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Conclusion
In contemporary civilisation, tradition yet lives on in an invisible and unifying way to the minority of men who carry forth the perennial fire. There still remains a connection to the superworld, invoked by those who remain awake. A path of acceleration may be taken, where man embraces the most destructive processes of the Kali Yuga, using them for liberation. Evola describes this as 'riding the tiger'

Chapter 37 - End of the Cycle
- Marxism is super-collectivistic as it primarily focuses on 'materialism' rather than class struggle
- Mechanisation of social order extreme in USSR, individuals blur into as one mass of cogs in a machine, total enslavement
- Cult of America similar in nature, more focused on production and profit than personal value in work
- Western world reduced to soulless collective
- Jazz is bad

Chapter 36 - Nationalism and Collectivism
- Tradition's goal was to obtain a law and a form and to be freed from dependency upon merely physical part of ones being
- Modernity's progress is a regression of this in disguise
- The very concept of nationalism is impossible in the middle ages which knew a universal nationality, but not nationalism
- Refer to further reading on Klemens Von Metternich and the Holy Alliance

Chapter 35 - Regression of the Castes
- As power gained a merely economic meaning, those who controlled the market are able to control democracy
- Making money from money becomes a political operation
- Machinery are the natural consequence of of this perversion as it is an effect of materialism
- Men begin to lose masculinity as mechanization takes hold, as women find adoption of masculine traits to be "liberating"

Chapter 34 - Unrealism and Individualism
- The world of tradition is characterised by the separation of two planes, world and higher world. Contact between the two is the presupposition of any civilisation
- Materialism is the breaking up of this contact and the reduction of possibilities to one plane. Emphasis is placed upon human nature. A morbid irony as these products are ultimately NOT what is actually real

Chapter 33 - Decline of Medieval World
- Steady decline of feudalist systems across Europe
- As a political consequence, national states begin to take on an egalitarian form, as rebellions against the nobility become common place
- Idea of people and state united becomes popular
- The rise of humanism, naturalism and rationalism, means man no longer recognises anything beyond himself to be 'real'

Chapter 32 - The Ghibelline Middle Ages
- In the Middle Ages, the Northern-Aryan spirit lived on despite a "superficial supremacy of Christianity", particularly in the Byzantine Empire
- The rise of the Pope as a pseudo-emperor over the western world served as a perversion of tradition. King had been reduced to mere material/political role, void of any higher or metaphysical role
- The beginning of the end of castes