"If you had gone to Buddha and asked him: 'Are you the son of Brahma?' he would have said, 'My son, you are still in the vale of illusion.' If you had gone to Socrates and asked, 'Are you Zeus?' he would have laughed at you. If you had gone to Mohammed and asked, 'Are you Allah?' he would first have rent his clothes and then cut your head off. If you had asked Confucius, 'Are you Heaven?' I think he would have probably replied, 'Remarks which are not in accordance with nature are in bad taste.' The idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question. In my opinion, the only person who can say that sort of thing is either God or a complete lunatic suffering from that form of delusion which undermines the whole mind of man."

— CS Lewis

"If the gods demand the sacrifice, if the welfare of the Greeks requires it, if its necessity has now been accepted, then, O king, steel yourself; and if your paternal heart is breaking, then—avert your eyes, cover your face; thus do you appear worthy of your status as a father and a king and a sensitive Greek and a patriotic hero."
~ Herder

23. Home did the great king [Charlemagne] come
and they were all sat in red,
he had full bags of silver and gold
and all the heathens were dead.

24. "But why do you sit there drunk
in silience and not in mirth?
have you in the house of the dead
laid out many good men?"

25. "You will not, o Queen, wonder at our conduct,
for while we have gained the victory,
the same has cost us Roland, the King's Friend
and thereto many a valiant swain."

A traditional end to the ballad of Roland and the Great King as it was recorded in the mid 1800s in the Upper Thelemark.

The physiognomy one finds in an average orchestra versus what one finds in gatherings of organic farmers is most telling as to the role one should expect the hinterlands to play in the revival of beauty.

Nietzscheans! I will not hear anymore of your "Prometheus" until you listen to this, which is to be found in Hesoid's Theogony:

"And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day. That bird Heracles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew; and delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction -- not without the will of Olympian Zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of Heracles the Theban-born might be yet greater than it was before over the plenteous earth. This, then, he regarded, and honoured his famous son; though he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which he had before because Prometheus matched himself in wit with the almighty son of Cronos."

When our intellect speculates [on Metaphysics] it does so not insofar as it is human but insofar as it is something divine within us. So Hermes Trismegistus cleverly writes in his book on the God of gods, which he composed for his friend Asclepius, that man is the connection between God and the world, being above the world by means of his double investigation, that is natural philosophy and speculative science. By means of both of these [sciences] the power of reason in man is perfected and in this way he is rightly called the ‘ruler of the world.’ Furthermore, man is bound to God, because he beholds an immeasurable beauty that is not in this world, that is, not in succession or temporal, which he receives by means of the divine likeness that is in him in the simple light of the intellect, which he shares with the God of gods.

— St. Albert the Great, Summa Theologiae

Woe to him who denies the divine that lives within himself! To be against the Good and the True and the Beautiful is to be lost to oneself—that deepest, truest, most essential self. To be against the God of gods is suicide.

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Study of Evola is important to understand the nature of the fundamental moral divide between traditional and modern man. Evola describes certain symbols pointing towards Tradition better than any other.

The Solar symbol represents the transcendent and its reigning supreme over the entire world, illuminating all with its light. It is the fire that burns all impurities: falsehoods, weakness, and impiety. It is also tied to the Uranic symbol, the masculine principle which is generative or properly creative, not only physically but intellectually; at the same time it is a representation of the sheer moral force required for such metaphysical virility.

The Imperial symbol is a direct reflection of the power and glory of God. The Empire establishes an "eternal" order on Earth by conquering all its impious and uncultured barbarian enemies, bringing peace and stability to the land for generations, and lifting up even its lowliest people so they may transcend the merely earthly in their lives.

The Aryan symbol takes its name from that great culture which spread its Solar Empire across the world. The symbol stands for the archetypal features present in Aryan culture which can also be found in other great cultures at their zenith. It stands for aristocratic values of spirit that echo those of the Roman Mos Maiorum: Dignity, Virtue, Authority, among others. Within that is integration of the way of the warrior and of the priest, that is, uniting righteous action and pious contemplation in all things.

The key concept of Jünger’s theory is Gestalt; by this, he means a whole that includes something greater than the sum of its parts.

A person is greater than the sum of atoms, a family is greater than the union of a man and a woman, and a nation is greater than the sum of citizens living in the same territory.

All human history is a struggle of Gestalts. Jünger claims that ‘man, as a Gestalt, belongs to eternity’.

Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau, The Inequality of the Human Races (1853-55)

If you would like to know if you are or have ever been young in this youth, ask yourself where your heart is: with those who are in the first rank, with those who fight and give themselves unselfishly, driven by a great and real dream; with those who believe, with those who hope, with those who love? And if your heart answers with a clear and unfeigned 'yes', then you are a worthy temple of the spirit of youth, and you belong to the only aristocracy that can still save the world.

I would like to turn all the constellation of stars into tongues of fire, all the silver sand of the sea into shouting mouths and all human wounds into lips that speak, for I want to shout with the roar of a mad bell, to sound the alarm in the depths of your soul, to strike nervously at the walls of carelessness, at the shroud of comfort in which you have wrapped the life of your youth: Come out of your diapers and manly align yourself to the call to live heroically!

— from the above mentioned books

"Though the Gods bestowed no gift,
                    None the less,
    None the less, I served the Gods!"

The Grail Castle – Hans Thoma, 1899

"The Two Crowns" — Sir Frank Dicksee (1900).

"This self-givenness [of a phenomenon] […] is structurally different from 'relating-to.' It is not in itself a 'relating-to' but insurmountably excludes it from itself. It is not outside of itself but in itself, not transcendence but radical immanence. And it is only on the basis of this radical immanence that something like transcendence is possible. Seeing is actualized only as a nonseeing […]. This nonseeing, this unseen, this invisible, is not the unconscious. It is not the negation of phenomenality but its first phenomenalization. It is not a presupposition but rather our life in its non-ek-static but yet undeniable pathos."

— Michel Henry, Material Phenomenology

"It is the first decisive characteristic of the Truth of Christianity that it in no way differs from what it makes true. Within it there is no separation between the seeing and what is seen, between the light and what it illuminates. And this is because there is in that Truth neither Seeing nor seen, no Light like that of the world. From the start, the Christian concept of truth is given as irreducible to the concept of truth that dominates the history of Western thought, from Greece to contemporary phenomenology."

"...only the work of mercy practices the forgetting of self in which, all interest for the Self (right down to the idea of what we call a self or a me) now removed, no obstacle is now posed to the unfurling of life in this Self extended to its original essence."

— Michel Henry, I Am the Truth

“‘Sacrifice your suffering’ is for your neighbour. Your intentional suffering is not for you, but for others. This rule was part of the oath taken by doctors a long time ago when they were astrologers. They committed themselves to give up their sleep, and sacrifice their fatigue, their suffering. For others.”

~ Gurdjieff, Wartime Meetings

"There is no technology that could rival spiritual strength. We were convinced of this countless times, this fact was proven by every unknown soldier, who had passed through all the horrors of military technology and placed his indestructible, sturdy heart on the scales."
Jünger

One cannot blame a state for acting in its own self-interest, insofar as one cannot blame a lion for devouring its prey, but the lion which fails to hunt is abominable. One can always blame a man for his spiritual failings since it is a man's duty to hunt his demons as the lion hunts gazelles. The specifics of certain eras and their particular wars are arbitrary before the eternity of spirit, so the unknown soldier needs not feel shame when he looks back to the heroes of old. His heroism is silent and austere in the face of the wars he must fight, the scale of which has broken the level of the Titanic and reached down into the chaotic elemental. His state cannot save him here, and technology certainly cannot save him either. His spirit can only rise to the occasion, hearing the call of his God whose silence is deafening.