"Moreover, the Greeks often discussed the exact spot of the divine garden (ϴεὢν κῄπος), which was the original dwelling of the Olympian god Zeus, and of the Garden of the Hesperides, 'beyond the river Ocean'; according to some, the Hesperides were the daughters of Atlas, the king of the Western Island. It was precisely this garden that Heracles was supposed to find in that symbolic feat that has often been associated with his winning Olympian immortality, and having had Atlas as a guide, who alone 'knows the dark depths of the sea.' Generally speaking, the Hellenic equivalent of the Northern, solar way or of the Indo-Aryan deva-yāna, was a western path or 'Zeus’s way,' which led from the fortress of Kronos, located in the Island of the Heroes on the faraway sea, to the peaks of Mount Olympus. According to the Chaldean tradition, it is in the West, 'beyond the deep waters of death, which have no ford and which have not been crossed for the longest time' that the divine garden is to be found, in which the king Shamashnapishtim, the hero who escaped the Flood and who still retains the privilege of immortality, still reigns; this garden was reached by Gilgamesh who followed the western path of the sun in order to receive the gift of life.
It is significant that the Egyptian civilization did not have a 'barbaric' prehistory: it arose all of a sudden, so to speak, enjoying from the start a high level of sophistication. According to tradition, the first Egyptian dynasties were formed by a race that had come from the West, also known as the race of 'Horus’s companions' (shemsu Heru), or of those marked by the 'sign of the first among the inhabitants of the western land,' namely, Osiris. Osiris himself was believed to be the eternal king on 'Yalu’s Fields,' in the 'land of the sacred Amentet,' beyond the 'waters of death,' which was thought to exist 'in the far West,' and which sometimes has been associated with the idea of a great insular land. The Egyptian funerary rite carried on the symbolism and the ancient memory: in this rite the ritual formula was 'To the West!' and it included the crossing of the waters and a procession carrying the 'sacred ark of the sun,' that is, the ark of those who had been 'rescued from the waters.' Moreover, the Chinese and Tibetan traditions mention the existence of a 'western paradise' with trees bearing golden fruits, like the Hesperides’ garden. There is also a frequent image of Mi-tu with a rope and the innoscription: 'He who draws [the souls] to the West.' On the other hand, the memory that was transformed into the myth of paradise is also found in Celtic and Gaelic sagas concerning the 'Land of the Living,' the Magh-Mell ('The Pleasant Plain'), or Avalon, which were otherworldy regions located in western lands. Avalon was believed to be the place in which the survivors of the race 'from above,' of the Tuatha dé Danaan, King Arthur himself, legendary heroes such as Conall, Oisin, Cuchulainn, Loegaire, Ogier the Dane, and others came to enjoy eternal life. This mysterious Avalon is the equivalent of the Atlantic 'paradise' described in American legends; it is the ancient Tlapallan or Tullan; it is the 'Land of the Sun,' or the 'Red Land' to which both the white god Quetzalcoatl and legendary heroes such as the Toltec priest Huemac ('Great Hand') mentioned in the Codex Chimalpopoca, returned, as did the Tuatha to Avalon, thus disappearing from people’s sight According to Jewish folklore, Enoch went to a western place, 'to the far end of the earth,' in which there are symbolical mountains and divine trees guarded by the archangel Michael; these trees give life and salvation to the elect but are barred to mere mortals until the time of the Last Judgment. The last echoes of this myth were kept secret until the Christian Middle Ages; the navigator monks of the monasteries of Saint Matthias and of Saint Albaeus allegedly found in a mysterious Atlantic land a golden city, which was believed to be the dwelling place of Enoch and Elijah, the prophets 'who never died.' "
-Revolt Against the Modern World
It is significant that the Egyptian civilization did not have a 'barbaric' prehistory: it arose all of a sudden, so to speak, enjoying from the start a high level of sophistication. According to tradition, the first Egyptian dynasties were formed by a race that had come from the West, also known as the race of 'Horus’s companions' (shemsu Heru), or of those marked by the 'sign of the first among the inhabitants of the western land,' namely, Osiris. Osiris himself was believed to be the eternal king on 'Yalu’s Fields,' in the 'land of the sacred Amentet,' beyond the 'waters of death,' which was thought to exist 'in the far West,' and which sometimes has been associated with the idea of a great insular land. The Egyptian funerary rite carried on the symbolism and the ancient memory: in this rite the ritual formula was 'To the West!' and it included the crossing of the waters and a procession carrying the 'sacred ark of the sun,' that is, the ark of those who had been 'rescued from the waters.' Moreover, the Chinese and Tibetan traditions mention the existence of a 'western paradise' with trees bearing golden fruits, like the Hesperides’ garden. There is also a frequent image of Mi-tu with a rope and the innoscription: 'He who draws [the souls] to the West.' On the other hand, the memory that was transformed into the myth of paradise is also found in Celtic and Gaelic sagas concerning the 'Land of the Living,' the Magh-Mell ('The Pleasant Plain'), or Avalon, which were otherworldy regions located in western lands. Avalon was believed to be the place in which the survivors of the race 'from above,' of the Tuatha dé Danaan, King Arthur himself, legendary heroes such as Conall, Oisin, Cuchulainn, Loegaire, Ogier the Dane, and others came to enjoy eternal life. This mysterious Avalon is the equivalent of the Atlantic 'paradise' described in American legends; it is the ancient Tlapallan or Tullan; it is the 'Land of the Sun,' or the 'Red Land' to which both the white god Quetzalcoatl and legendary heroes such as the Toltec priest Huemac ('Great Hand') mentioned in the Codex Chimalpopoca, returned, as did the Tuatha to Avalon, thus disappearing from people’s sight According to Jewish folklore, Enoch went to a western place, 'to the far end of the earth,' in which there are symbolical mountains and divine trees guarded by the archangel Michael; these trees give life and salvation to the elect but are barred to mere mortals until the time of the Last Judgment. The last echoes of this myth were kept secret until the Christian Middle Ages; the navigator monks of the monasteries of Saint Matthias and of Saint Albaeus allegedly found in a mysterious Atlantic land a golden city, which was believed to be the dwelling place of Enoch and Elijah, the prophets 'who never died.' "
-Revolt Against the Modern World
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"This is how the second great transposition of metaphysics and history was established. In reality, the symbol of the West, just like that of the 'pole,' may acquire a universal value beyond all geographical and historical references, in the West, where the physical light that is subject to birth and to decline becomes extinguished, the unchanging spiritual light is kindled; there the journey of the 'Sun’s ship' toward the Land of the Immortals commences. And since this region lies where the sun disappears beyond the horizon, it was also conceived as subterranean or as underwater.
This is straightforward symbolism directly inspired by natural observations and thus used by various populations, even by those that have no relation with Atlantic memories. This, however, does not mean that such a theme, situated within given limits determined by concomitant testimonies such as the ones I have presented, may not also have a historical character. What I mean is that among the countless fonns assumed by the mystery of the West, a group may be isolated for which it is legitimate to assume that the origin of the symbol did not consist in the natural phenomenon of the course of the sun, but rather, by virtue of a spiritual transposition, in the distant memory of the disappeared Western land. In this regard, the surprising correspondence between American and European myths, especially Nordic and Celtic ones, constitutes a very decisive proof.
Secondly, 'the mystery of the West' always marks a particular stage in the history of the spirit that is no longer the primordial one; it corresponds to a type of spirituality that cannot be considered to be primordial and therefore it is defined by the mystery of transformation. It is characterized by a dualism and by a discontinuous passage: a light is kindled, another fades away. Transcendence has gone underground. Supernature, unlike the original state, is no longer nature: it is the goal of an initiation and the object of a problematic quest. Even when considered in its general aspect 'the mystery of the West' appears to be typical of those more recent civilizations, the varieties and destinies of which I will examine in the next chapter. It is connected to the solar symbolism rather than to the polar one; we have now entered the second phase of the primordial tradition."
- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World
This is straightforward symbolism directly inspired by natural observations and thus used by various populations, even by those that have no relation with Atlantic memories. This, however, does not mean that such a theme, situated within given limits determined by concomitant testimonies such as the ones I have presented, may not also have a historical character. What I mean is that among the countless fonns assumed by the mystery of the West, a group may be isolated for which it is legitimate to assume that the origin of the symbol did not consist in the natural phenomenon of the course of the sun, but rather, by virtue of a spiritual transposition, in the distant memory of the disappeared Western land. In this regard, the surprising correspondence between American and European myths, especially Nordic and Celtic ones, constitutes a very decisive proof.
Secondly, 'the mystery of the West' always marks a particular stage in the history of the spirit that is no longer the primordial one; it corresponds to a type of spirituality that cannot be considered to be primordial and therefore it is defined by the mystery of transformation. It is characterized by a dualism and by a discontinuous passage: a light is kindled, another fades away. Transcendence has gone underground. Supernature, unlike the original state, is no longer nature: it is the goal of an initiation and the object of a problematic quest. Even when considered in its general aspect 'the mystery of the West' appears to be typical of those more recent civilizations, the varieties and destinies of which I will examine in the next chapter. It is connected to the solar symbolism rather than to the polar one; we have now entered the second phase of the primordial tradition."
- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World
This is Cro Magnon man (first reconstruction) who created the Aurignacian culture who replaced the last Mousterian culture of the Neanderthals. Cro-Magnon, without mixing, split into what geneticists call Western Hunter Gatherers (second and third reconstructions), who stayed in Europe, and the Ancient North Eurasians, who stayed in all of Northern Asia. I've previously labeled the ANE exclusively as 'Hyperboreans' but if Evola's account is correct, it would seem both populations were unmixed descendants of the original Polar primordial race. This is an important point because the Aryan race was formed mostly as a product of the re-combination of these two ancient populations.
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Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
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The Gravettian race seen in individuals of the Sunghir burials (man, woman, and two children) and Kostenki finds were not successful as WHG or ANE at surviving the last major cold cycle of the Ice Age. Not having any surviving direct lineage, they only share somewhat similar genetics with all living Eurasians. They may represent an early mixing of Cro-Magnon man with aboriginals, if they are not the aboriginals themselves.
The East vs. West battle becomes meaningless in the face of the eternal war of North vs. South.
From the split of Polar Cro-Magnon man into his eastern and western offspring, the preservation of his Solar spirit has been preserved in the traditions of his sons; the original Hyperborean race and tradition can still be found in both the East and the West. However everything that has caused a degradation of this Polar race has been Southern and dark, demonic, chthonic. Racially this includes mixing with the older southern races - in Europe, this created the Caucasian Hunter Gatherers and Anatolian Farmers; in West Asia, the Levantine Natufians and Neolithic Iranians; in East Asia, Paleo-Asians became East Asians forever mixed with Melanesian Lemurian blood; in Siberia and the Americas, the Hyperborean and Atlantean homelands were lost to the East Asian and Paleo-Asian hordes. Spiritually this degradation came from the ever-increasingly mixed peoples whose religions adopted the gynocratic cult of the Mother, shamanic totemism, lycanthropy, and all else Lunar and feminine and telluric.
While it is true that East vs. West have fought many battles since the fall, the true war for the Polar brothers has always been with the equatorial South. In the face of this greater struggle, the forced separation only harms the ability of both to exemplify their common Hyperborean heritage.
From the split of Polar Cro-Magnon man into his eastern and western offspring, the preservation of his Solar spirit has been preserved in the traditions of his sons; the original Hyperborean race and tradition can still be found in both the East and the West. However everything that has caused a degradation of this Polar race has been Southern and dark, demonic, chthonic. Racially this includes mixing with the older southern races - in Europe, this created the Caucasian Hunter Gatherers and Anatolian Farmers; in West Asia, the Levantine Natufians and Neolithic Iranians; in East Asia, Paleo-Asians became East Asians forever mixed with Melanesian Lemurian blood; in Siberia and the Americas, the Hyperborean and Atlantean homelands were lost to the East Asian and Paleo-Asian hordes. Spiritually this degradation came from the ever-increasingly mixed peoples whose religions adopted the gynocratic cult of the Mother, shamanic totemism, lycanthropy, and all else Lunar and feminine and telluric.
While it is true that East vs. West have fought many battles since the fall, the true war for the Polar brothers has always been with the equatorial South. In the face of this greater struggle, the forced separation only harms the ability of both to exemplify their common Hyperborean heritage.
What I'm trying to say is, maybe this Dugin guy is onto something.
Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
"When our intellect speculates [on Metaphysics] it does so not insofar as it is human but insofar as it is something divine within us. So Hermes Trismegistus cleverly writes in his book on the God of gods, which he composed for his friend Asclepius, that man is the connection between God and the world, being above the world by means of his double investigation, that is natural philosophy and speculative science. By means of both of these [sciences] the power of reason in man is perfected and in this way he is rightly called the ‘ruler of the world.’ Furthermore, man is bound to God, because he beholds an immeasurable beauty that is not in this world, that is, not in succession or temporal, which he receives by means of the divine likeness that is in him in the simple light of the intellect, which he shares with the God of gods."
- 𝑺. 𝑨𝒍𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒖𝒔, 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒆'𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑰.𝑰.𝑰.
- 𝑺. 𝑨𝒍𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒖𝒔, 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒆'𝒔 𝑴𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝑰.𝑰.𝑰.
Forwarded from The Classical Wisdom Tradition
Man was generated and constituted, for the purpose of contemplating the reason of the whole of nature, and in order that, being himself the work of wisdom, he might survey the wisdom of the things which exist. For if the reason of man is contemplative of the reason of the whole of nature, and the wisdom also of man perceives and contemplates the wisdom of the things in existence, - this being acknowledged, it is at the same time demonstrated, that man is a part of a universal reason, and of the whole of the intellectual nature.
Archytas the Pythagorean
Archytas the Pythagorean