I haven't read this in its entirety but let me say something: occultism and secret cult/religion feels something like that you could trace back to the day of temple economy.
When the priest turned their occupation to hereditary caste, such secrecy to hold their power over the temple was not necessary. But when Abrahamic religions came and it's mandated by God himself that His words needs ro be spread around, this secrecy becomes difficult. So the elites formed secret sects and practice occultism to keep the knowledge of power (aka knowledge pertaining to the relation of production) among themselves. This is why occultism is so rampant in the West.
I see occultism and secret religion as a negative dialectical opposite of Abrahamic religions. The former gatekeep its knowledge of truth among its approved caste member while the latter seeks to spread the truth to the universal masses.
You know what, after finally reading this STELLAR piece of work whatever the shits these middle class scums schizoid mind wrote, it reads like modern day woldbuilding project. You know, when you are teenager watching some fantasy anime that take inspiration from real world stuff and you'll ended up spending the weekend wikiwalking then later write it all down as your own fantasy world. You feel so damned cool creating your fictional characters, worlds, and its histories esp if you used foreign name from foreign culture.
Of course the problem with this here is that all of these schizo freaks BELIEVED OF THEIR OWN FANTASY AS REALITY. All of that nonsense about world cycle, root race, and jibber-jabbers are so fantastical and ungrounded from reality that it can only be nothing but it. All of this reads like middle schooler tumblr fanfiction and worldbuilding yet this somehow took off and become popular in Central Europe especially Germany.
Unsurprising that all of this nonsense was completely driven by middle class personage and petite noble aka downward mobility noble. It is not enough they maintain their class privilege, or ideally moving upward class-wite, but they also NEEDS to keep the lower class know their place. The mass education, mass entertainment, and mass production brought forth by industrialization scares these middle class so much (and still is!) that they instead of humbled choose to wage occultic class war against the proletariat. This is sickening and you could actually see something similar happening in many global south as well.
Absolutely riveting. Couldn’t put it down. And lucky for me I picked it up too… lately i’ve been leaning closer & closer towards nazism myself (and for the same reasons identified here : ‘nostalgia’ for a past that never was, resentment of jews who may or may not control all of the world’s money but certainly have an enviable knack - as a people - to both adapt & thrive in changing times whilst remaining unchanged themselves, gnostic teachings making at least as much sense as Christianity…
I’m still a bit anti-jew after reading this but at least I now know nazism was equally elitist if not more so.
Then again… does it matter how something starts & who starts it? Yes. Yes I think it probably very much does lol
Interesting when you think how at the same time Bataille and Acephale are trying to rekindle the sacred in a French forest, and if you’ve read Groys, how Socialism in One Country consummated an avant garde art movement with similar demiurge-but-participatory project … Stalinism is always the answer
Many ideologies have religious and esoteric influences, but the main inspiration is political. Fascism has clearly socialist and communist roots. Lenin was saddened when Italian socialists expelled Mussolini from the party. The same is with Nazism. The only difference is that Fascism and Nazism are not international but national: German national socialism and Italian national socialism. Many historians and other authors are left-leaning or Marxist; the inconvenient truth bothers them greatly, so they try to push both ideologies to the right side of the political spectrum.
I haven't read this in its entirety but let me say something: occultism and secret cult/religion feels something like that you could trace back to the day of temple economy.
When the priest turned their occupation to hereditary caste, such secrecy to hold their power over the temple was not necessary. But when Abrahamic religions came and it's mandated by God himself that His words needs ro be spread around, this secrecy becomes difficult. So the elites formed secret sects and practice occultism to keep the knowledge of power (aka knowledge pertaining to the relation of production) among themselves. This is why occultism is so rampant in the West.
I see occultism and secret religion as a negative dialectical opposite of Abrahamic religions. The former gatekeep its knowledge of truth among its approved caste member while the latter seeks to spread the truth to the universal masses.
This is accurate.
You know what, after finally reading this STELLAR piece of work whatever the shits these middle class scums schizoid mind wrote, it reads like modern day woldbuilding project. You know, when you are teenager watching some fantasy anime that take inspiration from real world stuff and you'll ended up spending the weekend wikiwalking then later write it all down as your own fantasy world. You feel so damned cool creating your fictional characters, worlds, and its histories esp if you used foreign name from foreign culture.
Of course the problem with this here is that all of these schizo freaks BELIEVED OF THEIR OWN FANTASY AS REALITY. All of that nonsense about world cycle, root race, and jibber-jabbers are so fantastical and ungrounded from reality that it can only be nothing but it. All of this reads like middle schooler tumblr fanfiction and worldbuilding yet this somehow took off and become popular in Central Europe especially Germany.
Unsurprising that all of this nonsense was completely driven by middle class personage and petite noble aka downward mobility noble. It is not enough they maintain their class privilege, or ideally moving upward class-wite, but they also NEEDS to keep the lower class know their place. The mass education, mass entertainment, and mass production brought forth by industrialization scares these middle class so much (and still is!) that they instead of humbled choose to wage occultic class war against the proletariat. This is sickening and you could actually see something similar happening in many global south as well.
Absolutely riveting. Couldn’t put it down. And lucky for me I picked it up too… lately i’ve been leaning closer & closer towards nazism myself (and for the same reasons identified here : ‘nostalgia’ for a past that never was, resentment of jews who may or may not control all of the world’s money but certainly have an enviable knack - as a people - to both adapt & thrive in changing times whilst remaining unchanged themselves, gnostic teachings making at least as much sense as Christianity…
I’m still a bit anti-jew after reading this but at least I now know nazism was equally elitist if not more so.
Then again… does it matter how something starts & who starts it? Yes. Yes I think it probably very much does lol
Absolutely brilliant work
Interesting when you think how at the same time Bataille and Acephale are trying to rekindle the sacred in a French forest, and if you’ve read Groys, how Socialism in One Country consummated an avant garde art movement with similar demiurge-but-participatory project … Stalinism is always the answer
Great work
Another banger by RTSG
Many ideologies have religious and esoteric influences, but the main inspiration is political. Fascism has clearly socialist and communist roots. Lenin was saddened when Italian socialists expelled Mussolini from the party. The same is with Nazism. The only difference is that Fascism and Nazism are not international but national: German national socialism and Italian national socialism. Many historians and other authors are left-leaning or Marxist; the inconvenient truth bothers them greatly, so they try to push both ideologies to the right side of the political spectrum.
The political inspiration is quite clearly laid out in the article. I’d encourage you to read through the entire piece.
https://youtu.be/aj2_uVFReiI?feature=shared
Mathew Crawford had all the strings of this group put together on The War Against You, but not to this detail.