An Open Letter to Christian Nationalism from a Former White Nationalist, Part 5 of 5: Passing the Test
Whatever comes next will be harder, perhaps harder than we are now capable of imagining.
Preceding sections of this series have covered the history of White Nationalism (WN), political lessons from its rise and fall which are critical for advancing Christian Nationalism (CN), and specific issues that define a principled, effective, and radical nationalist and Christian political movement. In review, I have presented these as five issues or points: personal character, “no enemies on the Right,” race, the Jews, and Palestine. This final section turns to a different consideration and the sixth and final point. Unlike the previous, this one is not taken directly from the WN experience, but looks forward to a potential future, and an inevitable threat. I ask the reader to consider it carefully.
Passing the Test
Discouragement is easy to come by today. Perhaps paradoxically, also easy to come by is false optimism, and its attendant vices, complacency and compromise. It has been the purpose of the previous five points to combat these tendencies. For the moment, then, I will take for granted that the reader has taken to heart and applied them, and CN has profited as a result, walking the narrow path of a principled and disciplined revolutionary movement which takes up the cause of our people, sets them with clarity against their enemies, and conducts itself with nobility and honor in the fear of God. If we do indeed thus press forward with courage and wisdom, it is certain we will see results.
I ask the reader to recall again some of the issues I’d listed in Part 1, and whatever you yourself hold dear. Your family and the future of your children in the country you live in. The dignity of life. The survival of the European people. Liberty from the ruin of body and soul by corporate- and state-promoted decadence. Anything that is worth fighting for, is, ultimately, a matter of life and death. There is a sober implication to this: someone who wants to kill you for intrinsic reasons will not be stopped by reason…or by defeat.
In other words, it is all but certain that any victory we see within our lifetime will be not a war but a battle. If we push hard enough to see success, our enemy will not relent. Whatever comes next will be harder, perhaps harder than we are now capable of imagining. If you dismiss this possibility, I must rebuke you as being intentionally and grievously self-deceived as to the continuity of the trajectory of Western civilization for the past not decades, but centuries.
The “test” is whatever new strategy or challenge the enemy brings. The point, in this context, is for the tested to fail. You must be certain, therefore, that the tests will never stop, until Satan himself is finally defeated along with his children, and you must confront, soberly and consciously, the possibility of being presented with a test which you may not be able or willing to pass.
I beg the reader to not brush past this point, or to react to it as a personal slight. We do not have the right or luxury to hold onto our egos or to make our struggle contingent on personally receiving the glory of the final victor. More likely than not, reader, you will have to pass the torch before the job is done. That is good. It is of the greatest necessity to prepare for this, as in doing so we will be rebuilding our collective memory. Today, our people, our brethren according to the flesh, have a memory that barely lasts for one election cycle. Our enemies, who seek our enslavement and eradication, have one that reaches back thousands of years.
Those who encounter a test they are unable or unwilling to pass must first of all be able to recognize it as such, which does not come naturally. What is natural is to view such a situation as a defeat; a dead end; or a command to turn back and walk in a different, even opposite, direction. It will require the greatest courage and self-consciousness to look beyond, to understand that in fact the narrow way continues onward, through the worst decisions or pain. Those who do not walk further themselves must do everything they can to support those who do, and put to death their flesh and fear which will call on them to do otherwise.
Whatever you may think of this final point I have made, I ask you to consider it. Pursue discipline and self-consciousness without rest until Christ calls you home. I pray that some who have heard this will recall it at such a time as its meaning and value will be made clear by the reality which then confronts them. In that time, do not blink, as countless others have done before, and rewarded us their descendants with the bitter fruits of their cowardice and treachery.
Conclusion
Aside from the value of the specific issues I’ve written about in this series on their own terms, the primary thing I hope to have achieved is some degree of continuity between WN and CN. The reason for this is that I have seen many CNs taking up, in different ways and to varying degrees, important issues such as defense of nationalism and ethnic heritage, or opposition to Zionism, Israel, and Jewish influence. As I’ve argued in Part 1, the ability to do so and remain relatively prominent and successful is directly due to the trailblazing of WN, and is also a response to WN’s cultivation of racial consciousness among Americans, and White people generally. Thus there is already a continuity in a metapolitical sense, even if there may be otherwise minimal crossover in terms of specific persons or organizations between the two movements. While I do, as I also mentioned, think there is a value in having the humility to acknowledge this simply for its own sake as the truth, it is just as important to acknowledge the continuity in order to be able to learn from WN’s failures, and advance further than WN did. This has been my intention through each of the specific points I’ve discussed.
As the perhaps cliché but true saying goes, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Looking at the history of political movements that have dealt with the increasingly and inexorably relevant issues of race and civilizational destiny, this is certainly true. It is also true simply of our civilization as a whole. By and large we have paid no heed to our prophets, scorned those with passion to fight evil, and indulged in compromise and pride, while the slowly mounting pain of defeat combined with the fatally short-term incentives of an individualized and democratic society have lulled us into a stupor from which most may never wake. Our historical cycles and collective memory have shortened to the length of every election or two, and the upshot, in the long run, is rarely positive. Conversely, when we look at our ancient enemy, we see a people who still remember the sack of Jerusalem depicted on the Arch of Titus, two thousand years ago.
The long road out of this starts with rebuilding our memory. We need to rediscover and reclaim our past, from the twentieth century to thousands of years ago. Most immediately, however, those with any political or metapolitical intentions, such as CNs, must understand the genesis of our own ideas and successes farther back than what we may believe to be our individual starting points. If we do not, we will squander the invaluable opportunity to learn from those who fought before. Particularly since they did, in a sense which I’ve outlined in Part 1, fail, this is an oversight we simply cannot afford. Moreover, whether the movement that currently calls itself CN succeeds or fails, it must one day likewise pass on a torch of both responsibility and experience to those who come after. By doing this, we will be building a lifeline of experience and historical and racial consciousness which will become the firm ground upon which our people will finally be able to plant their feet.
What we all do is greater than ourselves and so must be greater than our pride and desire for recognition of our individual achievements, as praiseworthy and honorable as they may be. Before history, and before our God and our people, we must have humility, or we will fall.
A crown lies in the gutter today. It is the crown of destiny and struggle: the destiny of the White race, of Western civilization, of Christendom. The struggle is the responsibility that we all bear, by virtue of our very existence, of who we are. It is the duty laid upon us by God, to His glory and honor. Should we fail in this task, it is certain that we shall vanish from the Earth.
For Victory in Christ,
Edwin Schliemann
Other Parts of this Series
Part 1: Politics is War
Part 2: Character and Solidarity
Part 3: Identity and Duty
Part 4: The Jews and Palestine
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