I posted Oswald Spengler’s private collection of sketches, hitherto unreleased. The link to the article is in the first reply to this post.

I conversed with ‘Liberator of the Occident’ about German Politics, Technics and other topics for almost an hour in a free flowing dialogue.

Goodbye. I won’t post on this platform for the near future (think 3-5 years). With my translation of Spengler’s diary, which I have just slaved over the last few days, finally done, I can leave with a good conscience of not having promised too much without delivering. (Yes, the translation of Spengler’s Heraclitus dissertation will also be released, but I will take my time with that.) I will probably be sparingly active on Substack, to post a translation here or there, or my own work, if I find the time. This account will stay up for the foreseeable future, as has been requested by some. I might return here every few months, for one post, to announce something but that is unlikely. I wish to leave you with one last quote: “Live in such a way that your life makes human life itself appear worthwhile. History will measure the value of your life by its striving and its deeds. The judgment is always passed by another.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Urfragen

Been there so many times I lost count. The basement was supposed to hold the busts of still living great Germans, who upon their death would be carried, in the pomp of a great procedure up to their final resting place. It was supposed to mimic ancient Egyptian architecture, unfortunately, it was never completed. The ceiling of the Walhalla is where my profile banner is from.

Questions about the nature of consciousness, everyone! How riveting and intellectually adventurous—surely these are the questions of importance in 2025.

Every wrong, every infringement that is levied against a population or a singular individual is implicitly and indirectly agreed with and approved of by he who is being wronged, if resistance is found to be lacking, or non-existent at all. A population and an individual can be beaten into submission, psyoped into it, or simply be taken to that due to the nature of their ethos. Nevertheless and irregardless of the reason for the servitude exemplified by individuals and peoples from time to time, with a simple ‘No’ mountains can be moved. In the words of Étienne de La Boétie: “From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free.”

“To me this whole intellectual present appears like an ugly December landscape: dirt, snow, haze, cold, a few crows sulking on bare branches. I envy the unassuming folk who today fancy themselves art and literature in concerts, theater, journals, exhibitions. Such things have long since ceased to exist.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Eis Heauton - his soon-to-be-translated diary

The doors are wide open: You just have to — Go-Out.

“To see myself sub specie aeternitatis—very small, questionable. Misunderstood. Incomprehensible. I could have become a painter, a musician.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Eis Heauton - his soon-to-be-translated diary

“I have a small building lot, men of Athens, and a fig-tree is growing in it, from which many of my fellow citizens have already hanged themselves. Accordingly, as I intend to build a house there, I wanted to give public notice to that effect, in order that all of you who desire to do so may hang yourselves before the fig-tree is cut down.” ~ Timon

Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Antony, on Timon of Athens. Very funny.

“To the rational-social residues belongs also the talk of collectivism, the romantic glorification of the herd-feeling, of mass-thinking-as-feeling, of the will from below.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Eis Heauton - his soon-to-be translated diary

Since my knowledge of Spengler’s work is being criticised by some Portuguese political commentator I am going to have to defend myself adequately. Spengler was an adherent of the prussian socialist ethos for the earlier years of his time as an author, yes, later he was a proponent of capitalism, not that that matters to you, or that you where aware of that, but simply because he believed in a political ethos does not mean he was of the opinion that this was the morphological necessity for our next civilizational stage, in the contrary: Spengler pointed out in Hour of Decision that there would be internal wars (ww1, ww2, in a sense also the cold war, though less so) fought over the future of the West. The side Spengler associates with Prussianism and his brand of socialism, ie, Germany, lost those wars. The ethos along which the West will be streamlined in the future is that of the Anglo, capitalist, robber baron, akin to some resemblance to Cecil Rhodes. Yes, Caesarism will ‘destroy money’ because Caesarism is a representative of the dimensions Blood and Time within the Spenglerian system. But simply saying that Caesarism is ‘socialist’, anti-money and a dictatorship, is a very shallow understanding of Spengler, and in fact detrimental to the matter at hand, ie.: ‘teaching people Spengler’s work’, because it dumbs it down to a level where it just sounds like he is arguing for national socialism, which is not at all what Caesarism nor what Spengler is doing. Caesarism is formlessness, pure power, no rules, no system of conduct, the masses live from the hand to the mouth, the powerful rule with the sword in their hand, dealing out death and destruction on the fields where their forefathers sowed corn. To explain Spengler in such a manner as Guilermo did is as if I explained Nietzsche like this: ‘Nietzsche is basically the philosopher who said ‘God is dead,’ so he just means people should stop believing in religion and instead become strong individuals who do whatever they want. His Übermensch is like a superhero who makes his own rules, and his whole philosophy is just about saying yes to life.’ Possibly correct on a surface level but incredibly shallow.