GOLDEN DAWN - Thermopylae Memorial 2014

Video from the 2013 ceremony

Vivere Militare Est

The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently forced him to do so. As to-day, his surroundings do not so force him, the everlasting mass-man, true to his character, ceases to appeal to other authority and feels himself lord of his own existence. 

On the contrary the select man, the excellent man is urged, by interior necessity, to appeal from himself to some standard beyond himself, superior to himself, whose service he freely accepts.... Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life.

For me, then, nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set

on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one

sets up as a duty and an obligation. In this way the noble life

stands opposed to the common or inert life, which reclines

statically upon itself, condemned to perpetual immobility, unless

an external force compels it to come out of itself. Hence we apply

the term mass to this kind of man- not so much because of his

multitude as because of his inertia.

As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the

majority of men are incapable of any other effort

than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external

compulsion. And for that reason, the few individuals we have

come across who are capable of a spontaneous and joyous effort

stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience.

These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active

and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an

incessant course of training. 

Training = askesis. These are the ascetics. 

Jose Ortega y Gasset  -  The Revolt of the Masses. 

The Eternal Forest & The Religion of Nature

"Ewiger Wald" aka "Enchanted Forest" aka "Eternal Forest" (1936) is a National Socialist film celebrating nature and its meaning in forging the ideology of the Third Reich. A true work of "BLOOD and SOIL."

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Characteristics of Romanticism

The Romantic movement was one of the best periods in the course of modern European history (Modern, as Julius Evola rightfully placed it, is the period that followed the so-called "french" revolution and the since then domination of Europe by the free-mason agenta of "ideals" such as anti-racism, equality , universal brotherhood e.t.c.). Except the basics , the admirers (Dont really like the word "followers") of this period, oftenly found quite complicated to explain in-depth the ideals of Romanticism. But i think this description following below is one of the best i ever seen. In few words says almost everything.

   Characteristics often attributed to Romanticism:

***a new preoccupation with and surrender to Nature

***a fascination with the past, particularly the Middle Ages and legends of medieval chivalry

***a turn towards the mystic and supernatural, both religious and merely spooky

***a longing for the infinite

mysterious connotations of remoteness, the unusual and fabulous, the strange and surprising

***a focus on the nocturnal, the ghostly, the frightful, and terrifying

***fantastic seeing and spiritual experiences

***a new attention given to national identity

***emphasis on extreme subjectivism

***interest in the autobiographical

***discontent with musical formulas and conventions

Edward F. Kravitt "Romanticism Today" 1992

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The Revival of The Delphic Idea

the 19th of June 2014 marks 63 years since the death of a great Poet and Mystic. Angelos Sikelianos. One of the last of a generation of the most important scholars of Hellas since the indepedence of 1821. Amongst many things and works in his life time, one of them was "The Revival of The Delphic Idea". The Delphic fests that took place in Delphi in the end of the 1920/Early 1930. Including lectures, reenactments , theatre performances e.t.c. in their original Ancient place.

Some photos from the Delphic Festivals are following below.

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