The philosopher of the future is more like a prophet than a philosopher. Hence, he must learn to think with his heart as well as with his head.
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* In a recently published collection of letters between Wolfgang Smith and Fr. Malachi Martin, there is this intriguing comment from Prof. Smith:

If the Greek Fathers could integrate Plato and Neoplatonism into the Christian worldview, and St. Thomas Aquinas could do the same for Aristotle, why should it not be possible, in our day, to correct and somehow “Christianize” Hegel, let us say, or Schelling, or even Nietzsche? Is there not in each of these German “Titans” a certain spark of truth that needs to be brought out, to be “liberated”?

I would highly recommend Michel Henry for his brilliant work at the intersection of spirituality and phenomenology.

I am not endorsing this idea per se, but it is indeed intriguing if one realizes it in fact works both ways; why should it not be possible to correct and somehow "re-traditionalize" Orthodox Christianity, or Catholicism, or even Eckhart and the Templars and the medieval Hermeticists? Is there not in some stands of Christianity a certain spark of truth that needs to be preserved, to be "adapted?"

"Nationalistic Socialism has clearly renounced the ancient, aristocratic tradition of the state. It is nothing more than a semi-collective nationalism that levels everything flat in its centralism, and it has not hesitated to destroy the traditional division of Germany into principalities, lands and cities, which have all enjoyed a relative autonomy." - Julius C. Evola, The Austrian Horizon

"We must close the eyes of the body, to open another vision, which indeed all possess, but very few employ."

Plotinus, Ennead 1.6.8.25–26

"All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers."

- Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

Demagoguery and utopian ideas are inherently un-aristocratic and anti-traditional. No great man ever asked for approval to conquer. They did not waste time arguing 'their side' and daydreaming about idealized scenarios. Empires are built by the sword. The praxis of great men is violence.

The recent activity in Nationalist circles has shown that they truly are historically and genealogically illiterate, and that therefore they are, among other things, doomed to repeat the trajectory of history. However, like all the fools, they have thrown themselves off the cliffside and will probably never even recognize their mistake, not even when they crash head first into the ground. It is only unfortunate that they seem intent on rousing the whole village to follow them over the edge too.

Once you introduce and allow for the idea of Popular Sovereignty, you are essentially starting on an equation that, like virtually all mathematical problems, has but one final and unavoidable solution.

Although by no means a figure worthy of respect or emulation — and definitively someone who has been "quoted to death" — Eric A. Blair put it unusually well in these words from his essay on the subject "Every nationalist is possessed by the belief that the past can be altered." And we see this very clearly if only in a small way when, in his talk with Davis, Keith is eventually forced to acknowledge that Liberalism and the current order of things does have a connection to nationalism, collectivism, and the idea of Popular Sovereignty.

However, this is only admitted in order to be brushed aside as simply the effect of a "mistake" or "misunderstanding" or "subversion", and not taken for what it actually is; simply the concept being expanded upon and further developed in response to various stimuli. This is a visible trend in history. To take one example, the botched show trial of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland, which is the first really prominent example of the idea of Popular Sovereignty being employed legally and politically, clearly indicate how this one notion is held in common by a very diverse but all also, to a greater or lesser extent, subversive ideologies. Every instance of this idea being put into practice has always ended in democracy of one kind or another.

That this concept seems to exist in pre-revolutionary and even ancient texts is irrelevant. Are there refernces to it in traditional literature? very possibly. However, as the Actaeon Journal has pointed out, Rome's founding was mythical. It was founded by the virgin-born son of a God, and even as a king-less republic it took its legitimacy, not from being the mere collective or representation of this or that group of people, but as the elite enforcers and spreaders of the divine peace of heaven on earth. The Medieval monarchies were characterized, not by nationalism or some notion of "ethnic" determinism/collectivism, but by the struggle of an elite to restore Imperium and Sacrum to the world that was about to end.

The Gods are not a symbol for natural phenomena, such as lightening and earthquakes. The natural world is a symbol for the Gods.

Nothing is more real than the Gods, and certainly not the gross material we perceieve.

Modern academia has built its theory of progression on shakey grounds. We are supposed to believe that the ancients, masters of advanced mathematics, builders of monuments we would find impossible today, and philosophers, were childlike in the face of natural phenomena.

It is not ancient superstition that the Gods reflect, but unconditioned cosmic awareness.

As I have noted before, no one is completely Indo-European, but rather each European population is (generally speaking) made up of three components: Indo-European, Early European Farmer, and Hunter-Gatherer (explained as concisely as possible – the topic is, of course, much deeper and more complex).

It is my view, and perhaps I am wrong, that it is the Indo-European spiritual component in the European peoples that must be reawakened in order for European civilisation to be saved.

I will elaborate on this further at a later point.

Picture: I am admiring a monument to the men of the Portuguese Age of Exploration – men that certainly embodied the Indo-European spirit!

TGO is close, but not quite there. Genetics are interesting, as we've explored a while ago, but what is really important is not found by peering deeper into the material. What is truly important is the Solar spirituality and aristocratic culture of the Aryans which are not necessarily exclusive to any population based on blood.

"An Āryan civilization is a civilization advanced in spiritual knowledge. Not merely by stamping oneself an Āryan does one become an Āryan. To keep oneself in the deepest darkness concerning spiritual knowledge and at the same time claim to be an Āryan is a non-Āryan position."
- Prabhupada purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, 7.2.60

"This being the case, it is no wonder the superior races are dying out before the ineluctible logic of individualism, which especially in the so-called contemporary 'higher classes,' has caused people to lose all desire to procreate. Not to mention all the other degenerative factors connected to a mechanized and urbanized social life and especially to a civilization that no longer respects the healthy and creative limitations constituted by the castes and by the traditions of blood lineage. Thus proliferation is concentrated in the lower social classes and in the inferior races where the animal-like impulse is stronger than any rational calculation and consideration. The unavoidable effects are a reversed selection and the ascent and the onslaught of inferior elements against which the 'race' of the superior castes and people, now exhausted and defeated, can do very little as a spiritually dominating element.

Though today people talk more frequently about 'population control' in view of the catastrophic effects of the demographical phenomenon that I have compared to a cancer, this still does not address the essential issue, since a differentiated and qualitative criterion does not come into play at all. But those who oppose population control on the basis of traditionalist and pseudomoralistic ideas, which nowadays amount to mere prejudices, are guilty of an even greater obtuseness. If what really matters is the greatness and the might of a stock, it is useless to be concerned about the material quality of fatherhood unless an equal concern for its spiritual dimension is present as well in the sense of superior interests, of the correct relationship between the sexes, and above all, of what is really meant by Virility—of what it still signifies on a plane that is not merely naturalistic."

- Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

If all laws come from God, why speak of ethnonationalism rather than divine or Christian nationalism?

"On earth, the divine Sun is veiled; as a result the measure of things become relative, man can take himself for what he is not, and things can appear to be what they are not; but once the veil is torn, at the time of birth which we call death, the divine Sun appears; measures become a absolute; beings and things become what they are and follow the ways of their true nature."

Frithjof Schuon

"What shall we think of the attitude that regards Jewry, Rome, the Catholic Church, Freemasonry, and Communism as more or less one and the same thing, just because their presuppositions differ from the plain thinking of the Folk?

The Folk's thinking along these lines threatens to lose itself in the dark, where no differentiation is possible any more. It shows that it has lost the genuine feeling for the hierarchy of values, and that it cannot escape the crippling alternative of destructive internationalism and nationalistic particularism, whereas the traditional understanding of the Empire is superior to both these concepts." - Julius C. Evola, Misunderstandings of the New Paganism.

The mistake many of our contemporary individuals, especially in religious and spiritual circles, is the emphasis on "difference" in order to "transcend". I will spare you the genealogy and examples of this for now, but suffice it to say that here you will find an interesting array of demons conspiring against you.

The general idea among many seems to be that in order to "transcend" or "ascend" (a notion that itself is rather dubious in this context) this or that aspect of oneself or the world, one has to become, to use Masonic terms, a complete man for anothers gain. To clarify, there is a general notion of having to kill oneself in the quest for "ascention", to violently do away with that which is human in order to become what is more than human. In the area of religion this is seen in the impulse found mostly in the neo-pagan circles (likely one of their inheritances from Nietzsche) of wanting to surpress "Abrahamism" (a profane word used purely in secular literature, and bad secular literature at that, the criticism of which equally belongs to the secular and profane domain most often than not), in the less stupid cases sometimes in favour of some "aryan" or "solar" religiousity, a seemingly healthy attitude all things considered.

However, the mistake, in this as in most cases, comes from a place of ignorance. By killing yourself you have not transcended anything or anyone, despite what the demon that convinced Kirilov of the veracity of its claims would have you believe. Similarly, as Evola always maintained, in the domain of religion nothing is gained from neo-paganism except further confusion and a greater tendency to make an error in judgement. The superior, far from being different or external, actually contains within itself that which is inferior to it (consider what Plato proscribed for those incapable of ruling themselves). Some people are indeed necessarily the slaves of God, without there being anything necessary wrong about that, simply just because it prevents their falling into error and doing evil. Recall what Evola says about the potential the Catholic dogmatism and moralism has had and have in preventing "worldly mysticism and suchlike eruptions from below from passing a certain frontier;" and that "it makes a strong dam that protects the area where transcendent knowledge and the genuinely supra-natural and non-human elements reign--or at least where they should reign."

Even just the meaning of the word "transcend" suggests to us that our humanity is a necessary component of the process of leaving it behind, and that far from being anti-Christian we should be super-Christian. This is also why in any traditional society there were lesser, often lunar or even cthonic, mysteries (in Islam comparable both to the lesser Jihad and to Sharia), and greater mysteries of a more heavenly and Uranic direction (in Islam comparable both to the greater Jihad and to I believe Tariqa). Just like when you enter a church, you are not actually leaving the church just because you enter the sanctuary, you are rather taking a very significant step from the exoteric world of the church, with its morality and dogma and faith, into the esoteric world of certainty and knowledge and operativity.

Of course the actual situation today isn't necessarily so pretty but it serves the purpose of an illustration, if you will.