire (his last book is called "Star of an Invisible Empire),
speaker of the occult Parliament, consisting of the planetary elite of the
"awakened." His personality doubles, triples, quadruples in
characters of his novels, among which the author himself has a place, along
with his doubles, occult duplicates, and real historical personalities,
other-worldly shades, shells of "external twilight," "nominal
demons," secret agents of occult special services. Parvulesco opens an entire
parallel world, not just stage decoration of individual fantasies or
reminiscences. His texts are populated with frightening reality: his strange
(often quite black) humor at times touches on the holy relics of religions,
dogmas and canons, awakening their inner, mysterious essence, ridden of
spiritually devastating fetishist reverence. Following tantric presciptions,
Parvulesco vivifies the language, makes it operative. That is why his texts are
something more than literature. It is the magical spells and scandalous denunciations;
it is the provocation of events and foretelling of their meaning; it is
submergence into the Ocean of the Interior, subterranean tunnels of the Hidden,
into the frightening empire of that, which exists in each one of us. That is
exactly why Parvulesco can be as terrifying as any true genius: he intently and
scientificaly studies us from the inside, at times getting over the known
brink. The visionary anatomist.
2. In the beginning was Conspiracy
Parvulesco answers clearly and paradoxicaly at the same
time: it is dual.
Secret agents of Being and Nonexistence appear in all key spheres of control of
the modern world, directing all processes of civilization. It is from the
superimposition of one on the other of energy vectors of two occult nets, that the
fabric of actual, concrete history results. Generals and terrorists, spies and
poets, presidents and occultists, Church Fathers and heretics, mafiamen and
ascetics, freemasons and naturalists, prositutes and holy saints, salon artists
and activists of the workers’ movement, archaeologists and counterfeiters - all
of them are only obedient actors of a saturated conspirological drama, and who
knows, which social identification shelters a higher Initiate? Often, a
gangster or a beggar turns out to be the curator of a President or the Pope,
and a military leader or a banker act as puppets of a salon poet, behind whose
grotesque and fantastic personality one finds a cold guru and architect of
brute political history.
3. Against Demons and Democracy
"Star of an Invisible Empire" is
Parvulesco’s last and key novel. In it, the threads from earlier books are tied
together. The work depicts transcendental metahistory, of which our author is a
chronicler, as nearing its final outcome. Here is a summary: On the entire
planet, and especially in France and Portugal (and also in Peru and Mexico),
magical "acupuncture"spots of the occult West, agents of Nonexistence
constructed black pyramids, physical and superphysical objects, intended to
support direct intrusion of demonic energies, hordes of Gogs and Magogs. This
apocalyptic project has a secret name, the "Aquarius Project," since
in accordance with astrological symbolism, the era of Aquarius, which brings
with it not happiness and harmony (as "agents of Nonexistence" are
trying to assure humanity), but disintegration, rot, chaos, and death,
"dissolution in lower waters," is about to dawn. The hero of
"Star of an Invisible Empire" Tony d’Antremont depicts the prophetic
vision of onset of the "Aquarius epoch" in this way: "I see
together with Lovecraft the potting around of enormous foul masses, moving in
endless waves, stepping over the last remaining crystal structures of
resistance of spiritual elites; I am gazing, in extatic powerlessness of my
hallucinatory awakening, at the shimmering black foam, the foam of black
disintegration, terror of democratic stench and frightening organs of these
convulsing corpses, which - in the makeup of dirty whores with a deceitful
smile, with the California beach smile of European anti-fascists, with the
smile of mannequin whores in flickering windows(so I would define it) - are
preparing our final defeat, leading us to a destination which they themselves
do not know, or, more precisely, know it too well, on the way there with relish
sucking out our bone marrow; this is the hallucinatory leaden mantle of Human
Rights, this faecal-vomitory discharge of Hell, although by saying so, I am
insulting Hell."
Servants of "Aquarius," opening the way into the human world to black
"shells" of contemporary twilight, are trying to present their
unnatural advent as a blessing, as salvation, as the limit of evolution, hiding
their true nature, Vomitto Negro (Black Vomit), under the political and
spiritualistic catchword New Age and New World Order.
But against Aquarius, in which the entire terrible, "metagalactic"
potential of the network of Nonexistance, finding its final incarnation in the
"New World Order," is concentrated, fight the representatives of a
secret western order Atlantis Magna. A special role in the rituals of this
order is played by the Woman, known under the mystical name Licorne Mordore, or
the "red-brown Unicorn." In physical reality she carries the name
Jane Darlington. But the true persona of this woman principally goes beyond the
bounds of individuality. More likely, she represents in herself some sacral
function, divided among all women of the order, whose personal and everyday
relations among themselves reflect an ontological hierarchy of being itself
(one of them corresponds to spirit, another - to the soul, the third - to
flesh.) Men of the Order, including the main character Tony d’Antremont, are
also hardly individuals in a strict sense: deaths and adultery, the depiction
of which fills the novel, illustrate the especially functional essence of the
main characters; the ritual death of one of them only intensifies
conspirological activities of another, and their wives, in the process of
commiting adultery, find out that in essence they remain loyal to one and the
same being. So, Atlantis Magna weaves its continental web to struggle with the
Aquarius conspiracy. On a higher transcendental level, a ritual tantric
realization of eschatological Occurrence, connected with the appearance of the
Consoler and the Wife. Only on this level is it possible to defeat the builders
of "black pyramids." Preparation and organization of the mysterious
ritual of the "red circle" composes the main part of the plot.
Members of Atlantis Magnum on the way to this procedure make symbolic voyages,
analyze mystical texts, work at finding true causes of political
transformations, research strange aspects of history of some ancient European
families, decipher esoteric ideas (which appear as leaks in tabloid press),
endure romantic and erotic relationships, experience assasination attempts,
become victims of kidnapping and torture, but the entire concrete body of the
captivating , almost detective novel is really an uninterrupted reading and
clarification of interconnected visionary reality of the Final Event of
History, appearance of the Great Eurasian Empire of the End, Regnum Sacrum or
Imperium Sacrum, reflections of which can be seen in all aspects of modern
world.
On the political level of the conspiracy, the heros of the novel also act
aggressively and decisively. Spiritual resistance to the New Age,
neospiritualism, for the representatives of which (from Alice Bailey to de
Charden and Sai Baba) Tony d’Antremont offers to establish an "occult
super-Auschwitz, super-Maidanek," projects on political resistance to the
"New World Order," americanism, and liberalism, which forces the
agents of Being to weave webs of planetary conspiracy with participation of all
political forces opposing mondialism. Palestinian terrorists, underground
groups of European neonazis, social-revolutionaries and members of the
"Red Brigades," descendants of aristocratic families loathing
"democracy," secretly wishing for an end of the liberal epoch,
members of the Italian mafia, Gaullists and admirers of Franco, revolutionaries
of the Third World, shamans of America and Asia, communist leaders, German
bankers - all of them become participants in the geopolitical project, directed
towards the recreation of the final Eurasian Empire. Diplomatic intrigues,
foreign trips, confidential talks and collection of information compose the
political aspect of the conspiracy of "agents of Being" and a special
subject thread of the novel, superimposed on occult conversations and long
esoteric monologues of the characters.
Parvulesco’s novel does not follow the traditional logic of a finished tale.
It is significant that it ends on a half-word on page 533. The entire preceding
plot sees the reader close in on the eschatological outcome of the occult war,
but... Here the literary world ends, and actual reality sets in. The majority
of characters in the novel are historical figures, some of whom have died,
others still alive. Books and texts quoted in the tale do really exist. Many
episodes and retold legends are also not made up (although quite a few are
fictional). Significant detail: the majority of mentioned names are furnished
with dates of birth and death. After reading "Star of an Invisible
Empire," a question naturally arises: what have we just read? A novel?
Fiction? Fantasy? Surreal literature? Or, perhaps, an esoteric tract?
Or the real revelation of the hidden motive of contemporary history, seen from
the position of metaphysical completeness in its entire volume, to the other
side of hallucinations, of which, in effect, consist all banal, everyday
assumptions, that explain nothing and are as far from the truth as imaginable?
Jean Parvulesco himself in a dedication adorning a copy given to me as a gift,
describes his novel: "most secret and dangerous initiational novel, where
Absolute Love gives its final weapon to Absolute Power and lays the occult
basis for a future great Eurasian Empire of the End, which will signify
Heavenly Kingdom, Regnum Sanctum." No more, no less.
4. Shiva, the red-brown
During one of our conversations, when I was explaining
the meaning of the term "ours" in Russian political terminology,
Parvulesco lit up and showed me the place in one of his early novels
(mid-1970’s), where he providentialy uses the same term in an amazingly similar
fashion. "Ours" for his were members of the "conspiracy of
Being," secret network of agents of influence, who are united by a common
occult goal to the other side of political disagreements and which resist the
cosmopolitical and profane civilization being established on the planet. More
than that, my Italian friends sent me a copy of Parvulesco’s article from the
late 1960’s, in which he talked about "eurasianism," geopolitical
project of the Continental Bloc, about the necessity of a Russian-German
alliance (reanimation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), and even about the
necessity of rapprochement between the reds and the browns in a united,
revolutionary, antimondialist front! How strange that the texts of this amazing
man - popular only as literary works and provoking a condescending smile in
"academic" traditionalists - with an almost prophetic clairvoyance,
describes with a warning that, which became political fact only in the last few
years far from Europe, in Russia... All this suggests uneasy thoughts
concerning the true nature of this literary genius. In the end, who are you,
Mr. Parvulesco a.k.a. commadore Altavilla? Whoever he is, he is unquestionably
"red-brown," if only because all of his sympathies were on the side
of a mysterious feminine figure, called by some really existing initiatory
societies the "Red-Brown Unicorn," Licorne Mordore. But it must be
noted that the French word "mordore" means, more precisely,
"red-brown with gold or a shot of gold." Besides the disdainful and
pejorative term "red-brown," which has long been used to label the
most interesting political forces in Russia, there exists a royal shade of this
color - as a final eschatological coronation with Alchemical Gold of the great
continental Eurasian Revolution, which "ours," secret and obvious "agents
of Being" are preparing and implementing today. Another character of the
sacral tradition is represented by this color. We are talking about the Hindu
god Shiva, liturgicaly called "red-brown" and
"frightening." The personality of this god is close to the element of
our red-browns.
Yes, this element is frightening and devastating in its external manifestation.
But it is exactly the terrible, red-brown Shiva that serves as the protector of
the mystery of Eternity, opening in its completeness at the moment of the End
of Time, negating with its "terrible" appearance the beginning of the
"era of Aquarius." Red-brown Shiva - is the guardian of tradition of
sacral Love, Tantra. That Tantra, to which Jean Parvulesco devoted one of his
first books, "The Merciful Crown of Tantra."
Agents of the inner Continent are awake. Already there appears on the night sky
of our sickening civilization a magic Star, heralding the soon-to-be
transformation of the Internal into the External. This - is the Star of an
Invisible Empire, Empire of Jean Parvulesco.
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In 1995 "Société philosophique Jean Parvulesco" was founded:
Its adress is: M. Bruno Dietsch, 17 rue des Poissonniers, F-92200 Neuily