How
By TA Odinson Walsh, 1519 CG/CW

Is it just my particularly (an unapologetically) biased world-views, admittedly often colored by my cynical take on mans modern disavowal of his previously innate attentiveness to destiny and the duties it should compel, or do we live in an age where an inordinate amount of people of the Indo-European descent seem extraordinarily…well, empty? Granted, despite the current economic woes resulting from the inevitable consequences of attempting to thwart the laws of logic and reason with exercise in universalist altruism, this remains an era of unprecedented technological progress and material wealth, things broadly available to the most common of men ad women, yet access to such seems to do nothing for the near total sense of dissatisfaction, disillusion and downright determined apathy that permeates the people today. To understand how these conditions came to pass in the western world, the previous epitome of both spiritual and secular progress, and to help my people comprehend how they can overcome the emptiness that has come to disrupt the Trú progress, is my own duty…and destiny.

How my heart has ached for those
misled down paths of peace
that only left their lives in throes
of pain that would not cease
on altars made of grapes and grain
their spirits did they trust
only to find their faith in vain
and strengths they need a’rust

Throughout history a collective people collective strength has ever been founded upon their collective commitment to a collective ideal. while it is true that many cultures of antiquity (Egypt, Greece, Rome) were liberal enough(and I use the term liberal it its true sense, that of honest open-mindedness, not in its modern bastardized sense which has come to denote dim-wittedness) to tolerate a host of spiritual practices and intellectual ideas, the fact is that those seemingly diverse spiritual practices (most often, there have ever been anomalies) had common roots in their respective cultural pantheon and that those ideas deemed detrimental to the common cause of their respective cultures welfare were, appropriately, put down. Basic, fundamental unanimity was the order of their day, and so was their order in their day.

Though western culture today would, seemingly on the surface, appear to posess a collective commitment to a common Judeo-Christian ethos, even the “casually honest” observer would concede that unanimity was anything but the order of this day. From their inability to establish ethical unity on a subject that should be a matter of spiritual instinctiveness, such as the protection of innocent, unborn children (our very future!), to their outright refusal to support one another in a more systematic approach to western supremacy (without which they are certain to perish), Judeo-Christians are altogether ill-prepared to “save” anyone or anything.

When we consider that the Judeo-Christian faith is founded upon the requirement that an individual adherent denounce themselves and all the instincts, with which a body is imbued at birth, acts certain to immerse the individual in a maelstrom of self-loathing, doubt, guilt and fear, it should come as no surprise (to the rationally minded) that collectives of people so predisposed would find serenity, rationality or unanimity so far beyond their reach.

For the record, I believe most Judeo-Christian people to be basically well-meaning and good individuals, and even believe that in their evangelism most of them are honestly convinced that they are “doing their fellow man a favor” by introducing them to an ideology that purports to grant them “eternal life” (an to whom would not the idea of living forever sound good?!). However, I also believe the average Judeo-Christian to be a victim, individuals who either came to their “faith” as a result of incessant indoctrination throughout their early childhood (against which even the most rebellious of spirits would find it hard to overcome) or after a traumatic life experience (ie., near death, imprisonment, etc.) which left them vulnerable to the Judeo-Christian message of “unconditional love” (though in truth there are many conditions with Judeo-Christianity…but we’ll come to those another time). Of course, there are those Judeo-Christians who cling to their “faith” as a matter of “tradition” (“it’s what my parents and their parents believed, so…”) or simply for the purpose of social affirmations, though if cornered into candor many will readily admit they “don’t really believe ‘everything’ the church or preacher says.” That all these groups are, to one degree or another, victims though is a matter of absolute fact, and there is no more telling evidence that the widely verifiable history of their “faith” itself.

How my ire has burned toward those
who perpetrated lies
that dealth my folk such baneful blows
and caused their souls to cry
for visions that would not appear
no matter how they prayed
and in “return”, year after year
that ever has been stayed

While I have taken care to point out the victimhood of the “average” Judeo-Christian, hopefully laying the foundation in their spirits for a Trú resurrection (of their instincts, of their self-oriented happiness and strength!), there are those, and we can mince words no more on this count if duty and destiny are our Trú cause as Odinist Revivalists, who stand responsible, both for the establishment and the continuation of an ideology that , contrary to its purported purpose of “love and peace,” has left a trail of evidence that must surely show it as the greatest crime ever known to western man. Though space does not permit an exhaustive discussion of this evidence (for which I strongly suggest the collective works of Revilo P. Oliver, William G. Simpson and the “history” section of your public library), I will highlight here a few of the more compelling points of fact.

The council if Nicaea, a convention of early Judeo-Christian church fathers, convened in the year 325CE. Though well into the fourth century of its existence, the Judeo-Christian community, as it were, was still greatly divided on what should have been for it the most basic of its foundational beliefs, such as the exact nature of Jesus' teachings or, more specifically, which accounts of his teachings were even the accurate ones. the truth of the matter (even mainstream theologians will concede) is that over three hundred years after their supposed saviour trial, death and resurrection upwards of four hundred "accounts", many of them blatently conradictory of one another and most of them proven to have been written after the purported "eye witnesses" (ie. the "Apostles") deaths, existed, and the sad (or is it cruel) reality is that these church "authorities" of the fourth centruy didn't know which "accounts" were right or wrong. What the council of Nicaea did know, however, was that they had a vested intrest (ie. the personal power) in establishing a "scriptual canon", an act that would lend to them an air of authority that in turn would permit them to claim (though never prove) that the many other accounts of Jesus' life and teachings (such as those of the Gnostic school) were "heretical", thus "justifying" the brutal pogroms of suppression and terror that were the true foundation (as opposed to the "inherent love and peace the scriptures divine origins inspired") of the "faith."

It is telling that as the early church fathers set about complaining (or was it creating?) the "gospels" and hunting down and murdering anyone who disputed the authenticity of those scriptures they had coronated as canon that the very words which were to be the common mans salvation were, upon pain of death, prohibited to the common man. Indeed, it was for nearly 1,500 years a crime for any but the clergy to be in possesson of a bible or portions thereof. What, one wonders, were the church fathers afraid of? That the contradictions so readily recognizable by today's rational man or woman might be exposed, upsetting the church's ability to so easily fool the masses? Upsetting their monopoly on spirituality itself?

To a "faith" so, well, faithful in its belief that it is not "a", but "the" godsend of all godsends, we must pose the following question: Were the merits of Jesus' messages so compelling, so self-evident to any who might study his words (leaving aside for now whether they truly were his words), why is it that the church authorities found it necessary to invade the lands of my/our European ancestors and systematically put to the sword or flame anyone who chose instead to adhere to the indigenous spiritual paths of their honored ancestors? Many time throughout my life I have borne witness to the tears shed by peopleof Indo-European heritage over their crimes (and I agree, they were crimes too) commited against the native Americans by invading, evangelizing christians who saw fit not only to steal their land and resource (in and of itself, the nautre of expansion and conquest) but their cultuarl souls as well by imposing upon them a spiritual path in no way attuned to their insticts. Rarely, however, have I witnessed the tears, or even the tacit understanding, that we too, as Indo-Europeans with a vastly rich indigenous spiritual tradition more attuned to our natural folk-souls, were, quite literally, robbed of our lands, our resources, and the spirits that left to us lives of self-assurance and reliance rather than ones of doubt and dependence. Why can we not cry for ourselves? Why can we not cry out against the tyranny to which we too have been exposed? As we rally to demand justice for those done ill in generations past, at whose door shall we knock to demand justice for our own? As for me, there is no doubt, and as for me there shall be no fear, for the knowledge that this crime mights continue unchallenged, unavenged, is a far more horrifying prospect to me that the consquences of action could ever be.

How my spirit's passion thrives
To bring back what is Tru
To salve the souls and save the lives
Of all the people who
Were not aware of how they'd been
Deprived of what was real
A world where pride is not a sin
But what we all should feel

Though I have no doubt that my commitment to creating a new awareness (or re-newed one, I suppose is more appropriate) where my people's spiritual strength and integrity is concerned will win me no shortage of detractors and defamers for those who wallow in Judeo-Christian ignorance or adamance, I feel too strongly, one might even say "faithful" (smile), that amidst the collective Indo-European people of this planet that there is an overwhelming desire for spiritual direction and determination they are not getting, indeed which they cannot get, from a faith (Judeo-Christianity) that puts them at such odds with their own souls and instinctual intelligence. I am, of course, of the mind that fundamentalist Odinism is the natural answer to all the questions the unnatural path of Judeo-Christianity has created for my people, questions they would have never been compelled to ask had they not be so maliciously seperated for their own spiritual traditions.

Though the "how" of accomplishing the feat, an exercise many would call a "fools errand" I'm sure, (though I'd remind those fools that many empires have fallen in the past) is a multi-tiered task I have no doubt will be many years in the making, I do believe the foundational stones (or should we say...stave?) can be laid quite simply by informing everyone who reads these words that the councils of this cause of concerned with no authority save that which assures the salvation of your lives. In this we do not speak of deliberately obscure or unknowable "after"-lives, but rather the absolute and understood existence you enjoy now which, if honorably led, should result in the reward of honest pride. That you have heretofore been deprived of this most basic of human rewards is the thing that is shameful, though that shame rest firmly in the shoulders of those who knowingly manipulated your hearts and minds to steal your gold and souls.

Creating an environment/community in which you are no longer bereft of the confidence that should come with trú spiritaul strngth is our utmost objective, and personally will be the basis for my utmost joy. That's how to start.

In conclusion (for now) I implore everyone, Odinist and aspirant alike, to embrace the ultimate truth that the Allfather Odin and all the ancient ones imbued each of us with inherent strengths and instincts designed to empower every individual, that we might pursue the evolution, and thus the progress, that is the privelage of all those brave enough to reject redemption not born from within. That we have in the Western world fallen so far from this truth must be recognized as the chief cause of the aformentioned collective dissatisfaction or disillusionment. That we can overcome the manipulations of two millenia and reclaim our kindred spirit, is something for which we should all dare to dream. That's how we'll win.