“Christians, after a lifetime of submission, guilt, and rejection of the natural order, they are granted an eternal reward—childlike devotion in an illusory beyond.” Me: Chthonic cults (from the Greek χθόνιος—"of the earth") were religious practices centered on deities and spirits associated with the underworld, the earth, fertility, and the dead. As a warrior for the true spirit of the Earth, you recognize these ghouls for what they are. "Christianity, however, will endure." Me: Christianity—a chthonic cult of guilt and submission—perverts the natural order, promising its adherents an eternal infancy in a false paradise. Yet it persists, like all subterranean forces, its ghouls forever bound to the earth, resurrected as priests of an underworld creed. United Sates, a Ghouls Nation. Washington, D.C. (Symbolic Esoteric Interpretation) While D.C. is the political center, from a Hermetic-Evolian perspective, its Masonic and occult-inspired architecture (e.g., the Washington Monument, Capitol building, street layouts mirroring esoteric symbols) could be seen as a degraded modern echo of sacred geography. Evola might critique it as a "counter-traditional" parody of true sacred kingship, given its democratic and materialist foundations. Metaphysical part: ### The Two Paths in the Afterlife Traditional teachings distinguish between two possible destinies after death: one leading to true immortality, the other to dissolution into ancestral forces. Unlike the modern belief in universal soul-immortality, Tradition recognizes a hierarchy in postmortem existence, corresponding to the spiritual stature of the individual. #### The Naturalistic Order: Dissolution into the Totem For ordinary men, death brings the disintegration of the ephemeral personality, leaving only a "shadow" destined for eventual dissolution—the "second death." The vital principles return to the ancestral manes, lares, or totem—the subpersonal, chthonic force behind a bloodlin