Since you mentioned Jean Robin, we cannot resist the temptation to
say a few words about this character and some of his ambiguous
books : 'René Guénon, témoin de la Tradition' (Guy Trédaniel,
1978), 'Les Objets Volants Non Identifiés, ou La Grande Parodie' (Guy
Trédaniel, 1979), 'Seth, le dieu maudit' (Guy Trédaniel,
1986),'Hitler, l'élu du dragon' (Guy Trédaniel, 1987), 'Opération
Orth' (Guy Trédaniel, 1989), 'Le Royaume du Graal' (Guy Trédaniel,
1993) - 'Opération Orth' containing all you ever wanted to know about
Rennes-le-Château - and we must add that he shares one trait with one
of his favourite subjects, the 'extra-terrestrials' : the question of
whether either exists remains unclear.
Jean Robin is reported to have given an address in 1987 at the
Sorbonne, during a 'Politica Hermetica' meeting,
entitled 'Métaphysique et politique : René Guénon, Julius Evola'.
According to a member of a guenonian list, before publishing his
first book ('René Guénon, témoin de la Tradition'), Robin edited
an 'easy reading' series for a major French publisher called Robert
Laffont. A Hungarian 'traditionalist' site even gave us his year of
birth : 1946. According to other sources, he spent some time in a
convalescent home, due to an unfortunate 'psychic condition'.
His thickest book, 'Le Royaume du Graal', weighs, according to its
publisher, 824 grams. As some of you may already have worked out, it
has more than 666 pages. The publisher continues : "France, 'The
Eldest Daughter of the Church', spiritual heir of the Kingdom of
Judea, was designated right from its birth as the new Holy Land, the
receptacle of the ultimate theophanies, the sacred space where all
exiles end and all promises are fulfilled. But it is also - such is
the ambivalence of the symbolic - the evil athanor from which all
deception will arise. If the most sacred mystery of the Rheims
coronation leads us to consider current transgressions as mere
shadows of a future legitimacy, this prescience hints at a spendour
which will only be able to manifest fully at the end of times (...)
Philippe le Bel, Louis XIV and Napoleon, among others,
embodied this obscure face of the mission of France, while
prefiguring the great monarch who will pave the way for the
Antichrist. This combined sacralisation and execration of our country
are not the gimmick of a mystagogue, but a true predestination,
illustrated with mythomorphic geographic structures of impressive
rigour, which 'sign' the eschatological function of a kingdom
belonging to the resurrected Christ alone. To guide us at the
approach of this fearsome conjunction in the arcana of France,
Providence has created René Guénon, who was born on the same day that
the Grail stone, dear to Wolfram von Eschenbach - which matches
exactly the 'hexagonal Christal' of Gaul, once exalted by Strabo -
fell from the skies."
Leaving aside the millennarian lyricism of this advertisement to come
back to earth, it is said that the first edition of this book, which
some say the publisher hadn't actually read before publishing, was
taken off the market after a Jew, who bought it at the famous and now
defunct Table d'Emeraude in Paris, noticed that it contained certain
observations concerning "the hoax of the twentieth century". Any
attempt to expose this hoax arouses a general outcry in guenonian
circles ; the beliefs of some guenonians are not at all Guénon's.
Didn't Raymond Abelio, the self-proclaimed "destroyer of all
illusions", take this hoax for a fact in the third volume of his
memoirs ('Ma dernière mémoire', Ramsay, 1980 - p.113)? Manifestly, it
is easier for some people to deal with 'maya' on paper than it is to
deal with its various manifestations in history.
In 1969, a French astrophysicist called Jacques Vallée, who had
worked for NASA in the early 1960's, and had taken part in the NSF
computer networking project which was to give birth to the first
conferencing system, ARPANET, long before the advent of the internet,
published 'Passport to Magonia : From Folklore to Flying Saucers'
(Henry Regnery & Co., Chicago) : bringing together elements of
medieval European folklore and contemporary 'extra-terrestrial'
phenomena, he attempted to prove a structural continuity between
them. Vallée was chosen by Steven Spielberg as his model for the
character of the French scientist Lacombe in 'Close Encounters of the
Third Kind', a propaganda movie largely based on the story of the
Mosaic revelation. However, Vallée disapproved of the Jewish film-
maker's presentation of extra-terrestrials as harmless 'brothers'.
Another Frenchman, Bertrand Méheust, by contrast, went so far as to
see them as diabolical creatures. In 'Science-fiction et soucoupes
volantes - Une réalité mythico-physique' ('Science Fiction and Flying
Saucers - A Mythico-Physical Reality'), published by the prestigious
Mercure de France in 1978, he put forward the thesis that the 'extra-
terrestrial' phenomena were preceded by a preparation of
the 'ambiance' in the science-fiction literature, especially, of the
1930's, whose scenarii and images were in their turn 'whispered' to
their authors by diabolical suggestion, and, following on Vallée's
footsteps, that stories of abduction by 'extra-terrestrials'
originate in ancient myths.
A chapter of 'Le Royaume du Graal' draws its inspiration from the
work of those two authors : 'Extra-terrestres et antisémitisme'
('Extra-Terrestrials and Anti-Semitism'). Jean Robin goes further
than them, and risks the thesis of rival factions of 'extra-
terrestrials', and of human complicity with some of them.
Interestingly enough, this thesis is closely akin to the conclusions
of a report by the French Ministry of Defence to the French President
in 1999, which was published in the magazine VSD the same year, and
has since been discovered to be virtually a plagiarisation of a
report by the US Air Force of 1949 - see
http://ufologie.net/htm/air100-203-79f.htm . However, to the drafters
of those reports, there are "good extra-terrestrials" and "bad extra-
terrestrials", the former being supposed to save us at the last
moment from the latter, whereas, to Jean Robin, those creatures are
all diabolical, no matter which side they are on. Some may say that
this is not a detail.
"What is the purpose of the appearance of the UFO's?", Evola asked.
For Jean Robin, there is absolutely no doubt that it is meant to
prepare public opinion world-wide for the coming of the Antichrist,
which, according to Christian tradition, will pretend to be
the 'Second Coming' of Christ. In general, the "nouvelle religion
soucoupiste" is seen here as a neo-spiritualist parody of
Christianity : like Christianity, it has had its 'catacombs period'
and its martyrs, and, like Christianity, it has become popular
subsequently. He argues that neo-spiritualism's purpose is to
convince the entire world population that the ancient 'gods' of
polytheism were only deified 'civilising cosmonauts' (neo-
euhemerism), whose mundane aim has always been to work for peoples'
good ; the Ramayana and other mythological epics tell the story of
their arrival on earth. Among those ancient 'gods', emphasis is
placed on the Elohim, the fallen angels who seduced the wives of men
(chapter VI of 'Genesis'), who are considered to be the direct
ancestors of the 'chosen people'. In short, any Jew is a son of the
devil. Jean Robin denounces this equation between evil and the Jewish
people, which, according to him, is peculiar to the 'soucoupiste
religion' and the neo-spiritualist circles in which it was born. By
the vague and elastic term 'neo-spiritualism', what is meant here
seems to be essentially 'neo-paganism', behind which it is understood
that 'far-right' groups are hidden. At the risk of disappointing some
people, however, we must point out that neither the so-called 'neo-
pagan' GRECE, nor the official Asatru movement and its leaders, have
ever taken an anti-Semitic position. However, this equation has found
an echo in Catholic traditionalist circles, with the publication by
Marc Dem, the editor of a newsletter of theirs, of 'Les Juifs de
l'espace' (Albin Michel, Paris, 1974).
The fact remains, in any case, that Jean Robin is the only guenonian
to have dared to apply Guénon's ideas on counter-initiation to
the 'extra-terrestrial' phenomenon. For the French metaphysician,
counter-initiation originated in the knowledge transmitted by the
Elohim to men ; Jean Robin, as just pointed out, saw the Elohim
as 'extra-terrestrials'. In the chapter of 'Le Royaume du Graal'
called 'L'impossibilité des contacts interplanétaires' ('The
Impossibility of Interplanetary Contact'), Jean Robin resumed the
argument of the French metaphysician, according to which a minimum
of 'senses in common' between men and other forms of intelligent
life is necessary for them to be able to communicate. Another
chapter, 'OVNI et psychanalyse' ('UFO's and Psychoanalysis'), deals
with the subversive character of the Jungian theory of the archetypes
with respect to the 'extra-terrestrial' phenomena, already pointed
out by Julius Evola and René Guénon, namely, that Jung saw them as
purely oneiric, not to say hallucinatory ; by this means, Jean Robin
states, he prevented us from acknowledging their physical and
material reality and, thus, studying their real nature.
At this point, it is not without value to mention that Jean Robin
stated, with emphasis, that de Gaulle believed in the existence
of 'extra-terrestrials' and that he was a reader of Guénon.
Certainly, de Gaulle is said to have been most impressed by the
apparition of a UFO in the sky of Antananarivo in 1954, as he was
visiting Madagascar. In 1966, de Gaulle approved the idea of a secret
French study group on the 'extra-terrestrial' phenomenon, just after
the Yankees created the Condon commission for the same purpose.
However, the reader would be well advised not to lose sight of the
fact that, as we have said, the report by the French Ministry of
Defence to the (neo-gaullist) French President in 1999 is virtually a
plagiarism of a report by the US Air Force from 1949, and to bear in
mind that the return to power of de Gaulle in 1958 was firmly
supported by the ultra-secret department of the Yankee secret
service, the OPC, or Office for Political Coordination. All couples
have their domestic rows when there are guests : the U.S. and neo-
gaullist France have had domestic quarrels, but, deep inside, they
still love each other. As shown by Dominique Lorentz ('Affaires
atomiques', Les arènes, 2001), it was gaullist France which, from the
moment de Gaulle was pitchforked back into the Elysée, was put in
charge of building Israel's atomic installations, with the aid of the
Israeli scientists who had to a great extent created the Yankee
atomic bomb, and of scattering atomic technology across Iraq, Iran,
Japan, Taiwan, China, Egypt, and so on, the whole thing being
financed by Yankee money under the supervision of NATO. There has
been an obvious attempt for years in France, by many political
schemers and writers involved in the current gynaeco-democratic mess,
to mythologise gaullism and the figure of de Gaulle himself, creating
an impression that, in the absence of any serious statesmen to rule
the country, only this historical figure, treated as a sort of mummy,
could keep it alive ; so one suspects that Jean Robin's reflections
on the General may be a variant for esoteric circles of the same
tactics.
As a matter of fact, Jean Robin was not the first author to present
de Gaulle as a convinced guenonian. In 1982, a certain Révérend Père
Martin published a 500-page book called 'Le livre des compagnons
secrets' (Rocher) whose subtitle was more explicit : 'L'enseignement
secret du Général de Gaulle' ('The Secret Teaching of General de
Gaulle'). According to this author, de Gaulle was surrounded by a
secret circle of forty-five personages, who advised him and received
his confidences, and who became the bearers of his thought until
1958. The book examines the whole of French history, and the
eschatological concern of the 'secret circle' for the country and its
destiny, from a perspective which reminds one of Marxist
historiography. It contains many references to the work of René
Guénon - perhaps the author wishes us to believe it was no
coincidence that Jacques Benoist-Méchin, one of the two characters
who is reported to have played an 'occult' rôle for de Gaulle, was
sent by the French government on many missions in Arab countries
after 1958, especially to Cairo, Egypt? A critical analysis of 'Le
livre des compagnons secrets', published in the 28th October 1982
issue of the magazine Nostra and signed 'Bayard', voiced the
hypothesis that the book was meant to create a confusion between the
forty-five member group and the Prieuré de Sion, which, as is known,
also had forty-five French members, among them Jean Cocteau and André
Malraux.; it is accompanied by a drawing called "Le général de Gaulle
attendait le retour du grand monarque" ("General de Gaulle Awaits the
Return of the Great Monarch"). Incidentally, the inimitable Jean
Parvulesco tackled this subject in 'La spirale prophétique'
(Trédaniel, 1986).
Père Martin didn't leave it at that. In 1984, he laid it on a bit
thicker, with 'Le Renversement, ou La Boucane contre l'Ordre Noir'
('The Reversal, or La Boucane versus the Black Order'). In 1971, the
discovery was made "that a group of ex-Nazis is working behind the
scenes towards world domination", and Père Martin tells us all about
it. Joscelyn Godwin mentions this book in his 'Arktos : The Polar
Myth'.
Speaking of which, basing himself on the work of David Lewis and
Hermann Rauschning (whose unreliability, to put it mildly, is
mentioned by Dr Hakl), Jean Robin, in 'Hitler, l'élu du dragon',
tries to substantiate the thesis that Hitler was nothing but the
forerunner of the Antichrist, and that neo-National-Socialism -
something which exists only in the hazy heads of a few amateurs and
in the papers of the secret services - is closely connected with
Islamism. Unfortunately, the post-WW2 career of people like Degrelle
and Skorzeny, extraordinary warriors who, back in civilian life, lost
the centre which had made them what they were on the battlefield, has
given substance to this thesis.
Sooner or later, we would like to discuss a concept which influences
Dr Hakl's essay, without his mentioning it explicitly, and which is
linked to Jean Robin's attempt to show that Hitler was a forerunner
of the Antichrist : that of the diabolisation by Christians of the
highest manifestations of the Aryan spirit in history. In the
meantime, let us draw people's attention to the fact that the notion
of Antichrist is peculiar to the 'Judaism Lite' for goyim masses
which is Christianity. Let us hope that some of them have already
drawn from this the conclusions which are logically necessary from an
Aryan standpoint.
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok@a..."
<vandermok@l...> wrote:
> In the two articles quoted, Evola remained neutral about the
finality of the phenomenon, because, I presume, we have not
sufficient information to judge, while the guenonian Jean Robin
enclosed the Ufos in the weapons of the counter-initiation.
> I did not refer to a spatial/extraterrestrial origin, unless we
intend it as supernatural. The interpretation of the phenomenon could
be premature, but it is favouring the conspiracy of the silence and
creating a sort of synthetic myth.
>
> F.
>
>
> Madison Grant's most famous book is not called 'The Decline of the
> White Race', as stated below, but 'The Passing of the Great Race',
> translated in 1926 in French as 'Le Déclin de la grande race'
(Payot,
> Paris), with a pugnacious preface by Vacher de Lapouge.
>
>
>
>
> --- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
> <evola_as_he_is@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Since the publication of Joscelin Godwin's book on 'The Polar
> Myth',
> > the original concept has extended to encompass a wide range of
> occult
> > myths of the Arctic, such as that of the 'Hollow Earth', that of
> > the 'UFO's', that of the hidden kingdom of Shambala and Agartha,
> and
> > that of the Third Reich in Antarctica. To Evola and to other
> authors,
> > it was limited to the theory according to which the terrestrial
> seat
> > of Hyperborea, of Thule, was the home of the original man, that
is,
> > of the original Aryan man.
> >
> > Guénon himself, who, for reasons explained by Madison Grant in
the
> > fifth chapter of 'The Decline of the White Race', was right and
> wrong
> > at the same time in contesting the existence of an 'Aryan race'
in
> > the 'Introduction to the Studies of Hindu Doctrines',
acknowledged
> > both the actuality of a terrestrial Hyperborea and its symbolic
> > dimension : "Almost every tradition has its name for this
mountain,
> > such as the Hindu Meru, the Persian Alborj, and the Montsalvat of
> > Western Grail legend. There is also the Arab mountain Qaf and the
> > Greek Olympus, which has in many ways the same significance. This
> > consists of a region that, like the Terrestrial Paradise, has
> become
> > inaccessible to ordinary humanity, and that is beyond the reach
of
> > those cataclysms which upset the human world at the end of
certain
> > cyclic periods. This region is the authentic 'supreme country'
> which,
> > according to certain Vedic and Avestan texts, was originally
sited
> > towards the North Pole, even in the literal sense of the word."
> (The
> > King of the World')
> >
> > "To say that the Aryans come from a polar region does not exhaust
> > completely that mystery", if you refer to the thesis according to
> > which they come from space, which Evola never considered, even in
> the
> > article you mention : 'I "Dischi volanti" non sono palle a
fulgore'
> > (''Flying saucers' are not fireballs'), 'Il Meridiano d'Italia',
21
> > November 1954, followed, one month after, still in the same
paper,
> > by 'Attendiamo che cadono' ('We are waiting for them to fall').
The
> > former is based on the information gathered on the UFO's by...
the
> > secret services of the US air force. Who said Evola didn't have
any
> > sense of humour? In the latter, he made a prudent judgement on
the
> > phenomenon, about which, according to him, it is premature to
draw
> > conclusions, since "no UFO has ever fallen on earth" and,
> therefore,
> > no one has been able to examine them in a scientific manner to
> > determine whether or not the technology they are based on is
human
> or
> > not.
> >
> > This article ends up with a question which anyone conscious of
> > the 'occult war' should ask oneself : "WHAT'S THE AIM OF THE
> > APPARITION OF THE FYING SAUCERS?"
> >
> >
> > --- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok@a..."
> > <vandermok@l...> wrote:
> > > I did not mean Evola has been cautious on polar myth but about
> the
> > mysterious origin of Aryans race, at least to me. To say that
> Aryans
> > come from a polar region does not exhaust completely that
mystery.
> I
> > would desire a world more about. That's all.
> > >
> > > About the underworld, we already pointed out the ambiguity of
> this
> > concept. It is not casual that some people believe that the UFO
> come
> > from that Hollow Earth and/or from the future. By the way, even
if
> > Evola quoted sometimes the flying saucers, unfortunately he was
> > evasive about; but after all, even if we have today more
> information
> > than him, the conclusions are scanty all the same.
> > >
> > > F.