- The following quote is ascribed to A. Rosenberg. We have trouble finding out where it stems from, as it's not to be found in "The Myth of the Twentieth Century"."Nordic myth reclosed the Christian bible as the foundation of a new religion. Today a new mythos is dawning, the mythos of the blood. The belief that the godly essence is to be defended through the blood. The old beliefs will go back to honor him, through the blood. The whole secret knowledge of nature, the divine and the demonic, shall wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race."
The father of Norse studies, the Norwegian philologist Sophus Bugge (1833 - 1907), after extensive investigation, published in Danish a book entitled ‘Studier Over De Nordiske Gude- Og Heltesagns Oprindelse’, which had a great impact because its thesis was that the Eddas, and, in general, the old Norse literature, lacked a purely Nordic character, having been influenced both by Greco-Roman and Christian literature, and that the mythical and heroic poetry of the North was not older than the Viking era. Following in his footsteps, the Norwegian historian, politician, and theologian Christian Bang (1840 - 1913), in a comprehensive study on the Voluspa (literally, The Prophecies of the Sybil), which he read before the Academy of Sciences of Christiania in 1879 (Voluspaa og Sibyllinske Orakler, Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, Forhandlinger Aar 1879, nr. 9, 1-23, Christiania), posited that the unknown author of this work had merely adapted to Norse mythology the beliefs and writing processes of the Sibylline oracles – these oracles were a creation of Alexandrian Jews of the second century B.C. which early Christians later turned into a propaganda tool for their worship.
These revisionist works were what prompted the Swedish writer, publicist, poet, and politician Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895) to delve into the study of Norse mythology, determined to deconstruct Bugge’s and Bang’s thesis, whose arguments he had then only managed to try to ridicule in a few articles. However, he soon became disillusioned, at least partly. In light of the evidence, he had to acknowledge “that the hypothesis that classical polytheistic and later Greek or Roman Christian ideas possibly leaked out and were incorporated into Germanic sagas and myths, was actually scientific and deserving of a thorough and careful investigation” ; on the other hand, he still maintained that “The Classical or Christian elements that could be found in Völuspá were in all cases completely united with Germanic heathendom and its spirit” (http://www.germanicmythology.com/viktor_rydberg/warburg1.pdf) : in other words, that the Levantine spirit which impregnates works like the Sibylline oracles, and the Semitic spirit which is reflected in what he wrongly assumed, unable as he was to discriminate between pre-Christian cults of patriarchal origin and pre-Christian lunar religions, to be “classical polytheistic” ideas, is in unison with the Nordic spirit. Of course, he was completely unfamiliar with the Semitic spirit.
Now, it has been decades since, no offence to Dumézil and his disciples, “The question is no longer whether, as already made clear by the Germanist M. Golther (1863 - 1945), if foreign elements are embedded in the Norse mythology, but how and to what extent they are so.”
It is clear that so-called ‘neo-paganism’, to quote J. Evola, is to a large extent an “imaginary paganism that never existed, but was invented by Christian apologists, (and which) is now serving as the starting-point for certain so-called pagan circles, and is thus threatening for the first time in history to become a reality–no more and no less than that”, just as it is clear that some German scholars of the early XXth were aware of this. This is, if not the most, one of the most quoted passage from the Italian author, by nationally aware people, as they like to call themselves, whether of the laic or of the religious sort. The most important part is however systematically and conscientiously left out : “but was invented by Christian apologists.”
The closest thing to that quote in ‘The Myth’ is : “Today a new faith is awakening—the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.”
- Perhaps the quotation which we asked about stems from one of these typical English or American video documentaries on National-Socialism and the "Occult" as we also heard it as a spoken text. In this form it mostly - but not exclusively - appears on Christian conspiracy websites. In German the exact words then would be: "Heute erwacht aber ein neuer Glaube: der Mythus des Blutes, der Glaube, mit dem Blute auch das göttliche Wesen des Menschen überhaupt zu verteidigen. Der mit hellstem Wissen verkörperte Glaube, dass das nordische Blut jenes Mysterium darstellt, welches die alten Sakramente ersetzt und überwunden hat." Naturally, with movies it's even easier to falsely attribute quotes to persons or misrepresent words.
The "Why We Fight" US propaganda movie series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight) directed by Frank Capra seem to be a case study of this. For backgrounds on the director also see http://theinfounderground.com/smf/index.php?topic=11154.0 The co-founder of Magnum Photos, Robert Capa, is said to have "named" himself after Capra as a homage to him. The same person who happened to have made "The Magnificent Eleven" series of photographs of "D-Day".
Capra also worked on the 1945 movie "Your Job in Germany" together with Theodor Seuss Geisel ("Dr. Seuss").
This blog gives various examples from Capra's "Why We Fight":
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.be/2014/03/hollywood-directors-faked-scenes-for.html
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.be/2013/03/fake-hitler-quote-about-slavery.html
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.be/2012/03/brute-force-and-idea.html
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.be/2012/02/what-that-thing-about-noble-and-unique.html
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.be/2009/01/how-frank-capra-falsified-rape-of.html
http://national-socialist-worldview.blogspot.be/2008/12/egregious-example-of-allied-propaganda.html
From: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:27:10 -0700
Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Re: Alfred Rosenberg quote
The father of Norse studies, the Norwegian philologist Sophus Bugge (1833 - 1907), after extensive investigation, published in Danish a book entitled ‘Studier Over De Nordiske Gude- Og Heltesagns Oprindelse’, which had a great impact because its thesis was that the Eddas, and, in general, the old Norse literature, lacked a purely Nordic character, having been influenced both by Greco-Roman and Christian literature, and that the mythical and heroic poetry of the North was not older than the Viking era. Following in his footsteps, the Norwegian historian, politician, and theologian Christian Bang (1840 - 1913), in a comprehensive study on the Voluspa (literally, The Prophecies of the Sybil), which he read before the Academy of Sciences of Christiania in 1879 (Voluspaa og Sibyllinske Orakler, Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, Forhandlinger Aar 1879, nr. 9, 1-23, Christiania), posited that the unknown author of this work had merely adapted to Norse mythology the beliefs and writing processes of the Sibylline oracles – these oracles were a creation of Alexandrian Jews of the second century B.C. which early Christians later turned into a propaganda tool for their worship.
These revisionist works were what prompted the Swedish writer, publicist, poet, and politician Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895) to delve into the study of Norse mythology, determined to deconstruct Bugge’s and Bang’s thesis, whose arguments he had then only managed to try to ridicule in a few articles. However, he soon became disillusioned, at least partly. In light of the evidence, he had to acknowledge “that the hypothesis that classical polytheistic and later Greek or Roman Christian ideas possibly leaked out and were incorporated into Germanic sagas and myths, was actually scientific and deserving of a thorough and careful investigation” ; on the other hand, he still maintained that “The Classical or Christian elements that could be found in Völuspá were in all cases completely united with Germanic heathendom and its spirit” (http://www.germanicmythology.com/viktor_rydberg/warburg1.pdf) : in other words, that the Levantine spirit which impregnates works like the Sibylline oracles, and the Semitic spirit which is reflected in what he wrongly assumed, unable as he was to discriminate between pre-Christian cults of patriarchal origin and pre-Christian lunar religions, to be “classical polytheistic” ideas, is in unison with the Nordic spirit. Of course, he was completely unfamiliar with the Semitic spirit.
Now, it has been decades since, no offence to Dumézil and his disciples, “The question is no longer whether, as already made clear by the Germanist M. Golther (1863 - 1945), if foreign elements are embedded in the Norse mythology, but how and to what extent they are so.”
It is clear that so-called ‘neo-paganism’, to quote J. Evola, is to a large extent an “imaginary paganism that never existed, but was invented by Christian apologists, (and which) is now serving as the starting-point for certain so-called pagan circles, and is thus threatening for the first time in history to become a reality–no more and no less than that”, just as it is clear that some German scholars of the early XXth were aware of this. This is, if not the most, one of the most quoted passage from the Italian author, by nationally aware people, as they like to call themselves, whether of the laic or of the religious sort. The most important part is however systematically and conscientiously left out : “but was invented by Christian apologists.”
The closest thing to that quote in ‘The Myth’ is : “Today a new faith is awakening—the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.”
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