RCavallius wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 6:55 pm
Hail to the Sun!
Would you consider Sun worship to be a valid expression of Cosmotheism's naturalistic spirituality?
There would be no life as we know ir without our sun; no warmth or light, no Nature, no seasons, no SOLstices, no science, no humanity, nor places like Stonehenge -- no SOLar system -- nothing!
I always liked the Cosmotheist quote Dr. Pierce provided, I believe by D.H. Laawrence, that mentions the Sun and Moon, etc., but can't find it now. But Pierce describes the reality of the Whole as did no one before him.
Our truth tells us that no man, no race, not even this planet, exists as an end in itself. The only thing which exists as an end in itself is the whole. The whole of which the things I just named are parts. The universe is the physical manifestation of the whole. The whole is continually changing and always will be. It is evolving. That is, it is moving toward ever more complex, ever higher, states of existence. The development of life on earth from non-living matter was one step in this never-ending evolutionary process. The evolution of man-like creatures from more primitive forms of life was another step. The diversification of these creatures into the various races and sub-races, and the continued evolution of these different races in different parts of the world at different rates, have been continuations of this process. The entire evolution of life on earth from its beginning some three billion years ago, and in a more general sense, the evolution of the universe over a much longer period before the appearance of life, is an evolution not only in the sense of yielding more and more highly developed physical forms, but also an evolution in consciousness. It is an evolution in the self-consciousness of the whole.
From the beginning, the whole, the creator, the self-created, has followed, has in fact embodied, an upward urge — an urge toward higher and higher degrees of self-consciousness, toward ever more nearly perfect states of self-realization.... Our truth is a very simple truth, but its implications are enormous beyond imagining. To the extent that we understand and accept it, it sets us apart from all the people around us. Our acceptance of this truth marks us as the only adults in a world of children.
Our purpose is the purpose for which the earth was born out of the gas and the dust of the cosmos, the purpose for which the first primitive amphibian crawled out of the sea three hundred million years ago and learned to live on the land, the purpose for which the first race of men held themselves apart from the races of sub-men around them and bred only with their own kind. It is the purpose for which men first captured lightning from the sky, tamed it, and called it fire; the purpose for which our ancestors built the world’s first astronomical observatory on a British plain more than 4,000 years ago. It is the purpose for which Shakespeare wrote; and the purpose for which Newton pondered. Our purpose, the purpose with which we must become obsessed, is that for which the best, the noblest, men and women of our race down through the ages have struggled and died whether they were fully conscious of it or not. It is the purpose for which they sought beauty and created beauty; the purpose for which they studied the heavens and taught themselves Nature’s mysteries; the purpose for which they fought the degenerative, the regressive, and the evil forces all around them; the purpose for which, instead of taking the easy path in life, the downward path; they chose the upward path, regardless of the pain, suffering, and sacrifice that this choice entailed.
I hate to butcher Pierce's foundational piece Our Cause from nearly 50 years ago like that, but he put things in perspective then like no one before him. Read again, here: https://nationalvanguard.org/2018/09/ou ... -l-pierce/
Understanding the Sun and our seasons
-- it's a White thing.