Aristokratia II Edited by K.Deva Manticore Press, 322 pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Colin Liddell I havent read the entire contents of the latest edition of this intellectual and deeply esoteric journal. Its simply not that kind of book – i.e. the kind you race through and then dash off a quick review... Rereading it on paper, Tauntons analysis is still as fascinating and full of interest as I remember it was when I helped to edit it. In particular Taunton offers insight based on Nietzsches Parable of the Madman: Here, the Death of God is not seen as a victory, but as a mistake. Humanity is not portrayed as Nietzsches higher type (Ubermensch) who were to become Gods incarnate themselves, but instead as killers whose hands are stained with the blood of Nietzsches own literary crime. God is dead, but the people are not mentally or spiritually strong enough to be capable of living without the idea of God. With God dead humanity is lost; the premature death of God becomes a murder, transformed into a criminal act against humanity, rather than its salvation. The Death of God morphs from Nietzsche’s original premise of creating the Ubermensch into an act of cruelty, not towards God, but to humanity itself. This is the root of the cultural crisis of the European world... The Serbian writer Boris Nad contributes two essays, although as yet I have only read Androgyne. As its title hints, it is an arsenal of ideas to use in the contemporary gender wars, although Nad has an even more profound focus, the nature of the underlying Christian culture on which European civilization is based: The Christian tradition of primary Adams androgyny provides the foundation for later understandings, and one of these is from the Irish mystic Johannes Scotus Eurigena. Eurigena claimed that with the act of resurrection Christ became androgynous, combining genders in their own nature, writing, he was neither male nor female, even though he was born and died as a man. This Christian reactualization can be considered in terms of the aforementioned historical antithesis of Uranian and Chthonic, patriarchal and matriarchal. It is a period of decline for the patriarchal and the revenge of the matriarchal principle, a sort of anti-patriarchal revolution. Genuine Christianity is characterized by a an extremely Chthonic, matriarchal character, which will have a decisive role in the further impact of the androgynous symbols and ideology of matriarchy.
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