Introduction: Nature and the Cosmos
 

The warrior Way of Life of our ancestors - and thus the still living culture based upon it - is essentially pagan. That is, there is an acceptance of, and a respect for, Nature and an understanding that we ourselves are connected to, and depend upon, Nature.

This acceptance of Nature is an awareness of how we, as individuals, are subject to Nature - to the forces inherent in Nature. That is, that Nature is far more powerful than us, as individuals, and as a community. This is also an awareness of Destiny, of Fate - of the fact that while we may have, or believe we have, control over certain things, our ultimate fate is in the hands of Nature herself, who determines when and how we die.

In olden times, Nature herself was often personified in terms of gods, and goddesses. That is, we apprehended Nature in terms of ourselves - in terms of individual beings with names, a history and a distinct personality. However, this type of apprehension is no longer necessary nor valid since we have developed, over the last few thousand years, the faculty of pure reason and can understand Nature, ourselves and the cosmos beyond Nature, in a natural manner without such intermediate forms. That is, we can now apprehend Nature as Nature is. Hitherto, we projected human-type forms onto Nature in an effort to comprehend Nature as we did not possess much of an understanding of the cosmos beyond Nature and how Nature is but part of this cosmos.

Thus, we no longer believe there is a mighty god named Thor, nor a goddess called Diana, who live, as distinct individual entities, in a different realm and who have a personality and a personal history. Instead, we view Nature as a whole - as an entity which is and which becomes manifest, incarnate, in all living things, all of which have their own nature, their own destiny or fate. In the descriptive sense, our apprehension no longer relies on names. Instead, it is built upon pure reason itself; it is organic and beyond us, as humans with our finite individuality and our finite personalities.

This does not lessen the awe, the wonder, the respect for Nature - rather, it increases it because we are aware of the wider perspective, of how we are but part of a living, changing, evolving organic whole whose well-being, whose future, depends on us - on what we do, or do not do. For we are aware now of not only our personal duties, but also our supra-personal responsibilities toward Nature. If we harm Nature we are in effect only harming ourselves - undermining and possibly destroying our very future and the future of our descendants.

This wider perspective also involves an awareness of how Nature herself is but part of the Being of the cosmos and how culture - each distinct Way of Life with its own ethos - is an expression, a manifestation of Nature here on this Earth. Every culture is Nature herself made manifest - Nature incarnate in human form, in the individuals of a particular community. Similarly, Nature is the cosmos made manifest - an incarnation, on this planet we call Earth, of the biological, or organic, imperative of the cosmos: an expression of the very life of the cosmos as it strives to exist and evolve. When there is a conscious - that is, rational - awareness, a knowledge, of these relationships between the cosmos, Nature, culture, community and individuals, then there is an understanding of life itself.

The naming of the old pagan religions of our own culture, with gods and goddesses, was a necessary step toward this new knowledge and understanding. We who are of that warrior culture - who accept the Way of Life of the warrior - have, thanks to the awareness which such naming brought, been able to develope it into this new knowledge and new understanding of the relationship between Nature and the cosmos itself. The perspective of our ancestors was the perspective of this world - ours is also of this world, in the same way as theirs, but now extends to the very cosmos itself.

Furthermore, we ourselves are the Being of the cosmos made manifest in a special way. A simplistic (and somewhat inaccurate) analogy would be to consider Nature, and all of her creations, as containing the 'heart' or spirit of this Being, and we ourselves, as human beings, as possessing a part of the mind or consciousness of this Being. We are the consciousness of this Being because we are - or rather, should be - rational, civilized beings who value order: who strive by means of reason and honour to bring order from chaos.

The laws or processes of Nature - and the reasoned insight we possess as thinking beings - are the means whereby this Being can be understood. In a fundamental sense, this Being is the order of Nature, and the order which we, because of our evolution, have brought to our world as thinking, honourable, ethical, beings. Culture is one of the means whereby this Being is made manifest, for culture is how we have evolved to be who we are; it is how this Being has made us what we are; it is part of our humanity, an expression of Nature striving to produce diversity . In the personal sense, the ideal of honour and the pursuit of reason are how this Being functions or exists in us - how it makes more order from chaos, more life from chaos. Reason and honour - and the quest for knowledge and excellence which are a part of these - may be said to be an expression of the very life of this cosmic Being, and thus an expression of the evolution of Nature which is a part of this Being.

Our purpose, as individuals and as a species, is to continue to evolve, as distinct cultures, by pursuing or striving for excellence for ourselves and for our community - for thus we appropriate and understand more and more of the cosmic Being and bring a reasoned order to chaos.

This creation of 'reasoned order' is civilization. Our ultimate purpose, and ultimate Destiny, lies in bringing order to the cosmos itself - in exploring, discovering, colonizing and thus appropriating to our consciousness, the vastness of the cosmos. For by doing this - by creating galactic and supra-galactic civilizations - we are doing the will of the cosmic Being. What is evolutionary, honourable and ordered, enhances this Being and thus we ourselves, who are part of this Being. What is anti-evolutionary, dishonourable and chaotic, undermines and harms this Being and thus undermines and ultimately harms us, as a species. Thus if we aid this Being - if we aid Nature and the process of evolutionary change toward higher forms, higher existence - then we ourselves, as individuals and collectively as a culture, will benefit and prosper. If we do not aid this Being, then we ourselves, our folk and our descendants, will inevitably suffer.

Wisdom is understanding or knowing that our own good fortune, that of our descendants and that of our community, depends on aiding this Being, and in understanding or knowing that misfortune, for ourselves and/or our descendants and our community, will arise from not aiding this Being. This is the essence of the pagan understanding of our ancestors which they have bequeathed to us. This is the essence of the ancient wisdom about hubris, about it being unwise to overstep the mark because such hubris invited retribution from the gods, as Aeschylus and Sophocles so well described.

Expressed simply - by aiding this Being, we create a future for ourselves, our own culture and our human species; by not aiding this Being, we deprive ourselves, our culture and our species of a future.
 

The Way of the Warrior

This cosmic understanding and awareness forms the essence of the Way of the Warrior, a Way bequeathed to us by our pagan ancestors.

The Way of the Warrior is basically an acceptance of our own role 'in the cosmic scheme of things'; an understanding of how we can fulfil our purpose in life and aid Nature and thus the cosmic Being. It is a knowledge or insight of this Being itself - of how it is beyond us, as individuals, how it exists and lives and how it can be harmed.

This knowledge and understanding brings a respect for this Being, and particuarly for Nature as the most immediate emanation of this Being, and while this respect can border on reverence, it is a warrior reverence. This warrior reverence is very different from the reverence of other beliefs, of other 'world-views', philosophies of living or religions. It can be likened to the great respect a warrior feels toward a true hero - toward another warrior who merits great respect because he has done unsurpassed deeds of glory, valour and honour.

A warrior understands that there is not and cannot be any 'rituals' or any so-called magick which can appropriate, presence or summon forth the 'power' of this Being. There is not and cannot be any prayer to this Being as there is not and cannot be any meek humbled reverence before this Being with ourselves cast as 'sinners'. Similarly, this Being does not 'know' everything in the sense that a monotheistic God is supposed to 'know' everything. These things are not and can never be because this Being is not separate from us, as a living entity, anthropomorphic or otherwise, which exists by itself in some 'heaven' or wherever. For we are this Being, and this Being is us, in a way which we cannot, as yet, fully conceptualize but can experience or feel.

Moreover, this Being cannot do 'miracles' which contradict the natural order because this Being is the natural order; this Being is Nature and the patterns and order which govern, or control, the cosmos.

In a very important sense, the Way of the Warrior expresses all the wisdom which we have attained over thousands of years because we are thinking beings who through a striving for excellence, an awareness of hubris and an acceptance of honour, have continued to evolve. This Way also expresses in a profoundly spiritual and practical way, what is necessary for us to continue to evolve toward and into higher beings. As such it is crucial to our survival as a thinking species.
 

Warrior Destiny

Warriors have a special Destiny - that is, certain duties and responsibilities to fulfil. These duties and responsibilities - this warrior Destiny - expresses the nature of the warrior, and a warrior is someone who accepts these duties and responsibilities and strives to fulfil them. The warrior Way of Life is a means whereby these duties and responsibilities can be fulfilled.

Basically, by living in a warrior way - by accepting and striving to fulfil this warrior Destiny - a warrior is undertaking the will of Nature, and thus the will of the cosmic Being. For one of the foremost duties of a warrior is to uphold honour - to be an example of honour in the world and to strive to create a society where honour is an ideal to be aspired to. Honour itself is one of the fundamental means whereby Nature - and thus the cosmos - evolves: a means whereby more order, more life, more noble vitality, is created.

Thus does a warrior strive to live in a civilized way - according to a Code of Honour - and thus do they strive, and if necessary die, to create civilizations and the Empires which arise when civilizations flourish and expand. Civilization itself may be defined as a society which upholds the warrior Way of Life, and thus the warrior ethos - and which values and upholds reason, which actively seeks knowledge, and makes exploration a goal. A civilization is a society which actively seeks new challenges: it is dynamic, vital, alive, imbued with a particular ethos. Every civilization which has ever existed on Earth has been produced by a particular warrior culture, and that civilization enshrined or embodied the ethos of that particular warrior culture.

The Destiny of the warrior is to uphold and be an example of honour and nobility, to explore, discover, and bring order to chaos. In terms of the present and the immediate future, this means striving to create a warrior society where warrior culture and the warrior way of life can exist again - where warriors can live in freedom according to warrior customs. It means the creation of a new civilization, here on this Earth - and then the continuation of the exploration we have almost forgotten. This in itself means building the foundations for a Galactic civilization by exploring and conquering that final frontier which is Outer Space.

To fulfil our purpose, our Destiny as warriors, we need to continue with the upward work of Nature by creating new civilizations - by exploring new worlds and creating new Empires. Only by doing these things can we aid the cosmic Being and thus the natural order which this Being is. In a fundamental sense, warriors are the eyes, and the consciousness of this Being - the means whereby this Being can create more order and become more aware. Each warrior is this Being made manifest in a special way, and it is the duty of every warrior to live in such a way that this manifestation is preserved, honoured and extended. The pursuit of honour and excellence, by warriors and a warrior society, is the means whereby this Being can be honoured and extended.

No Civilized Society Exists Today

The Way of the Warrior is a means whereby we can create a civilized society, here on this planet, dedicated to continuing the upward work of Nature. The reality of the present is that there exists on this planet no true civilized society. A civilized society is a society where honour is upheld as the ideal - and all the laws of such a civilized society are based upon a personal Code of Honour and the fairness of the noble warrior.

Laws based upon honour means the acceptance of the right to trial by combat; laws based upon honour means that duelling with deadly weapons is accepted as a means of settling disputes. For only these allow a free, and honourable, man to defend their honour in an honourable way. Judged by this standard it is easy to see that no civilized society exists on this planet today, just as it is easy to see why most modern societies are unjust, ignoble and repressive, whether or not they are described as 'democratic'. These societies are unjust, ignoble and repressive because they take away the freedom of an individual to defend their own honour - for it is this freedom which is the only true freedom.
 

The truth of our modern times is that the State and its officials are all-powerful - before the Laws of these modern States the individual is powerless, and all these modern laws and all the Institutions which aid and abet such laws, such as the Police and the Courts, exist to suppress and make illegal the basic right of an individual to defend their own honour by trial by combat or through a duel.

True justice is the justice of the fair, noble individuals who uphold honour. So-called modern justice is based upon abstract laws made by politicians for a political or social purpose.

In order for true freedom to be returned and a new civilized society created, there has to be a spiritual revolution, a return to warrior values and warrior ideals. Warrior culture has to be championed and upheld.
 
 

Positive and Negative Change

Everything which exists, is either evolutionary, or anti-evolutionary, or has the potential to be so. Evolution is a change toward increased order. What is anti-evolutionary is a change toward disorder or chaos.

Evolution may be considered to be positive, and anti-evolution, negative, and while evolution and thus order is beneficial to us, as beings who exist on this planet in our particular solar system, it cannot exist without what we describe as its opposite. Order arises out of chaos, and it returns to chaos in a natural way, just as our own individual life of order returns to the chaos that is death.

However, it has to be understood that in the cosmic sense there is no division - one is necessary for the other; one creates the other, or makes the change of the other possible. There is a fundamental dialectic involved in this process - order arises; this order declines over time with the intrusion of chaos; and from this decline, further order , further life, arises.

Our warrior culture has a particular concept of the cosmic Being - it understands Nature, and the cosmos itself, as a type of Being, something which is alive; which has existence, and which creates, or causes, or gives birth to, other beings, such as ourselves.

The cosmic Being is a striving to create and maintain order from the natural chaos which exists and which would exist without this cosmic Being. The order or life which exists in our physical universe, and in particular on our planet in the form of Nature, is an expression of the very life of this cosmic Being. We ourselves are this Being made manifest in our particular physical form, and we have evolved because of this cosmic Being. Over vast aeonic spans of time we have evolved consciousness and nobility - or rather, the emanation of Being which is Nature has striven to endow us with these gifts.

Our consciousness is a means to maintain and increase order and thus intervene in the natural, unconscious, process of the dialectic of change. Consciousness gives us the ability to enhance order, and thus continue with the work of the cosmic Being. Fundamentally, civilization and culture, express order - they expresses a higher form of existence.

We are inextricably bound with this cosmic Being; we are this Being, and we can either aid this Being, or harm it. The vitality, or essence, of this Being is the creative force, or energy, which produces order and which thus causes evolution. The existence, the health, the future change of this Being depends to some extent on us because we are the very eyes, the very consciousness of this Being. We are also its soul - we express the desire of this Being to continue with evolution; we are the desire of this Being to improve ourselves, to expand outwards into the universe and explore and discover and so increase the knowledge of this Being, bringing order to chaos.

We represent - or rather we should represent - order. Our unique Destiny as beings is to create order from chaos; to be honourable, creative, inventive, discovering, reasoned, evolving beings. Furthermore, of our own species, we who are warriors by nature and culture have special duties and responsibilities which others do not have. We have an awareness of the cosmic Being, of our relation to Nature, and an awareness of our destiny, as warriors. As outlined above, this Destiny is to uphold honour, to strive for excellence and so bring order to the cosmos itself.

Warrior culture, the warrior Way of Life, has evolved, or been created by Nature, to do this. However, to create order, there must be struggle - a striving - for otherwise the natural entropy of chaos will bring about the decline of order and its ultimate destruction. Warriors are the means whereby the natural upward process of evolution is maintained. Without warriors, there would be decline and eventually a total destruction, from which a new order could not possibly arise. There would be only and forever chaos.

Thus, while evolution and order arise from chaos, and change and decline follow from this order, with often a new, higher, order arising because of this decline - this renewed intervention of chaos - were every form of this order to be destroyed, were what produces that order to be destroyed, there would be no future order, only permanent chaos. Hence, while chaos is natural and indeed necessary, it is also necessary and indeed vital for order to continue.

For example, it is natural and indeed necessary for warriors to fight and die to create order - a particular civilization - only for this particular civilization to decline and be destroyed over time. However, this decline and destruction re-vitalizes, creating opportunity for more order; more vigorous change. But if there were no warriors, no warrior culture, such future order would be impossible, and chaos would finally and forever triumph because what could create order from that chaos - warriors with their heroism, their valour, their honour - would have been destroyed.

In a profound way, we as warriors - as a warrior culture - can make future evolution possible; we can keep the cosmic Being alive and so keep alive the possibility of future order. This requires us to quest for excellence, to struggle for order; to fight against chaos. It requires us to fight, and if necessary sacrifice ourselves so that our way of live, our ideals, survive. This is our great responsibility - our fate, which all true warriors understand and valiantly accept.
 

The Values of and Ideals of Civilization

For us as human beings, what increases or enhances order are individual character and ideals. Character means an individual will being channelled by a noble instinct or a noble ideal, and the most fundamental means whereby order is enhanced in individuals is honour. Civilization - or order on a large scale - itself derives from honour; it is honour made manifest in a practical way; it is the creation of a society based on the noble ideals deriving from honour.

What is good is what is honourable; what is bad is what is dis-honourable. What is honourable creates or enhances order and evolution; what is bad undermines or destroys order and evolution.

In the abstract sense, what is 'true' and real is what is observed, or what is established by observation; what is known or discovered by reasoned observation. In the personal sense, what is 'true' is what is honourable; what is false is what is dis-honourable. Thus it is honourable to be truthful and honest; dis-honourable to be dishonest and lie.

By being honourable, by upholding noble ideals such as duty and loyalty, and by striving for excellence, an individual enhances the vitality, the life, of the cosmic Being itself - they uphold order, and participate in the evolution of the cosmos. Thus they are fulfilling that which they were born, or created, for. By being dishonourable and by ignoring duty and loyalty, a person is actively undermining order, and causing chaos - they are harming the cosmos itself.
 
 
 

The Question of God

The term 'Cosmic Being' accurately describes and names the cosmic Being. This supreme Being is manifest in the creations which exist on this planet of ours - in Nature, and in we ourselves. It is also potentially manifest in the cosmos - it exists, as yet without consciousness, in the stars of our galaxy and other galaxies; in the planets around some of those stars and in the creations which exist on some of those planets.

This Being cannot be fully comprehended by us, at this stage in our evolution. Perhaps one day we will have evolved sufficiently to be able to fully conceptualize it. At present, it can be experienced or felt in one or more of its manifestations. It is manifest in the living pulse of life - it is this pulse, this energy of existence which causes change and thus brings evolution and order from chaos. It is manifest in the numinous, the beautiful; in what is excellent, and what reveals or makes known the unknown - knowledge and discovery themselves. For all such things are this striving for order made manifest.

Because of this, what exists naturally - and what comes into existence through a conscious striving for what is numinous, beautiful, and excellent - may be said to be divine: that is, of the essence of this Being. Thus by reverencing, upholding and enjoying the physical creations of Nature, we are upholding and partaking of this cosmic Being. There is no division between the 'physical world' and the spiritual world, as in other ways of living like Buddhism and Christianity, with the physical often regarded as sinful and a hindrance to the attainment of spiritual progress. Such ways of living have only an incomplete concept of the cosmic Being, possessing no genuine understanding of the divine, as is so evident in their complete disregard of the spiritual importance of culture, in their disregard of the noble values like personal honour and in their disregard of reason and discovery as a means whereby the cosmic Being can create more order, more life, from chaos.

Most other ways of living are earth-bound; that is, they do not seek to fulfil a Destiny among the stars, bringing more life, more consciousness. We human beings have been given a unique mission by this, our cosmic Being. This mission is the imperative of our life itself - an expression of the being of Nature and the Being of the cosmos - of how the cosmos itself lives, and works, through Nature, and through and in we ourselves as evolving, rational, honourable, human beings.

This mission is to create a Golden Age here on this planet, so continuing the work of creation, and then, using this as the necessary foundation, take ourselves out into the cosmos itself. We are the means whereby the cosmos can evolve - for we, as conscious, rational, civilizing, beings striving for excellence, are the means whereby the cosmic Being lives. By creating order here, in terms of civilization, and by taking ourselves out among the stars, we create a type of life that did not exist. We are, when we do these things, the growth of the cosmic Being itself.
 
 

1) In everything that you do or undertake, strive for excellence.
 

2) Do your duty by placing the welfare and well-being of your community and your culture before your own self-interest, and seek to preserve and extend your culture by marrying those who uphold your warrior culture.
 

3) Uphold the noble ideal of honour in your own personal life, and strive to live, and die, in an honourable way.
 

4) Strive to uphold the noble, human, ideals of fairness and courtesy by being fair and courteous toward others, regardless of their culture, and strive to treat animals in a humane way.
 

5) Be loyal to those you have sworn loyalty to, if necessary unto death. Your word, once given, should not be broken since to break your word is a dishonourable act.
 

6) Be intolerant of what is harmful and unhealthy to, and what endangers, your culture and way of life, and what is detrimental to the other creations of the cosmos.
 

7) Respect Nature and be respectful toward what reveals or expresses the cosmic Being.
 

8) Always be ready, willing and physically fit enough to defend yourself and your family - and thus your own personal honour - and always carry a defensive weapon to enable your honour to be saved.
 

9) Seek always to make the world a better, a more noble, place by striving to make others aware of the noble ideals of honour, loyalty and duty.