I acknowledge your inspirational message. We need renewal of culture not cancel culture nihilism or brave new world idealism or white guilt redemptionism. Ok, count me in. But, sadly, that's easier said than done. Has anybody actually seen such a revivifying political/cultural movement?
All I've seen are Trump's MAGA and Jared Taylor's American Renaissance. Neither are particularly cultural and more importantly both are cucked from the get-go. Protection of the small hats, but not so much the common peeps who support these front men.
I can't offer any contemporary artistic movement that aims at cultural renewal. Maybe others have seen such a glimpse. But what w/ the control of the cultural commissars, it's unlikely art or music would be permitted to coalesce around anything truly positive to white folk.
He attempts to connect our pre-Judeo-Christian past to a Gaian Gnostic future, as if Magi wisdom had actually seeded Western Civ. If you're serious about a direction for renewal and can read 400 pages of serious, non-academic prose, check it out. Don't think you'll be disappointed.
Is it anti-patriarchal? Maybe. But it's not feminist by any stretch. Gaian gnosticism accepts the earth, the biosphere, as a sentient being, an immanent goddess. However, she's not a solo act. Her consort and colleagues (aeons) remain in the pleroma, galaxy central. Yes, there's a sci-fi dimension to this. True fiction, if you will. I know that doesn't sound exactly sober. Perhaps it's not. Just saying NIHI would be worth a read. If you're serious about mythology, a mythogen is what Lash calls a foundational myth. We need a better one badly.
We've inherited the Hebraic narrative of Genesis which Christianity and Islam have reinforced. The gnostics left behind clues to a different cosmogony. Lash has tried to assemble them into a coherent mythogen. How he gets to that alt-mythology is the focus of NIHI.
Actually, I vaguely remember reading his book and watching his Sophia origin story video on YouTube. I've consumed so much New Age content over the years that it all blurs in my mind, sorry. I remember him equating patriarchy with competition and violence and arguing for a need to move to a matriarchal sharing model. Such a thing is too revolting to even consider.
Not sure what book you read, but am pretty sure the video you saw was Lila Tresemer's Sophia Creation Story. She and her husband are kind of New Age. John Lash isn't remotely. His politics are hard right but unconventional like yours.
From Goodreads: "Long before the birth of Christianity, monotheism was an anomaly; Europe and the Near East flourished under the divine guidance of Sophia, the ancient goddess of wisdom. The Earth was the embodiment of Sophia and thus sacred to the people who sought fulfillment in her presence. This ancient philosophy was threatening to the emerging salvation-based creed of Christianity that was based on patriarchal dominion over the Earth and lauded personal suffering as a path to the afterlife."
Seems like feminism with a mystic garb to me.
If anything, the correct position to take is that Sophia is a single-mom who birthed a bastard and is to blame for all of our problems.
Seems you didn't actually read NIHI, rather Lash's blurb in Goodreads and from this quick summation took instant aversion to his theological narrative. Then you mistakenly conflated him w/ the Tresemers as fellow liberal New Agers. This wasn't an adequate introduction to a political vision much closer to your own than you imagine.
Our two terms of contention might be feminism and patriarchy. You hate the former and embrace the latter. While I also find feminism repellent as an NWO trap, I don't think ancient goddess worship equates to modern Judeo-Masonic gnosticism as you seem to have concluded. As to patriarchy, I'm ambivalent. The expression of it in the Old Testament which forms the bulk of our inherited mythogen, at least the dominant Hebraic part of it, is likewise repellent to me. The patriarchal pantheons of pagan cultures hold more allure, but have their own questionable aspects. (Don't we all.) How and why the changeover from matriarchy to patriarchy occurred is an interesting subject. Probably not that germane to this forum.
Love the Slavic directness of your "correct position." Allow me and Lash a tweak or two. Sophia is our single mom who birthed a couple of bastards (both archons and anthropos). She was responsible for our situation because her fall into the galactic hinterlands created our archontic rivals who have chosen the Chosen as their boots on the ground to eradicate us.
Superb. Femen is an example of how skillful the Jews are at weaponizing the dark side of the Divine Feminine archetype. Our peoples are beginning to awaken to this - from soccer moms yelling at school boards, to Jordan Peterson taking the helm at Ralston College, to the exposure of Twitter by Elon Musk, and the wave of emotionalism accompanying the potential reversal of Roe vs Wade, the European Oversoul is re-awakening. We will align ourselves to life-force energy, and learn to see those who align with the death culture clearly. Russia didn't just start a Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - she launched a great mission of truth exposure that is now unstoppable. Edgar Cayce - "From Russia comes the hope of the World."
"Lifeforce energy"? God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days for his own good pleasure. Why did he take so long? To set the example for mankind, steward of the earth, to work six days and rest one. Adam, breaking one simple command, brought death into the perfect creation. God in the person of Jesus provided escape from eternal damnation.
Pretty simple. When people choose to deny creation, especially "bright" people such as Bertrand Russell and Stephen Hawking, they spew science fiction such as parallel universes and quantum fluctuations as their explanation of the origin of the universe and the origin of life. In spite of the obvious intentional design and instantaneous creation of living things the Darwin's speculations are substituted as fact. Having eyes they see not.
Just for the record, Judaism is not "primitive Christianity". They are extremely hostile to Jesus being the Christ, the long awaited Messiah who would save man from the penalty of disobeying God. The Jews rejected the Torah, the Old Testament, in favor of their Talmud, their traditions, which Jesus pointed out to them contradicted the law of God.
What is the law of God? Glad you asked! It is exactly what was delivered to Moses in Exodus 20 including the case law in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the New Testament minus the ceremonial and sacrificial laws abrogated by Jesus' advent and his propitiatory sacrifice of himself. The dietary laws were nullified by God in the vision to the Apostle Peter. For example, by God's law sexual deviants are to be stoned to death - and I don't mean smoking weed - the moment they are identified.
It was the Jews who persecuted Christians with virulent hatred. They have never stopped. God ended his most favored nation status of Israel - Jerusalem and the Temple - in A.D. 70 using the very Romans the Jews used to crucify the Son of God. The "Israel" that exists today is a counterfeit of the Israel that was. Founded by terrorists who became Prime Ministers, today's "Israel" is perhaps more unholy than officially atheist Communist republics. Israel never was the Theocratic example to the world that it was called to be and the Israel of today was not called at all.
I wish some Russian and English speaker would finish translating Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together". Just the chapters I have been able to get are fascinating. No wonder the translation is suppressed. Martin Luther wrote "The Jews and Their Lies" back in 1543 and I only recently heard of it. The truth doesn't need any statutes to defend it, so why is it illegal to point out there is no evidence of a "holocaust" or to point out that Jews were not the only ones to suffer in WWII and evidently did not suffer much at all? Hitler's "Final Solution" was to ship all Jews out of Europe to the Island of Madagascar where they could be prevented from eroding civilization.
The Old Testament deity - God, loves mankind enough to endure the eternal punishment mankind deserves. Abraham was father of many nations. The Jews don't like to hear that, but that's the Old Testament promise. Also, we are conceived in iniquity, too bad but that's what Adam did to all his progeny and it's our nature. God elects whom he will for salvation.
But more to the point, how do you answer the question of origins - the origin of the universe and the origin of life? Quantum fluctuations is not an answer or a process and elements (how did heavy elements originate) organizing themselves into the most complex and fragile structure in the universe - a cell - just start reproducing and selecting for incorporation what does not exist is not an answer either.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy your sarcastic style of writing and most particularly your knowledge of the Russia people and international politics and history. Thank you very much.
Very nice. Your concept of Tradition as that which does not pass but always returns in the spiritual life of a people, is identical to Dominique Venner's formulation. Have you read his last book, "A Handbook for Dissidents"?
Excellent essay as always you get to the heart of the matter and and pull no punches. Very rare in these twisted dystopian times. My observations tell me that much of the new generation is starting to get fed up with WOKE, Antifa, BLM and CRT. Even people you'd think don't fit the mold of nationalist, tattoo covered, piercings, dyed hair can surprise you. Many are nationalistic, want to start their own businesses and see themselves as free spirits more than anything else. The flip side of this would be cultural Marxists that wear business suits and present themselves as "mainstream" but have an alt-left globalist, anti-nationalist oligarchic agenda. I've written before that we need a "people's community" some would call it a "people's socialism" perhaps but not a Marxian socialism. It would be based on shared culture, values, mystic beliefs, societal organization and the belief that we are all from the same tribe and our standard is one for all, all for one, not all for me and screw you. We don't need "diversity" AKA appeal to the lowest common denominator not to offend feelings. Whenever I think of this I'm reminded of the 1975 song "Feelings" by Morris Albert "Feelings nothing more than feelings" yes empty emotion without substance. The only way any outcast minority (often for good reason) and in you essay Jews, can gain power and influence is by weakening and denigrating the majority culture. If the culture is united it can't be broken. So first you must trash it, demean it, point out (using CRT or the works of Howard Zinn the late unlamented unrepentant Stalinist) only it's pitfalls, never it's positive attributes, and replace it with a mulligan stew of cultural nihilism. Such destruction of the west was recognized by as disparate of people from the opera composer Richard Wagner I recommend not only his music which is absolutely amazing, also his essay "Das Judenthum in der Musik" and the reflections of the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin on the Jews. More modern works are Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique", E. Michael Jones' "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and it's Impact on World History" (I don't agree with everything Jones write about but here he's very sharply focused.) I would also (and this may surprise some of you and others reading this, the classic "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac believed people should enjoy their culture, travel and observe (not necessarily adopt other cultures) and experience life. Then find your place. Although he hung out with radicals Kerouac eventually broke with them. Such as the overrated leftist degenerate late unlamented Allen Ginsburg. Kerouac was neither left WOKE nor PC by anyone's yardstick. What's happening in the Ukraine is a tragedy. Such talented people, beautiful women are being turned into western style WOKE fools sleep walking into their own degeneration and destruction, while their puppet masters pull their strings. Only Russia has held out among the west along with Hungary, Poland is on the fence. What's needed is a nationalist party that brings the will of the cultural majority to power. Minorities can live in such a society in peace and security so long as they don't try to wreck or dismantle the said society. Minorities have rights absolutely however so do majorities. And majorities should not have to bend over backwards to assuage the hurt feelings of a small minority of shrill nihilistic misanthropes. If we can accomplish this we need not fear any challenges from within or outside our borders.
"For the most part, the peasants can preserve the culture that has been handed down to them in at least some symbolic capacity. But over time, they lose touch with the original meaning and purpose of the culture that has been bequeathed to them, altering and reformatting it as they go until they finally lose it almost all together, as has happened now."
"If there isn’t a positive, self-affirming culture in place, enterprising individuals with large noses and small hats will place a negative, self-destructive culture in its place."
We need to stop patronizing elite culture and express what WE rather than some elite, with only a peripheral cultural commonality with the rest of us, would prefer. Cultivating an interest in classical art, music and religion, and eschewing the commercialism of Sony and Disney, might be a start.
I acknowledge your inspirational message. We need renewal of culture not cancel culture nihilism or brave new world idealism or white guilt redemptionism. Ok, count me in. But, sadly, that's easier said than done. Has anybody actually seen such a revivifying political/cultural movement?
All I've seen are Trump's MAGA and Jared Taylor's American Renaissance. Neither are particularly cultural and more importantly both are cucked from the get-go. Protection of the small hats, but not so much the common peeps who support these front men.
I can't offer any contemporary artistic movement that aims at cultural renewal. Maybe others have seen such a glimpse. But what w/ the control of the cultural commissars, it's unlikely art or music would be permitted to coalesce around anything truly positive to white folk.
All I can offer is the work of John Lash, an American, self-taught, comparative mythologist ex-pat living in Spain, who's written one hell of a book. https://www.amazon.com/Not-His-Image-15th-Anniversary-dp-164502136X/dp/164502136X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
He attempts to connect our pre-Judeo-Christian past to a Gaian Gnostic future, as if Magi wisdom had actually seeded Western Civ. If you're serious about a direction for renewal and can read 400 pages of serious, non-academic prose, check it out. Don't think you'll be disappointed.
I'm not sure what Gaian gnosticism is, but it sounds rather vaginal.
Real art is sourced from mysticism though.
Is it anti-patriarchal? Maybe. But it's not feminist by any stretch. Gaian gnosticism accepts the earth, the biosphere, as a sentient being, an immanent goddess. However, she's not a solo act. Her consort and colleagues (aeons) remain in the pleroma, galaxy central. Yes, there's a sci-fi dimension to this. True fiction, if you will. I know that doesn't sound exactly sober. Perhaps it's not. Just saying NIHI would be worth a read. If you're serious about mythology, a mythogen is what Lash calls a foundational myth. We need a better one badly.
We've inherited the Hebraic narrative of Genesis which Christianity and Islam have reinforced. The gnostics left behind clues to a different cosmogony. Lash has tried to assemble them into a coherent mythogen. How he gets to that alt-mythology is the focus of NIHI.
Actually, I vaguely remember reading his book and watching his Sophia origin story video on YouTube. I've consumed so much New Age content over the years that it all blurs in my mind, sorry. I remember him equating patriarchy with competition and violence and arguing for a need to move to a matriarchal sharing model. Such a thing is too revolting to even consider.
Not sure what book you read, but am pretty sure the video you saw was Lila Tresemer's Sophia Creation Story. She and her husband are kind of New Age. John Lash isn't remotely. His politics are hard right but unconventional like yours.
From Goodreads: "Long before the birth of Christianity, monotheism was an anomaly; Europe and the Near East flourished under the divine guidance of Sophia, the ancient goddess of wisdom. The Earth was the embodiment of Sophia and thus sacred to the people who sought fulfillment in her presence. This ancient philosophy was threatening to the emerging salvation-based creed of Christianity that was based on patriarchal dominion over the Earth and lauded personal suffering as a path to the afterlife."
Seems like feminism with a mystic garb to me.
If anything, the correct position to take is that Sophia is a single-mom who birthed a bastard and is to blame for all of our problems.
Seems you didn't actually read NIHI, rather Lash's blurb in Goodreads and from this quick summation took instant aversion to his theological narrative. Then you mistakenly conflated him w/ the Tresemers as fellow liberal New Agers. This wasn't an adequate introduction to a political vision much closer to your own than you imagine.
Our two terms of contention might be feminism and patriarchy. You hate the former and embrace the latter. While I also find feminism repellent as an NWO trap, I don't think ancient goddess worship equates to modern Judeo-Masonic gnosticism as you seem to have concluded. As to patriarchy, I'm ambivalent. The expression of it in the Old Testament which forms the bulk of our inherited mythogen, at least the dominant Hebraic part of it, is likewise repellent to me. The patriarchal pantheons of pagan cultures hold more allure, but have their own questionable aspects. (Don't we all.) How and why the changeover from matriarchy to patriarchy occurred is an interesting subject. Probably not that germane to this forum.
Love the Slavic directness of your "correct position." Allow me and Lash a tweak or two. Sophia is our single mom who birthed a couple of bastards (both archons and anthropos). She was responsible for our situation because her fall into the galactic hinterlands created our archontic rivals who have chosen the Chosen as their boots on the ground to eradicate us.
Superb. Femen is an example of how skillful the Jews are at weaponizing the dark side of the Divine Feminine archetype. Our peoples are beginning to awaken to this - from soccer moms yelling at school boards, to Jordan Peterson taking the helm at Ralston College, to the exposure of Twitter by Elon Musk, and the wave of emotionalism accompanying the potential reversal of Roe vs Wade, the European Oversoul is re-awakening. We will align ourselves to life-force energy, and learn to see those who align with the death culture clearly. Russia didn't just start a Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - she launched a great mission of truth exposure that is now unstoppable. Edgar Cayce - "From Russia comes the hope of the World."
"Lifeforce energy"? God - Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - created the earth, the universe, living things, and mankind in six days for his own good pleasure. Why did he take so long? To set the example for mankind, steward of the earth, to work six days and rest one. Adam, breaking one simple command, brought death into the perfect creation. God in the person of Jesus provided escape from eternal damnation.
Pretty simple. When people choose to deny creation, especially "bright" people such as Bertrand Russell and Stephen Hawking, they spew science fiction such as parallel universes and quantum fluctuations as their explanation of the origin of the universe and the origin of life. In spite of the obvious intentional design and instantaneous creation of living things the Darwin's speculations are substituted as fact. Having eyes they see not.
Just for the record, Judaism is not "primitive Christianity". They are extremely hostile to Jesus being the Christ, the long awaited Messiah who would save man from the penalty of disobeying God. The Jews rejected the Torah, the Old Testament, in favor of their Talmud, their traditions, which Jesus pointed out to them contradicted the law of God.
What is the law of God? Glad you asked! It is exactly what was delivered to Moses in Exodus 20 including the case law in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the New Testament minus the ceremonial and sacrificial laws abrogated by Jesus' advent and his propitiatory sacrifice of himself. The dietary laws were nullified by God in the vision to the Apostle Peter. For example, by God's law sexual deviants are to be stoned to death - and I don't mean smoking weed - the moment they are identified.
It was the Jews who persecuted Christians with virulent hatred. They have never stopped. God ended his most favored nation status of Israel - Jerusalem and the Temple - in A.D. 70 using the very Romans the Jews used to crucify the Son of God. The "Israel" that exists today is a counterfeit of the Israel that was. Founded by terrorists who became Prime Ministers, today's "Israel" is perhaps more unholy than officially atheist Communist republics. Israel never was the Theocratic example to the world that it was called to be and the Israel of today was not called at all.
I wish some Russian and English speaker would finish translating Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together". Just the chapters I have been able to get are fascinating. No wonder the translation is suppressed. Martin Luther wrote "The Jews and Their Lies" back in 1543 and I only recently heard of it. The truth doesn't need any statutes to defend it, so why is it illegal to point out there is no evidence of a "holocaust" or to point out that Jews were not the only ones to suffer in WWII and evidently did not suffer much at all? Hitler's "Final Solution" was to ship all Jews out of Europe to the Island of Madagascar where they could be prevented from eroding civilization.
>What is the law of God? Glad you asked!
I didn't, but OK.
>The truth doesn't need any statutes to defend it
OK, the Old Testament deity hates you and all Europeans (Edom/Esau).
The Old Testament deity - God, loves mankind enough to endure the eternal punishment mankind deserves. Abraham was father of many nations. The Jews don't like to hear that, but that's the Old Testament promise. Also, we are conceived in iniquity, too bad but that's what Adam did to all his progeny and it's our nature. God elects whom he will for salvation.
But more to the point, how do you answer the question of origins - the origin of the universe and the origin of life? Quantum fluctuations is not an answer or a process and elements (how did heavy elements originate) organizing themselves into the most complex and fragile structure in the universe - a cell - just start reproducing and selecting for incorporation what does not exist is not an answer either.
Creation.com, ICR.org are two excellent sites. They have search engines.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy your sarcastic style of writing and most particularly your knowledge of the Russia people and international politics and history. Thank you very much.
Very nice. Your concept of Tradition as that which does not pass but always returns in the spiritual life of a people, is identical to Dominique Venner's formulation. Have you read his last book, "A Handbook for Dissidents"?
Nope. I don't find the french Identitarian school that interesting.
Even if you are rediscovering some of their concepts? Consider de Benoist is the most annoying one. Venner was much better.
The one guy I've shameless cribbed from is Jonathon Bowden. I've read the Generation Identitaire manifesto, but nothing really stuck with me from it.
Would you like me to send you a complimentary copy of Venner's Handbook? I happen to be the editor and translator of the English edition.
Sure, rololives@protonmail.com
Great article, Rolo!
Excellent essay as always you get to the heart of the matter and and pull no punches. Very rare in these twisted dystopian times. My observations tell me that much of the new generation is starting to get fed up with WOKE, Antifa, BLM and CRT. Even people you'd think don't fit the mold of nationalist, tattoo covered, piercings, dyed hair can surprise you. Many are nationalistic, want to start their own businesses and see themselves as free spirits more than anything else. The flip side of this would be cultural Marxists that wear business suits and present themselves as "mainstream" but have an alt-left globalist, anti-nationalist oligarchic agenda. I've written before that we need a "people's community" some would call it a "people's socialism" perhaps but not a Marxian socialism. It would be based on shared culture, values, mystic beliefs, societal organization and the belief that we are all from the same tribe and our standard is one for all, all for one, not all for me and screw you. We don't need "diversity" AKA appeal to the lowest common denominator not to offend feelings. Whenever I think of this I'm reminded of the 1975 song "Feelings" by Morris Albert "Feelings nothing more than feelings" yes empty emotion without substance. The only way any outcast minority (often for good reason) and in you essay Jews, can gain power and influence is by weakening and denigrating the majority culture. If the culture is united it can't be broken. So first you must trash it, demean it, point out (using CRT or the works of Howard Zinn the late unlamented unrepentant Stalinist) only it's pitfalls, never it's positive attributes, and replace it with a mulligan stew of cultural nihilism. Such destruction of the west was recognized by as disparate of people from the opera composer Richard Wagner I recommend not only his music which is absolutely amazing, also his essay "Das Judenthum in der Musik" and the reflections of the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin on the Jews. More modern works are Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique", E. Michael Jones' "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and it's Impact on World History" (I don't agree with everything Jones write about but here he's very sharply focused.) I would also (and this may surprise some of you and others reading this, the classic "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac believed people should enjoy their culture, travel and observe (not necessarily adopt other cultures) and experience life. Then find your place. Although he hung out with radicals Kerouac eventually broke with them. Such as the overrated leftist degenerate late unlamented Allen Ginsburg. Kerouac was neither left WOKE nor PC by anyone's yardstick. What's happening in the Ukraine is a tragedy. Such talented people, beautiful women are being turned into western style WOKE fools sleep walking into their own degeneration and destruction, while their puppet masters pull their strings. Only Russia has held out among the west along with Hungary, Poland is on the fence. What's needed is a nationalist party that brings the will of the cultural majority to power. Minorities can live in such a society in peace and security so long as they don't try to wreck or dismantle the said society. Minorities have rights absolutely however so do majorities. And majorities should not have to bend over backwards to assuage the hurt feelings of a small minority of shrill nihilistic misanthropes. If we can accomplish this we need not fear any challenges from within or outside our borders.
"For the most part, the peasants can preserve the culture that has been handed down to them in at least some symbolic capacity. But over time, they lose touch with the original meaning and purpose of the culture that has been bequeathed to them, altering and reformatting it as they go until they finally lose it almost all together, as has happened now."
"If there isn’t a positive, self-affirming culture in place, enterprising individuals with large noses and small hats will place a negative, self-destructive culture in its place."
We need to stop patronizing elite culture and express what WE rather than some elite, with only a peripheral cultural commonality with the rest of us, would prefer. Cultivating an interest in classical art, music and religion, and eschewing the commercialism of Sony and Disney, might be a start.