We’re collaborating with some folk at Ave Satanas Podcast (ASP) and Free Society Satanists to bring you a miniseries looking at Might Is Right — ur-text of Satanism and an infamous work of proto-fascism first published in 1896 by Arthur Desmond a.k.a. “Ragnar Redbeard”.

To be clear: Might Is Right sucks, both as a book and ideology. It’s full of doggerel, bigotry, and contradictions. But we’re gonna talk about it, chapter-by-chapter, from the perspective of modern, anarchist Satanists who feel that racism, misogyny, antisemitism, and tyranny are “bad, actually”.

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Assuming we can make the technical stuff work, the idea is for us to talk this week about the background of Arthur Desmond and Might Is Right, and why a piece of shit book like that is even worth investigating almost 130 years later.

(Spoiler: Anton LaVey plagiarized it for The Satanic Bible.)

Since we’re springing this on you suddenly, the chapter-by-chapter stuff won’t start until Friday Aug. 22, giving people time to do their reading and weigh-in. The first one will prolly be messy, but also to do some open table-setting about why we are bothering with this project now.

We’re using the mechanically impressive “Authoritative Edition” that Trevor Blake put together and published in 2019, harmonizing and annotating various versions, but nobody else ought to feel obligated to use that one rather than any of the free versions you can find floating around on the Web.

Frankly, if you follow along reading the 1910 edition published by “14 Words Press”, you are in some ways getting the more genuine and relevant version of this rancid fucking text, what it is all about, and it’s cultural significance than Blake’s version which falls all over itself in apologism.

This is not really a fun book to read, and if you haven’t read it before, maybe it’s not worth your while.

However, the fact that is bad actually helps to explain a lot of the stuff you see around you today, and the continuity of shit like incels and “anti-theist” antisemitism is also useful.

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Book editions

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• This chapter: [Highlighted]

Ep. 4: Chapter 4 “Man the Carnivore” (pages 131-177)

The Ideal Animal, a destructive warrior — not a crucified carpenter. ‘Moral Principles” are slave-regulations. 

There is a whole lot of antisemitism that, for the sake of avoiding redundancy, we’re largely going to elide. Not that it’s not present or important to understanding what’s going on here but because we’ve talked about this at length, and we expect you to already have that understanding from previous episodes.

We also are not going to talk about cannibalism nearly so much as this chapter is actually about because there’s not that much to really say; Ragnar just was in need of a proper editor and couldn’t figure out for himself nothing was achieved by his multiplication of (often spurious) examples. We are going to talk about some of the specific examples and try to understand what he meant by it since, as always, he appears to be confused by whether he thinks cannibalism is good or bad. This is resolved when you remember he thinks cannibalism by people like him is good and cannibalism of people like him is bad. 

(Jack) Even in cannibalism, he choses to be a racist/classist prick! At least he’s consistent. 

Section 1

It has taken countless evolutionary epochs to make man what he is the most ferocious hirsute beast of prey that inhabits the caverns and jungles of earth.

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Can his [mankind’s] structural anatomy, intended for conflict and slaughter, be transformed in a day, a year, or even in ‘‘a million, million of suns?”

To overmaster and devour his neighbor, in the reasoned effort to obtain food and booty, land, love, renown and gold is bred into the very marrow of his bones. 

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“We may be going to the devil,” is the un-spoken retort of these thundering legionaries—these Nations “but even so! is not the Devil honest—the Destroyer of Deception!—the Disobedient One?”

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Can you lasso the stars with a green-hide lariat? Can you block the march of Might with magnificient howls of declamatory despair?

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If the highroad leads through hells. then those infernos must be besieged, assailed and taken possession of—aye, even if their present monarchs have to be rooted-out with weapons as demoniac and deadly as their own. 

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This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay!—a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander, and better, and—more natural.

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For, I doubt not, through the ages, one tremendous purpose runs;
and maturing crops are ripened with the process of the suns —
to be sickled down, threshed, and rolled away.

Nations rise, rule, decay and every dog—has his day.

Section 2

Undoubtedly the Black Magic of the Christ Myth, combined with the subterrenean sorcery of medieval sacredotalism has partially succeeded, not only in sapping individual initiative, but also in suppressing in our Race, many of its ancestral leonine traits, and superb Barbarian Virtues. But as yet, it has not wholly triumphed in its emasculating necromancy. No! it has not transfigured us all into teams of contented oxen, and bunches of earmarked sheep, although that is, evidently, its final hope. There are some of the grand old stock, yet left alive. Few indeed. are they, amidst a world of slaves and swine.

The lion is still the lion, although his teeth have been most foully filed down by abominable moral codes; his skin made scrofulous with the mange and leprosy of caged peacefulness—his paws fettered by links of slave-voted statutes; and an iron collar of State Offipialism, wound around his regal neck.

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Great and powerful governments, Commanding Peace , come into existence ONLY in ages of decadence; when nations are on the downward grade. 

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…in obedience to some sovereign code, they lose their hardihood and increase their numbers. Then that ALL may live, they become laborious, submissive to Regulations; and finally—with Death held up by priestcraft as a fearsome Terror, all personal valor fades away. 

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The normal man is the man that loves and feasts and fights and hunts, the predatory man. The abnormal man is he that toils for a master, half-starves, and “thinks”—the Christly dog. The first is a perfect animal; the second, a perfect—monster.

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Every belief that makes a duty of humility—that inspires a people with “moral” courage only, enervates their fibre, corrupts their spirit, and prepares them first for thraldom and then for—throttling.

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It is not possible to conceive of Grand Life without incessant rivalry, prepetual warfare and the implacable hunting of man by man. 

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Terror, torture, agony, and the wholesale destruction of feeble and worn out types, must mark in future as in the past, every step forward, or backward, in evolution, homo-culture, and racial displacement.

The soil of every nation is an arena, a stamping ground, where only the most vigorous animals may ope to hold their own. What is all history but the epic of a colossal campaign, the final Armageddon of which, is never likely to be fought; because, when men cease to fight—they cease to be—Men.

This old earth is strewn to the very mountain-tops with the fleshless skulls and rain bleached bones of perished combatants in countless myriads.

Every square foot, every inch, of soil contains its-man.

Section 3

The evolution (or de-volution) of mankind demands the perpetual transfiguration of one man into another, continous re-incarnation, eternal re-birth, and re-construction. Scientifically considered, the “resurrection of the dead” is not an illusion. Every living organism is formed from the decomposed essence of preexistent organisms. The ‘ ‘man’ ’ of to-day is actually built-up out of the grave-mould of his prototypes; perhaps of ages long forgotten. Thus, without death there could be no birth-material; and without conflict, fierce and deadly, there could be no surpassing.

But to individuals foolishly trained to bewail their fate, all these commonplace facts are agonizing.
 

“When we solemnly look upon this perpetual conflict,” writes Schelling with true theocratic pessimism, “it fills us with shuddering sorrow, and with boundless alarm—but how can we help it? Hence the veil of sadness that is spread over all nature, the deep in destructible melancholy of all life.”

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Christs may come and Christs may go, but Caeser is for ever.

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So long as we remain animals, we shall be dominated by animal wants and animal passions and animal rivalries.

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‘‘When the Assyrians and after them the Medes and Persians’’ writes Tacitus, “were masters of the Oriental world, the Jews of all nations, then held in subjection, were deemed the most contemptible.’ Christ was a pariah Jew. …

The Model Man of our forefathers was Odin, a War Lord, but our Ideal Man is a weeping, horsewhipped Jew.* A Jew for a God!

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The deities of the Greeks and Vikings, Goths and Romans, were all (originally) mighty-men-of-valor, or virile women of surpassing beauty: afterwards held up (before their warlike posterity ) as splendid examples of natural nobility, conscious power, daring courage, shrewdness, sexual vigor, and boundless strength of character. The gods and heros of antiquity spent their vital force in the destruction of monsters, in the seizure of new hunting-grounds, in the slaughtering of tyrants, and in the breeding of unconquerable sons.

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The ‘dead and alive” conditions of the “Celestial” Empire will then be applied to this Western World and under the thin disguise of “Advancement,” “Progress,” and “Civilization,” an atmosphere of excruciating torture must be artificially created; hostile to all but degenerative forces- as in China. In the name of “goodness,” “righteousness,” and “morality,” Woe shall be poured out upon our Seed, as it has already been poured out on the rotten Swarms of the Orient.

Congenital enfeeblement of body, together with organic degeneracy of mind, must then go on and on, at an ever accelerating ratio, until our posterity may end (as Darwin imagined we began) by becoming chattering apes, without sense enough to light a fire, crack a cocoanut, or swing by their tails.

Behold the modern man! this “heir of all the ages—in the foremost ranks of time!” His sight, taste, smell and hearing are all notoriously defective. He can harness thunderbolts, but the unerring instinct of a carrier-pigeon is beyond him. His brain has become an over-heated thinking engine, but he may not read the Daily Morning Liar—without spectacles. He “understands” more things than he used to (or thinks he does) but if suddenly removed from his artificial environment, he would perish as helplessly as the Babes-in-the-Wood. He can gauge sound-waves; photograph broken bones; construct gigantic iron monsters; whisper across miles of copper wire; but, when the pointer-dog sniffs the hidden pheasant from afar off, this erudite Bundle-of-Nerves looks on in blank amazement.. The fact is that the civilized man is gradually “losing his senses.” If he continues to ‘‘progress” at the existing rate, in a comparatively little while, he will have no smell, no sight, no hearing.

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It is good for a degraded people to be utterly consumed.

Section 4

In the department of Natural History, it is axiomatic that all kinds of living beings, from protozoa to man; subsist and propogate, through and by the destruction of feebler competitors, belonging to the same species or to kindred species.

Thus the big fish eat the little fish—the big trees (by absorbing and monopolizing the nutriment) “eat up” the little trees—the strong animals eat the weak animals and so on—ad infinitum.

Man is no exception. 

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Conquering and masterful nations have ever been ravenous devourers of flesh-food; and most of them have also been man-eaters.

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Even cannibalism is not extinct in far lands, nor quite unknown in the centres of our proudest civilizations. With the first great revolutionary cataclysm, its revival upon a gigantic scale is not an improbibility.

During the eleventh century, man’s flesh was cooked, sold, and eaten in England, and Englishmen may again revert to anthropophagy, if ever their imported food supplies should be suddenly and entirely cut off; either by convulsions of nature or acts of war. Shipwrecked crews have repeatedly saved themselves by casting lots and devouring some of their number: and shipwrecked nations (loaded up to the hatches with seething cargos of festering useless nondescripts), may yet be driven to do the same.

Innumerable are the folk-lore legends, relating to ancient and modern man-eaters. Formal human sacrifices upon the Altars of Idols are quite common. In Mexico and Ancient Britain, prelates butchered their victims (generally young virgins) in public, amid the acclaim of musical instruments, the chanting of beautiful liturgies, and the liossanna shouts of the mob.

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The modern prelate does not employ the rude smoking gully-knife, but uses other weapons, ten times more keen and more destructive. For every human sacrifice ‘offered-up’ in olden times, millions are offered now.

Section 5

Very intelligent New Zealand aboriginals may still be found, who will describe with much apparent gusto, how (in comparatively recent dates) they satiated their ravenous hunger, by banqueting all night, upon the grilled flesh of foemen they had tomahawked during the day. Neither is it uncommon to hear tatooed old veterans, tell how war-captives were penned up like cattle and fattened upon each other, until required for the tribal oven (formed of red-hot stones, paved into an oval hollow in the ground):—how then the fattest were selected one by one taken out, systematically bled, disembowelled, and hung up by the heels on neighboring trees; just as sheep, swine, and cattle are exposed for sale, in our own abattoirs and meat-markets. The Maoris also have a tradition, that if a man kills and eats his enemy, he by doing so, absorbs all the dead mans vitality, strength, and courage.

In the nascent Colony of New Zealand, missionaries soldiers, whalers, and pioneers were often cooked and eaten; but by a general consensus of epicurean opinion the‘Pakeha’s’flesh was voted bad form principally because it was ‘too tough, and too salt.’

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All over contintental Europe there is a popular superstition that Jew Rabbis steal and murder Christian infants and maidens, in order to use the blood on the door-lintels, at Passover and other ceremonials.

A similar charge was brought against the early Christians, and even PROVED in the Imperial Law Courts, if we are to judge by the verdicts.

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Is not the Communion Service allegorical anthropophagy? Is it not a pious periodical cannibal feast in more ways than one? Does not the wine symbolize human blood, and the wafers typify human flesh?

Metaphorically considered, every trading Christian State is a meat market, wherein the flesh, bones, and blood; not only of men, but of women and little children are bought and sold daily—“offered up” nominally for the “Love of God;” really for the Love of Dollars.

Atrocities of the most revolting description are of daily, hourly occurence, not only in Turkey and Siam, but in New York and Chicago; not only in Cuba and Port Arthur, but in London, Madrid, and Paris; not only in Mashonaland, and on the Congo, but in St. Petersburg and Berlin. Men, women, and little children are being everywhere starved slowly to the grave worked till they fall down, driven insane by legislatation, and even tortured to death, inch by inch.

Great financial corporations (backed by the State) directed mostly by Hebrews, literally coin Great Empires into golden dividends: and upon the share lists of mortgage banks and man-devouring institutions generally, may be found the names of bishops, popes, preachers, generals, governors, statesmen—and—other human Carnivores by the thousand. 

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There are confraternities still in existence, into which no one is ever admitted until he has first killed a man. Among the Dyaks (as among our own ancestors) a youth is never considered a full-grown person capable of founding a home; until he has slain at least one enemy in battle. 

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The segmental fragments of pre-historic civilizations are—the Cannibal Savages of to-day—the savages that we are displacing, pushing aside in order that we may enslave them and repeat over again the same weary old round of growth, power, and decay.

Shiploads of dead soldiers, dug out of old battlefields, possess a regular commercial value. They are imported into England, to be chemically treated and manufactured into fertilizers for enriching exhausted wheat fields. Human hair commands a steady sale, and “cadavers” may be bought for dissection, in any great city for a dollar, C. O. D. The tanning of human skins for glove-making and book-binding (Meudonl) is an old established industry.

American sheriffs and detectives hunt down tramps and criminals with specially trained bloodhounds, just as Russians hunt wolves, and sheepfarmers hunt coyotes and dingos. It is nowise unusual for Negros to be first captured, then chained to a stake, flayed alive, soaked in kerosene, and burnt to death amid exultant shrieks of corybantic delight.

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Is this the record of a breed of “dearly beloved brethren” ? What hollow mockery these holy phrases aro, to be sure?—The Brotherhood of man! Ha! Ha! The Brotherhood of Devils rather!

Allegorically speaking the clothes we wear—the houses we live in—the food we eat—the books we read, have been carved (by force) out of other mens bones and flesh. Literally they are the hides, sinews, flesh, pulp, and outer woolen covering of captive animals, transmuted by human slavery into garments, lumber, implements, thoughts, shoes, and daily dinners. Indeed mans tushes are against all other animate beings whatsoever; and in turn, their fangs are against him. So it goes on, and on, and on, as merrily as marriage bells. Viae Victus! And behold, it is good! This world is no Nirvana, where peaceful pleasure flows. It is a gruesome butcher-shop, where slain men hang in rows.

Section 6

From the scientific point of view, it is but a single step, from the eating of captive cattle, horses, sheep, hares, rabbits, deer, hogs, etc. to the eating of captive men.

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Structurally, men are fashioned for purposes of inflicting and suffering pain. Every hnman anatomy is an elaborate nerve and bone infernal machine—a kind of breathing, perambulating Juggernaut —a superb engine of lethal immolation that, automatically stokes its furnace fires with its… victims.

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As the painted Redskin chants his vengeful ghost-song; so the furious Paleface whoops his double-leaded editorial. As the hungry lion roars at midnight on African karoo, or in Himalayan jungle; so the piratical Anglo-Tueton roars his ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ his ‘Brittania Rules the Waves,’ or his ‘Watch by the Rhine.’ Exactly as the Moslem fanatic yells “Allah Akbar,” while slicing up hated “Christian dogs,” so the vicious Englishman thunders forth his “Hip, Hip, Hurrah!” while driving an elegant bayonet-dagger into the liver of “wicked heathens;” whose property he therafter annexes—as a matter of course; for “business is business, don’t you know.”

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Even the component elements of a human body are themselves in a constant state of internecine warfare.Our bony framework and pulsating tissues, are vast campaigning grounds; whereon microscopical animal-cube in countlesss myriads, fight out their ephemeral lives, as we ourselves do—with tooth and claw. When one swarm of microbes, germs, or spores, conquer (in the struggle for sustenance) disease, or death supervenes to us, as the case may be. When rival hosts vanquish, then our flesh, nerves, bones, and blood becomes their happy hunting grounds, and our health returns—at least until the bacilli-battalions have finally eaten us out: or they have been, themselves, conquered and exterminated by fiercer swarms.

It is not improbable that this earth itself is a living breathing organism, and that the Tribes of Man are microbes and bloodsucking vermin (on its outer cuticle) imagining themselves “the whole thing.” Just as itch-creating parasites burrow into our own hide, so (in our turn) we may be unpleasant parasites, burrowing in the hide of some nobler and grander Being.

Section 7

As a full grown citizen he practices homicide with repeating rifle, at moving targets—slaughters tame pigeons with choke-bore breechloaders—hunts foxes, wolves, bears, pumas, over mountain and mere—wades tip to his neck in swamps to kill teal, and travels to far lands in search of Big Game and [n-slur] shooting.

The Indian fighters of North America take supreme joyaunce in slaying red devils; and to “pot a black-fellow” in Queensland is boasted of round camp-fires under gum trees, as —“great fun.”

The Cape of Good Hope, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, have been made into veritable human shambles and gory hunting grounds, within the memory of middle-aged men. Indeed the delight which men take in slaying wild animals, is tameness itself, compared with the exultation they display in hunting, trailing and slaughtering each other.

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Man-hunts were organized systematically in Lacadaemon, when the helots became too numerous and too restive. It is not improbable that as our own surplus “submerged tenths” increase in numbers, they may be thinned out by similar battues.

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Not only do we ferociously compete for prey i.e. for subsistence; but we literally eat each other with voracity, relish, and mutual toleration. Thus properly understood, Darwinism is no very comforting doctrine for fat men.

Section 8

When not thwarted by artificial contrivances, whatever argument Nature promulgates is—right. The further man gets away from Nature, the further he departs from right. To be right is to be natural, and to be natural is to be right. 

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Darwin’s law exists—may be seen in operation—is practicable—of daily demonstration—therefore it also is right. It is not a dream like “Religion,” it is not an invention like “Morals;” it is not an assumption like “God.” It is a cosmic Fact, like the sunshine, the rain, and the tides! Nature does not set up Idols, does not found Superstitions, does not invent Decalogues. 

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To base a Lie upon a Myth, is certainly much safer than to base it on a Realty, for you cannot run a tape-measure over a Myth.

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Moral codes, (always and everywhere imposed upon the common people by “immoral” combinations of cumulative craft) are never obeyed by Ruling Castes.

Section 9

Never yet has there been a Christian king, a Christian president, a Christian congress, nor a Christian synod. 

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The Romans first appear in history as a gang of banditti—the English as a nest of pirates—the Germans as a horde of roving freebooters—the Russians as a band of mounted horse-thieves—the Americans as pious anarchists and [n-slur] stealers—the Australians as exiled cut-purses—the Turks as Bedouin brigands.

Everywhere symbols of kingship, tribal totems, and insignia of state, Speak of Violence, Defiance and War.

The fasces carried before a Roman Pretor, consisted of an axe for chopping necks, and a bundle of rods for whipping backs. The Mace of the English parliamentary organization, of which the American system is an imitative offshoot (‘‘that bauble of Crom- well’’?) also all Royal Sceptres are but carved and gilded clubs. Originally both Mace and Sceptre were in daily use for breaking recalitrant skulls. They are still emblematic of Legislative Authority—and offensive Violence—as much so indeed, as the knotted bludgeon, the barbed lance, or the greenstone skull-splitter of an orthodox cannibal chief. 

National crests are selected, not as a rule from doves, lambs, goats, magpies, and hares; but from lions, tigers, she-wolves, serpents, dragons, bears, eagles, and the Fighting Man.
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The policemans loaded truncheon, the huzzars slicing sabre, and the artillery companies field piece, are still the ultimo ratio of Order, Liberty, Peace. The maxim-gun is a devolopment, and a decided improvement upon the old time bludgeon; especially when dealing with rabid revolutionary masses. One of those beautiful engines and half a dozen trained men, if supplied with plenty of ammunition, could wipe out in half a day, the largest mob of would-be insurgents that London, Paris, or Chicago ever saw. “We have found in most cases that one regiment of regular infantry, is quite capable of managing the biggest and wildest mob ” writes millionaire editor Kohlsaat. \ Olngago Times-Herald. (13-11-96)

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Law Courts and Thrones are (de facto) built upon bayonets. Likewise all Statutes, Constitutions, and Moral Codes are written by the Sword. Material Strength is now, and ever has been, and ever must be, the true basis upon which all political institutions rest. No other foundation is feasable.

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European land-title deeds may be (in every instance) traced back to military and kingly power. In all the English colonies, waste lands are occupied and cleared, under “Crown giants.” The same principle prevails in this Republic and among all savage tribes

Section 10

By force all things that exist are evolved maintained and perpetuated. Force aggregates and seperates the atoms that go to make up this cosmic universe of mind and matter. It integrates them into forms, organic and inorganic. It disintegrates them again and again. It builds up and pulls down, without the slighest respect to mans wishes or desires. It theorizes, creates, constructs, annihilates, attacks, and repels. It is literally in all, through all, and over all.

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The surface of the soil is a lethal chamber—the bottom of the sea a charnel house. Both are littered from pole to pole with the ruins of forgotten “civilizations” that men and nature have delighted to destroy. Everywhere and always the debilitated have perished, everywhere and always the mightiest have won.

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See to it O Men, that you breed fighters! See to it that you train them too! ‘The harper is not made otherwise than by harping ”’ nor the warrior otherwise than by war. 

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Under natural conditions, there is no haven for the wretched, no hope for the weaklings, no resting place for the weary, no quarter for the beaten. Nature loathes Infirm Ones. Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve. This is an Ultimatum.

Section 11

Herbert Spencer (referring to the origin of manners, customs, and political institutions) says:- “The will of the victorious chief, of the strongest, was the rule of all conduct. When he passed judgement on private quarrels, his decisions were the origin of law. The mingled respect and terror inspired by his person and his peerless qualities, then deemed super-natural by the rude minds that had scarcely an idea of the powers and limits of human nature, were the origins of religions, and ms opinions were the first dogmas. The signs of obedience by which the vanquished, whom he spared, repaid his mercy, were the first examples of those marks of respect that are now called good manners and forms of courtesy.”

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“The great political superstition of the present,” (also writes Spencer,) is “the divine right of parliaments and the implied divine right of majorities.”

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Every People that have been blotted-out, were rightfully blotted-out. What a frightful maggot-heap this earth would now be, if the “civilized” populations of the past, had not perished? If nature had permitted them to live and multiply and propogate their “progress”, that is to say, their iniquity, what a noisome sink it would be? What must near Futurity be like, if wars and plagues do not come, burning up contemporary infernalisms, and purifyfng the air?

Thus, the utter extermination of enfeebled breeds is in accordance with the Highest Wisdom: and whether we personally approve thereof or not, it must persist. There is nothing unjust, nothing ultra-natural, nothing diabolic about the elimination of the vile —to make room for the “sound in mind and limb.”

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Dr. Haycraft, F.R.S.E. in his book ‘Darwinism and Race Progress” asserts “there are strong grounds for believing that during the last 30 years, the race has decidely degenerated.” The decadence of character is obvious to the most obtuse understanding, especially in this land of Liberty and Light; where you can buy statesmen with a snuff-box—editors with a dollar and—women with a gew-gaw.

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Overt action is not always needful for the drastic removal of lower organisms. Very often, if left alone, degenerates cremate themselves. If given control of governmental mechanisms, they immediately commence to grind oneanother into mincemeat—(that is to say, into dividends); crying Holy! Holy! Holy! Mentally, physically, morally, they are past redemption.Doomed souls are they—miserable sinners!

Seventy-five per cent of the inmates of state orphan asylums (for example), are the children of parents that perish from chronic alcoholism. Poverty, helotism, are results of chronic ballot-boxing. Alcoholism and politics are convenient Destructives—Crematories; whereby weak-minded “flocks” may eliminate themselves with beneficient results-

Nature having already condemned them, they provide each other with palatable poisons—for slow but sure suicide. They build gehenna-fires and cast themselves headlong into blazes.

Sociology is a biological problem, and Nations are herds of cattle. How much demagogic he-hawing would die down into solemn self-questioning, if this Grim Omnific Fact was clearly realized.

BE AS A LION IN THE PATH!

‘Resist not evil’ it whines and ‘If a man smite thee on one cheek, turn to him the other also’.

But I say unto you:—‘If a man smite you on one cheek, smash him on ‘the other’. 

Resist every Evil! Be as a lion in the path!

Be ‘dangerous’ even in defeat!

Courage I say! Courage! and evermore Courage! Lo! even the stars in their courses are fighting for the bold.

David

• One intentionally good thing from this chapter (can include half-sentence): 
  • Section 5: Allegorically speaking the clothes we wear—the houses we live in—the food we eat—the books we read, have been carved (by force) out of other mens bones and flesh. Literally they are the hides, sinews, flesh, pulp, and outer woolen covering of captive animals, transmuted by human slavery into garments, lumber, implements, thoughts, shoes, and daily dinners.
• Weirdest thing from this chapter (good or bad):
  • Section 1: It has taken countless evolutionary epochs to make man what he is the most ferocious hirsute beast of prey that inhabits the caverns and jungles of earth.
    • We aren’t even that hairy really? Like, even the hairiest person by animal standards.
• OK, the really bad one
  • Section 7: As a full grown citizen he practices homicide with repeating rifle, at moving targets—slaughters tame pigeons with choke-bore breechloaders—hunts foxes, wolves, bears, pumas, over mountain and mere—wades tip to his neck in swamps to kill teal, and travels to far lands in search of Big Game and [n-slur] shooting.

Jack

• One intentionally good thing from this chapter (can include half-sentence)
  •  Section 3: The fact that civilized man is gradually “losing his senses”. If he continues to “progress” at the existing rate, in a comparably little while he will have no smell, sight or hearing.
    • Ok, I know he probably means this in the worst way possible, but i tend to agree. In a modern lens, a man losing his senses to “progress”, I read that as technology is making us “blind” to the world around us! We at the FSS value mother nature, and time spent on “progress” (cell phones) is time that we could spend seeing, feeling and sensing the world around us!
• Weirdest thing from this chapter (good or bad)
  • Section 4: During the 11th Century, man’s flesh was cooked, sold and eaten in England and Englishmen may again revert to anthropophagy if ever their imported food supplies be suddenly and entirely cut off.”
    • First off, what proof does he give that this was such a widespread, rampant issue. I know I never really paid a great amount of attention in history, but I think my ears would have perked up just a bit when it got to the part about people eating others en masse. 
• OK, the really bad one
  • Section 5: All over continental Europe, there is a popular superstition that Jew Rabbis steal and murder christian infants and maidens in order to use the blood on the door-lintels, at passover and other ceremonials. 
    • He not only tells you upfront that it is just superstition, (no proof) but he goes on to perpetuate a lie and magnify the harm by causing people who dont read this book with a critical mind to believe it, further causing hate and harm to people he doesnt like. It is ignorant on its face, but harmful to people that dont actually even do the thing he’s accusing them of!

Felo de Se

• One intentionally good thing from this chapter (can include half-sentence)
  • Section 5: Indeed the detailed facts of how men have tortured each other for pleasure, revenge, or profit, would fill 10,000 volumes. No man in his lifetime could read or comprehend all the horrors that have been perpetrated say in the Tower of London, the Paris Bastile, the Spanish Inquisition, the Rhine Castle Dungeons, by the Bridge of Sighs, the Bosphorous, or in the prison-hells of Chicago, Newgate, Mazas, Siberia, Sing Sing, New Caledonia, Botany Bay or Van Dieman’s Land. The cold-blood cruelty of man to man, surpasses anything that poet-cranks could conceive of, as happening in hell.
    • (except, and I shouldn’t have to keep saying this, that’s a bad thing)
  • Section 5: Allegorically speaking the clothes we wear—the houses we live in—the food we eat—the books we read, have been carved (by force) out of other mens bones and flesh. Literally they are the hides, sinews, flesh, pulp, and outer woolen covering of captive animals, transmuted by human slavery into garments, lumber, implements, thoughts, shoes, and daily dinners.
  • Section 6: From the scientific point of view, it is but a single step, from the eating of captive cattle, horses, sheep, hares, rabbits, deer, hogs, etc. to the eating of captive men.
• Weirdest thing from this chapter (good or bad)
  • Section 6: Men rush upon each other (or upon their prey) with hoarse war-shouts and bloodshot eyes, as prowling beasts of the deserts and jungles do. 
    • (Call it my vegan ignorance but I don’t think that’s how preying works. Imagine taking this guy hunting and he runs around screaming, scaring away all the wildlife, before you and your buddies have even cracked your first beers)
  • Section 6: …the vicious Englishman thunders forth his “Hip, Hip, Hurrah!” while driving an elegant bayonet-dagger into the liver of “wicked heathens,” whose property he thereafter annexes—as a matter of course; for “business is business, don’t you know.” 
    • (yeah man, that sucks to do)
  • Section 8: Such men have everywhere regarded the Christ Ideal as a model for slavish souls oNLY —to be humored for strategic purposes but never practiced by masters, conquerors, kings. ‘Don’t do as I do,but do as I say” has ever been the dicta of High Priests and Rulers—to docile multitudes. The evolution of sovereignty satisfactorily exhibits this ethical dictatorship, as an historical common-place. Moral codes, (always and everywhere IMPOSED upon the common people by ‘‘immoral’’ combinations of cumulative craft) are never obeyed by Ruling Castes.
    • (Not to be all Team Jesus again, but this is a better critique of rulers, especially faith leaders, than of “Christliness”.)
  • Section 11: The hands of ‘‘Congregations of the Faithful’ are red with the blood of the innocent; yet how they boast of being washed clean in the blood of their Brother—the Lamb. 
    • (Surprised this didn’t catch Tony’s eye)
• OK, the really bad one
  • Section 8: When not thwarted by artificial contrivances, whatever argument Nature promulgates is—RIGHT. The further man gets away from Nature, the further he departs from right. To be right is to be natural, and to be natural is to be right. 
    • I don’t mean to skip over the specific examples of egregious racism in this chapter. I trust we’ve got them covered. But this right here is the core, axiomatic premise. And it’s completely, utterly wrong. Everything rests on this. Refuting it wouldn’t fix the underlying white supremacy of Desmond or his audience, but this text in particular can’t pretend to be a valid philosophical system without it.

Sai

• One intentionally good thing from this chapter (can include half-sentence)
  • Section 2: “Undoubtedly the Black Magic of the Christ Myth, combined with the subterranean sorcery of medieval sacredotalism HAS partially succeeded, not only in sapping individual initiative, but also in suppressing in our race many of its ancestral leonine traits and superb Barbarian Virtues.”
• Weirdest thing from this chapter (good or bad)
  • “For innate cruelty of deed no animal can surpass woman.”
    • okay, incel. This seems like a negative twist on “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” which indicates a reason aka being scorned as validation for the woman feeling this way. The MIR quote just seems to try to paint women as unnecessarily cruel.
• OK, the really bad one

Stuff plagiarized for The Satanic Bible

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