“By way of such aspects, we see—it is clear—in the Middle Ages an awakening of the true forces already acting in Nordic-Aryan Romanity, of its true solarity, propitiated from such a resurgence or rebirth from a new contribution of Aryan blood…”
Gornahoor translating Evola, on Cesaro
Indeed, a tremendously sophisticated defense of the very opposite view (which Evola here castigates) can be found by a modern feminist, which draws on both Neumann and J. Bachofen in truly classical fashion, in order to defend the earth-cults and the “rise of the feminine”. Yet it should be obvious by now to all those with perception that the “rise of feminism” entails the non-existence (in experience) of the solar origins, whereas the opposite is not true. Solarity can comprehend and order what is below it, but what is below it cannot comprehend and order solarity – this is the meaning (of course also) of the Biblical myth and mandate for the man to be the spiritual “head” of the woman, although it is typically taken very literally. Thus, “what comes after” is not a novelty or evolution, but rather a devolution. This is exactly the opposite of that which is generally “held” in the academic and spiritual worlds of today, where progressives try to convince others that they have “something better to offer” in tune with the Zeitgeist than those horrible old days of long ago when “we” (who is this “We”, here?) didn’t know any better. This is the world of the Iron Polygon and the “Cathedral“, where everyone has a “right” to “rights”, which usually means squabbling over personally disgusting political material. Some might argue for the “Matrix” as a better word here, and I am sure the terminology and word play will continue to be plied, in order to come to a more perfect understanding of how the Modern World is evolving.
But “devolution” is a tremendous theme that recurs over and over again with Evola. An acquaintance put it this way:
(1) Evola dealt with both the seen and the unseen, the commonly recognized and perceivable, and the obscure.
(2) Evola dealt with the controversial — the things which salaried men dependent upon their peers’ approval refuse to speak on.
(3) Evola represents a regal framework which recognizes the proper stance of a solider, the transcendental outlook. This is also imperial insofar as the imperium stretches beyond any exception that a man or people might make for itself.
(4) Evola, even if his wartime endeavors may have been misguided, was always forward looking. His thought is relevant to the present day.
(5) Because of the above, Evola thought, in uncommon fashion, whereas most others simply regurgitate the opinions of their peers.
(6) Evola was one of a few universal minds, both pan-European and looking seriously at the cultures of the East, of the type that are no longer found today among a worldwide culture which no longer takes the traditional arts seriously and tears down those who do.
(7) Evola plotted a path for individuals to overcome, to transcend their individual limitations, without dependence on dogma.
(8) Evola did not mince words, neither adding fluff in order to sell himself to the masses nor adding mean witticisms for the sake of producing petty laughter.
(9) Evola was not motivated by fear, positing or selling post-mortem metaphysical realms for those whose hearts are too faint to face the present one. He could not and did not divorce the political and metaphysical — the danger of all priests who implicitly attempt to play at politics.
(10) Evola was rooted and established in the transcendental, the spiritual man spoken of and lauded by the ancients, the sage who is known to those who know they do not understand.
(Credit to Joel Dietz, of The Conservatory, Dunedain.net)
Steiner’s idea of “Evolution” can (ultimately) be said to de-rail his entire system, no matter what his other virtues and how much other truth he contains, or personally embodied. This could account for the death of his movement after his passing, for there was no doubt that Steiner knew a great deal of mysterious and occult things. Evola, situated as he was, was in a better place to understand how little compromise was possible with the new conditions; he knew that the Revolution intended to dethrone the true Self in the name of the sensate individuality. Steiner, on this point, illustrates how devastating even a minor flaw in Reason can be, a point Alain Benoist is also illustrating before our eyes in his current career (as Gornahoor has also highlighted).
Like the Roman Catholic Church showed man, a great deal of experiential freedom can be tolerated, but not certain fundamental theoretical errors which go deep enough, leading (in the end and if pursued vigorously) to the “triumph of man’s reason“.
There is a “Christian” reason for this very fact, as well, which is illustrated over and over again, countless times, in the annals of man (Evola learned quite well from his Catholic teachers). Errors do not immediately manifest their fruits (which is why they are “fruits”), at least not to those of us in between heaven and earth. The only thing that can help here is to be “wise as serpents”, or, (as Jesus illustrated) to use one’s divinely inspired and lead Reason to steer through the narrow gate, for Reason (the Noetic faculty) is the only portion of man which a “beginner” can use with impunity from his dark side.
The good thing is that there are “fruits” which can be held up to be judged. Were the Middle Ages really that bad? As credit substitutes for open slavery in late stage capitalism, can one continue to maintain that everything ancient regime is distasteful and misguided? It is inconceivable to the modern mindset that anything important has been lost, since it is governed by instrumental “reason”, functionalism, and a pragmatism which is ideologically charged to rationalize whatever it cannot account for strictly speaking, on even its own terms. It is also precommitted to what Tomberg would call the purely “horizontal”, or “circle of the serpent”: we do not need God (or the higher Self) because we now have “Infinity” (or perhaps, “Singularity”). Pages of narrative are necessary to qualify how this “gutting” of transcendence can preserve any meaning at all.
The Middle Ages (if one will actually open the annals and writings of history, or even go to a cathedral to study them) are a permanent refutation of the idea and ideal of Progress. How can “Progress” mean anything when confronted with the undeniable fact that the Middle Ages, even on their own progressive theories, bridge the Ancient collapse and the Modern Day? What will they refute a Gothic rose window with? They were the time of the “truly human”, living in a precarious but cheerful balance (even Nietzsche saw their cheerfulness tinging as late a century as the 17th), between the age of the gods and the age of the animals. They were perfectly willing to utilize technology, when a cultural space could be found for such, but were unwilling to commit themselves wholesale to a view of man as a “plug-in” to his own devisings.
As the Modern World deepens its devolution, the Middle Ages will continue to grow lighter and brighter. It will become more crystal clear that there is only way out – not a path “deeper into Chaos” but a path back to where we have been told “There Be Dragons”.
The world already awaits us.
“Fate is a tangled web, hence why it is always referenced to as being woven, and I have found that it has ‘causal nexus’ points, where small, seemingly random events bring much larger ones into play. The small, seemingly random act is thus the catalyst for larger explosions – which may be for good or ill. The key however, is to note the nexus points when they arrive and not to dismiss the small, seemingly random act as insignificant, because 90% it is the deal breaker.”
I’ve stumbled upon the Electrocosmos theory. Tomberg explains a lot of what I’ve been saying for years, e.g. that there needs be no strife between different domains of information and knowledge and practice, not even strife between pantheism and whatever. What defines the Aryan is that he is able to sub-ord-inate any-goddamn-thing and nothing, not the most psychocorporeally decomposed infrahuman hordes of crawlers could trap him by fear or situatiom.
I don’t know about prayer since often I experience days where the world revolves around me. As in everything synchs with me and I am very attract-ive (as if gravity of my own).
“So, awaken, fellow Internet surfer! Dive into the turbulent waters of the Strange Attractor, and self organize to a higher level of Information processing.” Did Timothy Leary know something we didn’t on DMT?
Interesting summaries made here both in the article and comments. It appears that Steiners main fault lay in his evolutionary historicity rather than hinting at a re-membering or point of return. Although it almost be forgiven were it not for his humanistic and universalist tendencies, all too common amongst anthroposophists. I’m sure he still managed to successfully transmigrate, regardless.
And HOO, you may be interested in the Electric Universe theory http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/ given the manifested symbolic forms of the vajra thunderbolt explained by ancient phenomena http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/resources/thunderbolts-of-the-gods-preview/.
Let us pray.
“Classical thermodynamics maintained that random (autonomous) local processes such as molecular motion always tend toward a maximum of entry (disorder). Prigogine showed that in spatially confined neighborhoods, orderly physical assemblages can spontaneously arise. Individual occurrences that engender these spontaneous coherence are called “free agents.”
This applies to humans and their societies/communities.
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Games of Chance & Levels of Meaning by John Stevens
Christ taught us the Matrix (notice its from the same root as matter, mother, maya, measurement) can never fully entrap those of us with the spark.
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The first thing one can do, most basic yet most essential, is to extinguish any tendency of meddling or whining in one’s being. A Man is free of any such sentiment, while muddling in such murky waters would feed the maras.
Thanks, HOO, still looking at this…
“I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear I judge: and my judgement is just:
because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
[John 5:30]
“The god of soldiers, With the consent of supreme Jove, inform Thy thoughts with nobleness, that thou mayst prove To shame invulnerable” [Shakespear’s Coriolanus]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYrGIQnmxo
The man who would later become known as the Emperor first appears in Imperial records as one of the many warlords struggling for control of Terra during the later part of the Age of Strife. The Emperor undertook a series of campaigns against all the other warlords on the planet that would later become termed as the Unification Wars. During these wars the Emperor employed several military formations – that consisted of genetically engineered warriors, who played a significant role in his eventual victory. With this victory, the planet and population of Terra were at last unified under one rule; that of the Emperor. With this achievement behind him, the Emperor then set in motion his plans to take his purpose of uniting and guarding mankind out into the stars, to unify with the bastions of humanity scattered across the galaxy. This undertaking would become known as the Great Crusade.
“Play is free, is in fact freedom.
Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life.
Play is distinct from “ordinary” life both as to locality and duration.
Play creates order, is order. Play demands order absolute and supreme.
Play is connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained from it.” [Huizinga]
“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.” [Schiller]
“[T]he whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the
infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the
insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and
Eternity, whose name is MAN?” [Crowley]
“For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” [Jesus]
Don’t worry. “I play my enemies like a game of chess,
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MAOIXHJEH4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXyKmElvv8&ob=av2e
“Yo, I play my enemies like a game of chess
Where I rest no stress if you don’t smoke cess, less
I must confess my destiny’s manifest”
…”beautifully disturbing, a masterpiece of meta-cognitive apathy”… “The Violent Tenor of Life [in the Middle Ages]”…
This could be contrasted with (e.g.) â??Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives. And to the â??good lifeâ??, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.â??
â?? Hunter S. Thompson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEuYc05b-TM
However, sub specie aeternitatis, any chaos is only apparent.
â??Iron turns into rust if it seeks the company of soil. It glows, softens and takes on useful shapes, if it enjoys the company of fire. Dust can fly if it chooses the wind as its friend. It has to end as slime in a pit, if it prefers water. It has neither wing nor foot, yet it can either fly or walk, rise or fall, according to the friend it selects. Knowing this truth, a great saint, Kabir once said. â??Here are my prostrations to the good, Here are my prostrations to the bad.â?? When asked why he offered prostrations to the bad, he said, â??My prostrations to the bad, so that they may leave me alone. I do the same before good, so that they might remain near me always.â?? You are shaped by the company you keep.â??
â?? Sri Satya Sai Baba
The Cosmos follows its Law, and there is actually no conflict between facts of evolution and Traditon. (Look into Tomberg e.g.) Evolution is horizontal history which spirals or layers around the vertical Pole of the source of Tradition.
The higher the energy density the greater the chaos and the less order possible. However the greater the chaos the greater the order in isolated points (a cosmological law)–singularities. “DARK matter fills 99,9% of the Universe but 100% can GLOW”.
http://native-science.net/images/Gal.S.048.Center.Hvirvel.gif
http://native-science.net/Cosmology.Final.Natural.htm
“Nietzsche said that the society of the last man would be too barren to support the growth of great individuals. The last man is possible only by mankind’s having bred an apathetic creature who has no great passion or commitment, who is unable to dream, who merely earns his living and keeps warm. The last men claim to have discovered happiness, but blink every time they say so.”
“Jesus starts directly with the condition the “Kingdom of Heaven” in
the heart, and he does not find the means to it in the observances of
the Jewish church; the reality of Judaism itself (its need to preserve
itself) he regards as nothing; he is purely inward.
He likewise ignores the entire system of crude formalities governing
intercourse with God: he opposes the whole teaching of repentance and
atonement; he demonstrates how one must live in order to feel
“deified” – and how one will not achieve it through repentance and
contrition for one’s sins: “Sin is of no account” in his central
judgement.
Sin, repentance, forgiveness – none of this belongs here…” [Will to Power]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhVM930YXY
“Verily, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that “above
all things there standeth the heaven of chance, the heaven of
innocence, the heaven of hazard, the heaven of wantonness.”
“Of Hazard” – that is the oldest nobility in the world; that gave I
back to all things; I emancipated them from bondage under purpose.
This freedom and celestial serenity did I put like an azure bell above
all things, when I taught that over them and through them, no “eternal
Will” – willeth.
This wantonness and folly did I put in place of that Will, when I
taught that “In everything there is one thing impossible – rationality!”
A little reason, to be sure, a germ of wisdom scattered from star to
star – this leaven is mixed in all things: for the sake of folly,
wisdom is mixed in all things!
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I
found in all things, that they prefer – to dance on the feet of chance.
O heaven above me! thou pure, thou lofty heaven! This is now thy
purity unto me, that there is no eternal reason-spider and
reason-cobweb: – That thou art to me a dancing-floor for divine
chances, that thou art to me a table of the Gods, for divine dice and
dice-players!”
[Zarathustra, Before Sunrise.]
The tighter the net, the Matrix, the greater concentration of Blue in the drops of the Blood which flow out of Ur-Krist’s wound. Singularities beyond the Last Man. Nietzsche’s Overman is Christ. This Host of the Seraphim, is he who came down, was Crucified and pierced, and now will return in His armor which he left in Heaven. It is now Crystallizing.
“The crystal has complete symmetry. The Point Attractors allow the energy in inorganic molecules to self organize as organic molecules, to cross the bridge from the microcosm of lifeless molecules and energy, to the mesocosm of living crystals. With crystals, both organic and inorganic, everything is attracted to a single point, all line up in perfect order. All three axes, up and down, right and left, front and behind are the same; the molecules are in perfect symmetric order.”
“If Caesar is a Dionysian [SHARP-sensitivity to forms], his other is
the Buddhistic-Christ [HYPER-sensitivity to forms].”
“The equilibrium point is the pause between the exhalation and inhalation of the Cosmic Breath. After that the geometric force will begin to exceed the arithmetical, the direction will reverse, and the Universe will begin contracting; the inhalation of the breath of Brahman will begin. As all matter and energy converges, Black Holes will be created with greater frequency, and ultimately the entire Universe will be drawn together again into a single point, a vast black hole into which all space-time will inhale. This final Omega Point, the end, may in turn produce another Big Bang wherein Brahman takes a new breath and a new Universe is formed. If the law of fractal recursiveness holds true, the new Universe will repeat certain basic forms, but it will do so with new and unique variations and differences.
…
The ability to organize, to make sense of data and information, comes from within the conscious being itself. It is not imposed on the being from outside forces, and so scientists call this the Self Organizing principle or Auto Poiesis. Although the inherent ability to self organize is not predetermined, or governed by outside forces, at each level its evolution seems to follow the patterns of one of the four chaotic attractors.
Point like Attractor – Crystal.
Circuit/Cycle Attractor – Plant.
Torus Attractor – Animal.
Strange Attractor – Man.
The four attractors create cosmos out of “chaos”; God is both their origin and aim.
…
God sleeps in the Minerals,
Dreams in the Plants,
Thinks in the Animals,
And Awakes in Man.”
http://www.gornahoor.net/?p=462
“God gave great power and authority to the three Archangels and they were created to reflect majesty and beauty. The one God created as the being of the greatest light and brilliance was Lucifer. Lucifer pleased God because Lucifer searched the Infinities diligently seeking the jewels of reality. God created all possibilities but until they are observed they are unmanifested. The Angels became Gods instruments of Awareness, peering into the infinite possibilities and manifesting realities. Many beautiful realities did Lucifer bring before the throne of the Eternal. His awareness was sharp and keen and Lucifer found many splendors hidden in the infinite possibilities God had set into motion.
Then came the time when God brought forth the greatest jewel of all. God created the Infinities containing the Physical Realm where the possibility of life existed. Thus began the Game of Angels. For it was in this new and beautiful expanse, we call the heavens, that God had placed a new and wonderful jewel. A world where life was growing and changing. The search for the Jewel of God had begun.”
ARS REGIA
“You would compare me to that gibbering nihilist? No, I have a goal: to escape
the utimate end… and build the future anew.”
â??Emperor Mateus Palamecia, Dissidia Final Fantasy
I am Homo Ludens.
Brilliant.*
“To the world when it was half a thousand years younger, the outlines of all things seemed more clearly marked than to us. The contrast between suffering and joy, between adversity and happiness, appeared more striking. All experience had yet to the minds of men the directness and absoluteness of the pleasure and pain of child-life. Every event, every action, was still embodied in expressive and solemn forms, which raised them to the dignity of a ritual. For it was not merely the great facts of birth, marriage and death which, by the sacredness of the sacrament, were raised to the rank of mysteries; incidents of less importance, like a journey, a task, a visit, were equally attended by a thousand formalities: benedictions, ceremonies, formulas.” (from The Waning of the Middle Ages)
*1680s, from Fr. brilliant “sparkling, shining” prp. of briller “to shine” (16c.), from It. brillare “sparkle, whirl,” perhaps from V.L. *berillare “to shine like a beryl,” from berillus “beryl, precious stone,” from L. beryllus (see beryl).