The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood has the right of it:

1. to have genuine ideas to express;

2. to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;

3. to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;

4. most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.

"War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free..." - Heraclitus

"Know the Self as the lord of the chariot and the body as, verily, the chariot, know the intellect as the charioteer and the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; the objects of enjoyment the paths [they range over];[the Self] associated with the body; [comprised of] the senses and the mind -‐ the enlightened ones declare -‐ is the enjoyer." -Katha Upanishad 1.3.(3-4)

Hermes, the god who presides over rational discourse, has long been considered, quite rightly, to be the common patron of all priests; he who presides over true knowledge about the gods is one and the same always and everywhere. It is to him that our ancestors in particular dedicated the fruits of their wisdom, attributing all their own writings to Hermes.

Iamblichus, De Mysteriis 1.1

"Thou shalt be a God, immortal, incorruptible, and Death shall have no more dominion over thee.” - Pythagoras, The Golden Verses.

It is undeniable that, accepting the superior "intactness" of the Eastern traditions even up to contemporary times, any resotration should at the very least orient themselves with Eastern doctrines and traditions. I concur with this sentiment.

I have just seen a post from another channel, which I am not going to re-post, but I will comment on.

There are many in the Indo-European / pagan communities who highly criticise and condemn Europeans who look towards India, Persia and The East for wisdom, rites and physical, mental and spiritual practices.

These individuals are deeply wrong. They suffer from an attachment to mental speculation. The will do anything to ignore spiritual practice. These individuals are the types who cannot exercise "outcome independence", and are attached to immediate, beneficial results. This is why they are often more attracted to 4chan posts about astral projection than a genuine, daily sadhana, reading shastra (which is intact Dharmic noscripture, not something cobbled together by a Medieval Christian), and performing daily puja, or sacrifice to the gods and the Supreme. These individuals would rather argue about post-Vedic vs Vedic issues than sit cross-legged and perform japa mantra, tantra, pranayama and mental focus.

The future of Europeans - who have entirely lost their priestly, or Brahman class - depends on re-establishing their connections to Dharma (natural law), as well as re-establishing their lost priestly class. The people that become this class must be initiated individuals from Dharmic/Vedic traditions.

The point of importance is that the Vedantic position is in perfect agreement with the Platonic, which is that things are "false" in the sense that an imitation, though it exists, is not "the real thing" of which it is an imitation; and with the Christian doctrine as formulated by St. Augustine in Conf. 7. 11 and 11.4: "I beheld these others beneath Thee, and saw that they neither altogether are, nor altogether are not "

Ananda Coomaraswamy

''The growing objectification of our life appears most distinctly in technology, this great mirror, which is sealed off in a unique way from the grip of pain. Technology is our uniform. Yet we are too deeply immersed in this process to comprehend it to its full extent. If one gains even a little distance, for instance when one returns from a trip to regions hardly touched by technology, the claim on life becomes more visible. This is all the more so to the extent that the character of convenience attached to our technology increasingly merges with the instrumental character of power.''

- On Pain by Ernst Jünger.

"[War and Heroism], we have claimed in our previous writings, are instruments of awakening. An awakening, however, of what? War, experienced, determines a first selection; it separates the strong from the weak, the heroes from the cowards. Some fall, others assert themselves. But this is not enough. Various ways of being heroes, various meanings, can arise in heroic experience.

From each race, a different, specific reaction must be expected. Let us ignore this fact for now and follow instead the ‘phenomenology’ of the awakening of race determined by war, that is, the various typical modalities of this awakening, working theoretically on the distinction which has just been made and practically on the concrete aspect, that is to say the fact that, since it is no longer specialised warlike elites but masses which face war, war therefore to a great extent concerns the mixed, bourgeois, half-degraded type, whom we have described above as a product of crisis. - Julius C. Evola, Metaphysics of War.

"It is a principle of ancient wisdom that situations as such never matter as much as the attitude that is assumed while in them, and therefore the meaning that is attributed to them. Christianity, generalising from a similar viewpoint, has been able to speak of life as of a ‘test’ and has adopted the maxim vita est militia super terram." - Julius C. Evola, Metaphysics of War.

"The military conception of life, then, leads to a new sense of social and political solidarity. It goes beyond all humanitarianism and ‘socialism’: men are not our ‘brothers’, and our ‘neighbour’ is in a way an insolent concept.

Society is neither a creature of necessity, nor something to be justified or sublimated on the basis of the ideal of honeyed universal love and obligatory altruism.

Every society will instead be essentially conceived in the terms of the solidarity existing between quite distinct beings, each one determined to protect the dignity of its personality, but nevertheless united in a common action which binds them side by side, without sentimentalism, in male comradeship."

"Fidelity and sincerity, with the ethics of honour to which they give rise, will thus be seen as the true basis of every community. According to ancient Indo-Germanic legislation, killing did not appear to be as serious a fault as betrayal, or even mere lying.

A warlike ethics would also lead to more or less this attitude and it would be inclined to limit the principle of solidarity by means of those of dignity and affinity. The soldier can regard as comrades only those whom he holds in esteem and who are resolute to hold to their posts, not those who give way, the weak or the inept.

Besides, the one who guides has the duty of gathering and pushing forward the valid forces, rather than wasting them on concern and lament for those who have already fallen, or have yielded or have landed themselves in culs-de-sac." - Julius C. Evola, Metaphysics of War

A Thought:

One of the ways in which the psychotic and unhealthy state of Western or Modern Civilization can be observed is in its maniacal impulses surrounding "Choice".

Western man concieves of his Choice as the expression of his superior freedom vis a vis the restrained, traditional, and thus ultimately Limited, Man. The more choices he has the freer he is. Whence came also Democracy.

He dispairs at the thought that he might return to such a state, where he might not have every foodstuff of the world at his foodtable, where he might not be able to wear the fashion of every culture on the planet; where he might not be able to choose whatever he desires. This is a principle that quickly ceases Man in its demonic clutch.

Limit and restraint, these are principles that increasingly seem like the worst, the most arbitrary and pointlessly self-imposed tyranny to Modern man.

I'm sure multiple examples might come to mind here.

The real tragedy, however, is that this "cult" of Choice only ever presents you with meaningless and superficial choices.

Ironically, the man of Limits is infinitively more free than the man of Choices. Because the former's choices will always matter more on the scale of values than those of the latter, and because he is free on a deeper plane than a purely material one.