"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

Emancipation, liberation, et al. these words are today thought of as good and moral things. To free a slave from his chains, to make a woman a self-concious actor, etc. have in the last few centuries been seen as good, even heroic conduct.

But a quick look at our own history proves this to be far from universal, in fact it appears to be a very recent notion. It essentially corresponds to self-imposed exile from ones city in order to live among the lawless criminals in the wilderness. The liberal notion seeks to make us all criminals calling ourselves "noble" yet living savages and degenerates.

In the Germanic societies, in their early recorded history, the ideal was the divine order of the clan/village/fort, out from which any man who violated the law of this order could be cast through a process known as being declared "one without peace". Peace in this sense should be seen as inseparable from rulership and dominion, a realm without a ruler will fall into civil war, disunity and chaos.

This concept of Peacelessness entailed that the man in question lost all rights and privileges, was cast out into the wilderness and any man who found him was expected to kill him, or at least to never aid him, never give him food nor house him.

Equivalent notions exist in the Christian notion of excommunication and the old Greek practice of ostracization.

This all seems to imply a deeply felt sense of the privilege and honour of service, of belonging to a law and an order of divine sanction.

This is the basis for all Imperialism.

"As is known, Homer has a proper hierarchy of bravery. Ulysses holds back his pain because he knows his wound is not mortal; Agamemnon and Menelaus may shudder when they are wounded; finally, the wounded Diomedes “stood, called upon Sthenelus to draw the arrow from his wound, and as the blood flowed his feelings did not pour out in tears and cries but in fiery prayers directed at the enemy.” That is how inhuman Homer’s heroes are, and the greater the hero, the greater the inhumanity: his Achilles is even invulnerable to physical harm."
~ Johann Gottfried Herder, Critical Forests

"Behind our poem stalk the figures of elder myth, and through the lines are heard the echoes of ancient cults, beliefs and symbols remote from the consciousness of an educated moralist (but also a poet) of the late fourteenth century. His story is not about those old things, but it receives part of its life, its vividness, its tension from them. That is the way with the greater fairy-stories — of which this is one. There is indeed no better medium for moral teaching than the good fairy-story (by which I mean a real deep-rooted tale, told as a tale, and not a thinly disguised moral allegory).”
— Tolkien on the High Medieval chivalric romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

❆ Just the thing to read during this Yule season.

Aarvoll hits us with an absolute whirlwind of knowledge on the Atlanteans and their history, how they became our history, and why where we came from is important. With no shortage of knowledge on the archeology and genetics, he pairs that with all the esoteric context needed to paint a complex view of the historical landscape. We feel he focuses a little too much on the Neanderthal vs. Sapiens dichotomy, although our biggest critique is that there is no mention of the Hyperboreans who are a necessary piece of the puzzle to consider. Regardless, as always, an enlightening presentation with plenty of food for thought.

https://youtu.be/7vizkqjz0N8

“The error of certain extreme “racists” who believe that the return of a race to its ethnic purity ipso facto also means rebirth for a people, rests exactly on this: they deal with men as if they were dealing with the racially pure or pure-blood caste of a cat or a horse or a dog. The preservation or restoration of the racial unity (taking its narrowest meaning) can mean everything when you deal with an animal. But with men it is not so…it would be far too easy if the simple fact of belonging to one race that has been kept pure, already conferred, without being or doing anything else, some “quality” in the higher sense.”
— Julius Evola, Vita Nova (July 1931)

Regarding Platonism and decline, some arguing Platonic forms leads directly to gender theory

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Plato has the myth of love and the original being. It is important to note that Aristophanes tells it, so it is a comic myth. The original being is a monstrous, Janus-like figure, conjoined of different sexes or the same sex. They attack the Olympians, just as the Titans had. Then Zeus cuts them in half to weaken them, and afterwards each searches for its missing half. This striving is a pursuit of wholeness, and is not only a question of sex but of monstrous creation.
The conclusion seems to be that love is brought to perfection through conflict with our monstrous nature. There must be order and reunification of the original being, but humans must not try to attack the Olympians. To find the gods and to die together is the highest act of love. This is an overcoming of monstrous nature rather than denial of it, or trying to remain at a distance.

If anything, the trans problem seems to be the exact opposite contradiction: the impossibility or fear of finding love, one's other half, and a return to monstrous nature in the most secure way possible, by technical means. It is the fear of a higher metamorphosis. I won't say this is entirely a problem of physicalism or materialism, but if there is intellectual intuition there must also be something like a physicalist noumenon. Physicalism does not solve the problem that there is something completely unknown to man, that he is a mystery to himself, that his will is another form of monstrous creation.
While metaphysics can become lost in abstraction, the physicalist being denies the problem completely, or simply tries to include it as part of his overwhelming force. And therein lies the problem, the unknown may be the absolute and monstrous force to begin with, the first cause or coarse lie. Whether the unknown came first, whether it is an inherited affliction or one developed through faults, it announces a new beginning, it is an exception to our being. To deny it can only end in ruin – as with Zeus cutting man in half again, weakening him further.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/ImperiumPressOfficial/1704

Conspiracy theory is an attempt of the purely technical mind to grasp the world of myth and intellectual intuition. That is, a world to which it does not belong.

'That which is most sorely affected today is the instinct and will of tradition: all institutions which owe their origin to this instinct, are opposed to the tastes of the age. At bottom, nothing is thought or done which is not calculated to tear up this spirit of tradition by its roots. Tradition is looked upon as a fatality; it is studied and acknowledged (in the form of a "heredity"), but people will have nothing to do with it. The extension of one will over long periods of time, the selection of conditions and valuations which make it possible to dispose of centuries in advance—this, precisely, is what is most utterly anti-modern. From which it follows, that disorganizing principles give it age its specific character.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power

'The means employed in former times in order to arrive at similarly constituted and lasting types, throughout long generations: entailed property and the respect of parents (the origin of the faith in gods and heroes as ancestors). Now, the subdivision of property belongs to the opposite tendency. The centralization of an enormous number of different interests in one soul: which, to that end, must be very strong and mutable. ...

The modern man is lacking in unfailing instinct (instinct being understood here to mean that which is the outcome of a long period of activity in the same occupation on the part of one family of men); the incapability of producing anything perfect, is simply the result of this lack of instinct: one individual alone cannot make up for the schooling his ancestors should have transmitted to him.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power