Naamloos

1. Understand that no one can give you freedom. Freedom is a treasure that must be stolen.

2. Do not believe anything until it has been officially denied.

3. Remember the words of Frederick the Great of Prussia: “he who defends everything defends nothing.”

4. Remember Aleister Crowley’s warnings: your friend can do more harm than a stranger and the greatest danger lies in your own habits.

5. Keep plans simple. Do not take unnecessary risks. Trust only what you control.

6. Follow the wisdom of Sun Tzu, and always provide the enemy with an escape route. When surrounded, even a rodent will fight ferociously.

7. Know that when you fight alone and on foot, you are the most difficult target to locate on the battlefield. Your intelligence makes you the stealthiest of all weapons.

8. If you must die fighting, have an audience.

9. Never forget that dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy.

“ Le froid, le silence et la solitude sont des états qui se négocieront demain plus chers que l’or. Sur une Terre surpeuplée, bruyante, une cabane forestière est l’eldorado.”

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In many ways, the grasp that Christianity once held on the Western mind is sloughing off, but in its place we see the dispiriting materialism which has taken root, a profane humanist rationalism which negates all that cannot be scientifically or physically quantified. Our ability to view traditional folklore from an “insider’s perspective” has been grossly impeded, and myth even more so. We’ve placed limitations on our own abilities to truly imagine - to be awed completely and totally by the greater mysteries of our world. The results of this compromise are plain for all to see. In sacrificing this part of ourselves to the gods of an industrial age we have lost a once profound and intimate relationship we shared with the natural - and supernatural - world.

“Ｂｅａｕｔｙ　ｉｓ　ｓｏｍｅｔｈｉｎｇ　ｔｈａｔ　ｂｕｒｎｓ　ｔｈｅ　ｈａｎｄ　ｗｈｅｎ　ｙｏｕ　ｔｏｕｃｈ　ｉｔ．”

The countryside is not a slice of untilled nature. It is a human institution built over centuries in the image of the people who made it.