{"id":3100,"date":"2011-09-24T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2020-09-24T04:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T08:19:50","slug":"fight-over-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Fight over Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julius Evola<\/strong> opens the chapter The Arctic Myth<\/cite> from Il mito del sangue<\/cite> by describing the state of prehistoric research:<\/p>\n

\nOswald Menghin, rector of the University of Vienna, wrote these characteristic words, “More than any other discipline, the science of prehistory is being brought back, and still more must be brought back, to the center of the spiritual battle of our time. I don\u2019t believe I am mistaken in affirming that general prehistory will be the science that will guide the next generations.” In the most recent years, in many circles a significant drive to return to the origins has taken place. The origins, in this case, appear under a special, spiritual light. We return to the intuition that, in primordial times, meaning and symbols existed in a still pure state that was then lost, obfuscated, or altered. Prehistoric research, moved from a plane of disanimiated scientistic-archeological or anthropological positivism to a plane of spiritual synthesis, promised therefore to open up new horizons for the true history of civilization.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a sense this is still true, as the battle for control over the narrative of prehistory rages on. However, the prehistory preferred by Evola, based on the Arctic myth of Fabre d’Olivet<\/strong>, Hermann Wirth<\/strong>, and Bal Tilak<\/strong>, has been relegated to the world of cranks and conspiracy theorists. Unfortunately, the alternative myths of origin, that have adherents today, remain far from any “plane of spiritual synthesis”.<\/p>\n

The preferred “scientific” myth of educated (read indoctrinated) people today involves the neo-gnostic belief in a big bang that led to an undifferentiated humanity by the random walk theorized by Charles Darwin<\/strong>. In this story, man arises from a great, but incomprehensible, cosmic accident, thrown into a world he cannot understand, and placed in unjust situation, both individually and socially. Hence, the task of man is to develop a higher consciousness that sees beyond the creator of these injustices into a future utopia of liberty, equality, and brotherhood.
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\nThe competing myth in the West sees the world as created just, but injustice then entered the world through one man’s sin. There are different degrees of literalness that goes with this story, from the adamant to the flexible who try to accommodate the scientistic view. However, they all share the same materialist, empirical presumptions, so no reconciliation or synthesis on that level is possible. Evola points to the alternative:<\/p>\n

\nIn support of the Nordic idea a new myth was therefore necessary, a myth as audacious, as it was rich, complex and articulate, was now the material of the know-how to dominate and organize according to a unique explicative principle. Such a myth was forged by the Dutchman Hermann Wirth with the recovery of the arctic theory … with the reconstruction of the origin, history and civilization of the Nordic-Atlantic race. The theory of Wirth is to be considered as a bold surprise, whose profound directive impulse referred to extrascientific intuitions which then sought to be justified through a very laborious philological, anthropo-geological, mythological, and symbological apparatus.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While at one time, it may have had great explanatory power, it has little serious traction today. Tilak’s so-called “Aryan Invasion Theory” is now rejected by academics, no one reads Fabre d’Olivet, and Wirth’s book is effectively unavailable. It is pointless to simply repeat what has been said and it is ludicrous to associate this with stories of UFOs or underground worlds. To be taken seriously, its alleged explanatory powers must be used to explain things.<\/p>\n

First of all, we must not look East, but rather to the North. There is a primordial monotheistic tradition that took various forms in the period of migrations, just as languages did, while retaining similar structures. We have brought to light aspects of those traditions, emphasizing their similarities and continuity.<\/p>\n

There is an unfortunate tendency in most of those interested in the concepts of tradition, and that is over-intellectualization. But the realm of the spiritual is inaccessible to this type of analysis. What is necessary is the imaginary reconstruction of spiritual states through a type of meditation, based on myths, symbols, rites, legends, and so on. The men capable of doing that will be the creators of the new world, not those addicted to the Demon of Dialectics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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