For an average Westerner, Hitler is a personification of Evil itself, the abyss of non-existence taking a shape of a man. This makes Swastika nothing more than the personal insignia of this new Satan. But what is the true meaning of this ancient and powerful symbol? [THREAD]
First of all, where does the swastika come from? And is it true that it is the symbol of a specific race, namely of the Aryan or Indo-Germanic race?
Map showing distribution of the Swastika, 1896.
Furthermore, there is a fundamental consideration that must be made, namely, that every true symbol is by nature universal. Thus, however much a symbol may be predominantly used by a particular race or religion, this use can never constitute a monopoly.
The swastika spread to all these races from an even more ancient and primordial human race, the Hyperboreans. Not without reason, some have called the swastika das Gletscherkreuz, the "cross of the glaciers."
And now we come to the meaning of the swastika. According to the most current interpretations, it is a solar symbol and a symbol of fire.
First of all, the swastika as a solar symbol leads us back to the solar cult. Thus it occurs, for example, as a symbol of Vishnu, and is found on prehistoric ritual objects, linked to "Uranic" (sky) cults such as that of the thunderbolt.
At this point, however, we must immediately guard ourselves against the "naturalistic" prejudice – that is, the assumption that the great ancient civilizations, in their religions, were merely superstitiously divining natural phenomena. Precisely the reverse is true:
Starting from this observation, the solar cult should therefore be understood to essentially refer to a luminous spiritual force, to that same force by virtue of which, using an analogous symbolism, one was able to speak of a life which is the "light of men."
This religion of light – with the frequent recurrence of the "solar" motif, and, in its highest forms, of the Olympian motif – is characteristic of all the major Aryan civilizations created by the aforementioned Hyperborean race.
The religion of light is opposed to the "telluric," demonic, or feminine-naturalistic character of the cults of non-Aryan races, which focused above all on the invisible forces symbolized by the elements, by the earth, by the animal world, and by chthonic vegetation.
Let us now move one further step forward, first of all noting that an intimate relationship was always conceived to exist between the Sun and the divine fire, as is confirmed especially by the ancient Aryan testimonies of the East and West.
Secondly, let us recall the other relationship conceived between – on the one hand – kingship; the function of sovereignty [imperium] in general; the characteristics of a dominating super-race, race, or caste; and – on the other hand – the solar motif.
In primordial traditions, this appears very distinctly: we find a solar "mysticism" of kingship and glory.
On the basis of these ideas, one of the higher meanings of the symbolism of the swastika immediately becomes clearer: It may refer to a principle that generates fire and flame – but in a higher sense.
It is that flame and fire which point back to the Aryan cult of the Sun and of light; it is that symbolic fire which played such an important part in the patrician family cult; it is the mystical fire, finally, which finds its supreme manifestation in leaders and sovereigns.
Therefore, in the highest sense, the swastika, the "cross of the glaciers," could be called the mysterious seal of primordial spirituality itself.
Related to this, we must now say something about the swastika and the symbolism of the pole, the idea of the true sovereign function, the "unmoved mover", the cakravarti – "he who turns the wheel."
If, in a certain sense, swastika can be considered a symbol of movement, it is not a matter simply of movement, but of a rotational movement around a center or an immobile axis: and it is this fixed point that is the essential element to which the symbol in question refers.
Moreover, it may be noted that "polar" symbolism was traditionally also applied to certain civilizations or organizations when they incarnated the significance of "centers" in history as a whole. Mount Olympus as the "pole" of the Earth, etc.
We can summarize the highest spiritual meaning of the symbol:
The rotating swastika manifests the dynamism of a vorticose and overwhelming force (the wheel), generating light and fire, the "Uranic" flame, while remaining, in its center, a commanding calm, an immutable stability.
The rotating swastika manifests the dynamism of a vorticose and overwhelming force (the wheel), generating light and fire, the "Uranic" flame, while remaining, in its center, a commanding calm, an immutable stability.
The latter corresponding, on its plane, to the fundamental condition of every true regere [Latin "to rule," from PIE root *reg-, "to move in a straight line," in contrast to the aforementioned rotating movement] and of every great organization of the forces of history.
And since we started this thread with Hitler, we will end it with him.
In the choice of the swastika as the emblem of Germanic National Socialism a "subconsciousness" has above all acted and rarely has it been considered in its most universal meanings.
In the choice of the swastika as the emblem of Germanic National Socialism a "subconsciousness" has above all acted and rarely has it been considered in its most universal meanings.
Source: Julius Evola in Augustea, June 1942.
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