Ragnar Redbeard Reprint by Grand Magister Blackwood
MIGHT IS RIGHT
BY RAGNAR REDBEARD
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone, I raise up my voice that you
may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the
South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weaklings, wealth to the
strong! Open your eyes that you may see, O men of mildewed minds; and
listen to me, ye laborious millions! For I stand forth to challenge the
wisdom of the world € to interrogate the “laws” of man and of “God”.
I request reason for your golden rule, and ask the why and the wherefore
of your Ten Commands. Before none of your printed idols do I bend in
acquiescence, and he who saith “thou shalt” to me is my mortal foe. I
demand proof over all things and accept with reservations Even that which
is true. I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent, mad
redeemer and write over his thorn-torn brow “The true prince of Evil
€ the king of the Slaves!”
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no cult or dogma shall encramp
my pen. I break away from all conventions. Alone, untrammelled. I raise up
in stern invasion the standard of the strong. I gaze into the glassy eye
of your fearsome Jehovah and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broadaxe
and split open his worm-eaten skull.
I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited sepulchers and
laugh with sardonic wrath! Then reaching up the festering and varnished
facades of your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of
blazing scorn: “Lo and behold all this is fraud!” I deny all things! I
question all things! And yet! And yet! Gather round me, O ye
death-defiant, and the Earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold.
II. Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence
hanging on a tree. All ethics, politics, and philosophies are pure
assumptions. They rest on no sure basis. They are but shadowy castles in
the air erected by day-dreamers, or by rogues, upon nursery fables. It is
time they were firmly planted upon an enduring foundation. This can never
be accomplished until the racial mind has first been thoroughly cleansed
and drastically disinfected of its depraved, alien, and demoralizing
concepts of right and wrong. In no human brain can sufficient space be
found for the relentless logic of hard fact, until all pre-existing
delusions have been finally annihilated. Half measures are of no avail;
we must go down to the very roots and tear them out even to the last
fibre. We must be like nature, hard cruel, relentless.
To long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought. Too
long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets.
In the days that are at hand, neither creed nor code Must be accepted upon
authority – human, superhuman, or “divine”. Morality and conventionalism
are for subordinates. Religions and constitutions and all arbitrary
principles, every mortal theorem, must be deliberately put to the
question. No moral dogma must be taken for granted, no standard of
measurement deified.There is nothing inherently sacred about moral
codes.Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are all the work of human
hands; and what man has made, man can destroy. He who is slow to believe
anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false
principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.The chief duty of every new age
is to upraise new men to determine its liberties, to lead it towards
material success – to rend the rusty padlocks and chains of dead customs
that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and ideals and
constitutions that have meant life, hope and freedom for our ancestors may
mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us. As environments change, no
human ideal standeth sure.
Whenever, therefore , a lie has built unto itself a throne, let it be
assailed without pity and without regret; for under the dominance of a
inconvenient falsehood, no nation can permanently prosper. Let Established
sophisms be dethroned, rooted out, burnt, and destroyed- for they are a
standing menace to all true nobility of thought and action.Whatever
alleged “truth” is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be
unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead
empires,dead philosophies and other useless lumber and wreckage.
The most dangerous of all enthroned lies, is the holy, the sanctified the
privileged lie – the lie that everyone believes to be a model truth. It is
the fruitful mother of all other popular errors and delusions. It is
hydra-headed. It has a thousand roots. It is a social cancer. The lie that
is known to be a lie is half- -eradicated. But the lie that even
intelligent persons regard as a sacred fact – the lie that has been
inculcated around a mother’s knee – is more dangerous to contend against
than a creeping pestilence. Popular lies have ever been the most potent
enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut
them out, to the very core, just as cancers are. Exterminate them root and
branch, or they will surely eat us all up. Annihilate them, or they will
us. Half and half remedies are of no avail.
However, when a lie has gone to far – when it has taken up its abode in
the very tissue, bones, and brains, of a people, then all remedies are
useless. Even the lancet is of no avail. Repentance of past Misdeeds
cannot “save” decadents from extermination. The fatal bolt is shot, and
into the fiery furnace of wholesome slavery they must go, to be there
righteously consumed. From their ashes something new, something nobler,
may possibly evolve; but even that is the merest optimistic supposition.
In nature the wages of sin are always DEATH. Nature does not love the
wrong doer, but endeavors in every way to destroy him. Her curse is on the
brow of the “meek and lowly”.Her blessing is on the very heart’s blood of
the strong and the brave. Only Jews and Christs and other degenerates
think that rejuvenation can ever come though law and prayer. “All the
tears of the martyrs” might just as well have never have been shed.
Let us remember these words not because of La Vey but because they are diabolical and here is the original words un-edited
