Hellenic Warrior Religion

The writing of RESAVAGER have been devoted to the Warrior Religion which I believe the best path to revitalizing western man. Sometimes I hesitate to use something as vague as western man. Joseph de Maistre complained about the French constitution using just the word “man.” He said he didn’t know this man, but he knew Frenchmen, Englishmen, etcetera. So when I say western man, I mean primarily those descended from the Aryan inheritance. Right or left, we all agree the origins of the west go back to Ancient Greece. Leftists will probably talk about the Socratic philosophers as the beginning of the west whereas our side will talk about Homer and the Age of Heroes.

My own knowledge of the Greks is not great by any means. I still have much to learn, but as of late, I have been drawn to Kronos’ Son, ZEUS. I’ve been revisiting both Heraclitus’s fragments and the Iliad. I’ve also recently read Nietzsche’s lecture on Heraclitus which he wrote before any of his books. It is very good and I highly recommend you find it. What you find when you go through Grek mythology is they are not as far from Christianity as one might thing. No, there is no Christ, but Zeus as Sky Father is not that different from the Christian God. Zeus’s power is greater than the combined might of all the other Gods.

Christians would scoff at this assessment. No, they’re nothing like those savages who made sacrifices to their Pagan Gods. All western religions however, come from peoples of similar blood, so it makes sense that they would be similar. Religion is a way of understanding the world, but as said by Spengler in The Decline of the West, it’s also another word for existence. All our rites, customs, traditions, and culture ARE religion. Now Spengler believed that the Greks were a completely different culture from we Faustians, but there’s no denying how much our culture looks up to the Apollonian Greks.

Our admiration for Hellenism may very well be religious. How else could BAP’s rhetoric work as well as it does? Maybe a type of fanatical Nietzchean Hellenism is the path forward. With that in mind, I’m very fond of Heraclitus’s metaphysics and Nietzsche’s lecture on him, combined with the reading of Coulanges’ The Ancient City make for a powerful theology. To begin, I recommend you read The Ancient City, a review can be found on RESAVAGER if you haven’t read it before. It’s an inspiration on my essay, “The Sacred Fire.”

For the Greks and Romans, the hearth fire was sacred. In the beginning religion was very much decentralized. Each family had their own religion and the most important God in these religions was the hearth fire. The idea of sitting down and sharing meals with your family for example, originated with the ancient family sitting down for a meal by their hearth fire. It’s said when King Agamemnon returned home from the Trojan War, the very first thing he did before even sacrificing to Zeus, was to visit his heath fire. This fire was never allowed to burn out. A bride would be taken before the hearth fire to be initiated into her husband’s religion.  With that in mind, consider this Heraclitus fragment:

"This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be-an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures." -Heraclitus

The fragments of Heraclitus survive for a reason. The man saw well beyond his contemporaries. He had a very aristocratic and elitist view of the world compared to the more popular philosophers we remember like Socrates and Plato. Heraclitus’s “ever-living fire” was older than even Zeus or any of the Gods. He also said that “fire in its advance will judge and convict all things.” Fire is a powerful, primordial force. Mankind owes its domination to fire. Scientists claim the universe may have started with a big bang.

If the ever-living fire is the universe, Zeus  represents the Father of Mankind and the ultimate wisdom.

Zeus did not create the universe, but he is the Father of Mankind. He is referenced often by Heraclitus for his wisdom and intelligence. Through his thunderbolt, he steers the course of mankind. Detractors of Christianity ask Christians, “if your God is so good, why does he allow evil things to happen.” Heraclitus answers this better than any Christian ever could. He tells us that the way of man of man has no wisdom, but that of The Gods has. He goes on in a different fragment to say that man is a child compared to God. You couldn’t understand the way of Zeus if you wanted to. It would be like trying to explain some complex subject like thermodynamics to a two year old.

There are many attacks upon Zeus and the Olympians. Take for example, how they’re portrayed in the Iliad as a squabbling pantheon. Zeus and Hera appear as testament to domestic violence. Zeus has fucked so many women behind her back. He’s even done so in animal form. You cannot control his sexual prowess. Give him the chance and he will rape the universe to give us a new age of heroes. To this I say: you don’t understand the way of God. You can’t understand it. He knows the course of fate and acts accordingly. He has his own plans. They’re beyond your understanding, you must submit.

The Sky Father has always been with western man, in one form or another. Each tribe as they spread out over Europe had their own interpretation of how he appeared unto them. The reason we believe there’s a Sky Father watching over us from above, I’d argue is beyond reason. You don’t need to know why, just know that he is there, and he favors the best among us. Achilles, the best warrior in the Trojan War, sought the help of the FATHER and sacrificed to the FATHER. He’s watches over mankind, leading us toward some end.

Zeus is the orchestrator, constructor, and the director of mankind. It’s his WILL that pushes us one way or the other. I believe he shows favor to those who live in accordance with nature. Who strive to excel beyond all others. Zeus selects for this and bestows upon them the glory. In Zeus you will find surging VITALITY and the power of the THUNDERBOLT along with unmatched WISDOM and INTELLIGENCE.

FANATICAL Hellenism

Christians bemoan Pagans. They’re the original Marxist deconstructionists. Oh it’s so bad Pagans used to make sacrifices to their Gods. “We Christians civilized the savages.” Or they’ll talk about how Pagans have been severed from their rituals. They don’t know the rites. The Christian God is the one true God, etcetera.

What I will say is I have great respect for the Christian’s desert FANATICISM. They literally made the world Christian,  but that wasn’t without it’s consequences. Christianity made our people soft, it made them lose their edge. Oswald Spengler said that the Apollonian Greks didn’t have this kind of fanaticism. All they cared about was their home and hearth. What happened outside their city wasn’t their problem. The Romans sought to absorb all the religions into their own, being accepting of foreign Gods and their rites. So long as a people honored the Roman Gods, they could keep their domestic religion. They were far too tolerant.

This is where Hellenism can learn something from Christianity and infuse Nietzsche into its fanaticism. Nietzschean Hellenists with a Will to Power, driven to impose that will upon the world, to make man great, brave, hard, and manly again. To take the Grek ideal and aesthetic of striving to excel beyond all others to the extreme. To launch a bloody religious war for world domination to prove this excellence to the world. To take this soul image and impose it not must upon the earth, but to do what man was supposed to do: join the stars. To be the best, to excel above all others.

This falls right in with Heraclitean metaphysics about how the world works. Heraclitus said “War is the Father of all and King of all, some he has shown to be Gods and others men, some slave and some free.” He also shows reverence for the great man, “one man is ten thousand to me if he be the best.” Don’t worry about the flack dumped upon you by bitter Christians.

VICTORY SANCTIFIES.