Paganism in the Midst of the Second Religiosity.

In the contemporary West the Christian religion has been in decline for a number of years.  It does not hold the influence that it once did and has been pushed to the margins of our culture.  Much of this has to do with theological issues and a certain pigheadedness with theological matters and scientific discovery.  Also, people are more literate than ever and have more access to information than in any time in history, so much of the information regarding the birth and hegemony of this religion is available to the general public so people question it and why they had it forced on them, and this leads to a decline in belief.  Much of the decline of the Christian religion has been the fault of the church itself.  This decline is not because of any liberalization.  Rather it is the comical, strict adherence to Nicene Catholic and Protestant theology which over the years has pushed the more curious members of the congregations away who are looking for a more mystical experience.  Dead dogma does nothing to maintain a faith in the Divine.  The word “faith” itself implies doubt.  In recent years church attendance has been at an all time low with a recent surge based on the economic and cultural insecurity felt by the average young Indo-European Westerner bombarded with postmodern ideology.

            This recent surge is occurring because the decline of our civilization has become apparent to all.  Our education system is in tatters.  Our art and culture are insincere, superficial, and obsessed with either lowbrow postmodern jokes or racial animosity and the elevation of dysgenic ghetto culture.  Beauty, the sublime, and the tragic sense of life are drowned out by cynicism, self-referential in-jokes, and anti-European Leftist racial agitprop.  None of it is spiritually edifying, so young people, specifically men, are returning to the church. 

This revival of religion is mostly a Catholic phenomenon but you can see it in other churches.  However, for the most part, women aren’t joining them.  There are a number of reasons for this, and many oversimplify.   In the contemporary West, women are more drawn to Leftist causes because of their “community” oriented outlook.  However, this isn’t the only reason.  Much of the reason why the political and social divide between the sexes exists is because of the absurd and obscene misogyny of the Christian religion and the rest of the Abrahamic faiths.  This misogyny finds its purest expression in Islam.  Christianity used to be much more brutal, as we can see in how they treated the philosopher Hypatia.  Since the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, the religion has been slowly reformed and defanged into the self-destructive anti-European cult that exits today.  Also, the Church Fathers and many faith leaders in the last 2,000 years have been openly hostile to women.  As I said previously, people are much more educated, especially women, so ancient Abrahamic desert laws and views on women aren’t going to hold as much cultural sway as they once did.  This is something that Christians will have to cope with.   Also, this sheds a little light on the reasoning behind this new Second Religiosity amongst young men.   Postmodern Intersectional Feminism is purely atheistic and misandrist, taking an extreme view of men as being oppressors, so men confused by this cultural shift and who feel left out by it are going to flock to religion.  The Second Religiosity as predicted by Spengler is the final surge in spirituality before civilization’s inevitable collapse.  We can see this with the reactionary nature of this new revival.

            But what of Pagans in the midst of all this?  Paganism in all its Western forms is one of the biggest growing religions in the West as people are looking towards their old ancestral gods to give them wisdom and union with the Divine in today’s modern world.  I consider myself a part of this revival. 

            The Pagan revival has several currents which includes Thelema, Greek Hellenism, Asatru, and the Celtic mysteries.  I consider Thelema and Hellenism as a part of the modern revival of Southern Paganism with Asatru and the Celtic mysteries as the revival of the Northern Pagan Mysteries.  I consider all of these currents part of the same religion, using the Roman concept of Interpretatio Romana to align the gods from different cultures.  There can be some debate over the correspondences but it is my conclusion, and others have come to this as well, that the Greco-Roman, Nordic-Germanic, the Egyptian, Zoroastrian, and Vedic religions come from the same Northern primordial source and spread southward.  I consider Wotan to be one of the oldest of the gods going back to the ancient Northern Civilization of the Reindeer. 

            The Pagan Revival is looked at with quite a bit of suspicion by Christians in the West, particularly in America.  Often Christians on the Right are more concerned with conservative Right-wing Pagans than they are Islamists, or out of ignorance try to conflate Paganism with Leftism which is absurd if you consider Greek philosophy in any of its currents or by reading “The Elder Edda” for that matter.  This can be demoralizing for those of us wanting to get involved in conservative politics, but one must not be too concerned as this Second Religiosity isn’t going to go anywhere.  The theological foundations of the Christian revival aren’t strong enough to provide the mystical, experiential relationship with the Divine that the Christian religion calls “Luciferian.”

            Paganism cannot be spread through conversion and proselytizing.  The gods draw the individual to them.  As more and more people invoke the gods, these entities bring themselves into the lives of others without human assistance.  Strange coincidences come into people’s lives and draw them to books on esotericism and Paganism because the Universalist faiths no longer bring any meaning their lives.  This is why Paganism has never died.  The gods won’t let it die as they are a part of the Indo-European DNA (some even view the staff of Hermes, the Caduceus, as an ancient symbol of DNA in its depiction of intertwined serpents.)  Paganism masquerades in Abrahamic offshoot occult currents of the Western Esoteric Tradition such as Rosicrucianism, Golden Dawn, and the Qabalah of Thelema.  These aforementioned modern currents are a revival of the Greco-Egyptian Hellenic Mysteries of the Neoplatonists.  The Nordic-Germanic religions never disappeared either as all their rituals and holidays were appropriated by Christians.  Even the days of the week are Pagan.  The old religion has never truly gone away, even with violent persecution, as the ancient Pagan world was not as rigid theologically and allowed for a freedom of worship and thought.  This freedom can never truly leave the West.  Julius Evola writes that

            “Only the unity of Christian Rome was that violent unity of a kind of tyranny unknown to the ancient, classical, and oriental world:  the tyranny of the spirit.  For if paganism was inflexible in demanding obedience to the laws that could make a rational social organization of the masses possible and stable (it is well known that most of the vaunted persecutions against Christians- whose victims, it should be noted, are a negligible number compared to those of the persecutions promoted by the Inquisition- proceeded simply from police measures, and not at all from religious preconceptions)- it couples this practical intransigence with the most unlimited tolerance in matters of beliefs, rites, and philosophical opinions.  Conversely, Christianity, with its fanatic proselytism and presumption of being the only true religion, along with Catholic intolerance that did not hesitate to use secular power to impose itself on people’s consciences, knew nothing of the expansive spirit of liberty in its supposed empire.” (Evola, pg. 83.  “Pagan Imperialism”.)

            The Founders of the United States of America understood the spiritual tyranny of the Christian religion, which is why they were Freemasons in secret.  They were preparing America for an eventual time of pure religious freedom much like the Roman Republic which this country was founded upon.  The modern Christian revival, the Second Religiosity of Spengler, is the last remnant of the Aeon of Osiris.  As the old civilizational order falls and a new one rises again in the Aeon of Horus-Ma’at, the Constitution of the United States and its promise of spiritual and intellectual liberty will ensure a return of the old Pagan order.  We Pagans must ride the tiger until then.  People will be drawn to Paganism without it being pushed on them because of the freedom it promises.  We can see that the old religions are coming back in the forms of Thelema, Asatru, and Celtic Paganism.  The spiritual freedom to follow the gods as you wish is at the foundation of Western and American civilization and is the spiritual birthright of every Indo-European.  We must not lose hope as victory is already ours.