Death is the purpose of life

“An invisible guidance, that shows itself only in a doubtful form, accompanies us to our death, to that real result, and, to this extent, the purpose of life. At the hour of death, all the mysterious forces (although really rooted in ourselves) which determine man’s eternal fate, crowd together and come into action. The result of their conflict is the path now to be followed by him; thus his palingenesis is prepared together with all the weal and woe that are included therein and are ever afterwards irrevocably determined. To this is due the extremely serious, important, solemn, and fearful character of the hour of death. It is a crisis in the strongest sense of the word - a day of judgement.”

- Arthur Schopenhauer, “Transcendent Speculation on the Apparent Deliberateness in the Fate of the Individual” from Parerga and Paralipomena (1851); translated by E. F. J. Payne

The Prometheus of a Superior Culture

"Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill, which we see before our eyes today, is almost exclusively the product of the Aryan creative power. This very fact fully justifies the conclusion that it was the Aryan alone who founded a superior type of humanity; therefore he represents the archetype of what we understand by the term: MAN. He is the Prometheus of mankind, from whose shining brow the divine spark of genius has at all times flashed forth, always kindling anew that fire which, in the form of knowledge, illuminated the dark night by drawing aside the veil of mystery and thus showing man how to rise and become master over all the other beings on the earth. Should he be forced to disappear, a profound darkness will descend on the earth; within a few thousand years human culture will vanish and the world will become a desert."

Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf

Night gave birth to hateful Doom

La Nuit by Auguste Raynaud

In general the association between sleep, death, dreams, and night was tight. Homer's Hermes escorts the souls of the dead suitors to the underworld by taking them past the "people of Dreams," and he guides them there with the golden rod with which he also lulls the living to sleep or wakes them. Hesiod tells that "Night gave birth to hateful Doom and black Fate and Death, and she gave birth to Sleep and to the tribe of Dreams." She lives in dark Hades with Sleep and Death, holding the former in her arms.

Greek and Roman Necromancy, Daniel Ogden 

The Souls Of Acheron by Adolf Hiremy

Stille Nacht - Heilige Nacht!

"We cannot accept that a German Christmas tree has anything to do with a crib in a manger in Bethlehem. It is inconceivable for us that Christmas and all its deep soulful content is the product of an oriental religion." 

- Friedrich Rehm

Undefeated in the War

"Arminius, without doubt Germania's liberator, who challenged the Roman people not in its beginnings like other kings and leaders, but in the peak of its empire; in battles with changing success, undefeated in the war."

Tacitus

Where the leader of the Teutons once freed the German land from the enemy, Hitler's flags of Victory fly powerfully into the New Era.

You must make a friend of Horror

"I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared."

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz - Apocalypse Now (1979)

His Justice, is Justice !

"Oh Draculea, we invoke thy name when we are rendering judgement. Our Satanic courts will have thy image for inspiration. We are honored to continue the Order of the Dragon in fealty To thee, for now more than ever before, your iron spirit must reign in a land that has gone astray. Vlad Draculea, His Justice, is Justice !"

Peter H. Gilmore - Vlad Tepes

Robert Jay Mathews speaks from his grave

 

We should not trust the weaker

“The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.”

"Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker"

"And yet, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill."

"Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter"

Bram Stoker - Dracula

The Usurper of the Jewel Throne

Robert E. Howard was almost an obsession for the band in the early days. His whole 'Conan the Barbarian' saga was a source of endless inspiration to Tom who based some of his own lyrics on the various stories of Conan which occur in the pseudo-historical "Hyborian Age", set after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of any known ancient civilization. It is also of huge interest to any CF fan to know that Tom himself made a few attempts at writing Fantasy novels. In the lyrics for 'The usurper', one can find a subtext saying that these were inspired by 'Hear the ballad of the swords' and 'The sign of the usurper'. Concerning these titles, Tom said this about them :"They are fantasy books that I wrote when I was very young. At the time of Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost, I started a cycle of ten novels, unfortunately I believe they no longer exist. They have been lost over the years and were fantasy books on which I based many of my lyrics."

Tom G. Warrior

Indo-Germanic Influences in Ancient Greece

By Professor Carl Schuchhardt

Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin

A hundred years ago, when the study of comparative languages was still at an immature stage of development, it was possible to give currency to the idea that central Asia was the original home of the Indo-Germanic Race. This conjecture is no longer tenable. Germanic archaeology has disproved the Asiatic thesis, and has clearly established the influence of currents from middle and northern Europe, especially in Greece. Two streams of immigration flowed towards that land. The first set in about 1,800 B.C., and is called the Achaean stream, because it brought Homer’s Achaeans into Greece, which until that time had been the land of the Pelasgians. The second stream brought the Dorians, about 1,200 B.C., and hence is called the Dorian stream.

The Achaean current must have come from the north, because it brought the megaron house of northern Germany, the influence of which we see in the palaces of Troy, Tiryns, and Mycenae. Illyrians must have been brought along on that stream, for not only the language of old Greece but also the forms of art and the customs show their influence. The spiral decoration so often found on Mycenaean ornaments of gold had already reached a high development in Illyria (Butmir in Bosnia). The deep shafts of the graves and the custom of decking the bodies in golden masks, breastplates, and gauntlets were also Illyrian. These peculiarities remained in the highlands on Lake Ochrida and also near Graz, Styria, as late as the sixth century B.C.

Perhaps the Illyrians who were borne along in the stream of immigration formed a link between the Northerners and the Pelasgians, because soon the Northerners took on in many ways the customs of the Folk near the Mediterranean Sea. The death masks show that they came with beards. But after a hundred, or a hundred and fifty, years the gravestones show them all smooth shaven. Moreover they gave up the simple shaft graves and took to the great domed graves which belong to the Iberian Pelasgian culture. To honour the dead man with so proud a dwelling was a sign of a turning to the Mediterranean faith in The Beyond, a faith which saw the soul as living on and knowing the respect shown to it. At the graves sacrifices were made to the soul, which was supposed to be enthroned on a high stone above the grave.

Duel between Ajax and Hercules to recover Patroclus' body. 

Thus harmony had been brought about between the ancient Folk in the Mediterranean Sea area and the new lords from the North. But the second stream of immigration broke in upon this. Whence the Dorians came we do not quite know, but the impression which they made was far more purely Nordic than that of the Achaeans in their mingling with the Illyrians. The art of painting with joy in Nature was now no more; the simple technical style of the so called geometrical culture had had its day. The time for belief in the soul had gone by; the departed was a sad shadow in the dark underworld. Homer stands in the midst of the second northern period. As he describes the graves of Patroklus and Hector, they were like the burial mounds in middle and northern Europe at that time. Over a small hole a heavy layer of stones was placed and covered with earth. Homer is also familiar with the custom of building the walls of castles and camps with posts. As he describes the wall of the naval camp before Troy, it was like those we have found in the fortresses of Lausitz. The Trojans had to force out the posts — the Stelai problhtej — in order to make the wall fall down.

Bat as the first northern period had reached a length of 600 years, so the second lasted no longer. By 600 B.C. much of the old Mediterranean culture had again grown up out of the ancient soil, again art had turned to the living forms of plants, animals, and human beings. The mysteries of Eleusis and Samothrace were laid bare and made way for the old belief in the soul. The lofty stone was again erected at the grave, and on it beautiful sculptures showed how those left behind visited the grave of the departed soul to comfort it and bring gifts.

Thus in its turn classical Greece is an equal fusion of the clear northern mind and the imagination of the warm south.

As the Eternity Opens

Sunset over the Winter Forest, 1881, by Heinrich Gogarten (German, 1850-1911)

“The ephemeral spectator of an eternal spectacle, man raises his eyes a moment to the sky, then shuts them forever; yet during that brief moment granted him, from every point of the sky, from every limit of the universe, a consoling beam is cast from each world and meets his gaze to tell him that there is indeed a connection between infinity and him, and that he is part of eternity.”

Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around my Room