A school of thought that begins with one claim, that the modern world is not progress but decline. Rene Guenon built the metaphysics, Julius Evola made it heroic and political, and a publishing lineage carried both into the present under real names through real houses. Around it has grown a larger claim, that it secretly steers the modern far right. This dossier states the documented history first, the men and the books and the dates, and then marks the exact place where what is documented stops and what is only asserted begins.
Primary-source documentation of the 1934–1935 Bern Trial proceedings (the first judicial examination of the Protocols' authenticity), including witness testimony, expert analysis, the 1935 guilty verdict, and the 1937 appellate reversal.
The Belle Epoque French occult revival, its orders and its schism, and Philippe of Lyon, the healer from that world who reached the court of Nicholas II.