Yoga of Power

Julius Evola (1898-1974) was one of the leading authorities on the world's esoteric traditions, and wrote extensively on ancient religions and hermeticism. Inner Traditions has also published his Revolt Against the Modern World, The Mystery of the Grail, The Hermetic Tradition, Meditations on the Peaks, The Doctrine of Awakening, and Eros and the Mysteries of Love.

• The Yoga of Power Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way Translator's Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction 1. The Meaning and Origin of the Tantras 2. Knowledge and Power 3. Shakti: The World as Power 4. The Doctrine of the Tattvas: The Human Condition 5. Pashu, Vira, and Divya: The Path of the Left Hand 6. The Assumptions behind Practice and the Means Employed The Experience of the Subtle Body: The Bodily Postures 7. The Virgin: Release from Bondage 8. The Evocations: The Names of Power 9. The Secret Ritual The Use of Orgies: Initiatory Sexual Magic 10. The Occult Corporeity The Serpent Power: The Chakras 11. Techniques Employed to Awaken the Serpent Power 12. The Diamond-Thunderbolt Body Conclusion Appendix One Appendix Two Glossary Endnotes Index

"Soon Evola will be an immovable object in the field of serious esotericism in the English-speaking world, as he already is for readers of Italian, French, and German. The Yoga of Power puts to shame those modern writers who have degraded Tantra to a subject for New Age sex manuals. To read his descriptions of the higher spiritual states is like watching a champion mountain-climber on a vertical glacier."