"For the old European world, the forest was the birthplace of myth, a vast and mysterious realm where the boundaries between the human and the supernatural blurred. It was in the depths of these ancient woods that stories of gods, heroes, and mythical creatures were born, woven into the fabric of cultural memory.”
―Yvonne Verdier, The Forest of Stories

Notes: Yvonne Verdier (1941-1989) was a renowned French ethnologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Her work primarily focused on rural communities in France, examining their traditions, daily life, and cultural practices through a detailed ethnographic lens. Her research often delved into how myth and cultural practices were deeply intertwined with the natural environment.

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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”
―H. L. Mencken

Image: Hobson’s Arse by Bob Moran

“Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”
―Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Image: The Gleaners by Julien Dupre

“The Sunday School narrative of a church of martyrs, of Christians huddled in catacombs out of fear, meeting in secret to avoid arrest, and mercilessly thrown to lions merely for their religious beliefs is a macabre fairy tale. When Christians appeared in Roman courtrooms, they were not tried as heretics, blasphemers, or even fools. Christians had a reputation for being socially reclusive, refusing to join the military, and refusing to swear oaths…

A close look at the evidence shows that Christians were never the victims of sustained, targeted persecution. Even the so-called great persecutions under the emperors Decius and Diocletian have been vastly exaggerated in our Christian sources. In general, when Christians were executed, it was for activities that were authentically politically and socially subversive.”
―Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution

Image: The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme

“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
— Plato, The Republic

Notes: We are often told by our leaders, ‘intellectuals’, and the media that democracy is the pinnacle of civilisation, with liberal democracy being the apex, as Francis Fukuyama famously declared it 'the end of history'. This belief asserts that liberal democracy should be spread globally by its champions.

However, from a traditionalist and cyclical perspective, democracy marks the beginning of a decline, ultimately leading to dictatorship and tyranny. Julius Evola’s traditionalist view sees liberalism as a step in this decline, progressing from democracy to socialism, radicalism, and finally to Communism and Bolshevism. Each stage prepares for the next, driven by the same underlying malevolent force.

Image: Ruins of a Greek temple at sunset by Zhizhilenko Aleksandr Ivanovich

“That all superstition of pagans and heathens should be annihilated is what God wants, God commands, God proclaims!”
— Saint Augustine

Notes: The story of Christianity's rise in Ancient Rome is often told in secular terms: weakened emperors, barbarian invasions, heavy taxation, plagues, and a weary populace. Religion, when mentioned, is seen as a psychological comfort in an age marked by disease, war, famine, and death. Conventional narratives argue that in such times, people sought reassurance and were drawn to Christianity, which promised hope in this life or the next.

However, this was more than a sociopolitical shift; it was viewed as a spiritual war between good and evil, God and Satan. Modern historians may overlook these demonologies, but they deeply influenced early Christian thinkers like Augustine. Demons stalk the pages of his book, “The City of God” of which it’s full forgotten noscript was "The City of God Against the Pagans.”

Christianity may have been adopted by the Roman ruling class to centralise power and control the populace by creating a docile and slave like population. With Rome's increasing diversity, a universalist religion, rather than prior ethnic religions, was more suitable for the rulers to impose. Passages like “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21) and “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established” (Romans 13:1) encouraged obedience and tax compliance.

The Roman rulers, taken in by the Trojan horse of Christianity, likely had no conception of its true long-term purpose: to act as prophecy fulfilment of the Old Testament, destroying the ancestral and indigenous tradition and worship of the Old Gods, bringing the gentiles under the yoke of the God of Israel. Christianity constituted a form of theological and spiritual warfare, as those who injected this archontic plague into populations understood the Hermetic maxim of ‘As Above, So Below’. Thus, if the gentiles were conquered in the heavens by the destruction of their native Gods (as above), they could thereby be more easily conquered on earth (so below).

“There is no point in indulging in wishful thinking with the illusions of any kind of optimism: today we find ourselves at the end of a cycle. Already for centuries, at first insensibly, then with the momentum of a landslide, multiple processes have destroyed every normal and legitimate human order in the West and falsified every higher conception of living, acting, knowing, and fighting.

The momentum of this fall, its velocity, its giddiness, has been called ‘progress’. We have raised hymns to ‘progress’ and deluded ourselves that this civilisation—a civilisation of matter and machines—was civilisation par excellence, the one for which the entire history of the world was preordained. The final consequences of this entire process have been such as to cause some people, at least, to wake up.”
—Julius Evola, Orientations, Point 1.

Image: Gothic Church Ruins by Carl Blechen

"Through action, a Man becomes a Hero
Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend
Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth
And by learning from the Myth, a Man takes action"
― Eiichiro Oda

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Check out Tucker Carlson's latest advert. Buy one Christianity and get the Noahide for free.

Counteracting this shit is one of the main reasons The Fyrgen exists. In recent years, the evil in this world unmasked itself, so it's understandable that good-hearted people would seek refuge. Because of how Westerners are raised, 'Christ' is often the first safe-haven that comes to mind. I (and others) came to tell you that the only true refuge is in your organic, ancestral ways. Read: NOT Judeo-Christianity.

Have you noticed how many Pied Pipers (Carlson, Peterson, Brand etc) have switched to Christianity and are now promoting the Hebraic Noahide Laws? It's not random. Stay frosty.

“A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first. A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts. Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.”
―Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd

Image: The Burial of the Sardine by Francisco Goya

“It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence. The tyrant claims a monopoly of such qualities for himself; he feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity, or acts with independence, is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny; he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority. It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.”
―Aristotle, Politics

Image: Aristotle by Jusepe de Ribera

“It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."
―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Notes: Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is finally gaining the recognition he deserves in the West. Yet, his final book before his death, "200 Years Together" (published in 2001), remains conspicuously absent from English-language shelves and is yet to be translated into English despite its bestseller status in Russia. In a now famous clip, Dr. Jordan Peterson, known by his fans for his articulate defences of free speech and intellectual rigour, crumbled when questioned about Solzhenitsyn's last work, simply stating, "I can't do it.”

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“Apart from the massacres, deaths, and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst aspect of the system was the official lying—that is to say, the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, whether by repetition, assent, or failure to contradict.

I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate. In this sense, the less true it was, the less it corresponded in any way to reality, the better. The more it contradicted the experience of the persons to whom it was directed, the more docile, self-despising, and impotent they became for their failure to protest.”
—Theodore Dalrymple, The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World

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“The totalitarian regimes throughout history have demonstrated that the courts and judiciary systems can be manipulated and repurposed as instruments of ideological control. These institutions, traditionally seen as impartial arbiters of justice, can be co-opted to serve the goals of thought control and oppression. By subverting the rule of law, totalitarian regimes transform these once-esteemed pillars of democracy into mechanisms for enforcing conformity and suppressing dissent. Through legal frameworks and judicial decisions, they not only dictate public behaviour but also shape and constrain the very way people think, thereby maintaining their grip on power. In this way, the judiciary becomes a powerful tool for menticide—systematically eroding individual autonomy and independent thought—and brainwashing, as it perpetuates the regime’s ideology and stifles critical inquiry.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind

Image: Lady Justice Awakens by Odin Galen

FAO All you dissidents and New Agers converting to Christianity: You think the 'Beast System' hates Christianity. It doesn't. It created Christianity as part of an age-long psyop to rend you from your organic, ancestral way. Christianity played its part in bringing The West to Materialism and now the 'Beast System' has no further need of it...

...or does it? Notice how many among the controlled opposition are promoting Christianity lately. Human civilisation won't accept the Noahide Law unless it's at least nominally Christian.

"By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of getting on to which the alternative is hopeless apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos."

~T.S. Eliot

"The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own."
— J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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“Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.”
― Richard Tarnas, The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View

Note: Perception is not a passive reception of sensory data but an active process shaped by imagination. Our minds project meaning, filtering and transforming what we encounter. Similarly, reason—often regarded as the height of human cognition—is not detached from imagination but is guided by it. Every logical thought relies on imagination to link concepts and envision possibilities.

Those who seek to subvert humanity from its true nature understand this. Through their near total control of forms of perception, they attempt to constrain and pollute our imagination, knowing its vital role in shaping our reality and potential.

Image: The Enigma of the Day by Giorgio de Chirico

"Behold, I shall reveal to you the path of deliverance. Whenever you are seized [in the soul] and undergo mortal fear, a multitude of archons may turn on you, thinking they can capture you. And in particular, three of them will seize you, those who pose as toll collectors. Not only do they demand toll, but they take away souls by theft."

(Nag Hammadi Library, ed. by James Robinson, 265)

This passage from the primary Gnostic texts reveals much. Firstly, that one can only be preyed upon by these evil wights when in a state of fear. Secondly, that they often appear in threes (significant to those who know how magistrates courts work). Thirdly, that they manifest in the form of toll (tax) collectors and by collecting one's money (currency) they harvest one's energy (soul, current).

Further discussion of this and its relevance to Germanic Heathenry can be found in the forthcoming new episode of The Fyrgen Podcast.

PS: 'Dieu et Mon Droit' - 'God and my right' (to rule) - is a fittingly archontic phrase.

“Myths are not denoscriptions of things, but expressions of a determination to act… A myth cannot be refuted since it is, at bottom, identical with the convictions of a group, being the expression of these convictions in the language of movement.”
―  Georges Sorel

Notes: Georges Sorel, a French philosopher and social theorist, is best known for his exploration of the role of myth in social movements. His work significantly impacted syndicalism and revolutionary thought by emphasising the power of belief and symbolism in driving collective action. Myths however have a dual nature: while a true myth emerges organically from the people, many of the myths we encounter are imposed by those who control perception. These surrogate myths can manipulate and subvert the collective will, potentially leading societies toward disintegration or even total destruction. 

Image: Saturn Devouring His Son by Peter Paul Reubens