Originally written in 2254re-edited in 2259re.

The last Man is the Man of the age of Darkness. The Ragnaröck, or Twilight of the Gods of the Northern people. The Man without a past, with a present purely constructed from nothing, still, nonetheless incomplete, and no possible future as to a return to the Primordial Tradition. The last Man is the modern man, ultra-consummating and empty. Deprived of the initial breath of inspiration, the fire of Wotan, the flame of superior knowledge. No, all this the Man of this Dark Age cannot comprehend for he his blinded by this reality which surrounds him and keeps him captive. All philosophical questioning has no interest to him; all metaphysical quests are but mere irrational theories, products of an over-imaginative mind. So what is left? Total acceptance of his immediate surroundings. The capitulation of the search for knowledge…simply, surrendering.

Two of the most important principals of the Primordial Tradition are knowledge and the warrior spirit, and both are completely eradicated. Molded in the fabric of abject modernism, this incomplete Man “exists” but does not “live”. Just as any other terrestrial creature half-living like the plant, the tree or the biological organism, alive yet not aware of any other realities, other truths which are undeniably real still intangible and outside “our” sphere bound by the limits of time.

In order not to disturb his daily routine, he will not risk to expose himself to the possibilities of something beyond his own comfortable existence pre-defined by the laws of science put down by man, in the service of man and not, in the service of something superior. The comfort of the senses brings an artificial security, yet for him, real enough. His only quest is that of material welfare; a nice sports car or other expensive luxury vehicle will give him the impression he his more respected by his friends, a beautiful, yet empty, woman will make him feel desired and a prestigious highly paid job will make him believe he his part of the elite of society. Through all that is temporary and shallow, the modern man will find contentment and illusory security so desperately needed for his personal small joy. Such as a programmed robot, he his part of the statistics of the normality that surrounds him, result of his abandonment of all will to power. He steps forwards only to back up two steps. Believing himself protected from demons or some invisible evil, when in reality, the only evil is his ignorance, his refusal to see with new eyes and to hear with new ears. His shapeless fear of a life beyond his own, outside of time (supra-existence) would put all his religious, spiritual and historical beliefs in doubt.

The history of men seeking to know or see only what they want is merely the history fabricated from broken potteries, artifacts and stone wall paintings. Ignoring the irrational myths as vulgar religious ecstatic divagations. The concept of the superior hero of the myths and legends, the Empyrean places such as ..Olympia.. and ..Valhalla.. are simply discarded and categorized as exaggeration fabricated by primitive superstitious people. Ironically, there where the irrationality of the myth comes into perspective, there where the archaeological proofs cannot explain in a satisfactory manner, there where the exaggeration is strongly denounced by the supposed “specialists of history”, should we turn for starting point for a larger and better understanding of “true history”, before and beyond “their” history. There where the Traditional manifests itself.

Still, for as long as the last man refuses to see with the eyes of his spirit, he will let himself be manipulated by what he believes that IS, at an infra-historical level and dominated by the infra-natural instead of seeing what is at a superior level and what is traditional, he will stay a slave to modernity. He will spiral downward ever deeper into decadence and the “principle” will elude him.

So what shall he do? Break his chains from this supposed historical science. Conceive that all that knows or thinks he knows as to life and the experience of life that he lived within the sphere of this infra-world, are but reactions to the consequences of this world. To initiate the first steps towards the awakening of his reason for being, and of his immortal nature. That is the hard path of Integral Traditionalism according to Evola. To lie waste all modern structures in order to raise the initial tradition at the ideological, philosophical and metaphysical level. A simple question suffices as a kick start…”Who am I in eternity?”.

We know who we are; children of Odin and heirs of His Holy Nation.

By Vjohrrnt Wodansson 1519-AG/W(J)