The Third Occult Revival

Ever since Theodosius’s reign of terror in the 4th Century CE, Western spirituality has been an occult matter. With the coming of Abrahamic tyranny, anyone with an interest in the true nature of the divine was driven underground lest they be murdered. Between the murders of Hypatia in 415 CE and of Giordano Bruno in 1600, Westerners were subjected to the most psychopathic campaign of spiritual destruction in human history, with millions slaughtered for refusing to bow to an idol of the dead rabbi.

Occultism was the inevitable end result of these centuries of terror. Anyone interested in genuine spirituality, such as raising one’s frequency of consciousness above suffering, was forced to pursue that interest in secret. Those interested in science were forced into secrecy also. Thus occultism, genuine spirituality and true science came to overlap to a major degree (for an excellent history of the influence of this occultism on the history of science, see The Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett).

Christianity started to die around the time of the murder of Bruno, perhaps because the centuries of atrocities had finally made the reputation of the religion unsalvagable. Since then, the knowledge pushed into the occult has undergone several waves of mass public interest. We are now in the third of such waves of occult revival.

The first wave came at the end of the 19th Century. Writing in 1883, Nietzsche was able to say “God is dead” in Thus Spake Zarathustra because his society had already abandoned Yahweh (he would have been murdered if he had written The Anti-Christ a few centuries earlier). Society at the time, desperate for meaning, was ready for a return to esoteric truths.

The Theosophical Society was founded in New York City in 1875, and The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in the 1880s in England. Spiritualism, as a religious movement, also peaked around this time. All of these movements took an interest in subjects that were banned during the years of Christian tyranny. This first occult revival brought spiritual concepts and awareness back to popular consciousness for the first time in centuries.

This first revival was ended by the First World War. The need to overcome physical enemies forced the West into a drive for more shells, more bullets, more troops, a relentless focus on quantity to the exclusion of quality, and thereby forced it screaming back into materialism.

The second occult revival followed from the discovery of the psychoactive properties of LSD in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman, and the rediscovery of sacramental magic mushroom use by New York investment banker R Gordon Wasson in the 1950s. Although this wave of psychedelic use did not last long, thanks to the War on Drugs, it had a powerful impact on popular consciousness. Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception brought the idea of tripping to a wide audience, and the Summer of 1969 made it a reality.

This second occult revival encompassed the New Age movement that began in the 1970s. This movement was aware that we were living in a spiritual dark age, and that most genuine spirituality had been suppressed over the centuries. The War on Drugs prevented people from rediscovering this spirituality, and neoliberalism brought them back to profit and loss, quantity and production, and thereby back to materialism.

The mini-Dark Age caused by neoliberalism did not last. In the 2020s, we are going through a third occult revival. This third revival seems to be inspired by a combination of the Internet and the end of what Emmanuel Macron called the end of the era of abundance.

The Internet has made it easier than ever to share esoteric knowledge. Growing up in the Satanic Panic era of the 80s and early 90s, it was hard to even find an accurate and objective book about occultism. When covered in the media, it was mostly scare stories about murders, rapes and insanity. Thanks to the Internet, sane (or relatively sane) people have been able to contact each other and discuss occult subjects, bringing awareness of such subjects to new levels.

In terms of raw knowledge, people are much more advanced than they would have been at any time since the death of Yahweh. Every student of occultism has an esoteric lodge in their own home thanks to the Internet. Thanks to this technological advance, curious people everywhere are now deep into occult studies.

The end of the era of abundance is also driving people away from materialism. Materialism used to mean big houses, flash cars, rich food, abundant entertainment, easy travel and access to all kinds of gadgets. Today materialism means being trapped at work, paying rent, eating slop, watching brainrot: dying, like a battery drained of energy.

People are getting a much worse deal from materialism now than during the 20th Century. This is causing them to look for happiness in the metaphysical. Some of them shop around mainstream religious denominations, only to find that most of the adherents don’t even believe in God or in anything spiritual. The massive disappointment of both nihilistic atheistic materialism and of mainstream religion (a conundrum described as the Clown World Fork) is turning people back towards occultism.

As part of this third occult revival, we already see groups of those interested in genuine spirituality arising, and growing. These groups are forming outside of the purview of government or mainstream religious authorities, an actual folk movement. But, despite the lack of official oversight, they are thriving. God is more fundamental than the government, and people acting with God’s approval are more powerful than those acting with governmental approval.

This third wave might include both spiritualism and psychedelics, so that the first and second waves are both represented, combined into a new movement where all hidden qualities of the mind and consciousness are open to discovery and investigation. Perhaps modern advances in psychological science could contribute to this.

It’s impossible to say how long this third revival might last, or how far it might go. Eventually an occult revival will lead to a new spiritual order in Western Civilisation, but it’s too early to know if this one is it.

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21st Century Nationalism

‘Nationalism’ is a dirty word in most circles today. Many people still associate it with the bloodshed and hatred of the previous century. But, just as globalism is not going away, nationalism will not either. New forms of nationalism are taking shape today as new generations find themselves facing similar challenges to the nationalists of old.

Everyone is familiar with 20th Century nationalism. Every history channel parrots the endless refrain: globalism is peace, nationalism is war. Nationalists started World War One and World War Two and so have to be opposed by all decent people.

20th Century nationalism had some drawbacks. Foremost was the extreme hostility towards other nations. Back then, human distinctions were considered greater than they really are. Charles Darwin, writing The Descent of Man in 1871, shocked many with the then-liberal position that Africans were definitively the same species as Europeans. This was less than half a century before the launch of World War One.

It seems bizarre to someone from the New World, but 20th Century European nationalists genuinely saw significant natural differences between themselves and their neighbours. A German could go to war with a Belgian in the belief that the two were meaningfully different. Even today, visitors to Europe from the New World are struck by the lingering animosity neighbouring groups have for each other. The combination of time and proximity seems to have been enough to engender hatred in many.

The latest phenomenon is Boomer nationalism. This is little more than pissed-off old people. This phenomenon can be seen all over the Western World, particularly in politicians such as Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Pauline Hanson and Winston Peters. These Boomers represent a generation who can see death staring them in the face, and who aren’t happy about it. They project their dissatisfaction with their own mortality onto society.

The archetypal Boomer nationalist demands are not just an end to mass immigration, but also Boomer concerns such as higher pensions and lower property taxes. They also often promote causes that directly harm younger people, such as work-for-the-dole schemes or restrictions on disability payments, neither of which pensioners have to worry about.

Boomer nationalism will never succeed because it is too selfish. Trump and Farage don’t care about young people, so their voters are dying off. Trump has done nothing to invest in the next generation of Americans. Winston Peters first entered government when the New Zealand population was 3.6 million: it is now 5.3 million, Peters is still in government and he has done nothing about immigration. The movement operates entirely on short-term self-interest.

The advance offered by Boomer nationalism over 20th Century nationalism is that it isn’t as hateful. Boomer nationalists are just as willing as 20th Century nationalists to assert their own interests, they’re just not quite as willing to make other people suffer in the pursuit. The argument of this essay is that Boomer nationalism has the correct amount of outgroup antipathy – i.e. a moderate one – but the Boomers aim it in the wrong direction.

21st Century nationalism is something else: a different philosophy to both of the above, for different realities.

21st Century nationalism, like 20th Century nationalism, is primarily for young people. Like Boomer nationalism, it is only moderately aggressive. It calls for remigration rather than death camps. Because 21st Century nationalism is for young people, it is for people who never knew the good times that the Boomers enjoyed. This will give it a cold and steely edge that Boomer nationalism does not have, but 20th Century nationalism did.

This new, third wave of nationalism will have to be more sophisticated than its predecessors if it is to succeed. 20th Century nationalism, arising in the aftermath of World War One where might made right, didn’t mind making enemies. Boomer nationalism, appealing to a credulous generation of television-watchers, is simplistic and vulgar, and is failing thereby. 21st Century nationalism will have to be more diplomatic and clever if it is to harness the support needed to win.

All three waves of nationalism have the same principal enemies, namely the globalists and their lackeys. These are chiefly bankers and Bolsheviks – the globohomo of Clown World Chronicles – and those they have bribed and threatened into doing their bidding.

21st Century nationalism, like the other two forms, will be forced to struggle with Christianity. This Middle Eastern religion, with its universal morality expressed in passages such as Galatians 3:28, has crippled the previous two waves of nationalism through sabotage and passivity.

The difference is that very few young people are Christian today. 21st Century nationalism will therefore not be Zionist as Boomer nationalism was. It might also therefore adopt many several elements. There was already a foreshadowing of this in the NDSAP’s adoption of a swastika as rallying symbol. We could see a form of spiritualism akin to that of Ancient Greece and Rome make a return (see the Pythia of the Oracle of Delphi), as it did during the time of William James. We could also see the rise of Elementalism.

If these 21st Century nationalists end up going to war, it would probably involve civil war rather than world war or generational war. The thought of one Western country invading another World War One-style is hard to take seriously today, but professors of war and conflict such as David Betz suggest that civil war across a number of Western cities/regions is a very real outcome given today’s demographic powder keg.

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Where The Millennial Generation Won – And Lost

We oldest Millennials are now in our mid-40s. This affords us enough of a vantage point to look back and see where it went right for our generation, and where it went wrong. Where we won and where we lost.

Economically, our situation was clearly worse than for the Boomers but better than for Gen Z. Looking at the long-term home price to income ratio trend, it can be seen that Boomers enjoyed the best of times when it came to affording the necessities of life. The hardest times are now and the future.

Finding housing is hell for people today, but it wasn’t so bad 20 years ago. At the turn of the Century, when we Millennials were young, housing was plentiful and cheap. Finding good quality student flats was easy. Gen Z have it very hard by contrast. Compared to previous generations, very few of them are married and homeowners by the age of 30. This is the main reason fertility rates are crashing.

The days of the Boomers being able to land a job with a firm handshake are long gone. Millennials, however, have managed to scrape ourselves into a position where most of us are doing okay. For Gen Z the situation is so precarious that mental disorders are surging. The combination of housing uncertainty and precarious employment has made life hellish for the generations after us.

Education has been extremely mixed. On the one hand, the ease of access to higher education is excellent thanks to the Internet in general and YouTube in particular. This has made it possible to receive university-tier lectures without needing to move to a university city.

On the other hand, the education system is now full of Marxists. It’s very difficult to get an education today without also being brainwashed into hating white people. The Long March Through The Institutions has been completed, and now one cannot get into a teaching position without being a Marxist. This has ruined the quality of mainstream education and turned it into propaganda. So that high-quality material, although it can be beamed directly into your house now, is harder to find than in previous eras.

Arguably we Millennials had the best women. Millennial women were post-Christian in the sense they generally didn’t have the same religious hang-ups that Boomer women did. They were up for it – the popular belief was that sex was a fun and positive thing. Millennial women liked having boyfriends. The gender discourse was not yet totally poisoned.

Gen Z seems to have a preponderance of sexually unresponsive women owing to mass antidepressant and antipsychotic uptake. This was only a small problem for Millennials. Gen Z also appears to suffer from a new form of puritanism that suggests sex is immoral. Even approaching a woman is considered offensive by some of these new ascetics. The net result is that love and romance is much less fun for young people today.

Millennials also arguably had the best relation to technology and video games. The Silent Generation had the radio and the cinema. The Boomers had the television. We Millennials got all of that as well as (what seemed like at the time) incredible video games. But we didn’t also suffer the invasive panopticon that Gen Z did.

It was possible for Millennials to party and cut loose without the fear of being recorded that Gen Z currently operates under. We could do dumb stuff without it ending up on the Internet for the whole planet to gape at. Gen Z is imprisoned by technology in a way that we never were; history has truly vindicated Ted Kaczynski.

Entertainment and culture was very good for Millennials. The music may not have been as great as it was for the Boomers, and the literature may have been significantly worse, but the film was as good, and in all cases much better for Millennials than for Gen Z. We mostly had the same drugs as the Boomers, i.e. alcohol and tobacco with the occasional bit of weed. Gen Z has access to a much wider range of recreational drugs and has to deal with much less stigma.

Social cohesion is much worse for Millennials than for Boomers. The Boomers got to grow up in white societies in which politeness and consideration were normal. Their neighbourhoods were mostly safe and full of people who looked out for each other.

The Muttening kicked in for Millennials, who had it much worse than the Boomers. But Gen Z will have it much worse again. Gen Z is growing up in conditions closer to a zoo than to a civilisation. Whether our societies have still avoided collapse by the time Gen Z are pensioners is anyone’s guess. But the early stages of collapse can be seen in white flight from big cities.

When it comes to spirituality, we had it about the same as the Boomers in that we were also pinned by the Clown World Fork of Christianity or atheism. Almost all of us got the mainstream scientific atheist narrative throughout our school years, and many of us came to adulthood watching the Four Horsemen of Atheism, who seemed logical and reasonable. Those of us who suspected there was more to life than materialism usually ended up on psychiatric medication.

Gen Z may live to see a genuine spiritual resurgence, even if we don’t. This is because materialism is no longer satisfying to people in general. There’s now an awareness that materialism correlates with nihilism and thereby with all kinds of degeneracy and misery. This has led to a revival in the perennial spiritual philosophy. Whether this is the much-prophecised dawn of the Age of Aquarius and another Satya Yuga remains to be seen. But the early signs are promising.

The general rule is that Boomers had it the best, Gen Z the worst, and we Millennials somewhere in the middle. This accords with society’s general decline into Clown World. However, Millennials did have it best in some limited ways.

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VJMP Anzac Day Address 2026: It’s Time To Make Good On The Promise Of Gallipoli

As Anzac Day dawns in 2026, the situation in the Western World is exceptionally dire. Our fertility rates have collapsed, and our economies are following them. Populations are in total despair. But, despite the immanent disaster, the ruling classes of the West appear to have no idea about either the suffering their people are in or what to do about it.

It’s time to make good on the promise of Gallipoli.

When the British Empire attacked the Ottoman Empire in World War One, Australia and New Zealand went with it. The reasoning back then was that we were British, and therefore wherever the motherland went we had to go as well. Across all the theatres of World War I we lost over 66,000 killed in action, from a population of just over six million.

While our boys died at Gallipoli, British commanders remained aloof. Some legends have it they relaxed drinking tea while the combat was raging. It was soon apparent to the Anzacs that their lives were worth very little to their overlords. The sentiment naturally arose that we would be better off in charge of ourselves.

What we learned at Anzac Cove, in theory, was that we ought to be making our own decisions instead of blindly following orders from the other side of the world. This learning was the beginning of our ethnogenesis. Thus it was at Anzac Cove that we started to transform into the Anzac nation. This was the Promise of Gallipoli: that we would one day become an independent and free people.

These theoretical learnings were sort of put into practice. During World War II, John Curtin chose to defend Australia with Australian troops instead of defending Britain. New Zealand, unfortunately, broke ranks with Australia and sent troops to defend Britain instead. But the thought was established: Anzac troops ought to defend Anzac territory as a first priority. We ought to put ourselves before Britain or anyone else.

After World War II, Europe and America opened themselves up to the madness of replacement migration. That could have been the cue for Anzac civilisation to plot a different course, like Eastern Europe did. Today, Poland has a larger economy than Australia, and they did it without mass immigration of Third World cheap labour and the resulting crime and misery. We could have done the same.

We still can. Only our will prevents us from doing so. We can take a cue from Eastern Europe – and from other places – and take a path away from Anglo-American neoliberalism and its attendant social chaos. It’s time for us to stand up, as an independent people, and to think for ourselves, and to blaze our own trail into the future.

For instance, we could say to ourselves, as Anzac Civilisation, that there shall be no more mass immigration of cheap labour to the Anzac Empire. Let America, Europe and Britain import all the cheap labour if that is what they wish to do. We don’t need to follow them. We never imported slaves like America did, so why not double down on the tradition of doing our own labour, and refuse to import Third Worlders?

Why not go even further, and get rid of globalist neoliberal immigration policy full stop? We could open immigration up to culturally compatible people if we wanted. We could even make an effort to only attract the high-IQ white people that once made the West great, and who still exist in large numbers, neutered by insane politics. Once we achieve psychological independence, we can do anything!

If the European and North American parts of Western Civilisation are to collapse into ethnic-based civil war, as several professors of conflict studies suggest they will, Anzac civilisation needs to stop thinking of ourselves as merely the juniormost partner in the Western coalition.

We will always be part of Western Civilisation. But, as the Romans once looked at the Greeks and saw a great people weakened by age and degeneracy, we Anzacs now look at Europe and America and see great peoples weakened by age and degeneracy. As the Romans surpassed the Greeks, so too will we surpass Europe and America. We just need to cut ourselves loose.

The Promise of Gallipoli is that we Anzacs are not bound by cultural links to the rest of the Western World. Those links exist and we are pleased for them, but they do not bind us. We are not forced to accept a miserable fate merely because the British decided that it would be that way. We can think for ourselves! We can rise up as one Anzac nation!

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