Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

To the Hero of the Second World War

Foreword

This book is different from other books. First of all, it is only in form a book at all. In reality, it is a part of the life of action. It is a turning point in European history, a late turning-point, but a real one. There is nothing original in the content of this book, the book itself only is original. The craze for originality is a manifestation of decadence, and the decadence of Europe is the ascendancy of the Barbarian.

This is the first of a line of works - the political literature of Europe. Heretofore all political works on the imperative side have been addressed to one nation of Europe alone. Among other things, this book marks the death of Rationalism. It does not bring it about - not books but only the advance of History can accomplish anything of that sort - it merely rings its funeral knell. Thus the imperative side of Life returns to its pristine source, the will-to-power. Henceforth there will be no discussion of the world of action in terms of abstract casual thought.

This is addressed to all Europe, and in particular to the culture-bearing stratum of Europe. It summons Europe to a world-historical struggle of two centuries duration. Europe will partake in this struggle either as a participant, or as the booty for marauding powers from without. If it is to act, and not merely to suffer in this series of gigantic wars, it must be integrated, and there is only one way this can occur. The Western Culture is suffering from disease, and the prolongation of this disease is the prolonging of Chinese conditions in Europe.

The word Europe changes its meaning: from now on it means the Western Civilization, the organic unity which created as phases of its life the nation-ideas of Spain, Italy, France, England and Germany. These former nations are all dead; the era of political nationalism having passed. This has not happened through logical necessity, but through the organic advance of the History of the West. It is this organic necessity which is the source of our imperative, and of the integration of Europe. The significance of the organic is that its alternatives are either to do the necessary or to sicken and die for organic life has no other alternative.

The present chaos - 1948 - is directly traceable to the attempt to prevent the integration of Europe. As a result, Europe is in a swamp, and extra-European forces dispose of former European nations as their colonies.

In this book are the precise, organic foundations of the Western soul, and in particular, its Imperative at this present stage. Europe will become totally integrated, or it will pass entirely out of history, its people will be dispersed, its efforts and brains will be at the disposal forever of extra-European forces. This is shown herein, not by abstract materialistic forumlae and intellectualized theories, but organically and historically. The conclusions therefore are not arbitrary, not a subject for choosing or rejecting, but absolutely compelling to minds which wish to take part in affairs. The real author is the Spirit of the Age, and its commands do not admit of argumentation, and their sanction is the crushing might of History, bringing defeat, humiliation, death, and chaos.

I condemn here at the outset the miserable plan of retarded souls to "unite" Europe as an materialistic economic area for purposes of exploitation by and defense of the Imperialism of extra-European colonial forces. The integration of Europe is not subject for plans, but for expression. It needs but to be recognized, and the perpetuation of nineteenth century economic thinking is entirely incapable here. Not trade and banking, not importing and exporting, but Heroism alone can liberate that integrated soul of Europe which lies under the financial trickery of retarders, the petty-stateism of party-politicians and yesterday patriots, and the occupying armies of extra-European forces.

The imperative integration of Europe takes the form of unity of People, Race, Nation, State, Society, Will - and naturally also - economy. The spiritual unity of Europe is there, its liberation will automatically allow the full blooming of the other phases of organic unity, which all flow from the spiritual.

And thus, this book is a renewal of a war-declaration. It asks the traitors of Europe, the miserable party-politicians whose tenure of office is dependent upon their serviceability to extra-European forces, "Did you think it was over? Do you think that your misery and shame will remain securely forever on a world-stage which has seen true heroes upon it? In the war which you let loose, you taught men how to die, and thereby you have freed a spirit which will engulf you next, the Spirit of Heroism and Discipline. There is not currency that can buy this spirit, but it can overcome any currency.

Lastly, this book is itself the first blow in a gigantic war for the liberation of the West. The prime enemy is the traitor within Europe, who alone makes possible the starving and looting of Europe by outer forces. He is the symbol of Chaos and Cosmopolitianism. Between him and the spirit of the twentieth and twenty-first century is unremitting war.

BUT,..
geez thats a lot of reading.
spice it up with a pic or something. ;)




truth is..
My genius brother, Snouter, will probably be the only one that actually reads all of this.

Originally posted by robb sneak
BUT,..
geez thats a lot of reading.
spice it up with a pic or something. ;)

truth is..
My genius brother, Snouter, will probably be the only one that actually reads all of this.

LOL
I'm inclined to agree.
Actually.... I don't think I have ever read anything you have posted. Huge articles. Blah.
THousands of other posts I could read instead.

Then again... you didn't ask. :)

-Æ (I'll shutup and eat my cake now)

Originally posted by ÆSiR


LOL
I'm inclined to agree.
Actually.... I don't think I have ever read anything you have posted. Huge articles. Blah.
THousands of other posts I could read instead.

Then again... you didn't ask. :)

-Æ (I'll shutup and eat my cake now) I like cake!:D

Originally posted by QtrHrsmn
I like cake!:D

Really?

What's your favorite kind?

I prefer white cake with Peanut Butter Icing.
Or an Ice cream cake. there good mmm...

-Æ (The Great Hijacker)

The 20th and 21st Century Historical Outlook

"Thus, as we do nothing but enact history, we say little but recite it: nay, rather in that widest sense, our whole spiritual life is built thereon. For, strictly considered, what is all knowledge too but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion, are essential materials?"

- Thomas Carlyle

[i]"The individual's life is of importance to none but himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history of give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic."

- Oswald Spengler

Perspective

Far out in exterior darkness where no breath stirs, no light shines, and no sound is heard, one can glance toward the spinning earth. In the outer regions, illumination is of the soul, hence all is dark but this certain star, and only a part of it is aglow. From such a distance, one can obtain an utterly untrammeled view of what is transpiring on the earth. Drawing somewhat closer, continents are visible; closer yet, population streams. One focal point exists whence the light goes forth in all directions. It is the crooked peninsula of Europe. On this tiny pendant of the great landmass of the earth, the greatest intensity of movement exists. One can see - for out here the soul and its emanations are visible - a concentration of ideas, energy, ambition, purpose, expansiveness, will-to-form. Hovering above Euroe we can see what was never before so clearly visible - the presence of a purely spiritual organism. A close look reveals that the light stream is not flowing from the surface of Europe upward into the night sky, but downward from the hitherto invisible organism. This is a discovery of profound and revolutionary importance, which was only vouchsafed to us by reason of our complete detachment from terrestrial events in the outer void, where spirit is visible and matter visible, only by reason of light from the spirit.

More discoveries follow: on the other side are two islands, small in comparison with the landmass. The pale glow diffused over isolated parts of these two islands is seen at one to be a reflection from the other side.

What is this supra-terrestrial phenomena? Why does it hover of Europe in particular? What is the relationship between it and the human material under it? The latter is shaped into intricately formed pyramidal structures. Ranks are formed. Movements proceed along channels of labyinthine complexity. Persons stand to one another in defined relationships of command and obediance. Apart from this tiny penninsula, the human currents are horizontal, swirling, eddying like water in the streams, the currents in the ocean, the herds on the vast plains. It is, then, the spirit-organism which forms and impresses the population of the pninsula into their intricate organic shapes.

With what can we compare this being, which could not be seen by us while we were earth bound? It is alone at present.

But out here we have the freedom of time as well as the freedom of space. We are allowed to look upon a hundred generations as the earthbound look upon the life span of a fruit fly. In our search for something similar to the spirit-organism we have seen, we go back two hundred generations. The earth is still the same, but is in almost complete darkness. Things are almost indistinguishable; matter has not passed through the alembic of spirit, and is not apprehensible. A glance backward reveals a continuation of the void. We let a few generations pass in a moment, and spirit begins to make itself felt. A feeble, but promising glow appears in Northeast Africa. The another, a thousand miles to the northeast, in Mesopotamia. They take names, Egypt, Babylonia. The time is around 3000 BC. They increase in intensity and the first thing clear in each case is armies marching against the outer populations, who are felt as the barbarian. These spiritual organisms do not mix - their higher frontiers are sharp and clear; each being has its own hue, which adheres to it. Each organism seizes the human material in its landscape and impresses them into its service. First it gives them a common World-Idea, then it refines them into nations, each nation embodying a seperate idea of the higher organism. A nobility and preisthood arise to embody different aspects of the idea. The populations are stratified and specialized, and the human beings live out their lives and destinies in a way entirely subordinate to the higher organism. The latter compels these humans with ideas. Only a small spiritual stratum of each human population is adapted to this type of compulsion, but those who belong to it remain in the service of the Idea, once it is felt. They will live and die for it, and in the process they determine the destinies of the populations whence they spring. These ideas - not mere abstractions, strings of concepts, but living, pulsating, wordless necessities of beings and thinking - are the technic by which these higher beings utilize human beings for their purposes. Religions of high complexity of feeling and rationale, forms of architechture, conceived in the spirit of that religion and put into its service, lyric poetry, pictoral art, sculpture, music, orders of nobility, orders of priesthood, stylized dwellings, stylized manners and dress, rigid training of the young up to these developments to perpetuate them, system of philosophy, of mathematics, giant battles, huge armies, prolonged wars, energetic economics ato support this whole multifarious structure, intricately organized governments to infuse order into the nations created by the higher being acting on the different types of human material - these are some of the floraison of forms which appear in these two areas. Each form is different in Egypt from the corresponding form in Babylonia. If an idea is taken over, it is only apparently adopted; actually it is misunderstood, re-formed, and adapted to the proper soul.

But the higher being approaches a crisis. It has expended itself in this earth transforming process and one day finds itself to be exhausted. It shudders, it apparently weakens, it palpitates - chaos and anarchy threaten its terrestrial actualizations - forces outside gather to strike it down and wipe out its grand creations. But it rouses itself, it puts forward its greatest effort of all - no longer in the creation of inward things, arts, philosophy, theories of life, but in the formation of the purely external apparatus of power: strict governments, giant armies, industry to support them, fleets of ships for war, legal systems to organize and order the conquests. It expands across areas never before investigated or even known, it unifies all its proper nations into one, which gives its name to the rest and leads them on to the last great expansive effort.

The same great rhythm is observable in each of them. As one watches, the two lights die down from their splendid hues to an ever pale earth light. They go out slowly, leaving a glow of memory and legend in the minds of men, and with their last great creations lying in the widened landscape - Imperium.

Outside these two areas, the rest of the earth has remained unchanged. The human bands are distinguishable from the herding animals only by a primitive culture, and a more intricate economy. Otherwise their existence forms are devoid of significance. The primitive cultures are the sole thing existing above the plane of economics, in that they attribute symbolic significance to natural occurances and human conduct. But there is nothing in these movements resembling the High Cultures which transformed landscapes for almost forty generations from their first beginning until their final sinking.

Physical time flows on and centuries pass into darkness. Then, precisely as in Egypt and Babylonia, but again of a different hue, and to different music, a light appears over the Punjab. It becomes bright and firm. The same wealth of forms and significant happenings work themselves out as in the earlier two organisms. Its creations are all in the highest degree individual, as different from its two predecessors as they were vis-a-vis one another, but they follow the same grand rhythms. The same multi-colored pageant of nobles and priests, temples and schools, nations and cities, arts and philosophies, armies and sciences, letters are wars, passes before the eye.

Before this high culture was well on its way, another had started to actualize itself in the Hwang Ho vally in China. And then a few centuries later, about 1100 B.C. in our way of reckoning, the Classical Culture begins on the shores of the Aegean Sea. Both of these cultures have their stamp of individuality, their own way of coloring and influencing their terrestrial creations, but both are subject to the same morphology as the others observed.

As this Classical Culture draws to its close, around the time of Christ, another one appears in the landscape subjugated by the Classical in its last expansive phase - Arabia. The fact of its appearance precisely here makes its course an unusual one. Its forms are inwardly as pure as those of all the other Cultures, inwardly it borrows nothing any more than they did - but it was inevitable that the material contiguity of landscape, temporal succession, and contact with civilized populations of the older organism would influence the new soul to take over the wealth of classical creations. It was subjugated to them only in a superficial way however, for into these old bottles it poured its new wine. Through selection, reinterpretation, or ignoring, it expressed its own soul despite the alien forms. In its later, expansive phase, this culture embraced European Spain as the Western Caliphate. Its life span, its end form, its last great civilization crisis - all followed the same organic regularity as the others.

Some five centuries later ther now familiar manifestations of another High Culture begin in the remote landscapes of Mexico and Peru. It is to have the most tragic destiny of any we have yet to see. Around 1000 A.D. the European Culture is meanwhile born, and at its very birth shows itself to be distinguished from all others by the extraordinary intensity of its self-expression, by its pushing into every distance both in the spiritual realm, and in the physical as well. Its original landscape was even of an extent many times the size of its predescessors, and from this base, in its middle life, it enters upon its Age of Discovery, in which it finds for itself the very frontier of the Earth, and converts the globe into the object of its politics. Its Spanish representatives in the two warrior bands of Cortez and Pizarro discovered the Civilization of Mexico and Peru, then its very last stage of refinement of material life. The two grand empires of Mexico and Peru, with social forms, economico-political organization, transportation, communication, city life, all developed to the utmost limits for this particular soul made the invading Spaniards seem like mere naive barbarians. But the technical disinterestedness of these empires left them helpless before the few cannons and horses of the invaders. The last act of this Cultural-drama is its obliteration in a few years by the invaders from another world. This consummation is instructive as to the attention that the World-Spirit pays to human values and feelings. What soothsayer would have dared to tell the last Aztec Emperor, surrounded with the pomp of world-historical significance, clothed with the power of the world, that in a short time the jungle would reconquer his cities and palaces, that his armies and systems of control of his world Empire would vanish before the onslaught of a few hundred barbarians?

Each Cultural-soul is stamped with individuality; from the others it takes nothing, and to them it gives nothing. Whatever is on its frontiers is the enemy, whether primitive or Culture-populations. They are all barbarians, heathens, to the proper culture, and not understanding passes between them. We saw the Western peoples prove their lifeworthiness of the European Culture by their Crusades against the highly civilized Saracens, Moors, and Turks. We saw the Germanic populations in the East and their Visigothic brothers in the South bush the barbarian Mongols and the civilized Moors back during the centuries. We saw Western ships and Western armies make the whole world in to the object of booty for the West. These were the relations of the West to that and those outside the Western Civilization.

Within the Culture arose Gothic Christianity, the transcendent symbols of Empire and Papacy, the Gothic Cathedrals, the unlocking of the secrets of the world of the Western soul and the world of nature in monastery cells. The Culture-soul shaped for is own expression the various nations of the West. To each it gave its individuality, and at the last, each thought it was a culture in itself, instead of a mere organ of a culture. Cities grew out of the hamlets of the Gothic times, and from the cities grew intellect. The old problem of the relation of Reason and Faith, the central problem of the early Scholastic, is apparently being slowly decided in these cities in the favor of the Supremacy of Reason.

The nobility of Gothic times, the masters of the earth who had no superior unless they voluntarily recognized him, became subject to an idea - the State. Life slowly externalizes: political problems now move into the center; new economic resources are developed to support the political contests; the old agricultural economy metamorphoses into an industrial economy. At the end of this path stands a ghostly and terrifying Idea: Money.

Other Cultures also had seen this phenomena appear at the same stage of their development and grow to similar dimensions. Its slow growth in importance proceeds pari passu with the gradual self assertion of Reason against Faith. It reaches its highest point with the Age of Nationalism, when the parts of the Culture tear one another to bits, even as the outer dangers loom threateningly. At its highest point, Money, allied with Rationalism, contests for supremacy of the life of the Culture with the forces of State and Tradition, Society and Religion. In our brief visit to the outer region above the earth, we found the position of detachment whence we could see this grand life drama unfold seven times in seven High Cultures, and we saw each surmount the last great crisis of two centuries duration. The Mexican-Peruvian Civilization overcame the inner crisis only to fall before marauders appearing out of the blue sea.

The great crisis of the West set in forcefully with the French Revolution and its consequent phenomena. Napoloen was th symbol of the transition of Culture into Civilization - Civilization, the life of the material, the external, of power, giant economies, armies, and fleets, of great numbers and colossal technics, over Culture, the inner life of religion, philosophy, the arts, domination of the external life of politics and economics by strict form and symbolism, strict restraint of the beast-of-prey in man, feeling of cultural unity. It is the victory of Rationalism, Money and the great city over the traditions of religion and authority, of Intellect over Instinct and Honour.

We had seen all this in the previous high cultures as they approached their final life phase. In each case the crisis had been resolved by the resurgence of the old forces of Religion and Authority, their victory over Rationalism and Money, and the final union of the nations into an Imperium. The two century long crisis in the life of the great organism expressed itself in great wars and revolutions. All the Cultural energy that had previously gone into inner creations of thought, religion, philosophy, science, art-forms, great literature, now goes into the outer life of economics, war, technic, and politics. The symbolism of power succeeds to the highest place in this last phase.

But at this point, we are suddenly bck on the surface of the earth. No longer detached, we must participate in the great Culture-drama, whehter we will or no. Our only choice is to participate as a subject or as an object. The wisdom that comes from the knowledge of the organic nature of a High Culture gives us the key to the events transpiring before our eyes. It can be applied by ys, and our action can thereby become significant, as distinguished from the opportunistic and old-fashioned policy of stupidity which would try to turn the Western Civilization back in its course because morons are incapable of adjusting themselves to new prevailing ideas.

With the knowledge of the organic nature of a High Culture, we have achieved an unparalleled liberation from the dross of materialism which hindered hitherto the glimpse into History's riddle. This knowledge is simple, but profound, and is therefore shut off from the inward appreciation of all but the few. In its train flow all the consequences of the necessary historical outlook of the coming times. Since a Culture is organic, it has an individuality, a soul. Thus it cannot be influenced in its depths from any outside force whatever. It has a destiny, like all organisms. It has a period of gestation, and a birth-time. It has a growth, a maturity, fulfillment, a down going, a death. Because it has a soul, all of its manifestations will be impressed by the same spiritual stamp, just as each man's life is the creation of his own individuality. Because it has a soul, this particular culture can never come again after it has passed. Like the nations it creates to express phases of its own life, it exists only once. There will never be another Indian Culture, Aztec-Mayan culture, Classical culture, or Western Culture, any more than there will be a second Spartan nation, Roman nation, French nation, or a English nation. Since a culture is organic, it has a life span. We observed this life span: it is about thirty five generations at highest potential, or about forty five generations from its first stirrings in the landscape until its final subsiding. Like the life span of organisms, it is no rigid thing. Man has a life span of seventy years, but this term is not rigid.

ArrrrgghghhhhH!!!!!

Stop posting Text Books.

It's like talking to a college level government textbook.

-Æ (lol)

The High Cultures belong at the peak of the organic hierarchy: plant, animal, man. They differ from other organisms in that they are invisible, or in other words, they have no light-quality. In this they resemble the human soul. The body of a High Culture is made up of the population stream it sucks up in its landscape. They furnish it with the material through which it acutalizes its possibilities. The spirit which animates these populations shows the life phase of the Culture, whether youthful, mature, or at the last fulfillment. Like each man, a Culture has ages, which succed one another with rhythmic inevitability. They are laid down for it by its own organic law, just as the senility of a man is laid down at his conception. This quality of direction we call Destiny. Destiny is the hallmark of everything living. Destiny-thinking is the type of thought which understands the living, and it is the only kind which does. The other method of human thought is that of Causality. This method is inwardly compuslory in dealing with inorganic problems of technics, mechanics, engineering, systematic natural philosophy. It finds its limits of its efficacy there, however, and is grotesque when applied to Life. It would tell us that youth is the cause of maturity, maturity of old age, that the bud is the cause of the full-blown flower, the caterpillar the cause of the butterfly.

The Destiny-Idea is the central motive of organic thinking. If anyone thinks it is merely an invisible causality, he understands it not. The idea of Causality is the central motive of systematic, or inorganic thinking.

That latter is scientific thinking. It aims at subjugation of things to its understanding, it wishes to name everything, to make outlines distinct, and then to link phenonema together by classification and causal linkage. Kant is the height of this type of thinking, and to this side of Western philosophy belong also Hume, Mill, Bacon, Schopenhauer, Hamilton, Spencer, Bentham, Locke, Holbach, Descartes.

To the organic side belong Macchiavelli, Vico, Montaigne, Leibnitz, Licthtenberg, Pascal, Hobbes, Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle, Nietzsche and Spengler the two philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Scientific thinking is at the height of its power in the realm of matter, that which possesses extension, but no direction. Material happenings can be controlled, are reversible, produce identical results under identical conditions, are recurrent, can be classified, can be successfully comprehended as though they are subject to an a priori, mechanical, necessity, in other words to Causality.

Scientific thinking is powerless in the domain of Life, for its happenings are uncontrollable, irreversible, never-recurring, unique, cannot be classified, are unamenable to rational treatment, and possessed of no external, mechanical necessity. Every organism is something that has never been seen before, that follows an inner necessity, that passes away, never to reappear. Every organism is a set of possibilities within a certain framework, and its life is the process of the actualization of these possibilities. The technique of Destiny-thinking is simply living into other organisms to understand their life-conditions and necessities. One can then apprehend what must happen.

The word Fate is an inorganic word. It is an attempt to subjegate Life to an external necessity; it is of religious provenance and religion comes from a causal type of thinking. There is no science without a precedent religion. Science merely makes the sacred causality of religion into a profane, mechanical necessity.

Fate is not synonymous with destiny, but the opposite of it. Fate attributes necessity to the incidents of a life, but Destiny is the inner necessity of an organism. An incident can wipe out a life, and thus terminate its destiny, btu this event came from outside the organism, and thus apart from its destiny.

Every fact is an incident, unforseeable and incalcualable but the inner progression of a life is destined, and works itself out through the facts, is helped or hindered by them, overcomes them, or succumbs to them. It is the destiny of every child that is born ultimatey to become senile; incident may intervene in the form of disease or accident, and this destiny may be frustrated. These outer incidents - that may elevate a man to the heights despite his blunders, or cast him into defeat depiste his efficiency and mastery of the Spirit of his Age - are without meaning for Destiny-thinking.

Destiny inheres in the organism, forces it to express its possibilities. Incident is outside the organism, is blind, uninformed by necessity, but may nevertheless play a great role in the actualization of an organism, by smooting its way, or imposing great obstacles to it. What is called Luck, Doom, Fate, Providence, express the bafflement and awe of men in the presence of this mystery, forever unknowable.

Destiny-thinking and Causality-thinking are related to one another, however, through their common provenance: both are products of Life. Eveen the most inorganic thinker or scientifico, the crassest and most vulgar of all materialists or mechanists, is subject to his own destiny, his own soul, his own character, his own life span, and outside this framework of destiny his free, unbound flight of causal fantasy cannot deliver him. Destiny is Life, but Causality is merely a thought-method by which a certain form of Life, namely Culture-man, attempts to subjugate all around him to his understanding. Thus there is an order of rank between them: Destiny-thinking is unconditionally prior, for all Life is subject to it, while Causality-thinking is only an expression of part of life's possibilities.

Their differences may also be expressed in this way: Causality-thought is able to understand because its non-living material opposes no resistance, but submits to any conditions imposed upon it, having no inner compulsion of its own. When, however, Causality attempts to subjegate Life, the material itself is active, moving independently, will not stand still and be classified or systemized. Destiny-thinking can understand because each one of us himself is moved by Destiny, has an inner compulsion to be himself, and can thus, by transference of inwardly-experienced feelings, live himself into other forms of life, other individuations. Destiny-thinking moves along with its subject-matter; Causality stands still, and can only reach satisfactory conclusion with subject-matter that is also standing still.

Just as even the most highly developed systematizers are subject to Destiny, so do they - all unwittingly - apply Destiny-thinking in their daily lives and relationships with other human beings. The most rabid reflexologist unconsciously applies some of the psychological wisdom of the Abbe Galiani or Rochefoucauld, even though he was never heard of these seers of the Western soul.

Francis Parker Yockey. :rolleyes:

A US citizen and Nazi who betrayed his country by spying on her on behalf of Communists. The man was a deluded kook.

I haven't read the book, and see no reason to. Life is way too short.

http://weeklywire.com/ww/12-22-97/chicago_b.html


Fearing reprisal, Yockey used the pen-name Ulick Varange, and only a handful of copies of "Imperium" entered circulation. To further the demise of the United States, Yockey stayed in Europe, working as a courier for the Czechoslovakian secret service after World War II. That got the FBI on his trail, but it wasn't until after Yockey made a trip to Cuba in an abortive attempt to meet Castro that the Feds caught up with him in Oakland. He committed suicide after ten days in a San Francisco jail, but not before receiving a visit from Willis Carto.

Stop posting Text Books.It's like talking to a college level government textbook.

The goal Aesir is two fold.

A. To have an online copy of a few articles. I have to take this book back in the not so distant future. I figure that way if I post it here, if my website goes down, I can still find it.

B. It will save me a lot of time explaining my views in the future. I need a Members Journal where I can archive these things. How do I get one of those?

Originally posted by FaDeThEBuTcHeR


The goal Aesir is two fold.

A. To have an online copy of a few articles. I have to take this book back in the not so distant future. I figure that way if I post it here, if my website goes down, I can still find it.

B. It will save me a lot of time explaining my views in the future. I need a Members Journal where I can archive these things. How do I get one of those?

Aha! I knew it.
Why not put it in "Microsoft Word" and save DA the bandwidth.
Journals are not given out too easily...
but you can always ask:

MEMBER JOURNAL REQUEST (http://www.discussanything.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9412)

-Æ (Peace)

Francis Parker Yockey. A US citizen and Nazi who betrayed his country by spying on her on behalf of Communists. The man was a deluded kook.

Francis Parker Yockey was never a Nazi anymore than Spengler was. Yockey was born in the U.S. but came to believe that the United States was culturally retarding and destroying Western Civilization and was the absolute complete and total enemy at that period of history. Yockey was never a Communist at all. When he wrote Imperium it was in the context of the Cold War and in that conflict Yockey came to believe that America was BY FAR the greater threat. He advocated the Soviet Union overrunning Western Europe as the lesser of two evils.

I haven't read the book, and see no reason to. Life is way too short.

It is a great book. Magnificent in fact. I have noticed a number of American thinkers either end up fleeing the country or committing suicide. Yockey was by no means the first nor will he be the last.

Yo FaDeThEBuTcHeR

You make too many too long posts.

Originally posted by hedonist
Yo FaDeThEBuTcHeR

You make too many too long posts.

Fade,

Dont listen to those that say your posts are too long.

If you want to type a chapter, then type. There is no rule that says every DA member MUST read every post. If they don't want to read your post, then they can just click on a different thread.

I, for one, find your opinions interesting. I disagree with you about as often as I agree with you; but I don't find your topics to be boring.

The function of the thread is mostly to serve as a frame of reference. If I type this stuff up, in the future I can simply quickly paste quotes in conversations. I am not sure what could really entertain Aesir - perhaps a discussion of whether the chicken or the egg came first. It is mostly a collection of essays rather than chapters of a book. There are a lot of good ones on things like Darwinism, Liberalism, Marxism, and Communism that really shed new light on these topics. I will post a couple. Yockey's philosophy is very interesting. It is entire other view of the world like Capitalism or Marxism. Regardless, I find it more entertaining than arguing over threads about "who is whiter" or "America vs. Iraq" or "the Holocaust" as of late. And speaking of that lets just hope that the Jews ride that old horse until it simply drops dead out of boredom! Current Events have pretty much wore me out lately as a topic of discussion and I intend to stay away from those. So this week I will chat about Philosophy :)

Æsir and Robb, I think your "constructive" criticisms of Fade's posting techniques have been noted. If you find nothing of interest, don't feel compelled to reply.

That being said, damn, that's too much to read:D

Justin

Two Aspects of History

The total difference between the methods of human thinking represented by the central-ideas of Destiny on the one hand, and Causality on the other, was sharply accented for the reason that only one of them is adapted to the understanding of History. History is the record of fulfilled destinies - of Cultures, nations, religions, philosophies, sciences, mathematics, art forms, great men. Only the feeling of empathy can understand these once-living souls from the bare records left. Causality is helpless here, for at every second a new fact is cast into the pool of Life, and from its point of impact, ever-widening circles of change spread out. The subterranean facts are never written down, but every fact changes the course of the history of facts. The true understanding of any organism, whether a High Culture, a nation, or a man, is to see - behind and underneath the facts of that existence - the soul which is expressing itself by means of, and in opposition to, the external happenings. Only so can one seperate what is significant from what is unimportant.

Significant thus is seen to mean: having a Destiny-quality. Incidental means: without relationship to Destiny. It was Destiny for Napoleon that Carnot was Minister of War, for another man would probably not have seen Napoleon's project for an invasion of Italy through the Ligurian Hills, buried as it was in the files of the Ministry. It was a Destiny for France that the author of the plan was a man of action as well as a theoretician. It is thus obvious that the feeling for what is Destiny and what is Incident have a high subjective content, and that a deeper insight can make out Destiny where the more superficial only sees Incident.

Men are thus differentiated also with regard to their capacity for understanding History. There is a historical sense, which can see behind the surface of history to the soul that is the determinant of history. History, seen through the historical sense of being, thas thus a subjective aspect. This is the first aspect of History.

The other, the objective, aspect of History, is equally incapable of rigid establishment, even though at first glance it might seem to be. The writing of purely objective history is the aim of the so-called reference, or narrative, method of presenting history. Nevertheless, it inevitably selects, and orders the facts, and in this process the poetic intuition, historical sense, and flair of the author come into play such as with Gibbon. If these are totally excluded, the product is not history-writing, but a book of dates, and this, again, cannot be free from selection.

Nor is it history. The genetic method of writing history attempts to set forth the developments with complete impartiality. It is the narrative method with some type of causal, evolutionary, or organic philosophy superimposed to trace the growth of the subsequent out of the precedent. This fails to attain objectivity because the facts that survive may be either too few or too numerous, and in either case artistry must be employed in filling gaps or selecting. Nor is impartiality possible. It is the historical sense which decides importance of past developments, past ideas, past great men. For centuries, Brutus and Pompey were held to be greater than Julius Caeser. Around 1800, Vulpius was considered a greater poet that Goethe. Mengs, whom history has forgotten was ranking in his days as one of the great painters of the world. Shakespere, until more than a century after his death, was considered inferior as a playwright to more than one of his contemporaries. El Greco was unnoticed 75 years ago. Cicero and Cato were both held, until after the First World War, to be great men, rather tha Culture retarding weaklings. Joan of Arc was not included in Chastelains list, drawn up on the death of Charles VII, of all army commanders that fought against England. Lastly, for the benefit of the readers of the year 2050, I may say that the Hero and Philosopher of the period 1900-1950 were both invisible to their contemporaries in the historical dimensions in which you set them.

The Classical Culture looked one way to Wincklemann's time, another way to Nietzsche's time, yet another way to the 20th and 21st centuries. Similarly, Elizabathan England was satisfied with Shakespeare's dramatization of Plutarch's Caeser, whereas fin-de-siecle England required Shaw to dramatize Mommsen's Caeser, Wilhelm Tell, Maria Stuart, Gotz von Berlichingen, Florian Geyer, all would have to be written differently today, for we see these historical periods from a different angle.

What then, is History? History is the relationship between the Past and the Present. Because the present is constantly changing, so is History. Each Age has its own History, which the Spirit of the Age creates to fit its own soul. With the passing of that Age, never to return, that particular History picture has passed. Seen from this standpoint, any attempt to write History "as it really happened" is historical immaturity, and the belief in objective standards of history-presentation is self-deception, for what will come forth will be the Spirit of the Age. The general agreement of contemporaries with a certain outlook on History does not make that outlook objective, but only gives it rank - the highest possible rank it can have - as an accurate expression of the Spirit of the Age, true for this time and this period of History. A higher degree of truth cannot be attained, this side of divinity. Anyone who prates of being "modern" must remember that he would have felt just as modern in the Europe of Charles V, and that he is doomed to become just as "old fashioned" to the men of 2050 as are the men of 1850 to him. A journalistic view of History stamps its possessor as lacking in historical sense. He should therefore refrain from talking of historical matters, whether past or in the process of becoming.

The Meaning of Facts

Whether or not a man's History-outlook is also intellectually formulated as well as effective is his unconscious doing, thinking, and valuing is merely a funciton of his general personality. Some men have a greater inner need to think abstractly than others.

It must not be supposed that the sense for facts, the historical sense, dispenses with creative thinking. The development of fact sense is primarily the seeing what is there without ethical or critical preconceptions of what should or should not be there, might or might not be.

Life-facts are the data of History. A Life-fact is something which has happened. It does not matter to its status as a fact that no one may know of it, that is has vanished without a trace. Obviously creative thinking enters into the process of interpreting the data of History, and a moment's reflection shows also that the process of assessing the data of History is a creative one.

Physical facts, like resistance, sourness, redness, are accessible to everyone. Life-facts are not accessible to a man who has a rigid view of History, and who knows that the purpose of all previous happening was to make his age possible, who knows that History has the sole meaning of "Progress." Remnants of social ethics, preconceived historical notions, utility dogmas - all shut out their victims from inner participation in the life of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

To this century the new vista now opens of assemling the last facts in previous ages and previous Cultures. Not tiny incidental data, but the broad outline of necessary organic developments that must have taken place. From our knowledge of past High Cultures and their structures, we can fill in missing developments in some from what has survived in others. Most important to us now alive - we can fill in what remains to the fulfillment of our own Culture. This can be done in the way that a palaeontologist can reconstruct in broad outlines an entire organism from a single skull fragment. The process is legitimate and trustworthy in both cases, for Life has patterns in which it actualizes unique individuals. From an anonymous work of literature remaining, a creative thinker can reconstruct a general picture of an unknown author. Can one not draw quite accurately the soul portrait of an unknown author Das Buechlien vom volkomenen Leben? So also can the "Crusades" period of a Culture be reconstructed if one has a knowledge of its "Reformation" stage, or its "Enlightenment" stage.

The realm of thought is interested in the missing stages of past High Cultures, and the future of our own, but Action is interested in the past only as a key to effective performance. Thus the higher importance of history-writing and history-thinking is that they serve effective action.

The fact-sense is only operative when dogma, socio-ethical ideas, and critical trappings are put aside. To the fact-sense, it is important that hundreds of millions of people in a certain area believe in the truth of the Confucian doctrines. To the fact-sense, it is meaningless whether or not these doctorines are true - even though to religion, Progress-ideologies, and journalism, the truth or falsehood of Confucianism is important.

To a 21st Century history-writer, the most important thing about the cells, ether-waves, bacillae, electrons, and cosmic rays of our times will be that we believed in them. All of these notions, which the age considers facts, will vanish into the one fact for the 21st Century that once upon a time this was a world picture of a certain kind of Culture-man. So do we look upon the nature-theories of Aristarchus and Democritus in the Classical Culture.

And thus facts too have their subjective and objective content. And again, it is the relationship between the man and the phenomena that determines the form of fact. Each Culture has in this way its own facts, which arise out of its own problems. What the fact is, depends on what man is experiencing the phenomenon: whether he belongs to a High Culture, to which Culture, to which age thereof, to which nation, to which spiritual stratum, to which social stratum.

The facts of the Second World War are one thing in this year 1948, in the brains of the Culture-bearing stratum of Europe, and something totally different in the minds of the newspaper-reading herds. By 2000, the view of the present culture bearing stratum will also have become the view of many, and by that time, more facts will be known about the independent thinkers about the same War than are now known to the few. For one of the characteristics of Life-facts is that distance - particuarly temporal distance - shows up in their lineaments more clearly. We know more of Imperial history that Tacitus knew, more of Napoleonic history than Napoleon knew, vastly more of the First World War than its creators and participants knew, and Western man in the year 2050 will know our times in a way that we can never know them. To Brutus his mythological ancestry was a fact, but to us a more important fact is that he believed it.

Thus the fact-sense, the prerequisite of the historical outlook of the 20th and 21st century, emerges as a form of the poetry of life. It is the very opposite of the prosaic, drab insistence of the materialistic outlook that facts had to submit to a "progress" ideology in order to be recognized as significant. This view absolutely excluded its victims from any insight in to the beauty and power of the facts of history, as well as any understanding of their significance. The 21st Century which is approaching us even now - whose men will be born into a time when this historical outlook is self-evident - will find it fantastic, if it ever takes notice of it, that in an earlier time men believed that all previous history was merely tending toward them alone. And yet that was the outlook of the 19th Century: whose Cultures, equal by birth and spirituality to our own in every way, lived and died merely that the philistinism of the "progress" ideologists could chalk up their so-called "achievements" on the wall, meaning a few notions or technical devices.

That being said, damn, that's too much to read

I have always said I was not a White Nationalist. Thus, for those who wish to understand my point of view they can reference this thread. It would be great if I could have some sort of journal to put this in.

Originally posted by FaDeThEBuTcHeR
I have always said I was not a White Nationalist. Thus, for those who wish to understand my point of view they can reference this thread.

That's fine, I was mostly joining in on the sentiment that it's an intimidating read, which is fine, but will work against increasing the discussion of the merit of the ideas because few will be willing to explore the entirety of the entry.

Originally posted by FaDeThEBuTcHeR
It would be great if I could have some sort of journal to put this in.
Originally posted by ÆSiR
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Justin

The author of this book makes the assumption that Europe is in decline because of the merger of various cultures but I do not see this happening. On the contrary I see unity as strength. This is not to say that there is not a downside. I have heard for instance that many Italian cities and towns are banning fast food. I think its very important for people to preserve their cultures but I think that the political and economic impact of a United Europe is the only way that Europe can compete against the Americas and Asia.

If this is reflective of your political/philosophical views, am I to believe you're a Pan-Europeanist?