DHARMA: Eternal Natural Religion
I have never been committed to formally belonging to any particular religion, though I certainly believe with complete sincerity and great zeal in God, in obeying His Laws, and in the transformative power of direct experience of the Divine. In our time every religion has fallen into serious decay due to the relentless assaults upon them by Secular Liberalism, Marxism, and other modernist ideologies. While I have nothing but the utmost respect for those who are trying to reform their religious traditions by patching up the damage done to them by these erroneous systems of thought and those apologists who aim to steel them against these assaults, my aim is different. Religions are an imperfect thing, and this is evidenced by the fact that they even can fall into disrepair at all. Many anti-modernist types make of their respective religious tradition or institution a false idol, which is dangerous to do when these have been subverted or corrupted. The only way to avoid the idolatry of religion is to value what religions are meant to lead to more than religion itself: God, the development of a strong moral character, and the quest for spiritual enlightenment.
I have studied almost every spiritual tradition and many philosophies over the course of my life. My intention in doing this was always just to take what was valuable from them and leave the rest behind. What motivated me was actually a sense of pragmatism: Life is very complex, so we need guidance, and it makes sense to turn to the world’s repository of ancient wisdom to guide us since many of the challenges of human life are endemic to human life as such so we can learn how to surmount them by learning how others have done so in the past. Moreover, in a world of constant change, it made sense to want to hang on to truths about human life that are timeless. But as I went about doing this it became readily apparent to me that all religions, and every true philosophy, ultimately spring from the same primeval timeless source. I was surprised at having discovered this, and it wasn’t where I expected to wind up. But I’m quite happy at having discovered this place that I have arrived at within myself.
The religions of this world come and go, but truth never changes. The surest way to recover what’s been lost in Modernity with the decline of “religious” values is just to cling to the truth, which is itself far beyond any exclusive claim of ownership by any tradition or culture or time or place.
When we study ancient religious systems of morality, we recognize patterns. This is natural. The insatiably curious human mind cannot help but study, and to recognize patterns is the prime function of the intellect. So anyone comparing religious systems of morality will discover patterns, and those patterns are the eternal moral laws of the universe. When we study the universe, too, we recognize patterns, and from these scientists uncover unchanging principles of physical reality like gravity. These natural principles of the universe and of human morality are actually qualitatively the same. From henceforth, we will refer to these laws by the traditional name of The Dharma though this concept is hardly strictly “Eastern” or “Hindu” or “Buddhist” but rather it is truly universal.
The Dharma is the eternal natural laws that are the foundational ordering principles of the universe on all levels of reality (physical and spiritual) as well as the objective unchanging governing principles of morality, flourishing human societies, and spiritual growth. We are not to think of these as multiple sets of laws: They are all the same thing, insofar as they are understood correctly, they are all equally just The Dharma. Any good moral law is precisely of the same natural and unchanging quality as the Law of Gravity. The Commandments of God are not what He “imposes” on reality: They are its very structure and substance. God’s Laws, His Words, His Deeds, His Creation, Reality itself, Goodness and Truth and Beauty considered in-themselves, the principles that lead to social and individual flourishing as well as that flourishing itself, and the principles that lead to spiritual enlightenment as well as that enlightenment itself, are all so fundamentally bound up together that they are all just precisely the same thing seen from different angles and manifesting itself in different ways, they are all The Dharma.
Since everything God created is good since He is good and makes out of His own goodness, what we think of as evil or bad is merely something that lacks in goodness. Evil is not a separate qualitative reality from Good. If something were “wholly evil” it would be lacking in existence altogether. Rather, as existence itself is good, something exists to the extent that it is good, so God exists most of all and those demonic spirits who hate him and the humans they are allied with exist on a lesser level. God in this time and in every other time allows evil to thrive for a time to test those who are good, and evil is always decisively defeated in the end and all of its work turned to naught. The more something is conformed to Dharma the more it is good so the more it exists qualitatively. To be out of step with Dharma is to be out of step with reality and thus to be less real.
The Dharma, in the eyes of the wise, constitutes the only laws that ought to be obeyed. Laws enforced by governments, religions, social customs, etc. are only of any value insofar as they correlate with The Dharma and err insofar as they don’t. Good laws are not “made” but discovered, as Newton discovered but did not invent gravity. In times of tyranny, the wise man makes an appeal to higher laws than that of his state, to Law itself: Dharma.
The higher states of consciousness reached in Spiritual enlightenment are, in fact, the result of nothing other than greatly understanding Dharma. Mortals steeped in time as we are, spiritual enlightenment is a gradual process. But it is nothing so foreign to even the most foolish of us as it may seem. A little boy recognizing that he should obey his parents and a Saint’s direct beatific perception of God’s uncreated light are differences of degree and not of kind. Both in this case are understanding Dharma, though the Saint in an exceedingly higher degree than the boy. The natural conclusion of all moral and spiritual development is us waking up from what we think of as ordinary consciousness and entering into the state of God-Consciousness where we perceive Him directly without the filter of religion, symbol, or scripture and this is the conclusion of all ordinary consciousness just as the conclusion of every nightly dream is to wake up. But unlike waking up from a dream to enter into ordinary consciousness, arriving at God-Consciousness is a result of freely chosen choices as opposed to an unconscious automatic biological process.
All “intellectualism” and religion were only ever meant to serve the purpose of our attainment of direct God-Consciousness, and only has value insofar as it does. Learning simple rules of how to behave when young and the rituals of religion were only ever meant to be the seed of a process which blossoms into direct transformative experience of the Divine that is beyond all words and imaginations. At no point in this process are the rules and rituals ever to be discarded: A person doesn’t give up knowing how to walk just because they learned how to run.
The ancient sages of the past attained unto this experience of spiritual enlightenment and it lead them to write the inspired texts that form the basis of all worthwhile religions like The Vedas, The Holy Bible, etc. The Saints of the Christian Churches, the enlightened Yogis of the Vedic tradition, the Buddhas, and the Sufis of Islam’s esoteric dimension, all attained unto Higher Consciousness albeit in different ways and then wrote or spoke of their experience of that which is inherently beyond all thought as best as they could within the linguistic-cultural-social matrix that they were a part of. The stories, instructions, and traditions they left behind are of inestimable value for attaining what they experienced, but it is still itself of no value if we do not put it into practice ourselves.
It was God’s plan for them to leave behind books, artifacts, and symbols about their experiences of that which is beyond all imagining so that our lives could be informed by it: and if what we think and perceive and imagine is not guided by that which is beyond thinking, perception, and imagination we are doomed to suffer. Unless our actions are guided by that which is beyond, so far beyond, all rational and imaginal consideration, then we will destroy ourselves and the world and all that we love. Why is this? Because The Transcendent is not supposed to be something that is missing from our lives. When the saints and sages of yore attained God-Consciousness they were rediscovering what we have lost. The Transcendent belongs to us and we to it, so much so that we cannot possibly function without it: Without that which we cannot possibly describe we cannot know ourselves or understand the world we live in. When we return to our knowledge of Transcendence which was always supposed to be innate and still is in truth, then we understand all of the lesser things which transcendence transcends.
That which we have Faith in, which we place as the north star of our lives, must be transcendent. To be free and happy in this world we must admit that we want God but don’t know exactly who He is. By believing that which is beyond sense-perception and thought is the highest, all that can be thought of or perceived by the senses is brought under subjection, but if we believe that which we can think of or sense is by itself our ultimate aim then we become a slave of whatever thinkable or perceivable thing we have so exulted. Only by admitting our ignorance can we be free. When we admit to God that we do not know who He is, then He begins to reveals Himself to us. But when we idolize our mere ideas of Him as though they were Him in Himself, then He flees from us.
The theologians always describe God with words that stretch our mind’s ability to think, and though it is very good to contemplate these words and stretch our mind as much as possible, ultimately we must understand all of God’s descriptors are beyond our imagination: Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnibenevolence, Omnipresence, Infinity, Eternality, Changeless. He does indeed have these qualities, as well as being the Creator of all there is, all there ever was, all there will ever be and He rules by His providence all things as the Sovereign. He is Pure Being. He is alone the true source of bliss and peace for us and nothing can satisfy our inmost hearts but Him as St. Augustine wrote: “Our hearts belong to Thee, O Lord, and are restless until they rest with thee”... we all know we have an infinite capacity to desire, which is why the things of this world always ultimately disappoint, because they are finite. God, however, is infinite so there is no end to the blissful enjoyment of Him. Only The Infinite One can satisfy our innate infinite capacity to desire.
This condition of God being radically Transcendent and unknown to us is not natural, though at present it is indeed our condition. Mysteriously, the One Above All who is beyond anything we can conceive is not thoroughly alien to us as the Abrahamists sometimes mistakenly assert but He is rather of the same nature as us, and if we do not understand this or find it strange it is only because we do not understand ourselves. He is our Father, our Source. This relationship is not one of adoption but it is more than intimate enough for the moniker of Father to be perfectly applicable to God as we have the same nature as Him but on a lesser quantitative scale because we are His Children. We are not mere human beings and couldn’t ever be just that. We are, in truth, eternal units of pure consciousness who only happen to be passing through a particular human experience at this present time in accordance with the consequences of our Karma and God’s Will. You are not your body, mind, ego, and have passed through many bodies and minds and egos before this one and will even continue to do so. But those bodies, minds, and egos are just many-layered masks you put on and you have been putting them on so habitually you have forgotten they are masks.
As God is our substantial source as well as the sustainer of our existential being at every moment from eternity past and forevermore, we share attributes with Him such as necessary existence. We have always existed, will always exist and could never not exist. In aeons past, we were one with Him but in an unconscious manner. Out of the overflowing abundant goodness of His essential Being, He made us so we could love and know and serve Him in this universe that He emanates. We are “parts” of God in a somewhat similar manner to how droplets of water are parts of the Ocean. Though the droplet of water and the ocean are of the same nature the Ocean has certain powers that the droplet does not have just by virtue of its quantitative difference. The Ocean is wholly dominant over the droplet. But this isn’t a perfect metaphor, because God unlike the Ocean is truly infinite. We are “parts” of Him but we do not take away from or add to Him either - after all, when you subtract one from infinity you are still left with infinity. We are made out of Him but He wasn’t lessened or made the slightest less perfect or whole or complete in-himself when He separated us from Him, as He is infinite. If I have a lump of clay and make things out of clay, I will gradually have less clay as I keep making things. But God has emanated this whole universe, and made us out of Himself while yet remaining infinite and complete and pure.
“Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all of these kings. Nor in the future shall any of us cease to be” (Bhagavad Gita 2.12).
The oldest continuously surviving religious tradition in the world is Sanatana Dharma, and in that tradition we can find the truths elucidated above. You hear someone say “We have always existed” and you think this is New Age tripe, but men from 5000+ years ago believed that and wrote it down and contemplated it at length and this is easily historically verified. The men who God tasked with writing this down for future generations were the Indo-Aryans, a branch of the Indo-European, Caucasian or Aryan race that went south-east into India from the Pontic-Caspian steppe instead of westward into Europe as most of them did. Though the men who wrote these truths down in sacred scriptures were White as I am, one needn’t be White in order to realize these truths in the depths of their being: One could even be yellow or brown, believe it or not! But it is providential, an essential component of God’s plan, that precisely at a time of spiritual and demographic crisis amongst the White Race that these texts made by our long-lost eastward brothers should be rediscovered and recognized by us as belonging to us: The Vedas, yoga, silent meditation are as much a part of the genius of the white race as Newton and Mozart. It is God’s Will for me to make these connections and to explain them to you for your own good and the good of all mankind. These “Eastern” ideas, which are really Aryan ideas, have been gradually corrupted somewhat by the dusky aborigines whom the Aryans conquered when they invaded India and established the caste system. But it is not too difficult to separate the Aryan purity from the Dravidian corruptions, to do so is an essential component of our work here on the Scythian Bro newsletter.
The Holy Bible communicates the truth that we have always existed as a part of God before taking on a separate existence from Him but in an esoteric way. In general, one will often find that the esoteric core of each Abrahamic religion closely resembles Dharma. What is esoteric in Abrahamic religions is exoteric in many Dharmic religions. In Genesis 2:7 we read: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul..” the word for breath and the word for spirit in Hebrew is the same word, Ruach. The breath/spirit we have, our vital animating principle as well as our spirit comes directly from God. Our breath is from God’s breath. Our breath remains our most quintessential way of connecting with God, as He designed us so that by focusing on the breath our mind becomes stilled and in the stillness of a silent mind He reveals himself to us and we attain God-Consciousness.
Understanding that we do not understand God is important, and it is also important to understand that He is our Source. Because of this we have a certain likeness to Him and an innate desire to become more like Him. Any healthy being necessarily wants to become more powerful, and this is essential to life qua life as Nietzsche points out. Thus, it is normal for us to want to become more like God. But there are correct and incorrect ways to go about this healthy desire of ours to become more like God who is The One Above All. Inaccurate answers to the questions “Who is God?” “Who are we?” “How do we become more like God?” “What does God want?” lead to this wretched world that we know, this world of people meandering about and relentlessly seeking for things that don’t lead to lasting happiness or peace because they are not God, this world of people who are ignorant of their true nature and do not even know that they do not know!
Sometimes, too, they actually do know what they need but because they are deceived by the false philosophies of men, lead astray by their own bad behaviour, and practice spirituality poorly they cannot attain it. What we think of as this whole world, and all of its tragical history, flows from error only, and when we correct those errors within ourselves and our own lives we are well on our way to being decisively liberated from this world and the terrors of its history.
Because we have free will there was always the possibility that we would become deluded by the things of this world and forget God. Our Father knew the risks when He gave us free will, and He in His infinite wisdom thought it was worth it. Free Will is necessary for love to be meaningful, and for us to love meaningfully is very good, and to make what is good is of course in His nature. But more importantly, I think we must understand that the fully realized soul, the saint, the enlightened man, more than makes up for the evilness of evil in the eyes of God. I think, actually, that even just one saint makes up for all the evilness in this world put together. If there were only ever 1000 humans and 999 turned out like Stalin and just 1 turned out like St. Francis of Assisi, making humans would have been worth it to God. Such is the high opinion that God has of the saint and if we doubt this it is because we think too little of the goodness of good and too much of the evilness of evil.
The real world, the world as God intended, is very different from the world we know. We’re all supposed to see and walk with Him as intimately and as familiarly as a child does their loving parents. What need is there of theology when you can speak to God directly as surely as you can speak to anyone else? All the Theology of man is a response to a sickness, usually a bad response, to our abominable condition of not knowing God, of having abandoned Him to do whatever we like due to our delusion that we can find happiness and peace apart from Him. We are all meant to know exactly what it is that God wants us to do. People are not meant to have existential crises and then have to go on some intense personal quest to know God and find out what He wants from them. This only happens because of our fallen condition. We’re all meant to know what to do with our lives from the earliest age, to be around our racial tribe of people who are striving to do the same, to live in the intimate presence of those from among our own tribe who have attained the highest degree of consciousness and can guide us to it themselves. That is the original human community: wild and noble tribes living in the literal presence of God, in harmony with each other and the beautiful natural world the abundance of which provides for all of their needs as they pursue virtue and the highest states of spiritual enlightenment. That is the original community, and all other communities are a divergence from that. That is the original way of life of all people and anything else is a departure. The more people separate themselves from God, the more human communities drifted from this gold standard of primeval social purity, and thus we have the despicable communities of today where people do not know God, have erroneous ideas of Him, do not even consider Him, where they live in artificial environments of plastic and steel in discordance with themselves, each other, Nature, Nature’s God, and every living thing. But the original way of life will cyclically return, only to be lost again and then be restored in a cycle that has happened many times on many planets in every universe.
Yes, originally people attained the highest degrees of spiritual enlightenment in a singular lifetime. Now it can take potentially many lifetimes of spiritual striving and practice for us to wake up from the delusion of ordinary consciousness and return to God-Consciousness because of the dross of bad habits, errors, and sins we have accumulated over many lifetimes.
But do not be discouraged. God-Consciousness makes everything worth it. We get many hints of what it is like as we approach the goal, as one who is walking towards the ocean can smell the salt in the air and hear the rolling waves long before the ocean is even in sight. Have trust that in spite of every possible obstacle in your life during this age of madness, you can still attain the summit of God-Consciousness or at least make significant headway towards it, which is no small thing. The truth is, to even know about God-Consciousness at all is to be getting prepared to experience it personally. Your infinite capacity to love and to understand will be utterly fulfilled by the Infinite Himself and from this will result ever-new bliss and knowledge forevermore. As if this wasn’t enough just in itself, you will be a god yourself. In truth you already are but you are to a god what a fetus is to a human being. The fetus’ natural destiny is to develop into a human being, but the fetus has no capacity to understand or to know what it is about to become or to imagine the world it is about to enter into when it merges from mother’s womb. Similarly, what you are meant to become is as different from what you are now as what you are now is from the fetus that you once were. But you can understand what being a fetus is much better now that you are a man, and you will be able to understand what it was like to be a man much better when you are at last a god as you were always meant to be.
We are meant to be gods who serve God. That is the ultimate mode of existence for every unit of consciousness, including you, and it is your purpose to evolve into that. What will such a life be like? God can create “out of nothing” in the sense that He can make appear what was previously beyond anyone’s ability to think, perceive, or imagine: If He had never thought of stone or trees you wouldn’t be able to think, perceive, or imagine those things. But you can mould stone or trees in a myriad ways, and this is your privilege as a Sub-Creator. Ultimately only God is a Creator, but you are a lesser kind of creator who can create out of the forms that God has created. You already possess this ability even just as a mere mortal. But as a god you will possess this ability in an infinitely greater way. You will rule over aspects of His Creation and have power over them.
As we have said on other articles of this newsletter: In one sense, the spiritual journey is about evolving to a higher level of being. In another sense, it’s about discovering the higher being that you have always been. This may seem paradoxical, as all ultimate truths do, but both senses are correct. You evolve into a being that more fully reflects what you have always been: An immortal child of God, full of terrible power and radiant beauty.
The meaning of life could never be something arbitrary, constructed, or convoluted. In order for life to even make sense at all, the meaning of life would have to be evidently self-justifying. So it is! When you have God-Consciousness you will see the whole universe and all of history from God’s eyes. In that moment it will reveal itself as always having been the most rapturously beautiful masterpiece of art. You will be near to God who has always loved you and known you in a deeply personal way from eternities past unto eternities future as your true parent, true spouse, and true friend. You will revel in your power to play with the fabric of reality and be immersed in creating what is good, true, and beautiful.
Ask God to guide you on the path back to Him. Set aside all sectarian strife, do not worry at this present time if you are meant to be Christian or Pagan or some other such label. Just talk to God. He is your loving parent and He wants to hear from you. Pray a little prayer as soon as you finish this article. Say whatever you want so long as it is sincere but try to really think of who He is. Then, when you are done that, close your eyes and meditate, focusing on your breath. When you get distracted, as you inevitably will, just bring your mind gently back to your breath. Ask in a space of silence for His guidance and behold, He will guide you. If you follow that guidance you will move towards God-consciousness. You may have a thought or a feeling that you know wasn’t from you swell up in you, or perhaps a voice you’ve been ignoring your whole life will suddenly be heard clearly. Perhaps nothing will happen - if so, don’t fret. You’ve laid the groundwork for connecting to Him, and His subtle work on our souls needn’t make itself known with signs and voices: He can work wonders in us even when we do not know He is doing anything to us at all. If you do that, and keep doing it your whole life: You will have understood the meaning of life and lived a meaningful life besides. You will have practiced The Eternal Natural Religion of the Aryans.
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