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Sophia
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Much more of this amazing essay
by Horst Mahler and other of his writings
at this link:
( Also Part 2 )
http://www.regmeister.net/kolleg/h_mahler7.htm
The Germans have often made the mistake of allowing themselves to falter because of blows of fate. Individuals must surrender to their fate, nations never.
Like the lone individual, so a people, too, proves itself only in misfortune.
The Redemptive Historical Role of
the German Reich
by Horst Mahler
translation by R. Belser and Markus Haverkamp
Translator's REPLACEs are inside curly { and
brackets.
{Note: There is no single English word that embraces all that is contained in the German word "Reich." If one had to choose just one word to represent its meaning, our wor
d &
quot;realm" might come closest, with its harkening back to a time when there truly was a spiritual dimension an
d a racial/ethnic consciousness uniquely shared by the members of each nation. Yet even that word doesn't do justice to the depth of meaning in Reich, which is why I've chosen to leave it untranslated. [The Reich is the conscious desire and physical attempt to manifest and reflect a higher spiritual harmony on the physical plane. Thus its theological dimension. A realm does this subconsciously, and an empire not at all. -- MH]
The word Volk, sometimes translated as "people," other times as "folk," is similar; it connotes a group of people sharing blood ties as well as bonds of tradition, history, and a common political structure. -- R.B.}
Prologue
F.D. Roosevelt, Josef Stalin und Nachum Goldmann
F. D. Roosevelt
In the notes concerning the conversations between President F. D. Roosevelt and Marshall Stalin on the occasion of
the Teheran
Conference of 28 November - 1 December 1943, the following entry occurs:
"The conversation then turned to the question of the treatment intended
for Nazi Germany.
The President said that in his opinion it was very important that the idea of the Reich not be left in the consciousness of the Germans, and that this word ought to be stricken from the language.
Joseph Stalin
Marshall Stalin replied that it was not enough to eliminate the word, that the Reich itself must be taken out of the position where it could ever again plunge the world into war. He said that the victorious Allies would fail in fulfilling their duty if they did not keep in their own hands those strategic positions which were necessary to prevent any flaring up again of German militarism."<b
r>(Source: The F. D. Roosevelt Papers, which can be seen in the F. D. Roosevelt Library)
roosevelt.library@nara.gov Tel. 001845-229-8114 Fax 001 845-229-0872
In a memorandum of 6 A
pril 1945 for the U
.S. Secretary of State, F.D.R. once again confirmed his intention of eliminating the word "Reich" from the German vocabulary.
(Source: loc. cit.)
Nach
um Goldmann
Nachum Goldmann, "King of the Diaspora J*ws," first President of the World Jewish Congress, wrote in 1915:
The spirit of Individualism had brought England to the edge of the abyss domestically. A reaction had to come. It came: a new spirit began to blaze a new trail in England. Its champions were the theorists of Chartism, the Christian Socialists, the leaders of the Cooperative Movement, above all Carlyle. The direction of thought which they represented was the social, historical, and the organic; which means the same thing as: the militaristic, the German. . .the controlling experience i
n the life of this great Scot (Carlyle) was the internal overcoming of the individualistic French philosophy of Enlightenment, of the atomistic English national economy, and the discovery of the
organic, synthetic, German
philosophy. Carlyle was an enthusiastic admirer of the German character, a passionate follower of the ideas of German philosophy. All men and directions which are of creative sig
nificance in the England of the 19th century, stood under the influence of Carlyle, under the influence of the German spirit. . .Had this process continued peacefully, it would have finally ended with the total defeat of the old individualistic spirit; the representatives of this spirit sensed this very well. When they could no longer maintain their position peacefully, they unleashed the war which was supposed to crush Germany and the militaristic spirit. . .The slogan Down with Militarism! embodies the regressive element in this war; a victory for the slogan would be a triumph of the 17th and 18th centuries
over the 19th and 20th. Because Germany embodies the progressive principle, it is sure of victory. Germany will triumph, and the world will be dominated by the militaristic spirit. Whoever fee
ls like bemoaning this may sing a
lament for it; but to want to hinder it is foolishness and an offense against the Guardian Spirit of History, the committing of which England and France still must at
one for severely."
(Nachum Goldmann, Der Geist des Militarismus {The Spirit of Militarism}, Deutsche Verlagsantalt Stuttgart-Berlin, 1915, S. 28 ff.)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
CHORUS MYSTICUS
What is destructable
Is but a parable;
What fails ineluctably,
The undeclarable,
Here it was seen,
Here it was action;
The Eternal-Feminine
Lures to perfection
[Goethe, Faust, a Tragedy (Conclusion) (Walter Kaufmann translation, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1963)
Hail to you who wear the laurels of Victory!
Proclamation of the Kaiser in the Hall of Mirrors of Versail
les on 18 January 1871
The German Reich, unified by Otto von Bosmarck, resurrected by the Act of State of the Eternal Federation of the German Princes in the constitution of the Ger
man Reich, passed on the 16th of April 18
71, proclaimed on the 20th of April 1871, and put into effect on the 4th of May 1871, lives on in the Will of the Germans who still wish to be Germans. Strong in faith, they hold fast to the Reich as the
national state of the German people. Only with the death of the last German loyal to the Reich will the Reich perish.
For more than a century the enemies of Germany have been working for the defeat of the Reich and its folk. They have now failed at last. The German people are arising, unbendable in their Will to restore the ability to act to the German Reich.
The Reich in Thought
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1. All the peoples of Europe, not just the German people, are presently in danger of going under. If Europe does not recover, it will become --
as Ernst Nolte predicts -- an appendage of Asia and Africa
2. Could that not be a matter of indifference to the Lord of History?
3. What is the point/purpose of mankind?
4. What is the point/purpose of Europe?
5. Many Europeans, in particular many Germans, are apparently indifferent to this. Some even welcome this development.
6. But these are only the irresponsible private opinions of individuals.
7. Acting on the
basis of these opinions is capriciousness.
8. Even if the overwhelming majority of European individuals were to think this way, that would not be the Will of the European peoples.
9. The various peoples are not aggregates of discrete elements.
10. The various nationalities are spiritual essences, life.
11. Their Will is not to be confused with the network of the arbitrariness of individuals, which immediately would perish, were it not borne by an over-arching (transcendent) Will of the community, which expresses its
elf in life-preserving action, which is not the action of subjective minds (human individuals).
12. The life of the various peoples is not compatible with democracy in the s
ense of vote-counting.
13. If this insight did n
ot already follow from the concept, from thought, the fate of the Western democracies in the 20th century, as well as their condition today, would in any case be empirical proof of the correctness of this statement.
14. The Will of the vario
us peoples is genuinely and generation-bridgingly present in their particular religion, in their particular tradition, and in their particular philosophy.
15. It is {something which is} recognized and not ascertained.
16. The Will of a people is a concrete, i.e., defined-in-itself and dynamic form of mind, and as such a special presence of God in the world.
17. God, the essence of all phenomena, the universal One, who does not reign in the Beyond, separated from the phenomena, but rather is present only i
n His particular forms, holds to Himself by preserving the multiplicity of the various ethnicities as his special designs. Particular peoples may pass away, but the multiplicity
of the various peoples is essentially immortal.
18. The
Many are not indifferent toward one another and next to one another, but rather are internally related to one another in the situation of necessity, therefore as a unity: we would not be what we are as the German Volk, if the Jewish anti-Volk -- our et
ernal foe -- did not also exist.
19. World-historic peoples are those in whom a necessary principle of the Absolute Sind is embodied, which elaborates a New World.
20. At the present, this role is the lot of the German people. For two hundred years, the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft {ethnically-based community} has been at work, in order to arrive at itself as an Idea.
21. The revolt against the circumstances which threaten the life of the German people, is a godly action.
22. We, who have
made the Will to preserve the German people our own personal Will, are thus the helpers of God.
The Salvation in Misfortune
23. The various peoples prove them
selves in adversity. It is the danger of death which awakens their geniu
s and its will to survive.
24. Only the advent of external menace turns the Interior of a people, its spiritual form, toward the outside and makes that spirit manifest.
25. The outward initial impulse of the movement obeys the laws of chance, but what that
impulse begins is not accidental but necessary.
26. The swarming mounted warriors of Attila, the storming Mongols, the Moorish occupation of Spain, the Turkish army troops -- these were the threats which brought about the birth of the Western cultural federation from the rough Celtish and Germanic tribes of Europe.
27. This is sui generis. Nothing alien forms its character. What came out of the East, the West has transposed into creative variations. Never has the West merely imitat
ed what others have created before it. It has always achieved forms peculiar to itself and has always formed the world according to its image.
28. The Spirit of
the West holds firmly to itself; for there is nothing that would be superior to
it.
29. Danger threatens it only from within, should it misunderstand its own being and if it were to accept the belief that it is destined to become a vessel which holds the peoples of withered cultures.
30. Inherent already in the infinite sadness which grips us ov
er the palpable ongoing devastation in Western cultural circles, is the certainty that the decline of Europe is not the last word of History, that the decline itself is finite and that the decline will perish in the resurrection of the Western spirit of freedom.
31. The spirit which comprehends itself as spirit and conducts its life with self-confidence, is not lukewarm and not depressed, but is rebellious and optimistic.
Folk und Race
32. The various peoples ar
e distinct: externally, by racial features, internally by unique, unmistakable Volksgeist {ethnic spirit}.
33. The Internal, the Essence, is there only as ex
pression, like the External is only the appearance of the Internal. Inside and outside
are one and the same and, at the same time, their distinction.
34. The distinction which they also are, cannot be skipped over, but it does not separate those who are different.
35. The slogan "Volk und Rasse" {"Folk and Race"} has proven to be unbalanced, based upon previous del
iberation -- and therefore untrue.
36. The motto "Volk: Geist und Rasse" {"Folk: Spirit and Race"} is proper.
37. Both moments {in the sense of physics} are of equal weight, inseparable, and at the same time a defensive front against what is alien.
38. Only a people that wards off the alien [or foreign] preserves its own life.
39. Europe is experiencing the spectacle that its intelligentsia views e
thnicities and nations as delusionary (phantasmagorias) and declares the word "race" to be an invalid concept, so that it might appear as unimportant t
hat here Negroes and slit-eyes are seeping into the residences of Whites, just as Izzy seeped
into Palestine in order to appropriate the land for himself.
40. The Negro appears fair to another Negro, the slit-eye sympathetic to another slit-eye, the White appealing to another White. To the Negro, however, the White is an ogre, to the White, a slit-eye is ugly. The k*ke views the goy as a beast. Why should it be indecent to speak of this?
41. Must the German Spirit seek to have recourse to J*ws in order to express itself? To Benjamin Disraeli, for example, for whom "the Racial Question" was "the key to World history" (FAZ, 29 May 2002); or to Salcia Landmann, who was even of the opinion, "that the racists of the Nazi period were not mistaken in their high estimation of the problems of race, but only in their
evaluation and characterization of the individual races and in the inferences they drew from their theories."...?(FAZ, 29 May 2002)
42. Obviously
the weakness of the Western immune system is treatable only if the racial question is put on a new
basis philosophically. Hegel again supplies the answer to this: The spiritual/intellectual and the physiognomic are distinct but not separable, rather they are in concrete union. The rejection which focuses upon the external is in actuality the repelling of the alien spirit, which manifests itself in the irritating form of appearance.
More exhilirating words at link.
by Horst Mahler and other of his writings
at this link:
( Also Part 2 )
http://www.regmeister.net/kolleg/h_mahler7.htm
The Germans have often made the mistake of allowing themselves to falter because of blows of fate. Individuals must surrender to their fate, nations never.
Like the lone individual, so a people, too, proves itself only in misfortune.
The Redemptive Historical Role of
the German Reich
by Horst Mahler
translation by R. Belser and Markus Haverkamp
Translator's REPLACEs are inside curly { and
brackets.
{Note: There is no single English word that embraces all that is contained in the German word "Reich." If one had to choose just one word to represent its meaning, our wor
d &
quot;realm" might come closest, with its harkening back to a time when there truly was a spiritual dimension an
d a racial/ethnic consciousness uniquely shared by the members of each nation. Yet even that word doesn't do justice to the depth of meaning in Reich, which is why I've chosen to leave it untranslated. [The Reich is the conscious desire and physical attempt to manifest and reflect a higher spiritual harmony on the physical plane. Thus its theological dimension. A realm does this subconsciously, and an empire not at all. -- MH]
The word Volk, sometimes translated as "people," other times as "folk," is similar; it connotes a group of people sharing blood ties as well as bonds of tradition, history, and a common political structure. -- R.B.}
Prologue
F.D. Roosevelt, Josef Stalin und Nachum Goldmann
F. D. Roosevelt
In the notes concerning the conversations between President F. D. Roosevelt and Marshall Stalin on the occasion of
the Teheran
Conference of 28 November - 1 December 1943, the following entry occurs:
"The conversation then turned to the question of the treatment intended
for Nazi Germany.
The President said that in his opinion it was very important that the idea of the Reich not be left in the consciousness of the Germans, and that this word ought to be stricken from the language.
Joseph Stalin
Marshall Stalin replied that it was not enough to eliminate the word, that the Reich itself must be taken out of the position where it could ever again plunge the world into war. He said that the victorious Allies would fail in fulfilling their duty if they did not keep in their own hands those strategic positions which were necessary to prevent any flaring up again of German militarism."<b
r>(Source: The F. D. Roosevelt Papers, which can be seen in the F. D. Roosevelt Library)
roosevelt.library@nara.gov Tel. 001845-229-8114 Fax 001 845-229-0872
In a memorandum of 6 A
pril 1945 for the U
.S. Secretary of State, F.D.R. once again confirmed his intention of eliminating the word "Reich" from the German vocabulary.
(Source: loc. cit.)
Nach
um Goldmann
Nachum Goldmann, "King of the Diaspora J*ws," first President of the World Jewish Congress, wrote in 1915:
The spirit of Individualism had brought England to the edge of the abyss domestically. A reaction had to come. It came: a new spirit began to blaze a new trail in England. Its champions were the theorists of Chartism, the Christian Socialists, the leaders of the Cooperative Movement, above all Carlyle. The direction of thought which they represented was the social, historical, and the organic; which means the same thing as: the militaristic, the German. . .the controlling experience i
n the life of this great Scot (Carlyle) was the internal overcoming of the individualistic French philosophy of Enlightenment, of the atomistic English national economy, and the discovery of the
organic, synthetic, German
philosophy. Carlyle was an enthusiastic admirer of the German character, a passionate follower of the ideas of German philosophy. All men and directions which are of creative sig
nificance in the England of the 19th century, stood under the influence of Carlyle, under the influence of the German spirit. . .Had this process continued peacefully, it would have finally ended with the total defeat of the old individualistic spirit; the representatives of this spirit sensed this very well. When they could no longer maintain their position peacefully, they unleashed the war which was supposed to crush Germany and the militaristic spirit. . .The slogan Down with Militarism! embodies the regressive element in this war; a victory for the slogan would be a triumph of the 17th and 18th centuries
over the 19th and 20th. Because Germany embodies the progressive principle, it is sure of victory. Germany will triumph, and the world will be dominated by the militaristic spirit. Whoever fee
ls like bemoaning this may sing a
lament for it; but to want to hinder it is foolishness and an offense against the Guardian Spirit of History, the committing of which England and France still must at
one for severely."
(Nachum Goldmann, Der Geist des Militarismus {The Spirit of Militarism}, Deutsche Verlagsantalt Stuttgart-Berlin, 1915, S. 28 ff.)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
CHORUS MYSTICUS
What is destructable
Is but a parable;
What fails ineluctably,
The undeclarable,
Here it was seen,
Here it was action;
The Eternal-Feminine
Lures to perfection
[Goethe, Faust, a Tragedy (Conclusion) (Walter Kaufmann translation, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1963)
Hail to you who wear the laurels of Victory!
Proclamation of the Kaiser in the Hall of Mirrors of Versail
les on 18 January 1871
The German Reich, unified by Otto von Bosmarck, resurrected by the Act of State of the Eternal Federation of the German Princes in the constitution of the Ger
man Reich, passed on the 16th of April 18
71, proclaimed on the 20th of April 1871, and put into effect on the 4th of May 1871, lives on in the Will of the Germans who still wish to be Germans. Strong in faith, they hold fast to the Reich as the
national state of the German people. Only with the death of the last German loyal to the Reich will the Reich perish.
For more than a century the enemies of Germany have been working for the defeat of the Reich and its folk. They have now failed at last. The German people are arising, unbendable in their Will to restore the ability to act to the German Reich.
The Reich in Thought
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1. All the peoples of Europe, not just the German people, are presently in danger of going under. If Europe does not recover, it will become --
as Ernst Nolte predicts -- an appendage of Asia and Africa
2. Could that not be a matter of indifference to the Lord of History?
3. What is the point/purpose of mankind?
4. What is the point/purpose of Europe?
5. Many Europeans, in particular many Germans, are apparently indifferent to this. Some even welcome this development.
6. But these are only the irresponsible private opinions of individuals.
7. Acting on the
basis of these opinions is capriciousness.
8. Even if the overwhelming majority of European individuals were to think this way, that would not be the Will of the European peoples.
9. The various peoples are not aggregates of discrete elements.
10. The various nationalities are spiritual essences, life.
11. Their Will is not to be confused with the network of the arbitrariness of individuals, which immediately would perish, were it not borne by an over-arching (transcendent) Will of the community, which expresses its
elf in life-preserving action, which is not the action of subjective minds (human individuals).
12. The life of the various peoples is not compatible with democracy in the s
ense of vote-counting.
13. If this insight did n
ot already follow from the concept, from thought, the fate of the Western democracies in the 20th century, as well as their condition today, would in any case be empirical proof of the correctness of this statement.
14. The Will of the vario
us peoples is genuinely and generation-bridgingly present in their particular religion, in their particular tradition, and in their particular philosophy.
15. It is {something which is} recognized and not ascertained.
16. The Will of a people is a concrete, i.e., defined-in-itself and dynamic form of mind, and as such a special presence of God in the world.
17. God, the essence of all phenomena, the universal One, who does not reign in the Beyond, separated from the phenomena, but rather is present only i
n His particular forms, holds to Himself by preserving the multiplicity of the various ethnicities as his special designs. Particular peoples may pass away, but the multiplicity
of the various peoples is essentially immortal.
18. The
Many are not indifferent toward one another and next to one another, but rather are internally related to one another in the situation of necessity, therefore as a unity: we would not be what we are as the German Volk, if the Jewish anti-Volk -- our et
ernal foe -- did not also exist.
19. World-historic peoples are those in whom a necessary principle of the Absolute Sind is embodied, which elaborates a New World.
20. At the present, this role is the lot of the German people. For two hundred years, the idea of the Volksgemeinschaft {ethnically-based community} has been at work, in order to arrive at itself as an Idea.
21. The revolt against the circumstances which threaten the life of the German people, is a godly action.
22. We, who have
made the Will to preserve the German people our own personal Will, are thus the helpers of God.
The Salvation in Misfortune
23. The various peoples prove them
selves in adversity. It is the danger of death which awakens their geniu
s and its will to survive.
24. Only the advent of external menace turns the Interior of a people, its spiritual form, toward the outside and makes that spirit manifest.
25. The outward initial impulse of the movement obeys the laws of chance, but what that
impulse begins is not accidental but necessary.
26. The swarming mounted warriors of Attila, the storming Mongols, the Moorish occupation of Spain, the Turkish army troops -- these were the threats which brought about the birth of the Western cultural federation from the rough Celtish and Germanic tribes of Europe.
27. This is sui generis. Nothing alien forms its character. What came out of the East, the West has transposed into creative variations. Never has the West merely imitat
ed what others have created before it. It has always achieved forms peculiar to itself and has always formed the world according to its image.
28. The Spirit of
the West holds firmly to itself; for there is nothing that would be superior to
it.
29. Danger threatens it only from within, should it misunderstand its own being and if it were to accept the belief that it is destined to become a vessel which holds the peoples of withered cultures.
30. Inherent already in the infinite sadness which grips us ov
er the palpable ongoing devastation in Western cultural circles, is the certainty that the decline of Europe is not the last word of History, that the decline itself is finite and that the decline will perish in the resurrection of the Western spirit of freedom.
31. The spirit which comprehends itself as spirit and conducts its life with self-confidence, is not lukewarm and not depressed, but is rebellious and optimistic.
Folk und Race
32. The various peoples ar
e distinct: externally, by racial features, internally by unique, unmistakable Volksgeist {ethnic spirit}.
33. The Internal, the Essence, is there only as ex
pression, like the External is only the appearance of the Internal. Inside and outside
are one and the same and, at the same time, their distinction.
34. The distinction which they also are, cannot be skipped over, but it does not separate those who are different.
35. The slogan "Volk und Rasse" {"Folk and Race"} has proven to be unbalanced, based upon previous del
iberation -- and therefore untrue.
36. The motto "Volk: Geist und Rasse" {"Folk: Spirit and Race"} is proper.
37. Both moments {in the sense of physics} are of equal weight, inseparable, and at the same time a defensive front against what is alien.
38. Only a people that wards off the alien [or foreign] preserves its own life.
39. Europe is experiencing the spectacle that its intelligentsia views e
thnicities and nations as delusionary (phantasmagorias) and declares the word "race" to be an invalid concept, so that it might appear as unimportant t
hat here Negroes and slit-eyes are seeping into the residences of Whites, just as Izzy seeped
into Palestine in order to appropriate the land for himself.
40. The Negro appears fair to another Negro, the slit-eye sympathetic to another slit-eye, the White appealing to another White. To the Negro, however, the White is an ogre, to the White, a slit-eye is ugly. The k*ke views the goy as a beast. Why should it be indecent to speak of this?
41. Must the German Spirit seek to have recourse to J*ws in order to express itself? To Benjamin Disraeli, for example, for whom "the Racial Question" was "the key to World history" (FAZ, 29 May 2002); or to Salcia Landmann, who was even of the opinion, "that the racists of the Nazi period were not mistaken in their high estimation of the problems of race, but only in their
evaluation and characterization of the individual races and in the inferences they drew from their theories."...?(FAZ, 29 May 2002)
42. Obviously
the weakness of the Western immune system is treatable only if the racial question is put on a new
basis philosophically. Hegel again supplies the answer to this: The spiritual/intellectual and the physiognomic are distinct but not separable, rather they are in concrete union. The rejection which focuses upon the external is in actuality the repelling of the alien spirit, which manifests itself in the irritating form of appearance.
More exhilirating words at link.