Utumno

Savior of the dream

Love is hidden, Kept by the pure ones. Waiting for their fate, To embrace the flame. The beautiful girl - in the castle of dreams. Destroyed by the church, serving the darkened forces. Make her your mistress, sing your song. Opening the eye, the garden grows. Poetry drifts like wind, Love burns all, In the dance of destruction. Devotion to each other, For eternity.

"True lovers know instinctively that they are one; and they dwell, consequently, in that atmosphere of timeless delight which is the air of Paradise" — Joseph Campbell

There's an argument that aesthetics taking a much more prominent role in the formation of ideology, with concern to our contemporary times, is bad or a degeneration of some purity. This is an incorrect understanding, as the aesthetic is an expression of truly deep, psychological deep, ideas. The aesthetic itself is what galvanizes, what awakens, the population towards a higher state of being. The aesthetics of power, of national socialism, uplifted our volk which is why many are innately attracted to it. The aesthetic points towards the spiritual, which can be seen likewise in our enemy, a physically and spiritually ugly race who make the world ugly as well.

"Every aesthetic element holds a psychological value identical with the psychological value of some mythological element. The task of the artist who chooses to handle mythological materials is to grasp fully the implications of his images and then render them with the precisely appropriate elements of his craft." — Joseph Campbell

SS-Man and the Question of Blood does carry a high level of nordicism, given the fact that Himmler was extremely interested in the ancient history of the Germanic people it's no surprise that such a work would go into detail on the origins and migrations of the Germanic peoples out of southern Scandinavia and into Central Europe.

"The Nordic race is the bearer of the high talent of the German people" - SS-Man and the Question of Blood

The final consequence

Sitting in the pit, Morality is amiss, Cursing all who put me here. My vision blurs, then it is clear. Grey towers everywhere, Effigies to those who hate the law. A creation of those who hear the call of evil. To destroy them, uproot them, is a moral deed. I offer my food to the leader, Seeking guidance - wanting to emulate his life. I'm lost at see, I need the king. To burn away my sin, the rot of this age.

"Courtly love concerns the lady and the lover not as individuals, therefore, but as the real or imaginary couple they form when all necessary ritual conditions have been fulfilled. Out of this is born the "service of love"." — Jean Markale, Courtly Love

Having finished reading Jean Markale's Courtly Love almost a week ago, I've given myself sometime to think on the work. Some may find the work subversive as it discusses an element within the courts of love, that being adultery on the part of a noble woman with a knight (Lancelot and Guinevere being a major literary example that the courts of love used). Yet, as Jean explains, within Occitan culture and by extension the greater Christian culture, there was a revelation (or realization) of women. That many, men and women, revolted against the social doctrine of marriage which placed love in a non-existent sphere. That these men and women sought true love, which didn't coincide with the Christian doctrine of marriage. While one could suggest Jean Markale is subversive, a work written far closer to the time period of the troubadours, the Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus, does back him up. The Art of Courtly Love does condemn homosexuality entirely, both male and female homosexuality. Jean Markale asserts a connection between the cathars, Celtics, and the Visigoths when it comes to the Occitan culture and troubadours. Unorthodox, heretical infact, as the cathars would be labeled heretics but the cathars did reject christian marriages. Later expressions of this tradition moved away from adultery but the placing of a female figure as the central focus does bring to mind the accusations the templars faced. That being of goddess worship. An interesting read, one that I hesitate to recommend as I need to read more on the subject so as to get a better grasp of the language and symbolism being used in context.

"The Dionysian demand is thus made of the onlooker: that he imagine everything enchanted, that he see always more than the symbol, that the entire visible world of the scene and orchestra be the realm of wonderment." — Nietzsche