Self - Overcoming: The Pagan Way

From "The Heretic" (1992)

Recently an aspirant to Adeptship returned a course paper in which he expressed a fatalistic and defeatist attitude towards life. To a consideration of how the Quest for self-realization can be travelled, he answered that in his case it cannot be. That which was halting him was his own negative image, and it is his 'destiny' that he be kept where he is. This aspirant could not be initiated into our Order's IIø while possessing such an outlook. Without trying to lay down any 'Satanic dogma', our Order does possess quite specific purposes, one of which is to encourage the Adept in his Quest for ever higher states of Being. This requires a lifestyle, a practical outlook; thus our Order's Satanism is more than a religion or a philosophy - it is a way of living.

This Satanic life-style is predicated on a Nietzschean Self-Overcoming, impelling one to transcend all obstacles and limitations - whether imposed by Self or others - a Promethean defiance.

As Nietzsche himself put it: "That which does not destroy, makes me stronger."

The fatalism of a 'destiny' which so overwhelms the outlook of its possessor that it cannot be confronted and overcome is an Oriental intrusion which leads to stagnation, and belongs to what we call the Right-Hand Path. It is akin to "the will of god" that cannot/must not, be resisted.

Our aspirant expressed a hope that perhaps he will reincarnate into a better life.

The very essence of the Satanic life is that of defiance. Our outlook is essentially pagan. The Norse believed in fate/destiny (wyrd) but they were in no way bowed or restrained by it. If fate imposed hardship, then it was to be defied. The warrior would either succeed or die honourably in the struggle. What he would not do is raise up his hands in resignation, or bow his head in grief and blame 'fate', 'destiny', or the "will of Odin" for his plight.

The Satanist is the contemporary pagan warrior. He confronts his personal 'wyrd' and strives to overcome all obstacles on his Quest for Selfhood, and is stronger for it.

Order of the Left Hand Path

History

By the Order of the Left Hand Path 

The Order of the Left Hand Path (OLHP) was founded in early 1990 by Faustus Scorpius. The OLHP was announced in the first issue of the magazine The Watcher, sometime between January and March 1990.

In context, the OLHP emerged towards the end of so-called Satanic Panic in the early 1990s where various groups and individuals were making claims of organised and widespread Satanic Ritual Abuse. Therefore, the Order of the Left Hand Path emerged as an adversary of those who claimed Satanists were involved in ritual abuse, and countered these claims by pointing out that Christian Child Abuse was occurring in various churches and religious organizations.

A quote from the stated aim published in The Watcher Issue #1 serves to illustrate the perspective the OLHP held on Satanism.

"Satan and The Watchers are thus symbols of rebellion against tyrannical god and moral concepts which stifle human ascent. We take our stand on the side of rebellion leading to liberation from slave religions, moralities and ideologies, the chief one being in the West at this time Judaeo-christianity, with Marxism and the Puritan money ethic (ideological liberalism) being excrescences of this heritage."

The first publication of the Order of the Left Hand Path was entitled Essays on Satanism and included various essays by Faustus Scorpius. By the next issue of The Watcher, in April 1990, the publications also included:

• Anti-Christ: The Bible Reconsidered by Faustus Scorpius, a complete refutation of the Judaeo-Christian creed, using the Bible itself.
• Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard (Arthur Desmond). Excerpts from a book published in 1896 that formed the basis of 'The Book of Satan' in Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible.
• Rites of Satan, a compilation from various sources that included A Black Mass, A Satanic Sex Rite, The Death ritual, and a rite of Self-Initiation.

At this point a correspondence course in Satanism was initiated under the auspices of the Collegium Satanas.

Constitution

Purpose

1. The OLHP is an elitist Satanic Order existing to:
(a) Develop and actualize the full potential and inner qualities of each individual initiate;
(b) Herald the dawn of human Self-godhood, within the context of a Faustian Civilization.

Administration

2. Leadership is vested in the Magister, who has ultimate responsibility for the functioning and philosophy of the Order.
3. The priesthood, collectively, forms the Magister's advisory council, and shall be known as the Council of the Illuminati.
4. Upon the resignation or death of the Magister, the Council shall elect one of its number to assume the position.
5. The Magister may be replaced at any time by a majority vote of the Council.

Organization

6. The basic organization unit of the OLHP is the 'Coven.'
7. At least three Adepts within a given area may apply to the Magister to form a Coven.
8. Should a Coven be sanctioned by the Magister, it shall be granted a Charter.
9. A Charter of a Coven may be revoked at any time by the Magister.
10. In circumstances where there is no local ordained Priest/ess to preside over a Coven, the Adepts may elect a Master/Mistress from among themselves, whose position is subject to approval of the Magister.
11. A specialized 'Order' within the OLHP may be established by a Priest/ess, subject to approval by the Magister.

Degrees

12. There are three degrees within the OLHP, which are attained by completing the prescribed examinations, as determined by the Magister:
Neophyte I°, Adept II°, Priest/ess III°.
13. The Degrees may only be undertaken by those of at least 18 years of age.
14. Upon Recognition, a Neophyte has one year to apply for the examination of Adept.
15. Examination for the Priesthood is undertaken by Adepts at the invitation of the Magister.

Conduct

16. Nobody under then age of 18 is permitted to be in attendance at function of the Order.
17. Every initiate is obliged to obey the laws of the land of his residence.
18. No 'blood sacrifice' of any type are permitted to be undertaken by any initiate.
19. No narcotics of any type are permitted at functions of the Order.
20. Alcoholic intoxication is not permitted at any function of the Order.
21. Nothing shall be undertaken at any function of the Order which transgresses the free-will of any individual present.
22. Initiates are expected to obey the instructions of their immediate superiors.
23. Complaints of breaches of conduct may be brought by any initiate against any other initiate, and filed with the Magister for deliberation.
24. A Priest/ess or Coven Master/Mistress may suspend any subordinate, subject to review by the Magister.
25. Misconduct, as deemed by the Magister, may result in suspension or expulsion from the Order.

Constitutional interpretation and amendments

26. The Magister shall have ultimate responsibility for the questions of interpretation of this Constitution.
Faustus Scorpius (Magister)
25 September 1991CE

By mid-1993 the OLHP began to be influenced by the writings of Tani Jantsang, and article by her appearing in The Heretic Issue #6. Tani Jantsang's writings had more of an Oriental influence, and a more Hermetic approach.

However, by early January 1994 the OLHP jettisoned the Oriental influence and was re-constituted as the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi (Order of the Sinister Way).

This following announcement was made in The Heretic Issue #7:

The OLHP has been reconstituted as the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi (Order of the Sinister Way). In so doing we have jettisoned the Oriental dogma that had come to dominate much of the OLHP's philosophy, which has no relevance to the realities of the present and future. Nor will we again allow ourselves to be subject to the influence of anyone on account of what traditions their friends and relatives belong to.
O.S.V. is getting back to the original principles the OLHP was founded on, a philosophy which had served us well, and which IS relevant to our times. We will not be hidebound by ANY DOGMA, but will adapt, create and adopt whatever serves our pursuit of the sinister dialectic.

An article entitled Sinistra Vivendi in the same issue outlined the OSV's conception of the Sinister Path:

The Sinister Way recognises the need to restore balance through opposition (heresy); to create through destruction.
The archetype of opposition to stasis and conformity best known in the West is Satan. It is from Hebrew word meaning "adversary and accuser." It is an archetype that exists probably in all cultures as a reflection of the universe itself.

In April 1994 it was announced the Magister Scorpius had retired from leading the OSV:

The founding Magister of the O.S.V./O.L.H.P. has retired in favour of H. Baynes, whose nomination went unopposed by the O.S.V. Priesthood Council. Magister Baynes is one of the early priests of the Order. He has many new ideas to invigorate it, and broaden the participation of members. He also plans new publications on esoteric practise, and an OSV journal.

The OSV's short lived journal was entitled Suspire and was primarily a creative outlet for members of the OSV, as opposed to the broad-perspective open-forum provided by The Heretic (and The Watcher before it).
In October 1994 several constitutional amendments where brought about by GM Baynes to broaden the scope of the OSV:

The Magister is now known as "Grand Master". The basic Order units are the Coven and the Temple.
The "Coven" remains the basic unit of the OSV, but "Temples" may be formed by an OSV Priest/ess who assumes the title of Magister Temple or Dominis Temple. Within the two levels of Priest/ess and Official Member are 7 Grades which are worked through on the aspirant's own cognizance: (1) Oblate, (2) Initiate, (3) Adept, (4) Priest/ess, (5) Magister Templi, (6) GM, (7) (WOLFS HOOK RUNE)
These changes were brought about by the influence of, and relationship with, the Order of Nine Angles, hence the adoption of the Septenary system (as evidenced by the 7 grades of the OSV listed above). While the ONA certainly influenced the development of the OSV philosophies there were certainly some differences.
One major difference was that the OSV promoted the use of drugs, including marijuana, opium, and mescaline.
The OSV's Aims and Organizational Structure was published in Suspire, Volume 1 Issue 4.
The Order's objectives are threefold: (I) to disseminate Traditional Satanism; (II) to hasten that which is drawing to its natural and proper conclusion; (III) to assist the social organism that will replace it. At this juncture, the West is in a decline due to the various ideologies that would create a homogenous society. The dominant hegemony seek a society enthralled by abstractions, either religious or economic; these ideologies promulgate meanings which have no basis in reality. The purveyors of this ideology will stop at nothing less than a tame and compliant society relieved of the joys of existence.
Ordo Sinistra Vivendi exists to presence the very forces which subvert this assumed consensus. The Order is a societal, and thus cosmic, nexus – returning the Dark Ones to Earth once more; and furthering the magickally cyclic forces of the macrocosm.
The Order is structured around seven grades:
The grade of Oblate is a novitiate position that signifies membership to the Order has not been finalized. At this level the professed Brother or Sister familiarize themselves with the Order's introductory texts.
An Initiate has full membership to the Order. They then begin to practice various 'occult' techniques which reveal the shadow-self.
The grade of External Adept is that of a magickally competent Initiate: and at this level, they should be conversant with the Order's esoteric doctrine as contained with Fyr Weges and various other Hermetick MSS.
The Internal Adept performs a more active role within the 'inner' Order; while becoming familiar with 'Forms', Aeonics, the Sinister Dialectic, and the relationship between them all.
Priests aid both the Order and the Sinister Dialectic: by adding to the Order's cannon and creating, via various media, Sinister Forms for dissemination within the 'public domain'. A Priesthood is by invitation of the Grand Master in recognition of the member's efforts on behalf of the Order and its goals.
The Grand Master, or Mistress, represents the organizational head of the Order and is responsible for the direction and development of the Order as a whole.
Aeturnus: Brothers and Sisters whose causal existence has ended.
Only the grades of Initiate and Priest are awarded by an Order official – all other grades are attained by the individual; there are no 'tokens' of achievement, only progress.
Any Order member may establish an Order Temple, and thus become Magister or Magistra Templi, with the object of (a) magickally manipulating a causal form; and (b) spreading the teachings of the Order. The Magister or Magistra Templi is the sole authority for the Temple and its members; only they can found, and administer or close the Temple.
The purpose of an Order Temple is to further The Sinister Dialectic, through the vehicle of Traditional Satanism: that is, the Tradition, as revealed by Ordo Sinistra Vivendi and its affiliated Orders. This means the Temple must practice the rites, and services, of the OSV, as prescribed by the various Order MSS.
There are no restrictions placed upon Order members – for this would be sham Satanism of a type unworthy of existence. Traditional Satanism is founded on a 'Master-Morality' from whence comes an individual ethos, an inherent morality, derived from personal experience and honour.
Ordo Sinistra Vivendi
New Moon IX 1996 ev

By mid-1996 various factors lead the OSV to once again rename itself. This time the death of the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi saw the emergence of the Order of the Deorc Fyre (ODF – Order of the Dark Fire).

Soon after this an alliance between the Order of the Deorc Fyre, the Order of the Nine Angles, and The Black Order, formally acknowledged as a Black Axis. This alliance was an act of defiance against predominantly American Left Hand Path groups (such as the Temple of Set, and the Church of Satan) who were attempting to make Satanism "acceptable". The Temple of Set had forbidden their member from any involvement with the Order of Nine Angles due to the latter's advocating human sacrifice.

The ODF withdrew from the public in late 1997.

Sinistra Vivendi

Philosophy

By Ordo Sinistra Vivendi (1994)

The conceptions of the Left Hand and Right Hand paths within Western occultism are based on misunderstanding. This arises from the West’s incorporation into its collective unconscious of the Zoroastrian/Judaeo-Christian belief in moral dualism: two opposing forces of good and evil.
This dualism has created a split not only in the collective unconscious of the West, but within the individual. The pagan cultures were not encumbered with this dualism: they lived attuned to nature as totality.

Western occultists have dualized the Left Hand and Right Hand paths, making the former representative of evil (in the moral sense) and the latter representative of humanity as “good and spiritual.” The original meanings of the two paths are:

Left Hand Path: Anima/Yin, the feminine principle in the universe, intuitive, receptive, dark.

Right Hand Path: Animus/Yang, the male principle, logic, active, light. As they are symbolic of how nature operates they are not moral dualities, but interacting polarities. When nature, the individual, or the collective unconscious of a culture incorporate both the anima and animus as a totality rather than as conflicting opposites, there is balance.

In the East, Taoism illustrated this interaction by the Yin/Yang symbol ☯ which shows each containing the seed of its polarity. Jung adopted this concept of anima and animus into his analytical psychology. The aim is to unite the polarities within the individual rather than repressing one, to create a whole being, a balanced person: this is called individuation and is comparable to the
occultist’s aim of Adeptship.

The Gnostics had a deity which unified the polarities within itself. Jung wrote of this deity Abraxas, thus:

“Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void... The power of Abraxas is two-fold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished. What the sun-god speaketh is life. What the devil speaketh is death. But Abraxas
speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore Abraxas is terrible. It is splendid as the lion in the same instant it striketh down its victim. It is beautiful as a day in spring. It is the abundance which seeks a union with emptiness. It is love and love’s murder. It is the saint and his betrayer. It is the brightest light of day, and the darkest of madness.

God dwelleth behind the sun, the devil behind the night. What god bringeth forth out of the light the devil sucketh into the night. But Abraxas is the world, its becoming and its passing. Upon every gift that cometh from the sun-god the devil layeth his curse. Everything that yea entreat from the sun-god begetteth a deed from the devil. Everything that ye create with the sun-god, giveth effective power to the devil. That is terrible Abraxas. It is the delight of the earth, and the cruelty of the heavens.
Before it there is no question and no reply.”

SATAN
The Sinister Way recognises the need to restore balance through opposition (heresy); to create through destruction. The archetype of opposition to stasis and conformity best known in the West is
Satan. It is from Hebrew word meaning “adversary and accuser.” It is an archetype that exists probably in all cultures as a reflection of the universe itself. The universe is in a constant state of flux. So far from it being an orderly, predictable ‘cosmos’, it functions chaotically. This is the basis of evolution; what physics calls entropy. It is symbolized in many cultures throughout the
world by the world serpent eating its own tail. It is the All-Creator and the All-Destroyer.

The Tantrics in the East express this entropic idea in the goddess Kali. She is the energizing force of the universe. The god Shiva represents the cosmos. Tantra states: “Shiva without Shakti (Kali) is a corpse.” In the Germanic cosmology Loki, Fenrir, Surt, Garm and the World Serpent are the entropic forces which destroy the old order at the battle of Ragnarok. The cataclysm results in a new pantheon, a new earth and a new humanity. Thus the sinister forces are the catalyst for change, without which there would be stasis and death.

The poet William Blake wrote:
“Without contraries there would be no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call good and evil. Good is the passive that obeys reason. Evil is the active springing from energy.”[1]

The philosopher Paul Carus stated it this way:
“Satan produces unrest in society, which in spite of many inconveniences, makes the world move onward and forward. He is the patron of progress, investigation and invention. Galileo and other men of science were regarded as his offspring and persecuted on his account by the Church. The devil is the father of all misunderstood geniuses. It is he who begets originality of thought and deed. He is the spirit of discontent that embitters our hearts, but in the end often leads to a better arrangement of affairs.”[2]

THE SINISTER WAY
Sinister from Latin translates as “on the left”. It was regarded as symbolizing that which goes against the norm, the conventional. The O.L.H.P. uses the expression “on the left” to indicate the recognition of entropy as the energizing factor in the universe, as opposed to stasis, while incorporating both the Left and Right Hand path - anima and animus - within that context. The Sinister way is that which sets itself in opposition to the stagnant, and the decay that results. It favours that which renews and revitalizes. It is the accuser of that which stifles evolution through moral, religious and political dogma. In a word, it is: heresy.

THE PENTAGRAM
The symbol of the O.S.V. is the two-points up pentagram containing the head of a goat, surrounded
by the self-devouring world serpent. This pentagram containing the goat represents the carnality of humankind: Man as animal, as a part of nature, subject to its laws, rather than separated from
nature as the spiritual religions believe. The goat itself is an apt symbol, a creature which is individualistic rather than herd-like. Even the Christians use it to symbolize the parting of humanity with the flock of Christian sheep separated on the right, and the non-conformist goats on the left. It is also symbolic of the Greek god Pan, the All-Destroyer, All-Creator, half-man, half-goat god.

MAN AS ANIMAL
Anti-nature dogmas such as Judaeo-Christianity state that man is separate from nature. Satanism holds that man is part of nature, an animal whose motivations are genetically based as are all animals. This, the modern sciences of genetics, ethology and sociobiology verify. The instinct is still paramount, whatever level of man’s rationality and however hard he may try to over-ride his instinctual drives through religion, etc. The intellect is a subordinate tool of the instinct, which is inherited and primal. At the base of human nature is still the limbic brain, the most primitive part of the cerebral organ, which may be called the ‘serpent brain’. It is the limbic which modern science affirms is responsible for the choices an individual makes. Thus the Satanic conception of human
behaviour are predominantly genetically-based. Therefore the individual can be no more than what he is genetically-endowed with. However, he can be less than his genetic potential if repressed by influences which are not in accord with his true nature (True Will or Higher Self), by religious dogmas for example. The result is neurosis or worse.

Satanism unfolds the real nature - Will - of the individual; what the ancient Greeks called physis, and what the satanic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called Self-Overcoming.

SATANIC ETHOS
The Satanist frees himself from the bondage of dogma; he unfolds that which he IS. Man the animal, with the Life-force flowing freely through him, is the antithesis of the self-destructive nihilist pseudo-satanists claim themselves to be, as rationalization for their own inherent weaknesses. What animal consumes drugs and alcohol to the point of self-destruction? What animal deliberately poisons itself? Only man does this, with his so-called ‘higher consciousness’, over-riding the healthy instinct of his animal self. What is evil? That which weakens. What is good? That which strengthens, the
individual, to paraphrase Nietzsch

What of the Satanist’s code of conduct? To hear the pseudo-satanists one would say, the Satanist has no code of conduct other than to do whatever one likes, regardless of consequences; i.e. sociopathology. We say, on the contrary, the Satanist has a personal code of honour, arising from inward conviction. Again, at the base is the instinct - genetics. A recidivist will always remain criminal no matter what ‘rehabilitation’ efforts are made to change his inner nature. The dullard will always remain unintelligent despite the money that could be lavished on his ‘education’. An inwardly honourable person will react to a situation on the basis of his instinct. The Satanist does not need the fear of God, the worry of rewards and punishments dispensed by a deity to act honourably; his conduct is governed from within, not from without.

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REFERENCES
1. Blake, W. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell.
2. Carus, P. The History of the Devil & the Idea of Evil. Open Court Publishing,
USA, 1974.

Operational Dialectics: Utilizing the Enemy

By Kerry Bolton

It is time to re-evaluate the effectiveness of attacking certain symptoms of Europe's decline head-on, and consider how the virus might be reformulated as a medicine. Can what is killing us be transmuted into something that can bring us back to life?

The traditional, conservative "Old Right", of which I do not think the OJB can be a part, has generally attempted to take its enemies head-on and has failed in the process. Fortunately, a
"New Right" has emerged in Europe which is dialectical, and has not started from ANY ideological preconceptions. It is "NEW" in the sense of dispensing with old Right dichotomies, yet its dialectical approach parallels that of original fascism. Of course, Fascism was born not of the Old Right of its own time, but of its own synthesis.

Christianity

From a dialectical perspective perhaps it is time for Pagans, including Satanists, to rethink their polemics against Christianity, especially when anti-Christianism becomes a preoccupation, obscuring the realities of history and the development of positive and effective strategies.
Satanism is still too much in the clutches of Church and Hollywood stereotypes, and renders itself irrelevant to the struggle for European rebirth. It too often sees itself ultimately engaged in a Biblical Armageddon scenario against the mass forces of Christianity. Thus the Satanist will, "on principle" eschew any association with Christians, however nominal their Christianity, who are fighting for European rebirth. They will refrain from joining any European Nationalist movements and parties, merely because some leader might make occasional referances to Christian Civilization, or adopt some Christian symbol which has been thoroughly imbued with the traditional essence of a nation, and often has pre-Christian origins anyway.

Thereby European-oriented Satanists and other Pagans put themselves on the sidelines, while the nominal "Christians" do the front-line fighting. What is to be offered in return? Satanist political parties? Satan or the hustings? A grand vision of a pentagram being unfurled over Europe after some imagined armageddon?

Fascism

Think dialectically. When the church sought to convert Pagan Europe, it soon gave up trying to ban Pagan festivals, slandering Pagan heroes and deities, destroying Pagan symbols. Rather its real successes came by co-opting Pagan aspects to subvert Pagans. The old Pagan heroes became Christian "Saints" such as St. George, Pagan symbols such as the Celtic cross became Church symbols, and of course the Pagan festivals such as Yule and Easter became Christian festivals.
But despite the tremendous damage done to Europe by Christianity, and the fundamental way Europe was hijacked from its destiny, the process was not entirely one way. Blood will out, and Christianity was itself not immune to the impress of European race and culture. A Gothic Christianity emerged re-expressing the old Pagan ethos of honour and duty as "chivalry". "Christian" became synonymous with European, especially relative to "outsiders" such as the Muslim and the Jew. Learned "Christian" teachers such as Meister Eckhart expressed fundamentally Germanic mystical concepts of Godhood. The Guildmen left their Pagan "Masons Marks" (including pentagrams and Runes) on the Cathedrals they built.

Those who saw European rebirth realistically had to do so within the context of this tradition. As deplorable as it might be, we must deal with facts rather than wishful thinking.

Fascism was essentially a Pagan resurgence. Mussolini and Gentile explained it basically as a grand synthesis of all the major currents of European thought. Thus the most avid traditionalist and the most fanatical futurist were encompassed within the same movement, and both contributed to a new Fascist culture. Whilst the ethos that was revived was undoubtedly, robustly, Roman, Fascism also healed the breech between the state and the Vatican, without which there could be no national unity.
Even the NSDAP programme made mention of "positive Christianity", as a means of countering materialism, seen as the "Jewish spirit from within and without". Hitler often used the term "Christian" as synonymous for German and Aryan, as distinct from Jewish. Rosenburg considered ways in which a Germanic Christianity could be established in the tradition of such heretics as Eckart, and by replacing the Old Testament with the sagas, and purging the New of the influence of Paul.

Yet, to Hitler, it was "the same old Jewish swindle", and Rosenburg eventually advocated a Reich Church which would replace the Bible with Mein Kampf, and the crucifix with the sword and swastika. But for the most part they had to speak the language of the common folk. A head-on attack against Christianity would have divided the folk still further along religious lines. Hitler rightly saw Christianity as senile, a dying creed, and believed a new generation with a new folkish faith, would replace the old, making Christianity defunct within a few generations.

Many Fascist movements developed from Catholic reform movements per se. This is not to accept the idiotic notion of these mostly American "Libertarian Satanists" (sic) who consider Fascism itself as Christian. Rather the Catholic Church continued to embody certain European traditions, such as the Guild method of social organization, which developed into Corporativist policy of Fascism. Examples include Father Coughlin, the American "radio priest" who formed a Fascist Mass following in Depression America (ultimately to be silenced by his Church superiors). Adrian Arcand in Canada started as a Catholic journalist and went on to form a National Socialist Party (for which he was jailed during the war). Likewise, Leon Degrelle in Belgium started the Rexist Movement. Yet to hear some Pagans and Satanists, who profess faith in Europe, someone like Degrelle (highly decorated Waffen SS hero, of whom Hitler said if he'd had a son he'd wish him to be just like Degrelle) would be dismissed as one of the "Christian Enemy"!

Dialectical

There are yet others who adopted the full trappings of their Nations' religious tradition whilst espousing some form of Fascism, and did so in a conscious, dialectical manner. Even Charles Maurras, founder of "Action Francais" during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was himself an Atheist. Yet his own movement, a precursor of French Fascism, was considered as traditional Catholic. In the same country, in our time, Le Pens National Front celebrates Joan de Arc as their Patron Saint in massive demonstrations of French Nationalism. Le Pen calls for the defence of "Christian Civilization" as synonymous with European Civilization. Yet Le Pen himself (according to his ex-wife) will not have a crucifix in the house, and has stated he'd rather have his children educated by socialists than Catholic Priests.

Reclaiming Our Heritage

The most effective way of reclaiming our heritage from the Christians is not to direct anti-Christian invective towards an indifferent or hostile public, or to alienate fellow Nationalists. It is to adopt the Churches original tactic. Just as the Church subverted Pagan Europe by hijacking its symbols and Heroes; Pagans might consider how a Gothic Christianity can be utilized in the service of Europe, while expressing a fundamentally Pagan character of European Nationalism, whatever its fundamental Christian trappings. Simultaneously, this does not mean that Pagans must abandon their creeds or refrain from presenting them as integral to the ultimate destiny of Europe. The European New Right, particularly influential among French intellectual and cultural circles, from the start rejected "Judeo Christianity" in favour of "Indo Europeanism" with a particular affinity to Ancient Greece. Certain movements, such as C.Bouches "Nouvelle Resistance", are anti-Christian and cultivate esoteric links.

A two-pronged strategy should be pursued, using the emerging European Nationalist Parties, whatever their Christian facade; whilst continuing to propagate the ultimate vision of a Pagan Europe. Whatever Christianity many Nationalists claim to profess, the very fact of their Nationalism is a repudation of Christian dogma, which is nothing but universalist and egalitarian.

The options are many, when a simplified dichotomy is abandoned. Perhaps we can apply the "Bach Remedy" to politics, and use a little of the poison to obtain a cure?

Dualism and the Cycles of Time

By Kerry Bolton

The moral dogma that has infected Western Civilization since its beginning is a Judaic DUALISM inherited from Zoroastrianism and brought in by the virus of Christianity. Dualism states that there is a battle being fought in both the spiritual and earthly realms (and even within every individual) between two opposites, "good and evil." Not only has this Dualism subverted our Culture, it has turned the individual into a split personality: this is the result of repressing what is considered 'evil' about one's nature by moral and religious dogmas.

Cycles of Time

Before this dualism was implanted, pagan societies didn't label natural forces with such absolute moral attributes. There were creative and destructive forces in Nature, often symbolized as gods. But even the destructive aspects had creative purposes, and were part of a transcendent cosmic unity.

For example, in what moral context can we place Indo-Aryan deities such as Shiva and Kali? To the Western dualized mind they would be considered 'evil' because of their primal destructiveness. But to the Hindus, retaining the ancient Aryan wisdom, they were 'beyond good and evil.' They comprise both the creative and destructive aspects of Nature in their various forms and roles. Even their destructive roles are a vital part of a cosmic cyclical process of CREATION-DESTRUCTION-RENEWAL: Shiva in his Cosmic Dance of Destruction clears the way for another round of history's ancient Cycles.

Ragnarök

The Germans and Norse, like their Indo-Aryan kinsfolk, also had this cyclical cosmology. The destruction brought by Ragnarök is the prelude to a new Earth, new humanity, new heaven, and even a new pantheon of gods. The gods themselves cannot avoid their Fate, for without the destruction by Ragnarök there would be stagnation and decay.

The dark forces of Loki, Fenrir, Surt, Garm, and Iormungandr are catalysts for Change; thus the cycle continues: creation-destruction-renewal. This is the inexorable process that can be observed in both History and Nature.

The Aryan Persians before Zoroastrianism had a conception of interplay between the Light and Dark forces which were seen as two aspects of Zervan, Lord of Time—the Light of Ahura Mazda and the Dark of Ahriman were both emanations of Zervan. Zoroastrianism divided these two into moral opposites separated from the Time Lord. It is from here that Judaism and ultimately Christianity got their dualism, which has afflicted the West.

Some of the Gnostic sects rejected Dualism and restored the ancient wisdom in the deity Abraxas, who united all polarities within himself. The psychologist Carl Jung turned to Abraxas when considering the interrelationship that exists between polarities in Nature.

Individuation

Jung revived the ancient wisdom with modem scientific methods and terms, but drawing much from pre- and non- Christian cultures and Medieval Alchemy. He sought to unify the polarities within the individual to create the whole person (called 'individuation') no longer cut off from his repressed so-called 'evil' shadow self. This 'individuation' of Jungian psychology is also akin to the occultists' quest for adeptship.

Jung was concerned with how a neurotic Christian civilization could be brought back to the completeness of pagan times. He saw the need to allow the repressed barbarian lurking within modem man to resurface and find a modem expression—thus his support for National Socialist Germany as an expression of the repressed Shadow Self of the Germans, symbolized as Wotan.

Christianized Neopagans

Judeo-Christian moral dualism is now so deep-seated within the Western psyche that even those Pagans who think they are outside the Christian context are as dualized as any Christling. These "Neopagans" (sic) have made internationalists and pacifists out of tribal war gods! Where warrior attributes cannot be ignored, they have been transformed into "the way of the peaceful warrior" (puke!).Tyr, Thor, and Odin have been castrated. The 'neopagans' have simply made the Old Gods reflections of their own dualized half-selves. They have repressed as 'evil' the Dark aspects. These 'neopagans' are worse than useless; they are another aspect of the dualism that is driving the European folk to self-destruction. Even many (most?) of the harder-line 'Odinists' have a cosmology that is essentially Christian. They have dualized the Aesir and the Jotuns into contending moral forces of "good vs. evil." Odin (or Baldur) is their Jesus. Loki is their Satan. Ragnarök is their Armageddon. The whole significance of Indo-European cyclical cosmology has been rendered null and void.

The Pagan heritage has been dualized... Christianized!

There are some Pagans, however, who continue to honor the ancient wisdom. They see the Cosmos as an interplay of polarities, not as a battlefield of moral dualities. It is this that is the basis of evolution. Without this catalyst mankind slips back into the nebulous mass from which he evolved. It is just such a degraded state that the religions and moralities of decay are dragging us towards. Let our path be starbound.  

Hail Odin! Hail Loki!