The Realities of Paganism - Commitment and Dedication to the Gods of Old
16/04/25 14:52
It is no secret that Christianity is dying.
The days when priests, bishops, cardinals, and other members of the professional clergy of the many Christian denominations lorded over the lives of Western men and women are just about over, and not a moment too soon.
Dictating right and wrong, moral and immoral, not only to the ordinary citizen but to the ruling class as well. Presidents, kings, dictators, and potentates all kowtowed to the so-called representatives of God on Earth. The enslavement of humanity in the name of “peace” and “love,” with death being visited upon body and soul to all who questioned such divine benevolence.
Since the end of the great conflagration known as World War II, the path of religious consciousness has slowly but steadily changed in the Western world. No longer content to just sit, shut up, and be told what to think and how to behave, people — intelligent people — began to question the millenniums-long status quo. And when satisfactory answers were not forthcoming, they struck out on their own in search of their own personal connection to The Divine.
The rise and resurgence of Paganism was an inevitability, as the religious and spiritual traditions centered on the natural world resurfaced to fill a void that had been left vacant from centuries of fear-filled neglect. Throughout most of human history religions were local, tribal, and racially-based. The focus of worship and reverence was directed toward the physical world people could see; trees, stones, mountains, rivers, the Sun, Moon, and stars. Celebrations were centered around the sacred affirmation of the changing of the seasons and the sustenance brought forth from the Earth. What mattered to one’s spiritual life was their relationship to all of existence — a feeling of other-worldly power deep down in one’s bones.
It has only been during the past two millennia that the way most humans related to The Divine has been so different from that of their ancestors. And, tragically, it has also been far more violent. The three so-called “great” religions — Islam, Judaism, and Christianity — have been responsible for more agony and bloodshed than most of their followers like to admit. And if one includes Marxism in the mix — arguably a new-fangled form of Bronze Age thinking with industrialization at its center — one can see why much of our world still wallows in ignorance, superstition, and never-ending pain.
While most Western nations have wallowed in self-imposed agony, other corners of the globe have done pretty well in the absence of the Bronze Age desert god — Japan being a prime example. A modern, developed, science-driven nation where Paganism always has been, and still is, the primary belief and spiritual guide. The indigenous religion of that ancient land — Shinto — is a Pagan religion by any definition. Ancestors, nature, and spirits are worshiped and prayed to, often on a daily basis.
Japanese-style Buddhism, which is embraced by a significant portion of the population, also reflects many of the same nature-centric characteristics as native Shinto. Far from being backward, superstitious, or violent, the people of Japan are prosperous, hardworking, and, for the most part, honorable, peaceful, and considerate of one another — all without having to submit to the will of a bloodthirsty god and its often bloodthirsty followers.
In recent decades, many Westerners have traveled to Japan and other parts of the world where they have encountered active, living Pagan traditions. Learning firsthand that travel not only expands the mind and the intellect but strengthens the soul and one’s personal connection to The Divine.
When encountering a real, living Pagan tradition and delving into the beliefs and practices, a very intense realization occurs. A deep change of consciousness. It is as if something has reached down into the blood and bones and shaken one awake from a long, nightmare-filled slumber. One is visited by a great truth — a truth that cannot be unlearned. A door that cannot be closed.
For those who are able to separate themselves from their Judeo-Christian, Muslim, or Marxist upbringing, the transition to real, natural religion is like nothing that can be explained with words. It is, quite literally, a form of coming home. Returning to the source. Re-connecting to the world one was born into at a deep, loving, primal level. A place where the trees, rocks, flowers, birds, animals, mountains, and seas are one’s brothers and sisters. There is the experiencing of an inner peace that is a constant companion — not a far-away goal promised in exchange for a lifetime immersed in self-loathing and fear. An understanding that no matter what misfortunes life brings, or challenges life presents, an inner strength exists that can always be called upon, and always comforting.
Paganism is about power. Real power. Both power from within and power from without. And this power is as real as the rays of the sun upon the Earth or the rush of wind through the trees. It is a power that terrifies those of the many so-called universalist religions. It is also the main reason why Pagans have been persecuted and killed over the centuries by the many followers of the “One True God.”
Christianity demands nothing from its followers as far as the spiritual realm goes. Only obedience and, in almost all cases, the donation of money to a church or ministry is required. Paganism has a different connection to the world. It is formulated around a direct connection with the spirits of the land and the sacredness of the Earth. While Christians are taught in their Bible that they are to have dominion over the Earth, Pagans choose to become a part of it. And in doing so they become subject to both its natural and magickal laws.
Pagan day-to-day practices require a form of devotion that is altogether different than devotees to the God of Abraham. One cannot replace Jesus with Odin. Both are very different entities and represent very different thought forms. The relationship with Odin is quite real and eventually becomes very personal, whereas the connection with the entity known as Jesus is cursory and can be shut off on a whim. Thus the need for Christian clerics to invoke fear into their teachings to keep their members from raising uncomfortable questions or walking out the door. It is all about control. Control of the individual, society, and nations. And this is done by control of the mind with crippling contractions — the most obvious one being the Orwellian message of the Christian god threatening unbelievers and sinners with eternal suffering because it “loves” them.
Pagans have it a lot easier. They affirm their gods and the world around them. They show respect and reverence to all of life and the source of that life. There is no fear. There is no control. There is just total acceptance — “acceptance” being the closest synonym to “love” that exists.
The gods of the Pagans are not some far-off, unfeeling, cruel deities. They are close by. They are kin of the same tribe and the same ethnicity. They are family, and like family, they are always there through thick and thin. No anger, no hate, no jealousy. Just the same kind and loving acceptance one would receive from a parent or a grandparent, a sister or a brother.
Yet those who walk with their gods and never kneel to them know there is real danger, but not from anything supernatural. The danger comes from the followers of the Bronze Age desert god known for being jealous, cruel, and bloodthirsty: Jehovah.
Pagans are, by their very existence, a threat to the Abrahamic power base. The power Pagans access is real and tangible, those who access and wield that power cannot unlearn its reality. Pagans cannot be controlled. They can only be killed or otherwise eliminated, And, tragically, this is a practice Jehovah’s followers have engaged in since their beginning.
Pagans were hunted down and killed by the Christian Church leadership for most of its history, and this hatred persists to this day. One should not be fooled by the false messages of the so-called “religious tolerance” spouted by most Christians, Muslims, or Jews. They hate Pagans. They always have and they always will. At best, they want to convert non-believers to their Abrahamic faith so as to “save” them, even under duress. And if that doesn’t work, they want the enemy of their god destroyed. Without guilt, mercy, or quarter.
If this sounds like a war, it is. One that has been going on for thousands of years. And although there has been a lull in the fighting over the past century or so, things now seem to be heating up. This is the natural course of events, as a candle always burns its brightest before it is extinguished forever, Christianity’s light is fading and it will eventually become extinct. It is an outdated belief system originating from a time when the world was thought to be flat, the scientific method did not exist, and the slavery of fellow humans was taught to have been ordained by their “all-loving” god.
Those who arrive at Paganism and find peace of a kind they never felt possible are often shocked to find the serious disapproval, then enmity, of those they once thought of as friends, lovers, and family. They find it perplexing and tragic that relationships once thought to have been rock-solid and life-long certainties either melt away or cease abruptly; as if one has committed an unforgivable betrayal or the most grievous of crimes.
The hatred directed toward Pagans is an inevitability. Not at first, and not openly. But eventually, all those who worship the God of the Desert will curse them, shun them, and spit upon them in the street. And, given the chance, they will kill them.
Humans focused on the material world only worship power. They seek power over others, for it allows them to prop up their own weaknesses. Pagans seek power from the natural world to strengthen and empower themselves. Not to lord over their fellow man, but to lord over their own soul. To secure their own place in existence, and to achieve harmony with the natural world of which they are an inseparable part.
The worshippers of the Desert God are devoid of such comprehension. And nothing envies power and triggers hatred and fear more than a less-evolved being encountering one more advanced and closer to The Divine. The weak always hate the strong.
The Pagan Path is not for the escapist, nor is it for the rebellious grown-up child angry for all the wasted days of their youth spent in church or Sunday school. The Pagan Pathi is only for the strong. The bravest of the brave. Those who dare to take the evolution of their own being — their own soul — into their own hands and walk with the gods who have existed since their earliest ancestors came into being.
This conflict, which has been ongoing for nearly three thousand years, began when a small band of nomads emerged from the deserts of the Middle East at the behest of their jealous, bloodthirsty god Jehovah. It told them they were the people chosen to rule over the Earth and that they had dominion over all other living things. The animal kingdom was their property, and all other peoples of the world were their servants and their slaves.
This tribe then proceeded to cause unending mayhem, tragedy, and death among their fellow humans — thwarting the development and growth of civilization in the process. Their religion of the desert eventually split off into other sects that spread across the globe. And in keeping with their creed of death and slavery these “great” religions proceeded to fight with each other, as their god watched in amusement from an uncaring distance. For in spite of their infighting, they continued to spread throughout humanity like a cancer. And to this day their mayhem continues to sew the seeds of the most devastating wars of destruction, death, and genocide.
The Pagan stands against this ancient tyranny. Even though most who come to the religion of their ancestors and their blood do so with the most peaceful and spiritual intentions, they enter the ranks of an army and take on the lifestyle of a warrior. Their fellow man — their fellow races — have been slowly poisoned over millennia to turn their back on their true, natural religions. It is a fight between the freedom of man and the enslavement of man, and all disguised within the false trappings of “peace” and “love.”
So know well those who aspire to the Pagan Path the reality you are entering. Know that it is a one-way journey — both of the physical and the spiritual. It is a journey those who have traveled before you with their heart, their head, and their love for our Mother the Earth, and our Father the Sun would not trade for anything. Neither the most comfortable of material existence nor the false love of fellow slaves could ever be considered an acceptable substitute. For we are free, we are powerful, and we are eternal.
The Pagan walks with the gods of their ancestors, their people, and their blood.
Always, and forever.
——
Copyright © 2025 E.V. by Frater S∴ I∴ All Rights Reserved.
The days when priests, bishops, cardinals, and other members of the professional clergy of the many Christian denominations lorded over the lives of Western men and women are just about over, and not a moment too soon.
Dictating right and wrong, moral and immoral, not only to the ordinary citizen but to the ruling class as well. Presidents, kings, dictators, and potentates all kowtowed to the so-called representatives of God on Earth. The enslavement of humanity in the name of “peace” and “love,” with death being visited upon body and soul to all who questioned such divine benevolence.
Since the end of the great conflagration known as World War II, the path of religious consciousness has slowly but steadily changed in the Western world. No longer content to just sit, shut up, and be told what to think and how to behave, people — intelligent people — began to question the millenniums-long status quo. And when satisfactory answers were not forthcoming, they struck out on their own in search of their own personal connection to The Divine.
The rise and resurgence of Paganism was an inevitability, as the religious and spiritual traditions centered on the natural world resurfaced to fill a void that had been left vacant from centuries of fear-filled neglect. Throughout most of human history religions were local, tribal, and racially-based. The focus of worship and reverence was directed toward the physical world people could see; trees, stones, mountains, rivers, the Sun, Moon, and stars. Celebrations were centered around the sacred affirmation of the changing of the seasons and the sustenance brought forth from the Earth. What mattered to one’s spiritual life was their relationship to all of existence — a feeling of other-worldly power deep down in one’s bones.
It has only been during the past two millennia that the way most humans related to The Divine has been so different from that of their ancestors. And, tragically, it has also been far more violent. The three so-called “great” religions — Islam, Judaism, and Christianity — have been responsible for more agony and bloodshed than most of their followers like to admit. And if one includes Marxism in the mix — arguably a new-fangled form of Bronze Age thinking with industrialization at its center — one can see why much of our world still wallows in ignorance, superstition, and never-ending pain.
While most Western nations have wallowed in self-imposed agony, other corners of the globe have done pretty well in the absence of the Bronze Age desert god — Japan being a prime example. A modern, developed, science-driven nation where Paganism always has been, and still is, the primary belief and spiritual guide. The indigenous religion of that ancient land — Shinto — is a Pagan religion by any definition. Ancestors, nature, and spirits are worshiped and prayed to, often on a daily basis.
Japanese-style Buddhism, which is embraced by a significant portion of the population, also reflects many of the same nature-centric characteristics as native Shinto. Far from being backward, superstitious, or violent, the people of Japan are prosperous, hardworking, and, for the most part, honorable, peaceful, and considerate of one another — all without having to submit to the will of a bloodthirsty god and its often bloodthirsty followers.
In recent decades, many Westerners have traveled to Japan and other parts of the world where they have encountered active, living Pagan traditions. Learning firsthand that travel not only expands the mind and the intellect but strengthens the soul and one’s personal connection to The Divine.
When encountering a real, living Pagan tradition and delving into the beliefs and practices, a very intense realization occurs. A deep change of consciousness. It is as if something has reached down into the blood and bones and shaken one awake from a long, nightmare-filled slumber. One is visited by a great truth — a truth that cannot be unlearned. A door that cannot be closed.
For those who are able to separate themselves from their Judeo-Christian, Muslim, or Marxist upbringing, the transition to real, natural religion is like nothing that can be explained with words. It is, quite literally, a form of coming home. Returning to the source. Re-connecting to the world one was born into at a deep, loving, primal level. A place where the trees, rocks, flowers, birds, animals, mountains, and seas are one’s brothers and sisters. There is the experiencing of an inner peace that is a constant companion — not a far-away goal promised in exchange for a lifetime immersed in self-loathing and fear. An understanding that no matter what misfortunes life brings, or challenges life presents, an inner strength exists that can always be called upon, and always comforting.
Paganism is about power. Real power. Both power from within and power from without. And this power is as real as the rays of the sun upon the Earth or the rush of wind through the trees. It is a power that terrifies those of the many so-called universalist religions. It is also the main reason why Pagans have been persecuted and killed over the centuries by the many followers of the “One True God.”
Christianity demands nothing from its followers as far as the spiritual realm goes. Only obedience and, in almost all cases, the donation of money to a church or ministry is required. Paganism has a different connection to the world. It is formulated around a direct connection with the spirits of the land and the sacredness of the Earth. While Christians are taught in their Bible that they are to have dominion over the Earth, Pagans choose to become a part of it. And in doing so they become subject to both its natural and magickal laws.
Pagan day-to-day practices require a form of devotion that is altogether different than devotees to the God of Abraham. One cannot replace Jesus with Odin. Both are very different entities and represent very different thought forms. The relationship with Odin is quite real and eventually becomes very personal, whereas the connection with the entity known as Jesus is cursory and can be shut off on a whim. Thus the need for Christian clerics to invoke fear into their teachings to keep their members from raising uncomfortable questions or walking out the door. It is all about control. Control of the individual, society, and nations. And this is done by control of the mind with crippling contractions — the most obvious one being the Orwellian message of the Christian god threatening unbelievers and sinners with eternal suffering because it “loves” them.
Pagans have it a lot easier. They affirm their gods and the world around them. They show respect and reverence to all of life and the source of that life. There is no fear. There is no control. There is just total acceptance — “acceptance” being the closest synonym to “love” that exists.
The gods of the Pagans are not some far-off, unfeeling, cruel deities. They are close by. They are kin of the same tribe and the same ethnicity. They are family, and like family, they are always there through thick and thin. No anger, no hate, no jealousy. Just the same kind and loving acceptance one would receive from a parent or a grandparent, a sister or a brother.
Yet those who walk with their gods and never kneel to them know there is real danger, but not from anything supernatural. The danger comes from the followers of the Bronze Age desert god known for being jealous, cruel, and bloodthirsty: Jehovah.
Pagans are, by their very existence, a threat to the Abrahamic power base. The power Pagans access is real and tangible, those who access and wield that power cannot unlearn its reality. Pagans cannot be controlled. They can only be killed or otherwise eliminated, And, tragically, this is a practice Jehovah’s followers have engaged in since their beginning.
Pagans were hunted down and killed by the Christian Church leadership for most of its history, and this hatred persists to this day. One should not be fooled by the false messages of the so-called “religious tolerance” spouted by most Christians, Muslims, or Jews. They hate Pagans. They always have and they always will. At best, they want to convert non-believers to their Abrahamic faith so as to “save” them, even under duress. And if that doesn’t work, they want the enemy of their god destroyed. Without guilt, mercy, or quarter.
If this sounds like a war, it is. One that has been going on for thousands of years. And although there has been a lull in the fighting over the past century or so, things now seem to be heating up. This is the natural course of events, as a candle always burns its brightest before it is extinguished forever, Christianity’s light is fading and it will eventually become extinct. It is an outdated belief system originating from a time when the world was thought to be flat, the scientific method did not exist, and the slavery of fellow humans was taught to have been ordained by their “all-loving” god.
Those who arrive at Paganism and find peace of a kind they never felt possible are often shocked to find the serious disapproval, then enmity, of those they once thought of as friends, lovers, and family. They find it perplexing and tragic that relationships once thought to have been rock-solid and life-long certainties either melt away or cease abruptly; as if one has committed an unforgivable betrayal or the most grievous of crimes.
The hatred directed toward Pagans is an inevitability. Not at first, and not openly. But eventually, all those who worship the God of the Desert will curse them, shun them, and spit upon them in the street. And, given the chance, they will kill them.
Humans focused on the material world only worship power. They seek power over others, for it allows them to prop up their own weaknesses. Pagans seek power from the natural world to strengthen and empower themselves. Not to lord over their fellow man, but to lord over their own soul. To secure their own place in existence, and to achieve harmony with the natural world of which they are an inseparable part.
The worshippers of the Desert God are devoid of such comprehension. And nothing envies power and triggers hatred and fear more than a less-evolved being encountering one more advanced and closer to The Divine. The weak always hate the strong.
The Pagan Path is not for the escapist, nor is it for the rebellious grown-up child angry for all the wasted days of their youth spent in church or Sunday school. The Pagan Pathi is only for the strong. The bravest of the brave. Those who dare to take the evolution of their own being — their own soul — into their own hands and walk with the gods who have existed since their earliest ancestors came into being.
This conflict, which has been ongoing for nearly three thousand years, began when a small band of nomads emerged from the deserts of the Middle East at the behest of their jealous, bloodthirsty god Jehovah. It told them they were the people chosen to rule over the Earth and that they had dominion over all other living things. The animal kingdom was their property, and all other peoples of the world were their servants and their slaves.
This tribe then proceeded to cause unending mayhem, tragedy, and death among their fellow humans — thwarting the development and growth of civilization in the process. Their religion of the desert eventually split off into other sects that spread across the globe. And in keeping with their creed of death and slavery these “great” religions proceeded to fight with each other, as their god watched in amusement from an uncaring distance. For in spite of their infighting, they continued to spread throughout humanity like a cancer. And to this day their mayhem continues to sew the seeds of the most devastating wars of destruction, death, and genocide.
The Pagan stands against this ancient tyranny. Even though most who come to the religion of their ancestors and their blood do so with the most peaceful and spiritual intentions, they enter the ranks of an army and take on the lifestyle of a warrior. Their fellow man — their fellow races — have been slowly poisoned over millennia to turn their back on their true, natural religions. It is a fight between the freedom of man and the enslavement of man, and all disguised within the false trappings of “peace” and “love.”
So know well those who aspire to the Pagan Path the reality you are entering. Know that it is a one-way journey — both of the physical and the spiritual. It is a journey those who have traveled before you with their heart, their head, and their love for our Mother the Earth, and our Father the Sun would not trade for anything. Neither the most comfortable of material existence nor the false love of fellow slaves could ever be considered an acceptable substitute. For we are free, we are powerful, and we are eternal.
The Pagan walks with the gods of their ancestors, their people, and their blood.
Always, and forever.
——
Copyright © 2025 E.V. by Frater S∴ I∴ All Rights Reserved.
Crossing the Divine Sea of the Holy Men
05/04/25 10:08
The key to fighitng the tyranny in our world, so we may throw off our chains and cross the Divine Sea.
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