May 31, 2025

Hindu Guru with disciples (गुरु)

Saturday:
My views on human nature – May 31, 2025

In modern times it is commonplace to equate human nature with morality, as if human nature is good in and of itself. The assumption made by modern man is that humans are good as they are in their natural state, and that anything that cannot conceivably be described as good is an aberration of human nature that serves as an expression of a soul that is merely confused in the moment, or has been led astray. The truth about human nature could not possibly be further from the truth; within every soul there exists a dark force, waiting to make itself apparent in the right moment, and for some individuals that force has already made itself apparent or is making itself apparent, because human nature is not good. This dark force is not always bad, and the assumption that all actions that seem harsh are bad and "immoral" is in line with humanist fantasies about an everlasting brotherhood of man, where every action should be embraced with indiscriminate acceptance in the name of "freedom" and everlasting peace on Earth.

    The false assumption made by modern man, in his state of complete idolatry: is that human nature by itself has to be or is automatically good, and that anything that departs or diverges from this "natural" state is what is or should be labeled immoral. In other words: man's nature is not the expression of sacred qualities inherent to the human condition, but instead a sociological construction that is highly contextually dependent and may vary across time and space – human nature is relativistic and so are the morals derived from that nature. This creates two problems, particularly in the modern context: who gets to decide what is "normal" and inherent to the nature of man if it depends on context, and why is it that this so-called "evolving" nature of man always has to improve his moral character? To those questions I say nay! Human nature has to be made good, it is not good in and of itself, because human beings are animals and as such they have to willingly transcend the animal state by observing the righteous path. But increasingly in modern times, the righteous path is no longer a righteous path; instead the path of the beast has been put to modern man as the right path because it is accepting of all other paths and easy to embrace and comes naturally to any "moral" man, but this path is in no way righteous and will lead down the path of degeneration and lower man to the level of the beast.

Hindu God Durga metamorphoses into Kali (काली)

    What separates man from all other sentient beings is his ability to transcend the animal state and become one with the source, the all, but this insight is being dashed and perverted in modern times. It is no longer considered the highest goal of man to stand above nature, because his will can resist the whims and temptations of nature; instead man should become one with nature, and in entering that relationship anything that is not striving to put man down and equate him with the beast is evermore considered to be immoral. To uphold sacred boundaries is less and less considered moral by modern man, because upholding moral boundaries, so as to anchor man with the source and the moral plane, would be considered a form of incarceration. This is yet another sign of civilization in decomposition – the final state of decay before the close of the Kali Yuga. The "natural" man, void of moral character and pure wisdom is the ideal man in modern times, he represents the complete degradation of man in his transcendental from – modern man is man in his most degraded form, because to be and to act as an animal is in the end to transform into the beast and to fully embrace the decay – to commit deicide. Resist the decaying temptations of the modern world and reject the beastly morals of the "natural" man – become the transcendent man.

Reginald Drax – May 31, 2025.