Julius Evola's book aims to reveal the fundamental principles of the complete ascetic system most clearly presented in Buddhism. The very doctrine of Prince Siddhartha, as the author proves, is a high aristocratic doctrine, in which asceticism appears as a science and a school of spiritual liberation. Evola connects this spiritual school with that great Tradition in which the higher realm of the spirit defines the lower material world. The author seeks to solve an important practical problem: to make one of the greatest ascetic systems accessible and understandable to the modern world, which "like no other civilization is as far removed from the ascetic perception of life" .. The modern world for Evola is a world of thoughtless activism, a world of a feverish race in a vicious circle. But in this world there are ways to clear the place for a powerful vertical leap, for a breakthrough to the unconditional .. One of them is ascetic concentration, which is by no means an escape from the world, but a means of liberation of forces for spiritual revival.