Dualism and the Cycles of Time
"The general imprecise way of observing sees everywhere in nature opposites where there are, not opposites, but differences of degree. This bad habit has led us into wanting to comprehend and analyse the inner world, too, the spiritual-moral world, in terms of such opposites. An unspeakable amount of painfulness, arrogance, harshness, estrangement, frigidity has entered into human feelings because we think we see opposites instead of transitions." - Nietzsche
The moral dogma that has infected Civilisation since its beginning is a Judaic DUALISM inherited from Zoroastrianism and brought in by the virus of Christianity. Dualism states that there is a battle being fought in both the spiritual and earthly realms (and even within every individual) between two opposites: "good & evil." Not only has this Dualism subverted our Culture, it has turned the individual into a split personality: This is the result of repressing what is considered "evil" about one's nature by moral and religious dogmas.
CYCLES OF TIME
Before this Dualism was implanted, pagan societies didn't label natural forces with such
absolute moral attributes. There were creative and destructive forces in Nature, often
symbolized as gods. But even the destructive aspects has creative purposes, and were part
of a transcendent cosmic unity. For e.g. in what moral context can we place Indo-Aryan
deities such as Shiva & Kali? To the Western dualized mind they would be considered
"evil" because of their primal destructiveness. But to the Hindus, retaining the
ancient Aryan wisdom, they are "beyond good & evil." They comprise both the
creative & destructive aspects of Nature in their various forms and roles. Even their
destructive roles are a vital part of a cosmic CYCLIC process of
creation-destruction-renewal: Shiva in his Cosmic Dance of Destruction clears the way for
another round of history's endless Cycles.
RAGNAROK
The Germanics & Norse, like their Indo-Aryan kinsfolk, also had this cyclic cosmology.
The destruction brought by Ragnarok is the prelude to a new earth, new humanity, new
heaven & even a new pantheon of gods. The Gods themselves cannot avoid their Fate, for
without the destruction by Ragnarok there would be stagnation and decay. The Dark forces
of Loki, Fenrir, Surt, Garm and Iormungandr are Catalysts for Change; thus the Cycle
continues: creation-destruction-renewal. This is the inexorable process that can be
observed in both History & Nature. The Aryan Persians before Zoroastrianism had a
conception of this interplay between the Light & Dark forces which were seen as two
aspects of Zervan, Lord of Time. The Light of Ahura Mazda & the Dark of Ahriman were
both emanation of Zervan. Zoroastrianism divided these two into moral opposites separated
from the Time Lord. It is from here that Judaism & ultimately Christianity got their
DUALISM, which has afflicted the West. Some of the Gnostic sects rejected Dualism and
restored the ancient wisdom in the deity Abraxas, who united all polarities within
himself. The psychologist Carl Jung turned to Abraxas when considering the
inter-relationship that exists between polarities in Nature.
INDIVIDUATION
Jung revived the ancient wisdom with modern scientific methods and terms, but drawing from
pre- and non-Christian cultures and Medieval Alchemy. He sought to unify the polarities
within the individual to create the whole person (called "Individuation") no
longer cut off from his repressed so-called "evil" SHADOW SELF. This
"Individuation" of Jungian psychology is also akin to the occultist's quest for
Adeptship. Jung was concerned with how a neurotic christian civilization could be brought
back to the completeness of pagan times. He saw the need to allow the repressed barbarian
lurking within modern man to resurface and find a modern expression. Thus his support for
National Socialist Germany as an expression of the repressed Shadow Self of the Germans,
symbolized as Wotan.
CHRISTIANIZED NEO-PAGANS
Judaeo-Christian moral dualism is now so deep-seated within the Western psyche that even
those pagans who think they are outside the Christian context are as dualized as any
Christling. These "neo-pagans" (sic) have made internationalists & pacifists
out of tribal war gods! Where warrior attributes cannot be ignored, they have been
transformed into "the way of the peaceful warrior" (puke!). Tyr, Thor & Odin
have been castrated. The neo-pagans have simply made the Old Gods reflections of their own
dualized, half-selves. They have repressed as "evil" the Dark aspects. These
neo-pagans are worse than useless; they are another aspect of the dualism that is driving
the European folk to self-destruction. Even many (most?) of the harder-line
"Odinists", have a cosmology that is essentially Christian. They have dualized
the Aesir & the Jotuns into contending moral forces of "good vs. evil" -
ODIN (OR BALDER) IS THEIR JESUS. LOKI IS THEIR SATAN. RAGNAROK IS THEIR ARMAGEDDON. The
whole significance of Indo-European cyclic cosmology has been rendered null and void. The
pagan heritage has been Dualized.......... Christianized!
There are some pagans, however, who continue to honour the ancient wisdom. They see the cosmos as an interplay of polarities, not as a battlefield of moral dualities. It is this that is the basis of EVOLUTION. Without this catalyst mankind slips back into the nebulous mass from which he evolved. It is just such a degraded state that the religions and moralities of decay are dragging us towards. Let our path be starbound. HAIL ODIN! HAIL LOKI!