Extracts from "The Myth of the 20th Century," on the need for a "Germanic Christendom" different from Catholic or Protestant Christianity that represents the "soul" of racially-based Nordic life and the "myth of the Blood"

THE MYTH OF THE 20TH CENTURY [Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts] Alfred Rosenberg, Copyright 1930, Edition of 194i Hoheneichen-Verlag, Munich
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Thus we experience in this present age something similar to what occurred in Athens, Rome and Persepolis. That is the reason—not to speak of the political-military aspect, why a close collaboration with France is so dangerous from a racial-historical point of view. Here the parole rather is: Protection against the African penetration, the closing of the frontiers because of anthropological attributes, a nordic-European coalition for the pur-
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pose of cleansing the European motherland from the spreading germs of the disease of Africa and Syria. This is even in the best interest of the French themselves.
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Today a new faith is awakening: The myth of the Blood, the belief that the divine being of mankind generally is to be defended with the blood. The faith embodied by the fullest realization that the Nordic blood constitutes that mystery which has supplanted and overwhelmed the old sacraments.
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We now realize that the central supreme values of the Roman and the Protestant Churches, being a negative Christianity, do not respond to our soul, that they hinder the organic powers of the peoples determined by their nordic race, that they must give way to them, that they will have to be remodeled to conform to a Germanic Christendom. Therein lies the meaning of the present religious search.
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The liberalism preached: Freedom, generosity, freedom of trade, Parliamentarism, emancipation of women, equality of mankind, equality of sexes, etc., that is to say that it sinned against a law of nature, that creative actions can only come from the working of polarized potentials, that a potential of energy is necessary to produce work of any kind, to create culture. The German idea of today demands in the midst of the disintegration of the old effeminate world: Authority, type-creating energy, selfelimination, discipline, protection of the racial character, recognition of the eternal polarity of the sexes.
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THE IDEA OF HONOR—NATIONAL HONOR —WILL BE FOR US THE BEGINNING AND END OF ALL OUR THOUGHTS AND DEEDS. IT DOES NOT PERMIT BESIDES ITSELF ANY OTHER EQUIVALENT CENTER OF POWER, BE IT OF WHATEVER KIND, NEITHER CHRISTIAN LOVE, NOR THE HUMANITY OF THE FREE MASONS, NOR THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHY.
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The racial dominant demands a type. And a genuine organic freedom is only possible within such a type. Freedom of the soul, like the freedom of personality, is always form. Form always has plastic limitations. These limitations are racially conditioned. But the Race is the external picture of a definite soul.
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With this the circle is closed. Jewish Internationalism of a Marxist or democratic kind is just as much outside this organism as the Roman authority, seeking international influence, besides all ecclesiastical claims of sovereignty.
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Presently, when all enemies try to touch the honor of Germany, they also stole its space; therefore, the metaphysical fight is, in the end, a fight for the inmost qualities of character which cannot be suppressed, it means a struggle for living space. The one strengthens and reinforces the other. Therefore, by necessity, the battle-cry of a new race that wishes to establish a new Reich and is searching for standards by which it may judge its actions and ambitions fruitfully, must be: With Sword and Plough for Honor and Freedom. This slogan is nationalistic- also socialistic! '
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Intermarriages between Germans and Jews are to be prohibited for as long as Jews at all are permitted to be on German soil. (That the Jews lose their right of citizenship and are to be placed under a new law which is suitable to them, goes without saying). Sexual intercourse, rape, etc. between Germans and Jews is to be punished according to the gravity of the case with confiscation of possessions, expulsion, hard labor, or death.
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Nowadays hide-and-seek playing will not help, nor feeble hints at "internal settlements" as sole solution, because thereby very little will be changed as regards the destiny as a whole of the Nation, what is needed today is the will to obtain space for millions of coming Germans which is to be commuted into purposeful action. This requires character. This requires the realization that, there can be no flourishing of the German Nation as long as France dominates us thus with her power politics. This tension can only be ceased by a far-sighted European policy. Should Germany "renounce to concentrate the will of her entity on this singular objective: Living space and political freedom, then also East-Prussia will submerge in a bloody swamp, then the enemy will close in from east and west closer and closer to the heart of the Germanic being. Therefore, the first demand of a German policy consists in the procurement of a true peace against the Pseudopeace Treaty of Versailles and its consequences. And only this will produce the first true signs of preparedness for appeasement with the other nations.
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We only should promote and welcome nationalism as the elevation of certain inner values of those peoples, of whom we have reasons to believe that, the fields of power of their destiny do not adversely collide with the irradiations of the German people.
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If once and for all this nonsensical principle of equality and equal rights of all the races and religions has been done away with, then the necessary consequences against the Yellow races and the Jews follow automatically.
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"A pacification of the World" will not be achieved by the disarmament of Fleets and Armies, but by the utter destruction of the shameful democracy, that raceless conception of a state of the 19th century, the economic undermining of the world of finance, which will bring about today the perdition of all states in the name of the people unless the religion of the Blood will be lived, accepted and realized in life.