Revilo P. Oliver
1,525 words
Urbana, Illinois
15 March 1979
Dear Madame:
I recently obtained from France and have just read your Souvenirs et réflexions d’une Aryenne, and I cannot resist the impulse to express my appreciation to a lady whose learning and courage I have long admired.
I hope that the address to which I am sending this letter is still correct; I obtained it from your book, having lost the memorandum of your address that was given me by your friend, Mr. Sam Glasgow Dickson, when he visited me some months ago, and informed me that you had returned to India. Years ago, when I had read with sympathy and admiration your The Lightning and the Sun [1] and Pilgrimage, I obtained your address in Athens from Dr. William Pierce and asked a lady of my acquaintance to give herself the pleasure of calling on you when she was in Athens for some negotiations with the publishers of the ill-fated periodical, International History. She could obtain no information, perhaps because of some linguistic barrier, for she speaks only English and French.
In your latest work you see us as living in the twilight of the Kali Yuga — or should I say in the nightfall that follows the Ragnaroeker? — and you have attained a dispassionate vue de Sirius [view from Sirius][1] [2] that is, I fear, correct. I see no reasonable grounds for hope that our species is not self-doomed to extinction; but one can hope that the death of the host will be followed by the death of his venomous parasites and the extinction of the other species of what you aptly call “le mammifère à deux pattes” [the two-legged mammal].
At the time of the great catastrophe in 1945, I permitted myself some hope, since I did not see the realities of the time as clearly as you did. I thought in terms of historical analogies and thought it likely that the United States, having defeated and destroyed Germany and Europe, would follow the path of Rome after the defeat of Macedon (which was dismembered, as was Germany) and the Seleucids, and would become the great imperial power of the West. In 1945, I also expected that within ten years the steamships and international airlines would be crowded with the international vermin as they frantically sought to escape the wrath of Americans aroused by the disclosure of the secret of Pearl Harbor and many similar acts of treason and by identification of the inciters of a fratricidal madness, which was like that of Hercules when he slew his own children. I overestimated then, as I did frequently in subsequent years, the intelligence of my compatriots: the more intelligent had freed themselves from belief in the Christian mythology, and I hoped that they would eventually free themselves from the residue of derivative superstitions about “all mankind,” “human rights,” and what they called “democracy,” i.e., ochlocracy. I did not sufficiently allow for the enfeeblement of a racial mentality that had been rotted for fifteen centuries by the most deadly of all the Jewish hoaxes. Our ancestors were able to impose a superficial veneer of civilization on the alien superstition, and there is, as you know, a great Christian literature, from the Chanson de Roland to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, that is Western, but the veneer could not survive the rottenness of what it covered.
It was not until a few years ago that I had at last to admit to myself that the suicide of the West was irretrievably consummated in 1945.
Although I continue to do my best to fan what embers of manhood may not yet be totally extinct in our species, I will confess to you that I do it with no more hope than you express in your last chapter — with less, in fact, for I do not share your tentative mysticism and can think of Kalki only as the blind force of nature that eliminates species that cannot cope with their environment. Although we agree in much, my own opinions are essentially what is called lokayata[2] [3] in the Mahabharata, where, I fear, I would be classed as an hetuvadin or one of the svabhavam bhutacintakah.
Since you maintain your interest in current events, you doubtless know that some small challenges of the parasitic race’s dominion are now being made, and I wonder whether you have seen a copy of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, in which Professor Arthur Butz has definitively demolished the great Jewish swindle about the six million parasites that the Germans are accused of having exterminated. If not, may I send you a copy?
Another book that may interest you has just been published by its author, William Simpson, who arrives at a view of the future as dark as yours, although on quite different grounds. It is entitled Which Way Western Man? If you do not have a copy, I shall be glad to send you one.
Please accept, Madame, the assurance of my sincere sympathy and high esteem.
Sincerely,
Revilo P. Oliver.
P.S. I have long hoped that I could someday return to my youthful studies in Sanskrit in an effort to find evidence relevant to a problem that puzzles me.
We know from the Rigveda that the Aryans who invaded India had what I take to be the ancestral and natively Aryan form of religion, such as is found in Republican Rome, according to which every paterfamilias is the priest of his own household, while the king or prominent man appointed by him holds the political office of priest of the state. There are thus no professional holy men. If any fakirs, prophets, and the like appear, they are, like jugglers and acrobats, usually aliens and always private individuals who may make a living by thrilling or entertaining the common folk, but have no official or socially authorized status.
How, then, did it happen that the Aryans in India developed a hereditary caste of professional holy men, the Brahmanas, who acquire a monopoly of religious rites?
Now of the four primary varnas, the Sudras are obviously the dark-skinned natives whom the invaders found in India and reduced to proper servitude, defining their function in life as that of serving the twice-born. But what of the other three castes? The “colors” are obviously symbolic, not, as with the Sudras, colors of skin, for obviously there can have been no men with green skins. We may guess that the Vaisyas were assigned green because that is the color of the vegetation and they were landowners and farmers even before they became merchants. By the same symbolism, therefore, the Kshatriyas were given the color of gold.
The discovery of the remains of the Indus Valley civilization, which was probably the Meluhha of the Sumerian records, has made obsolete all earlier considerations of the probable origin of the caste system. The invading Aryans found in the Indus Valley an established and urban culture of white men, who, despite the difference of language, may have been of the same race as the Sumerians, whose civilization was so similar. It is most unlikely that the Aryans exterminated their white predecessors, and they certainly cannot have numbered them among the Sudras. Is it not permissible to speculate, therefore, that the white men of the Indus Valley were given status as Vaisyas?
The Kshatriyas must have been the conquering Aryans, who must have installed themselves as rulers of the territory they had taken, as members of our race have done wherever they have migrated.
Whence come the Brahmanas? Are we to assume that they were Aryans who separated themselves from their fellows to exploit them as holy men? Does not the tradition which accounts for the extinction of the Kshatriyas by saying that the Brahmanas exterminated them over and over again sound like a manifestation of a racial hatred, since there can be no question (so far as we know) of a religious fission and corresponding fanaticism, such as we find so frequently as the cause of massacres in Christian Europe?
Waddell’s Makers of Civilization[3] [4] is, of course, obsolete, since it was based on his pioneer but erroneous reading of Sumerian, but he makes somewhere in the book a suggestion that gives me to think, even though I regard the root brahman as Indo-European and cognate to the Latin flamen. Waddell, writing before the results of the excavations in the Indus Valley were available to him, believed that the idea of a professional priesthood came from Sumeria, where it was introduced by the Semites, whom the Sumerians seem to have accepted as immigrants or neighbors. Does this seem possible to you?
R. P. O.
Notes
[1] [5] I.e., a cosmic point of view.
[2] [6] The “Lokayata” school of Hinduism is an early form of atheistic materialism and empiricism.
[3] [7] L. A. Waddell, Makers of Civilization in Race and History: Showing the Rise of the Aryans or Sumerians, Their Origination & Propagation of Civilization, Their Extension of it to Egypt & Crete, Personalities & Achievements of Their Kings, Historical Originals of Mythic Gods & Heroes with Dates from the Rise of Civilization about 3380 B.C. Reconstructed from Babylon, Egyptian, Hittite Indian & Gothic Sources (1929; Reprint: Hollywood: Angriff Press, n.d.).