Plato thus dates the Atlantean war to ~10,000 BC, which roughly coincides with the Younger Dryas cataclysm that ended the Ice Age and changed geography around the world, especially destroying North America in particular. This connection to North America is strengthened by the mentioning of the precious copper mines like those known to have been operated in Michigan by ancient Europeans, as well as the mentioning of great reserve of timber and elephants, which may refer to the mammoths that went extinct in America roughly 10,000 BC.

Why care about myths like Atlantis and Hyperborea? They are living history, of our genetic and cultural ancestors, and they offer us inspiring archetypes. This is my personal feelings on the subject; there has been much said on the specifics of what these myths really describe, I only seek to add to these. As I see it these two myths exemplify the two halves of Europe - genetically, culturally, spiritually.

Hyperborea is of the open and expansive North; a natural landscape of plenty where its peaceful people continually harvested an abundance from its great groves. The Hyperboreans were giant, vigorous, and divinely artistic in inspiration by the Solar diety whom they faithfully worshiped. This peaceful, isolated holy place is an allegory to the primordial hunter-gatherer past. This naturalistic ideal is encapsulated in much the same way as the Garden of Eden.

Atlantis on the other hand represents the high point of human civilization. Their empire was extremely wealthy and technologically advanced. It is said its priests were masters of magic, its armies were unmatched, and its merchants spanned the globe. The kingdom seemed eternal as even the very structure of their magnificent capital city was sculpted by Poseidon himself to be impregnable. As the stories go the priests of Atlantis forsook piety and grew hungry for material power and wealth, and so their civilization was then cast into the sea (from whose Lunar god they sprung) in a great flood. Whether collapse or cataclysm actually came first, one always brings about the other, and so all civilizations will inevitably meet their end in this manner of total catastrophe. In contrast to the idyllic Hyperborea, Atlantis represents the struggle of civilized man to create his own utopia.

Thus Hyperboreans represent those builders of wood in vast natural settings, of innate wisdom and spirituality, and great individual strength and power, whereas Atlanteans represent those monumental builders of stone, of social and learned men, and strength in numbers and in technology.

This is my own edit of a graph plotting out the genetics of Eurasian populations. I have labeled the groups and also noted the direction of certain trends. This graph, meant to compare West Eurasians, does not accurately show some influences so I have included arrows so one may more easily see them.

I have identified the Hyperborean archetype in Ancient North Eurasians, expressed in Finno-Urgics, Balts, and Scandinavians. The Atlantean archetype I have given to that combination of Western Hunter Gatherer (Paleolithic European) and Neolithic Farmers (from Paleolithic Caucasian) that invented civilization, which expresses itself most in the Mediterranean peoples.

The noble Aryan archetype then is the combination of these two. Genetically the origins of the "Aryan" people are in a mixture of Eastern Hunter-Gatherers (WHG + ANE) and Caucasian Hunter-Gatherers (Paleo Cauc. + ANE). Soon after the Aryans mixed with the southern Farmers, forging that glorious pastoralist warrior civilization, the peak of greatness.

Historical accounts and genetics are of course not our focus, as they are merely consequential to the spiritual. I will, probably prompted by a quote from Revolt, finish my thinking on the Hyperborean-Atlanean duality within the singular Aryan ideal, in the full spiritual sense of how those archetypal forces combine to form the wise and noble Aryan spirit.

Group Chats & IRL Meetups!

We are strong adherents of Männerbünde theory. The core of this theory is that - while the family is the foundation of Society, it is the fraternity of men which is the foundation of the State. The State, not Society, is the origin of a People & a Culture.

Therefore, we have always expressed an approval for your belonging to “an Order” - think the Knights of old. Men bound by loyalty to one another, lashed together by a common spiritual ideal & purpose.

The Group Chat phenomena is the digital interpretation of this ancient practice. Though it is severely limited in it’s modern form, it is an excellent starting point.

Have great discretion in who you allow into your band of brothers. They will shape and influence who you are to become. Hold each other to the fire, push towards new heights & deeper depths.

Met up IRL, go camping. Network with other groups out there. Form fraternal organizations. Hire each other. Promote each other. Practice in-group favoritism. Nationbuild.

"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final." ~ Hypatia

My heart has become capable of all forms: it is a pasture for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks, and a temple for idols, and the Kaabah of the pilgrim, and the table of the Thorah and the book of the Quran. I am the religion of Love, whatever road his camels may take; my religion and my faith are the true religion.

Rene Guénon

For the soul when looking at things posterior to herself, beholds the shadows and images of beings, but when she converts herself to herself she evolves her own essence, and the reasons which she contains. And at first indeed, she only as it were beholds herself; but, when she penetrates more profoundly into the knowledge of herself, she finds in herself both intellect, and the orders of beings. When however, she proceeds into her interior recesses, and into the adytum as it were of the soul, she perceives with her eye closed, the genius of the Gods, and the unities of beings. For all things are in us psychically, and through this we are naturally capable of knowing all things, by exciting the powers and the images of wholes which we contain.

Proclus, Theology of Plato Book 1 Chapter 3

Whoever knows philosophy (hikmat) and perseveres in thanking and sanctifying the Light of the Lights, will be endowed with royal glory (kharreh) and with luminous splendor (farreh), and—as we have said elsewhere—divine light will further bestow upon him the cloak of royal power and value. Such a person shall then become the natural ruler of the universe. He shall be given aid from the high heavens, and whatever he commands shall be obeyed; and his dreams and inspirations will reach their uppermost, perfect pinnacle

Shihab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi

Philosophy is the purification and perfection of human life. It is the purification, indeed, from material irrationality, and the mortal body; but the perfection, in consequence of being the resumption of our proper felicity, and a reascent to the divine likeness. To effect these two is the province of Virtue and Truth; the former exterminating the immoderation of the passions; and the latter introducing the divine form to those who are naturally adapted to its reception.

Hierocles, Commentary on the Golden Verses

The link between divinity and royalty cannot be understated. The degenerated concept of the vox populi and its offspring, the fallacy of populism, has given the world all the well-documented failures of democracy and republicanism. These examples within modernity give more than enough to form a negative (reactionary) opinion of the concept, but we of course have beliefs which positively deny the idea of popular sovereignty without ever needing to witness its wrongs or 'give it a chance' first. We know all power and authority are given to us from above, that is God, and not from below, as in the animalistic masses of people. The Divine does not ask for consent over all that which it governs, nor does it make concessions to its subjects. God rules over that which is His with the absolute power He gets from Himself. That is the ideal absolute authority from which all earthly authority descends.

Royalty and empire are manifestations of this authority from above. Royalty and royal lines are best understood in terms of Evola's thinking on race. In its genesis a royal line is an 'inner-race' or small subset of a race that has exemplified values of Tradition and achieved heroic victory. Such a victorious 'inner-race' reforms and characterizes its race's 'super-race', that is, by the virtues of its heroism the subset assumes its rightful place as leaders of the race and transforms it materially and spiritually by way of example. The empire is the result of the power and imperium earned by this ordained royal élite; the empire as a social structure is the expression of the authority granted to heroes and leaders of a victorious race. It is the traditional ideal form of society because it mirrors the natural order of reality with the ultimate authority in the Divine.

An empire begins with that small subset of a race whose heroic pursuits and ascetic mindset, if we recall from Metaphysics of War, "cannot help but tend towards an equally universal manifestation and end for his race; that is to say, it cannot but predestine his race for empire."

“A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal, which is the reason why the ethical attitude of large organizations is always doubtful. The psychology of a large crowd inevitably sinks to the level of mob psychology. If, therefore, I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it takes place on a lower level of consciousness than if I had the experience by myself alone.”

― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconsciousi