Most people today are utterly terrified of death. They will apparently do anything to squeeze out a few more years of life, grasping onto this material world, filled with their prized possessions and loving relationships. These people grow old and crippled with time and then put all of their faith into the medical establishment, which gives them the expensive pills, oxygen tanks, pace makers, and other assorted technology that is supposed to keep them going for just a bit longer. They are afraid of losing their lives, even if they no longer find happiness or purpose in this world.
The instinct to avoid death is certainly useful, but fearing it can become pathological. This is especially seen in the transhumanist movement, which seeks to see humans merging with technology to become somewhat “immortal”. Transhumanism was a term coined by Julian Huxley and popularized by jew Ray Kurzweil, and these ideas have been heavily pushed by jewish minds ever since. With the rapid release of advanced technology, this unimaginably awful future appears to be right around the corner.
The desire to never die is also seen in the story of the vampire, which gains eternal life at the price of its humanity. While the vampire was exclusively reviled throughout our literary past, there has been a concerted effort by jews in the entertainment industry to make vampires seem sexy, cool, and desirable. Metaphorically, and in some ways literally, the jew is a vampire that has infected us with his venom, in order to better manipulate and harvest us, his victims.
The jew has put the pathological fear of death deep within us. When we are terrified of losing our lives, we are much more easily controlled. Someone can say, “do X, Y, and Z or I will kill you” and most people will automatically comply. Often it does not even need to be a literal gun to the head, but simply a threat. This was not always the way we thought and behaved, though. Our noble ancestors loved life, but did not cower before death, begging to be enslaved so as not to be killed.
Caesar wrote of the Druids:
The Druids in particular wish to impress this on them that souls do not perish, but pass from one to another (ab aliis … ad alios) after death, and by this chiefly they think to incite men to valour, the fear of death being overlooked.
The Romans did not view life and the afterlife this way, so they understandably compared the Celtic belief to Pythagoras’ immortality of the soul through transmigration. Valerius Maximus writes:
They would fain make us believe that the souls of men are immortal. I would be tempted to call these breeches-wearing folk fools, if their doctrine were not the same as that of the mantle-clad Pythagoras.
However, the Celtic belief in immortality was not the same as that of Pythagoras. The Greek mystic thought that the soul would end up being born into a new body, even that of an animal, while the Celt would remain the person he was after death, gaining a glorified (immaterial) body.
Lucan more accurately says of the Druidic teaching:
From you we learn that the bourne of man’s existence is not the silent halls of Erebus, in another world (or region, in orbe alio) the spirit animates the members. Death, if your lore be true, is but the centre of a long life.
Whether or not it is true, this belief creates fierce and courageous warriors who laugh in the face of certain death.
The Norse had a similar ethos, which held that dying the “straw death” (in bed) was dishonorable, and that a good afterlife was only granted to those who had heroically died in battle, in some way or another. The slain warriors were taken from the battlefield by Odin’s Valkyries. Most people now assume that they all go to Odin in Valhalla, which we hear so much about these days, but Freyja actually gets the first pick of the glorious dead, with half of the fallen warriors going to her in Fólkvangr.
There is some scientific evidence to suggest that perhaps the soul really does depart the body after death. Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted experiments in 1901, which involved weighing the bodies of his patients as they were on their death bed. He found that his patients would drop an average of 21 grams almost immediately after dying. He weighed dogs as they died, but was unable to find any decrease in weight, leading him to conclude that all dogs do not go to heaven.
Though we have material bodies, they are animated by light, electricity, and other energetic forces that could comprise the soul complex. According to the Law of the Conservation of Energy, Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another. So can our soul even be destroyed? It appears not, but it could be changed, re-arranged, consumed, and assimilated.
There is also another kind of eternal life, which involves the memory of our actions – by humans, gods, the Akashic record, or whatever else. The Norse gives us these words of wisdom from the Havamal:
Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But the good name never dies
Of one who has done well
Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But I know one thing that never dies,
The glory of the great dead
Whereas the tales of Valkyries indicate an afterlife for the soul, these passages explain how one can continue to “live on” in the world of the living. The English Folk Church interprets this famous excerpt:
A good name never dies. A person’s good name is remembered through history. Paradoxically so is a person’s bad name! People who have achieved great things are remembered for these. People who have lived exemplary lives are also remembered for these things. Their glory never dies. People with a bad name may be remembered – but they are not remembered with glory!
So these verses are more about how a person should live his life in this world and the sort of legacy an honourable person should leave behind. It does not suggest that these attributes are all that a person can look to after death in this world. As with so much else of our pre-Christian religion, the emphasis is very much on this world and life in it. Whilst life after death was believed in, people didn’t focus on it too much or try to second guess what would be in store for them.
Living a good life in this world was what counted – both in terms of leaving the right legacy behind and in terms of being sufficiently advanced spiritually to progress to higher states of existence in the next.
The Norseman had a purpose in his life, which went well beyond trying to acquire as much physical riches and sensual pleasures in this life.
In the ancient Greek epic the Iliad, Achilles was thought to be destined from birth to either live a long life without glory, or to die a glorious death in the battle at Troy and be remembered forever. He chose the latter, which is why movies are made about him thousands of years later.
Thetis, the water goddess who birthed Achilles, tells her son in the movie Troy:
If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they’ll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten… If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back… for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.
Unfortunately Achilles did not have any children before perishing in the capture of Troy, since then he would have yet another form of immortality. We are able to live forever through our offspring, but only if they are successful and have offspring of their own. We can project our own DNA, mixed with that of our folk, into the shrouded mists of future possibilities. Our DNA can be immortal. And perhaps we will be able to reincarnate into one of our great, great grandchildren, especially if miscegenation does not occur, but it should not really matter whether we return to this world or not.
Let’s become great warriors. Let’s become immortal.
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