None of This Is New

Black Sun Session 6: Nordic Racial Paganism, the 14 Words, and Carl Jung's Warning Nobody Heeded

In 1960, Carl Jung wrote a letter to Miguel Serrano, the Chilean diplomat and Esoteric Hitlerist we covered a couple sessions back. Jung told Serrano he thought that the weakness of orthodox Christianity and the challenge of communism had placed the West in a spiritual predicament that looked to him a lot like pre-Nazi Germany in the 1920s.

Jung’s conclusion: “We are apt to undergo the risk of a further Wotanistic experiment. This means mental epidemy and war.”

That was more than sixty years ago. It reads like it was written this morning.

Chapter 13 of Black Sun is titled Nordic Racial Paganism. It explores the movements that have tried to replace Christianity with a race-based spirituality built on Norse mythology.

If you’ve been anywhere near the masculinity conversation, the Manosphere, or the “dissident right,” you’ve run into guys who are into this stuff. You probably just didn’t know the genealogy. They might not have, either. This chapter lays it out.

Three figures anchor Goodrick-Clarke’s narrative.

Wyatt Kaldenberg — His worldview was pure Manichaeanism, an eternal cosmic battle between the forces of light and dark. To him, Aryans embodied everything noble and divine, and Judeo-Christianity everything evil and demonic. Therefore, he believed Christianity should be abandoned for the tribal gods of pre-Christian Aryan/European peoples.

Kaldenberg hated Jews enough to say that Holocaust should be celebrated rather than denied. I’ll give him this much: in his prideful, hypermasculine boasting, he was courageous enough to be consistent. Better than I can say for most men into this stuff.

Jost Turner — Turner was a Vietnam vet who came home broken from the war and started seeking. He moved through flower power, to the Hindu guru Yogananda, then living in Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship ashram, and finally into Norse paganism.

Turner built a National Socialist commune in Northern California called Volksburg, where he developed something called “Aryan Kriya,” attempting to syncretize his beliefs. His system included swastika-posture yoga—”swastikasana”—directed by a supposedly immortal Himalayan guru named Babaji, who was leading white people toward racial evolution.

That sounds insane. Guess what? It IS insane. And it’s what happens when you throw out biblical theology and go shopping. (And you revise Yogananda’s words, too.)

David Lane — A convicted murderer who died in prison serving a 190-year sentence. Lane is the author of the infamous “14 Words” credo: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

If you’ve seen the number 1488 on social media, that’s not a reference to a year. It’s code for Lane. It signifies the 14 words plus 88, which stands for HH, or “Heil Hitler,” using H as the 8th letter of the alphabet.

Now, here’s a problem. There’s another number, 1183, which is floating around in Reformed Christian circles. That number references Stephen Wolfe’s 11 words, “White evangelicals are the lone bulwark against moral insanity in America”—plus “Hail Christ.”

It showed up on Christmas ornaments made by Ethan Holden, aka The Jolly Brawler, who also made the infamous “White Boy Summer” video shared by many guys in the Christian Nationalist camp.

1488 to white supremacists. 1183 to Reformed Christians. It’s not a coincidence. These things are connected. They’re everywhere in the Christian Nationalist world, surrounding a few key figures.

And good men who should know better are remaining silent.

Returning to Lane himself, he rewrote the Beatitudes in his white supremacist vision. To Lane, “Blessed are the meek,” became, “Fortune smiles on a people whose visions are brave, bold, and determined.” And, “Love your enemies,” became, “Smite your enemies with the hammer of Thor and feed their bodies to vultures.”

That’s David Lane. That’s who wrote the 14 Words. My friend Hitler Hated Substack has more about Lane in this article.

Oh, and Lane’s 14 Words Press also published the first English-language edition of Miguel Serrano’s The Golden Chain: Esoteric Hitlerism. So if you’re wondering how the worlds of Esoteric Hitlerism and American white racial supremacy connect, there’s your proof. right. through. David Lane.

The Pipeline

The pattern across all three of these figures—Kaldenberg, Turner, and Lane—and in fact across every chapter of Black Sun is exactly the same. It looks like this:

1. Reject Judaism.

2. Therefore reject Christianity as a Jewish product.

3. Lose biblical anthropology, cosmology, theology.

4. Go shopping for something else. Land in Norse paganism, or Hinduism, or occultism, or some syncretistic mess of all three.

5. Layer the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on top as your grand explanatory framework for history.

6. Conclude that total war against immigrants, minorities, and especially Jews is justified, because total war is being waged against you.

And none of it is new. That’s what I keep saying. That’s what this entire Book Club series has been about.

The ideas flooding X, Telegram, and Discord didn’t appear out of nowhere after COVID. They have a documented genealogy going back from the 1990s, to the 1960s, to the 1930s, and finally, deep into the 1800’s and beyond.

Young men discovering this stuff for the first time might genuinely have no idea. I’ll give them that.

But the men who seeded those ideas into the rooms those young men walked into?

They absolutely know.

A Pagan Saw It Coming

And Carl Jung saw it coming. He saw proto-Wotanic “eruptions” (his word) in the German youth movement prior to 1914. This included sun worship, solstice rituals, and pagan symbolism. Jung then saw the full explosion after 1933 when the masses of the Third Reich were collectively seized by the Wotan archetype.

By 1960, Jung was already warning that conditions were already ripe for it to happen again.

I’m no fan of Jung, but he was right about one thing: how the weakness of orthodox Christianity contributes to that grave risk. As we’re discovering, that weakness can face leftward in the form of failing to defend doctrine and caving on cultural issues. But it can also face rightward, by refusing to confront the overt paganization happening inside your own digital house.

BOTH are weakness. Both leave a vacuum. And when Christianity vacates, the false European “father god” Wotan fills up the space.

An occult pagan mystic psychologist diagnosed this. In 1960.

Now here we are.

If you care about the men in your life who are imbibing these ideas, the best thing you can do is read. The first fifty pages of Black Sun are free on Kindle. Download them on your phone. Read them.

If you recognize anything in there, buy the book. Don’t take my word for it.

If you’re wondering what to do after that, take a stand. Get your favorite Reformed content creator, influencer, or pastor to do the same. This has to stop.

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The Black Sun session on “Chapter 13: Nordic Racial Paganism” is available below for paid Substack subscribers, along with detailed notes from the session.

“Chapter 14: Conspiracy Beliefs and the New World Order” and Goodrick-Clarke’s Conclusion will receive their own session, because the material there is too important to rush.

The date for that is TBD. Become a paid subscriber for updates, and the link to join the live session when we record.

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