Gott
February 14th, 2004, 02:42 PM
Just amend "German' to 'white' or 'European' and I'm all for this.
The 25 Theses Of The German Religion
A Catechism (Breslau, 1934)
Professor Ernst Bergmann
The German has his own religion, which flows like the living water of his own
perception, feeling, and thought, and is rooted in his species. We call it the
German Religion, or the religion of the German Folk, and understand thereby a
German faith expressing the peculiarity and integrity of our race.
The German Religion is the form of faith appropriate to our age, which we
Germans would have today if it had been granted to us to have our native
German religion developed undisturbed to the present time.
The German of today requires a healthy and natural religion which makes him
brave, pious, and strong in the struggle for Folk and Fatherland. Such a
religion is the German Religion.
The German Religion recognises no dogmas, for it is a religion.
The German religion is not a religion of revelation in the christian sense. It
rests rather upon a natural revelation of the divine forces in the world and
in the human mind.
The German Religion is a religion of the Folk. It has nothing to do with free
thought, atheist propaganda, and the disintegration of religion. We who are
genuine followers of the German Religion take our stand on the basis of a
positive religion.
The German Religion is not hostile to a Church. It seeks a German Church on
the basis of a religious Folk.
God is a moral idea to which we are bound by the eternal creative forces of
Nature, which works in the world and in man. Belief in an otherworldly God is
not of Indogermanic but of Semitic origin. This kind of God belief is not a
condition of true religion and piety.
In the lap of the divine living world, the Knowing Being or Mind grows. Mind
is a natural growth of the world of reality. It is not a finished thing at the
beginning, but at the end, at the height of world development.
To God's Being belong will, understanding, and personality. These are,
however, unique in man. Hence man is the place of God in the world.
Man is not God. But he is God's birthplace. God exists and grows in man. If
God does not come in man, He never comes. Hence the German Religion is the
religion of high faith in man.
The German Religion recognises no dualism or conflict between body and soul,
any more than duality and conflict between God and the world, and God and man.
We think of the being, body / soul, as a natural unity and entirety.
The living world is the Womb Mother of the high human mind. Knowing, Being,
and Mind is a birth of the All Mother. The Mother Child thought is, hence, the
right indication of the God World secret. We speak in a modern nature religion
of the Mind Child God, who rests in the womb of the All Mother.
The feelings of union, holiness, and blessedness are the basic religious
feelings. The christian feelings of sin, guilt, and repentance are not
religious feelings at all. They are artificially engendered complexes in man.
The ethics of the German Religion condemn all belief in inherited sin, as well
as the Jewish Christian teachings of a fallen world and man. Such a teaching
is not only non Germanic and non German, it is immoral and non religious.
Whoever preaches this, menaces the morality of the Folk.
Whoever forgives sin, sanctions sin. The forgiving of sin undermines religious
ethics and destroys the morale of the Folk.
At the heart of the German Religion's religious ethics stands concern for the
welfare of Folk and Fatherland, not for the blessedness of the individual. The
German ethic is not one for the salvation of the individual like the christian
ethic, but one for the welfare of the Folk as a whole.
He who belongs to the German Religion is not a slave of god, but lord of the
divine within him. German ethics, therefore, reject making man passive for
receiving grace, as non German.
In the German Religion there is no escape from life, but only release into
life. For it, the statement is valid: Whoever loves man heals him before he is
born, not before he dies. The genuine saviour turns his care towards prenatal
man.
The ethics of the German Religion is an heroic ethics. It rests on three
ancient German virtues: bravery, chivalry, and fidelity, all of which spring
from honour.
We of the German Religion demand the introduction of religious instruction is
the schools. Christian instruction can no longer be regarded as adequate or
valid, since christianity is in our sense no longer a religion.
We of the German Religion construe the divine in images true to life -- a
manly heroic image and a womanly mother image.
One of the two religious forms of the German Religion is the Nordic Light Hero
as the embodiment of heroic manliness. This Nordic Light Hero is the image of
the high human mind and of the heroic and helping leader, which goes
struggling and triumphant ahead as the Moral Ideal of his Folk.
The Mother With The Child is the truest, most loving, sacred and happiness
bringing of all the symbols of world and life. The Mother figure is the
original religious figure from which indeed the God Father figure derives its
splendour. In the German Church there must be alongside the manly heroic
figure the dear and faithful picture of the most blessed Mother, if the Church
is to rest on the laws of life of a Folk's Church.
The cult forms of the German Religion and of the German Folk's Church must
adapt themselves to the living laws of thought which underlie them. The life
of the family, of the State and of the whole Nation must be reflected in a
natural way in these cult forms of the Church, if the Church is to be a modern
Folk's Church with life flowing through it.
The 25 Theses Of The German Religion
A Catechism (Breslau, 1934)
Professor Ernst Bergmann
The German has his own religion, which flows like the living water of his own
perception, feeling, and thought, and is rooted in his species. We call it the
German Religion, or the religion of the German Folk, and understand thereby a
German faith expressing the peculiarity and integrity of our race.
The German Religion is the form of faith appropriate to our age, which we
Germans would have today if it had been granted to us to have our native
German religion developed undisturbed to the present time.
The German of today requires a healthy and natural religion which makes him
brave, pious, and strong in the struggle for Folk and Fatherland. Such a
religion is the German Religion.
The German Religion recognises no dogmas, for it is a religion.
The German religion is not a religion of revelation in the christian sense. It
rests rather upon a natural revelation of the divine forces in the world and
in the human mind.
The German Religion is a religion of the Folk. It has nothing to do with free
thought, atheist propaganda, and the disintegration of religion. We who are
genuine followers of the German Religion take our stand on the basis of a
positive religion.
The German Religion is not hostile to a Church. It seeks a German Church on
the basis of a religious Folk.
God is a moral idea to which we are bound by the eternal creative forces of
Nature, which works in the world and in man. Belief in an otherworldly God is
not of Indogermanic but of Semitic origin. This kind of God belief is not a
condition of true religion and piety.
In the lap of the divine living world, the Knowing Being or Mind grows. Mind
is a natural growth of the world of reality. It is not a finished thing at the
beginning, but at the end, at the height of world development.
To God's Being belong will, understanding, and personality. These are,
however, unique in man. Hence man is the place of God in the world.
Man is not God. But he is God's birthplace. God exists and grows in man. If
God does not come in man, He never comes. Hence the German Religion is the
religion of high faith in man.
The German Religion recognises no dualism or conflict between body and soul,
any more than duality and conflict between God and the world, and God and man.
We think of the being, body / soul, as a natural unity and entirety.
The living world is the Womb Mother of the high human mind. Knowing, Being,
and Mind is a birth of the All Mother. The Mother Child thought is, hence, the
right indication of the God World secret. We speak in a modern nature religion
of the Mind Child God, who rests in the womb of the All Mother.
The feelings of union, holiness, and blessedness are the basic religious
feelings. The christian feelings of sin, guilt, and repentance are not
religious feelings at all. They are artificially engendered complexes in man.
The ethics of the German Religion condemn all belief in inherited sin, as well
as the Jewish Christian teachings of a fallen world and man. Such a teaching
is not only non Germanic and non German, it is immoral and non religious.
Whoever preaches this, menaces the morality of the Folk.
Whoever forgives sin, sanctions sin. The forgiving of sin undermines religious
ethics and destroys the morale of the Folk.
At the heart of the German Religion's religious ethics stands concern for the
welfare of Folk and Fatherland, not for the blessedness of the individual. The
German ethic is not one for the salvation of the individual like the christian
ethic, but one for the welfare of the Folk as a whole.
He who belongs to the German Religion is not a slave of god, but lord of the
divine within him. German ethics, therefore, reject making man passive for
receiving grace, as non German.
In the German Religion there is no escape from life, but only release into
life. For it, the statement is valid: Whoever loves man heals him before he is
born, not before he dies. The genuine saviour turns his care towards prenatal
man.
The ethics of the German Religion is an heroic ethics. It rests on three
ancient German virtues: bravery, chivalry, and fidelity, all of which spring
from honour.
We of the German Religion demand the introduction of religious instruction is
the schools. Christian instruction can no longer be regarded as adequate or
valid, since christianity is in our sense no longer a religion.
We of the German Religion construe the divine in images true to life -- a
manly heroic image and a womanly mother image.
One of the two religious forms of the German Religion is the Nordic Light Hero
as the embodiment of heroic manliness. This Nordic Light Hero is the image of
the high human mind and of the heroic and helping leader, which goes
struggling and triumphant ahead as the Moral Ideal of his Folk.
The Mother With The Child is the truest, most loving, sacred and happiness
bringing of all the symbols of world and life. The Mother figure is the
original religious figure from which indeed the God Father figure derives its
splendour. In the German Church there must be alongside the manly heroic
figure the dear and faithful picture of the most blessed Mother, if the Church
is to rest on the laws of life of a Folk's Church.
The cult forms of the German Religion and of the German Folk's Church must
adapt themselves to the living laws of thought which underlie them. The life
of the family, of the State and of the whole Nation must be reflected in a
natural way in these cult forms of the Church, if the Church is to be a modern
Folk's Church with life flowing through it.