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"Pizarro started from nothing, rising to a life of conquest and glory. He toppled the Inca with an act of Odyssean cunning. After years of war, he went out in a blaze of glory, fighting off assassins even in his old age… is this not Bronze Age Mindset?

Is this not greatness?".

-Alaric the Barbarian.

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"The myths, tales and symbols are doorways - portals or points of entry into sacred realms where you can make connections with the deeper structure of the universe, a structure that has always existed and always will exist".

-Brian Hayden.

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, The Wanderings of Odysseus. C. 1905.

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"In short, Faye sees the pagan (or, in his own words, "Greek") heritage, at once Apollonian and Dionysian, as the most secure and solid foundations of Europe".

-Robert Steuckers.

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"Every man and every nation has the sacred right to preserve their differences and their identity in the name of their future, and in the name of their past".

-Jean Raspail.

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"The conquistadors are too “pagan” for the Church and most Christians to accept — they wanted glory, power, wealth, dominion over space. At the same time, they were too deeply Catholic to be picked up by neopagans, and too White for progressives. They exist in a strange limbo".

- Alaric the Barbarian, The Dissident Review.

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"The armor, the pikes, the Toledo steel blades, the discipline and know-how from decades of fighting the Moor [...]. And above all, bravery and daring [...]. Once conquests were made, he never stopped".

-BAP on Pedro de Alvarado.

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"Do not think of the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a people who died out a long time ago. They live, and their culture lives, in us; transformed by time and the influences of other cultures maybe, but still recognisable at the core of our values, language, and culture. By understanding them, we understand ourselves."

-Ceisiwr Serith.

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"But the darkness of night which so sweetly invites to slumber also bestows new vigilance and illumination upon the spirit. It makes it more perceptive, more acute, more enterprising. Knowledge flares up, or descends like a shooting star - rare, precious, even magical knowledge".

-Walter Otto.

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"True dominion comes by rising oneself to that which is superior to that which one wishes to dominate: one cannot have it by remaining on the same level. A hand as a hand cannot claim to have the power to dominate the other organs of the body".

- Julius Evola.

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"Asceticism traditionally consisted in values such as mastery over one-self, self-discipline, autonomy, and the leading of a unified life".

-Julius Evola

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"Go ahead and fly with faster wings, with an ever greater pride for your achievements, with your conquests, with your empires, with your democracies! The pit must be filled; there is a need for fertilizer for the new tree that will grow out of your collapse".

-Guido de Giorgio.

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"They [the Celts of Numantia] showed their valour in the war of twenty years, waged by the Keltiberians against the Romans".

-Strabo, Geography IV.III.XIII.

Urn depicting Keltiberian warriors. Celtic-Numantine Museum, Soria.

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"Whatever the inward darkness may have been to which the shamans of those caves descended in their trances, the same must lie within ourselves, nightly visited in sleep".

-Joseph Campbell.

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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date".

-C.S. Lewis.

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"The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of man to all that is hidden to others".

-Igjugarjuk.

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While the modern world seeks progress in the ephemeral, in Tradition, that which does not pass, the eternal truths of existence reveal themselves, transcending the fleeting illusions of our age.

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"They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses".

-Diodorus of Sicily.

Brooch of Lancia. Representation of a Celtic warrior from the Iberian Peninsula with a decapitated head hanging from his horse which is decorated with solar wheels.