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

Nietzsche gets close to great truths but often manages to still sorely miss the mark, and this is no exception. The greatness of traditional man does not come from a sort of pure instinct like the 'noble savage,' but an orchestrated conscious intention. It is instead modern man who is above all driven by instinct alone. The modern phenomenon of the great specialization of man is also responsible for a large part of his great reduction to mere instinctual animal, a collective herd. It is not in specialized lineages of man that artistry of all types finds its outlet; Nietzsche's purely material 'ancestors' did not breed the artists he longs to have return. Instead, the secret initiatory societies of the guilds and their apprenticeships (which are really adoption into a paternal lineage of an art) are not at all hereditary or instinctual, but are still very ancestral and familial in a higher, spiritual, and more important sense.

We will continue studying Nietzsche as a sparring exercise. We still agree with many of the same reasonable criticisms that idealists who have not read him lay against Nietzsche, however this prejudice has only sharpened in accuracy, enough to become actually valuable to ourselves. Any study is an opportunity to find the truth, like the warrior who finds God on the battlefield.

“So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.”
~ Rousseau

“Remember the old Dzogchen adages ‘intellectual understanding is like a patch, it wears out,’ and ‘mystical or psychedelic experience is like mist, it fades away.’ Even adepts can be deceived by trivial circumstances-good or bad-and can get lost in them. And even after the impact of meditation has hit the mind, unless it is cultivated continuously the profound precepts will remain only on the pages of a book. Real meditation cannot come out of an untamed mind, a wild approach or an undisciplined practice. You hoary meditators, still novices in practice, look out! You may die with salt encrusted minds!!”

Dudjom Rinpoche

"In other words, the original nature of human beings is a copy of the divine nature. Spiritual perfection is to realize one’s primordial & original nature, the divine nature latent in oneself."
- "The Tao of Islam", Sachiko Murata

Art: "An Evening of Summer End", Hiramatsu Reiji

'The most favorable obstacles and remedies of modernity:

1. Compulsory military service with real wars in which all joking is laid aside.
2. National thick-headedness (which simplifies and concentrates).
3. Improved nutrition (meat).
4. Increasing cleanliness and wholesomeness in the home.
5. The predominance of physiology over theology, morality, economics, and politics.
6. Military discipline in the exaction and practice of one's "duty" (it is no longer customary to praise).'

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power

Let us take Nietzsche's prenoscription and weight its contents:

1. Compulsory military service with real wars in which all joking is laid aside.
The positive effects of martial discipline in one's life and the cohesion and resiliance of martial societies at large make compulsory military service very alluring. However, what 'real war' could Nietzsche be talking about that contains no joking whatsoever? One could not imagine that most militaristic society of the Spartans without their equally characteristic laconic wit which accompanied their strength; such a society would be dreadful if not unstable. If he means real wars waged as much or more by the spirit of the man as his body, with true warriors fighting to have matters of vital necessity decided, perhaps then we will have a viable remedy to modernity.

2. National thick-headedness (which simplifies and concentrates).
Alas, Nietzsche did not set his sights any higher than materialist nationalism. This is an unsalvageable opinion in direct opposition to the Imperial ideal. Some degree of chauvinism is necessary for survival, it must be admitted, but it will always remain characteristic of the common man. Yet for any man pride in clan and king and faith are superior to pride in city and nation and state.

3. Improved nutrition (meat).
This is a solid point with no contentions. It is not a panacea by any means but is important, especially in a martial environment.

4. Increasing cleanliness and wholesomeness in the home.
Another great point that should meet no opposition from anyone.

5. The predominance of physiology over theology, morality, economics, and politics.
Now the values behind points 3&4 become clear. For no other reason, despite there being many, Nietzsche values those habits for their effect on the health of the body. Placing matters of the body before matters of the spirit is precisely the nature of modern conditions. Perhaps his implication is that these come first to invigorate the spirit so it can push past modernity, however, we know this process to be backwards. What Nietzsche thinks he suggests is a theology and morality of the body, but by replacing those two disciplines all he has left is economics and politics of the body—pure materialism.

6. Military discipline in the exaction and practice of one's "duty" (it is no longer customary to praise).
This is a more interesting idea we actually agree with. Of course it is not wrong to praise where it is due, but seeking praise or even valuing it too highly may be destructive. One should not perform one's duties in expectation of any praise, but rather perform them thanklessly for its own sake. This is what it means to have duties and the discipline to carry them out. It is a distinctly modern phenomenon for a(n especially young) person to give up on a responsibility at the first thought that their work was not good enough or was not appreciated enough. On the other, traditional hand we are reminded of the Oswald Spengler quote:

'We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.'