David Myatt - T he White Hordes of Homo Hubris

Selected Essays Regarding The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

David Myatt

Introducti on

T he essays presented here differ in date, the most recent being Homo Hubris and The Magian
Ethos - closely followed by Homo Hubris and The Disruption of The Numinous - and the earliest (by
some seven years) being The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context. As mentioned in Homo Hubris
and The Magian Ethos, I have had occasion to slightly revise my view regarding what now
constitutes the Magian ethos.

Given this diversity of date in the composition of the individual essays, and given their publication by
diverse means (printed or via the Internet), there is some unavoidable, and inevitable, repetition of
themes, subject and content.

Homo Hubris and The Magian Ethos

Can you explain what you mean by the term The Whites Hordes of Homo
Hubris, why you use it, and what, if any, relation there is to the term Horde
used to describe the followers of Genghis Khan?

The term The White Hordes of Homo Hubris refers to the White, or Caucasian,
peoples of Europe and the so-called New World - such as America, Australasia,
and Canada - who have the character of, or who belong to, the new subspecies
of human called Homo Hubris.

Homo Hubris is distinguished by their generally uncouth, vulgar, behaviour;

their lack of manners; their arrogance and insolence; their pride, and their
innate, often unconscious belief (or rather, delusion), that they and their kind

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are 'superior' and have a sort of 'destiny' or duty to interfere in the lives of
other peoples, often now by imposing some abstraction on them, by force and
killing, but most often, in the past, by occupation, conquest, and imperialism.

In addition, Homo Hubris is in thrall to causal abstractions, and is easy swayed

and manipulated by others, lacking as they do any real personal noble
character and deficient as they are in both empathy and honour.

In brief, the people of Homo Hubris often act and behave like spoilt children
and/or bullies.

The term horde is used in the general sense of a swarming crowd, a swarming
mass of humans, and is apt to describe the general behaviour of the majority of
Caucasian humans over the past millennia or more, who have swarmed over
planet Earth, spreading their abstractions and their colonialism and their
capitalist exploitation, and who have behaved like crowds tend to behave:
easily swayed by rhetoric and propaganda; often in thrall to primitive emotions
(lust for conquest; lust for gold or other resources and commodities; lust for
vengeance; and so on); and generally capable of being manipulated by some
self-serving cabal or some oligarchy.

There is no specific relation intended, by my usage of the term horde, to the

tribes, the hordes, of Genghis Khan or his descendants, such as Batu Khan,
and his Ak Orda. One might just as easily use the term The White Swarms of
Homo Hubris, although the term horde itself carries some connotations that
the term swarm does not, specifically, horde relates to humans, and
specifically, it now implies uncouth behaviour, and the killing of other human
beings, which makes it somewhat more apt than the term swarm, for Homo
Hubris is renowned for both uncouth behaviour, and the wanton killing of
other human beings. Indeed, as I have mentioned elsewhere, The White Hordes
of Homo Hubris are the most bloodthirsty people in human history, having
been responsible for the killing of over two hundred million people in the last
two hundred years alone. Why, in just the last decade, The White Hordes of
Homo Hubris have been responsible for the killing of at least half a million
people - in the name of their latest crusade - in places like Iraq, Afghanistan,
and elsewhere.

In your article The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris, you state
quite clearly that the downfall of the West begins, and I quote, “with peoples
external to the West, and with those of non-White ethnicity within the lands of
the West.” Why do you say this, and isn’t this a complete turn around from
your previous advocacy of European, or “Aryan”, culture and traditions?

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One of the fundamental problems – as I understand it as a result of almost four

decades of reflexion upon the problem, and following four decades of varied
practical experience and engagement – is that of the innate character of the
peoples of the West. It is this character that has allowed The White Hordes to
descend to become Homo Hubris, and has allowed themselves to be the allies
and servants of the Magian. It is this basal character that has caused The
White Hordes of Homo Hubris to destroy by ruthless force the few rebellions,
in the West, against the mechanistic, usurious, un-numinous status quo. It is,
importantly, this innate character that has led to this status quo, that is
manifest in this status quo, based as it is upon the manufacture of
un-numinous abstractions and upon the spread of these contagious
abstractions, by The White Hordes, throughout the peoples of the world.

It is thus this character that needs to changed, and this requires a new ethos;
a new perception, a new attitude, a new perspective; an entirely new way and
new ways of living. This change is not going to occur quickly – it will take
decades, if not a century, or more probably, many centuries. That is, the
current status quo – the perfidy of the nation-State with its tyranny and its
tyrannical abstractions will not only remain, but get much worse, and “the
people” will, for the most part acquiesce in this, and acquiesce in the
increasing tyranny, manifest as this tyranny is in, for example, increased
government surveillance, in a lack of personal honour, in compulsory and
increasing taxation, in a lack of empathy, a lack of personal manners, in more
and more laws in the name of “security” and “peace”, in restrictions on
people’s freedom of movement, and in a lack of, or the suppression of, critical
debate about certain matters, especially certain recent historical events.

In previous decades, I had hoped that it might be possible to bring about this
change of character, from within the West, by “shock and awe” – by creating a
revolutionary situation; by precipitating System Breakdown. But my practical
experience revealed to me that this just could not be done, for several reasons.
Firstly, because The White Hordes, en masse, were mostly quite content with
their lot; secondly, because the Magian ethos, the new Magian mythos, held
them in thrall, and when it did not there were always, always, willing servants
of the Magian and of their ethos to re-enforce their conditioning, to re-educate
them, or to arrest, convict, and imprison them, or to inform on those few who
were genuine heretics, genuine revolutionaries, genuine outlaws against The
System. Thirdly, and perhaps most distressing of all, the fundamental
character of even those who claimed to rebel was, for the most part, flawed;
with such individuals not being personal examples of the values we and they
championed and claimed to be fighting for. That is, they were often,
themselves, dishonourable; were often dis-loyal, and mostly did not do their
duty.

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Thus, my conclusions came to be: (1) that the peoples of the West in general,
or even those of one nation, would not revolt, and could not be persuaded to
revolt against their masters and against their wage and salary slavery. (2) That
they had become so corrupted by the ignoble, un-numinous, ethos that
permeated all the societies of the West, that it is was impossible, or seemed to
me impossible, to re-awaken them, to imbue them with the virtues of honour,
loyalty and duty in their service of their own culture and their own ethos, and
that when these noble virtues were shown, by them, it was more often than not
only and ever in the service of the Magian; for Magian goals; for and on behalf
of the Magian ethos, so imbued had the majority of peoples of the West
become with that ethos. (3) That one of the fundamental and important
problems was that the Magian ethos itself was an almost alchemical blend of
the abstractions, half (or more) from the peoples of the West, and half (or less)
directly from the Magians themselves.

But perhaps most important of all, in those previous decades, I had worked on
and indeed lived by the assumption that the problem was a simple one of “us”
and “them” – of the Magian ethos being just that, purely Magian; purely
manufactured by the Magian; that, expressed simply, we had become
“infected” by a virus that was Magian in origin and in design; and that thus
that “we” just needed to return to “our” own, pure, ethos, our own values, our
own ancestral ways, in order to liberate ourselves, in order to cure ourselves of
this infection, this Magian distortion.

However, I came to realize, to crucially understand, that “we” ourselves were

part of the problem; if not a major cause of the problem. That it was the White
peoples themselves – and especially their abstractions – which originally gave
rise to and which imbued this ethos with so much vigour, and which has
allowed it to so take root among the peoples of the West.

Now, I consider what I term the Magian ethos as something other than simply
something manufactured by some other people, such as Zionists, and which
thus expresses the ethos, the Zeitgeist, of that people. That is, this Magian
ethos is theirs, but crucially also “ours”; an alchemical mixture of ideas,
abstractions, and mythos, deriving from both “us” and “them”. Thus, while
currently the main beneficiaries of this Magian ethos are the Magians
themselves (and especially their new State entity and its satellite entity,
Amerika) its origin, its existence, and its continuing vigour and power are now
insolubly tied up with the peoples of the West.

In addition, my assessment of the basic character of what I regarded as my

own people had been hopelessly idealistic, ridiculously romantic, and thus
flawed, and I came, from direct experience, to know their flaws, their faults,
so evident in a genuine understanding of their history, their deeds past and

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present. I also came to know, to understand, my own flaws, my own mistakes.

In brief, the situation, the problem, was not as simple as I had naively believed
it to be, with the truth being that the Magian ethos has naturally become the
ethos of the West since it was to a large extent the creation of the peoples of
the West, with some important input, some quite important changes, from and
made by the Magian themselves.

So yes, indeed, this is almost a complete reversal of my former position – but

one based on, deriving from, my own practical experience. Based upon the
realities I encountered and had to deal with. That is, I learned, from
experience; and I especially learned from my own mistakes. I also lost that
somewhat immature idealism, that romanticism, that I had somehow managed
to retain even after decades of revolutionary activism.

Hence, in order to bring about the downfall of The System, we must look to
those who have a different character from ours, and different from the
Magian, and learn from these peoples of diverse and non-White ethnicity; and
change ourselves (inwardly, in character) and encourage these other peoples
to understand our flaws, to value themselves, and free themselves from “our”
ethos, that is, from the Magian ethos which now dominates the West and has
spread over the entire world. They should free themselves of direct control by
the West, and rid themselves, wherever they are – even if residing in the West –
from any and all Western influences, for the West has now naturally become
synonymous with the Magian, synonymous with the Magian ethos, with the
un-numinous and tyrannical abstractions of The White Hordes.

The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

Introduction

The downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris, the destruction of their
nation-States, of The West itself, is something not only to be desired, but also
striven toward by all practical means.

Why? Because as mentioned in Chapter Two of The Mythos of Vindex, “The

White Hordes of Homo Hubris…have consistently and for many centuries been
the destroyers, par excellence, of The Numinous.” In addition, it is and has
been The White Hordes of Homo Hubris (Footnote 1) who are and who were
the natural allies and the footsoldiers of the Magian, and who are responsible

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for the present triumph, in the West, of the Magian and the Magian ethos,
which triumph has enabled the creation of the tyrannical, dishonourable,
modern nation-States with their abstract laws, their materialism and their
mechanistic so-called “progress”. For is The White Hordes of Homo Hubris who
– doing the bidding of their Magian masters, knowingly or unknowingly – have
used brutal force and war to fight and destroy each and every attempt to resist
the control of the Magian, just as it is and has been The White Hordes of Homo
Hubris who have brutally and ruthlessly put down each and every rebellion
against the Magian ethos, and who at the time of writing are engaged in yet
another war against those who seek to free themselves from Magian control
and who desire to live in communities free of the stifling, un-numinous
materialistic, mechanistic, Magian ethos.

Why have The White Hordes of Homo Hubris done this? Why are they, and why
have they been, the allies, servants and footsoldiers of the Magian? Is it
because of their ethnicity – something innate? Or is it because they themselves
have enthusiastically adopted, or became infected with, the Magian ethos
itself? Fundamentally, it is combination of both these factors.

The Character of The White Hordes

The White Hordes have, and have had for at least two thousand or more years,
a certain innate character (Footnote 2). This character is one of arrogant
aggression; of arrogant interference; of cunning; and especially of hubris –
that belief, that instinct, that impatience – often born from some feeling of
“Destiny” – that “they know better”, that they are somehow “more civilized”
than others, and that “progress” or change is in itself desirable. In addition,
they seem to have some innate desire to manufacture and to identify with –
and some kind of addiction to – causal abstractions; to impose categories,
-isms, and -ologies upon themselves, others, the world, and the Cosmos itself.

Basically, they are and have been for thousands of years, restless, and have
either (1) never managed, en masse, to establish a balance within themselves
and so have been unable or unwilling to manufacture – for long – stable,
communities and societies which express, manifest and continually presence
the numinous, sans abstractions; or (2) have never been able to control, for
very long, their primal instincts, their lack of respect for the numinous, and
their innate bullying savagery, although they have managed, or rather
connived, to convince themselves, and sometimes others, that they, and their
ways, are somehow “civilized”, although this so-called “civilized behaviour” of
theirs that they have often been so very proud of is and only ever has been at
best a thin veneer, and at worst mere pretence, for while showing to others,
and the world, a civilized and “honourable” public face, they have

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hypocritically continued to act, in private, in an altogether different way, as

was for so evident, for instance, in the days of the British Raj in India, and of
British control in places like East Africa, where the private lives of the
individuals did not match the hypocritical high standards they preached about
in public and which they attempted to convince people they were examples of.

This utter hypocrisy, this lack of control, this cunning, this aggression, this
hubris, this insolence and disrespect of the numinous, this desire for the
illusion and the security of abstractions, is so evident, also and more recently,
in the behaviour of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris in places like
Afghanistan, which they have occupied by force in order to impose their ways,
their abstractions, upon the peoples there. Thus, they have yet again disrupted
and are attempting to destroy the ways of life of others; and are yet again
using force, terror, cunning, lies – and all the other tactics of the insolent – in
order to get those peoples to adopt some mythical idealized way of life, which
idealized way of life does not even exist and never has existed even in the
Western lands of The White Hordes.

Thus, The White Hordes of Homo Hubris are yet again bringing death,
destruction, disruption, hunger, and suffering, to others in the name of some
mythical un-numinous abstraction. In the case of Afghanistan, it is in the name
of the un-numinous abstraction “democracy” and in the name of “peace”, by
which the sly White Hordes mean, of course, the so-called “peace” that arises
when one surrenders to a bully, that is, surrenders to them.

The character of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris is also evident in their
desire to control, to restrain, to “organize” – to try to dominate – Nature. The
character of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris is evident in their obsession
with causal Time and with “planning”, which obsession anyone who comes
from, or who has lived for any time among, other non-Western communities
and cultures and cultures, will recognize. For example, individuals who belong
to The White Hordes of Homo Hubris will expect others to share their attitude
that “causal Time” is valuable, a kind of commodity, and can be measured out,
and, indeed, The White Hordes of Homo Hubris have gone to great lengths – as
part of their cultural colonialism – to impose their causal Time and their
schedules (based on some abstraction), and their causal orientated
mechanistic “planning”, on other peoples, world-wide.

Most other cultures, however, have or had an understanding of life as it is – as

a slow flow of slow change, in rhythm with Nature, which slow flow of slow
natural and local change those individuals accept and which they do not, for
the most part, attempt to struggle against. But, for The White Hordes of Homo
Hubris, it is constant struggle – for they desire to impose themselves, their
“Time”, their abstractions, upon others and upon Nature. For instance, for

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them, mañana is an irritation, an inconvenience; just as wu-wei is, and just as

“InshaAllah” (as commonly used, for example, by Egyptians) is. For The White
Hordes of Homo Hubris, a delay of a day, or a week, or more, is unacceptable,
just as for most of their kind the subtle delicacy of chadō is a “waste of time”,
an irritation, or something “quaint and touristy”; just as the intricacies and
meanings of Ram thai – evolved naturally and locally over periods of natural
Time – are and were lost on these impatient “foreign devils” and for whom
such things are at best something they can momentarily gawp at. For The
White Hordes of Homo Hubris have always ridiculed, or dismissed, or seem as
inferior, or wanted to change, the natural practices and ways of every single
people they have ever come into contact with, from the Native Americans, of
North and South America, to the tribes of Africa, to the lands of Khmer and
Tai, to the islands of Nihon.

Given their character, their impatience, their hubris and insolence, their
desire for an almost instant gratification, their addiction to abstractions, it is
no wonder then that The White Hordes of Homo Hubris came to destroy the
culture, the communities, the tribes, of others, and have imposed upon other
peoples their own unfeeling, their own causal and un-numinous, abstractions,
manufacturing thus modern abstract nation-States in place of the subtle
numinous culture of Bushido and Samurai, in place of regional small ancestral
kingdoms such as Tai, Khmer, and Mon, and trying to destroy and replace the
tribal ways of the Ashanti, Afar, Hopi, Tsitsistas, Ndee, Siksika, and the many,
many, others whom they often ruthlessly uprooted from their ancestral lands
and whom they demanded, often by force, adopt the ways and abstractions of
The White Hordes of Homo Hubris.

Now, of course, they and their savants pretend, for the most part, to “treasure
and recognize the importance of the world’s cultural diversity”, but what
remains of this diversity – after century upon century of military and cultural
colonialism by The White Hordes – is for the most part now rootless, not
derived from a thriving, living, numinous and tribal way of life which owes
little or nothing to the ways, the abstractions, of the West. Such “cultural
diversity” is now often only some “tourist attraction” for the tourists of The
White Hordes “to enjoy” and gawp at, or something the Western-style
governments and nations of other lands have appropriated and which they
promote in order to foster a kind of artificial national unity, and a
Western-style nationalism, among the citizens of these more-often-than-not
Western created new nation-States, over which the West still retains control,
directly or covertly, by the threat of military force, by usurious loans, through
“aid”, through political and economic blackmail, or by others means.

Furthermore, what The White Hordes and their Magian masters will not
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being free from Western control, free from Western abstractions, and having a
way or ways of life that place their own numinous ancestral culture, their own
numinous laws, and a tribal way of living, before the mechanistic material
“culture” of the West, before the abstract laws of the West, and before the
soul-less abstraction of the usury-driven, debt ridden, tax-demanding nation-
State. Any and all such attempts by other peoples to free themselves from
Western abstractions, Western control or influence, have been and are
ruthlessly put down, with the sly bullying White Hordes of Homo Hubris, and
their even slyer Magian masters, always manufacturing some “excuse” for
their actions, for their intervention, for the crippling sanctions they impose.
(Footnote 3)

Adoption of the Magian Ethos

Long before they devolved even further to become – during and after the
so-called Industrial Revolution – Homo Hubris, The White Hordes of the old
Europe had begun to undermine and disrupt our natural and slowly evolving
connexion to the Numinous, based as this connexion was on tribal
communities and the law of personal honour. That is, based on a human,
individual, scale of things, on personal knowledge of and interaction with and
respect for, others, and upon an awareness, often only instinctive, of ourselves
as an integral part of Nature. This connexion thus gave rise to a natural and
balanced and fundamentally pagan attitude toward life where the individual
for the most part had or could strive to have power over their own affairs or at
least the basic freedom to defend themselves with weapons and where the only
authority was a local, tribal or clan, one, with those in possession of such
authority being personally known to the individual and almost always
respected by the individual by virtue of being, for instance, clan or tribal
elders.

This undermining and this disruption of the numinous by The White Hordes
occurred because of their innate restless insolent character, and because of
their manufacture of various un-numinous abstractions which – from the times
of Ancient Greece – they interposed between themselves and the reality of the
Cosmos and which they increasingly began to adhere to or see as “ideals” to be
striven for. These abstractions included, of course, the Platonian “ideal” itself,
the notion of potestas tribunicia, and the abstraction of a codifiable law, which
established the Imperium Romanum. In many ways, it was this abstraction of a
codified law, together with the imposition of a remote, impersonal, authority –
often maintained by force and almost always sustained by mandatory taxes –
which began the unfortunate dominance of The White Hordes and which
marked the real beginning of their de-evolution, of their increasing distance
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and belief in profane abstractions over and above the ways of the Numen. For
they began to make this abstraction of a codified law and a remote,
impersonal, authority, sustained by mandatory taxes, an ideal to be striven for.

However, it was their outward and inward adoption of the abstractions of what
became the religion and dogma of the Nazarene that began not only their
great and rapid descent back toward barbarism, and thence ultimately toward
and into the new subspecies Homo Hubris, but also and importantly led to an
alliance with the Magian, which alliance in its beginnings had more to do with
usury, avarice and the power of so-called Kings and rulers, than it had to do
with changing the world for the worse based on some messianic abstraction or
on some prejudiced desire to “civilize the natives”.

Even so, there were times – several times – when some of the peoples from The
White Hordes of the old Europe forsook the ways of abstractions and of
profanity, and returned to the old ways of balance and a natural paganism.
But every time such a natural balance was restored within some communities
of the West, it became undermined, and was ultimately destroyed, by the
restless insolent abstraction-loving character germane to the White Hordes
themselves, often because of the desire to pursue, to believe in, to implement,
some un-numinous abstraction; some dogma, so -ism or some -ology, be these
-isms or these -ologies deemed to be “political”, social, or “religious”, which
terms themselves (politics, religion, social) are of course just more examples of
the un-numinous illusive causal abstractions imposed upon the numinous
reality of our organic, acausally-imbued life.

What we have now – manifest in The White Hordes of Homo Hubris and their
Magian masters, with their modern tyrannical nation-States – is the result of
The White Hordes having: (1) adopted and adapted what became the
abstraction of the Nazarene (Magian-derived) way of life; (2) having adopted
and adapted the Magian principle of usury; (3) having manufactured from the
Nazarene abstraction and from their own other abstractions (such as a
codified law and a remote, impersonal, authority, sustained by mandatory
taxes) new abstractions; and (3) from them striving to implement, because of
and using their innate character, these new abstractions, such as modern
“democracy”, the modern nation-State, and the mythical desire for so-called
“peace” to be established, of course, by and under the aegis of the armed
forces led by or dominated by The White Hordes who have manufactured for
themselves a world mandate, courtesy of their creations such as the so-called
“United Nations”.

Thus was the rough beast – our mortal enemy – born, to slouch toward
Bethlehem, where it helped to bring about the Zionist entity, which entity has
come to believe that its messianic hour is almost here, at last.

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The Tyrannical Abstraction of The State

One of the fundamental problems of our times in the un-numinous, the

tyrannical, the impersonal, abstraction of The State, maintained as this
abstraction is by mandatory taxes, by an increasingly bullying Police force
which increasingly relies upon surveillance and paid informers, and imbued as
this abstraction is with a mechanistic materialism, a capitalistic ethos, and the
ever-present threat of individuals being incarcerated in some barbaric prison
if they break some law which some servant or servants of The State have
manufactured in order to ensure the survival of The State and the survival of
those oligarchies who control The State and who benefit from its existence.

The modern State – wherever in the West or in the world it is located – seeks to
imbue its citizens with either some sort of abstract national pride (for which it
has manufactured a lifeless un-numinous so-called national “culture”) or with
a belief in some other abstraction of a political, social, or religious nature, just
as it assigns a high priority to other abstractions such as “national security” or
“national defence”, and just as it uses all the means at its disposal – from the
Media to entertainment to sport to manufactured celebratory events to
worthless so-called “traditions” to promises about “change” and “progress” – in
an attempt to keep its mostly debt-ridden wage and salary slaves reasonably
content, knowing that it needs the taxes it steals and extorts from them in
order to maintain its existence, and the existence of the parasites who feed
upon it and who benefit from it.

For the modern nation-State is, in truth, a large legalized protection racket,
demanding you pay “protection money” or you will be visited by their
“heavies” (the Police and the other agencies they control) and then either
asked to pay even more protection money (a “fine”) or be imprisoned for
however long they deem appropriate in their barbaric prisons, which prisons
they maintain as a means of persuasion and control. for the so-called “justice”
of the State and its flunkies is an abstract, impersonal, “justice” wholly
unrelated to the natural and numinous (and real) justice which derives from
personal honour – for their abstract so-called “justice”, and their Police forces
and their laws, take away the freedom and the ability of the individual to make
their own judgement of others, to be responsible for themselves, and to seek
honourable redress in a personal, direct, manner.

What all this amounts to is that The State makes the individual rootless,
powerless, and undermines and destroys the connexion of the individual to the
numinous, for it destroys that natural, numinous, culture which arises from
our natural, tribal, human, way of living. It takes away the ability of the
individual to evolve in a natural way, for it replaces the natural perspective of
Nature and the Cosmos with the perspective of various lifeless abstractions, all

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of which abstractions have their own lifeless, un-numinous and ultimately

causal and mechanistic goals. Even what passes for “religion” or for a
non-material Way in such States is lifeless, un-numinous and ultimately
meaningless because it is either an abstraction itself (some -ism, some -ology)
or because it demands subservience of the individual to its dogma and does
not recognize, promote nor accept either personal empathy or personal honour
as a basis for insight and for living.

In contrast, a true numinous way of living is never “religious” and never supra-
personal; it is never impersonal and dogmatic, and never demands
subservience to some impersonal authority. Instead, a true numinous way of
living: (1) always arises from, and is part of, a natural tribal or clan-based
community who live, who work, together in some locality and who thus know
each other personally or know of, or are related to, the others in such a
locality, and (2) always allows for, and indeed often insists upon, the
importance of individual empathy, of individual experience, of individual
change, never ever thus negating those three most fundamental principles of
genuine freedom, of our humanity itself: empathy, personal honour, and a
learning from direct personal experience, which personal learning builds noble
character and which personal, practical and direct experience is far far more
valuable than the abstract impersonal “learning” and the “knowledge” and the
“experience” obtained in and enforced by impersonal Institutions and by
mandatory State schools.

For the birth of this beast, The State, we have to thank The White Hordes of
Homo Hubris and the influence of the Magian ethos, and for the continued
existence of this beast and its modern progeny we have to thank the alliance of
The White Hordes of Homo Hubris and the Magian. However, what began as an
alliance has now become, in the last several decades, almost total control of
The White Hordes of Homo Hubris by the Magian, and an almost total reliance,
by The White Hordes, on not only The State, but also on abstractions, which
abstractions now include the new mythos which the Magian and their willing
helpers among the White Hordes have developed as one means of control
(Footnote 4).

The Downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

How can we, how should we, deal with this beast, The State, and thus
re-establish our connexion to the numinous? First, we have to accept that the
peoples of the West – the vast majority of whom are still part of The White
Hordes of Homo Hubris – will not, and cannot, suddenly change their nature,
and what has now become their character, and neither will they, at least not in
the next century or so, free themselves from the control of the Magian and
from their subservience to The State. For this State still provides them with,

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and will continue to provide them with, a reasonable materialistic way of life,
and the Magian will ensure that the troops and minions of The White Hordes of
Homo Hubris will fight for, and/or obtain by whatever means, whatever
resources are needed, wherever in the world they are, in order for their lackey
Western States, and their own beloved Zionist entity, to survive.

Given all these things, it is reasonable to suggest and expect and to work
toward one or both of the following. (1) That the societies of the West have to
broken down and disrupted from within by those who understand the perfidy
of the abstraction of The State and who desire to live in either a new
numinous, and evolutionary, way, or in a way consistent with their own,
non-Western, culture or way of life. (2) That those, external to the West, who
have suffered most at the hands of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris – and
who have somehow managed to maintain at least some of their own numinous
culture or some of their own ancestral tribal ways, and who may not yet be
infected that much by the Magian ethos and the new Magian mythos – should
begin to free themselves from Western control and Western influence by
practical and/or by “spiritual”/cultural means, which practical means includes
the use of armed force, rebellion, and insurrection, and which cultural means
include embracing a tribal way of life, ancestral or otherwise.

In both of these, the emphasis needs to be moved away from the traditions, the
history, the past culture, the current ethos, of the indigenous peoples of the
West (the White “foreign devils”) and instead directed toward either (1) that of
other non-Western peoples or (2) toward a new numinous and tribal way of
living for peoples of any ethnicity, White and non-White. (Footnote 5)

Thus, it is time for a genuine new beginning, away from the West of today and
yesterday. Time for the crimes, the oppression, the tyranny, of the West – of
The White Hordes of Homo Hubris – to be exposed, to be understood, and for
Western ways, values and abstractions to be rejected in favour of the ways, the
traditions, the culture, of other peoples and in favour of our new and
numinous way. It is time for other peoples to cease to regard and cease to view
the West, and The White Hordes of Homo Hubris, as examples to followed and
admired, and for the so-called progress and the current prosperity of the West
to be understood for what it is: the bloody result of centuries of colonialism;
the result of centuries of exploitation of the peoples and resources of the
world; the result of centuries of blackmail, extortion, plunder, war, and
atrocity after atrocity; the consequence of real holocaust after real holocaust.

Indeed, it is correct to state that the barbarian peoples of the West – despite
their sly propaganda to the contrary – are the most blood-thirsty people in
human history, having been responsible, during their recent “Second World
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exterminating more than the whole population of a country such as modern

day France. In addition, if one considers the slaughter that the West have been
responsible for in the past one hundred and fifty years alone, it is equivalent to
exterminating far more than the whole population of a populous country such
as modern day Pakistan.

Therefore it is indeed time for Western ways, values and abstractions to be

rejected, and for the West itself to be brought down. For the West, with its
abstract nation-States, with its White Hordes of Homo Hubris in thrall to the
new Magian mythos and fighting for and on behalf of that mythos, is the
greatest obstacle to our further evolution; the greatest tyranny to have
befallen us in our history, although few among The White Hordes realize this,
so brainwashed have they been by the sly propaganda of their nations, and so
unaware as they are and have been of true, the evolutionary, purpose of our
individual lives. For this modern profane mechanistic materialistic tyranny has
taken away from us our numinous tribal ways, taken away our numinous living
culture, our empathy, and our personal honour: our freedom to live
numinously.

Furthermore, the foundation, the basis, the essence, of the change required to
bring about the downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris and their
nation-States, is the change toward creating new communities; the change
toward new tribes and tribal ways of living, whether these are urban based or
rural, and whether or not – in the case of non-Western lands – these are based
on or inspired by surviving traditions and surviving ancestral ways. That is,
there is and must be a rejection of the abstraction of The State itself, and a
desire to embrace the natural, the numinous way, of tribes and clans. The way
of the tribe is the way of the future; the way toward a conscious and a
continuing evolution, while the way of The State is the way of restriction, of
tyranny, of impersonal control.

Hence, the downfall of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris – and of their most
perfidious abstraction, the nation-State – begins with peoples external to the
West, and with those of non-White ethnicity within the lands of the West. That
is, it is time for the non-White peoples of the world to free themselves from the
power, the influence, the control, the abstractions, the ethos, of The White
Hordes, and to assert themselves; to reject the nation-State in favour of tribes;
to either rediscover their own ethos, their ancestral ways, or to develope for
themselves new ways, a new ethos, independent from all the un-numinous
abstractions of The White Hordes.

In conclusion, the change, the evolution, that we seek to bring about is a

natural one; an evolutionary return to what is numinous; a restoration of the
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life, a return to and a development of empathy, and a return to the law of

personal honour in place of the abstract law of The White Hordes and of the
Magian.

This is an evolutionary return because it derives from a knowledge and

understanding of the perfidy of abstractions – and especially the perfidy of The
State and of conventional religions – and from a knowledge and understanding
of ourselves as a nexion. That is, it is based on an appreciation and awareness
of the numinous, and is a conscious choice to change ourselves in a natural
and numinous way. It is evolutionary because there is no desire to tro to
re-create some idealized past or some mythical past way of living, tribal or
otherwise. Instead, there is a striving to evolve, to become part of, to bring-
into-being, new tribes, to form new communities from these new tribes, and to
allow the development of new and numinous and vibrant cultures from these
new communities.

Then – having awoken from the abstractive illusions that currently hold most
people in a dream-like sleep – we can evolve, change, and develope; we will
cease to be children, and instead become mature human beings who can leave
their childhood home, this planet we call Earth, evolving thus to become an
entirely new species of being.

Notes:

(1) For a general description of Homo Hubris, see (a) Homo Hubris and the
Disruption of The Numinous and (b) The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context
(Part Two of The Mythos of Vindex)

(2) A good example of their type of character is the figure of Alexander of

Macedon, who was ruthless, cunning, ambitious, vain, arrogant, restless,
insolent, who believed himself to have a “Destiny”, and who set about
disrupting the ways of life of other peoples, and imposing his own way upon
those he conquered, thus destroying their tribal ways and thus upsetting the
natural balance which those peoples had attained over long periods of time. In
place of their ancestral tribal ways – which maintained for them a connexion
to the Numinous – he imposed his own lifeless abstractions.

In describing the nature and character and thus the personality, the persona,
of the collective White Hordes, we are, of course, generalizing, based as this
generalization is upon a study of the history of the old Europe, and upon the
deeds committed by the collective White Hordes in the past thousand years,
including their colonialism.

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Since it is a generalization, some or indeed many individuals belonging to, or

deemed to be belong to, The White Hordes may have a character, a nature, a
persona, different from, or even quite distinct from, that of the collective
White Hordes themselves.

(3) Communism – and all forms of political socialism – are just more
un-numinous abstractions manufactured by The White Hordes and by the
Magian, with all or most of these forms requiring some State for them to be, in
theory, implemented or tried. Similarly, all forms of modern democracy are
un-numinous abstractions and most if not all also require some State for them
to be implemented or tried.

Thus, all these forms, all these abstractions – like capitalism and fascism and
all conventional religions – do not and never can liberate the individual or a
people and return them to a numinous way of life, but instead only serve to
enslave them further to un-numinous abstractions.

(4) This new Magian manufactured mythos slyly combines several elements.
The first element is the almost mythical belief that the so-called “West” (and
especially America) is a bastion of “reason, justice, and freedom”; that
“democracy” means “freedom and peace”; and that those who do or who may
oppose the nation-States of the West (for whatever reason) are “enemies of
freedom, and enemies of reason and democracy”. The second element is that
the way to prosperity and “freedom” and happiness lies in accepting the
values, the ways, the abstractions, of the West, such as “democracy” and usury.
The third element is that the Western created “United Nations” – over which
the West maintains control by means of the so-called Security Council – has a
mandate to intervene in the affairs of any country, by force if necessary;
impose punitive sanctions, and is generally “keeping the peace”, although of
course this so-called “peace” is really submission. The fourth element is that
the West – and whatever allies it deems suitable (such as the Zionist entity) –
has a right, and even a duty, to possess vastly superior weapons, including
nuclear weapons, which it can and which it should deny to whomsoever it
chooses, so that its military power can never, ever, be challenged by
conventional means.

The fifth element – and perhaps the most sly element – of the new Magian
mythos is the one that binds all the others together, and this is that the West,
and those chosen to be their allies, have in the last hundred years fought and
won several hard, difficult, wars for their “freedom” and their “rights”, which
“wars for freedom” most importantly include what is called The Second World
War, where the forces of “good” (the West, their allies and friends, including
the Magian) narrowly defeated the forces of “evil” (the German National-
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accused of being responsible for the worst atrocity in human history (the
so-called Shoah) and which so-called atrocity led to the necessary
establishment of the Zionist entity, which entity should therefore be supported
at whatever cost, and is itself a bastion of democracy and freedom.

The final element of the new Magian mythos is the belief that the West must
defend itself, “whatever the cost”; that threats to “freedom” exist now or will
exist; that the security of Western nations and of their allies are vital to
freedom itself, and that its people should be and are expected to make
sacrifices to ensure “our continuing freedom” even if this means going to fight
in some war somewhere, or supporting whatever Western security
organizations do and whatever laws governments may manufacture to “protect
their freedom and their national security”.

Most if not all the peoples of the West accept and believe in most if not all of
this modern mythos.

(5) Basically, the White peoples of the West need to cure themselves of their
addiction to, and their desire to manufacture, abstractions, as they need to
reform their own character by developing empathy, by re-engaging with and
respecting the numinous, and by returning to and embracing the individual
way of individual honour. Fundamentally, they need to reject the abstractions
of the nation-State, of conventional “religions” and the causality of all
“politics”, and instead embrace a new and tribal way of living.

Thus, it is not a question of ethnicity or of ethnic conflict – but rather the

opposite; bringing-into-being in the West new ethnically diverse tribes. It is a
question of all peoples – but especially the White peoples of the West –
rejecting lifeless abstractions and adopting instead numinous ways based upon
a new tribal way of life.

(Extract from Part Two of The Mythos of Vindex)

The Ethos of Vindex In Historical Context

Introduction: The White Hordes of Homo Hubris

If we consider the actions of what we have called, in Part One, The White
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obvious that they possess and have possessed a certain character, or nature,
distinguished as this particular personal character is by a surfeit of arrogance,
pride, destructiveness, and greed.

In addition, The White Hordes of Homo Hubris seem to be somewhat addicted

to three things:

(1) to what we may call the way of competition: to the somewhat primitive
belief that ruthless competition, between individuals, and abstract constructs
such as nations, organizations, corporations and businesses, is not only
essential to "society" but also the correct way to produce the type of individual
deemed desirable. Indeed, this ruthless way of competition may be said to be
not only one of the foundations of capitalism itself, but also to express the very
war-like, barbaric, nature of the individuals who, collectively, form The White
Hordes of Homo Hubris;

(2) to the idea, the myth, the un-numinous abstraction, of "progress"; in

pursuit of which myth they have destroyed not only their own ancestral
cultures, but nearly all other ancestral cultures in the world;

(3) to manufacturing machines, the use of which gives The White Hordes of
Homo Hubris a feeling of power and superiority, and which use has destroyed
their connexion - both personal and communal - to The Numinous.

For hundreds of years The White Hordes of Homo Hubris have ravaged the
world; invading lands, occupying them, installing puppet-regimes, and
claiming for themselves the wealth and resources of those lands, all the while
regarding themselves, and their “European” or "Western" culture, as superior,
and all the while demanding that "the natives" adopt the ways of The White
Horde.

In the course of these colonial conquests and rampages, The White Hordes of
Homo Hubris have slaughtered millions upon millions of people and, in
addition – in their own territories such as Europe, or in their new annexed
colonies such as America – they have fought wars among themselves during
which at least a hundred million people have been killed. In fact, the slaughter
which The White Hordes have brought to the world is unparalleled in human
history – from the ravages of Alexander the Greek, to the Empire of Rome, to
the wars of Napoleon, to the genocide of the native Americans, to the so-called
First and Second World Wars, to the hundreds of colonial wars in Africa, Asia
and elsewhere, on to the more recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This
slaughter includes some of the most barbaric killings in history – such as the
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atomic bombs, and the fire-storm in Dresden, in 1945 CE - created by bombs

dropped from aircraft - which killed at least 30,000 people in one night.

During all these conflicts – during all this slaughter – the “European” or the
“White man”, has saught to change the way of life of the peoples of the world,
believing, in their arrogance, that the ways of the “white man”, that the
culture of “Europe”, that Western values, were and are superior to each and
every other way of life, and these White Hordes have used every means at their
disposal – from war, invasion, occupation, economic blackmail, propaganda,
lies, deceit, flattery, and bribery to torture and imprisonment – to get their
own way.

No wonder, then, that the peoples of other cultures often considered White
people from the West to be “foreign devils” who could not be trusted: people
who, like devils, were clever, cunning, unprincipled, manipulative and
ruthless.

In addition, these “foreign devils” ruthlessly destroyed the mostly tribal way of
living, and the tribal culture, which existed in most non-European lands,
replacing this tribal way of life with their own manufactured abstraction of
"the nation-State" which nation-State has to have, allegedly, what these
“foreign devils” called "democracy". Thus have the interfering, arrogant,
prideful, cunning war-like White Hordes of Homo Hubris replaced what
naturally grew and evolved in its own natural, local, and numinous way - a
tribal way of life and a tribal culture - with soul-less, un-numinous,
abstractions which have brought disruption, chaos, corruption, immense
suffering, exploitation, inhuman conflict and death, to the world. One has only
to consider, for instance, how the White colonists - the foreign devils of Britain
and Europe - descended upon and plundered and exploited and changed
Africa, to see one legacy of The White Hordes of Homo Hubris. For they
replaced fairly stable and diverse African tribal cultures - with their own sense
of identity and their limited, local, sparse tribal conflicts - with mostly corrupt
"modern nations" composed of peoples of various tribes, which modern
"industrialised" nations now pursue agendas and policies made for them by
their former colonial "masters" or by impersonal international corporations
and the ethos of capitalism. From being self-supporting agrarian communities
they have become impoverished, conflict-ridden, "nations" which often depend
on the so-called "generosity" of the foreign devils of the modern West, who still
covertly and often overtly control them and who still set, by their Whitey
abstractions, their aims, and who still, now mostly covertly, plunder the
resources of the world for their own benefit.

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have have committed and are still committing the error of hubris: of insolence;
for they have consistently and for many centuries been the destroyers, par
excellence, of The Numinous, and have, due to their character and nature,
brought chaos, suffering, death and destruction to the world on a scale
hitherto unknown, replacing as they have the mythos of the numinous with the
mythos of materialism: the mythos of pleasure, greed, dishonour, indulgence,
luxury, and ruthless competition. It is no wonder, then, that The White Hordes
of Homo Hubris are, and always been, the natural allies and servants of The
Magian.

To understand the perfidy of the Magian, and their allies, one only has to
understand how the peoples of the West - and now, the world - have been
shamelessly manipulated by the Shoah myth, and how this myth, has now
become a sacred dogma the questioning of which is punishable by
imprisonment. To know, to feel, the dishonour of the Magian, and their allies,
one only has to consider how the governments of the West shamelessly
invented lies - such as Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction - in order
to further their expansionist agenda; and how the foot-soldiers of this ignoble
alliance treated and treat Muslim prisoners in places like Abu Ghraib, Bagram
and Guantanamo Bay. Indeed, the treatment of captured Muslims uncannily
reflects the treatment, the torture, meted out by the Western allies to many,
many, captured German National-Socialists - particularly members of the
Waffen-SS - at the end of the First Zionist War (1939-1945 CE). Then, there
were the show trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere; now, there are the show
trials of Muslims in Amerika, and others lands; show trials of those who have
dared to defy the pro-Magian status quo and who have taken up arms against
this ignoble tyrannical status quo. The same dishonourable ethos is behind
this; and the same methods, the same type of propaganda, have been used.
Consider how the peoples of the West were deluged with anti-Taliban
propaganda before the Western invasion of Afghanistan, and how the same
type of propaganda was used against Saddam Hussein before the invasion of
Iraq. There are striking parallels with the propaganda used against Adolf
Hitler and NS Germany before the First Zionist War.

Consider how the Magian and the Amerikans and their allies can slaughter, by
bullets, bombs and missiles, tens upon tens of thousands of Muslims - women
and children included - in places such as Filistine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and
then brazenly lie or make excuses for these murders, for which killings no one
is held accountable and for which murders hardly anyone is ever tried in a
Court of Law; and then consider how the Zionists and the Amerikans behave
when a few Jews, or some other people, are killed by Muslims in revenge for
this continuing slaughter and the continuing occupation of Muslim land. The

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Zionists and the Amerikans and their allies demand ‘justice’ and vow the “hunt
the terrorists” down, and generally behave like the zealous utter barbaric
hypocrites they are.

The simple reality is that the Magian and their allies are lying, deceitful,
hypocritical, dishonourable bullies, while the majority of Islamic fighters, the
Mujahideen - as were the vast majority of the soldiers of the Third Reich - are
honourable warriors fighting for a just, and numinous, cause. Contrast, for
instance, the dignity and honour of Mullah Umar - or Major General Otto Ernst
Remer and SS General Leon Degrelle - with the posturing and the lies of a
Bush, or with the smirking of a lying Blair and a clownish Gordon Brown - and
it is quite easy to see the difference in personal character. Mullah Umar, for
instance, fights, lives, on the battlefield, with few possessions and is a true
man of honour, while the likes of Bush, Blair, and Brown send other people off
to fight their wars, hide behind bodyguards, a massive security apparatus, and
enjoy and indulge themselves with all the pleasures and luxuries of Western
capitalism. In the same way, both Otto Ernst Remer and Leon Degrelle - both
warriors who fought on battlefields - remained honourably loyal to the man to
whom they had sworn an oath, on their honour, and both, through their
actions both during and particularly after The First Zionist War, were
exemplary examples of honourable men, men of natural dignity and of
manners, in complete contrast to the uncouth, profane, barbarians of the
White Hordes of Homo Hubris.

NS Germany and the Bushido of Japan

As mentioned in Part One:

" It was the White hordes of Homo Hubris who - under the spell of the
Magian - brutally, cunningly, and efficiently, defeated the one resurgence
of the numinous, in the West, and the one resurgence of the numinous in
the Far East, which resurgence in many ways (but not all) prefigured, and
were intimations of, the warrior way of Vindex: the one and only attempt,
in the West, to counter and replace the ethos of the Magian with the
numinous way of the warrior, and the one and only practical resurgence,
elsewhere in the world, to halt the spread of the dishonourable vulgar
"culture" of Western Homo Hubris, and to return to a numinous,
ancestral, culture and way of life. "

The currently unpopular and often censored truth of our times is that
National-Socialist Germany - what it had evolved to be by the beginning of The

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First Zionist War - was a modern mostly unconscious expression of the

numinous, honourable, warrior ethos, and stood in complete and stark
contrast to the materialism, the hubris, of the Magian and their allies and
servants in the West, represented by the arrogant, profane, White Hordes of
Homo Hubris. Furthermore, had NS Germany not been defeated by The White
Hordes of Homo Hubris and by the machinations of the Magian, there is
almost no doubt that it would have evolved further to become the genesis of a
new numinous resurgence, and restored to the West, and other lands, that
connexion to the numinous which centuries of plunder, exploitation, greed,
abstractions, and dishonourable war had severed.

Similarly, that natural ally of NS Germany - Imperial Japan, with its underlying
Bushido ethos - was also a modern mostly unconscious expression of the
numinous, honourable, warrior ethos, and would also have evolved further to
become the genesis of a new numinous resurgence in the Far East, and
elsewhere.

For what distinguished both NS Germany and Imperial Japan was a return to
the Code of the Warrior - to that numinous Way of Life where personal honour
is considered more important than the life of the individual, and where culture
is not a personal indulgence but rather a profound extension of the attitude to
living which a true instinctive warrior embodies: the culture of Haiku, of
Geisha, of the Samurai sword; the culture of Blut und Boden, of the SS ethos...
This type of dignified culture is entirely alien and even abhorrent to the
Magian and their allies, such as the uncultured barbarian White Hordes of
Homo Hubris, for whom "culture" means indulging themselves and being
profanely entertained by some vapid effusion of the modern Magian
"entertainment industry".....

A New and Numinous Ethos: Beyond the Tyranny of the State and the
Abstractions of Politics

Both NS Germany and Imperial Japan were fundamentally instinctive and

natural reactions to the dominance of the Magian ethos, and represented a
mostly unconscious expression of the numinous, honourable, warrior ethos.
That is, they were akin to the natural healthy reaction of a human body
invaded by some debilitating virus; an instinctive attempt to restore that
natural balance which the Magian and their allies had disturbed.

But, as I have stated several times in various writings, we have now arrived at
the stage of our human evolution when we can not only, and for the first time,
consciously understand ourselves, but when we can consciously decide how we

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are to react, and what it is that we should do. That is, we have become much
more than thinking animals who possess the faculty of speech, for we possess
the ability to conscious change, and to consciously control, and evolve,
ourselves. Or, expressed, another way, we now know how to - and have the
opportunity to - access and to presence, the numinous itself; to access and to
presence that which refines, dignifies, and evolves us; that which makes us
human, which can enable us to live numinous lives, and to fulfil the potential
latent within us and so take us out to live among the star-systems of our Galaxy
and of other Galaxies.

Personal honour is both the essence of the natural, instinctive, Way of the
Warrior, and one primary manifestations of the numinous itself, and it is
Vindex who restores personal honour to its rightful place, as the basis for both
law and for that tribal way of life which has been, and which is, our natural
human way of living, a natural and human way that the abstractions of both
the Magian and The White Hordes of Homo Hubris have undermined and
destroyed.

Thus, the duty - the wyrd - of Vindex and of the clans of Vindex is not to strive
to try and restore some romantic idealized past - or even be in thrall to some
perceived wyrdful, often numinous-filled, past way of living, such as that
which Adolf Hitler brought to Germany - but rather to establish an entirely
new and conscious and thus more potent expression of the numinous itself.
This new and numinous way of living replaces the impersonal tyranny of the
State with the way of the clan and the tribe; it replaces the abstraction of
politics, and of democracy, with personal loyalty to an honourable, noble, clan
or tribal leader.....

Homo Hubris and the Disruption of The Numinous

The Genesis of Homo Hubris

Homo Hubris is the name given to that new sub-species of the genus Homo
which has, in the last three hundred or so years, become the dominant species
inhabiting the industrialized countries of what is called "the West".

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The genesis of Homo Hubris lies in the rise of abstract concepts such as that of
national-identity - over and above regional, tribal, differences and local
("clan") identity - which began to emerge in Europe, and especially in Britain,
some time before what has been termed "the Industrial Revolution". This
concept of a national, somewhat impersonal and always abstract, national
identity, is prefigured, for example, in the speech by Queen Elizabeth the First
of England, given at Tilbury, in 1588 CE, and in the dramatised speech, on St.
Crispin's Day, given by Shakespeare to King Henry V in the play (c. 1599 CE)
of the same name, where the "nation" of England is eulogized. A more overt
expression of this particular abstraction is the Commonwealth of England,
established by Oliver Cromwell in 1653 CE, which in many ways was the
forerunner of the modern concepts, the modern abstractions, of nation and
State theorized by people such as Hegel and Fichte and brought into being
after the French Revolution.

It was, however, what has been called "the Industrial Revolution" - which
began in the early to middle 1700's (CE) - which led to the rapid growth and
spread of this new mostly urban-dwelling sub-species, Homo Hubris, in thrall
to, and manipulated by others with, such abstract notions as "the nation" and
"the State".

Homo Hubris, by nature, is naturally rapacious, and rather war-like, and can
often be distinguished from Homo Sapiens Galacticus by their profane "lack of
numinous balance" (that is, their lack of empathy), by a lack of knowing of
and feeling for the numinous; by a personal arrogance, by a lack of manners,
and by that lack of respect for anything other than strength/power and/or
their own gratification. One particular feature of the life of Homo Hubris is
their dependence upon, and their need and often respect for, machines and
technology, which machines and which technology have at best disrupted our
balance with the Numinous, and, at worst, have severed our connexion to the
Numinous and thus to Nature.

In outward appearance, Homo Hubris - that denizen of the Western

megalopolis - is often distinguished by their lack of ancestral costume or
genuine cultural apparel. Instead, they almost always either: (1) garb
themselves in mass-produced products of consumerism (which more often
than not sport some manufacturing logo or some manufacturing name,
making them walking advertisements for such consumerism), or (2) garb
themselves in what they regard, or have been informed (by some arm of the
modern mass Media) is "trendy" or "fashionable"; or (3) garb themselves in
the apparel, the outfit, of some modern urban abstract and un-numinous
"sub-culture" which they identify with, which sub-cultures interestingly
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uniforms.

The majority of Homo Hubris dress thus because essentially they have no
personal, individual, style and generally possess a herd-like mentality, being
unwilling and/or unable to be different from their pees, or "their mates", or
their friends, or their colleagues. Thus, even when some of them regard
themselves as being "rebellious" they are more often than not outfitting
themselves (outwardly and often inwardly) according to some "trend" or some
passing "craze", which "trend" or which "craze" are always urban-based,
always disconnected from the realness of their own ancestral culture (which
ancestral cultures are always rural) and which outward signs of "rebellion"
almost always become commercialized, given time.

This outward appearance of Homo Hubris may be said to be an outward sign of

their true inner nature, for it is in the nature of Homo Hubris to conform, and
to belong to that-which is un-numinous and which lacks a feeling for that
natural and dignified humility born from personal experience and/or an innate
empathy and sense of honour. Their conformity is most often to some
abstraction; to some-thing - such as an idea, a dogma, a creed, an ideology -
manufactured by someone else or by some established Institution.

Thus, Homo Hubris is essentially rootless, and prideful. Their "home" is what
they make for themselves, and/or for their own family, and this home can be
anywhere, for it does not really matter to them where they dwell; and more
often than not their sense of belonging, if they have one, is to some modern
abstraction, such as some modern nation-State, or to some religion, or to some
-ology or some -ism, or to some un-numinous idealized urban place, such as
some city or some large national region where they were born, which region is
almost always denuded of real tradition and real rural living and culture, and
more often than not has been manufactured in some past by some government
functionary or some committee and made "real" by some abstract law of some
abstract nation-State.

The individuals of Homo Hubris have little or no genuine ancestral culture;

nothing that ties them to a real, living (and thus small), ancestral homeland;
no sense of belonging to a specific local place or rural area which they have a
natural empathy and love for and which they personally know through
dwelling there for a length of time of many years. They have no feeling for,
and little or no practical experience of, the natural Time - the natural rhythm
and cycle - of Nature, but instead only have experience of the abstract
measured out causal and urban Time of "clocks". They have little or no awe of
and respect for Nature: of their own smallness and impotence compared to the
power and longevity and fecundity of Nature; instead, they exhibit that innate

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prideful and arrogant attitude of Homo Hubris where they believe or feel -
because of some machine, or because of some technology or because of some
abstract idea or some ideology or some dogma - that they are "powerful", or
"important", or have some "Destiny" or can "make some difference" or, worse,
that they must and should and can "change things for the better" according to
some idea, some ideology, some dogma or some -ism.

They have little or no experience of the slowness and the numinosity of regular
manual toil or of manufacturing things using only their hands and hand-tools.
Instead, they only have experience of using powered machinery and powered
machines which serve to distance them from the materials they are using or
which they use to manufacture something which someone else wants or
desires or which someone or some oligarchy or some product of capitalism has
decreed is necessary for "change", or for "progress" or from which someone
somewhere can make a profit.

They have little or none of that genuine learning and personal knowledge that
arises slowly from direct practical personal experience extending over many
years and from extended contact with those of a previous generation who have
practical skills and practical knowledge to impart, individually, in a natural
and slow way. Instead, their knowledge and their learning are abstract, learnt
in groups in classrooms or in lecture-rooms or from books or other material
published by others, or, now, from the Internet (See Footnote 1) - and is almost
always of no immediate, and pressing, relevance to themselves. That is,
knowledge, learning, have not grown out, slowly, from within they themselves,
and are not rooted in a numinous locale, in an area where they belong by
virtue of ancestry and culture and toil. Instead, such knowledge and such
learning as they possess are abstract, and have been imposed upon them, by
some Institution, or some nation-State, or which they have imposed upon
themselves because of some abstract interest or some enthusiasm or because
it will help them "get on in life" and enable them to earn more money by
toiling in some abstract profession or in some industry or some concern
connected to some modern-State or some megalopolis.

In essence, therefore, the fundamental distinction is between: (1) a living,

rural and ancestral way of life - which living (and which culture arising from
it) always derive from some dwelling in a certain small area by some tribes or
some clans - and (2) the artificial, manufactured, living of Homo Hubris: the
living exemplified by industrialized cities and towns which towns and cities are
now part of some large nation-State.

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In the former, there is a knowing of and a respect for Nature, born from
personal experience and the often harsh nature of a rural working life, which
working life is one of reliance upon hand-crafts, hand-tools and the work of
animals.

In the latter, there is a prideful ignorance of and a disrespect for Nature -

except, perchance, when Nature touches some individual, bringing thus some
misfortune - and a reliance upon powerful machines and machine-driven tools
and technology, which powerful machines and machine-driven tools and which
technology enable individuals to rapaciously and arrogantly destroy Nature
and to rapaciously and arrogantly manufacture and build what is lifeless and
abstract and barbaric, inhuman, and urbanized.

Machines, Technology, and The Disruption of The Numinous

Fundamentally, all machines and machine-driven tools - those things which

extend the power, the reach, the ability, of a single individual beyond that
which they could do, by themselves, during a day of work, with or without the
help of other living-beings, such as horses or oxen - usurp the Numinous. That
is, they possess the potential to: (1) re-inforce and extend the natural pride
and natural arrogance and natural hubris of human beings; and (2) distance
the user from Nature and that natural rhythm and natural way of life which
encourages empathy and from which genuine (numinous) culture arises.
Technology takes this usurpation of the Numinous even further.

However, what is wrong, what is un-numinous and un-ethical, are not such
manufactured machines, tools, and technology, per se, but rather, the use to
which they have been put, by human beings. Let us consider, for instance, two
examples: the automobile, and the agricultural tractor.

1) The automobile - or hubrismobile - has profoundly changed the way of life

of not only the countries of the West, but of most of the world. This machine -
and similar machines, such as the railway engine - has made travel easy, and
often affordable. With the building of roads, and bridges, previously
inaccessible areas have been opened up, and developed. A journey that might
have taken months on foot, or weeks by horse, could be accomplished in far,
far, less "time" and without the rigours and difficulties previously
encountered. Isolated communities have been "connected" to towns and cities;
and people no longer had to live near where they worked, for they could
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the towns could, without much difficulty, swarm into and "enjoy" the
countryside, and seek out ever more "remote" places where they, without
much effort, could indulge in "leisure activities and pastimes".

Modern-nations - their people just as much as their governments -

enthusiastically embraced these, and associated, new machines. The result has
been devastating for rural, isolated, often clannish, communities, their way of
life and their culture. Furthermore, the hubrismobile - and similar machines -
has distanced modern human beings even further from the realness of Nature
and from that slow, natural and necessary toiling effort that walking and
riding provided, and which effort enabled the cultivation of empathy and that
attitude to life from whence true numinous culture arises. That is, things have
been made "too easy" and too disconnected from their realness, from their
natural place of dwelling, and as a consequence the haste and the profanity
and arrogance of the city and the town have spread, displacing the slowness
and toil of walking, the symbiosis required to work with and ride a horse,
which slowness, toil and symbiosis engendered a certain numinous attitude to
life, a certain natural respect and thence a real human dignity. And it is
dignity which is so woefully lacking in Homo Hubris.

2) The agricultural tractor - and associated agricultural machines - have

transformed agriculture, leading to the decimation of small diversified family
farms, loss of work for farm labourers, and to increasingly large "agri-
businesses" which specialize in one, or perhaps, two crops, and which crops
are grown for profit and resale and not for the consumption of those growing
and tending them.

That is, the emphasis has shifted totally away from small family owned farms
whose diversified crops and stock were produced and reared for the
consumption of the farmer and his family, with whatever surplus, if any, being
sold locally for usually a very small amount of money, or bartered for needed
items. Instead, there is now the cult of mono-culture and the agri-business
(often employing only a few people and cultivating hundreds if not thousands
of acres) which depend on making enough profit to buy and keep (often
through usurious loans) the expensive farm machinery required to run such
concerns, and which profit motive has required the use of fertilizers,
herbicides, insecticides, and genetically engineered crops, to artificially
increase yields. The result - in places such as rural English counties - has been
devastating for both Nature and for the rural way of life, and while it is true
that such a machine as a small agricultural tractor can and often has made
farming easier on the individual undertaking such work, it has led to
unchecked and un-numinous change, and to the spread of the arrogance and
the ways of Homo Hubris.

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An example may illustrate this. This example concerns a village in a rural

English county; what it once was, and what it is now. Less than a hundred
years ago, this village was a small collection of cottages and farms. The farms
themselves contained apple and pear orchards, and many fields of various
crops. These crops had been found to be suitable to the type of soil in the area,
and each year several fields were left "fallow" so that the fertility of the soil
could be regained following a harvest. Naturally, given the orchards, the
village and the surrounding area produced cider and perry - with every farm
making its own. Indeed, cider was the regular and preferred drink in those
days when the water itself was often suspect, and before tea drinking became
common and affordable. The surplus crops, when harvested, were taken to the
nearby small town, where there was a thriving market. At this time, most of
the villagers worked either on the land itself, or in trades or crafts connected
with them. For example, there was a village farrier, and a wheelwright, and
thus a relative and local self-sufficiency, for most things the village, the farms,
needed for their daily life were made of wood, locally cut, shaped, and crafted:
carts, fences, gates, doors, even pumps. And what was not so made and
crafted of wood, was more often than not made by the local blacksmith, or of
stone quarried from somewhere nearby.

There was a sense of identity among the villagers - they were, for the most
part, proud to be from the area, and proud of their local ancestry.

Of course, it is easy to idealize such village life. But there was an awareness of
and a real sense of belonging. Life, for most of the villagers, was often harsh,
sometimes cruel. But there was real individual and local character in the
people. There was a real, living, community which, despite the hardship - or
perhaps more correctly because of the hardship - slowly prospered over the
centuries. There was a real balance with Nature - with the seasons, and the soil
for the most part understood and respected, partly because old ways of doing
things were carried on, with these old, ancestral ways having been found to be
effective. (See Footnote 2.)

Today, however, in this village, this balance, this understanding and this
respect for Nature no longer exist, even on the two farms which still remain.
The village itself has grown tremendously. Over three score new houses have
been built on land once owned by two of the farms. Dozens of trees have gone,
and scores of hedges removed, to make way for these new arrivals. One of the
other farms is no longer a "working farm" - it is occupied by a "townie" family,
and its Barns have been converted into houses, lived in by other "townies" who
commute to the nearby city in their cars. The orchards themselves have gone
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village) as have the fields of crops. Nearly all the fields now grow the
regulation wheat, in large fields made by removing boundary hedges so that
machines can plant, cultivate and harvest more. And the tragedy is that this
wheat often ends up stored in an enormous warehouse where it forms a tiny
part of the great and never used European "wheat mountain".

Furthermore, even the few farmers who remain seem to have lost their respect
for and understanding of Nature, ploughing as they do almost to the
hedgerow, spraying the fields as they do with dangerous chemicals, and
tearing the heart out of their remaining life-sheltering hedges as they do when
they recklessly flail away at the wrong times of year with mechanical flails:
stripping the berries and buds off in Autumn and decimating the surviving
buds in early Spring. Farming has become a business at worst, and at best an
occupation. No longer is the land farmed to provide food for the people who
farm, with the excess produce being traded for essential items. No longer is
there an understanding of husbanding the soil: of caring for it, treasuring it,
for the benefit of future generations.

Nearly all of the new villagers work in the nearby city and the nearby towns.
They have little knowledge of, and even less understanding of, Nature and the
land around them shielded as they are by their centrally-heated, electric-light
houses with its running water and flushing lavatories, and conveyed as they
are from place to place by their heated, rain-shielding hubrismobiles. To such
people, the place where they live is really irrelevant, as long as it is convenient.
One of the few remaining attractions of the village is its lack of street lighting,
on even the new estates of intruding houses. Thus can the beauty of the stars
still be seen, at night, as there can still be a feeling of rural isolation in the
darkness. But of course, the majority of people find this darkness - this
intrusion of Nature - dreadfully "inconvenient" and have petitioned the local
Council to install street lighting, which doubtless the unfeeling townie
technocrats will, in time. Meanwhile, many of these village residents have
installed intrusive high-power "security" lights on their houses, so keen are
they to dispel anything which is natural, and fearful as they have become due
to recent spates of burglaries, often by louts from nearby cities and towns
who, of course, have easy access to such "rural" places by means of their
hubrismobiles.

In particular, the lives of these new "village-dwelling" people are not

connected to Nature: they do not depend on Nature, on the soil, the land,
around them. Instead, their living depends on the business, the industry, the
commerce, of the towns and cities, with such business, such industry, such
commerce being for the most part unnecessary and unnatural, existing only to
provide more and more unnecessary luxuries and goods, or existing only to
implement abstract political and social policies totally unconnected with the

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land, and the way and traditions of their ancestors.

The truth is that we still are, and have been, too immature, as a species, to use
machines and technology wisely; we have let ourselves be overcome with the
power, with the capacity for change, with the pleasure and the ease, that they
have imbued us with, just as we have forgotten the natural wisdom that we are
and should be toiling, working, human beings who, through the natural toil of
our work with our hands or with the aid of other living-beings, such as horses
with whom we form a symbiotic relationship, can achieve, can establish and
can maintain, a natural and a numinous balance with ourselves, with Nature,
and with the community where we dwell. We have forgotten that such a simple
rural life, such a way of living, does not need to be harsh if we exist in balance
- if we co-operate with - others local to us in an empathic and honourable way
for our mutual benefit and for our local needs, accepting that we need a little,
but not too much, and eschewing out of choice a life of material wealth and
luxury, preferring instead a less materialistic, but more satisfying, numinous
way.

Machines, and technology, have undermined and then destroyed this balance,
and as a result we have now all but lost our natural connexion to Nature, to
other human beings, to other life, as we have lost that natural, slow, rural local
way of self-sufficient living which slowly grew, century after century.

Machines, and technology, and the abstractions and artificial goals of modern
nation-States and modern ways of material living have grossly allowed us to
place profit before individuals, and luxury and personal greed before a natural
balance with Nature, a natural balance with ourselves, and with the place
where we dwell.

Machines, and technology, and the abstractions and artificial goals of modern
nation-States and modern ways of material living have done almost irreparable
damage to Nature and to our very humanity. One man with just one machine
can now decimate and almost effortlessly destroy in one day acres upon acres
of living countryside, of a centuries-old forest, just as one pilot flying one
aircraft can in a few seconds, and effortlessly, fire and drop missiles and
bombs enough to kill and maim hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands,
of human beings.

That is, machines and technology have made us more arrogant, more prideful,
and far more inhuman than we ever have been, as they have given us the
capacity to be far more barbarian than our so-called "barbarian" ancestors,
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embraced, as witness the hundreds of millions of people that we have killed,

injured and maimed, in our wars and our conflicts these past hundred years,
which wars and which conflicts used and use a multitude of murderous
weapons and in which wars and conflicts our much vaunted modern
technology plays an increasing role.

Allied to the use, and important for the spread and acceptance, of machines
and technology, has been the abstract idea of "progress", which particular
abstraction is, along with the abstract concept of the modern, and now
increasingly tyrannical, nation-State, one of the most profane and destructive
and un-numinous abstractions ever manufactured.

The Destructive Abstraction of Progress

The modern Western abstraction (idea) of progress is inseparably bound up

with: (1) a desire for and a belief in "change"and continued "growth"; (2) with
the belief that we human beings can and should set ourselves abstract goals,
unrelated to anything natural or numinous, and strive to achieve these goals;
(3) with the belief that such "change", such "growth", and such goals will
enable us to achieve such things as "happiness", "wealth", "contentment",
"freedom", and so on etcetera; and (4) with the belief that we can
manufacture various "things" (abstractions) - such as, for example, a State, an
economy, some laws, some government policy or planning - which will lead us
toward the attainment of the aforementioned "happiness", "wealth",
"contentment", "freedom", "equality", and so on etcetera. For instance,
Hegel's Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte, Marx's Das
Kapital, and Comte's Système de politique positive, contain all of these
concepts, in greater or lesser degree, concepts eulogized by individuals such
as John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer.

Furthermore, one of the fundamental tenets of the Zeitgeist of the modern

West is that machines, technology and science can aid, ensure and even
achieve the abstract progress that is desired, and that some new "invention"
will enable us to make even more "progress".

All these concepts - like all abstractions - usurp or limit or constrain our own
individual judgement, which individual judgement - to be numinous and thus
ethical - should and must be based upon empathy, that is, upon: (1) a direct
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upon (2) a dwelling in a particular area or locality which we directly know,

and have experience of, and where such changes as are made, are undertaken
by us or others dwelling there in a natural harmonious way with as little
disruption, with a genuine respect for the locality and Nature, and in the
knowledge that we are but one small and transitory emanation of Nature. All
abstractions distort or destroy our correct, and of necessity our individual,
perception of other human beings, and of Nature.

In essence. the abstraction of "progress" disrupts, undermines, decimates, and

then destroys our natural connexion to Nature, to other individuals, to our
past, and to the Cosmos. For instance, this abstraction of so-called "progress"
often or mostly requires or involves the rejection of the old, tried, tested ways
of the past, which ways have slowly evolved in a natural manner from personal
and local experience. In their place, there is some new fangled idea or some
new theory or some new, "more progressive", more "enlightened" way of doing
things, all of which derive from somewhere other than direct local experience
and local personal knowledge, and all of which disrupt or severe our numinous
connexion with our ancestral past, with others, and with Nature.

For instance, this abstraction of so-called "progress" replaces the slow rhythm
of Nature's own Time with the abstract "Time" of some abstraction, such as
"achieving prosperity and material success" through change and growth, be
this individual, regional or national. Thus, and for example, in the name of
such material achievement and prosperity, industrial, or commercial, or retail,
or some other type of, development is undertaken, and justified as being "of
benefit to the people" and a sign of "commitment to the future", which
development and its associated infrastructure almost always disrupts,
displaces, or destroys some aspect of Nature, and often encroaches upon, or
undermines, or displaces or destroys, small rural, and often locally
self-sufficient, community or communities, with the peoples of such
communities then becoming dependant upon or part of the new (often local or
national government planned) developments and their infrastructure,
effectively making them rootless and severing what was often an ancient
connexion with Nature and an ancestral way of living.

Thus is the abstraction of so-called "progress" - and the concomitant change

and disruption - either imposed upon individuals, by some abstract entity such
as a government, or individuals mistakenly impose it upon themselves,
singularly, or in collaboration with others, believing that it is "necessary", or
that some other concept, said to make such progress achievable, will improve
or otherwise enhance their own life.

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However, the numinous reality is that true "progress", true and numinous
change, is only and ever individual and only ever arises - like wisdom - slowly
in a natural way, and only "exists" as a greater presencing of the numinous, a
reconnexion of ourselves with The Numen, and an enhancement, and evolution
of, that connexion. That is. genuine progress - that which is real because it is
not a human-manufactured abstraction we have imposed upon ourselves and
upon life - cannot be created or achieved by anything other than an inner
change within an individual; by the natural evolution of the individual; or by
those small, local, and incremental and generally non-disruptive outer changes
(for example to our locality) that work with, and which balance, and which
continue, what already-is, based as such small and local changes are on the
respect for such natural balance that arises from a knowledge that we are but
one small and transitory emanation of, and thus a connexion to, Nature.

Conclusion

What, therefore, are the numinous solutions to the problems of the destructive
abstraction of "progress" and of the disruption of the numinous caused by
machines and technology? What is the numinous way to proceed to restore the
natural balance that Homo Hubris has upset?

The solution - the way - is to return to a more rural, less materialistic, more
clan-based, way of living. To return to the slow and natural toil of manual
labour and a working in harmony with animals. It is a consciously-made - an
evolutionary - decision to honourably co-operate with others who feel as we do
in order to slowly bring-into-being new rural and clan-based communities
where we can live such a way that our natural balance with ourselves, with
Nature, is restored.

It is a consciously-made - an evolutionary - decision to restrain and control

ourselves, and control our lust for comfort and for luxury, and to place
empathy with and compassion for all Life at the centre of our own lives. It is a
consciously-made - an evolutionary - decision to distance ourselves, internally
and externally, from the profane, materialistic, egotistic, profit worshipping,
machine-worshipping, societies of our age. It is a consciously-made - an
evolutionary - decision to appreciate, understand and know our place in
Nature and in the Cosmos: as but one small nexion of life, which small nexion

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affects all other living beings and which small nexion has the opportunity to
evolve to be the awareness, to be part of the-being, of Nature and of the
Cosmos itself.

It is, in summary, the decision to restore, and to then enhance and to evolve,
that connexion to the Numinous which machines, and technology, and the
abstractions and artificial goals of modern nation-States and modern ways of
material living, have severed, and which connexion has its foundation, in
genesis, in empathy, in personal honour and in those small clan-based
communities where such empathy and such honour can thrive.

Footnotes:

(1) The Internet itself provides an excellent example of (a) the mis-use of
technology by Homo Hubris, and (b) of how such technology enhances the
profanity and arrogance of Homo Hubris, and disrupts the Numinous itself.

Genuine learning and a genuine wisdom arises from a reflexion born from
personal, direct, practical experience: from an alchemical, inner, symbiosis;
from that personal and very individual growth that requires a long period of
causal time, often in one place. The Internet, however, encourages and easily
facilitates two Homo Hubris like things: (1) the dissemination of abstract,
rootless, "knowledge"; and (2) the immediate dissemination of the mostly
fatuous, often ignorant and almost always dishonourable opinions and views of
the Homo Hubris hordes. In addition, it is increasingly used, and often covertly
censored by, functionaries and flunkeys of modern nation-States to spread
their grossly un-numinous abstractions and their propaganda; and now
possesses a commercialized Media-infested nature.

Thus, there is the availability and the encouragement of the worthless, the
profane, the abstract, the lifeless, the un-numinous, the propagandistic,
allowing for and encouraging as never before a pretentious pseudo-intellectual
type of "knowledge" and of "knowing", and an immediate spewing forth of
personal dishonour.

Thus, instead of being primarily used - as it might have been - as one new
means of communication between rational, empathic, enlightened individuals,
it has been used and is being used in the service of Homo Hubris, and of those
oligarchies and interest groups which have a vested interest in the continuing
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abstractions on which the modern West is based.

As with many things modern, machine-based and technological, the

disadvantages of this Internet now far outweigh its few remaining advantages.
In addition, and in particular, the truely empathic, the truely wise - those
connected or re-connected to The Numen - have little or no need of the
immediacy of such a modern medium. The only minuscule value of the
medium of the Internet is that it still currently allows the free dissemination of
items contrary to the material, un-numinous Zeitgeist of the modern West,
enabling those few who might be interested in more numinous matters to
reflect upon such matters, and, after such reflexion, if they consider it
suitable, to act upon them, in their own species of causal time and in their own
individual way.

(2) As I wrote some years, in a letter to a friend:

" Do not believe that I yearn for some non-existent romantic rural idyll. I
know [from years of personal experience] the hardness of this life, of how
the work, the days, the weather, can wear you down, make limbs, back,
hands, ache; of how some days I become wearied with a particular
wearisome, repetitive task, and yearn for the day to end, to sit outside in
the garden of the local Pub, alone with my pint of liquid food made from
water and barley and flavoured with hops..... But this simple life is my
choice; there are good days, and bad days; usually more good days,
especially when - as today and yesterday - the Sun warms and I can see
the beauty of this Earth's blue sky. In many ways, I yearn for the warm,
sunny days of an English Spring, Summer and Autumn, as I know there
must be life-giving rain, and clouds to bear that rain. There is balance,
which has brought the numinous beauty of this rural landscape, this
land.

The toil of earlier times was often much harder than it is now; but the toil
that is necessary, now, to live simply, frugally, is not that hard - although
it will be so for those who have never done such work! I remember how
many people - especially young people - started work in the fields at my
previous place of work. Some lasted a few hours; some lasted a week; a
few lasted a few weeks. None lasted longer, leaving us two [old farm
hands] with our hoes, our taciturn ways, to knowingly smile.

The important thing is that we now have, and can make, a conscious
choice - to live in the world, as it is, has become; or to live as we can, and -
I believe - we should, simply, in an unaffected way, in harmony,

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symbiosis, with Nature, thus restraining ourselves, especially our desire

for material possessions, for the things we really do not need, for the
things which harm Nature, the living beings of Nature, and we ourselves,
if we but knew it..."

(3) This particular tenet - this particular abstraction - may be said to have its
modern origins in the writings of Francis Bacon.

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