Pagan Traditionalism

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“A much more radical initiatic test rises with awakening to and genuinely understanding the whole preceding path of history, as well as everything that is to come, not at the end of the eschatological period, but already at the beginning, i.e., when man recognizes his ontological and existential situation by already here and now looking at the closing sunset and the last burgundy-violet shades of the sky melting away before our very eyes.

The hardest and rawest lot falls not to those who awaken and know themselves at the very end of the cycle, but to those who awaken and become witnesses to the sunset, to the decline of the sun that is predetermined by the due and whose trajectory was already outlined back in the era when the sun was still at its zenith of glory and might, when, so it seemed, tradition appeared to be undeniably eternal in its triumph and nothing suggested the contrary. In this lies the bitter knowledge of allotted fate.

In this point lies the fundamental fork in the road of assessing the contemporary moment in terms of Modernity and Postmodernity, as well as in terms of Tradition and Traditionalism. Should we try to catch up with the already setting sun, redraw the shades of the sky from memory, and imitate its light with lamps and gadget screens? Or should we accept the primacy of the night and its own rays along the path of transgressive (post-)Traditionalism? Following through the night, which is the apophatic sun, does not mean being in solidarity with the contemporary era in all of its aspects, but rather finding another dimension of tradition in the landscapes of the future that isn’t ours.”

— Askr Svarte, Towards Another Myth: A Tale of Heidegger and Traditionalism

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“A much more radical initiatic test rises with awakening to and genuinely understanding the whole preceding path of history, as well as everything that is to come, not at the end of the eschatological period, but already at the beginning, i.e., when man recognizes his ontological and existential situation by already here and now looking at the closing sunset and the last burgundy-violet shades of the sky melting away before our very eyes.

The hardest and rawest lot falls not to those who awaken and know themselves at the very end of the cycle, but to those who awaken and become witnesses to the sunset, to the decline of the sun that is predetermined by the due and whose trajectory was already outlined back in the era when the sun was still at its zenith of glory and might, when, so it seemed, tradition appeared to be undeniably eternal in its triumph and nothing suggested the contrary. In this lies the bitter knowledge of allotted fate.

In this point lies the fundamental fork in the road of assessing the contemporary moment in terms of Modernity and Postmodernity, as well as in terms of Tradition and Traditionalism. Should we try to catch up with the already setting sun, redraw the shades of the sky from memory, and imitate its light with lamps and gadget screens? Or should we accept the primacy of the night and its own rays along the path of transgressive (post-)Traditionalism? Following through the night, which is the apophatic sun, does not mean being in solidarity with the contemporary era in all of its aspects, but rather finding another dimension of tradition in the landscapes of the future that isn’t ours.”

— Askr Svarte, Towards Another Myth: A Tale of Heidegger and Traditionalism

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