@RoguesPhilo: Western civilization is in dec...

Western civilization is in decline because it is spiritually bankrupt.

We have forsaken our traditions for materialism and are doomed to fail.

Philosopher Julius Evola suggests that to save the West we must return to hierarchy.

An essay: 1/22

We can save the West, only if we restore:

"the absolute synthesis of the two powers, political and sacred, royal and spiritual: based on an Aryan-pagan worldview and the emergence of higher forms of interest, life, and individuality"

This is the foundation of Pagan Imperialism.

We must burn to ash any value that prizes the attainment of material above that of the preservation of our ancient Aryan, ethnos.

Our political focus must not be some arbitrary metric like higher "GDP", nor stock increase, but rather a return to values in the blood of our folk.

“The true cause of the decline of the political idea in contemporary Western society lies in the fact that the spiritual values once embedded in the social order have vanished, without anything sufficient to replace them."

We replaced the will to unify with the world of gods with the drive to attain more material in the form of "economic, industrial, military, administrative, or at best sentimental factors, without realizing" the focus on the physical blinds us to the ways of our forefathers.

Our "error ... is the belief that the higher should be determined by the lower, that law and order should be founded not on an aristocracy ... but rather on the contingent balance of interests and avarices of an anonymous multitude already stripped of any higher sensitivity."

The world of forms governs the physical; the material submits to the ideals of the eternal

Evola echoes Plato and wishes hierarchical rule by the chosen few who know this hidden truth

The majority lack knowledge of the world of forms and are thus doomed to lead us into slavery

“Christianity — with ... the expectation of the “Kingdom,” which “is not of this world,” and with the ... will of submission to God and the humiliation of the human being — shattered the “solar” synthesis of spirituality ... of kingship and divinity that the ancient world knew."

Our ancestral blood memories are the gateway into the world of forms.

Intense devotion to ritual rites of passage awaken the blood memories necessary to align ourselves with the world of forms.

The West shifted its focus from integration with ritual to the afterlife.

Rather than submit to God, Aryan traditions sought to venerate the warrior as highest, religious ideal.

The king was "a living center for the relationships of a transformative, warrior faith, personifying the masculine and heroic pole of the spirit — returns”.

The materialist cares only of the accumulation of more things that allow the expansion of comfort.

Thus he knows only degeneration.

The traditionalist cares only for the integration with ritual rites that connect him with the world of forms.

Thus he knows only self mastery.

We have soiled our nations with the rule of a magical expert class that has sought to damn us to weakness, as a means to extend their rule.

They "bless the slaves and merchants rebelling against the Empire to prevent the Empire’s restoration and maintain [their] own supremacy.”

"the first thing to do is to rid ourselves of any ... socialist and collectivist spirit."

This is not to suggest the total extermination of slaves/merchants, only that their proclivity for collectivization promotes only equity and sameness.

Rather, their roles are for support.

The Communist slave caste is a confused herd in search of a shepherd.

Their inability to create any genuine, meaningful guerrilla revolution proves that they know only self-sabotage.

They await for a ruler and should see the support of a leader as the pathway to enlightenment.

These "subordinates" must learn "the pride of serving superiors".

"Service must be awakened as freedom and as overcoming, almost as a transfiguring offering, which does not humiliate but elevates".

Give the Communist a purpose and he will naturally serve you as his master.

He who shall lead the herd is he who is "not only royal in name but also in spirit."

He has "the courage not to tolerate compromises and uncertain accommodations any longer"

He would become "in an absolute and transcendent sense, [the leader] of the people.”

He embodies "the power of strength and the light of the spirit in a unique being; [he is] one that truly acts on behalf of an entire lineage and at the same time transcends everything conditioned by earth and blood”.

The castes naturally form around him and serve his will.

He has proven his devotion to the intensive ritual rites of his ethnos.

He has reawakened a world of ancestral knowledge and intent entirely unknown to all others.

All find themselves to naturally bow to him in accordance to how far he bows to the ideals of the spirit.

"spirituality is not just a term, but a positive reality of self-transformation. This transformation creates a significant distance between certain individuals and the masses, similar to the perceived distance between humans and animals."

This "distance of the leaders is not based on anything “moral,” “ideal,” “religious,” or any other human value

Instead, it is a different quality of being, achieved through a substantial transformation of consciousness.”

A hierarchy is formed due to the power of transformation.

The king is the conduit between the world of the spirit and of men. The spirit moves through him and orders all material for him.

He gains this ability through submission to the unique traditions passed down upon him from his ethnic folk, of which none can lead without.

What is embodied by the king is "embodied in the Imperium".

It is as though "a fire from the heavens" invests in him, and validates his excellence through "victory".

This knowledge "is hoped to be understood by a few, though [it is expected] to be misunderstood by most”.

@CCrowley100 Julius Evola, Pagan Imperialism, Chapter Two: to the values of hierarchical rule.