Nature’s Cruel Holiness

The phrase “Nature’s Cruel Holiness” was coined by William Blake. I have not read him and do not plan on commenting on his work here, only to give him the proper credit. I don’t remember where I first heard this phrase, but it’s stuck with me over the years as the proper understanding of nature.

Very few among us understand nature for what it is.

Our blood has spent generations under comfortable and favorable conditions. It’s been so easy going that we have forgotten not only about nature’s cruel holiness, but who we are. Our ancestors experienced nature’s cruel holiness vividly on the frontier. It was seared into their minds.

We remember our ancestors as Protestants, but if you read about them, you wonder if there wasn’t mystery cults that worshipped “the law of nature and nature’s God.” This phrase is seen many times in works on early America.

At the very least, our ancestors’ understanding of Christianity wasn’t separated from this law of nature and nature’s God. They understood them as one and the same.

The law of nature is the way of God.

That way of God is the Golden Path.

It is the narrow way through the storm.

Those who take it make themselves loved by God. They leave their marks on the world. They turn the wheel of mankind.

All the holy texts written throughout the history of mankind matter only in their ability to take a man, no a people, and put them on the path to God. They matter only in their ability to teach their disciples about nature’s cruel holiness.

If your religion does not do this, you’re being led astray. You’re being manipulated. Made to be a slave.

That’s what our ancestors realized when they settled the New World.

They came to one of the hardest environments imaginable to escape slavery and persecution. The road was long and unforgiving. There were many ways a man could die in the New World. It was no easy path.

But they took it nonetheless.

They believed they were CHOSEN by God. The New World was their New Zion, the new Holy Land.

God had primed this land for their coming. Used it to forge them into a new people.

The Sacred Frontier became their training ground. The place where God trained the faithful. They became what Europeans are still trying to do: become a new people. They achieved ethnogenesis. The very best of the European races brought together for a special breeding program.

Our ancestors were forced back into nature’s cruel holiness. Made to worship the Sacred Frontier. Made to tame the wilderness.

How could they see nature as anything but holy? Even in the cruelest of environments where our ancestors starved or preyed upon by Indians? That cruel holiness made our ancestors into something else. Something different from the old world they came from.

Now it is not my intention to romanticize what they did. Our ancestors lived hard and brutal lives. Lives that transformed their very souls.

The culture of the old world meant nothing to them anymore. Nature’s cruel holiness taught them what was important.

What could you do?

How were you useful?

What did you bring to the tribe?

These are what became important to our ancestors as they fought to survive in the wilderness.

You have to know nature’s cruel holiness in your soul!

You cannot allow yourself to be seduced by false testaments like “progress.” To fall into these false faiths is to put you and your kin at risk. Those who ignore nature’s cruel holiness will make themselves susceptible to its cruelty. The right ALWAYS belongs to the stronger. The weaker are ALWAYS at the mercy of the stronger. You must become strong.

This lesson is repeated over and over throughout human history. There is nothing secret about it. It governs us still and will always govern us.

Only those with the knowledge of nature’s cruel holiness are in the great game. Everyone else is slave to their wills.