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Selected Essays Regarding The White Hordes of Homo Hubris David Myatt Introduction T he essays presented here differ in date, the most recent being Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos - closely followed by Homo Hubris and The Disruption of The Numinous - and the earliest (by some seven years) being The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context. As mentioned in Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos, I have had occasion to slightly revise my view regarding what now constitutes the Magian ethos. Given this diversity of date in the composition of the individual essays, and given their publication by diverse means (printed or via the Internet), there is some unavoidable, and inevitable, repetition of themes, subject and content. Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos Can you explain what you mean by the term The Whites Hordes of Homo Hubris, why you use it, and what, if any, relation there is to the term Horde used to describe the followers of Genghis Khan? The term The White Hordes of Homo Hubris refers to the White, or Caucasian, peoples of Europe and the so-called New World - such as America, Australasia, and Canada - who have the character of, or who belong to, the new subspecies of human called Homo Hubris. Homo Hubris is distinguished by their generally uncouth, vulgar, behaviour; their lack of manners; their arrogance and insolence; their pride, and their innate, often unconscious belief (or rather, delusion), that they and their kind David Myatt - T he White Hordes of Homo Hubris 1 of 37

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"The essays presented here differ in date, the most recent being Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos - closely followed by Homo Hubris and The Disruption of The Numinous - and the earliest (by some seven years) being The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context. As mentioned in Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos, I have had occasion to slightly revise my view regarding what nowconstitutes the Magian ethos.Given this diversity of date in the composition of the individual essays, and given their publication by diverse means (printed or via the Internet), there is some unavoidable, and inevitable, repetition of themes, subject and content." - DW Myatt

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Selected Essays Regarding The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

David Myatt

Introduction

The essays presented here differ in date, the most recent being Homo Hubris and The MagianEthos - closely followed by Homo Hubris and The Disruption of The Numinous - and the earliest (bysome seven years) being The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context. As mentioned in Homo Hubrisand The Magian Ethos, I have had occasion to slightly revise my view regarding what nowconstitutes the Magian ethos.

Given this diversity of date in the composition of the individual essays, and given their publication bydiverse means (printed or via the Internet), there is some unavoidable, and inevitable, repetition ofthemes, subject and content.

Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos

Can you explain what you mean by the term The Whites Hordes of HomoHubris, why you use it, and what, if any, relation there is to the term Hordeused to describe the followers of Genghis Khan?

The term The White Hordes of Homo Hubris refers to the White, or Caucasian,peoples of Europe and the so-called New World - such as America, Australasia,and Canada - who have the character of, or who belong to, the new subspeciesof human called Homo Hubris.

Homo Hubris is distinguished by their generally uncouth, vulgar, behaviour;their lack of manners; their arrogance and insolence; their pride, and theirinnate, often unconscious belief (or rather, delusion), that they and their kind

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are 'superior' and have a sort of 'destiny' or duty to interfere in the lives ofother peoples, often now by imposing some abstraction on them, by force andkilling, but most often, in the past, by occupation, conquest, and imperialism.

In addition, Homo Hubris is in thrall to causal abstractions, and is easy swayedand manipulated by others, lacking as they do any real personal noblecharacter and deficient as they are in both empathy and honour.

In brief, the people of Homo Hubris often act and behave like spoilt childrenand/or bullies.

The term horde is used in the general sense of a swarming crowd, a swarmingmass of humans, and is apt to describe the general behaviour of the majority ofCaucasian humans over the past millennia or more, who have swarmed overplanet Earth, spreading their abstractions and their colonialism and theircapitalist exploitation, and who have behaved like crowds tend to behave:easily swayed by rhetoric and propaganda; often in thrall to primitive emotions(lust for conquest; lust for gold or other resources and commodities; lust forvengeance; and so on); and generally capable of being manipulated by someself-serving cabal or some oligarchy.

There is no specific relation intended, by my usage of the term horde, to thetribes, the hordes, of Genghis Khan or his descendants, such as Batu Khan,and his Ak Orda. One might just as easily use the term The White Swarms ofHomo Hubris, although the term horde itself carries some connotations thatthe term swarm does not, specifically, horde relates to humans, andspecifically, it now implies uncouth behaviour, and the killing of other humanbeings, which makes it somewhat more apt than the term swarm, for HomoHubris is renowned for both uncouth behaviour, and the wanton killing ofother human beings. Indeed, as I have mentioned elsewhere, The White Hordesof Homo Hubris are the most bloodthirsty people in human history, havingbeen responsible for the killing of over two hundred million people in the lasttwo hundred years alone. Why, in just the last decade, The White Hordes ofHomo Hubris have been responsible for the killing of at least half a millionpeople - in the name of their latest crusade - in places like Iraq, Afghanistan,and elsewhere.

In your article The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris, you statequite clearly that the downfall of the West begins, and I quote, “with peoplesexternal to the West, and with those of non-White ethnicity within the lands ofthe West.” Why do you say this, and isn’t this a complete turn around fromyour previous advocacy of European, or “Aryan”, culture and traditions?

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One of the fundamental problems – as I understand it as a result of almost fourdecades of reflexion upon the problem, and following four decades of variedpractical experience and engagement – is that of the innate character of thepeoples of the West. It is this character that has allowed The White Hordes todescend to become Homo Hubris, and has allowed themselves to be the alliesand servants of the Magian. It is this basal character that has caused TheWhite Hordes of Homo Hubris to destroy by ruthless force the few rebellions,in the West, against the mechanistic, usurious, un-numinous status quo. It is,importantly, this innate character that has led to this status quo, that ismanifest in this status quo, based as it is upon the manufacture ofun-numinous abstractions and upon the spread of these contagiousabstractions, by The White Hordes, throughout the peoples of the world.

It is thus this character that needs to changed, and this requires a new ethos;a new perception, a new attitude, a new perspective; an entirely new way andnew ways of living. This change is not going to occur quickly – it will takedecades, if not a century, or more probably, many centuries. That is, thecurrent status quo – the perfidy of the nation-State with its tyranny and itstyrannical abstractions will not only remain, but get much worse, and “thepeople” will, for the most part acquiesce in this, and acquiesce in theincreasing tyranny, manifest as this tyranny is in, for example, increasedgovernment surveillance, in a lack of personal honour, in compulsory andincreasing taxation, in a lack of empathy, a lack of personal manners, in moreand more laws in the name of “security” and “peace”, in restrictions onpeople’s freedom of movement, and in a lack of, or the suppression of, criticaldebate about certain matters, especially certain recent historical events.

In previous decades, I had hoped that it might be possible to bring about thischange of character, from within the West, by “shock and awe” – by creating arevolutionary situation; by precipitating System Breakdown. But my practicalexperience revealed to me that this just could not be done, for several reasons.Firstly, because The White Hordes, en masse, were mostly quite content withtheir lot; secondly, because the Magian ethos, the new Magian mythos, heldthem in thrall, and when it did not there were always, always, willing servantsof the Magian and of their ethos to re-enforce their conditioning, to re-educatethem, or to arrest, convict, and imprison them, or to inform on those few whowere genuine heretics, genuine revolutionaries, genuine outlaws against TheSystem. Thirdly, and perhaps most distressing of all, the fundamentalcharacter of even those who claimed to rebel was, for the most part, flawed;with such individuals not being personal examples of the values we and theychampioned and claimed to be fighting for. That is, they were often,themselves, dishonourable; were often dis-loyal, and mostly did not do theirduty.

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Thus, my conclusions came to be: (1) that the peoples of the West in general,or even those of one nation, would not revolt, and could not be persuaded torevolt against their masters and against their wage and salary slavery. (2) Thatthey had become so corrupted by the ignoble, un-numinous, ethos thatpermeated all the societies of the West, that it is was impossible, or seemed tome impossible, to re-awaken them, to imbue them with the virtues of honour,loyalty and duty in their service of their own culture and their own ethos, andthat when these noble virtues were shown, by them, it was more often than notonly and ever in the service of the Magian; for Magian goals; for and on behalfof the Magian ethos, so imbued had the majority of peoples of the Westbecome with that ethos. (3) That one of the fundamental and importantproblems was that the Magian ethos itself was an almost alchemical blend ofthe abstractions, half (or more) from the peoples of the West, and half (or less)directly from the Magians themselves.

But perhaps most important of all, in those previous decades, I had worked onand indeed lived by the assumption that the problem was a simple one of “us”and “them” – of the Magian ethos being just that, purely Magian; purelymanufactured by the Magian; that, expressed simply, we had become“infected” by a virus that was Magian in origin and in design; and that thusthat “we” just needed to return to “our” own, pure, ethos, our own values, ourown ancestral ways, in order to liberate ourselves, in order to cure ourselves ofthis infection, this Magian distortion.

However, I came to realize, to crucially understand, that “we” ourselves werepart of the problem; if not a major cause of the problem. That it was the Whitepeoples themselves – and especially their abstractions – which originally gaverise to and which imbued this ethos with so much vigour, and which hasallowed it to so take root among the peoples of the West.

Now, I consider what I term the Magian ethos as something other than simplysomething manufactured by some other people, such as Zionists, and whichthus expresses the ethos, the Zeitgeist, of that people. That is, this Magianethos is theirs, but crucially also “ours”; an alchemical mixture of ideas,abstractions, and mythos, deriving from both “us” and “them”. Thus, whilecurrently the main beneficiaries of this Magian ethos are the Magiansthemselves (and especially their new State entity and its satellite entity,Amerika) its origin, its existence, and its continuing vigour and power are nowinsolubly tied up with the peoples of the West.

In addition, my assessment of the basic character of what I regarded as myown people had been hopelessly idealistic, ridiculously romantic, and thusflawed, and I came, from direct experience, to know their flaws, their faults,so evident in a genuine understanding of their history, their deeds past and

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present. I also came to know, to understand, my own flaws, my own mistakes.In brief, the situation, the problem, was not as simple as I had naively believedit to be, with the truth being that the Magian ethos has naturally become theethos of the West since it was to a large extent the creation of the peoples ofthe West, with some important input, some quite important changes, from andmade by the Magian themselves.

So yes, indeed, this is almost a complete reversal of my former position – butone based on, deriving from, my own practical experience. Based upon therealities I encountered and had to deal with. That is, I learned, fromexperience; and I especially learned from my own mistakes. I also lost thatsomewhat immature idealism, that romanticism, that I had somehow managedto retain even after decades of revolutionary activism.

Hence, in order to bring about the downfall of The System, we must look tothose who have a different character from ours, and different from theMagian, and learn from these peoples of diverse and non-White ethnicity; andchange ourselves (inwardly, in character) and encourage these other peoplesto understand our flaws, to value themselves, and free themselves from “our”ethos, that is, from the Magian ethos which now dominates the West and hasspread over the entire world. They should free themselves of direct control bythe West, and rid themselves, wherever they are – even if residing in the West –from any and all Western influences, for the West has now naturally becomesynonymous with the Magian, synonymous with the Magian ethos, with theun-numinous and tyrannical abstractions of The White Hordes.

The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

Introduction

The downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris, the destruction of theirnation-States, of The West itself, is something not only to be desired, but alsostriven toward by all practical means.

Why? Because as mentioned in Chapter Two of The Mythos of Vindex, “TheWhite Hordes of Homo Hubris…have consistently and for many centuries beenthe destroyers, par excellence, of The Numinous.” In addition, it is and hasbeen The White Hordes of Homo Hubris (Footnote 1) who are and who werethe natural allies and the footsoldiers of the Magian, and who are responsible

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for the present triumph, in the West, of the Magian and the Magian ethos,which triumph has enabled the creation of the tyrannical, dishonourable,modern nation-States with their abstract laws, their materialism and theirmechanistic so-called “progress”. For is The White Hordes of Homo Hubris who– doing the bidding of their Magian masters, knowingly or unknowingly – haveused brutal force and war to fight and destroy each and every attempt to resistthe control of the Magian, just as it is and has been The White Hordes of HomoHubris who have brutally and ruthlessly put down each and every rebellionagainst the Magian ethos, and who at the time of writing are engaged in yetanother war against those who seek to free themselves from Magian controland who desire to live in communities free of the stifling, un-numinousmaterialistic, mechanistic, Magian ethos.

Why have The White Hordes of Homo Hubris done this? Why are they, and whyhave they been, the allies, servants and footsoldiers of the Magian? Is itbecause of their ethnicity – something innate? Or is it because they themselveshave enthusiastically adopted, or became infected with, the Magian ethositself? Fundamentally, it is combination of both these factors.

The Character of The White Hordes

The White Hordes have, and have had for at least two thousand or more years,a certain innate character (Footnote 2). This character is one of arrogantaggression; of arrogant interference; of cunning; and especially of hubris –that belief, that instinct, that impatience – often born from some feeling of“Destiny” – that “they know better”, that they are somehow “more civilized”than others, and that “progress” or change is in itself desirable. In addition,they seem to have some innate desire to manufacture and to identify with –and some kind of addiction to – causal abstractions; to impose categories,-isms, and -ologies upon themselves, others, the world, and the Cosmos itself.

Basically, they are and have been for thousands of years, restless, and haveeither (1) never managed, en masse, to establish a balance within themselvesand so have been unable or unwilling to manufacture – for long – stable,communities and societies which express, manifest and continually presencethe numinous, sans abstractions; or (2) have never been able to control, forvery long, their primal instincts, their lack of respect for the numinous, andtheir innate bullying savagery, although they have managed, or ratherconnived, to convince themselves, and sometimes others, that they, and theirways, are somehow “civilized”, although this so-called “civilized behaviour” oftheirs that they have often been so very proud of is and only ever has been atbest a thin veneer, and at worst mere pretence, for while showing to others,and the world, a civilized and “honourable” public face, they have

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hypocritically continued to act, in private, in an altogether different way, aswas for so evident, for instance, in the days of the British Raj in India, and ofBritish control in places like East Africa, where the private lives of theindividuals did not match the hypocritical high standards they preached aboutin public and which they attempted to convince people they were examples of.

This utter hypocrisy, this lack of control, this cunning, this aggression, thishubris, this insolence and disrespect of the numinous, this desire for theillusion and the security of abstractions, is so evident, also and more recently,in the behaviour of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris in places likeAfghanistan, which they have occupied by force in order to impose their ways,their abstractions, upon the peoples there. Thus, they have yet again disruptedand are attempting to destroy the ways of life of others; and are yet againusing force, terror, cunning, lies – and all the other tactics of the insolent – inorder to get those peoples to adopt some mythical idealized way of life, whichidealized way of life does not even exist and never has existed even in theWestern lands of The White Hordes.

Thus, The White Hordes of Homo Hubris are yet again bringing death,destruction, disruption, hunger, and suffering, to others in the name of somemythical un-numinous abstraction. In the case of Afghanistan, it is in the nameof the un-numinous abstraction “democracy” and in the name of “peace”, bywhich the sly White Hordes mean, of course, the so-called “peace” that ariseswhen one surrenders to a bully, that is, surrenders to them.

The character of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris is also evident in theirdesire to control, to restrain, to “organize” – to try to dominate – Nature. Thecharacter of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris is evident in their obsessionwith causal Time and with “planning”, which obsession anyone who comesfrom, or who has lived for any time among, other non-Western communitiesand cultures and cultures, will recognize. For example, individuals who belongto The White Hordes of Homo Hubris will expect others to share their attitudethat “causal Time” is valuable, a kind of commodity, and can be measured out,and, indeed, The White Hordes of Homo Hubris have gone to great lengths – aspart of their cultural colonialism – to impose their causal Time and theirschedules (based on some abstraction), and their causal orientatedmechanistic “planning”, on other peoples, world-wide.

Most other cultures, however, have or had an understanding of life as it is – asa slow flow of slow change, in rhythm with Nature, which slow flow of slownatural and local change those individuals accept and which they do not, forthe most part, attempt to struggle against. But, for The White Hordes of HomoHubris, it is constant struggle – for they desire to impose themselves, their“Time”, their abstractions, upon others and upon Nature. For instance, for

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them, mañana is an irritation, an inconvenience; just as wu-wei is, and just as“InshaAllah” (as commonly used, for example, by Egyptians) is. For The WhiteHordes of Homo Hubris, a delay of a day, or a week, or more, is unacceptable,just as for most of their kind the subtle delicacy of chadō is a “waste of time”,an irritation, or something “quaint and touristy”; just as the intricacies andmeanings of Ram thai – evolved naturally and locally over periods of naturalTime – are and were lost on these impatient “foreign devils” and for whomsuch things are at best something they can momentarily gawp at. For TheWhite Hordes of Homo Hubris have always ridiculed, or dismissed, or seem asinferior, or wanted to change, the natural practices and ways of every singlepeople they have ever come into contact with, from the Native Americans, ofNorth and South America, to the tribes of Africa, to the lands of Khmer andTai, to the islands of Nihon.

Given their character, their impatience, their hubris and insolence, theirdesire for an almost instant gratification, their addiction to abstractions, it isno wonder then that The White Hordes of Homo Hubris came to destroy theculture, the communities, the tribes, of others, and have imposed upon otherpeoples their own unfeeling, their own causal and un-numinous, abstractions,manufacturing thus modern abstract nation-States in place of the subtlenuminous culture of Bushido and Samurai, in place of regional small ancestralkingdoms such as Tai, Khmer, and Mon, and trying to destroy and replace thetribal ways of the Ashanti, Afar, Hopi, Tsitsistas, Ndee, Siksika, and the many,many, others whom they often ruthlessly uprooted from their ancestral landsand whom they demanded, often by force, adopt the ways and abstractions ofThe White Hordes of Homo Hubris.

Now, of course, they and their savants pretend, for the most part, to “treasureand recognize the importance of the world’s cultural diversity”, but whatremains of this diversity – after century upon century of military and culturalcolonialism by The White Hordes – is for the most part now rootless, notderived from a thriving, living, numinous and tribal way of life which oweslittle or nothing to the ways, the abstractions, of the West. Such “culturaldiversity” is now often only some “tourist attraction” for the tourists of TheWhite Hordes “to enjoy” and gawp at, or something the Western-stylegovernments and nations of other lands have appropriated and which theypromote in order to foster a kind of artificial national unity, and aWestern-style nationalism, among the citizens of these more-often-than-notWestern created new nation-States, over which the West still retains control,directly or covertly, by the threat of military force, by usurious loans, through“aid”, through political and economic blackmail, or by others means.

Furthermore, what The White Hordes and their Magian masters will nottolerate, in the modern world, is another land, another country, other peoples,

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being free from Western control, free from Western abstractions, and having away or ways of life that place their own numinous ancestral culture, their ownnuminous laws, and a tribal way of living, before the mechanistic material“culture” of the West, before the abstract laws of the West, and before thesoul-less abstraction of the usury-driven, debt ridden, tax-demanding nation-State. Any and all such attempts by other peoples to free themselves fromWestern abstractions, Western control or influence, have been and areruthlessly put down, with the sly bullying White Hordes of Homo Hubris, andtheir even slyer Magian masters, always manufacturing some “excuse” fortheir actions, for their intervention, for the crippling sanctions they impose.(Footnote 3)

Adoption of the Magian Ethos

Long before they devolved even further to become – during and after theso-called Industrial Revolution – Homo Hubris, The White Hordes of the oldEurope had begun to undermine and disrupt our natural and slowly evolvingconnexion to the Numinous, based as this connexion was on tribalcommunities and the law of personal honour. That is, based on a human,individual, scale of things, on personal knowledge of and interaction with andrespect for, others, and upon an awareness, often only instinctive, of ourselvesas an integral part of Nature. This connexion thus gave rise to a natural andbalanced and fundamentally pagan attitude toward life where the individualfor the most part had or could strive to have power over their own affairs or atleast the basic freedom to defend themselves with weapons and where the onlyauthority was a local, tribal or clan, one, with those in possession of suchauthority being personally known to the individual and almost alwaysrespected by the individual by virtue of being, for instance, clan or tribalelders.

This undermining and this disruption of the numinous by The White Hordesoccurred because of their innate restless insolent character, and because oftheir manufacture of various un-numinous abstractions which – from the timesof Ancient Greece – they interposed between themselves and the reality of theCosmos and which they increasingly began to adhere to or see as “ideals” to bestriven for. These abstractions included, of course, the Platonian “ideal” itself,the notion of potestas tribunicia, and the abstraction of a codifiable law, whichestablished the Imperium Romanum. In many ways, it was this abstraction of acodified law, together with the imposition of a remote, impersonal, authority –often maintained by force and almost always sustained by mandatory taxes –which began the unfortunate dominance of The White Hordes and whichmarked the real beginning of their de-evolution, of their increasing distancefrom, and disruption of, the numinous. Of their, in brief, wholesale adoption of

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and belief in profane abstractions over and above the ways of the Numen. Forthey began to make this abstraction of a codified law and a remote,impersonal, authority, sustained by mandatory taxes, an ideal to be striven for.

However, it was their outward and inward adoption of the abstractions of whatbecame the religion and dogma of the Nazarene that began not only theirgreat and rapid descent back toward barbarism, and thence ultimately towardand into the new subspecies Homo Hubris, but also and importantly led to analliance with the Magian, which alliance in its beginnings had more to do withusury, avarice and the power of so-called Kings and rulers, than it had to dowith changing the world for the worse based on some messianic abstraction oron some prejudiced desire to “civilize the natives”.

Even so, there were times – several times – when some of the peoples from TheWhite Hordes of the old Europe forsook the ways of abstractions and ofprofanity, and returned to the old ways of balance and a natural paganism.But every time such a natural balance was restored within some communitiesof the West, it became undermined, and was ultimately destroyed, by therestless insolent abstraction-loving character germane to the White Hordesthemselves, often because of the desire to pursue, to believe in, to implement,some un-numinous abstraction; some dogma, so -ism or some -ology, be these-isms or these -ologies deemed to be “political”, social, or “religious”, whichterms themselves (politics, religion, social) are of course just more examples ofthe un-numinous illusive causal abstractions imposed upon the numinousreality of our organic, acausally-imbued life.

What we have now – manifest in The White Hordes of Homo Hubris and theirMagian masters, with their modern tyrannical nation-States – is the result ofThe White Hordes having: (1) adopted and adapted what became theabstraction of the Nazarene (Magian-derived) way of life; (2) having adoptedand adapted the Magian principle of usury; (3) having manufactured from theNazarene abstraction and from their own other abstractions (such as acodified law and a remote, impersonal, authority, sustained by mandatorytaxes) new abstractions; and (3) from them striving to implement, because ofand using their innate character, these new abstractions, such as modern“democracy”, the modern nation-State, and the mythical desire for so-called“peace” to be established, of course, by and under the aegis of the armedforces led by or dominated by The White Hordes who have manufactured forthemselves a world mandate, courtesy of their creations such as the so-called“United Nations”.

Thus was the rough beast – our mortal enemy – born, to slouch towardBethlehem, where it helped to bring about the Zionist entity, which entity hascome to believe that its messianic hour is almost here, at last.

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The Tyrannical Abstraction of The State

One of the fundamental problems of our times in the un-numinous, thetyrannical, the impersonal, abstraction of The State, maintained as thisabstraction is by mandatory taxes, by an increasingly bullying Police forcewhich increasingly relies upon surveillance and paid informers, and imbued asthis abstraction is with a mechanistic materialism, a capitalistic ethos, and theever-present threat of individuals being incarcerated in some barbaric prisonif they break some law which some servant or servants of The State havemanufactured in order to ensure the survival of The State and the survival ofthose oligarchies who control The State and who benefit from its existence.

The modern State – wherever in the West or in the world it is located – seeks toimbue its citizens with either some sort of abstract national pride (for which ithas manufactured a lifeless un-numinous so-called national “culture”) or witha belief in some other abstraction of a political, social, or religious nature, justas it assigns a high priority to other abstractions such as “national security” or“national defence”, and just as it uses all the means at its disposal – from theMedia to entertainment to sport to manufactured celebratory events toworthless so-called “traditions” to promises about “change” and “progress” – inan attempt to keep its mostly debt-ridden wage and salary slaves reasonablycontent, knowing that it needs the taxes it steals and extorts from them inorder to maintain its existence, and the existence of the parasites who feedupon it and who benefit from it.

For the modern nation-State is, in truth, a large legalized protection racket,demanding you pay “protection money” or you will be visited by their“heavies” (the Police and the other agencies they control) and then eitherasked to pay even more protection money (a “fine”) or be imprisoned forhowever long they deem appropriate in their barbaric prisons, which prisonsthey maintain as a means of persuasion and control. for the so-called “justice”of the State and its flunkies is an abstract, impersonal, “justice” whollyunrelated to the natural and numinous (and real) justice which derives frompersonal honour – for their abstract so-called “justice”, and their Police forcesand their laws, take away the freedom and the ability of the individual to maketheir own judgement of others, to be responsible for themselves, and to seekhonourable redress in a personal, direct, manner.

What all this amounts to is that The State makes the individual rootless,powerless, and undermines and destroys the connexion of the individual to thenuminous, for it destroys that natural, numinous, culture which arises fromour natural, tribal, human, way of living. It takes away the ability of theindividual to evolve in a natural way, for it replaces the natural perspective ofNature and the Cosmos with the perspective of various lifeless abstractions, all

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of which abstractions have their own lifeless, un-numinous and ultimatelycausal and mechanistic goals. Even what passes for “religion” or for anon-material Way in such States is lifeless, un-numinous and ultimatelymeaningless because it is either an abstraction itself (some -ism, some -ology)or because it demands subservience of the individual to its dogma and doesnot recognize, promote nor accept either personal empathy or personal honouras a basis for insight and for living.

In contrast, a true numinous way of living is never “religious” and never supra-personal; it is never impersonal and dogmatic, and never demandssubservience to some impersonal authority. Instead, a true numinous way ofliving: (1) always arises from, and is part of, a natural tribal or clan-basedcommunity who live, who work, together in some locality and who thus knoweach other personally or know of, or are related to, the others in such alocality, and (2) always allows for, and indeed often insists upon, theimportance of individual empathy, of individual experience, of individualchange, never ever thus negating those three most fundamental principles ofgenuine freedom, of our humanity itself: empathy, personal honour, and alearning from direct personal experience, which personal learning builds noblecharacter and which personal, practical and direct experience is far far morevaluable than the abstract impersonal “learning” and the “knowledge” and the“experience” obtained in and enforced by impersonal Institutions and bymandatory State schools.

For the birth of this beast, The State, we have to thank The White Hordes ofHomo Hubris and the influence of the Magian ethos, and for the continuedexistence of this beast and its modern progeny we have to thank the alliance ofThe White Hordes of Homo Hubris and the Magian. However, what began as analliance has now become, in the last several decades, almost total control ofThe White Hordes of Homo Hubris by the Magian, and an almost total reliance,by The White Hordes, on not only The State, but also on abstractions, whichabstractions now include the new mythos which the Magian and their willinghelpers among the White Hordes have developed as one means of control(Footnote 4).

The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

How can we, how should we, deal with this beast, The State, and thusre-establish our connexion to the numinous? First, we have to accept that thepeoples of the West – the vast majority of whom are still part of The WhiteHordes of Homo Hubris – will not, and cannot, suddenly change their nature,and what has now become their character, and neither will they, at least not inthe next century or so, free themselves from the control of the Magian andfrom their subservience to The State. For this State still provides them with,

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and will continue to provide them with, a reasonable materialistic way of life,and the Magian will ensure that the troops and minions of The White Hordes ofHomo Hubris will fight for, and/or obtain by whatever means, whateverresources are needed, wherever in the world they are, in order for their lackeyWestern States, and their own beloved Zionist entity, to survive.

Given all these things, it is reasonable to suggest and expect and to worktoward one or both of the following. (1) That the societies of the West have tobroken down and disrupted from within by those who understand the perfidyof the abstraction of The State and who desire to live in either a newnuminous, and evolutionary, way, or in a way consistent with their own,non-Western, culture or way of life. (2) That those, external to the West, whohave suffered most at the hands of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris – andwho have somehow managed to maintain at least some of their own numinousculture or some of their own ancestral tribal ways, and who may not yet beinfected that much by the Magian ethos and the new Magian mythos – shouldbegin to free themselves from Western control and Western influence bypractical and/or by “spiritual”/cultural means, which practical means includesthe use of armed force, rebellion, and insurrection, and which cultural meansinclude embracing a tribal way of life, ancestral or otherwise.

In both of these, the emphasis needs to be moved away from the traditions, thehistory, the past culture, the current ethos, of the indigenous peoples of theWest (the White “foreign devils”) and instead directed toward either (1) that ofother non-Western peoples or (2) toward a new numinous and tribal way ofliving for peoples of any ethnicity, White and non-White. (Footnote 5)

Thus, it is time for a genuine new beginning, away from the West of today andyesterday. Time for the crimes, the oppression, the tyranny, of the West – ofThe White Hordes of Homo Hubris – to be exposed, to be understood, and forWestern ways, values and abstractions to be rejected in favour of the ways, thetraditions, the culture, of other peoples and in favour of our new andnuminous way. It is time for other peoples to cease to regard and cease to viewthe West, and The White Hordes of Homo Hubris, as examples to followed andadmired, and for the so-called progress and the current prosperity of the Westto be understood for what it is: the bloody result of centuries of colonialism;the result of centuries of exploitation of the peoples and resources of theworld; the result of centuries of blackmail, extortion, plunder, war, andatrocity after atrocity; the consequence of real holocaust after real holocaust.

Indeed, it is correct to state that the barbarian peoples of the West – despitetheir sly propaganda to the contrary – are the most blood-thirsty people inhuman history, having been responsible, during their recent “Second Worldwar” alone, for the killing of over seventy million people, which is equivalent to

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exterminating more than the whole population of a country such as modernday France. In addition, if one considers the slaughter that the West have beenresponsible for in the past one hundred and fifty years alone, it is equivalent toexterminating far more than the whole population of a populous country suchas modern day Pakistan.

Therefore it is indeed time for Western ways, values and abstractions to berejected, and for the West itself to be brought down. For the West, with itsabstract nation-States, with its White Hordes of Homo Hubris in thrall to thenew Magian mythos and fighting for and on behalf of that mythos, is thegreatest obstacle to our further evolution; the greatest tyranny to havebefallen us in our history, although few among The White Hordes realize this,so brainwashed have they been by the sly propaganda of their nations, and sounaware as they are and have been of true, the evolutionary, purpose of ourindividual lives. For this modern profane mechanistic materialistic tyranny hastaken away from us our numinous tribal ways, taken away our numinous livingculture, our empathy, and our personal honour: our freedom to livenuminously.

Furthermore, the foundation, the basis, the essence, of the change required tobring about the downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris and theirnation-States, is the change toward creating new communities; the changetoward new tribes and tribal ways of living, whether these are urban based orrural, and whether or not – in the case of non-Western lands – these are basedon or inspired by surviving traditions and surviving ancestral ways. That is,there is and must be a rejection of the abstraction of The State itself, and adesire to embrace the natural, the numinous way, of tribes and clans. The wayof the tribe is the way of the future; the way toward a conscious and acontinuing evolution, while the way of The State is the way of restriction, oftyranny, of impersonal control.

Hence, the downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris – and of their mostperfidious abstraction, the nation-State – begins with peoples external to theWest, and with those of non-White ethnicity within the lands of the West. Thatis, it is time for the non-White peoples of the world to free themselves from thepower, the influence, the control, the abstractions, the ethos, of The WhiteHordes, and to assert themselves; to reject the nation-State in favour of tribes;to either rediscover their own ethos, their ancestral ways, or to develope forthemselves new ways, a new ethos, independent from all the un-numinousabstractions of The White Hordes.

In conclusion, the change, the evolution, that we seek to bring about is anatural one; an evolutionary return to what is numinous; a restoration of thebalance that has been lost, and this is, in essence, a return to a tribal way of

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life, a return to and a development of empathy, and a return to the law ofpersonal honour in place of the abstract law of The White Hordes and of theMagian.

This is an evolutionary return because it derives from a knowledge andunderstanding of the perfidy of abstractions – and especially the perfidy of TheState and of conventional religions – and from a knowledge and understandingof ourselves as a nexion. That is, it is based on an appreciation and awarenessof the numinous, and is a conscious choice to change ourselves in a naturaland numinous way. It is evolutionary because there is no desire to tro tore-create some idealized past or some mythical past way of living, tribal orotherwise. Instead, there is a striving to evolve, to become part of, to bring-into-being, new tribes, to form new communities from these new tribes, and toallow the development of new and numinous and vibrant cultures from thesenew communities.

Then – having awoken from the abstractive illusions that currently hold mostpeople in a dream-like sleep – we can evolve, change, and develope; we willcease to be children, and instead become mature human beings who can leavetheir childhood home, this planet we call Earth, evolving thus to become anentirely new species of being.

Notes:

(1) For a general description of Homo Hubris, see (a) Homo Hubris and theDisruption of The Numinous and (b) The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context(Part Two of The Mythos of Vindex)

(2) A good example of their type of character is the figure of Alexander ofMacedon, who was ruthless, cunning, ambitious, vain, arrogant, restless,insolent, who believed himself to have a “Destiny”, and who set aboutdisrupting the ways of life of other peoples, and imposing his own way uponthose he conquered, thus destroying their tribal ways and thus upsetting thenatural balance which those peoples had attained over long periods of time. Inplace of their ancestral tribal ways – which maintained for them a connexionto the Numinous – he imposed his own lifeless abstractions.

In describing the nature and character and thus the personality, the persona,of the collective White Hordes, we are, of course, generalizing, based as thisgeneralization is upon a study of the history of the old Europe, and upon thedeeds committed by the collective White Hordes in the past thousand years,including their colonialism.

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Since it is a generalization, some or indeed many individuals belonging to, ordeemed to be belong to, The White Hordes may have a character, a nature, apersona, different from, or even quite distinct from, that of the collectiveWhite Hordes themselves.

(3) Communism – and all forms of political socialism – are just moreun-numinous abstractions manufactured by The White Hordes and by theMagian, with all or most of these forms requiring some State for them to be, intheory, implemented or tried. Similarly, all forms of modern democracy areun-numinous abstractions and most if not all also require some State for themto be implemented or tried.

Thus, all these forms, all these abstractions – like capitalism and fascism andall conventional religions – do not and never can liberate the individual or apeople and return them to a numinous way of life, but instead only serve toenslave them further to un-numinous abstractions.

(4) This new Magian manufactured mythos slyly combines several elements.The first element is the almost mythical belief that the so-called “West” (andespecially America) is a bastion of “reason, justice, and freedom”; that“democracy” means “freedom and peace”; and that those who do or who mayoppose the nation-States of the West (for whatever reason) are “enemies offreedom, and enemies of reason and democracy”. The second element is thatthe way to prosperity and “freedom” and happiness lies in accepting thevalues, the ways, the abstractions, of the West, such as “democracy” and usury.The third element is that the Western created “United Nations” – over whichthe West maintains control by means of the so-called Security Council – has amandate to intervene in the affairs of any country, by force if necessary;impose punitive sanctions, and is generally “keeping the peace”, although ofcourse this so-called “peace” is really submission. The fourth element is thatthe West – and whatever allies it deems suitable (such as the Zionist entity) –has a right, and even a duty, to possess vastly superior weapons, includingnuclear weapons, which it can and which it should deny to whomsoever itchooses, so that its military power can never, ever, be challenged byconventional means.

The fifth element – and perhaps the most sly element – of the new Magianmythos is the one that binds all the others together, and this is that the West,and those chosen to be their allies, have in the last hundred years fought andwon several hard, difficult, wars for their “freedom” and their “rights”, which“wars for freedom” most importantly include what is called The Second WorldWar, where the forces of “good” (the West, their allies and friends, includingthe Magian) narrowly defeated the forces of “evil” (the German National-Socialists and the warriors of Nippon) with the German National-Socialists

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accused of being responsible for the worst atrocity in human history (theso-called Shoah) and which so-called atrocity led to the necessaryestablishment of the Zionist entity, which entity should therefore be supportedat whatever cost, and is itself a bastion of democracy and freedom.

The final element of the new Magian mythos is the belief that the West mustdefend itself, “whatever the cost”; that threats to “freedom” exist now or willexist; that the security of Western nations and of their allies are vital tofreedom itself, and that its people should be and are expected to makesacrifices to ensure “our continuing freedom” even if this means going to fightin some war somewhere, or supporting whatever Western securityorganizations do and whatever laws governments may manufacture to “protecttheir freedom and their national security”.

Most if not all the peoples of the West accept and believe in most if not all ofthis modern mythos.

(5) Basically, the White peoples of the West need to cure themselves of theiraddiction to, and their desire to manufacture, abstractions, as they need toreform their own character by developing empathy, by re-engaging with andrespecting the numinous, and by returning to and embracing the individualway of individual honour. Fundamentally, they need to reject the abstractionsof the nation-State, of conventional “religions” and the causality of all“politics”, and instead embrace a new and tribal way of living.

Thus, it is not a question of ethnicity or of ethnic conflict – but rather theopposite; bringing-into-being in the West new ethnically diverse tribes. It is aquestion of all peoples – but especially the White peoples of the West –rejecting lifeless abstractions and adopting instead numinous ways based upona new tribal way of life.

(Extract from Part Two of The Mythos of Vindex)

The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context

Introduction: The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

If we consider the actions of what we have called, in Part One, The WhiteHordes of Homo Hubris, over the last three hundred or so years, it is quite

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obvious that they possess and have possessed a certain character, or nature,distinguished as this particular personal character is by a surfeit of arrogance,pride, destructiveness, and greed.

In addition, The White Hordes of Homo Hubris seem to be somewhat addictedto three things:

(1) to what we may call the way of competition: to the somewhat primitivebelief that ruthless competition, between individuals, and abstract constructssuch as nations, organizations, corporations and businesses, is not onlyessential to "society" but also the correct way to produce the type of individualdeemed desirable. Indeed, this ruthless way of competition may be said to benot only one of the foundations of capitalism itself, but also to express the verywar-like, barbaric, nature of the individuals who, collectively, form The WhiteHordes of Homo Hubris;

(2) to the idea, the myth, the un-numinous abstraction, of "progress"; inpursuit of which myth they have destroyed not only their own ancestralcultures, but nearly all other ancestral cultures in the world;

(3) to manufacturing machines, the use of which gives The White Hordes ofHomo Hubris a feeling of power and superiority, and which use has destroyedtheir connexion - both personal and communal - to The Numinous.

For hundreds of years The White Hordes of Homo Hubris have ravaged theworld; invading lands, occupying them, installing puppet-regimes, andclaiming for themselves the wealth and resources of those lands, all the whileregarding themselves, and their “European” or "Western" culture, as superior,and all the while demanding that "the natives" adopt the ways of The WhiteHorde.

In the course of these colonial conquests and rampages, The White Hordes ofHomo Hubris have slaughtered millions upon millions of people and, inaddition – in their own territories such as Europe, or in their new annexedcolonies such as America – they have fought wars among themselves duringwhich at least a hundred million people have been killed. In fact, the slaughterwhich The White Hordes have brought to the world is unparalleled in humanhistory – from the ravages of Alexander the Greek, to the Empire of Rome, tothe wars of Napoleon, to the genocide of the native Americans, to the so-calledFirst and Second World Wars, to the hundreds of colonial wars in Africa, Asiaand elsewhere, on to the more recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thisslaughter includes some of the most barbaric killings in history – such as theslaughter, in two days, of over 200,000 people in Japan by the dropping of

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atomic bombs, and the fire-storm in Dresden, in 1945 CE - created by bombsdropped from aircraft - which killed at least 30,000 people in one night.

During all these conflicts – during all this slaughter – the “European” or the“White man”, has saught to change the way of life of the peoples of the world,believing, in their arrogance, that the ways of the “white man”, that theculture of “Europe”, that Western values, were and are superior to each andevery other way of life, and these White Hordes have used every means at theirdisposal – from war, invasion, occupation, economic blackmail, propaganda,lies, deceit, flattery, and bribery to torture and imprisonment – to get theirown way.

No wonder, then, that the peoples of other cultures often considered Whitepeople from the West to be “foreign devils” who could not be trusted: peoplewho, like devils, were clever, cunning, unprincipled, manipulative andruthless.

In addition, these “foreign devils” ruthlessly destroyed the mostly tribal way ofliving, and the tribal culture, which existed in most non-European lands,replacing this tribal way of life with their own manufactured abstraction of"the nation-State" which nation-State has to have, allegedly, what these“foreign devils” called "democracy". Thus have the interfering, arrogant,prideful, cunning war-like White Hordes of Homo Hubris replaced whatnaturally grew and evolved in its own natural, local, and numinous way - atribal way of life and a tribal culture - with soul-less, un-numinous,abstractions which have brought disruption, chaos, corruption, immensesuffering, exploitation, inhuman conflict and death, to the world. One has onlyto consider, for instance, how the White colonists - the foreign devils of Britainand Europe - descended upon and plundered and exploited and changedAfrica, to see one legacy of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris. For theyreplaced fairly stable and diverse African tribal cultures - with their own senseof identity and their limited, local, sparse tribal conflicts - with mostly corrupt"modern nations" composed of peoples of various tribes, which modern"industrialised" nations now pursue agendas and policies made for them bytheir former colonial "masters" or by impersonal international corporationsand the ethos of capitalism. From being self-supporting agrarian communitiesthey have become impoverished, conflict-ridden, "nations" which often dependon the so-called "generosity" of the foreign devils of the modern West, who stillcovertly and often overtly control them and who still set, by their Whiteyabstractions, their aims, and who still, now mostly covertly, plunder theresources of the world for their own benefit.

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have have committed and are still committing the error of hubris: of insolence;for they have consistently and for many centuries been the destroyers, parexcellence, of The Numinous, and have, due to their character and nature,brought chaos, suffering, death and destruction to the world on a scalehitherto unknown, replacing as they have the mythos of the numinous with themythos of materialism: the mythos of pleasure, greed, dishonour, indulgence,luxury, and ruthless competition. It is no wonder, then, that The White Hordesof Homo Hubris are, and always been, the natural allies and servants of TheMagian.

To understand the perfidy of the Magian, and their allies, one only has tounderstand how the peoples of the West - and now, the world - have beenshamelessly manipulated by the Shoah myth, and how this myth, has nowbecome a sacred dogma the questioning of which is punishable byimprisonment. To know, to feel, the dishonour of the Magian, and their allies,one only has to consider how the governments of the West shamelesslyinvented lies - such as Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction - in orderto further their expansionist agenda; and how the foot-soldiers of this ignoblealliance treated and treat Muslim prisoners in places like Abu Ghraib, Bagramand Guantanamo Bay. Indeed, the treatment of captured Muslims uncannilyreflects the treatment, the torture, meted out by the Western allies to many,many, captured German National-Socialists - particularly members of theWaffen-SS - at the end of the First Zionist War (1939-1945 CE). Then, therewere the show trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere; now, there are the showtrials of Muslims in Amerika, and others lands; show trials of those who havedared to defy the pro-Magian status quo and who have taken up arms againstthis ignoble tyrannical status quo. The same dishonourable ethos is behindthis; and the same methods, the same type of propaganda, have been used.Consider how the peoples of the West were deluged with anti-Talibanpropaganda before the Western invasion of Afghanistan, and how the sametype of propaganda was used against Saddam Hussein before the invasion ofIraq. There are striking parallels with the propaganda used against AdolfHitler and NS Germany before the First Zionist War.

Consider how the Magian and the Amerikans and their allies can slaughter, bybullets, bombs and missiles, tens upon tens of thousands of Muslims - womenand children included - in places such as Filistine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, andthen brazenly lie or make excuses for these murders, for which killings no oneis held accountable and for which murders hardly anyone is ever tried in aCourt of Law; and then consider how the Zionists and the Amerikans behavewhen a few Jews, or some other people, are killed by Muslims in revenge forthis continuing slaughter and the continuing occupation of Muslim land. The

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Zionists and the Amerikans and their allies demand ‘justice’ and vow the “huntthe terrorists” down, and generally behave like the zealous utter barbarichypocrites they are.

The simple reality is that the Magian and their allies are lying, deceitful,hypocritical, dishonourable bullies, while the majority of Islamic fighters, theMujahideen - as were the vast majority of the soldiers of the Third Reich - arehonourable warriors fighting for a just, and numinous, cause. Contrast, forinstance, the dignity and honour of Mullah Umar - or Major General Otto ErnstRemer and SS General Leon Degrelle - with the posturing and the lies of aBush, or with the smirking of a lying Blair and a clownish Gordon Brown - andit is quite easy to see the difference in personal character. Mullah Umar, forinstance, fights, lives, on the battlefield, with few possessions and is a trueman of honour, while the likes of Bush, Blair, and Brown send other people offto fight their wars, hide behind bodyguards, a massive security apparatus, andenjoy and indulge themselves with all the pleasures and luxuries of Westerncapitalism. In the same way, both Otto Ernst Remer and Leon Degrelle - bothwarriors who fought on battlefields - remained honourably loyal to the man towhom they had sworn an oath, on their honour, and both, through theiractions both during and particularly after The First Zionist War, wereexemplary examples of honourable men, men of natural dignity and ofmanners, in complete contrast to the uncouth, profane, barbarians of theWhite Hordes of Homo Hubris.

NS Germany and the Bushido of Japan

As mentioned in Part One:

" It was the White hordes of Homo Hubris who - under the spell of theMagian - brutally, cunningly, and efficiently, defeated the one resurgenceof the numinous, in the West, and the one resurgence of the numinous inthe Far East, which resurgence in many ways (but not all) prefigured, andwere intimations of, the warrior way of Vindex: the one and only attempt,in the West, to counter and replace the ethos of the Magian with thenuminous way of the warrior, and the one and only practical resurgence,elsewhere in the world, to halt the spread of the dishonourable vulgar"culture" of Western Homo Hubris, and to return to a numinous,ancestral, culture and way of life. "

The currently unpopular and often censored truth of our times is thatNational-Socialist Germany - what it had evolved to be by the beginning of The

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First Zionist War - was a modern mostly unconscious expression of thenuminous, honourable, warrior ethos, and stood in complete and starkcontrast to the materialism, the hubris, of the Magian and their allies andservants in the West, represented by the arrogant, profane, White Hordes ofHomo Hubris. Furthermore, had NS Germany not been defeated by The WhiteHordes of Homo Hubris and by the machinations of the Magian, there isalmost no doubt that it would have evolved further to become the genesis of anew numinous resurgence, and restored to the West, and other lands, thatconnexion to the numinous which centuries of plunder, exploitation, greed,abstractions, and dishonourable war had severed.

Similarly, that natural ally of NS Germany - Imperial Japan, with its underlyingBushido ethos - was also a modern mostly unconscious expression of thenuminous, honourable, warrior ethos, and would also have evolved further tobecome the genesis of a new numinous resurgence in the Far East, andelsewhere.

For what distinguished both NS Germany and Imperial Japan was a return tothe Code of the Warrior - to that numinous Way of Life where personal honouris considered more important than the life of the individual, and where cultureis not a personal indulgence but rather a profound extension of the attitude toliving which a true instinctive warrior embodies: the culture of Haiku, ofGeisha, of the Samurai sword; the culture of Blut und Boden, of the SS ethos...This type of dignified culture is entirely alien and even abhorrent to theMagian and their allies, such as the uncultured barbarian White Hordes ofHomo Hubris, for whom "culture" means indulging themselves and beingprofanely entertained by some vapid effusion of the modern Magian"entertainment industry".....

A New and Numinous Ethos: Beyond the Tyranny of the State and theAbstractions of Politics

Both NS Germany and Imperial Japan were fundamentally instinctive andnatural reactions to the dominance of the Magian ethos, and represented amostly unconscious expression of the numinous, honourable, warrior ethos.That is, they were akin to the natural healthy reaction of a human bodyinvaded by some debilitating virus; an instinctive attempt to restore thatnatural balance which the Magian and their allies had disturbed.

But, as I have stated several times in various writings, we have now arrived atthe stage of our human evolution when we can not only, and for the first time,consciously understand ourselves, but when we can consciously decide how we

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are to react, and what it is that we should do. That is, we have become muchmore than thinking animals who possess the faculty of speech, for we possessthe ability to conscious change, and to consciously control, and evolve,ourselves. Or, expressed, another way, we now know how to - and have theopportunity to - access and to presence, the numinous itself; to access and topresence that which refines, dignifies, and evolves us; that which makes ushuman, which can enable us to live numinous lives, and to fulfil the potentiallatent within us and so take us out to live among the star-systems of our Galaxyand of other Galaxies.

Personal honour is both the essence of the natural, instinctive, Way of theWarrior, and one primary manifestations of the numinous itself, and it isVindex who restores personal honour to its rightful place, as the basis for bothlaw and for that tribal way of life which has been, and which is, our naturalhuman way of living, a natural and human way that the abstractions of boththe Magian and The White Hordes of Homo Hubris have undermined anddestroyed.

Thus, the duty - the wyrd - of Vindex and of the clans of Vindex is not to striveto try and restore some romantic idealized past - or even be in thrall to someperceived wyrdful, often numinous-filled, past way of living, such as thatwhich Adolf Hitler brought to Germany - but rather to establish an entirelynew and conscious and thus more potent expression of the numinous itself.This new and numinous way of living replaces the impersonal tyranny of theState with the way of the clan and the tribe; it replaces the abstraction ofpolitics, and of democracy, with personal loyalty to an honourable, noble, clanor tribal leader.....

Homo Hubris and the Disruption of The Numinous

The Genesis of Homo Hubris

Homo Hubris is the name given to that new sub-species of the genus Homowhich has, in the last three hundred or so years, become the dominant speciesinhabiting the industrialized countries of what is called "the West".

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The genesis of Homo Hubris lies in the rise of abstract concepts such as that ofnational-identity - over and above regional, tribal, differences and local("clan") identity - which began to emerge in Europe, and especially in Britain,some time before what has been termed "the Industrial Revolution". Thisconcept of a national, somewhat impersonal and always abstract, nationalidentity, is prefigured, for example, in the speech by Queen Elizabeth the Firstof England, given at Tilbury, in 1588 CE, and in the dramatised speech, on St.Crispin's Day, given by Shakespeare to King Henry V in the play (c. 1599 CE)of the same name, where the "nation" of England is eulogized. A more overtexpression of this particular abstraction is the Commonwealth of England,established by Oliver Cromwell in 1653 CE, which in many ways was theforerunner of the modern concepts, the modern abstractions, of nation andState theorized by people such as Hegel and Fichte and brought into beingafter the French Revolution.

It was, however, what has been called "the Industrial Revolution" - whichbegan in the early to middle 1700's (CE) - which led to the rapid growth andspread of this new mostly urban-dwelling sub-species, Homo Hubris, in thrallto, and manipulated by others with, such abstract notions as "the nation" and"the State".

Homo Hubris, by nature, is naturally rapacious, and rather war-like, and canoften be distinguished from Homo Sapiens Galacticus by their profane "lack ofnuminous balance" (that is, their lack of empathy), by a lack of knowing ofand feeling for the numinous; by a personal arrogance, by a lack of manners,and by that lack of respect for anything other than strength/power and/ortheir own gratification. One particular feature of the life of Homo Hubris istheir dependence upon, and their need and often respect for, machines andtechnology, which machines and which technology have at best disrupted ourbalance with the Numinous, and, at worst, have severed our connexion to theNuminous and thus to Nature.

In outward appearance, Homo Hubris - that denizen of the Westernmegalopolis - is often distinguished by their lack of ancestral costume orgenuine cultural apparel. Instead, they almost always either: (1) garbthemselves in mass-produced products of consumerism (which more oftenthan not sport some manufacturing logo or some manufacturing name,making them walking advertisements for such consumerism), or (2) garbthemselves in what they regard, or have been informed (by some arm of themodern mass Media) is "trendy" or "fashionable"; or (3) garb themselves inthe apparel, the outfit, of some modern urban abstract and un-numinous"sub-culture" which they identify with, which sub-cultures interestinglyinclude the modern Armed Forces of the West, with their anonymizing

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uniforms.

The majority of Homo Hubris dress thus because essentially they have nopersonal, individual, style and generally possess a herd-like mentality, beingunwilling and/or unable to be different from their pees, or "their mates", ortheir friends, or their colleagues. Thus, even when some of them regardthemselves as being "rebellious" they are more often than not outfittingthemselves (outwardly and often inwardly) according to some "trend" or somepassing "craze", which "trend" or which "craze" are always urban-based,always disconnected from the realness of their own ancestral culture (whichancestral cultures are always rural) and which outward signs of "rebellion"almost always become commercialized, given time.

This outward appearance of Homo Hubris may be said to be an outward sign oftheir true inner nature, for it is in the nature of Homo Hubris to conform, andto belong to that-which is un-numinous and which lacks a feeling for thatnatural and dignified humility born from personal experience and/or an innateempathy and sense of honour. Their conformity is most often to someabstraction; to some-thing - such as an idea, a dogma, a creed, an ideology -manufactured by someone else or by some established Institution.

Thus, Homo Hubris is essentially rootless, and prideful. Their "home" is whatthey make for themselves, and/or for their own family, and this home can beanywhere, for it does not really matter to them where they dwell; and moreoften than not their sense of belonging, if they have one, is to some modernabstraction, such as some modern nation-State, or to some religion, or to some-ology or some -ism, or to some un-numinous idealized urban place, such assome city or some large national region where they were born, which region isalmost always denuded of real tradition and real rural living and culture, andmore often than not has been manufactured in some past by some governmentfunctionary or some committee and made "real" by some abstract law of someabstract nation-State.

The individuals of Homo Hubris have little or no genuine ancestral culture;nothing that ties them to a real, living (and thus small), ancestral homeland;no sense of belonging to a specific local place or rural area which they have anatural empathy and love for and which they personally know throughdwelling there for a length of time of many years. They have no feeling for,and little or no practical experience of, the natural Time - the natural rhythmand cycle - of Nature, but instead only have experience of the abstractmeasured out causal and urban Time of "clocks". They have little or no awe ofand respect for Nature: of their own smallness and impotence compared to thepower and longevity and fecundity of Nature; instead, they exhibit that innate

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prideful and arrogant attitude of Homo Hubris where they believe or feel -because of some machine, or because of some technology or because of someabstract idea or some ideology or some dogma - that they are "powerful", or"important", or have some "Destiny" or can "make some difference" or, worse,that they must and should and can "change things for the better" according tosome idea, some ideology, some dogma or some -ism.

They have little or no experience of the slowness and the numinosity of regularmanual toil or of manufacturing things using only their hands and hand-tools.Instead, they only have experience of using powered machinery and poweredmachines which serve to distance them from the materials they are using orwhich they use to manufacture something which someone else wants ordesires or which someone or some oligarchy or some product of capitalism hasdecreed is necessary for "change", or for "progress" or from which someonesomewhere can make a profit.

They have little or none of that genuine learning and personal knowledge thatarises slowly from direct practical personal experience extending over manyyears and from extended contact with those of a previous generation who havepractical skills and practical knowledge to impart, individually, in a naturaland slow way. Instead, their knowledge and their learning are abstract, learntin groups in classrooms or in lecture-rooms or from books or other materialpublished by others, or, now, from the Internet (See Footnote 1) - and is almostalways of no immediate, and pressing, relevance to themselves. That is,knowledge, learning, have not grown out, slowly, from within they themselves,and are not rooted in a numinous locale, in an area where they belong byvirtue of ancestry and culture and toil. Instead, such knowledge and suchlearning as they possess are abstract, and have been imposed upon them, bysome Institution, or some nation-State, or which they have imposed uponthemselves because of some abstract interest or some enthusiasm or becauseit will help them "get on in life" and enable them to earn more money bytoiling in some abstract profession or in some industry or some concernconnected to some modern-State or some megalopolis.

In essence, therefore, the fundamental distinction is between: (1) a living,rural and ancestral way of life - which living (and which culture arising fromit) always derive from some dwelling in a certain small area by some tribes orsome clans - and (2) the artificial, manufactured, living of Homo Hubris: theliving exemplified by industrialized cities and towns which towns and cities arenow part of some large nation-State.

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In the former, there is a knowing of and a respect for Nature, born frompersonal experience and the often harsh nature of a rural working life, whichworking life is one of reliance upon hand-crafts, hand-tools and the work ofanimals.

In the latter, there is a prideful ignorance of and a disrespect for Nature -except, perchance, when Nature touches some individual, bringing thus somemisfortune - and a reliance upon powerful machines and machine-driven toolsand technology, which powerful machines and machine-driven tools and whichtechnology enable individuals to rapaciously and arrogantly destroy Natureand to rapaciously and arrogantly manufacture and build what is lifeless andabstract and barbaric, inhuman, and urbanized.

Machines, Technology, and The Disruption of The Numinous

Fundamentally, all machines and machine-driven tools - those things whichextend the power, the reach, the ability, of a single individual beyond thatwhich they could do, by themselves, during a day of work, with or without thehelp of other living-beings, such as horses or oxen - usurp the Numinous. Thatis, they possess the potential to: (1) re-inforce and extend the natural prideand natural arrogance and natural hubris of human beings; and (2) distancethe user from Nature and that natural rhythm and natural way of life whichencourages empathy and from which genuine (numinous) culture arises.Technology takes this usurpation of the Numinous even further.

However, what is wrong, what is un-numinous and un-ethical, are not suchmanufactured machines, tools, and technology, per se, but rather, the use towhich they have been put, by human beings. Let us consider, for instance, twoexamples: the automobile, and the agricultural tractor.

1) The automobile - or hubrismobile - has profoundly changed the way of lifeof not only the countries of the West, but of most of the world. This machine -and similar machines, such as the railway engine - has made travel easy, andoften affordable. With the building of roads, and bridges, previouslyinaccessible areas have been opened up, and developed. A journey that mighthave taken months on foot, or weeks by horse, could be accomplished in far,far, less "time" and without the rigours and difficulties previouslyencountered. Isolated communities have been "connected" to towns and cities;and people no longer had to live near where they worked, for they could"commute", by hubrismobile, by train, by omnibus. People from the cities and

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the towns could, without much difficulty, swarm into and "enjoy" thecountryside, and seek out ever more "remote" places where they, withoutmuch effort, could indulge in "leisure activities and pastimes".

Modern-nations - their people just as much as their governments -enthusiastically embraced these, and associated, new machines. The result hasbeen devastating for rural, isolated, often clannish, communities, their way oflife and their culture. Furthermore, the hubrismobile - and similar machines -has distanced modern human beings even further from the realness of Natureand from that slow, natural and necessary toiling effort that walking andriding provided, and which effort enabled the cultivation of empathy and thatattitude to life from whence true numinous culture arises. That is, things havebeen made "too easy" and too disconnected from their realness, from theirnatural place of dwelling, and as a consequence the haste and the profanityand arrogance of the city and the town have spread, displacing the slownessand toil of walking, the symbiosis required to work with and ride a horse,which slowness, toil and symbiosis engendered a certain numinous attitude tolife, a certain natural respect and thence a real human dignity. And it isdignity which is so woefully lacking in Homo Hubris.

2) The agricultural tractor - and associated agricultural machines - havetransformed agriculture, leading to the decimation of small diversified familyfarms, loss of work for farm labourers, and to increasingly large "agri-businesses" which specialize in one, or perhaps, two crops, and which cropsare grown for profit and resale and not for the consumption of those growingand tending them.

That is, the emphasis has shifted totally away from small family owned farmswhose diversified crops and stock were produced and reared for theconsumption of the farmer and his family, with whatever surplus, if any, beingsold locally for usually a very small amount of money, or bartered for neededitems. Instead, there is now the cult of mono-culture and the agri-business(often employing only a few people and cultivating hundreds if not thousandsof acres) which depend on making enough profit to buy and keep (oftenthrough usurious loans) the expensive farm machinery required to run suchconcerns, and which profit motive has required the use of fertilizers,herbicides, insecticides, and genetically engineered crops, to artificiallyincrease yields. The result - in places such as rural English counties - has beendevastating for both Nature and for the rural way of life, and while it is truethat such a machine as a small agricultural tractor can and often has madefarming easier on the individual undertaking such work, it has led tounchecked and un-numinous change, and to the spread of the arrogance andthe ways of Homo Hubris.

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An example may illustrate this. This example concerns a village in a ruralEnglish county; what it once was, and what it is now. Less than a hundredyears ago, this village was a small collection of cottages and farms. The farmsthemselves contained apple and pear orchards, and many fields of variouscrops. These crops had been found to be suitable to the type of soil in the area,and each year several fields were left "fallow" so that the fertility of the soilcould be regained following a harvest. Naturally, given the orchards, thevillage and the surrounding area produced cider and perry - with every farmmaking its own. Indeed, cider was the regular and preferred drink in thosedays when the water itself was often suspect, and before tea drinking becamecommon and affordable. The surplus crops, when harvested, were taken to thenearby small town, where there was a thriving market. At this time, most ofthe villagers worked either on the land itself, or in trades or crafts connectedwith them. For example, there was a village farrier, and a wheelwright, andthus a relative and local self-sufficiency, for most things the village, the farms,needed for their daily life were made of wood, locally cut, shaped, and crafted:carts, fences, gates, doors, even pumps. And what was not so made andcrafted of wood, was more often than not made by the local blacksmith, or ofstone quarried from somewhere nearby.

There was a sense of identity among the villagers - they were, for the mostpart, proud to be from the area, and proud of their local ancestry.

Of course, it is easy to idealize such village life. But there was an awareness ofand a real sense of belonging. Life, for most of the villagers, was often harsh,sometimes cruel. But there was real individual and local character in thepeople. There was a real, living, community which, despite the hardship - orperhaps more correctly because of the hardship - slowly prospered over thecenturies. There was a real balance with Nature - with the seasons, and the soilfor the most part understood and respected, partly because old ways of doingthings were carried on, with these old, ancestral ways having been found to beeffective. (See Footnote 2.)

Today, however, in this village, this balance, this understanding and thisrespect for Nature no longer exist, even on the two farms which still remain.The village itself has grown tremendously. Over three score new houses havebeen built on land once owned by two of the farms. Dozens of trees have gone,and scores of hedges removed, to make way for these new arrivals. One of theother farms is no longer a "working farm" - it is occupied by a "townie" family,and its Barns have been converted into houses, lived in by other "townies" whocommute to the nearby city in their cars. The orchards themselves have gone(save for some apple trees in the garden of one of the farms on the edge of the

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village) as have the fields of crops. Nearly all the fields now grow theregulation wheat, in large fields made by removing boundary hedges so thatmachines can plant, cultivate and harvest more. And the tragedy is that thiswheat often ends up stored in an enormous warehouse where it forms a tinypart of the great and never used European "wheat mountain".

Furthermore, even the few farmers who remain seem to have lost their respectfor and understanding of Nature, ploughing as they do almost to thehedgerow, spraying the fields as they do with dangerous chemicals, andtearing the heart out of their remaining life-sheltering hedges as they do whenthey recklessly flail away at the wrong times of year with mechanical flails:stripping the berries and buds off in Autumn and decimating the survivingbuds in early Spring. Farming has become a business at worst, and at best anoccupation. No longer is the land farmed to provide food for the people whofarm, with the excess produce being traded for essential items. No longer isthere an understanding of husbanding the soil: of caring for it, treasuring it,for the benefit of future generations.

Nearly all of the new villagers work in the nearby city and the nearby towns.They have little knowledge of, and even less understanding of, Nature and theland around them shielded as they are by their centrally-heated, electric-lighthouses with its running water and flushing lavatories, and conveyed as theyare from place to place by their heated, rain-shielding hubrismobiles. To suchpeople, the place where they live is really irrelevant, as long as it is convenient.One of the few remaining attractions of the village is its lack of street lighting,on even the new estates of intruding houses. Thus can the beauty of the starsstill be seen, at night, as there can still be a feeling of rural isolation in thedarkness. But of course, the majority of people find this darkness - thisintrusion of Nature - dreadfully "inconvenient" and have petitioned the localCouncil to install street lighting, which doubtless the unfeeling townietechnocrats will, in time. Meanwhile, many of these village residents haveinstalled intrusive high-power "security" lights on their houses, so keen arethey to dispel anything which is natural, and fearful as they have become dueto recent spates of burglaries, often by louts from nearby cities and townswho, of course, have easy access to such "rural" places by means of theirhubrismobiles.

In particular, the lives of these new "village-dwelling" people are notconnected to Nature: they do not depend on Nature, on the soil, the land,around them. Instead, their living depends on the business, the industry, thecommerce, of the towns and cities, with such business, such industry, suchcommerce being for the most part unnecessary and unnatural, existing only toprovide more and more unnecessary luxuries and goods, or existing only toimplement abstract political and social policies totally unconnected with the

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land, and the way and traditions of their ancestors.

The truth is that we still are, and have been, too immature, as a species, to usemachines and technology wisely; we have let ourselves be overcome with thepower, with the capacity for change, with the pleasure and the ease, that theyhave imbued us with, just as we have forgotten the natural wisdom that we areand should be toiling, working, human beings who, through the natural toil ofour work with our hands or with the aid of other living-beings, such as horseswith whom we form a symbiotic relationship, can achieve, can establish andcan maintain, a natural and a numinous balance with ourselves, with Nature,and with the community where we dwell. We have forgotten that such a simplerural life, such a way of living, does not need to be harsh if we exist in balance- if we co-operate with - others local to us in an empathic and honourable wayfor our mutual benefit and for our local needs, accepting that we need a little,but not too much, and eschewing out of choice a life of material wealth andluxury, preferring instead a less materialistic, but more satisfying, numinousway.

Machines, and technology, have undermined and then destroyed this balance,and as a result we have now all but lost our natural connexion to Nature, toother human beings, to other life, as we have lost that natural, slow, rural localway of self-sufficient living which slowly grew, century after century.

Machines, and technology, and the abstractions and artificial goals of modernnation-States and modern ways of material living have grossly allowed us toplace profit before individuals, and luxury and personal greed before a naturalbalance with Nature, a natural balance with ourselves, and with the placewhere we dwell.

Machines, and technology, and the abstractions and artificial goals of modernnation-States and modern ways of material living have done almost irreparabledamage to Nature and to our very humanity. One man with just one machinecan now decimate and almost effortlessly destroy in one day acres upon acresof living countryside, of a centuries-old forest, just as one pilot flying oneaircraft can in a few seconds, and effortlessly, fire and drop missiles andbombs enough to kill and maim hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands,of human beings.

That is, machines and technology have made us more arrogant, more prideful,and far more inhuman than we ever have been, as they have given us thecapacity to be far more barbarian than our so-called "barbarian" ancestors,which barbarity we have, in the past hundred years, shamefully and zealously

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embraced, as witness the hundreds of millions of people that we have killed,injured and maimed, in our wars and our conflicts these past hundred years,which wars and which conflicts used and use a multitude of murderousweapons and in which wars and conflicts our much vaunted moderntechnology plays an increasing role.

Allied to the use, and important for the spread and acceptance, of machinesand technology, has been the abstract idea of "progress", which particularabstraction is, along with the abstract concept of the modern, and nowincreasingly tyrannical, nation-State, one of the most profane and destructiveand un-numinous abstractions ever manufactured.

The Destructive Abstraction of Progress

The modern Western abstraction (idea) of progress is inseparably bound upwith: (1) a desire for and a belief in "change"and continued "growth"; (2) withthe belief that we human beings can and should set ourselves abstract goals,unrelated to anything natural or numinous, and strive to achieve these goals; (3) with the belief that such "change", such "growth", and such goals willenable us to achieve such things as "happiness", "wealth", "contentment","freedom", and so on etcetera; and (4) with the belief that we canmanufacture various "things" (abstractions) - such as, for example, a State, aneconomy, some laws, some government policy or planning - which will lead ustoward the attainment of the aforementioned "happiness", "wealth","contentment", "freedom", "equality", and so on etcetera. For instance,Hegel's Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte, Marx's DasKapital, and Comte's Système de politique positive, contain all of theseconcepts, in greater or lesser degree, concepts eulogized by individuals suchas John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer.

Furthermore, one of the fundamental tenets of the Zeitgeist of the modernWest is that machines, technology and science can aid, ensure and evenachieve the abstract progress that is desired, and that some new "invention"will enable us to make even more "progress".

All these concepts - like all abstractions - usurp or limit or constrain our ownindividual judgement, which individual judgement - to be numinous and thusethical - should and must be based upon empathy, that is, upon: (1) a directand personal knowing of other individuals, of other life, and of Nature; and/or

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upon (2) a dwelling in a particular area or locality which we directly know,and have experience of, and where such changes as are made, are undertakenby us or others dwelling there in a natural harmonious way with as littledisruption, with a genuine respect for the locality and Nature, and in theknowledge that we are but one small and transitory emanation of Nature. Allabstractions distort or destroy our correct, and of necessity our individual,perception of other human beings, and of Nature.

In essence. the abstraction of "progress" disrupts, undermines, decimates, andthen destroys our natural connexion to Nature, to other individuals, to ourpast, and to the Cosmos. For instance, this abstraction of so-called "progress"often or mostly requires or involves the rejection of the old, tried, tested waysof the past, which ways have slowly evolved in a natural manner from personaland local experience. In their place, there is some new fangled idea or somenew theory or some new, "more progressive", more "enlightened" way of doingthings, all of which derive from somewhere other than direct local experienceand local personal knowledge, and all of which disrupt or severe our numinousconnexion with our ancestral past, with others, and with Nature.

For instance, this abstraction of so-called "progress" replaces the slow rhythmof Nature's own Time with the abstract "Time" of some abstraction, such as"achieving prosperity and material success" through change and growth, bethis individual, regional or national. Thus, and for example, in the name ofsuch material achievement and prosperity, industrial, or commercial, or retail,or some other type of, development is undertaken, and justified as being "ofbenefit to the people" and a sign of "commitment to the future", whichdevelopment and its associated infrastructure almost always disrupts,displaces, or destroys some aspect of Nature, and often encroaches upon, orundermines, or displaces or destroys, small rural, and often locallyself-sufficient, community or communities, with the peoples of suchcommunities then becoming dependant upon or part of the new (often local ornational government planned) developments and their infrastructure,effectively making them rootless and severing what was often an ancientconnexion with Nature and an ancestral way of living.

Thus is the abstraction of so-called "progress" - and the concomitant changeand disruption - either imposed upon individuals, by some abstract entity suchas a government, or individuals mistakenly impose it upon themselves,singularly, or in collaboration with others, believing that it is "necessary", orthat some other concept, said to make such progress achievable, will improveor otherwise enhance their own life.

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However, the numinous reality is that true "progress", true and numinouschange, is only and ever individual and only ever arises - like wisdom - slowlyin a natural way, and only "exists" as a greater presencing of the numinous, areconnexion of ourselves with The Numen, and an enhancement, and evolutionof, that connexion. That is. genuine progress - that which is real because it isnot a human-manufactured abstraction we have imposed upon ourselves andupon life - cannot be created or achieved by anything other than an innerchange within an individual; by the natural evolution of the individual; or bythose small, local, and incremental and generally non-disruptive outer changes(for example to our locality) that work with, and which balance, and whichcontinue, what already-is, based as such small and local changes are on therespect for such natural balance that arises from a knowledge that we are butone small and transitory emanation of, and thus a connexion to, Nature.

Conclusion

What, therefore, are the numinous solutions to the problems of the destructiveabstraction of "progress" and of the disruption of the numinous caused bymachines and technology? What is the numinous way to proceed to restore thenatural balance that Homo Hubris has upset?

The solution - the way - is to return to a more rural, less materialistic, moreclan-based, way of living. To return to the slow and natural toil of manuallabour and a working in harmony with animals. It is a consciously-made - anevolutionary - decision to honourably co-operate with others who feel as we doin order to slowly bring-into-being new rural and clan-based communitieswhere we can live such a way that our natural balance with ourselves, withNature, is restored.

It is a consciously-made - an evolutionary - decision to restrain and controlourselves, and control our lust for comfort and for luxury, and to placeempathy with and compassion for all Life at the centre of our own lives. It is aconsciously-made - an evolutionary - decision to distance ourselves, internallyand externally, from the profane, materialistic, egotistic, profit worshipping,machine-worshipping, societies of our age. It is a consciously-made - anevolutionary - decision to appreciate, understand and know our place inNature and in the Cosmos: as but one small nexion of life, which small nexion

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affects all other living beings and which small nexion has the opportunity toevolve to be the awareness, to be part of the-being, of Nature and of theCosmos itself.

It is, in summary, the decision to restore, and to then enhance and to evolve,that connexion to the Numinous which machines, and technology, and theabstractions and artificial goals of modern nation-States and modern ways ofmaterial living, have severed, and which connexion has its foundation, ingenesis, in empathy, in personal honour and in those small clan-basedcommunities where such empathy and such honour can thrive.

Footnotes:

(1) The Internet itself provides an excellent example of (a) the mis-use oftechnology by Homo Hubris, and (b) of how such technology enhances theprofanity and arrogance of Homo Hubris, and disrupts the Numinous itself.

Genuine learning and a genuine wisdom arises from a reflexion born frompersonal, direct, practical experience: from an alchemical, inner, symbiosis;from that personal and very individual growth that requires a long period ofcausal time, often in one place. The Internet, however, encourages and easilyfacilitates two Homo Hubris like things: (1) the dissemination of abstract,rootless, "knowledge"; and (2) the immediate dissemination of the mostlyfatuous, often ignorant and almost always dishonourable opinions and views ofthe Homo Hubris hordes. In addition, it is increasingly used, and often covertlycensored by, functionaries and flunkeys of modern nation-States to spreadtheir grossly un-numinous abstractions and their propaganda; and nowpossesses a commercialized Media-infested nature.

Thus, there is the availability and the encouragement of the worthless, theprofane, the abstract, the lifeless, the un-numinous, the propagandistic,allowing for and encouraging as never before a pretentious pseudo-intellectualtype of "knowledge" and of "knowing", and an immediate spewing forth ofpersonal dishonour.

Thus, instead of being primarily used - as it might have been - as one newmeans of communication between rational, empathic, enlightened individuals,it has been used and is being used in the service of Homo Hubris, and of thoseoligarchies and interest groups which have a vested interest in the continuingprofanity of Homo Hubris and in the continuing existence of the un-numinous

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abstractions on which the modern West is based.

As with many things modern, machine-based and technological, thedisadvantages of this Internet now far outweigh its few remaining advantages.In addition, and in particular, the truely empathic, the truely wise - thoseconnected or re-connected to The Numen - have little or no need of theimmediacy of such a modern medium. The only minuscule value of themedium of the Internet is that it still currently allows the free dissemination ofitems contrary to the material, un-numinous Zeitgeist of the modern West,enabling those few who might be interested in more numinous matters toreflect upon such matters, and, after such reflexion, if they consider itsuitable, to act upon them, in their own species of causal time and in their ownindividual way.

(2) As I wrote some years, in a letter to a friend:

" Do not believe that I yearn for some non-existent romantic rural idyll. Iknow [from years of personal experience] the hardness of this life, of howthe work, the days, the weather, can wear you down, make limbs, back,hands, ache; of how some days I become wearied with a particularwearisome, repetitive task, and yearn for the day to end, to sit outside inthe garden of the local Pub, alone with my pint of liquid food made fromwater and barley and flavoured with hops..... But this simple life is mychoice; there are good days, and bad days; usually more good days,especially when - as today and yesterday - the Sun warms and I can seethe beauty of this Earth's blue sky. In many ways, I yearn for the warm,sunny days of an English Spring, Summer and Autumn, as I know theremust be life-giving rain, and clouds to bear that rain. There is balance,which has brought the numinous beauty of this rural landscape, thisland.

The toil of earlier times was often much harder than it is now; but the toilthat is necessary, now, to live simply, frugally, is not that hard - althoughit will be so for those who have never done such work! I remember howmany people - especially young people - started work in the fields at myprevious place of work. Some lasted a few hours; some lasted a week; afew lasted a few weeks. None lasted longer, leaving us two [old farmhands] with our hoes, our taciturn ways, to knowingly smile.

The important thing is that we now have, and can make, a consciouschoice - to live in the world, as it is, has become; or to live as we can, and -I believe - we should, simply, in an unaffected way, in harmony,

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symbiosis, with Nature, thus restraining ourselves, especially our desirefor material possessions, for the things we really do not need, for thethings which harm Nature, the living beings of Nature, and we ourselves,if we but knew it..."

(3) This particular tenet - this particular abstraction - may be said to have itsmodern origins in the writings of Francis Bacon.

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