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Old December 12th, 2003 #1
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Indian Paganism: The Last Living Expression of Aryan Beauty Pt 1
Savitri Devi (1939)

Another, and perhaps a more expressive word for Hinduism would be: Indian Paganism.

The Christian missionaries call "Pagans" all those who are neither Christians, nor Mohammadans, nor Jews, that is to say, all those whose religious tradition has no connexion with the Bible and tradition of the Jews.

We accept the word, because it is a convenient one. It points out
some sort of similarity between all non-creedal religions of the past as well as of the present day.

Once, practically all the world was "Pagan." Now that half its people have been converted either to Christianity or to Islam, the number of Pagans is less. That is no proof of the lesser value of different Paganisms, compared to the great creedal religions. It is surely an advantage, to be numerous; but it is no virtue. And therefore the number of its followers has nothing to do with the value of a cult.

We have remarked that among the so-called Christians, there are more and more people who are no total believers in the Bible at all, but "free thinkers." And we have said that free thought in all matters, including religion, is a feature of Hinduism. This does not mean that we consider all the free thinkers of the World as Hindus.

Philosophically, Hinduism is an attitude of mind, and an outlook on life. But it is not only that. It is a number of cults, among which one may choose. And, whatever cult it may be, it is a cult, one of the immemorial Pagan cults, surviving in the midst of the modern world. The Hindus are one of the few modern civilised people who are openly Pagans.

The Japanese, with their official Shintoic ritual, are another of these people. And they being one of the leading nations of the modern world, their example is priceless. They show magnificently that, even if it be indispensable to adopt any new mechanical inventions, in order to compete with other nations, and live, yet it is not necessary to adopt the religion and the civilisation of the inventors, wholesale.

Aeroplanes and war-tanks, and modern banking business on a broad scale, can perfectly go together with the existence of a Solar dynasty of king-Gods, in whose Godhood everyone actually believes, as well as an Egyptian did, six thousand years ago.

When India, freed from internal weakness and foreign
yoke, will become again a world power, then she will, still better perhaps than Japan, stand as a witness of such sort of truth as this.

In the meantime, she remains the last great country of Aryan civilisation, and, to a great extent, of Aryan tongue and race, where a living and beautiful Paganism is the religion both of the masses and of the intelligentsia.

Last Fortress of Ancient Ideals

If those of Indo-European race regard the conquest of pagan Europe by Christianity as a decadence, then the whole of Hindu India can be likened to a last fortress of very ancient ideals, of very old and beautiful religious and metaphysical conceptions, which have already passed away in Europe.

Hinduism is thus the last flourishing and fecund branch on an immense tree which has been cut down and mutilated for two thousand years.
Savitri Devi, L'Etang aux lotus

We like this word "Paganism," applied to the Hindu cults. It is sweet to the ears of more than one of the fallen Aryans of Europe, accustomed to refer to "Pagan Greece," and to "Pagan beauty" as the most perfect expressions of their own genius in the past. That is also why we use the word, preferably to any other.

India has perhaps never enjoyed yet, even in the days of her glory, the world-wide popular fame she enjoys nowadays. This world-wide fame is greatly due to the repeated assertion of Hindu "spirituality," and to the philosophy of non-violence, preached by Mahatma Gandhi.

Very few people have grasped the spirit of Christ as well as Mahatma Gandhi, and several other prominent Hindus of the present day and of the last century. And among the few Europeans who have been sincerely attracted by Hinduism, practically all have sought, in it, if not a doctrine, at least a moral creed, or, better say a moral attitude of love and kindness --

-- the very same thing they could have found in Christianity,
if only they took the trouble of separating the simple and luminous personality of Christ from all theological and heretical entanglements.

In other words it is, generally, the dream of a better Christianity that brings fair people from across the seas to "serve mankind" in the Ramakrishna Mission, or to express their pure devotional love as inmates of some Vaishnava Math.

The Hindus of the present day like such admirers. Many of them also like the idea that there is more true Christian spirit among outstanding Hindus, than among most Christians.

There is nothing to say about these likings, if not that they are, to a great extent, a subtle expression of unfortunate India's deep-rooted inferiority complex.

Pure spirituality (realisation of one's soul) naturally transcends creed, as well as ceremonies. So a realised Hindu will look like a realised Christian. That is true.

It is true also that, in such a complex set of teachings as those contained in the innumerable Hindu books (including Jain, Buddhist, Vaishnava etc., scriptures), there are many elements which are to be found also in Christianity. Others will say that there are a great deal of Hindu elements (or Buddhist elements) which have creeped into Christianity, and there are theories to prove this influence of Indian thought.

And one may safely assume that the failure of Christian preaching among the educated and fully conscious Hindus, is mainly due to the existence of these elements. A religion of love is not a new thing to India, as it must have been to the people of ancient Europe.

But all this does not lessen the fact that the Hindu religion, both as a set of philosophies and as a cult, has also the characteristics which Aryan Paganism had, before it was overcome by Christianity in the West.

We find here, like in ancient Greece, contrary philosophical tendencies, with a very few main common ideas between them (such as the idea of transmigration of souls, for instance, and one or two others). And, what is more, we find in Hindu cult, in Hindu life, that essential thing, which is the only one worth living for: Beauty.

Visible beauty leads to the invisible, says Plato.
Nowadays, when people speak of India, they seem to speak too much of its invisible beauty, and to ignore the visible.

"Spirituality, spirituality...." They all talk of it, those who know something about it, and those who know nothing. It is the fashion. One does not look like a friend of India, if one does not put stress on that point. Nor does one feel like a true Indian patriot.

But nobody puts stress upon the physical beauty of the Hindu people. Yet they are Hinduism, they are India, more than all the philosophies put together; and the first qualification, for a nation as well as for an individual, is the beauty of its body. No mean soul can reside in a really beautiful body. The body expresses, reflects the interior self.

And a beautiful race is a noble race, with high possibilities. People speak of Hindu culture as of an abstract entity, as if it could have grown anywhere and everywhere. They forget to say that those who live it, as a nation, are amongst the most beautiful races of mankind. There is, no doubt, a mysterious identity between that culture and them.

To a great number of Hindus, the Hindu ritual has a great symbolical value. To the large majority of the Hindus, it is practically everything.

Yet, nobody puts stress upon the visible beauty of the Hindu daily "puja," of the Hindu festivities, of the Hindu ceremonies. Many educated Hindus seem to think it below their dignity to praise, in their religion, what appeals to one's eyes and ears, what is "exterior."

But it is not possible to deny the attraction of beauty.
We have mentioned the burning regret of the past, among some Western Aryans, who seem to have a retrospective consciousness of what their race was, and an idea of what perhaps it could have been still, had their ancestors been faithful to the old national cults of Europe.
 
Old December 13th, 2003 #2
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But nobody puts stress upon the physical beauty of the Hindu people.
LOL yes, those Hindus (whites) are beautiful now aren't they.

 
Old February 25th, 2004 #3
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Adding a bump.

If interested, read "The Yoga of Power" by Julius Evola.
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Old February 26th, 2004 #4
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are you kidding? come on, she knew that most of them were dravidians. how can one understand the caste system, compare the ancient hindus to the modern degenerates, and not understand?

I take her marriage as one of convenience. she had no children.

I'd love to read more Savitri Devi. Loved "Lightening and the SUn." Couldnt put it down.

Evola also discusses degenerate vs healthy forms of Aryan spirituality in "Doctrine of Awakening."
 
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Thats nice but the hindu caste system is a hollow pointless shell. And while there is alot about the Paganism I like it did not stop the Aryans from race mixing themself's to dago land.
The Aryan invaders didn't bring enough of their own women with them and this always leads to race-mixing.
 
Old January 6th, 2007 #6
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An interesting essay in this old thread, many things to think about and comment. But I will say this: Hinduism does not give us anything we don't already know. I tried to read some of it, see if it contained any ancient wisdom, but modern nationalist philosophers give you much more wisdom, and in a straight way, not wrapped in a whole lot of mumbo-jumbo.

It is true that people were of better moral quality back in history - because of hardship and because they hadn't been attacked by cultural Marxism. But they didn't have better teachers. I say, nationalist thinkers in the 20th century and onward are the best teachers the world has ever had. Men like Hitler, Rockwell, Pierce and Linder give you more in one page than old philosophers/religions did in twenty pages.

Curious, that in our darkest hour we have the best thinkers. Then again, we have scientific studies of race and biology today. And intellectual and physical attack has produced a reaction that wasn't needed before.


When we are out of our present mess we will be better than ever. What conservatives in the old days did instinctively and insufficiently, nationalists in the future will do consciously and to its logical conclusion. Itz coming.
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Savitri Devi was a Hindu fetishist, and this clouded her judgement. Don't believe this nonsense about the Brahmin being Aryan; India's priestly caste are and probably were a group of mongrels who overthrew the ruling Aryan warrior caste and ruined the Indus civilisation.
 
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