ragnarök, the end and the beginning

(Faroese stamp depicting the return of Baldur and Hodur)

 

Eschatology is the doctrine of how cosmic order will come to an end, or be destroyed. In the Germanic mythology, the god Odin tries to foresee and forestall the demise of the world-order. However, despite the doom and gloom, the Germanic cosmology shows that renewal, at least in some new form, is also part of the process: After the old order collapses, the relative unconscious disorder will only be temporary; the patterns of order and consciousness will reassert themselves. In The Northern Dawn, Dr. Stephen E. Flowers also points out that while the word ragnarök is conventionally used to describe the destruction of the world, it really means ”judgement” or ”plan” (of the gods), and could just as easily be used to describe the birth of the world-order.

In the more mundane realm, we can perceive the Germanic cycle of birth-death-rebirth within our present situation. However massive and inevitable the current decline and destruction of the European national traditions, identities, and cultures may now seem, eventually a renewal, or rebirth, will come to pass. The forces that prevail now, cannot prevail forever, for the order will reassert itself and the disorder and disruption brought by the thurses of multiculturalism will cease. As I have written before, I long for the day when the pendulum swings to the other direction. But this takes time and effort, and means that there must be couragerous people who are not afraid to pit their wills against the power of the thurses.