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"The original Golden Dawn was not always as serious as it should have been. Mathers was a clown, and Yeats was just a romantic trying to deceive himself. Most of them were interested in personal power, and it ended up by destroying them. The aim of our group is the scientific exploration of the hidden powers of the human mind."
"Question of native faith it's such a incinerated hearth. And now, by this stick of etnography, I carving this burning carbide from under this ash and reviving. [...] Native faith is carving from this our folk culture, from this our slavic soul that all factors, which are causing that we are Slavs, that this faith was able to sprout in us."
"The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton’s universe and Herschell’s universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world."
"In short, while the 'final solution' was unmistakably German in design, it is impossible to overlook the enthusiasm with which many other European peoples joined in the killing. Nor did the anti-Semitic violence of the early 1940s come as a bolt from the blue. It had been prefigured by the escalating persecutions of the 1930s. It did not take much to move some Poles from prejudice to discrimination to violent exclusion and finally, as in Jedwabne, extermination. Yet the point about Jedwabne is that it is simply an extreme, and now well-documented, case of a Europe-wide phenomenon. Collaborators could be found not only in countries that allied themselves with Germany - Italy, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria - but also in Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and the Soviet Union, countries the Germans invaded and occupied. Some were undoubtedly motivated by a hatred of the Jews as violent as that felt by the Nazi leadership. Others were actuated by envy or base greed, seizing the opportunity afforded by German rule to steal their neighbours' property. Self-preservation also played its part. There were even Jewish collaborators, like the uniformed men of the Office to Combat Usury and Profiteering who policed the Warsaw ghetto, or the leaders of the various Jews' Councils who helped organize the liquidation of the ghettos, or the concentration camp prisoners who accepted a measure of delegated authority in the (usually vain) hope of saving themselves."
"In their delineation and explanation, Dumézil once again hammers home one of his major themes: that Roman religion can be understood only in a comparative context, only in relation to other ancient I-E religious systems, and that the most fruitful source of comparative materials is the ancient Indic literature."
"Rome (ancient city)"
"The Latvian parliament voted earlier this month [October] to give the followers of Dievturibe, a Lavian pagan faith that created an organized hierarchy in 1925 but [was] suppressed in Soviet [Union] times and one that 20 percent of Latvians sympathize with, the same status and legal rights as traditional religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam."
"Founded in 1968 in the wake of alleged Marian apparitions, the Iglesia Palmariana emerged as a schismatic Catholic movement under the leadership of Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, later self-proclaimed Pope Gregory XVII. The group claims apostolic succession and considers itself the true Catholic Church, rejecting the Vatican and its popes since Paul VI. Known for its strict rules on dress, gender segregation, and liturgy, the Palmarian Church has long maintained a posture of secrecy, with access to its basilica and grounds strictly limited to members. … The church enforces strict behavioral and doctrinal codes. Gender roles are rigidly defined. Women are required to wear veils and long skirts, while men must dress formally. The church canonizes figures outside mainstream Catholic recognition and maintains a unique liturgical calendar and hierarchy."