On Being a Pagan by Benoist Alain de

Author:Benoist, Alain de [Benoist, Alain de]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Arcana Europa Media LLC
Published: 2018-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

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1. Le Monde, 15 June 1980.

2. This opinion is curiously similar to the sentiment, arrived at by way of a poorly conjured idealism, expressed by the young Karl Marx: “‘that which I conceive for myself in a real way (realiter), is a real concept for me,’ something that works on me. In this sense all gods, the pagan as well as the Christian ones, have possessed a real existence” (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, vol. 1 [New York: International Publishers, 1975], 104). Similar observations can also be found in Renan’s writings.

3. Louis Rougier, Le Génie de l’Occident [The Genius of the West] (Paris: Laffont-Bourgine, 1969), 60.

4. Memorial of Symmachus, §8, in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, 2nd series, vol. X (Oxford: Parker, 1896).

5. [Here Benoist is following Heidegger’s interpretation of Heraclitus’ fragment 119 as meaning “The human being dwells, in so far as he is a human being, in the nearness of god” (trans. Frank Capuzzi); cf. Martin Heidegger, “Letter on ‘Humanism,’” in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 269–70. —Ed.]

6. Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, vol. 1, 181.

7. [The ancient Greek virtue of self-control. —Ed.]

8. Goldstain, Les Valeurs de la Loi, 123.

9. We know how in more modern times, namely in the United States, Noah’s curse against Canaan, the heir of Ham, who was the representative of the black race, was used: “Cursed be Canaan, slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers. . . . Bless O Lord, the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave. May God extend Japheth’s bounds, let him dwell in the tents of Shem, may Canaan be their slave” (Genesis 9:25–27). For more on this topic, see my earlier essays “Contre le racisme” [“Against Racism”], in Les Idées à l’endroit (Paris: Hallier, 1979), 145–56; and “Le totalitarisme raciste” [“Racist Totalitarianism”], Éléments, February–March 1980, 13–20.

10. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1974), bk. 3, §143.

11. Translation from James Rendel Harris, The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911), 155.

12. Gillabert, Moïse et le phénomène judéo-chrétien, 59.

13. Renan, Histoire générale et système composé des langues sémitiques.

14. See my Preface to Rougier, Le Conflit du christianisme primitif, 7–35. See also August Bouché-Leclercq, L’Intolérance religieuse et la politique [Religious Intolerance and Politics] (Paris: Flammarion, 1911); Henri F. Secrétan, La Propagande chrétienne et le persécutions [Christian Propaganda and Persecutions] (Paris: Payot, 1915); and Charles Guignebert, Le Christianisme antique [Ancient Christianity] (Paris: Flammarion, 1921).

15. Historia, XXII, 5, 4.

16. Historia sacra, II, 51, (trans. Alexander Roberts) in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd series, vol. XI: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian (New York: Christian Literature Co., 1890–1900), 122.

17. Georges Nataf, Encyclopédie de la mystique juive [Encyclopedia of Jewish Mysticism] (Paris: Berg International, 1978).

18. Tristani, La Stade du respir, 152–53.

19. [Benoist is alluding here to

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