God Concept

Rasp

Senior Editor
[From: The Odinist, no. 91 (1985)]


GOD CONCEPT


We are leading a revolution, a revolution within the realm of the human mind, a revolution of spiritual values. Our philosophy is based upon what we call the 'Germanic God Conception', though one does not have to be 'Germanic' to follow our philosophy or to understand it. The Gods who serve as symbols of our religious convictions are the Gods worshipped by the ancient German or Teutonic peoples. Look up the word 'Teutonic' in the dictionary and you'll find that it includes other peoples than just the ones who live in the small country of Germany.

We believe that man created Gods in order to worship and explain nature. For instance, Odin is referred to as the 'eternal wanderer'. His travels around the world are like the rotation of the earth, never ceasing. Thor represents agriculture, thunder and lightning; Frey and Freya, the fertility of the earth, creation of life, the bearing of children.

Further, we do not believe God to be some manlike being, sitting in some faraway, never-never land, tabulating each and every act of man, both good and evil, for some final judgment. We conceive of Gods as being the force throughout the universe which controls gravity, rotates the planets and makes the stars shine in accordance with natural law.

We believe that by living in keeping with these laws of nature and respecting and taking care of the earth, we adhere to the will of the Gods.

We believe that Germanic man has lost his sense of identity which has led him to adopt a materialistic way of life, becoming more and more complacent and spiritually devoid. We feel that by reviving Germanic man's interest in his history, culture and the values of his ancestors, placing him in contact with his past, he will be revived and inspired to once again lead the world to greater heights of social, technological and spiritual achievements.

In understanding his own heritage, Germanic man will better be able to understand that of other ethnic groups and realize that they too have a role to fulfill in the scheme of things. We believe that no man or group of men should strive for domination of his fellow man out of material greed or lust for power, or because of misguided teachings of spiritual and social equality.

We believe that all men should strive to learn about themselves and about the cultures and values of their ancestors. That all men should follow the spiritual guidance of their forefathers and their cultural values, rather than that of cultures and teachings alien to them.

We believe that all men should be free from fear and superstition and have the right to believe or not believe in God or Gods as they see fit. That they should not spend their lives browbeaten into fears about 'eternal damnation' or have their morale destroyed by teachings of 'original sin' or inherited guilt.

We live in the here and now, death is a natural thing which occurs in every person's life; it follows the eternal cycle of nature; and we believe that one's fate after death depends to some degree on how well one has lived in this life and fulfilled one's destiny.

Our world is in sad shape; crime is rampant, peace fragile and our natural resources almost used up. To preach to people that this world is unimportant or that all injustices will be settled in an afterlife, the existence of which nobody has ever been able to prove, is an open invitation to justify the exploitation of the earth's resources as well as man's exploitation of his fellow man.

It is an invitation to the ultimate destruction of mankind by those forces whose greed and lust for power lead them to seek domination of all nations, politically, spiritually, socially and economically.

We can start to prevent this destruction by returning to the values and traditions of our ancestors who respected nature and their fellow man, and who felt at one with the universe and whose lives were motivated by values other than chasing after the almighty buck.


[Written by the LUDENDORFF STUDY GROUP which has been dissolved; here slightly edited.]
 
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