The Worship of Asians
June 22, 2017
FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF Lawrence Auster:
The factual, mathematical skills and lack of imagination [of Asians] feed them into the bureaucratic engineering mentality that is hurting us.
The worship of Asians is the worship, or gnostic deification, of engineered reality. That’s why liberals and neocons are so eager to have them.
Asians have never believed in a transcendent God. They worshipped the order of the cosmos, ancestors, ritual form. Today they worship materiality. They are not good for us.
(See the previous entry for affirmation of his point. Yoga is a denial of the transcendence of God. Note, Mr. Auster is talking about the worship of Asians, not healthy, normal relations, such as those he had with the owner of his neighborhood dry cleaners, an Asian man who was genuinely saddened by his illness before his death.)
— Comments —
Jane S. writes:
Some clarification of this post would be helpful. I probably agree with most of it, except that I do not think there is anything wrong with yoga as a form of exercise. Doing yoga with goats is plain daft. Anyone who tries it will stop when the goat poops on them or tries to eat their clothes.
Lawrence’s post is not entirely clear, either. He seems to be talking about the religions practiced by Asians. I guess he is referring Asian immigration to the United States and that it is damaging to our society because of their religious beliefs.
But your note:
“Mr. Auster is talking about the worship of Asians, not healthy, normal relations,”
seems to refer to us worshipping them.
There seem to be some valid points alluded to here, but I am not entirely clear what they are. Please advise. Thank you.
Laura writes:
I can understand the confusion. Sorry about that. I found this old notebook belonging to Lawrence Auster and I opened it and there was that profound insight. I think everything he wrote about race was trying to fight this idolatry, or idolizing of, other races.
As for yoga, first let me say, there are obviously good elements to yoga. So many people wouldn’t be strongly attracted to it if they were not seeking something good and there were not positive elements to it. People are highly stressed and agitated. This agitation comes from pervasive atheism and a frenetic pace that is spiritual in origin — not principally from the pressures of modern life. The simplicity and seeming tranquility of yoga are highly attractive. They offer an illusory peace.
But yoga is not just cathartic exercise. It is a spiritual discipline, based on certain theological principles in which God is viewed as immanent and present in all things. By obliterating the will, the yoga practitioner enters into this pantheistic, impersonal being. In yoga, the distinction between good and evil is obliterated in a surrender to the divine that is everywhere. Fr. James Manjackal, MSFS writes on the pantheist character of yoga:
The philosophy and practice of Yoga are based on the belief that man and God are one. It teaches one to focus on the self rather than the One True God. It encourages its participants to seek answers to the problems and questions of life within their own minds and consciences instead of finding solutions in the Word of God through the Holy Spirit, as Catholicism teaches.
This pantheism is consistent with the passivity and fatalism of Hindu culture. (I do not mean to suggest that Hinduism is pure evil or that Hindus are bad people, as it clearly has many beautiful elements and aspects of truth.) God is indeed part of all things too but He is also transcendent and personal. I highly recommend this article by Jaime Duarte Martínez:
3. In any of its forms, the purpose of Yoga is not just relaxation, correct breathing, well-being or physical control, but “enlightenment.” It is a “way of perfection” (eight steps) attained through control of the physical and psychic elements of the person seeking nirvana (release from suffering) to achieve “enlightenment” (opening of the “third eye”) and” union with god.”
Hindu yogis say that the first five steps (moral discipline, corporal and spiritual purification, gymnastic-body postures, breathing control and sensory disconnection) are preparing the adept to achieve the higher degrees of “Royal Yoga” or “Raja Yoga.”
4. The “enlightening” is obtained by awakening the Shiva (a male Hindu deity) in the form of a serpent (kundalini), which is said to live at the bottom of the spinal chord or in the genitals. With this it can ascend up the spine and “activate,” one by one, the six or seven chakras (supposed centers of energy located along the spine), and thus unite with its spouse Parvati (“energy goddess “) that awaits it in the head.
This Shiva-Parvati link would open the “third eye” on a psychic (and perhaps physical) level. This is the goal of “Kundalini Yoga” and “dynamic meditation.”
5. Instructors and disseminators of this discipline, like the director of the Mexican Institute of Yoga Ana Paula Domínguez, confirm that the different positions of Yoga do actually incarnate the god Shiva, who was worshipped through a phallic symbol called linga. The aim, she stated, “is to achieve liberation in order to merge with this powerful deity.”
The opening of the ‘third eye’ supposedly is one of the highest levels of inititation
6. The opening of the “third eye” has been a point of interest to yogis, swamis and Eastern “masters,” as well as Western occultists. They claim this allows access to the knowledge of all that exists, of the whole reality and even the supernatural (e.g. the future).
For this reason, personages like the founder of Satanism, Aleister Crowley (known as “the most depraved Satanist of all time”) and Jon Klimo (the most famous “medium” in history) practiced Yoga and strongly recommended it.
Yoga opens the door to the occult.
It is a grave danger to the souls of practitioners. Instead of surrendering themselves to nothingness, in which the prince of darkness and his minions lurk, people should surrender themselves to their loving Father who so eagerly awaits them and wants to relieve their acute stress and agitation.
They should surrender themselves to God — and do stretching exercises on the side.
