Douglas Mercer
February 9 2025
There has to be an invisible sun
Aryan Sun worship refers to the religious practices and myths associated with the Aryan Culture. Sun Worship was prevalent among all Indo-Germanic Nations as their primal and original belief system and influenced the development of their various religions. This worship involved the veneration of the Sun as a celestial deity, a symbol of life and fertility, and the Solar Disc became the emblem of an inner intensity which connected all of its peoples.
Sol Invictus (Invincible Sun or Unconquered Sun) was the official sun god of the late Roman Empire and was a later version of the god Sol. The emperor Aurelian revived this cult in 274 AD and promoted Sol Invictus as the chief god of the empire. From Aurelian onward, Sol Invictus often appeared on imperial coinage, usually shown wearing a sun crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. The Sun God’s prominence lasted until the emperor Constantine legalized Christianity and restricted the worship of the ancient traditional gods. The last known inscription referring to Sol Invictus dates to AD 387, although there were enough devotees in the fifth century that the Christian theologian Augustine found it necessary to preach against them. There were at least three temples of Sol in Rome, all active during the Empire and all dating from the earlier Republic.
In the later Roman Empire, the worship and cult of the Roman god Sol Invictus became prominent. Revered as the patron deity of the sun, he was worshiped as a symbol of light, power, and invincibility. This explains why a good number of Roman generals and emperors, most famous among them Emperor Aurelian, chose him as their patron deity.
Overwhelming proof has been made that the Sun Myths of the Ancient Aryans were at the origin of all the religions of the regions inhabited by our people. To worship the sun is to worship Nature, and to live according to the precepts which one learns from Nature. In this the Sun is still an emblem, for this naturalistic religion is far from the materialism of science today, for to our ancestors nature was possessed of mind which went by the name of god. So the Sun was an emblem, the object most revered in our system, that object which most obviously gave life to all of which they were aware, vegetation, animals and themselves. Sun Worship then was no dualistic device, for nature and its motive mind were intertwined, and it was the light of the sun which reflected the light of the world and of their minds. In this way our ancestors lived in a unity; and over time our peoples populated the Empyrean with gods and goddesses but it was always the light of the sun which gave birth to all. As Kevin Alfred Strom has reminded us when the Romans Empire was threatened from within by a Jewish Superstition a great man sought to return the people to this primal unity. Of the Holiday occurring at the furthest reach from the sun he has written:
“Nevertheless, they are all essentially the same holiday, all ultimately deriving from the return of the Sun to Europe and environs, as it begins its upward arc toward the ancient Aryan homelands of the Northern Hemisphere. We are a sky-focused and horizon-focused people.”
Sky and horizon, horizon and sky: this defines the Aryan Race. We are a people always striving upwards and scanning the horizon for the future. At the further Northern reaches in the cold of winter our people experienced the darkness as a removal of their god and in their cult they awaited its expected return, the return of the Sun King.
“1800 years ago, the Roman Emperor Aurelian first declared 25 December to be a state holiday, commemorating the Solstice — the rebirth of what he called Sol Invictus or the Unconquerable Sun. This is something that had long been sacred to Aryan peoples of many nations; Aurelian chose a specific date and made it official. He did this in hopes of establishing a new religious unity among Roman citizens.” (Kevin Alfred Strom).
When in the Renaissance the light of knowledge began to come back to our people it is instructive that the most controversial point was the sun centered universe of Copernicus. This was a slow coming home to the central part played by the solar disc, and soon Bruno was termed the priest of the sun; thus both a naturalistic and a symbolic view of the sun and its centrality came into prominence, though the full import of this revolution remains to be seen.
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Emperor Julian was both a ruler and a philosopher; he viewed the traditional myths of our people as allegories of truth in which the ancient gods were seen to be aspects of an inner and philosophical divinity: King Helios. In a beautiful but gnomic utterance he gave voice to his belief:
“What I am now about to say I consider to be of the greatest importance for all things that breathe and move upon the earth and have a share in existence and a reasoning soul and intelligence, but above all others it is of importance to myself. For I am a follower of King Helios. And of this fact I possess within me, known to myself alone, proofs more certain than I can give. But this at least I am permitted to say without sacrilege, that from my childhood an extraordinary longing for the rays of the god penetrated deep into my soul; and from my earliest years my mind was so completely swayed by the light that illumines the heavens that not only did I desire to gaze intently at the sun, but whenever I walked abroad in the night season, when the firmament was clear and cloudless, I abandoned all else without exception and gave myself up to the beauties of the heavens.”
Julian here indicates that he is a clandestine initiate into secret knowledge and secret lore, that he has been inspired by esoteric wisdom; as such there is only so much that he can say in public. But still he gives us enough information to understand the import of his saying. First and foremost he indicates that he (and our people) are a sky people and a horizon people and a sun people. And the elemental rays of the sun are both a spiritual presence and a physical presence. These primal rays and primal light are the very source of the universe. And by regarding them and returning to them the Aryans race can bask in the elemental knowledge of existence. It is this sacred wisdom, the wisdom of our people, which saturated his soul; and it was this wisdom that he saw slipping away from his folk with the advent of Christianity; his purpose on earth was to return to the old ways, the proper ways, the way that would light us to our future.
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Ever the philosopher as he lay dying Julian gave a learned discourse to his men. Julian had made the last great, and ultimately doomed, effort to redeem pre-Christian classical religion and philosophy. On his deathbed he surely realized that the hope for this inspired project would die with him, at least for the time being. Julian was one of those whom Savitri Devi would term a man against time. He saw clearly that the Jewish Superstition which plagued his people had to be eradicated and he made a valiant but ultimately unsuccessful effort to do this just this. He was the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, and he believed that it was necessary to restore the Empire's ancient Roman values and traditions in order to save it from dissolution. After gaining the purple Julian started a religious reformation of the empire, which was intended to restore the lost strength of the Roman state. He supported the restoration of Hellenistic polytheism as the state religion. His laws tended to target wealthy and educated Christians and to put an end to the reign of the Christian lie.
He restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since Constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens; he repealed the stipends that Constantine had awarded to Christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts. He also reversed some favors that had previously been given to Christians.
Of course at his death Julian knew that his efforts had been in vain. He is supposed to have said: Galilean you have won! It is of course doubtful that he said this but the man who put these words posthumously in his mouth encapsulated the high and awesome stakes of Julian’s life. Julian's short reign did not stem the tide of Christianity. For the time being Christ had proved victorious. And as Julian knew when this vile and deadening religion spread its death dealing tentacles over the Empire the great spirit and lore of his people would go under, if only for a time. The secret knowledge which Julian possessed would need to go underground as well, the texts of the Greeks and the Romans would need to be stored; and so a great dark age came into being where the temples of our people were ritually desecrated and the knowledge of our people was forgotten. The world became disenchanted.
It would of course take a millennium and longer for the Sun knowledge to resurface; and yet still today the true import of what Julian knew is enshrouded in mystery. For what our science is today is a materialistic representation of that knowledge but what Julian kept hidden remains, for the most part, hidden still. That is the Sacred Sun, and what it represents, remains hidden and invisible, only living by word of mouth by the secret sharers of the legends of our people. But one can be sure that the Galilean's victory in the end will prove pyrrhic; and a civilization based on anything other than the truth of the cosmos, the truth of its purpose, the truth of which is our creator’s purpose, will always fail. It had to remain a secret in Julian’s day and it is secret still though rumors of it go round like skywriting by word of mouth; but in the end its truth, the truth of the sun god, our Sun King, always is brought forth into the light.
