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To: alt.satanism From: gwilson@earthlight.co.nz (Graeme Wilson) Subject: Dialectics Date: 28 Aug 1994 04:01:41 -0500 Dialectics The Balance Factor in Society & Art Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have their social, cultural and political agendas. As the "carnal doctrine" concerned with the real world it's more than fitting that Satanism should also impact in the social, cultural and political realms. If we accept that Satanism is the Quest for human excellence, for continuing human ascent, then it follows that Satanism is a resistance to tendencies of stagnation and decadence and an advocate of alternatives that seek to elevate Man. We shall here suggest a Satanic perspective for several issues based on the principle of balance via sinister dialectics. ART Many self-styled "Satanists" can be found in the ranks of those perpetrating cultural forms which appeal to the lowest denominator, which are aimed at the mass consumer market, and are generically called "popular culture". Such people are not promoting Satanic aesthetics but are instead rushing to the trough of the market place to provide the herd with its gutter entertainment. The pseudo-Satanist is unconscious of what he is doing, and is indeed merely himself a product of mass society, taking his cur from Christian definitions of Satanism. The genuinely Satanic artist can work on two opposite levels: (1) He can promote art which is truly reflective of Satanic aesthetics; or (2) He can consciously perpetrate decadent art forms which he purposely contrives to undermine the status quo. What distinguishes the second type from the pseudo-Satanist is that he pushes a sinister dialectic while remaining detached from the herd, while the pseudo-Satanist unconsciously remains part of mass society. The genuine Satanist knows that his real art and talent lies in playing to the herd as a means of manipulation. Examples of societies reflecting the Satanic aesthetic excellence would be those of Hellas and the Renaissance City-States. Modern examples of how the traditional can be synthesized with the innovative would be the painting of Salvador Dali, the poetry of Ezra Pound. A glimpse of what form the "popular culture" may take in a future social order which incorporates the Satanic cultural aesthetic is given in some of the creations of the young musician/composer Michael Moynihan (Blood Axis) whose latest releases Lord of Ages (a tribute to Mithras, as god of the Roman legions) and Electricity (a tribute to strength and action inspired by Richard Strauss) are a synthesis of the traditional and the innovative. Such a blend of the classical and the futuristic is the application of a dialectical process. A balance is struck between the conservative, necessary for establishing an artistic criterion to ensure quality, and the progressive which is required to counter the tendency of stagnation. The two polarities in synthesis minimize stasis and decadence while ensuring quality and vibrance in the cultural organism. An example of a conservative society ending in cultural stagnation is the Chinese. An example of the "progressive" repudiation of tradition resulting in decadence is the mass culture of contemporary Western society, starting circa. 1990. ABORTION This social issue has been chosen because its one that many Satanists take an unSatanic position on simply because they are once again reacting against Christian initiatives rather than postulating their own position on Satanic terms. Those who adopt an unqualified pro-abortion stance do so on the grounds of individual choice and sovereignty over one's life. This position can be identified with both the liberal-left and the libertarian-Right. Christians, on the contrary, oppose abortion because they hold all human life to be "sacred". Pro- and anti-abortionists actually start from the same premise, although they arrive at different conclusions; they view the idea of the individual per se as sacrosanct: on the one side, the sanctity of the individual as an adult, and the other, as a foetus. Surely the logical Satanic position transcends both, and is based on a Nietzschean perspective of the hierarchy of human worth? "Every individual may be regarded as representing the ascending or descending line of life. When one has decided which, one has decided a canon for the value of his egoism. If he represents the ascending line his value is in fact extraordinary - and for the sake of the life-collective, which with him takes a step FORWARD, the care expended on his preservation, may even be extreme. ... If he represents the descending development, decay, chronic degeneration, sickening.... then he can be accorded little value." Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols. Note, Nietzsche, the greatest champion of the individual, nevertheless talks of the "life-collective". The individualism he champions is far removed from the petty-individualism advocated by both liberal and libertarian, which is really a trivialisation of life. The Satanic position on abortion should be based on whether a birth contributes to or hinders human ascent. With modern technology and the ongoing discoveries of genetics it can now be fairly accurately predicted what worth an unborn child will be in relation to the ascent of the "life-collective". The world is awash with those of very low calibre, breeding others of their kind without hindrance other than when those nasty old devils of famine and plague catch up to think their populations, and then in the face of determined resistance from humanitarians. The Satanic position on abortion is based on eugenics. On a broader scale, the whole liberal moral system needs to be replaced with a new ethos propagated throughout society, which would include a recognition that the siring of healthy, intelligent and creative children is among the most honourable of callings. The new, heretical scientific synthesis of sociobiology shows us that all of life is permeated with an instinctive drive on part of the individual organism to perpetuate its own genes, or alternatively those of its closest kind, and that this drive even over-rides that of individual survival in life-threatening situations. Where this imperative is lacking there is something drastically wrong with the social organism. In this Judaeo-Christian society the instinct is repressed. Despite its anti-abortion stance, Christianity is the epitome of anti-Life dogma, a revolt against the instinctual. It's a paradox within the System. But if we turn to the Christian scriptures we find Jesus praising those who become "eunuches for the kingdom of heaven's sake", and Paul calling marriage an unfortunately necessary institution because of those who may thereby avoid burning in hell for "fornication". The whole Christian creed is based on preoccupation with death, not with the continuation of life. The anti-abortion stance is merely reflective of the belief that only god can take life away (or alternatively those he sanctions on earth as his holy killers). RACE ...A burning issue in many societies. Satanic orders do not generally apply racial restrictions on membership. The Satanic tradition itself can be found throughout history among many if not all cultures, and is universally applicable. People prefer association with their own kind, and this usually implies an ethnic-kinship factor. But wouldn't Satanists feel more kinship with a fellow-Satanist of another race, than with a Christian of his own race? I believe this to be so, because Satanists themselves form a culture unto themselves, a distinct folk one might say. It stands in contradistinction to the rest of society. A parallel would be the Jews as a distinct people/culture both universal and nationalist, comprising a variety of races, but bound by common traditions, history, culture and an aloofness from outside society. But, while Satanism is universal in scope, this should not imply an acceptance of some cosmopolitan creed which, like Christianity, liberalism, Marxism, capitalism, etc., rejects the significance of racial and cultural diversity - the products of millenia of evolution. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in union with Christ Jesus." Paul, Gal. 3:28. While the Satanic cosmology is necessarily universal - reflective of Life itself - it recognises the diversity within the cosmos - again a synthesis of two concepts. What about "multi-culturalism"? Couldn't this be described as a dialectical inter-action of cultures leading to a higher synthesis - what its advocates term "cultural enrichment"? I don't believe so. History shows that multi-culturalism causes factionalisation rather than a transcendent synthesis. It tears asunder the foundations of a culture as an organism. This wholesale importation of alien cultures into cultural organism results in what the Spenglerian philosopher Yockey termed "culture distortion" and "culture retardation". (Yockey, Imperium). In the context of the Western culture, an example of culture distortion would be the influence of "Dada" in art circa. 1900 - largely the product of Jewish Nihilists and Bolshevists. An example of culture retardation (i.e. the derailing of a culture from its life-path/destiny) would be the redirection of funds from the U.S. space programme several years ago, to subsidize ghetto-breeding. A genuine cultural dialectic where "cultural enrichment" can occur is through a process of what Spengler himself called "pseudomorphosis". (Spengler, Decline of the West). The process is one in which a culture-idea is absorbed and adapted in accordance with the imperatives of the recipient culture. E.g., the adaptation of gunpowder as a Chinese invention of mere entertainment, to a service of the West's "Faustian" Will-to-Power. An additional factor in the rejection of any cosmopolitan creed is the Satanic principle of individual pride. Such pride best proceeds from a sense of ones self-worth in knowing one's origins and inheritance stretching back beyond human memory, a surer guide to who one truly is than any attempt to impose "loyalty" toward and identity with that nebulous mass called "humanity" - whether in the name of a god or of a U.N. resolution. Thus, I suggest, the Satanic position, whether applied to art, society or politics, is essentially a dialectal one - a dynamic interaction of polarities leading to a higher synthesis: the Balance Factor at work - the human application of cosmic law. Further Reading From Realist Publications Nietzsche: Selections from his works. $5.00 Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard - A Nietzschean/Social-Darwinist classic. 153 pages $20.00 Proclamation of London by Yockey. Culture as an organism, history as cyclic. A synopsis of his masterwork "Imperium". $10.00 Imperium by Yockey -Spenglerian analysis of history, politics, sociology. 600+ pages. $15.00. Overseas: add $34 airmail; $20 surface. All cheques & Money Orders payable to: "REALIST PUBLICATIONS" P.O. Box 38-262 Petone Wellington New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcribed by Graeme Wilson (OSV - Dunedin) Internet : gwilson@earthlight.co.nz Fidonet : Graeme Wilson @ 3:770/515
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