Germanic code

 When you accept a religious and occult system, when you choose the Path you wish to walk on, with all of it you get a matrix by which that system works, a way in which your life changes in compliance to that system by which you evolve spiritually and magically. What's it like for the Germanic peoples, i.e. what is the germanic matrix and germanic code like?

Imagine a cold a desolate area, almost geometrically shaped and above all simple. The ground you walk on is very slippery and unknown, hence you'll be forced to often go back and repeat it. From time to time geysers shoot from the ground, volcanos become active, and after half a year of the Sun (reluctantly) shining, there will come a period in which the Sun does not shine at all. Everyone who's passed through Raidho or another course based on an occult system of the old Germans, will recognize in this descriptions of an icelandic landscape the atmosphere in of mental, emotional and material changes. When you allow the Runes and Nordic Gods to begin influencing your life, expect swift, powerful, almost aggressive changes which will rock from the foundations the beliefs your life was based on and reveal illusions about yourself and the world which you’ve nurtured until recently. In case you use some Germanic techniques or are simply looking for something from Nordic Gods, you will get the results you wanted very quickly, and your wishes and ideas will come true the very next day. Because of the way the Germanic system functions, the characteristics of which are speed, simplicity and correctness of technqiue, this system has become very popular among occultist in recent years. However, there is a tiny danger for those who want instant results. In the beginning all of their wishes will come true, but soon they’ll realize that techniques that seem so very simple will demand years of training before they become truly successful. So, if you want to start studying this system, you should arm yourself with lots of patience and be ready to all kinds of difficulties, because one should always remember that the North, as a side of the world, is connected to the element of Earth whose main characteristic is weight, while patience and stability are basic virtues of northern mentality.

The Nautiz-Isa-Jara-Eihwaz formula can very nicely show the way changes in an occultist’s life influenced by the Germanic system. The order of the Runes in Futhark goes exactly like this, and Futhark itself shows the way the energy moves through various forms of existence. For those who still do not recognize Runes, I will only say that Nautiz represents an obstacle we run into from time to time in our lives, which leads us into the state of Ice or Isa. The state of Isa is an uncomfortable state, but although uncomfortable, it’s more pleasant than the painful change which must come to enable development (Jara). Only when development’s come, the true test awaits us in Eihwazu, which represents Odin’s selfsacrifice and our private Yggdrasil (or ‘the cross we carry’). Although this formula represents the typical way in which the individual evolves spiritually and magically in the Nordic system, selfpurification and overcoming oneself PRECEDES any (successful) magical practising. The fact that Pertho follows Eihwaz speaks to this point, seeing that Pertho symbolizes rebirth, initiation and entering into the world inhabited by Gods, ancestors and other spiritual entities.

About everything spoken of above, I would like to add the phenomen of the ‘good starting point’, greatly important to the Germanic system, because withouth one access to this system is virtually denied. (One should certainly not mix successful work with Nordic techniques and the true understanding of the Nordic system which reveals its true form only when it becomes properly understood, and as such is truly efficient.). Now, a good starting point is owned by an occultist who’s chiefly leaning towards energetic, psychic and emotional purification, and has acquired a good pshycic balance prior to approaching this system. Although the practitioner’s selfdiscipline is imperative, aversion towards vice and a specific type of morality is much more important; the WILL to be mentally pure and moral. Because in the Nordic system it’s not so important that the occultist overcomes certain techniques and possess certain powers, for it all goes to waste if it is used for baser goals, all the while not minding the moral nature of the actions. Germanic morality is of course very different to what morality’s perceived by Christians, and different even more to the modern meaning of morality. It’s based on the nine Nordic virtues described excellently in the Havamal script. Or simply, if mastering magical skills and personal gain is more important to you than spiritual evolution, the Nordic system will forever be closed for you; it will give you only tidbits of its wisdom, while constantly shutting you out as a foreign body from its organism if you’re deemed unworthy.Besides, immorality and disrespect of the virtues would be a dangerous burden while passing the cold and desolate areas, especially if the terrain beneath you is unknown and the ice thin.
(This of course does not mean that Nordic neo-pagans do not wish to master magical skills and achieve success in life with their will and perhaps some magical techniques too. The thing is that this system values more the ability to persist in adversity as well as natural surroundings, which means working on your physical and psychic health, resistence and form. Business success undoubtedly shows the strong will of a disciplined person, but that sort of success just doesn’t come first for the modern Germanic pagan).


As for the rituals themselves, they are formulated in concurrence with the religion which is basically pagan, hence natural and polytheistic. Even though it operates with natural and mental forces, the accent is indeed on the former, thus it is really redundant to mention that they are to be performed mostly in nature and that ceremonial magic is minimal. For when the essence of this reliigon is known, it’s evident that the adept needs nothing more than the Gods, Nature and the adept’s own will. This does not mean that psychic archetypes are neglected and that their study is disregarded (Turson pays very great attention to them), but that the investigation of the natural, intuitive and primal within us is key, just as in any pagan religion.
The simplicity of the Nordic system is also manifest in the conception of Germanic rituals. If we take an example as  extreme as Thelema, with its numbers and formulae, to epitomize complexity, we have at the other end the Nordic system with its essential simplicity. It can be extremely deduced to only the Runes and the tree Yggdrasil which signify the schemes of spiritual growth, physical and psychic archetypes as well as the structure of one’s spirit, or the Universe. The names of Gods have only a modest number of variations (except in the case of Wodan), and the vibrating formulae are based on the Runes. But, no matter how simple this system is, it represents a vast filed of research achieved by mingling its elements with one another.

Vanadis

translation: Uroš Rajčević