"In summary, the meaning of all this, esoterically speaking, is that the woman (i.e., the vivifying force, the power, the transcendent knowledge) represents a danger only when she is yearned after; only as such does she substantiate the Luciferian temptation and cause the wound in Amfortas's 'virility,' which degrades and paralizes him. She is the woman who, in Kalki's myth, never marries anyone but the restoring hero, since all other men, as soon as they lust after her, are transformed from men into women, or in other words, like Amfortas, they lose their spiritual virility. When considered as a craving, or as an uncontrolled desire, the heroic eros is a danger. In this context chastity signifies control, limit, antititanic purity, overcoming of pride, and immaterial unshakability, rather than a moralistic and sexuophobic precept. There is a significant saying of Trevrizent to Percival: 'There is only one thing that the Grail and its secret virtues will never tolerate in you: countless desires.' "

- Julius Evola, The Mystery of the Grail

"The 'triumphal peace' corresponds to the Olympian state that is regained by the hero: 'By fighting on you have pacified your soul.' Asceticism of power; the overcoming of both the wild, virile element and of desire; and purity in victory: only when these characteristics are present does the unshakable, sidereal, and purified virile nucleus develop in a human being. This nucleus makes one fit to assume the Grail, to enjoy the full view of it without being blinded, destroyed, or incinerated on the spot."

- Julius Evola, The Mystery of the Grail

“We must be ready for a profound event in the divine order, toward which we are marching with an accelerated speed that must strike all observers. Terrible oracles already announce that the time has come.” - Joseph de Maistre, St. Petersburg dialogues

A nation is one with its greatest man. This is true in both monarchies and democracies. What differs is the violence of law, and the end to which force finds its resolution.
One seeks out the greatest man in service; the other, to drag him through the ruins.

It is contradictory to say that the same person can be at the same time ruler and ruled. The ability of those who are in control in the modern world lies in making the people believe that they are governing themselves;

and the people are the more inclined to believe this as they are flattered by it, as they are in any case incapable of sufficient reflection to see its impossibility.

It was to create this illusion that “universal suffrage” was invented: the law is supposed to be made by the opinion of the majority, but what is overlooked is that this opinion is something that can very easily be guided and modified; it is always possible, by means of suitable suggestions, to arouse in it currents moving in this or that direction as desired. Manufactured opinion.

~ René Guénon

Nationalists must secretly resent the eternal because they know in their heart of hearts that they and what they hold dear are everything but eternal. Nations come and go, momento mori et rota forunae, but the Empire remains as an ever present ideal, a myth, and for this they resent it and its permanence, even as they claim it was never a reality or that it is misunderstood. Nationalism is just another form of dēmokratía, the rule of the masses.

Alexander the Great, a Hellenized Makedonian, was an initiate of the cult of Amun and the king of more nations than you have fingers and toes.

Charles the Great, a Germanic Frank, and the Frankish Merovingians before, him were all obessed with the Old testament and the Jewish Kings.


As a side note, the notion that your biology makes you immortal is an error that comes into being with Comte's insanity, with his positivism and fantasies about the Religion of Humanity. You are going to die and whatever is left after the body gives out will die shortly after.

“Live with your century, but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries, but create what they need, not what they praise.”

- Friedrich Schiller

When Christ said "be in the world, but not of the world" this sentiment is what He meant. Obviously one cannot help but be a part of one's circumstances, but one always has the option to commune with the Divine and live freely and virtuosly. This is precisely how one lives not in the moment but in the eternal. By not being a part of modernity but engaging with it with a pure spirit, one becomes the light in the darkness that illuminates the path ahead for others.

Mars, surrounded by the Arts and Sciences, conquers Ignorance
Antoon Claeissens, 1605

When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all. It is essential to God to give, for His essence is His goodness and His goodness is His love. Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away.

The right fear is the fear of losing God. If the earth flee downward from heaven, it finds heaven beneath it; if it flee upward, it comes again to heaven. The earth cannot flee from heaven: whether it flee up or down, the heaven rains its influence upon it, and stamps its impress upon it, and makes it fruitful, whether it be willing or not. Thus doth God with men: whoever thinketh to escape Him, flies into His bosom, for every corner is open to Him.

~ Meister Eckhart, The Angel's greetings

'We gain nothing by submission except heavier burdens for willing shoulders. Once each tribe had one king, now two are clamped on us-the legate to wreak his fury on our lives, the procurator on our property. We subjects are damned in either case, whether our masters quarrel or agree. Their gangs of centurions or slaves, as the case may be, mingle violence and insult. Nothing is any longer safe from their greed and lust. In war it is the braver who takes the spoil; as things stand with us, it is mostly cowards and shirkers that rob our homes, kidnap our children and connoscript our men. Any cause is good enough for us to die for any but our country's. But what a mere handful our invaders are, if we reckon up our own numbers. The Germans, reckoning so, threw off the yoke, and they had only a river, not the Ocean, to shield them. We have country, wives and parents to fight for; the Romans have nothing but greed and self-indulgence. Back they will go, as the deified Julius went back, if only we can rival the valour of our fathers. We must not be scared by the loss of one battle or even two; success may foster the spirit of offence, but it is suffering that gives the power to endure. The gods themselves are at last showing mercy to us Britons in keeping the Roman general away, with his army exiled in another island. For ourselves we have already taken the most difficult step - we have begun to plot. And in an enterprise like this there is more danger in being caught plotting than in taking the plunge.'
When the Britons began to plot against Rome - Tacitus in Agricola

Clanism and tribalism may not be primordial expressions of Nationalism at all, but rather it is the case that the former is the negation of the latter, an inversion of a sort, as can for example be seen in this observation of the nationalist Sun Yat-sen about his own nation:

"The Chinese people have shown the greatest loyalty to family and clan with the result that in China there have been family-ism and clanism but no real nationalism."

Nationalism is a product of the death of tribalism. Primordial man fought for tribe and clan, his king, and his parents and wife and children. Modern man fights for neighbors and friends, and wishfully believes they constitute a tribe. There is something crucial missing from the most well-intentioned nationalism. It is the traditional family structure which is gone, and a collection of nuclear families cannot ever recapture the ancient bonds made by clans and tribes. For this there is no substitute. Once blood ran thick with magical ties to kith and kin, concentrated in ancient homelands. Now blood is only found in drops spread thin far and wide, and the common spirit that bound primordial man to his countrymen has been replaced with what are at best shared political and religious aspirations.