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David Myatt, Reichsfolk, Esoteric Hitlerism, and Savitri Devi
David Myatt, Reichsfolk, Esoteric Hitlerism, and Savitri Devi
It seems particularly relevant that the published article is dated not only
February 2011 CE but also 122 yf.
Since Myatt writes that his Numinous Way is a philosophy 'above Time' and
that his ethical National Socialism is 'against Time', it is pertinent to quote
some relevant passages from Chapter 3 of the aforementioned book by Savitri
Devi:
But there are also men 'outside Time' or rather 'above Time'; men
who live, here and now, in eternity; who (directly at least) have no
part to play in the downward rush of history towards disintegration
and death, but who behold it from above — as one beholds, from a
strong and safe bridge, the irresistible rush of a waterfall into the
abyss — and who have repudiated the law of violence which is the
law of Time.....
But the salvation which the men 'above Time' offer the world is
always that which consists in breaking the time-bondage. It is never
that which would find its expression in collective life on earth in
accordance with Golden Age ideals. It is the salvation of the
individual soul, never that of organised society.....
Knowing this, the real men 'above Time' are the first ones to
understand and to appreciate the wholehearted efforts of their
disciples 'against Time,' however awful these might appear to
ordinary people.... The fallen world can never understand them.
Importantly, these quotes from Savitri Devi do indeed appear to place Myatt,
and his work, into a particular perspective, that of National Socialism - for his
Numinous Way philosophy, with its emphasis on empathy, compassion and the
cessation of suffering, is certainly, judging by what Devi writes, 'above Time'
while his ethical National-Socialism, his Reichsfolk group, his influence on
many contemporary National Socialists, from Russia, to Finland, to Serbia, to
America - and even his apparently still continuing support for a new Muslim
Khilafah in Muslim lands - does seem to be, as Devi expresses it in a quote
above, a man 'above Time' understanding and appreciating "the wholehearted
efforts of their disciples against Time, however awful these might appear to
ordinary people."
As Devi also, perhaps poignantly, writes of the men 'above Time' - the fallen
world can never understand them. Which possibly explains why Myatt is so
mis-understood, and so maligned, even by many individuals who deign to
describe themselves as 'National Socialists' but who seem to fail to apply the
ethic of honor which Myatt has placed at the heart of his Reichsfolk National
Socialism.
Myatt's essay is also noticeable for the theme of Galactic colonisation which
runs through it, as well as for Myatt's emphasis on the long-term nature of his
work - that is, what he calls his Aeonic vision and perspective.
Hence, he views his own mystical Numinous Way philosophy as the way of only
a few enlightened individuals, at least until the ones 'against Time' -
represented by those promulgating his ethical National Socialism (such as
Aryan Nations) and by those Muslims violently seeking to create a new Muslim
Khilafah - have replaced "the current material profanity of the Magian ethos
with something numinous."
Which rather neatly returns him to much earlier National Socialist works of his
where he wrote and spoke about a Galactic Imperium and a Cosmic Reich.
It seems to me especially relevant that Myatt writes that, "in the Cosmic
scheme of things", there is no contradiction between his compassionate
ethereal Numinous Way and National Socialism, nor between these and the
Muslim quest for a new Khilafah. For, as he admits, he is being pragmatic -
considering such things, as one might expect someone 'above Time' to do, with
an almost cosmic detachment.
That the nature and relevance of Myatt's support for and tolerance of such
diverse violent means has not been understood, except by a few individuals -
JRW,
Oxford
February 2011