Triumph of the Will - Part One

 

 

Some spiritual disciplines teach that desire should be quelled altogether, but if we have no desires then we shall have no achievements. We need desire and want in order to have something to aim for - a goal. Without that the human drive to further and better ourselves is lacking - something that certain sections of society today would like to see in us. We must have a purpose and aims which we can put into action if we wish to succeed against overwhelming odds. 

To 'will' is not 'to want', though wanting it is necessary to bring into being the 'Will': this means that the individual has to create a 'desire' and to manifest this it is necessary to align with the Divine Will. The will-power comes into this but it is not the same a 'The Will'; will-power is needed to create the 'Thought-Form', and this must be aligned with the Divine Will. 

Woden - The Master of Woden or the Woda-Force; this is the Divine Madness or Ecstatic Inspiration that is needed in order to bring the Will into force.

Will - The Divine Will - the mighty power of the Will - God-Power. Fiery-Essence of the Will. 

Weoh - Holiness.

These three need to be in harmony with each other; as the Eddas tell us these are the Triple Creative Godhead. The God of the Will is Ingwe - the Fiery-Serpent. He is the God of Force and Fire, of Fire and Light, of the Divine Will but with Knowledge and Wisdom. The Will is driven by necessity - by need - and Ingwe is invoked by kindling the Need-Fire. 

The IE Root *wel- means 'to wish', 'to will', but it also means 'to see', and according to the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots is akin to the Old Norse litr - 'appearance'. The Root *wel- also means 'to turn, coil, roll or wind - terms connected with the Spirit. In order to understand this better we need to recognise that the Ingwe Archetype is either the same or very similar to that of Heimdall (Hama) - they are Gods of Fire and the Home & Hearth. Rydberg sees Mundilfore as the father of Heimdall, and he is the God of Friction-Fire as well as his 'Son'. These names appear to be one and the same Patriarch -

Ingwe - Scef - Scyld - Heimdall - Rig - Hama

Rydberg sees Mundilfore as Lodhor whose name appears to mean - 'he who causes or produces the Flame' from lodern - 'to blaze'. He is equated with Willa (Vili) too, which takes us back to the above idea that the IE Root *wel- is akin to Old Norse litr - 'appearance' because it is Lodhur who gives this to Man. This is the litr goda - Light of the Gods or 'Appearance of the Gods' - the Gods made Man in their own image. 

It is likely that Waendal is the same as Mundilfore, and the Long Man of Wilmington is symbolic of Waendal. The name 'Mundilfore' appears to stem from mondil - 'mill-handle' and fore - 'first' or 'foremost'. He turns the Cosmic Mill around, and is also the one who uses the Fire-Whisk. Thus, the origins of the Sacred Fire come through Mundilfore-Waendal; the personification of this Sacred Fire is Ingwe-Hama. Mundilfore is the god who turns the heavens - Precession of the Equinoxes. Connected to the Sacred Need-Fire are the Vedic Bhrigu and Manu, whose counterparts in Germanic Mythology are Berchter and Mannus. 

Bhrigu - *bharg- - 'to shine'.

Berchter - *berht - 'bright', 'clear', 'light'. (Old English beorht).

Heimdall is called Stigandi - 'The Traveller', and we find the word Rati meaning 'The Traveller', from rata - 'to travel' or 'to move around'. Originally, these seem to be Vrata meaning 'to travel', 'to make a journey', originally, it seems, linked to the idea of 'to turn', 'to twist', or 'to coil'. Hence Rati the Borer who uses an augar to bore into Knit Mountain - Ingwe-Hama. He is also Ratatosk - the Divine Messenger of the Gods. 

Thus, the Divine Will is associated with Fire - Friction-Fire. It is Ingwe who will awaken the Will of the Folk, through the Invocation of Fire -

In one of the Hymns to Agni taken from the Vedas we find that he is referred to as 'Fire from the Waters' and also 'Fire from the Stone' - a curious statement. But when we consider the Firestone - White Stone of Ing - this shows Fire as the Ken-Rune, although a different and earlier version than the above.

The markings on the Stone could be seen as the DNA Spiral; the Cross on the Ken-Rune is supposed to be a later addition, but it could also be seen as a Nyd-Rune. You can in fact get 'Fire from the Stone' when using Flint and Steel, another form of Friction-Fire. The Gyfu-Rune is the 'Gift-Rune', a rune of giving, and also receiving; the word 'gift' stems from the IE Root *ghabh- which can also give terms like 'to hold', 'to have' or 'to possess', so this can be given but it can be held by someone too, which sums up the idea of the Inner Fire given by Ingwe, which is the Fire-Within that is held by his Folk. 

The Origins of Fire lie with the god Mundilfore - Willa - one of the Triple-Creator-Gods Woden-Willa-Weoh who created the Cosmos; but these same three gods also created Man, as Woden-Hoenir-Lodhur. This is where some scholars may go wrong (in my opinion, that is) when seeing Lodhur as Loki, God of Destructive Fire and dis-harmony. Lodhur will be Mundilfore, one of the Light-Born Joten who dwells in the Inner World, as does Mimir and the Well of Memory. 

The Long Man of Wilmington (above) is shaped as the Cweorth-Rune - the Rune of Ritual Cremation - this is a spiritual concept in that this is the Fire of Transformation. This is the Fire-Twirl which whisks the worlds into Creation, but it can also be the Fire of Destruction which cleanses and renews the world when it has fallen into the greatest Darkness. What we have to remember is that when any society goes into decline, decay and degeneration, and loses all contact with Natural Law, this society is in a state of decline, and is thus near to a state of destruction - sometimes it needs a push!

It thus seems that the litr goda - 'Light of the Gods' or 'Divine Spark' ('Appearance of the Gods') - is the same as the Will; or perhaps, better put, this is connected to the Divine Will. It is the Divine Will (Willa) that brings this about here in Middle-Earth. This is the Creative-Will or the Will-to-Create, and is Nietzsche's Will-to-Power since he uses this term in regard to the creation of the Ubermensch. These traits, of the god Mundilfore-Waendal, are thus embodied in his 'Son' - Ingwe - who brings these to Man-Kind here in Middle-Earth - as Scef. 

Scef - Beow - Scyld

The Root beow is the root of Beowulf - Wolf of the Bee, i.e. the Bear - but the term has also connections to Barley and to the 'Barley-Wolf'. The Barley-God is 'wounded in the thigh', i.e. the seed-head is cut off from the plant to harvest; the seed drops to the ground and the land appears barren through the winter, until the shoots arise again as a new plant. The Folk-Song - John Barleycorn - is about the Spirit of the Corn, and tells how this ends up as an intoxicating drink; it seems that ergot - a deadly poison but if used in measured minute doses is an hallucinogen - grows on the Barley. 

The idea of a wound in the thigh, a severed head, and a 'wasteland' reminds me of the Graal Mythos - the Wounded King, Severed Head (Tale of Gawain), and the Wasteland (Loegres-England). The 'severed head' is also connected to Mimir and to Bran of the Welsh. This is a subject I am going to look into later since it does appear to be important. Gawain is the Graal-Knight who does not achieve the aim of finding the Graal, which is the role of Parsifal. 'Gawain & The Green Knight' is a Middle-English Tale.

The Daeg-Rune is made up of two Thorn-Runes; maybe the 'Sleep-Thorn' and the 'Thorn of Awakening'. The tale of 'The Sleeping Beauty' is based upon an ancient Aryan Myth about a goddess that is pricked with the Sleep-Thorn, and has to be awakened by the Folk-Hero - this is the tale of Brunhilde-Sigdrifa. It does give a clue to what could be an important concept to us in our struggle for freedom, since our Folk seem to have been 'pricked with the sleep-thorn'. The solution to our problem lies in the problem itself - this is also the 'Thorn of Awakening'. 

***Part Two to come........