Yeats And Pearse: The Arthurian Dovetail

Cooperation between Irelands Pagans and Christians is essential.

One of the hardest struggles that is in the way of the project to develop a Fenian movement that can repel this invasion, is a deep rooted hatred of Christianity that lends itself to the communist propaganda machine that gave us Angela’s Ashes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and the Butcher Boy. All incredible pieces of filmmaking in their own right, covering the crimes and bigotry of the church in the past and rightfully so, but only as a means to a twisted end. The Religion of Statism, the replacement of Christianity with Scientific Atheism, is the long understood goal of the extremely puritan Marxist-Leninist world view, so making a scapegoat of Christianity in predominantly Christian countries is par for the course. Encouraging other denominations who are in the minority of the demographics of a Nation to attack Christianity, endowing them in the minds of the people as they ostracise Christians without reprieve is commonplace. Islam is venerated by our political elite and the New Age movement is swallowing up lost souls wholesale while Christians increasing huddle together in smaller and smaller groups, slowly being picked off. When I see atheists and Pagans kicking Christians while they are down, I ask myself; is this winning?

Only a fool would answer yes to the above. Criticism of Christianity is something I engage in wholeheartedly as do I engage in criticism of all fields of thought. I do not however engage in the hastening of the death of the belief in Jesus Christ on these shores and for good measure. The obvious power/psychological vacuum that would create would leave room for other Abrahamic faiths to prey on the masses while the state also narrows in on their right to believe in a higher power. Faith in itself is a weapon against globalism. So too as a Nation forms a natural border through tribalism, another border we can use against the Comintern is faith.

The growing movement in Ireland is focused mainly around two schools of thought. Paganism and Christianity. “This is a Catholic country” might piss of Pagans, but I invite the pagans to replace the Christians on the wall, to mount a defence. They have yet to formulate a cooperative effort amongst themselves in defence of Ireland outside of individual trailblazers like Thomas Sheridan and other impressive intellectuals dotted scarcely throughout our movement. Post-modern Pagans are almost exclusively middle class larpers akin to the battle reenactment societies that meet up once a month in costume, renditioning the achievements and statements of others on a loop. Their heads are buried in the sands of the utopian new age “parallel society”. This promised land that hasn’t even attempted to assemble itself under the most drawn out, intense, collective manifestation ritual ever performed, goes against every principle that a Pagan would hold dear. It simply isn’t that easy lads. We are going to have to do this the hard way.

Christians have a different complex to resolve. They possess the qualities needed to formulate a militant response to this invasion.. Christians, through their genetic memory, have a crusade or two in them still but they lack leadership and belief. They have been neutralised by the priesthood and the church who make them stand, kneel and sit without any purpose other than to shake a collection basket in their face. The men preaching at the alters are not men of God. I will accept no rationalisation from any Catholic on this issue. There isn’t a single priest in Ireland that impresses me. There are no terrifying men of purpose like the Fulton Sheen’s or the Father Murphy’s of the past. None of these faggot priests floating around now have an ounce of Christ energy nor do they have a single intention to change this. This effectively has resulted in Irish Christians becoming sleeper cells with the means of activating them held under lock and key by the clergy. How so do we unlock this armoury of defiant thought?

Ireland’s Christians are second to none and we have to look no farther than 1916 to prove that but their was another element to 1916 that many of Irelands Christians overlook. The effect that William Butler Yeats had on the National mindset in the run up to the Easter Rising is often sidelined. In reality Yeats was one of the leading thinkers involved in the creation of the idea and its eventual manifestation. The most impressive magic, I believe, is not found within singular Dogma’s, but the intersection of two Dogma’s with a common, objectively moral purpose. The establishment of a God fearing Republic was not achieved through prayer and prayer alone, but through incantations of a warrior tribe willing to embrace its true frequency within the romanticised vison of Yeats. The sum of the whole in 1916 was greater than the sum of individual parts. Outnumbered with obsolete firearms, the Tuatha de Dannan gave their lives in return for the existence of the idea of an Irish nation in the minds of the Irish. For 6 days the naysayers were humbled as they felt the warmth of freedom and liberation. 2500 Irish men faced off against 20,000 Brits. The Irish claimed 120 scalps (1 frag for every 20 Fenians) with 400 Brits on top of that wounded. The Irish only lost 60 combatants (1 kill for every 333 Brits) with 180 civilians caught in the crossfire. Minus the civilians, the Irish were 16 times more lethal than the Brits. After the eventual surrender the leaders were round up and executed. A Blood Sacrifice.

"If any one would give me help he must give me himself, he must give me all." - Kathleen Ni Houlihan

Many attribute inspiration of this blood sacrifice to Yeats in his play Kathleen Ni Houlihan. This play was likely the catalyst to the rising with Yeats himself writing a poem to that effect:

Man And The Echo by William Butler Yeats

Man. In a cleft that's christened Alt
Under broken stone I halt
At the bottom of a pit
That broad noon has never lit,
And shout a secret to the stone.
All that I have said and done,
Now that I am old and ill,
Turns into a question till
I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.
Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?
Did words of mine put too great strain
On that woman's reeling brain?
Could my spoken words have checked
That whereby a house lay wrecked?
And all seems evil until I
Sleepless would lie down and die.

Echo. Lie down and die.

Man. That were to shirk
The spiritual intellect's great work,
And shirk it in vain. There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
While man can still his body keep
Wine or love drug him to sleep,
Waking he thanks the Lord that he
Has body and its stupidity,
But body gone he sleeps no more,
And till his intellect grows sure
That all's arranged in one clear view,
pursues the thoughts that I pursue,
Then stands in judgment on his soul,
And, all work done, dismisses all
Out of intellect and sight
And sinks at last into the night.

Echo. Into the night.

Man. O Rocky Voice,
Shall we in that great night rejoice?
What do we know but that we face
One another in this place?
But hush, for I have lost the theme,
Its joy or night-seem but a dream;
Up there some hawk or owl has struck,
Dropping out of sky or rock,
A stricken rabbit is crying out,
And its cry distracts my thought.

Yeats, If you didn’t already know, was a fully fledged occultist. One of the most respected of his time. It was Yeats’s ability to craft the idea of nationhood, ensouling it within a spiritual female being called Kathleen that led to Irish men willing to lay down their lives for Ireland. They weren’t fooled or tricked either. It was the deep resonance of the allegory and their complete understanding of it that led to the play being so influential in the instigation of the Easter Rising. Yeats was careful to establish a link to past rebellions knowing that faith alone would not have married the men of Ireland to the land. He encouraged the beatification of Ireland as a mother figure who’s sons have perpetually fought for her. Whether Catholics like to admit it or not, the men of 1916 went to war for Kathleen Ni Houlihan(Ireland) as she represented their divine mother temporal. Yeats would have been fully aware of the fact that there was an ancestral belief in Eriú, the Pagan mother deity of this island, long before St. Patrick ever arrived. Without Yeats’s Paganism, Irish nationalism, and by extension republicanism, would never have gotten off the ground. I say all of this as a semi-practicing Catholic.

We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

William Butler Yeats

What you will notice about Yeats is that he is not condescending of Christians. He inspired us through the spoken word into one of the most perfect acts of rebellion ever produced by man. Yeats knew that The Irish Republic was going to be Nation under God and he inspired it anyway. There was no possibility of a Pagan Nation then as there is no possibility of it now as true Pagan practitioners are few and far between and have been for the last 1500 years or so. It requires a level of sincerity and strength of mind not commonly found among the ranks of those who claim the title. In this regard Yeats fulfilled a very particular archetype that you will all be familiar with. King Arthur and his spiritual guide, Merlin.

Yeats was to Pearse, what Merlin was to Arthur in the old English folk tale. Arthur, a God fearing leader, values and respects Merlin’s counsel and confers with him regularly on matters of faith, intuition, foretelling and strategy. Arthur’s pursuit of the Holy Grail is not unlike Pearse declaring the sovereign Irish Republic as our own National Grail, the crucible of all Irish men and Women. Yeats’s writings and the craftwork of the Abbey Theatre helped to convince Pearse of his quest, that it was just. Pearse was receptive to his ideas because Yeats was not a detractor. Merlin in the same vein simply guided Arthur on the path that he saw was there for him. Yeats’s good intentions helped Pearse realise the Republic. If Yeats took the path of ideological jousting towards Ireland’s Catholics the proclamation would never have materialised. This document is now Ireland’s Emerald Tablet. We have to take instruction from the butterfly effect that Yeats instigated back then. We have to remember that that butterfly effect is still in play today.

“I can feel Padraig Pearse’s knuckles in my back” - John Waters

Pagans alone will achieve nothing more than a decentralised arrangement of competing, arbitrary personality cults of contrarian arcaneness and a continuation of the same societal and national regression we have endured till now. Paganism in Ireland is incapable of assembling itself to defend this country. On the other hand, Catholic elitists are set to become terracotta soldiers within dusty, ivy covered churches that have ‘for sale’ signs outside written in Arabic. With our Catholics and Pagans pulling in the same direction, conspicuously or not, we can recreate the conditions for hardened rebellion and do so along the ley-lines of our ancestors. The methods and instruments may have changed but the cadence, Ireland’s metronome, remains the same. The cycle of the Phoenix.

Pagan input on a Catholic revival would be 4D chess in a world of draughts. Non-linear warfare, which we have at this point written the book on, is kryptonite to scientific-atheism and its authoritarian reductionist organisation of society. Without this cooperation we are doomed to to witness the slow unsettling death of the Irish Republic so I am asking those of you reading this to consider your place and your value in this country right now. Become valuable to your fellow countryman. See value in your fellow countrymen. Add value to those around you instead of extracting it for yourselves off the back of their character or the besmirch of the virtues of their doctrine. It’s time the Pagans became the people we valued for guidance once more and it is time that us Christians become men of action rather than men of sedentary existence.