About the book: 1996 / The book of the famous Italian traditionalist thinker Julius Evola has gained enormous popularity in the West and is considered a classic work exploring the problems of gender and sexuality. Having analyzed a huge amount of material concentrated in ancient sources, cultures, religions, mysteries, and finally in history itself, the author comes to the paradoxical conclusion about the weakening of the instinct of sex in the Western world, caused by the destructive nature of the sexual revolution. The book, without a doubt, will attract the attention of a fairly wide range of readers interested in the sacred aspects of the relationship between the masculine and feminine principles.