Book: Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism & Nazi Survival
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The second part of the motto of the left-hand path, "Love is the law׳, love under will," became for the Nazis: "Hatred is the law, hatred under will"-a powerful formula indeed.
The inescapable historical parallel to all of this is to be seen in the innumerable cruelties committed by Christians against Jews, pagans, witches, heretics, and each other: a disgrace to the Solar tradition, as the Nazis are to the Polar. Yet many of the worst offenders were pious, and believed themselves to be sincere Christians; some of them were even "mystics". All this goes to show that any religious tradition can do more harm than good, unless it is tempered by the simple humanity and compassion that come more readily to women than to men. When the Dalai Lama says with his characteristic smile, "My religion is Kindness," he is pointing the way to the Golden Age more surely than any priest, shaykh, or esoteric pundit. book-quotenazismeastern-religion
