Diary of an Underground Ronin
"Adversity - Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples ask yourselves whether a tree that is supposed to grow to a proud height can dispense with bad weather and storms: whether misfortune and external resistance, some kinds of hatred…
"What is belief? How is a belief born? All belief assumes that something is true.
The extremest form of Nihilism would mean that all belief—all assumption of truth—is false: because no real world is at hand. It were therefore: only an appearance seen in perspective, whose origin must be found in us (seeing that we are constantly in need of a narrower, a shortened, and simplified world).
This should be realized, that the extent to which we can, in our heart of hearts, acknowledge appearance, and the necessity of falsehood, without going to rack and ruin, is the measure of strength.
In this respect, Nihilism, in that it is the negation of a real world and of Being, might be a divine view of the world."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power
The extremest form of Nihilism would mean that all belief—all assumption of truth—is false: because no real world is at hand. It were therefore: only an appearance seen in perspective, whose origin must be found in us (seeing that we are constantly in need of a narrower, a shortened, and simplified world).
This should be realized, that the extent to which we can, in our heart of hearts, acknowledge appearance, and the necessity of falsehood, without going to rack and ruin, is the measure of strength.
In this respect, Nihilism, in that it is the negation of a real world and of Being, might be a divine view of the world."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power
Halls of the Hyperboreads
"What is belief? How is a belief born? All belief assumes that something is true. The extremest form of Nihilism would mean that all belief—all assumption of truth—is false: because no real world is at hand. It were therefore: only an appearance seen in perspective…
Nietzsche here acknowledges the divinity of the Titans and the sacrality of art. To live outside the realm of perfect and definitive truth, to operate within appearances, to live courageously in the world of Becoming—this is the great Titanic power which he elsewhere calls 'Dionysian.' It is the source of the divine madness of great men, who are really master artists of life itself.
Forwarded from Self-Immolation
"I cannot wash away your negativities and sins with water, nor can I remove your pain and suffering by my hand, nor can I transfer my realizations to you."
"The only way I can help you is through giving teaching, and you should strive to liberate yourself."
- Buddha Shakymuni
"The only way I can help you is through giving teaching, and you should strive to liberate yourself."
- Buddha Shakymuni
Halls of the Hyperboreads
Civilization of the Reindeer II
Chromolithograph series by Algot E Strand featuring photography of Swedish Lapps (1894)
Forwarded from Lazarus Symposium
"For Mishima, art is not the opposite of reality. Art for him is a different kind of reality. Mishima represents an apotheosis of the Nietzschean idea that life can be justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon. His act of aesthetic terrorism was not a failed coup d’état but a triumphant coup de théâtre, a spectacular piece of performance art that was simultaneously a radical anti-artistic gesture. Mishima believed that he had taken the idea of life as art to its extreme point, beyond which no one could go any further."
- Andrew Rankin, Mishima Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
- Andrew Rankin, Mishima Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
Forwarded from Sagittarius Granorum (Sagittarius Hyperboreius)
"Now I know... the major cause of your illness: you have forgotten your true nature... and it is because you do not know the end and purpose of things that you think the criminal have power and happiness. And because you have forgotten the means by which the world is governed you believe these ups and downs of Fortune happen haphazardly... In your true belief you about the worlds government - that it is subject to divine reason and not the haphazards of chance - there lies our greatest hope of rekindling your health." - Lady Wisdom to the Ill Boethius.
Forwarded from Orphic Inscendence (Naida)
“The Hermetic Androgyne”, Johann Michael Faust: Compendium Alchymist, Pandora Explicata & Figuris Illustrata. 1706.
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Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
“I see the true destiny of our people as lying not in time but in eternity. Political achievements, culture, struggles and national greatness are means, not ends in themselves. The ultimate goal is not life but resurrection.” - Corneliu Codreanu, The Prison Notes
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"The causes of Nihilism:
1. The higher species is lacking, i.e., the species whose inexhaustible fruitfulness and power would uphold our belief in Man (think only of what is owed to Napoleon—almost all the higher hopes of this century).
2. The inferior species ('herd,' 'mass,' 'society') is forgetting modesty, and inflates its needs into cosmic and metaphysical values. In this way all life is vulgarized: for inasmuch as the mass of mankind rules, it tyrannizes over the exceptions, so that these lose their belief in themselves and become Nihilists.
All attempts to conceive of a new species come to nothing ('romanticism,' the artist, the philosopher; against Carlyle's attempt to lend them the highest moral values).
The result is that higher types are resisted.
The downfall and insecurity of all higher types. The struggle against genius ('popular poetry,' etc.). Sympathy with the lowly and the suffering as a standard for the elevation of the soul.
The philosopher is lacking, the interpreter of deeds, and not alone he who poetizes them."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power
1. The higher species is lacking, i.e., the species whose inexhaustible fruitfulness and power would uphold our belief in Man (think only of what is owed to Napoleon—almost all the higher hopes of this century).
2. The inferior species ('herd,' 'mass,' 'society') is forgetting modesty, and inflates its needs into cosmic and metaphysical values. In this way all life is vulgarized: for inasmuch as the mass of mankind rules, it tyrannizes over the exceptions, so that these lose their belief in themselves and become Nihilists.
All attempts to conceive of a new species come to nothing ('romanticism,' the artist, the philosopher; against Carlyle's attempt to lend them the highest moral values).
The result is that higher types are resisted.
The downfall and insecurity of all higher types. The struggle against genius ('popular poetry,' etc.). Sympathy with the lowly and the suffering as a standard for the elevation of the soul.
The philosopher is lacking, the interpreter of deeds, and not alone he who poetizes them."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power
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