The Yoga of Power

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

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.

"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."

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