One of the fundamental themes of both David Myatt's early and later
National Socialist writings
(1)
and of many of his other non-political
writings, is his vision of a Galactic Imperium. According to what we
might call Myatt's radical and esoteric millennial philosophy, crucial
to the creation of this Imperium is the revolutionary leader he called
Vindex. This revolutionary leader would, according to Myatt's early
political writings, be Adolf Hitler's successor, and would lead his, or
her,
(2) forces against what Myatt
euphemistically calls The Magian
(3).
The Galactic Imperium is, for Myatt, fundamentally the exploration and
settlement of Outer Space - the Final Frontier - by a new breed of
warrior clans, and it is this Imperium which will, according to Myatt,
provide us with the opportunities and the challenges we need to evolve,
as human beings, and to create new societies where genuine, individual,
freedom, and honor, are the norm.
It would be a mistake, however, to conclude that Myatt envisages - or
envisioned - hordes of neo-Nazi stormtroopers marauding around the
Galaxy and invading other planets. Rather, Myatt initially saw Hitler's
National
Socialist Germany and indeed National Socialism itself, as only a
prelude, and while in his earlier NS writings he eulogized both Hitler
and National Socialism in general, in his later Reichsfolk writings he
pointed out some of the flaws of early, German, National Socialism, and
came to believe that Hitler had made some fundamental tactical mistakes.
" One mistake was
to initiate a war, and to seek new living-space in already occupied
lands. Of course, war against NS Germany was inevitable – just like the
recent war
against Iraq was inevitable. In the case of Iraq the cabal
spent
over
ten years – from the time of the Gulf War – trying to starve the people
into
submission, and destroying the defensive capability of the Iraqi
defence
forces.
But Germany should have waited, and most certainly not launched
offensives
in other countries. The cabal would then have to had resorted to
invading
Germany, which would have taken perhaps a few more years to organize,
giving
NS Germany more time to create a genuine NS society, and prepare to
defend
Germany. More alliances should have been saught, and NS exported as a
revolutionary
creed. Had the cabal invaded Germany, they would have been on dubious
moral
ground, and effective resistance could have been undertaken against the
occupying
forces.
The effort that went into the war should have been directed toward
building
a stronger Germany, and showing, by example, that NS worked. In
addition,
scientific research should have been undertaken into spacecraft.
But this, of course, is hindsight. What happened, happened. We have to
learn
the lessons. One lesson is to evolve NS itself – which has been done,
based
upon the ideal of honor and the vision of a Galactic Empire or
Federation,
created by a NS homeland which seeks allies among the various peoples
and
cultures of Earth on the basis of honor and mutual respect. "
ONA:
Aeonic
Notes IX, dated 114yf
In respect of the flaws of what Myatt called early German
National-Socialism, Myatt in his second
(4)
seminal text about Vindex,
entitled
The Mythos of
Vindex,
writes that:
" One error was in adhering to and striving to apply the un-ethical,
and un-numinous, principle of eternal struggle, or what is now
commonly, vulgarly, and rather incorrectly called the survival of the fittest.
This
was an error because we have now, as I have mentioned many times in
various writings, reached the stage of not only being able to
consciously, rationally, understand the processes of change and
evolution as they apply to us, as human beings, but also of using our
understanding and our abilities of will and empathy to change ourselves
for the better in an ethical way. That is, we have passed a threshold
in our human evolution, and so can make conscious, informed and
ethical choices - for we are not just thinking, talking, animals in
thrall to our emotions, desires, and external forces, but moral beings
possessed of the ability to consciously evolve ourselves by striving to
adhere to certain ethical guidelines. Or, expressed in a simplistic and
cliched way, we can and indeed should learn from our own history and
from our mistakes.
In practical terms, this error led to invasion and occupation of other
lands, as it led to the desire to seek lebensraum in lands already
inhabited and settled by others."
As Myatt explained, the new Galactic Imperium would be quite different
from previous Empires:
" The Imperium which Vindex will create will be different from previous
Empires
because it will be a conscious creation: the result of a reasoned,
honourable,
civilized, approach: that is, it will be based upon honor, and will be
the
result of the esoteric understanding we have achieved over hundreds,
indeed
thousands, of years.
This means it will not impose itself by force of arms upon
others.
Rather, it means it will be composed of thinking warriors who uphold
honor
and who prefer combat to dishonourable modern war. In particular, it
means
a federation of countries, or nations, who co-operate together in the
pursuit
of a numinous goal: not an Empire in the old sense of domination and
conquest
and occupation.
The old type of Empire belongs in the past: it is unsuitable for an
honourable,
rational, people. Furthermore, the old type of Empire is founded upon a
basic
error.
The basic mistake is to believe that war can solve problems or be of
benefit.
Thus to have war as a political policy is stupid. This mistake about
war
arises from two things: (1) a lack of perspective, and thus a viewing
of
events in current rather than historical terms; (2) failing to act in
accord
with the ethics of honor.
Every old type of Empire has a time of glory; as it has to maintain
itself
by occupation, war, and repression. Every such Empire declines, and is
then
destroyed. Sometimes an Empire may last a few decades; sometimes a
century
or more. Rarely, a few centuries. After the destruction of the Empire,
there
follows a period of chaos, of barbarism, of regression, with only a few
positive
attributes of the Empire remaining: some stories of glory, perhaps; or
some
literature; some monuments, or some technological or scientific
achievement.
But a great deal is lost.
What applies to an Empire applies to the results of terrestrial wars –
such
as the occupation of a foreign country after victory in a war or after
an
invasion. Such occupation may well last for a while: a few years; a
decade;
several decades. But it will inevitably end, through either a
successful
uprising (often after several failed attempts) or through the
withdrawal
of the occupiers, for military, economic, or political reasons, and
while
some elements of the occupying forces may remain (in terms of their
culture,
ideas, and so on), a great deal is lost. In the meantime, thousands
upon
thousands of people have been injured, killed, repressed or
dishonourably
confined in prisons. Furthermore, it is the honourable right and duty
of those
under occupation to resist, using lethal force - and to try and take
away this
right and duty, by making it "illegal", as all occupying forces do, is
dishonourable in itself, the act of the bully, the tyrant. It
is
also the
right of individuals to possess weapons, and one of the many
dishonourable
things an army of occupation does is make possession of weapons illegal.
This old imperial process is incredibly wasteful, and stupid, because
the
positive, evolutionary, civilized, changes which Empires sometimes
bring
can be achieved in not only less wasteful ways but also in ways which
can
ensure much greater, and longer lasting, evolutionary change.
In brief, imperial conquest and colonialism are short-term solutions:
in
Aeonic terms – in the timescale of civilizations and Aeons – they are
failures,
detrimental to the long-term evolution that is required.
In terms of acquiring new living-space – often used as an argument in
favour
of Empires and conquest and colonialism - the honourable, futuristic
solution
is the colonization of Outer Space.
In terms of war, the new Imperium – or Stellar Federation or Cosmic
Federation
or Cosmic Reich or whatever we want to call it – would use force only
as
a last means of self-defence of its own territory or homeland, or when
there
needs to be an honourable combat between it and its enemies.
In addition, it needs to be understood that modern warfare is for the
most
part dishonourable, employing as it does cowardly methods – such as
aerial bombing
– which an honourable warrior would refuse to use, condone, or accept.
The
warriors of the new Imperium, the troops of Vindex, will seek
honourable
combat, a fair fight, rather than impersonal war. Honourable combat
means personal
fighting between groups of warriors, or armies. It means an end to the
dishonour
which has blighted armies for hundreds of years. It means a return to
civilized
treatment of captured or surrendering soldiers – allowing them to
retain
their honor, and go free. It means a conscious decision – based upon
honor
– to do only that which is honourable, and which befits an honourable
warrior." ONA:
Aeonic Notes IX,
dated 114yf
Initially, from the 1970's to the early 1990's, Myatt considered his
Galactic Imperium would be based if not upon National Socialism itself,
then upon an updated version of it; an updated version which he himself
assiduously created over a period of some ten years, culminating in his
"ethical non-racist National-Socialism" and in his Reichsfolk
organization. However, as, in the late 1990's and the early part of the
twenty-first century, he developed this new ethical philosophy - which
he first called The Numinous Way of Folk Culture and then simply called
The Numinous Way
- he moved
away from the concept of a strong, united, nation-State which was
central to early, German, National-Socialism, even going so far as to
describe the State, in
The
Mythos of
Vindex, as "an unethical abstraction that is a great cause
of
suffering and nullifier of the ethical and numinous principle of
personal honour."
In place of the nation-State, he advocated, in his alter writings,
"small, rural, communities, which co-operate with, and
which trade with, other local communities for their own mutual benefit.
That is, a return to what is human; to the human-scale-of-things, and a
moving-forward to a simple, ethical, letting-be based upon personal
honour,"
(5) and the formation of
new clans, or tribes, which, in
essays such as
The Clan, Culture, and The Numinous Way and
The
Mythos of Vindex, he described as the basis for a new type
of
communities and culture, the basis for a new, more evolved, more human,
type of
society.
In addition, as he further developed his own ethical philosophy of The
Numinous Way, he also moved away from the concept of both race and "the
folk" as the basis for, or even as a part of, his philosophy, or
Way of Life as he
mostly described
it. Hence, he wrote that:
" Race, the causal concept
of the folk,
bound as that concept of the folk
is by a certain racial exclusivity - and all that derives from such
things
(such as racism, racialism, racial prejudice, and nationalism) - have
no place in The Numinous Way...
A clan is a basis for individuals to live in a numinous
way, in harmony with themselves, with Nature, and with the Cosmos. The
clan is basically just a large extended family, where the individuals
are personally known to each other and/or related to each other by
family ties, such as marriage. What distinguishes a clan is this
personal knowing, these personal, direct, living, relationships -
and a certain honourable loyalty, a certain "clannishness", based on
this personal knowing and this personal loyalty.
Thus, the clan is living: growing, changing, evolving; and it is not
tied to or dependant upon any static, causal, un-numinous abstraction
such as "race". It is a coming-into-being, and the criteria for
"membership", if you will, is not determined by some causal
abstraction, such as perceived (outward) ethnicity, but by personal
interaction, a personal knowing, based on personal (individual)
character.
Furthermore, the clan is the basis for establishing new, numinous,
communities based on The Numinous Way itself. That is, new clans can
express, manifest, presence, the numinous itself by the members of such
new clans living according to the numinous principles of empathy,
compassion and personal honor. They are thus nexions, regions where
numinous law, based upon honor, can be established, to the benefit of
the individuals of such new communities." Questions
About Race, The Folk, and The Numinous Way
Thus, Myatt no longer saw his Galactic Imperium in either political or
racial terms, but developed an entirely new and ethical philosophy -
his Numinous Way - as its basis.
Since this Numinous Way disdained the modern nation-State and its vast,
capitalist based industries - and championed new and small communities
based on new tribes - one might wonder how such tribes might develope
the type of technology needed for Space exploration. Myatt, however,
had an answer to this - acausal technology, based on his own concept of
acausal Space, acausal Time, and acausal energy. He wrote that:
" The Numinous Way
considers that it is
such new cultures which can aid
the evolution of
the individual, establishing - over a certain amount of causal Time - a
more evolved, more cultured, more empathic, more compassionate, more
honourable, human species. Such cultures, and their clan-communities,
are, or rather should be, the genesis for the next stage of our human
evolution, where we
leave this planet, which is currently our home, and so live and evolve
and diversify among the stars of this and other Galaxies.
However, given that such numinous cultures are small - and may often be
rural in nature - how can this Galactic, extra-terrestrial, development
be achieved, especially since a numinous culture would most certainly
not involve large national
or supra-national industries, as it would not be reliant upon the
usury,
and the supra-national trade and commerce, which all modern States and
nations depend upon?
It could and should be achieved by means of the development of a new
acausal science, and the development of a new type of technology, based
on acausal energy. For a numinous culture - and all empathic human
beings - are, both in principle and in practice, opposed to the
exploitation of the Earth, and the exploitation of the
living beings of the Earth, which exploitation is inseparable from
capitalism
and the modern industries, and technologies, deriving from, and
dependant,
upon such capitalism, on such supra-national commerce, and on other
causal un-numinous abstractions.
The basis for the new acausal technology is the science of causal
and acausal, of the apprehension of acausal energy emanating from the
acausal universe by means of living nexions."
The Clan, Culture, and The Numinous Way
He expounded upon this concept of a new acausal science, based on
acausal energy, in his essay
Acausal
Science:
Life and The Nature of the
Acausal and in his work
The
Physics of Acausal Energy.
Vindex and Revolution
Despite both his move from, first, the old style National Socialism of
Hitler's Germany to his own ethical Reichsfolk type of
National-Socialism, and then, later on, to the development of his own
The Numinous Way philosophy as the new basis for his new Imperium,
Myatt has never wavered from his belief that what he calls The Old
Order needs to be and should be undermined and destroyed by practical
revolutionary means, by armed force.
Indeed, Myatt makes it quite clear in his
Mythos of Vindex
that he believes
that the Galactic Imperium will never be more than a dream unless "the
current tyrannical Magian order - the abode of Homo Hubris and
exemplified by the new ignoble arrogant Amerikan empire and the
Police-States of the West (of which modern Britain is a prime example)
- is confronted, undermined, and destroyed by armed force, ideological
subversion and by the numinosity of a new mythos... This is the supreme
and severe challenge before us in these dire and ignoble times, and an
opportunity which will not arise again, for were we to fail, then our
further evolution as a species is doubtful."
Myatt considers Vindex as not only a manifestation of the new, warrior,
clan-based ethos of Imperium, but also as the pivotal character in the
armed confrontation with the Old Order - the person who inspires others
to take up arms, and who, possibly initially as a modern type of
outlaw, achieves success after success against them, using and
developing tactics which nullify the advantages the Old Order possesses
in terms of military superiority, weaponry, and wealth.
The ONA and the Vindex
Mythos
The Occult group The Order of Nine Angles - which many people consider
Myatt founded, led and still leads, using the pseudonym Anton Long -
can be considered as one means of spreading not only Myatt's Vindex
mythos, but of practically seeking to bring about, and aid, the
Galactic Imperium. That is, Myatt conceived, created and implemented
the ONA to achieve certain goals, one of which was and is to counter
the Magian ethos and another of which was to train individuals and send
them out, into the world, to undermine and disrupt the
status quo as a
prelude to the
practical revolution Myatt has always regarded as necessary for
the destruction of the Old Order and the emergence of a new order based
upon his law of personal honor.
In addition, one of the stated aims of the ONA was to breed a new type
of individual and new types of tribes:
" The sinister tribes of
the ONA - what
they are now; what
they are becoming; and what they will-be - are that presencing of
acausal energy which will fundamentally and irretrievably change our
world, and which will manifest, and bring-into-being, an entirely new,
more evolved, type of human being and entirely new types of human
communities, preludes as these are to us leaving this planet which has
for so long been our childhood home and to seeding ourselves among the
stars of the Galaxies of the Cosmos. "
The Sinister Tribes of the ONA, dated
120 Year of Fayen
Importantly, the basis for these new tribes is what the ONA calls The
Law of the New Aeon, and, unsurprisingly, this Law is Myatt's law of
personal honor, the basis for his Galactic Imperium.
Conclusion: The Quest for
Vindex
It is my considered view that Myatt's primary aim, throughout his
entire
adult life, has been to find, develope and use means to bring about his
vision of a Galactic Imperium. All his various endeavors and
involvements - from National Socialism, to the ONA, to his philosophy
of The Numinous Way, to his involvement with radical Islam - are all
part of this. They are all means to explain, to propagate, to try and
implement - through, for example, destabilizing the
status quo,
confronting the
Magian, and agitating for revolution - his Vindex mythos and this
vision of a Galactic Imperium.
He has been almost fanatically single-minded in his pursuit of this
vision, and, at times, quite ruthless. He has also been exceptionally
pragmatic - using whatever means, whatever ideology, whatever tactics,
that might help him undermine and confront what he calls "the tyranny
of the Magian manifest in the dishonourable Amerikan empire of Homo
Hubris."
(6) These tactics have
included racist violence, racist and
Islamic terrorism, Nazi politics, and using the ONA as a means of
subversion and radical change.
Myatt has also been consistent, for over four decades, in upholding and
propagating the principle of personal honor, which he wove into his NS
writings, which he made one of the foundations of his philosophy of The
Numinous Way, and which he made the basis for both the clans of Vindex
and the tribes of the ONA.
In addition, he has also expounded at some length
(7)
on what he calls
the new science of acausal energy, which energy he sees as the most
viable means of developing the new acausal (i.e. the organic)
technology of living machines capable of taking us out among the stars
of our Galaxy.
In conclusion, therefore, there is, in my view, a rigorous consistently
to Myatt's life, writings and involvements, which his many, and vocal,
detractors have overlooked. Myatt has also undertaken, it seems,
something
of personal, interior, spiritual, quest - leaving behind the racism of
National Socialism (and, now, apparently according to some rumors, also
radical Islam) to
develope his own, unique and ethical, philosophy, that of The Numinous
Way, based on the principles of empathy, compassion, and personal
honor;
which philosophy he now regards as the way of life appropriate to and
for the new type of human beings who, he envisages will explore and
settle the planets around the star systems of our Galaxy.
Julie Wright,
Oxford
June 2009 AD
Notes:
(1) Myatt's early writings about National Socialism - with the notable
and important exception of his
Vindex:
The Destiny of The West published in 1984 - are clearly
distinct
from his later NS writings. Those early works, written before 1998,
were often polemical and sometimes overtly racist. His later NS works,
in which he developed what he called the "ethical National-Socialism"
of his Reichsfolk organization, were decidedly non-racist. These later
works include: (1)
The
Theology of
National-Socialism; (2)
The
Complete Guide to the Aryan Way of Life; (3)
Why National-Socialism is Not
Racist;
and (4)
The Meaning of
National-Socialism (Third Edition, 115yf). Around 1999,
Myatt
revised several of his earlier works in order, as he stated at the
time, to remove those aspects incompatible with the ethical principles
of honor, as defined by him in several of these later works, including
The Code of Honour, given in his
The
Complete Guide to the Aryan Way of Life, a code he later
made
minor revisions to for its inclusion in the Reichsfolk publication
Ethical National-Socialism: A
Collection
of Essays, issued in 2009.
(2) Although in his earlier works - including his
Vindex: The Destiny of The West -
Myatt described Vindex as a male warrior, in many of his later writings
he intriguingly stated that Vindex could be either a man or a woman,
and might not arise in the West itself:
" Vindex is the generic name
for that
revolutionary noble warrior who leads the practical fight against the
Magian and their allies, manifest as the Magian are now in the
so-called
mis-named New
World Order whose twin centres of power (both ideological and
practical) are in Amerika and the Zionist entity that occupies
Palestine. Vindex thus prepares the way for the Galactic Imperium,
whose practical beginnings lie in the establishment of new communities,
based around new tribes whose only law is that of Personal Honour.
Vindex (who may be male or female) is the embodiment of The Law of the
New Aeon of the Imperium,
which is personal honour, and who, with his or her victorious warriors,
establishes an entirely new type of culture...
Used as the name of an
individual, Vindex
means "the
Avenger", and while it is traditionally (and semantically) regarded as
a male name, with the Anglicized feminine form being Vengerisse,
Vindex is now often used to refer to either the man or the woman who is
or who becomes this revolutionary warrior leader...
While it is probable that
Vindex will
arise from one of the nations of the West (which includes Russia, the
United States and the lands formerly referred to as Eastern Europe) -
and be of Caucasian (European) ethnicity - it is also possible that he
or she could arise elsewhere in the world, and be of mixed, or of any,
ethnicity. For what is fundamental to Vindex is that he or she is a
charismatic and revolutionary leader who inspires absolute loyalty;
that he or she fights, in a practical way through force of arms, the
forces of the Old Order, manifest in the power of the Magian; and that
he or she triumphs in the final battle, enabling the establishment of
new communities free from the now broken and discarded and tyrannical
Magian ethos..."
The Mythos of
Vindex
(3) By Magian, Myatt - following Yockey - means both "the Zionists and
their allies, such as Amerika", and what he, in his
Mythos of Vindex,
calls the
"un-numinous and materialistic crypto-marxian ethos, and its decadent
and capitalistic culture, which has emasculated and controlled the
individual, done away with excellence based on nobility, replaced the
law of the warrior - which is personal honor - with the abstract
life-less law of tyrannical States, and whose servants and lackeys are
hypocritical new barbarians lacking in manners who have de-evolved to
become almost a new human species, Homo Hubris."
(4) His first work on the subject being
Vindex: The Destiny of The West
(
5)
A
Numinous Future -
Beyond The Abstractions of The
State and The Nation
(6)
The Mythos of Vindex
(7) See, for example, his essay
Acausal
Science:
Life and The Nature of the
Acausal and his, currently still unpublished, work
The Physics of Acausal Energy.
Myatt: A Mage For Our Times?
The Mythos of Vindex, Part One
The Mythos of Vindex, Part Two
The Physics of Acausal Energy, Part One
