{"id":3182,"date":"2011-10-17T22:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T02:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2020-10-17T00:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T04:08:55","slug":"semitic-and-germanic-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Germanic Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

This translation is from the chapter on the theories of Count de Gobineau from Il mito del sangue<\/cite>, (The Myth of Blood<\/cite>). Although there is much to be said about this passage, I’ll leave it to the readers to draw out some conclusions. In some respects Gobineau agrees with Evola: Rome declined and the Middle Ages was the recovery of Tradition by the joint efforts of the Romans and Nordics. After that period, the West declined, paradoxically a victim of its own success. For Gobineau, the spiritual aspect is irrelevant as only the race of the body accounts for everything. Hence, the choice between paganism and Christianity does not matter, at least insofar as the latter was purified of Semitic elements under the influence of the Germanics. What is of interest is Evola’s concluding remarks; it probably explains why he had to reject zoological racism. Since this chapter is of significant interest, I hope to post more of it in the next week or two.<\/p>\n

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Another product of the mixing of blood for Count de Gobineau<\/strong> would be the feeling for one\u2019s homeland and authority, that would arise from the union of Aryans and Semites, from a semitic mitigation of the Aryan predilection for isolation, independence and personality. We will see this theme taken up again by some extremist racialist writers in the sense of relating every form of sovereignty and statolatry comprising the ethnic-national elements to something “semitic”.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the expression “Semitic Rome” comes up in de Gobineau to designate the imperial period of that civilization; that, \u201cnot in the sense that it indicates a human type identical to that which results from the Ancient Chaldean and Hamitic combinations: but in the sense that “of the multitudes scattered with Rome\u2019s fortunes over all the countries subject to the Caesars, the greater part was more or less stained with black blood and represented thus a combination not equivalent but analogous to the semitic mixing.”<\/p>\n

The predominant “black” qualities, well containted in certain limits and compensated by means of some white qualities were, for de Gobineau, essential factors in the development of imperial Rome. In more than one point, the position taken by de Gobineau in regards to Christianity seems negative: too much to listen to again, this popular belief, of “a religion of slaves, humiliating because pacifistic and egalitarian, and, in a word, unworthy of the races that still conserves any scintilla whatsoever of the Aryan flame.” In any case, Christianity for him was purified little by little from semitic elements and the Greek made itself Roman (Catholicism) and then, from the Romans, it became Germanic.<\/p>\n

For de Gobineau, the Germans and the other Nordic stocks of the invasions appear as the ancient races of pure Aryan blood. But, attracted by the mirage of the Roman symbol, it could not escape the destiny of being dissolved in the potent detritus of the mixed races of Rome, among which their energy and their blood had to decline. This assimilation therefore was not so rapid to drag society to the semitic point of departure typical of the low empire: initially, the Germanic elements were able to be absorbed, but not up to such a sign.<\/p>\n

It is thus that the civilisation of “Germanic Rome” arises, that is, the Medieval civilisation. Every normal society, for de Gobineau, is founded on three originary classes or castes, corresponding to distinct ethnic strata: “The nobility, an image more or less like the glorious race; the bourgeoisie, composed of metics similar to the great race; the people, a servile social class belonging to an inferior human type; black in the South, Finnish in the North.” The Middle Ages still knew such a partition. But it revealed itself always more deprived of its racial base and therefore of its strength. So this hierarchical picture had to unravel little by little while the last veins of pure Aryan blood were snuffed out and scattered. This moves us towards the modern “repugnant atmosphere of the democratic muck.”<\/p>\n

The conclusion of de Gobineau\u2019s viewpoint, which is found in his principle work, the famous Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races<\/cite>, that was published between 1853 and 1855, is pessimistic. The dominant impulse of the white race, throwing itself over the entire earth, broke the last ethnic barriers, created a world in which distances no longer exist and where rapprochement, aggregation, and confusion of types are fatal and as rapid as ever. “Pure Aryans are no longer found”. It is an inexorable law that any group that has the potency of civilisation attracts other races, extends itself, brings itself geographically further and further, dissipates itself, degrades itself. De Gobineau, at the end of his book, says that the history of the world turns ostensibly, through such a path, toward that “supreme unity” that, otherwise, he already declared that it was true only for the metics without race.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This translation is from the chapter on the theories of Count de Gobineau from Il mito del sangue, (The Myth of Blood). Although there is much to be said about this passage, I’ll leave it to the readers to draw out some conclusions. In some respects Gobineau agrees with Evola: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[554,553,555],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evola","tag-count-de-gobineau","tag-il-mito-del-sangue","tag-the-myth-of-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13143,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/13143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}