The Nyall Philosophy Section 4 - The Purpose of the Nyall Philosophy
The Nyall Philosophy

Section 4 - The Purpose of the Nyall Philosophy




The Purpose of the Nyall Philosophy


    Next to understanding and teaching the above shown dream theory we Nyallsinnar hope to get our mankind to enter a direct, “psych” (bioradiative) relationship with:

1. Dwellers on regenerate planets of the right tendency, who know our mental state and submit theirs to ours.
2. Dwellers on primigene (first-birth) planets, where evolution proceeded along similar lines as here, while some of them recently found a more fortunate line, others not so far.
3. Far-advanced or godlike dwellers on Lifstefna planets, capable of biodynamic intervention. The Northern gods of old are represented in this.

A station for interstellar communication is required for making the above effective. When contact has been established, star-dwellers may succeed in making their presence felt, which means that possibilities for applying biodynamic methods will be realized, and that is more urgently needed now than ever before in human history.

    Peace Power is a prime characteristic of stations for interstellar communication. This power, establishing itself as charity in everyone, invites visits from more advanced humanities in the cosmos and heralds a new age in the history of mankind.

    With these means, subject to the Law of Determinants, every kind of unrest or violence, anywhere, could be brought to rest. So long as all races of the world respect each other and maintain this respect through cultural acceptance, and at the same time a desire for cultural and racial preservation for all, so that each may evolve on their own line. The receiving station will even act as a kind of antenna for Lifstefna influence to the vital field of our planet.

    For Nordics, we can strengthen our relationship with our gods and goddeses by: 1- Spreading the knowledge about the real nature of sleep and dreams; 2- by realization of the physical nature of the afterlife; 3- Taking up conscious communication with the departed in this sense. But be cautious. All kinds of traps exist, in a mad world like ours. Yet without courage of some kind nothing can be accomplished.

    Here are some things that can be done to help out our people and eventually all of mankind:

1. Our theoretical approach is quite safe. If you feel strong enough, after making yourself acquainted with it represent it in your area, you should (as with all of our ideals), try to teach but not preach.
2. The prospect of physical life after death tells us to extend survival here as long as possible. The new body is a continuation of this one, and we should not ‘jump off’ the planet, since we are the ‘crew of the vessel’ that must sail its course.
3. The purpose of life is to extend, by the energies lent to us, the Asgard realm- the realm of harmony and sympathy- as far out into the Midgards as possible. When we have entered the Asgard realm, that is, when our bodies have regenerated on afterlife (regenerate) planets, we discover that we are no longer in the position to build up the divine realm out here. We then have to seek others- preferably younger ones, to continue our task, and they are not always easily found.

What is most needed for making this planet accessible to Odin-kin is that we understand the necessity of a physical afterlife: life in other solar systems. The gods despise bleak spirit life, they will have it tangible. Let’s look to Viktor Rydberg in his Researches in Teutonic Mythology (tr. Rasmus Anderson):

    “The account now given of the myths concerning the lower world shows that the hierologists and skalds of our heathendom had developed the doctrine in a perspicuous manner even down to the minutest details. The lower world and its kingdom of death were the chief subjects with which their fancy was occupied. The many sagas and traditions which flowed from heathen sources and which described Svipdag’s, Hadding’s, Gorm’s, Thorkil’s and other journeys down there are proof of this, and the complete agreement of statements from totally different sources in regard to the topography of the lower world and the life there below shows that ideas were reduced to a systemized and perspicuous whole. Svipdag’s and Hadding’s journeys in the lower world have been incorporated as episodes in the great epic concerning the Teutonic patriarchs, the chief outlines of which I have presented in the preceding pages. This is done in the same manner as the visits of Ulysses and Aeneas in the lower world have become a part of the great Greek and Roman epic poems.

    “Under such circumstances it may seem surprising that Icelandic records from the Middle Ages concerning the heathen belief in regard to the abodes after death should give us statements which seem utterly irreconcilable with one another. For there are many proofs that the dead were believed to live in hills and rocks, or in grave mounds where their bodies were buried. How can this be reconciled with the doctrine that the dead descended to the lower world, and were there judged either to receive abodes in Asgard or in the realms of bliss in Hades, or in the world of torture?

    “The question has been answered too hastily to the effect that the statements cannot be harmonized, and that consequently the heathen-Teutonic views in regard to the day of judgement were in this most important part of the religious doctrine unsupported.

    “The reason for the obscurity is not, however, in the matter itself, which has never been thoroughly studied, but in the false premises from which the conclusions have been drawn. Mythologists have simply assumed that the popular view of the Christian church in regard to terrestrial man, conceiving him to consist of two factors, the imperishable body and the imperishable soul, was the necessary condition for every belief in a life hereafter, and that the heathen Teutons accordingly also cherished this idea.

    “But this duality did not enter into the belief of our heathen fathers. Nor is it of such a kind that a man, having conceived a life hereafter, in this connection necessarily must conceive the soul as the simple, indissoluble spiritual factor of human nature. The divisions into two parts, lif ok sála , líkamr ok sàla, body and soul, came with Christianity, and there is every reason for assuming, so far as the Scandinavian peoples are concerned, that the very word soul, sàla, is, like the idea it represents, an imported word. In Old Norse literature the word occurs for the first time in Olaf Trygveson’s contemporary Halfred, after he has been converted to Christianity. Still the word is of Teutonic root. Ulfilas translates the New Testament psyche with saiwala, but this he does with his mind on the Platonic New Testament view of man as consisting of three factors: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body (soma). Spirit (pneuma) Ulfilas translates with ahma.

    “Another assumption, likewise incorrect in estimating the anthropological-eschatological belief of the Teutons, is that they are supposed to have distinguished between matter and mind, which is a result reached by the philosophers of the Occident in their abstract studies. It is, on the contrary, certain that such a distinction never entered the system of heathen Teutonic views. In it all things were material, an efni of course or fine grain, tangible or intangible, visible or invisible. The imperishable factors of man were, like the perishable, material, and a force could not be conceived which was not bound to matter, or expressed itself in matter, or was matter.

    “The heathen Teutonic conception of human nature, and of the factors composing it, is most like the Aryan-Asiatic as we find the latter preserved in the traditions of Buddhism, which assume more than three factors in a human being, and deny the existence of a soul, if this is to mean that all that is not corporal in man consists of a single simple, and therefore indissoluble element, the soul.”

    There are two alternatives: Odinism could proceed towards a tragic end, which means the devastation of the planet from hate (ending with a nuclear planet-wide cataclysm). The other is awakening to Balder and Nanna, the divine discoverers of the nature of dreams. This means that Asatru practitioners should learn to understand interstellar communications and so become channels for divine energy and wisdom, from Asgard.

    Other planets are experiencing movements like ours and these movements are gaining more strength as well as prudence. Through dreams these evolutionary channels, in different solar systems could be informed of each other and integrated to each other. This would be extremely important for the Asgard-universe, billions of solar systems where they aim at developing Midgard life in more accordance with the Asgard model. This model always stood behind and supported our life, but incompletely, as long as man did not know.

    In closing I would like to say that in our modern world there are several models used to explicate the mysterious concepts of faith, most especially pagan faith. These religious viewpoints or interpretations range from nature symbology to spiritualism to Jungian archetypes. Nyall, to me, seems to be the most valid method of exploring the sacred ancient traditions because it not only uses scientific theory the elucidate religious beliefs, it also uses the religion itself to explain phenomena within our universe usually left unexplained or passed off as “imaginary”. It is this idea in itself that formed the original purpose for religion, since to the ancients religion and science were one. In fact, it can be said without hesitation that religion, in the pagan sense of the term, was the first science, the first system of theory used to enlighten our people about the world(s) around them. As astrology developed into astronomy, herbalism into medicine, philosophy into psychology, etc. the world of science parted company with its heathen origins. This separation was due to the introduction of Dark Age religions that disdained education and enlightenment, be it not of their nonsensical “message”. With Nyall we truly return to the ancient ways, using our beloved lore to make sense of many of the wonders of the universe, spanning our search for understanding and awareness from the microcosm to the macrocosm – to the far reaches of the living cosmos.

 

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