Ernst Bergmann Thesis 5

 




Thesis 5

Asatru is not a revelation religion in the

Christian sense. It is rather based on a natural "revelation" of

divine powers in the world and in the human spirit. 


What is revelation?


The Christian concept of revelation is characterized by the

uniqueness and absoluteness of the revelation through Christ

and the "Word of God" in the Bible. We Asatru are repelled by

the idea that revelation is a one-sided achievement from the

beyond and takes place in a supernatural way, as well as by the

view that only the Jewish people as the "chosen people of God

on earth" were considered worthy of such a revelation.


In contrast to this, we Asatru have the observational knowledge

of a natural and continuous revelation of the divine in the

world of forms of nature and in the high human spirit. Not all

natural processes are recognizable to us, but supernatural

processes do not exist, and to believe in such contradicts genuine

and reverent religiosity and morality, which is based on the purity

and cleanliness of our thinking and imagination and reveres the

natural law and order of the world as something sacred, whether we

recognize and see through it completely or only partially. To be pious

means first and foremost to be truthful.


In particular, we Asatru know that the divine meaning of the

world has never been revealed more deeply and

more purely to the observations of man than in the

divine wealth of the Nordic soul and in the unfathomable depth

of the Germanic spirit. Our "Word of God" resounds loud and clear

in our hearts. There our "Holy Scripture" sees written that third

testament of which Meister Eckhart spoke. And it is

probably the greatest absurdity that the people of Kant and Goethe,

of all people, should borrow a revelation from the people of the Jews.


Therefore the Bible means to us only a literary document

of foreign religious experience, in which human God-seeing is

revealed just as in the Vedas, in the Talmud or Koran. And we do

not even consider it necessarily beneficial from the point of view of

popular education that through the Lutheran unpurified translation

of the Bible, that the Old Testament became the educational book of

millions of Germans for centuries. Today, in particular, it is the height of

absurdity if the Scriptures of the Jews continued to be called the only

valid book of revelation and gospel for our religion. 


Editor's Note: Here Bergmann lays down the very sharp

distinction of the "German Religion", which I call, quite

accurately I believe, Asatru. He states that there is nothing special

or truthful in the Bible, and that German people shouldn't borrow

anything from alien groups, quite correctly. As he laid down in the first thesis,

Hawaii for the Hawaiians.

Curiously, he groups the Vedas with the Talmud or Koran, a move that

would be controversial today; the Vedas are generally regarded as Indo-European

religious writings, whereas nobody would ascribe that to the Talmud, Koran

or Bible. The quest for truth of science, and the noblest aspirations of human

beings ARE the religion for Bergmann. In Asatru, this exact same distinction is made by

the Aesir and Vanir. Supernatural hocus-pocus is not the religion -

and the Darwinian edge here is that the "truthers" will interact more fruitfully

with the laws of nature than ideologues following an idea in a book rather

than the physical universe. Possibly true, possibly untrue. Untrue so far, as

irrational beliefs and lower IQ seem to have a survival edge in basically all

circumstances other than Arctic Winter.

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