That excerpt from 'Mein Kampf' sums up the whole thing. It does. It
stands as a perfect counterpart to 'The Misunderstanding of Neo-
Paganism', a text which, especially in its second version, that which
constitutes a chapter of 'Sintesi di dottrina della razza', raises
the question of the possibility of restoring pre-Christian European
cult in practice.
Theoretically, one thing is for sure, Neo-Pagans put the cart before
the horse : the rites which were peculiar to those cults were
indissociable from the specific spirit in which they originated and
were rooted. What matters is not to perform those rites, but to
regain that spirit, failing which they are an empty shell and lead
nowhere. On that basis, a man who lives according to the principles
on which the ancient pre-Christian cults were based, and only him,
can be legitimately considered as a 'neo-Pagan', or, as we'd rather
say, a 'neo-Heathen' ; so long as that spirit is still embodied by
differentiated men, the possibility of a 'heathen Imperialism' still
exists, theoretically.
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "darkiexx" <tristanarpe@h...>
wrote:
>
> Without lambasting the Nordic Paganism or any other re-
> constructionist belief system. It is only correct to put it into
the
> context of the particular thoughts of the leader of the NSDAP
> (assuming these were his thoughts). I believe heartedly that all
> other derivations would be treated with similar disdain.
>
> Here, I quote also from his text (please remember that it is
> difficult, to do justice, to any thinking by just lifting
> paraphrases from a book).
>
> MEIN KAMPF. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). Chapter X
>
> It is typical of such persons that they rant about ancient Teutonic
> heroes of the dim and distant ages, stone axes, battle spears and
> shields, whereas in reality they themselves are the woefullest
> poltroons imaginable. For those very same people who brandish
> Teutonic tin swords that have been fashioned carefully according to
> ancient models and wear padded bear-skins, with the horns of oxen
> mounted over their bearded faces, proclaim that all contemporary
> conflicts must be decided by the weapons of the mind alone. And
thus
> they skedaddle when the first communist cudgel appears. Posterity
> will have little occasion to write a new epic on these heroic
> gladiators.
> […]
> I have seen too much of that kind of people not to feel a profound
> contempt for their miserable play-acting. To the masses of the
nation
> they are just an object of ridicule; but the Jew finds it to his own
> interest to treat these folk-lore comedians with respect and to
> prefer them to real men who are fighting to establish a German
> State. And yet these comedians are extremely proud of themselves.
> […]
> Among those people there were some whose conduct can be explained by
> their innate stupidity and incompetence; but there are others who
> have a definite ulterior purpose in view. Often it is difficult to
> distinguish between the two classes. The impression which I often
> get, especially of those so-called religious reformers whose creed
> is grounded on ancient Germanic customs, is that they are the
> missionaries and protégés of those forces which do not wish to see
a
> national revival taking place in Germany.
> […]
> It was not without good reason that when we laid down a clearly
> defined programme for the new movement we excluded the word
VÖLKISCH
> from it.The concept underlying the term VÖLKISCH cannot serve as
the
> basis of a movement, because it is too indefinite and general in
its
> application. Therefore, if somebody called himself VÖLKISCH such a
> designation could not be taken as the hall-mark of some definite,
> party affiliation.
>
> ==============================================================
> Poltroon: a spiritless coward
>