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.

"It is not only the fit who survive, but also the honest. The fact that these two survivals do not coincide in time goes back once more to Genesis, to the separation of the Tree of Life from the Tree of Knowledge."

Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil.

Perhaps a good test of race and nation would be how well one is able to tell stories of ancestors at least three generations back.

Your race is your very family. Do you know who your great-grandparents were, or anybody before them? Have you inherited any of their traditions? You will not find race in vague genetic categories, but in your own house. Your nation is not a faceless collective and its popular will, but your own extended family.

"I do not venerate matter, I venerate the fashioner of matter, who became matter for my sake and accepted to dwell in matter and through matter worked my salvation, and I will not cease from reverencing matter, through which my salvation was worked. . . . [For] if the body of God has become God unchangeably through the hypostatic union, what gives anointing remains, and what was by nature flesh animated with a rational and intellectual soul is formed, it is not uncreated. Therefore I reverence the rest of matter and hold in respect that through which my salvation came, because it is filled with divine energy and grace."

— John of Damascus, De imaginibus, Oratio I

If the race is the family writ large, then there must be a racial father. Nationalism of the vulgar variety is fraternal, not paternal, a body of citizens, not a communion of fathers. Nationalism can become fruitful - mystical - only if the fraternity is patriarchal - the unknown son's cult of dead fathers and grieving mothers, a form for those unworthy of observing the Kingship. From this follows - for example - the evils of eugenic euthanasia. There is no such thing as a family of only brothers and sisters.

We will expound on the nature of these family traditions that one must carry on if one is to honor one's heritage. They can be as dignified as being active in same old church for generations, or as mundane as cooking Great-Grandmother's recipes in your kitchen. They can be as simple as continuing an old family Christmastime custom or as complex as practicing a generational family trade if only as a hobby, if not outright becoming the next generation to run a family enterprise. Or, another might take the time to listen to and embody the wisdom of one's elders who are still among the living, also taking the opportunity to record their stories of family history, traditions, and origins for posterity. Certainly reconnecting with or maintaining ties with distant relatives for its own sake is a good pursuit. Even if ties are thin one may very well rekinder an old bond that may have been about to disappear forever.

One's family may have unsavory characters and generational bad habits, perhaps even be in a sad and broken state. One does not need to drink and smoke like Grandpa and go to a seedy denomination of rundown church simply in the name of maintaining the family tradition, to give examples. One should be seeking the living spirit of one's family instead of simple literal imitation. What is alive in the family—stewardship over land and roots? Fellowship with the branches of the tree, even neighboring trees? Tender cultivation of the next generation of fruits? An unquenchable adventurousness, a particular tasteful curation of the arts, a indomitable faith in the face of hard times, etc., etc.?

For personal development one looks within oneself; for racial development one looks within one's family, which is the racial self.

"We need to have faith that when our capacity of will is exceeded, whatever course things take they still work towards that supreme purpose, i.e. that they are bound into this purpose by a wise and holy being whose power goes beyond ours."
~ Hölderlin

"[In the Golden Age] Kronos gave our communities as their kings and rulers, not men but Daimones, beings of diviner and superior kind just as we still do the same with our flocks of sheep and herds of other domesticated animals. We do not set oxen to manage oxen, or goats to manage goats; we, their betters in kind, act as masters ourselves. So, the god, in his kindness to man, did the same; he set over us the superior race of Daimones."

— Plato, Laws
Hans von Aachen, Allegory Of Rulership: The Return Of The Golden Age Under Saturn