# The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way

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**ID**: LIB-0034
**Author**: Evola, Julius
**Category**: Esotericism
**Tags**: esotericism
**Concept Coverage**: CON-0048, CON-0008
**Figure Coverage**: FIG-0032
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## Summary

Julius Evola's The Yoga of Power explores Tantrism and Shaktism as active paths to self-mastery, emphasizing the harnessing of latent bodily energies like Shakti and Kundalini for transcendence and power, rather than passive contemplation. Drawing from original texts, it details practices of the left-hand path, including subtle body work, evocations, secret rituals, initiatory sexual magic, and chakra awakening, suitable for the Kali Yuga. Chapters cover the doctrine of Tattvas, stages of Pashu-Vira-Divya, and the diamond body.

## Project Relevance

Connects to initiation via Tantric rituals and left-hand path practices; mystery traditions and esotericism through occult corporeity, evocations, and parallels to Western magic; consciousness via subtle body and Kundalini awakening; hidden knowledge/power as core theme of mastering secret energies for transcendence in Kali Yuga.

## Key Themes

Tantra/Shaktism synthesis of Eastern traditions with Western esotericism; left-hand path (Vira hero); Kundalini/Chakras; initiatory sex magic; power (Shakti) over illusion (Maya); mystery schools via UR Group influences.

## Scholarly Reputation

Influential in Traditionalist and esoteric circles, praised for depth on Tantra but controversial due to Evola's far-right associations and criticized as unreliable scholarship manipulating Eastern ideas for power-oriented, violent ideologies (Wikipedia, Inner Traditions, Goodreads). Not canonical in mainstream academia.