The Venus Project: Paradise or Oblivion
Eine Hymne an Europa
I personally do not like ethnic “categories” or national stereotypes. Even though they are true to some extent, they should never become rayified, because they are visions of a people form a distance; but -= we also want to see people from close up, so see what is hidden in them. That is always going to differ.
However, ethnically I am European, and I am proud to be white, Indo Aryan, Caucasian, belonging to the race of thinkers and dreamers who presenced the stars (in themselves) by manifesting the only two things worth pursuing in life: Wisdom and Power.
I am proud to be white.
Race is going to become another factor in public discourse in the near future. This will largely be attributable to China, the homogenous organism that seems to be spreading its tentacles all over the globe. Dont get me wrong,I have lots of respect for many parts of chinese culture, but not all. I am not a nihilist and I do not think us people of the future should deceive ourselves that being kind, multicultural and “tolerant” will be something that comes back to us, when we give it. Respect and trust need to be earned.
What is happening to Europe is absolute bullshit. I am completely for the European Union. Not only does ethnic segregation result in biological stagnation, but, we need Europe not only as a because of sanity to balance the power of lesser states (even if their economies are, to use a dirty word, Large…
Europe, however, s furthermore a political idea – markets do not rule politics there! This is the greatest hope I personally see for the world, because it forces a culture to become philosophical.
A New Star is Rising
A new star is rising: its called Hatred for the Strong.
If you are powerful in some way, people will try to attack you. If you stnd up in a room full of people to speak your mind, there will always be someon who disagrees. If you are tall and walk down the street, not afraid to refuse to hunch down, people will be passive aggressive towards you. If you know things others do not, you will be covered in spite.
Power is a good thing, it is the fulfillment of life; it is life’s success. Power is always the hallmark of the few since it is a relative concept, therefore herd morality, “people power” it is an anti power, it is not noble.
A Garden of Pomegranaties by Israel Regardie
In this book Regardie goes into the broader definition of what metaphysically ancient hebrew mystics meat with the Tree of Life. The Tre of Life is a hierarchical taxonomy of different metaphysical planes within the cosmos. These realms or ¨sephira¨pertrain to various stages of magickal and occult attainment, the pinnacle of which is ¨knowledge and conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel (HGA)¨
This HGA is the real self of any magician just as a person playing diable two is the real self of the character he has in the game. It is the underlying substance behind the appearance of reality and one attains knowledge and conversation of ¨crossing the abyss¨a process in which one confronts various demons and dissociates with ones ego.
Whilst knowledge and conversation is a rare and very dangerous practice, this is the real goal of modern magick. Crowledy himself even said that anything that does not have the HGA in mind s black magick. Other modern satanic practicinionrs might disagree and say that black magick is simply that which one does to gain power, something people pursue ven by delivng into the Tree of Death, an inversion of the Tree of Life that does not consist of various Sephiraoth but empty demonic shells called Cliphoth.
All in all I find Regardies book one of the best introductions to magick Ive read. What I like about regardies approach is not only that his thinking is scientific, but that he tries to ring all the religious traditions known under the banner of his occult pathway. This is what makes The Tree of Life by Regardie a simple yet powerful introductory work that will leave you with many answers on your mystic path.
Technology
Plato, in one of his dialgues, which you should know, talks about “weakness of the will” or what he calls Akrasia. A is the negation of kratos, which means power. It is the root of our word Democracy, Meritocracy, Aristocracy etc. Someone is acratic when they give into something against their will. This is absolutely essential.
Think about it. All the stuff corprate marketing boards are putting out there is designed to feed on your weaknesses, to make you acratic (70% of the internet is porn?). Freud’s brother apparently made a killing by selling some of Freud’s ideas on sexuality to the advertising industry (which is purely satanic – used in the negative {not LHP} sense of the term).
I think that if we are going to continue Western culture and evolve as a species together, we need to master our fucking minds. Im not talking about Evola style Doctrine of Awakening rigorous asceticism, but perhaps even an awareness of the fact (awareness of many things is in decline) of acrasia or the idea that willing ones destiny is still a noble thing to do.
Thinks about this. What are the implication of the idea taht not every mind is equally strong and that, consequently, not everyone is equally entitled to certain technologies.
I would personally not buy buy a gun and I think the current “Firearm Licences” up for grabs are complete bogus. Some of the people I know who go to shooting ranges are just so degenerate I would only like to see them shoot themselves. Guns are good examples of technology, for the point I am trying to illustrate since they give people a lot of power very eaily.
And, what happens when the acratic get power? They abuse it. This is really what is happening whhen people in America go on shooting sprees.
We need to develop a social spiritual and philosophical meritocratic hierarchy that is based upon the best ethics our philosophers can come up with and give people higher upon that rank more technological power. They will be more capable of wielding it.
More on Meditation
I find that as the years pass and as one gets older, one becomes wiser but life in a way looses its mystery.
Meditation for me personally has always meant reaching for something intangible, a practice by which one attempts to manifest a certain state in ones mind. It is almost as if one were freeing oneself not just of ones own thoughts (as is commonly known) but also of the subliminal thinking that takes place in the meta-mind of the place in which one dwells.
The cities in which we live have a certain “culture” and this culture expresses itself through commonly held ïdeas”. but, there is also more, something one cannot quite put ones finger on; every place has a certain energy which infects those who move there. I personally think it is wise to have the skill to step outside of that energy and become aware of the more heavenly energies that imbue the skies and the clouds. not only does this mean that one gains a better understanding of what defines a place (and one, consequently becomes less of a slave and herd animal) but one also learns how to create ddifferent energies.
As most of you know, meditationst isn’t something that is confined tu a Zabuton or Zafu. Ocne you stop identifying with your thoughts you get to experienc ethe world differently. For me personally this has, among other things, meant looking at life like the weather. Sometimes the sun shines at other times it doesnt. One must learn how to enjoy all types of weather, one must learn how to change the weather, but one must also learn how to become aware that there is weather in the first place.
If you can leran to meditate you can store energy in your vessels and release it at will. This is a type of spiritual orgasm one can learn to make use of when sitting listening to an opera or walking thinking of a poem. it is a very beautiful thing – one is enjoying the weather.
There are some really interesting parallels between Buddhism and Nietzsche. I know Ive been blogging a lot about Nietzsche lately, but there are a couple of his books I still wanted to read.
I personally think that the Birth of Tragedy is in fact a fairly compassionate book that differs fairly significantly from the Manifesto style Will to Power – which Nietzsche’s NS sister published and edited. The Will to Power reads like a ideologue verison of Nietzsche’s more daylight type of existence style thinking – I believe.
Nonetheless, I think it is an interesting question to ask to what extent Nietzsche’s solution to the suffering Europe has experienced ever since it became aware of the Death of God and the fact that people cannot realize themselves in ‘modern society’ as previsou cultures could – it would be an interesting question to ask whetherother cultures, not just Attic Greece, might pose answers to this problem.
One book I came across compares Nietzsche to Buddhism. Now, there are real parallels here (the Eternal Recurrent of the Same and Samsara, the Will to Power and Tumha (thirst), suffering as a human condition to be dealt with) however, one could argue that different cultures went on similar cultural developments as the Europe did when its sun set.
Example: Brahman in Indian Hinduism negates the world in the same way the Christian idea of God in the West moves ‘beyond the appearances’. This enabled Buddhism to flourish in India, since indian thinkers began questioning their old religion. Thus buddhism in the West and in the East could be read as signs of the advent of passive nihilism. But, to what extent Buddhism really is a passive nihilist religion remains open.
The Antichrist reads at times as a response to Plato’s Republic an Nietzsche does talk about The Laws of Manu, Indian caste systems. At the same time, he is critical of buddhism (as a sidenote: without having every delved into the meditative practices on which many of this religion rests). not only does this reveal the limitations of Western philosophy with respect to other modes of Wisdom, but, what I am trying to get at here is that Nietzsche does try to bring dffernt cultures into dialogue with each other.
The New Christianity
Nietzsche wrote his The Antichrist a a type of invocation: to call daylight to a cultural winter.
Two thousand years the spiritual Judeo-Christian winter reigned over the future and destiny of Europe and transformed the formerly proud Attic Greece into a spectacle of human tragedy, that is, tragedy without Dionysus! The Philosopher acting as physiologist of the human race, Nietzsche argues, cuts out sickness instead of nursing it – the Christian ethos.
Again: the essential Nietzsche: the are no facts only interpretations of facts. There are no moral phenomena only moral interpretations of phenomena. Ethics needs to be naturalized, the whole human project needs to be subject to a (Darwinian) philosophical hammer that will finely test and ear tune where real strength can be found and lies (Amour Fati, the Eternal Return, Saying Yes by Saying No and knowing why one says this~!)
An argument against Nietzsche as political philosopher (the supposition that he is a propohet of post modernism) – Nietzsche’s Undiscovered Country has not been found yet, precisely because the Philosopher of the Future has not been bred.
Where does the Christian ethos lie today? Where are our current cultural sicknesses? What is our present day diseasae? Where do we need to point our knife?
Take a walk around most cities, including the one here in Northern America, here where the Urgeist headquarters lie. This random illness called a city expresses itself as a rotting cancer amongst the former old growth forests that covered this land. People in this cities are, like chickens, factory farmed by corporation. Unlike the chickens, they are too dumb to notice it.
One hundred years of history are the only real history. “Our world” was only born after World War 2. But, it has been constantly evolved and adapting into the now so ossified formulae for success (what was formerly called strength and pride). These formula are the New Christianity, they are they the means and methods of salvation (and not just production!).
Whoever has lived in this place long enough (10 years for me) but has also lived elsewhere long enough (18 years for me) will experience a nausiating almost maddening knwoledge of the future, ie ability to predict that is tantamount to how Nietzsche experiences his the decline of his time (that ended with his prose and his dynamite). They Urgeist too is dynamity, or, rather, at this blog, we are fucking cianide.
A Curse against Industrialization of Culture:
Aristocracies de facto present oppress the people, but they can only do this by positing themselves as better than the people. This necessitates a type of self transcendence and Will to Power, since it is only by being Noble than The peopel that the aristocracy is really above them.
Counterpoint to this could be the fact that everything today becomes manufactured. what I mean is that as soon as someone builds a website a site like WordPress comes a lone and turns that process into a forumale that everyone can use. As soon as Scandinavia created Black Metal and it became “popular” there became a formula on how to create Black Metal. As soon as Philosophy gains popularity there arises a formula on how to philosophze etc etc ad nausium.
These are to observations to keep in mind.
A Philosophy for the Future
Who was FW Nietzsche?
I guess many of us read him because he speaks to our souls at this time.
Lets be clear: The Will to Power was tinkered with by Elizabeth Forster Nietzsche, who was a mouthpiece for the Third Reich. We do cannot use this book to understand Nietzcshe. We do not know which material in it was his. The response to nihilism advocated for in that book is just one of many.
There are some scholars who say that Nietzsche’s own political views (his Rank Order of Ideas, his call for the Good europeans to form an ew aristocracy to Rule and lead Europe, his view that the philosophe is necessarily someone who will must be bred to command and to legislate, that The People are only of value if the can be looked down at, indeed that this is their only function) have no special epistemological statues, given Nietzsche’s project of dynamite.
The Birth of Tragedy is pivotal in that it exposed the at the time accepted discourse of Germany and this history of Europ eand the Greeks as flawed. After Nietzsche there is no real Nation, there is no State, no leading beacon – God Died.
Heraclitus might hvae been an influence because Heraclitus himself though that ‘everything was in flux’, his thinking was not refined and urban, it came from the dionysian part of his soul, and, to the weeping Philosopher, war was indeed ‘the father of all things’. There was nothing behind the appearances, that dusty problem you can waste your time on.
The point: what does this mean for philosophy understand as the discipline for hierarchy and rule? How can the rejection of Philosophy be invoked for us who want philosophy, ie Wisdom (and not markets) to gain the upper hand in the destiny of our world?
Perhaps it makes sense to see Zarathustra’s speeches asmicrocosmis tragedies, Greek or Dionysian tragedies in which certain problems are digested?
Nietzsche often calls for his Philosopher of the Future to discover something he never really gives a name. In Beyond Good and Evil there is a passage in which he talks about German music, its shortcoming s and how the problems he addresses can be alchemically transmuted into a new type of music, something he compares to his consciousness.
No one after Nietzsche could think the same way. He is not a philosphy but a wisdom which is anti philosophy, it is dynamite. But, over the aeons, for us aeonic thinkers and actors who concerned with building on “rock and not on sand” can we build any structures that are untouched by the kiss of dynamite? What will the cities of the future look like?
