Forwarded from Modern Kshatriya
Those among kshatriya rulers who perform great sacrifices, who are possessed of a knowledge of the Vedas, and who gain victories in battle, become foremost of those that acquire many blessed heavenly regions hereafter... There is no higher duty for the kshatriya than defeating corrupt people.
Mahabharata, Raja-dharma-anushasana Parva, 60
Mahabharata, Raja-dharma-anushasana Parva, 60
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Forwarded from Modern Platonist
Very often, too many intelligent people assume that the foundation of Europe is based upon the spread of Christianity. In fact, it is the merger of the Germanic and the Latin worlds what creates Europe as such—with slavs and Celts being subservient to Germanic peoples. The Germanic invasions are the seed of Europe and the West. With the isolation of the Byzantines from the Germanic influx and subsequent Islamic invasions, the Mediterranean and the Greek worlds became disconnected and this destroyed the Græco-Roman unity of antiquity. Let me offer an example. My country, Catalonia, is Latin and Mediterranean. Even though it built a vast empire overseas in the Middle Ages, its foundational lore is purely Frankish—thus Germanic. This is what creates the European bond of union in the nominally Christian space. Ultimately, what keeps together Latins and Germans isn't Christianity but the merger—the mixing if you want—between these two peoples. With all the nostalgia and admiration for the Roman past, the leadership, even if romanized, was Germanic in the West.
This is an incredibly ignorant and myopic take. The myth of a distinct, united, and continuous pan-European 'West' was simply never reality. It is quite romantic to picture the Germanic Middle Ages as the next great age of one continuous race and culture after the magnificent age of the Greco-Romans, but this is not what happened. Spiritually, culturally, and racially, that is not how things occurred across Europe as unfortunate as it is for the romantic Germanicist narrative. Nor were Slavs and Celts 'subservient' to Germans any more than the Germans were to them in other ages; by the time of the rise of the Germans the Celtic race had already seen its own glory days (MP's own Celtiberian blood, the Italo-Celtic Latins, the invasion of British Isles) and were on the decline (corrupted druid priest class) while the Slavs were yet to mature to their own age of greatness, or if their own claims of Scythian kinship have any merit at all, their age of greatness had long ago risen and fallen. But all these millenia of history of empires from one end of Europe through Asia is irrelevant—MP does not understand any of this nuance when he describes the isolated bubble of the Middle Ages of Central Europe. Exactly how much of the Germanic Middle Ages were Roman (with a Roman brand of Christianity coupled with re-found Greek philosophy) is up to some debate, but the truth is that the German spirit remained consistent and took the dominant place over the decadent Mediterranean spirit moreso than incorporated it and became anything new. What is even less ambiguous is how Germanic the rest of Europe became because of it. With the rise of the Germans came written history (as a Roman cultural influence) to all the "barbarians" and one should not make the mistake of attributing all the great aspects of this new German culture as precisely German when much of the same characteristics can be found in accounts of the ancient Celtic, Gaelic, Scythian, Nordic, and all the other Aryan races. This is the real issue, is that many use 'German' as a stand-in for what is more crudely 'white' or more properly 'Aryan' when there is no evidence that the German lineages better represent the ancient Aryan royal lineages any more than any of the other Aryan races did. The claim that Roman royalty was German is preposterous. There are distinctly German attributes of mind, body, and spirit that did not transfer to other peoples beyond the ones they directly conquered during Rome's fall: modern-day England (Scotland and especially Ireland remaining very Gaelo-Celtic), modern France, Switzerland/Austria, and bits of Eastern Europe. Beyond that, the changes were merely cultural if not negligible altogether. And here the nature of false unified 'West' becomes clear. The spirits of the races of the European continent were never one, nor were those races ever without influence from the North or East or South of the continent's mainland. There simply was not an unbroken chain or clear mixing of cultures, races, or spirits that passed the Greco-Roman torch to the Germans. At best some threads survived; Tradition was broken, and some German elements replaced some of the lost Greco-Roman, but the reality is that overall the chain linking them was cut.
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Forwarded from Bertie Bassett
Been working back over Spengler's Decline of the West, and two interesting points: 1. He absolutely rejects "Europe" as a valid category, 2. He refuses any continuity between Ancient Greece and Rome and our current Western Civilization.
We must confront these difficult arguments
We must confront these difficult arguments
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Forwarded from Der Schattige Wald 🇬🇱
"In an absolutely miraculous universe, miracles are unnecessary. For this reason, the Heavenly City has no temples or sanctuaries. And for this same reason, the miracles in the New Testament are much weaker than the parables. “Your son lives!”: this is not a miracle, but a parable that points to a miracle."
Der Schattige Wald 🇬🇱
"In an absolutely miraculous universe, miracles are unnecessary. For this reason, the Heavenly City has no temples or sanctuaries. And for this same reason, the miracles in the New Testament are much weaker than the parables. “Your son lives!”: this is not…
This parallels with many powerful realities. In an absolutely magical universe, 'magic' is unnecessary. 'Magic' is not real because everything is already magical, and so in truly spiritual living one does not occupy one's time performing rituals and crafting spells. The Golden Age empire, like Heaven, does not need to be dotted with grand temples and pre-occupy itself with lavish state ceremonies of a religious nature. Its mechanisms and way of being already perform these subliminally; holy ritual is built in to every action of the culture. There is little to no distinction between church and state, monk and warrior.
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Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
Or have you ever grasped [the Just itself, Beauty, or the Good] with any of your bodily senses? I am speaking of all things such as Bigness, Health, Strength and, in a word, the reality of all other things, that which each of them essentially is. Is what is most true in them contemplated through the body, or is this the position: whoever of us prepares himself best and most accurately to grasp that thing itself which he is investigating will come closest to the knowledge of it? Then he will do this most perfectly who approaches the object with thought alone, without associating any sight with his thought, or dragging in any sense perception with his reasoning, but who, using pure thought alone, tries to track down each reality pure and by itself, freeing himself as far as possible from eyes and ears and, in a word, from the whole body, because the body confuses the soul and does not allow it to acquire truth and wisdom whenever it is associated with it. Will not that man reach reality, Simmias, if anyone does?
Plato, Phaedo 65d-66a
Plato, Phaedo 65d-66a
Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
The Classical Wisdom Tradition
Or have you ever grasped [the Just itself, Beauty, or the Good] with any of your bodily senses? I am speaking of all things such as Bigness, Health, Strength and, in a word, the reality of all other things, that which each of them essentially is. Is what is…
People often wonder if there is a Western equivalent to meditation. This is it. This is the core of Platonism: the contemplation of Being, of reality in itself. Academics will write 500 page books about the Forms and somehow miss the most obvious fact: this is a meditation technique. By using our minds to peel open the metaphysical essence of things, we can gaze at pure Reality, pure Being.
Then, achieving holy silence, we move beyond Being.
Then, achieving holy silence, we move beyond Being.
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Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
Just open your eyes and see, for this alone is the eye that sees the great beauty.
Plotinus, Ennead 1.6.9
Plotinus, Ennead 1.6.9
Forwarded from Dead channel 3
Let's look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans we know very well how apart we live. "Neither by land nor by sea you will find the way that leads to the Hyperboreans": Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, beyond the ice, beyond death our life, our happiness. We discover happiness, we know the way, we find the way out of whole millennia of labyrinth.
Who else found her? Is it the modern man? "I don't know how to get in or out; I'm everything that doesn't know how to get in or out" sighs the modern man.
Nietzsche
Who else found her? Is it the modern man? "I don't know how to get in or out; I'm everything that doesn't know how to get in or out" sighs the modern man.
Nietzsche
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Forwarded from Dead channel 3
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
Nietzsche
Nietzsche
Forwarded from The Golden One
'While we may speak of a denaturalisation, as far as the 'conversion' and Christianisation of the Germanic peoples are concerned, it is also true that a remote Nordic-Aryan heritage was awoken by the encounter with Rome, ultimately leading to that grand Romano-Germanic civilisation expressed and animated by a metaphysical tension: the Ghibelline Middle Ages.'
– Julius Evola: Romanness, Germanicness, and the 'Light of the North' (essay in the book The Bow and the Club).
The spirit of Rome must come back to European man.
For further context: The Mystery of the Grail by Julius Evola
– Julius Evola: Romanness, Germanicness, and the 'Light of the North' (essay in the book The Bow and the Club).
The spirit of Rome must come back to European man.
For further context: The Mystery of the Grail by Julius Evola
The Golden One
'While we may speak of a denaturalisation, as far as the 'conversion' and Christianisation of the Germanic peoples are concerned, it is also true that a remote Nordic-Aryan heritage was awoken by the encounter with Rome, ultimately leading to that grand Romano…
For sure the Ghibelline Middle Ages were a great age for a great people. And surely they also expressed both Germanic and Roman characteristics, for a somewhat Romanized Germanic people. My contention is with the idea that this single great culture is the exemplary culture, as if it characterizes a great culmination of all prior European greatness, for all of Europe. This is foundational to the entirely modern idea of 'the West' as a unified entity, complete with a pan-European 'white' identity. Unfortunately this is not the historical reality. We today are as divorced from the crusading lords and their country serfs of yore as much as they were divorced from the Gallic and Germanic tribal stocks from which they came. What happened a millenia ago was a flourishing of the Germanic race after their contact with Rome. It didn't create 'Europe,' and it certainly doesn't define all that can be called 'European.' We can appreciate this time and place and the people who created it without feeding fundamentally modernist narratives.
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Forwarded from The Elders of the Black Sun
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordine_Nuovo
You should know this page, and all the hyperlinks. This is the Evola lore they don’t teach in school.
You should know this page, and all the hyperlinks. This is the Evola lore they don’t teach in school.
Forwarded from The Elders of the Black Sun
Oh - and you should know Operation Gladio, considering Evola pretty much invented it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-four/operation-gladio
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
https://ordoabchao.ca/volume-four/operation-gladio
Forwarded from The Elders of the Black Sun
This is why Evola went on trial, under allegations of trying to resurrect Italian fascism. It’s not just because his books were spicy, but because he was writing books, meeting with & mentoring, and playing godfather to groups that were actively involved in coups.
This whole “Operation Gladio” thing - hell, the OSS (which became the CIA), was all basically created by Evola.
You see, Evola’s idea (and the reason he was in Vienna at the time of the bombing which paralyzed him) was to have a bunch of intelligence & terrorist cells planted all across Eastern Europe - so as the Soviet’s advanced & pushed back the Nazi lines, these cells would become an integrated network, behind enemy lines, actively causing disruption.
After Germany fell, this network was handed off to NATO & the US - lock stock and barrel. Thus the OSS was born.
In Italy, the Strategy of Tension was put into place, to basically use terrorism to make the Communists look bad, and force the State into a state of Emergency - all towards the restoration of Fascism.
CIA was chill with that, as long as they weren’t commies - whatever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Fontana_bombing
This whole “Operation Gladio” thing - hell, the OSS (which became the CIA), was all basically created by Evola.
You see, Evola’s idea (and the reason he was in Vienna at the time of the bombing which paralyzed him) was to have a bunch of intelligence & terrorist cells planted all across Eastern Europe - so as the Soviet’s advanced & pushed back the Nazi lines, these cells would become an integrated network, behind enemy lines, actively causing disruption.
After Germany fell, this network was handed off to NATO & the US - lock stock and barrel. Thus the OSS was born.
In Italy, the Strategy of Tension was put into place, to basically use terrorism to make the Communists look bad, and force the State into a state of Emergency - all towards the restoration of Fascism.
CIA was chill with that, as long as they weren’t commies - whatever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Fontana_bombing
Forwarded from The Elders of the Black Sun
Literally Evolas idea that he gave to the Nazis, which was implemented on the Eastern Front, which after the war was given to the US and used to create the OSS intelligence network, which became the CIA, which became NATO/CIA Operation Gladio, which advocated an anti-Communist Strategy of Tension in Italy, which culminated in attempts to install the Black Prince & MSI (open, blatant Evolian thought, through and through) as the government of Italy.
Forwarded from The Elders of the Black Sun
So a few quick things
1. We do not believe in a populist solution. The revolution will be from above. It will be those with wealth and social & political influence.
2. We believe those people (you know who you are) should rise up in their institutions, and exert the influence they can - forming secret groups & networks.
3. These secret groups & networks should be closely tied with Russia & the European East. Some may even choose to expatriate and do their part there.
4. This Revolution is first and foremost, a spiritual Revolution. Not a popular spiritual revolt, but a revolt of a hidden order. We must acknowledge the spiritual influences at work in the world, often by the biological markers we see playing out - and bring ourselves into contact with those influences, so we may use them in our favor.
5. We must acknowledge the biological fact - as our lands become overfilled & deracinated, they become lost - likely forever.
6. Actors at the home from must make every effort to stop this flood. Actors who choose to regroup in the East must begin setting up the new Center for our culture and Civilization.
1. We do not believe in a populist solution. The revolution will be from above. It will be those with wealth and social & political influence.
2. We believe those people (you know who you are) should rise up in their institutions, and exert the influence they can - forming secret groups & networks.
3. These secret groups & networks should be closely tied with Russia & the European East. Some may even choose to expatriate and do their part there.
4. This Revolution is first and foremost, a spiritual Revolution. Not a popular spiritual revolt, but a revolt of a hidden order. We must acknowledge the spiritual influences at work in the world, often by the biological markers we see playing out - and bring ourselves into contact with those influences, so we may use them in our favor.
5. We must acknowledge the biological fact - as our lands become overfilled & deracinated, they become lost - likely forever.
6. Actors at the home from must make every effort to stop this flood. Actors who choose to regroup in the East must begin setting up the new Center for our culture and Civilization.