The Warrior Disciple

Please read the previous part in the series: Hard Lands, Hard Peoples

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“Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.” -Orange Catholic Bible, Dune

Religion in Frank Herbert’s Dune is very interesting. You must remember that it’s futuristic science fiction, taking place thousands of years into the future when mankind has moved beyond Earth into the far reaches of the universe. All the religious beliefs of the old Earth were gathered into the Orange Catholic Bible(also called the Accumulated Book), a text of about 1800 pages. Before man left the Earth, the religions had already begun to fuse and create new denominations. Islam and Buddhism or Christianity and Buddhism. This book held the religious texts of the three major religions at the time: Mahayana Christianity, Maometh Saari, and Zensunni. By this time, they don’t really resemble the original Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam.

There is group called the Wandering Zensunni who fled civilization during an event called The Butlerian Jihad. A war started by thinking machines(AI) to destroy mankind. Because this group of Wandering Zensunni fled this war, they became a persecuted people. Some even justified enslaving them afterwards to pay off their debt of cowardice. The persecuted Wandering Zensunni moved from planet to planet until eventually settling on the desert planet Arakkis which is where the novel takes place. These Wandering Zensunni called themselves the free men which over time evolved into Fremen. Their fight for survival on Arakkis utterly transformed their religion.

Gone from the Zensunni was the pacifism inherited by the ancient religions like Buddhism and Christianity, and in its place was a warrior and honor culture. The religion became more PAGAN as they saw the titanic sand worms on the planet as manifestations of God. To avoid persecution by the Imperium which used the planet to harvest spice, the Fremen became fierce warriors who knew the ins and outs of the planet so well, they could pick their battles — disappearing and reappearing as necessary. Their faith was still Zensunni, though some started to realize the contradictory nature of their faith as the Fremen became instrument of destruction in the protagonist’s — Paul Atreidies — jihad. The lands transformed them into a martial people. Herbert He researched desert peoples and believed them superior in many ways because of the harsh environment they’re born into.

There is an Arab word “asabiyyah,” that describes what Herbert saw in desert peoples. The word means social cohesion. The people don’t act as individuals — like your average westerner — but as a collective. They’re clannish and violent. Fiercely loyal to their own. They have RACE in the Spenglarian sense of the word, in addition to being the same race. In Pierre van den Berghe’s The Ethnic Phenomenon, we learn that this social cohesion is best formed by people of the same race since we biologically see others of the same race as extensions of kin.

This was a little bit of a tangent, but to bring it back in, Herbert saw religions as evolving and even merging over time. In a way, that’s already happened. Paganism found its way into Christianity out of necessity on the part of Christian effort to convert all to their religion. How many different Christian denominations have there been? Christianity morality found its way into leftism. In Vajrayana Buddhism, you can find traces of Hinduism. What comes next is never the same. There might be similarities, but they’re never the same.

There’s bad blood between the alliances on the right, especially between Christians, Pagans, and Nietzscheans. One concept introduced to me which is talked about in the book I still need to read, The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity, is that there are different kinds of religions. Paganism was not universal. It belonged to a people and only those people could belong to it. A religion like Christianity is universal and ushers into it, foreigners trying to survive in someone else’s lands. Christianity was concerned with the end times and what happens after death, they were life-rejecting. Pagans did not.

You may be forced to combine concepts to bring a people back together.

The most important step that can be taken right now is to get our people to start thinking like a people again. Many have become disillusioned from religion, others cling to many Christian sects. And yes, there is small group of Pagans and Nietzscheans. Most have been made sick, fat, and weak by the occupational class. You have to bring these groups together. Help them learn the lesson that their racial distinction supersedes everything else if they want to survive. Give them the belief that they can be great again.

Encourage them to be courageous. To take steps towards undoing the damage done to them by globohomo. Make them see how the superhero phenomenon is ultimately demoralizing and how any one can be hero if they choose to be courageous. Help them to start thinking collectively. To make themselves physically fit and strong. It’s important for men to take COMMAND in this respect. The man who can lead will get himself a woman who follows. Much of our problems come from men choosing to step aside.

At the foundation must be the brotherhood of armed men. Even as late as colonial America, men solved slights against their honor with duels. We handled our own problems. We didn’t need to call the state whom Nietzsche called the “coldest of all monsters.” There’s been much talk about religion in this Warrior Religion Project, but not about the warrior. It needs to be understood that culture becomes religion and religion becomes culture. Spengler said that religion is “another word for existence.”

If you’re looking to be a disciple of a Warrior Religion, do you fight? Have you taken time to learn and master weapons and tactics? Are you physically fit? Strong? Have you and your friends become clannish to outsiders? Do you have an understanding of what honor actually is? Are you able to impose your will on another man?

Making these things CULTURE is the first step to making them religion. The warlike and manly spirit must be awakened in our people. Our men must be made hardened and fierce. We must be made to think ourselves a PEOPLE and not a country. Only then, can we carve our land for ourselves. Our ability to fight should frighten the rest of the world. Perhaps, what we need to put our faith in is some GOD of Guerrilla Fighters — to instill that FIERCENESS and unwillingness to surrender.

This is how you get out the position we’re in now. Be willing to wait in the rice patties for five days breathing through bamboo stick to ambush the enemy or do you want to be the next Kulaks? Or would you rather have a seat at the bargaining table because your enemies don’t want to fight you? This kind of savageness is in our blood. The Indians weren’t the only ones who were brutal and ruthless. You have to be this way to survive. Nature selects for the strong. Losing the primitive makes you vulnerable to being manipulated as we are now.

The Secret Covenant

Our men of race must be inducted into a secret covenant. The psychological conditioning imposed upon by the occupational class must be replaced by an unflinching belief in our superiority. If you don’t yet have this belief, you must train and master space until you do. It begins first with establishing a secret covenant, the brotherhood of armed men. This is the franchise, the basic unit of The Will to Power. Do you want Justice? Vengeance? Than you have to win out.

The fight for survival is primary. Victory or death is cosmic justice. Judgment rendered unto us by The Gods. It doesn’t matter how bad the odds seem. We will will prevail against all odds. We will take pride in our martial poverty and austerity. Harsh discipline and self-control are tenets of our Warrior Religion. Fighting, surviving, and strength our watchwords.

The faith in technology is overrated. Does it matter? Certainly, but we put our faith in the man. The God of Guerrilla Fighters gives his disciples the strength to overcome and outlast his enemies. To master our conditions, we will do whatever it takes, taking to the harshest conditions if necessary. This was The Way of the Fathers and it will be our way.

Master. Conquer. Destroy.