By a New Zealand comrade, with editing, photos and explanations added by me, John de Nugent

Animus, according to the original Latin meaning of the word, is the masculine element of “soul”; and at its most expansive level, it is the masculine spiritual energy of the universe. Anima is the female element in our soul

Within psychoanalysis (a form of therapy that became a battleground between the Viennese Jew, Sigmund Freud and the Aryan Swiss German, Carl Jung), the word “animus” has been slanted and given a narrowed and thus incomplete meaning. Jung defined the animus as the masculine element in the female unconscious.

The toxic Jew Sigmund Freud said men are just animals ruled by sex, greed, hate and violence, which certainly applies in spades to his own jewish people!

 

Carl  Jung’s “Red Book” was beautifully illustrated by Jung himself, and was a record of his visions and “imaginings” between the year 1913 and the mid-1930s. Jung noted in dealing with patients that whites and jews had a very different unconscious mind, with different dreams and symbols appearing, some very ancient images.

His vision of an Aryan Europe

An Aryan warrior kills a snake-man wearing a kind of turban.

Something comes out of a kind of Aladdin’s lamp

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Yet despite the limitation of the psychoanalytical definition, C.G. Jung’s conceptual models using such terminology (anima as the feminine counterpart) are useful; and as long as the original, unconditioned meaning of animus is kept in mind, Jung’s theory of the animus’ four stages of development is well worth consideration.

First, as a psychoanalytical introduction to the concept of the animus, here is a quote from M.-L. von Franz, one of Jung’s main disciples and a co-author of Jung’s famous work, Man and his Symbols:

–First, we have in history the wholly physical man — the fictional jungle hero, Tarzan [JdN:  “Conan the Barbarian” as in the 1982 Schwarzenegger movie].

–Second, the romantic man “ such as the 19th-century British poet Shelley; or the man of action, America’s Ernest Hemingway, WWI and WWII war hero, hunter, etc. He spend a lot of time up here in the UP of Michigan, hunting, fishing and recuperating from PTSD. Hemingway as an Army ambulance driver was constantly near the front and saw ghastly wounds and suffering..and also in Italy when a munitions factory full of female workers blew up with body parts everywhere.

 

–Third, the bearer of the word, Lloyd George, the great political orator [JdN: who later became a fervent supporter of Adolf Hitler!].

–Fourth, the wise guide to spiritual truth an image often projected onto the Indian independence leader, Mahatma Gandhi. (From “Man and his Symbols, p205, in the chapter “The Process of Individuation”).

Now, to illustrate the development of the animus, focusing on Aryan political history:

The most primitive phase, the physical man, the one who leads neither by virtue of charm nor intelligence, but foremost through his physical prowess.

Such an individual is limited in terms of number of followers (as he only influences those within his continuing physical proximity) and also to the period of time that his physical power remains effective. Once the man becomes physically weak, his ability to lead correspondingly vanishes. Such an example of this type are not remembered in the pages of history; but we could imagine a cave man who, by brute force, smashes all opponents and offers protection to those loyal to him.

 

This sculpture resonates with the primordial physical body man. Also a harkening back to pure origins and merciless natural selection.

The next phase, the man of superior emotion, is marked by his ability to charm and evoke feelings of loyalty to him and his goals, and feelings of hatred towards those against him.

According to psychoanalysis there are two levels of emotion: individual and collective C.G.

Jung wrote: “The contents of the personal unconscious are chiefly the feeling-toned complexes. The contents of the collective unconscious, on the other hand, are known as archetypes.* “Eranos Jahrbuch, 1934.

If a leader can tap into the power of the archetypes then the strength of this is literally a “possession” or Ergriffenheit. (That is also how Jung described Hitler’s archetypal power in his essay Wotan [German = “Odin”]). As testament to archetypal power, the Encyclopedia Britannica states:

Because archetypes originate in pre-logical thought, they are held to evoke startlingly similar feelings in reader and author.

It is historically proven that feelings on this collective level have tremendous power, yet because they spring from an unconscious level, they are thus easily transferred from one aim to another if there is no conscious message added to it. This also helps explain the unconscious respect for Adolf Hitler as a power-figure (including among non-whites such as Asians and blacks) while on a conscious level those beholding his photo or newsreels may be neurotically swayed back against him by the negativity [in enemy propaganda] they have heard or read about this legendary man.

The political lesson is, that those leaders who have a strong form of emotional power, though they can no longer reach the people, will have a relatively short lifespan as a guider of peoples’ actions. (In Adolf Hitler’s case, because his memory is preserved in books, photos and speeches, his power over people, both consciously and unconsciously, lives on.)

In terms of a relatively pure example of an Aryan leader who personified emotional power more than on any other level, was Joan of Arc, a heroine and martyr at the age of nineteen. Her being burnt at the stake created an emotional wave of outrage to defeat the tenacious British invader, ending the Hundred Years War.

 

Joan of Arc being burnt at the stake also epitomizes the emotional affect she had on her French Folk.

On the day when Joan was burned, the wood was prepared for the fire to burn her before the sermon was finished or the sentence had been pronounced. And no sooner had the sentence been read by the bishop, without any delay, she was taken to the fire, and I did not see that there was any sentence pronounced by the lay judge.

She was at once taken to the fire and once in the fire she cried more than six times “Jesus,” and above all with her last breath she cried in a loud voice “Jesus!” so that all present could hear her.

Almost all wept with pity, and I heard that after her burning, that the ashes were gathered up and cast into the Seine. -Maugier Leparmentier Apparitor of the Archiepiscopal Court of Rouen

*Note: there is much common misunderstanding on the definition of archetypes. C.G. Jung defines archetypes as motifs within the collective unconscious motifs that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern. (Man and his Symbols, p. 58).

[The jewish psychiatrist] Sigmund Freud’s view of archetypes, on the other hand, and the unconscious (or as Freud termed it, the subconscious) was scoffed at by Jung, describing the Freudian concept of the subconscious thus:

picturesquely, as a trash can that collects all the refuse of the conscious mind (-Man and his Symbols, p. 32).

In Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century we find a brilliant description of the development from physical and emotional dominated figures, to the primary power coming from the mind:

Again and again we see the Nordic racial form expressed as great art. However, a change in the type of hero as a form can be established. Earlier, the hero had personality and led his people into battle. The real person thus became a symbol in so doing. Today, another new dynamic has developed; the will of the great leader directs millions from the centre. Accordingly, in art forms, the head alone is drawn into prominent position. This representation symbolically shows what is significant, what is essential.

From the commanding center comes the leadership. The head is thus the most important feature in most art dealing with Adolf Hitler. This above propaganda poster is contradictory to the primary principle of Adolf Hitler whose leadership, in its most concentrated form, is not seen as his physical body, nor his heart, but from his head.

 

In John de Nugent the inner process is revealed. The viewer no longer sees the subject primarily from the perspective of an outsider, but from within John de Nugent’s own mind seeing (as far as humanly possible) John de Nugent’s own questing soul, that of an archetypal** white person who symbolises in his struggle upward from darkness to light the Aryan collective soul that comprises all of us and is aching worldwide in bondage.

As he recounts his own ascent from a childhood of darkness, despair and abuse, seizing control finally of his once-destroyed life and remaking his future into one of hope, he becomes the captain of his soul. He seeks to view, to treat other Aryans, and get them to see themselves, in harmony with the ancient Sanskrit-language, Indo-Aryan greeting:

Namaste “ “ I revere the divine within you.

**From C.G. Jung’s Wotan essay (1936):

Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it has flowed in this channel the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return to its old bed. The life of the individual as a member of society and particularly as a part of the State may be regulated like a canal, but the life of nations is a great rushing river which is utterly beyond human control, and in the hands of the One [God] who has always been stronger than men.

As we have seen, the development of animus or leadership archetypes within our race have evolved from the physical body, emotion, intellect and finally soul. To understand the pinnacle of this development, we must know, as nearly as mere mortals are able, what the soul reveals itself to be. According to the original meaning of the word, soul or divinity means godlike, however the equivalent term in psychoanalysis is the unconscious*** (in other words, the unconscious part of the mind/psyche; in contrast, the conscious part is the intellect).

***Jung is most famous in psychoanalysis for indicating the existence of a collective aspect to the unconscious mind, and this, like many other of Jung’s discoveries, came to him in a dream [dreams are one of the key ways to model how the unconscious works, because as Jung often light-heartedly emphasises, “the unconscious is something which is really unconscious”].

Because of this mysteriousness and inability for us to know directly what the unconscious is, indicative evidence is necessary to build a model. Through his lifetime of research, Jung has shown that the unconscious is not an abstract concept, but an undeniable reality. And further, that the psyche has an existence beyond the physical body, emotions and intellect.

An English interviewer asked professor Jung:

I have heard that you have said that death is psychologically just as important as birth; and like it, it is an integral part of life but surely it can’t be like birth if it’s an end, can it?

Jung: Yes death is an end, and we are not quite certain about this end, because, you know, there are these peculiar faculties of the psyche that aren’t entirely confined to space and time: you can have dreams or visions of the future, you can see around corners and such things; only ignoramuses deny these facts; it’s quite evident that they do exist, and have existed, always. Now these facts show that the psyche, in part at least, is not dependent upon these confinements.

And then what? When the psyche is not under that obligation to live in time and space alone, and obviously it doesn’t, then to that extent, the psyche is not subjected to those roles. And that means a practical continuation of life of a sort of psychical existence beyond time and space.

Interviewer: Do you yourself, believe that death is probably the end?

Jung: Well I can’t say. You see, the word “belief” is a difficult word for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and when I know it, I don’t need to believe it. I don’t allow myself, for instance, to believe a thing just for the sake of believing it.

“ I can’t believe it. But when there are sufficient reasons for a certain hypothesis, I shall accept these reasons naturally, I shall say “we have to reckon with the possibility.”

Interviewer:  You’ve told us that we should regard death as being a goal [Jung: “yes”], and that to shrink away from it is to evade life and evade life’s purposes. What advice would you give to people in their later life to enable them to do this when most of them must in fact believe that death is the end of everything?

Jung: Well, you see, I have treated many old people, and it’s quite interesting to watch what the unconscious is doing with the fact that it is about to be threatened with the complete end. -It disregards it. Life behaves as if it were going on. And so I think it is better for old people to live on to look forward to the next day, as if he had to spend centuries, and then he lives properly. But when he is afraid, when he doesn’t look forward, he looks back, it petrifies him, he gets stiff and he dies before his time. But when he is living on, looking forward to the great adventure that is ahead, then he lives. And that is what the unconscious is intending to do. Of course, it is quite obvious that we are all going to die and it is the sad finale of everything. But, nevertheless, there is something in us that doesn’t believe it apparently but this is merely a fact, a psychological fact. It doesn’t mean to me that it proves something; it is simply so.

 

My comment:

Thank you, comrade, for this profound essay. The jews are in effect a race of psychologists, specifically gentilologists, and we must also become psychologists, aryologists and judeologists, to beat them at their own game.

This is why I did my post on Mediterraneans and Nordics https://johndenugent.com/jdn/2010/01/14/mediterranean-superiority-over-nordic-whites. We must understand ourselves, our weaknesses and the jews’ weaknesses, for they are a PSYCHOPATHIC GENE POOL (https://johndenugent.com/jdn/psychopaths-in-power).

I will end my commentary with this quote I learned from the heroic French revisionist, Vincent Reynouard, who wrote that Edouard Drumont, the great French antisemitic author, said:

The man unafraid of death has all options open. There is nothing he cannot do.

……The Sikhs as a role model for the coming white, Aryan religion

Aryan blood still visible in some Indians, 3500 years after the Aryan invasion

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYg0TnetgC0

To my delight, I received from the same comrade today a second profound essay, on the Sikhs of northern India. (That is also the part of India where there is still much Aryan blood.)

(This essay arrived in my email box right after I got a phone call from one of my beloved Indian students in American accent from ten years ago, who told me he had just gotten engaged to a nice Indian-Canadian doctor. I was delighted for him, and also told him it was great that he was marrying within his culture and his people, which would help his future marriage in an age of 50% divorce and a birthrate die-out among us, the white Americans. I have long had excellent relations with Indians, who have a long and distinguished culture, and are part-white (reflected by the Aryan Hindi language) and thus who are our part-relatives. India is now becoming an IT superpower, in fact, due to its reverence for study, learning and technology, and is resisting to this day muslim attempts to conquer India.)

Countries ruled by Islam. Founded by the illiterate semitic camel trader Mohammed, and imitating many ideas of talmudic judaism, Islam (which has been called judaism for Arabs) exploded by military force in all directions in the 700s and 800s, and at times marched into both northern France and to the gates of Vienna, Austria. It was stopped in India by the valiant Sikh minority and by other Indians of part-white blood. Under muslim rules, which terrified people into conversion, all who refuse to become muslims can be turned into SLAVES.

I had suggested to this comrade, from a distinguished mathematics family, and a key member of my think tank, that he study the Sikhs of India and write a report for us on what we can learn from their ethnic minority survival strategy.

The reason for this is that the Virtuans have the same goal as the Sikhs five hundred ago: to survive for centuries, as they have, by embracing when necessary new strategies, becoming an admired, respected, wealthy, and, yes, FEARED and FEISTY minority in a multiracial, multicultural situation, and to have a healthy birthrate via large, happy families — all in the midst of a racially and culturally darkening situation.

Sikhs, unlike the surrounding Hindus, do not want their members to become monks or nuns and thus celibate. All Sikhs should marry and have children, work hard, make a living, and build a strong community, not flee from the world. (This is thus the exact opposite of what Nietzsche objected to in Saul’s “Christianity.”)

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism):

Worldwide, there are 25.8 million Sikhs and approximately 75% of Sikhs live in the Indian state of Punjab, where they constitute about 60% of the state’s population. Even though there are a large number of Sikhs in the world, certain countries have not recognised Sikhism as a major religion as Sikhism is closely related to Hinduism. [JdN: They are basically monotheistic Hindus with no caste system.] Large communities of Sikhs live in the neighboring states, and large communities of Sikhs can be found across India. However, Sikhs only make up about 2% of the Indian population.

The tremendous threat to the Sikhs — and to all Indians at that time — was the invasion by the muslim turko-mongols called Moghuls, racial and cultural FOREIGNERS despite having learned the Aryan language of India’s neighbor, Persia. Ruling harshly by the sword, over and over the Moghuls (from the word “Mongol”) attempted by massacres and threats to convert the Indians who especially in the north are part-white/Aryan, to the semitic religion of Islam, which in Arabic means “submission.”

The muslim-built Taj Mahal in India where these muslims are worshipping Allah is the gigantic tomb for a Moghul ruler’s dead wife.

Five times a day muslims must put their brain on the floor and their rear end in the sky and pray in submission to their semitic god. Non-muslim women may be taken as sex slaves, now as 1,400 years ago, and this happens constantly all over Europe where gang rapes by muslims occur. For centuries jews have sold abducted white women Spanish, French, Italian and Slavic to muslims, both Turks and others, to become their sex slaves (in harems or bordellos), and mongols/tatars in the Dark Ages also raided Slavic areas for sex slaves for the muslim Turks. Muslim women have very few rights, but non-muslim women have no rights under Islam. And no one of Aryan blood can ever get on his knees.

Sikhism

How to build a new nation from a dying one.

It begins with the inspired Leader and the Word.

 

For an imperilled folk to survive, a new message must come from the Beyond, and also respond to the earthly surroundings: (1) a unique art and outreach; (2) appropriation of the best or most popular aspects of the original cultures; and (3) an attack against widely or strongly-felt injustices within the original cultures.

In Sikhism’s case, their first guru (spiritual guide) was Nanak Dev (1469-1538):

Nanak Dev’s message was to build a third way between Islam and Hinduism, the two dominant cultures in India at the time. For the Sikh Nation which he was founding he appropriated what he considered the strengths within both cultures:

–from Islam, the concept of a one God, rigid rules and proselytizing;

–from Hinduism, the metaphysics, especially karma, reincarnation and meditation.

To differentiate his new religious-ethnic community from Islam and Hinduism, he unwaveringly criticised aspects that were in some quarters strongly viewed as injustices:

–appealing to the masses to dissolve the Hindu caste system (like the muslims), and

–appealing to women by demanding equal rights for them, and (above all else, attacking the obvious Hindu injustice of suttee, that is, burning the widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband! This practice became a target which subsequent Sikh Gurus never lost an opportunity to attack for Sikh conversions).

The foundations of the Sikh nation were set by Nanak Dev:

–sacred leadership (which of course Catholics and many other religions have);

–a separate but not strange folkish identity;

–powerful, effective propaganda appealing to the masses and especially to women;

–aggressive missionaries.

The Amritsar Golden Temple is at the end of a causeway in the center of a pool. 

When Indian president Indira Gandhi arrogantly and foolishly ordered Indian troops to storm it in 1984, killing hundreds of Sikh pilgrims, two Sikhs on her bodyguard staff shot her dead.

*** The 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi

Indira Gandhi, the 3rdPrime Minister of India, was assassinated at 09:20 on 31 October 1984, at her Safdarjung Road, New Delhi residence.^[1][2] She was killed by two of her bodyguards,^[3]Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the Indian Army‘s June 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar which left the Sikh temple heavily damaged.^[4 […..]

 

Twenty percent of the military officers in the Indian Army are Sikhs, as was one president of India, the head of state, and the prime minister, the head of the government, 2004-14; both bore of course the last name Singh, because every Sikh’s last name is Singh, meaning in Hindi LION.

Sikhs are not aggressive, always attacking others, as many muslims do, but are very fierce in defending themselves. N no one is eager to start fights with the members of an ethnoreligion where all men must wear turbans as a sign of their identity, sport beards showing their masculinity, and bear daggers for defense plus combs for military neatness to their beard. 

Sikhs are also famous in India and elsewhere around the world (the UK, US and Canada, for example) for often being prosperous and hard-working, and as fierce warriors, yet taking good care of their own community, thus becoming in some ways the Spartans of India.

With this formula, the Sikh community grew rapidly from its start in the 1400s. Sikh missionaries also targeted the most influential members of  society, gaining prominent converts. This added to the new faith’s prestige and political power. The dominant way that Sikh energy was alloted during this time was to:

1) outside missions,

2) indoctrinating their own children and

3) prudent training of successors to high office.

In one word: EDUCATION.

Guru Arjan (fifth guru of the Sikhs), right, dictated the Sikh holy book, the Adi Granth

The prestige and rapid growth of the Sikhs bred jealousy: Guru Arjan (a highly creative individual, who wrote over two thousand hymns and put the official Sikh holy book together) refused to change the wording of the hymns and was fined, then tortured and then executed by the Muslim government in Delhi.

Guru Har Gobind Out Comes the Sword

In response to this outrage, the next Sikh leader, Guru Har Gobind, began carrying two steel swords,       one for spiritual reasons and one for temporal (worldly) reasons. He proved to be the first turning-point in Sikh history.

(Notice the change in tone of Sikh art between the portrait of the bookish Guru Arjan above and the warlike Guru Har Gobind.)

From this point on, the Sikhs carried weapons and had a trained army ready to protect their independence. But Har Gobind made a clear and important stipulation: the military was strictly for defence. He even forbade all subsequent generations from any aggressive campaigns.

The cordial relationship that the Sikhs originally enjoyed with the Moghul Empire (flourished 1526-1725) had already become very different under subsequent Moghul emperors and things later began to deteriorate even further. Under the infernally intolerant emperor Aurangzeb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb), the Muslims in India began forcing the so-called “infidels” (in Arabic, “kaffirs”) to convert.

This begins the next major turning-point in Sikh history.

From Wikipedia (History of Sikhism):

The Delhi Emperor, Aurangzeb cherished the ambition of converting India into a land of Islam. The Emperor’s experiment was first carried out in Kashmir. The viceroy of Kashmir, Iftikar Khan (1671-1675) carried out the policy vigorously and set about converting non-Muslims by force.

[This Muslim modus operandi is chillingly similar to what the Roman Catholic Church committed against our heathen ancestors in Northern Europe. Jürgen Rieger, in his unforgettable article (in German), “Wie anziehend war das Christentum für germanische Heiden?” [ = “How Attractive was Christianity for Germanic Heathens?”], wrote about the Danish town of Haithabu, a place that was until AD 965 was subject to peaceful Christian missionaries who continuously dwelt in the town from 850-965 AD, thus for 115 years but with little success at voluntary conversions.

Finally, the Church simply decided to convert the people at the point of a sword. The Arab trader and diplomat, At-Tartuschi, reported back to his Spanish Moorish kingdom in the year 965:

Schleswig is a very big town at the far end of the ocean. In its interior there are sources of fresh water. Its inhabitants are Sirius worshipers [heathens] except for a small number of Christians who have a church.

Jürgen Rieger:

That means that although Haithabu had been made the seat of a bishopric, and here some of the first church bells rang out in Scandinavia, there were still few Christians in the city! Among them were certainly some merchants who had moved there from Christian areas, and provably there were Christian slaves there, taken away from the Vikings since AD 880. The fact that Christianity could not make converts here, and that the Frankish king, like the Danish or Norwegian rulers, had to use force to get the people baptized, clearly demonstrates the inner strength of their heathen religion.

Now we see another semitic religion about to FORCE itself on people:

A group of Kashmiri Pandits (that is, Kashmiri Hindus of the Brahmin priestly class) approached the Sikhs’ guru, Tegh Bahadur, and asked for help. They, on the advice of the Guru, told the Mughal authorities that they would willingly embrace Islam if Guru Tegh Bahadur, did the same. An order for the arrest of the Guru were then issued by [Moghul Emperor] Aurangzeb, who was in [the present-day North West Frontier Province of Pakistan] subduing Pushtun rebellion.

The Guru was arrested at a place called Malikhpur near Anandpur [heading] for Delhi. Before departing he had nominated his son, Gobind Rai (Guru Gobind Singh) as the next Sikh Guru. He was arrested, along with some of his followers, by Nur Muhammad Khan of the Rupnagar police post at the village of Malikhpur Rangharan, in Ghanaula Parganah, and sent to Sirhind the following day.

The Faujdar (Governor) of Sirhind, Dilawar Khan, ordered him to be detained in Bassi Pathana and reported the news to [the Moghul capital of ] Delhi. His arrest was made in July 1675 and he was kept in custody for over three months. He was then cast in an iron cage and taken to Delhi in November 1675.

The Guru was put in chains and ordered tortured until he would accept Islam. When he could not be persuaded to abandon his faith to save himself from persecution, he was asked to perform some miracles to prove his divinity.

On his refusal, Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in public at Chandni Chowk on 11 November 1675.

[After this horrifying persecution by the muslims, the 10th and final semi-deified leader of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, massively expanded the militarism of the Sikh religious community.]

From Wikipedia (on Guru Gobind Singh):

After hearing of what had happened in Delhi, Guru Gobind decided to inculcate the martial spirit among his followers. Guru Tegh Bahadur, in preparation for the real possibility of his death at the hands of the emperor, had ordained his son as the next guru, before his departure to Delhi. Gobind Rai was formally installed as the Guru on the Vaisakhi, on 11 November 1675.[3]

Guru Gobind engaged 52 poets to translate the heroic Sanskrit epics into contemporary languages. He selected the warlike theme in many of his compositions to infuse martial spirit among his followers. He also wrote several compositions preaching love, equality and the worship of one God, and deprecating idolatry and superstition.

[We thus see that Guru Gobind understood the necessity of balancing the yang and yin energies ” of war and peace, anger and love.]

Guru Gobind Singh

In 1699, the Guru sent hukmanamas (letters of authority) to his followers, requesting them to congregate at Anandpur on 30 March 1699, the day of Vaisakhi (the annual harvest festival).[17]

He addressed the congregation from the entryway of a small tent pitched on a small hill (now called

Kesgarh Sahib). He first asked everyone who he was for them?

Everyone answered “You are our Guru.”

He then asked them who were they, to which everyone replied “We are your Sikhs.” [Sikhliterally means “disciple.”]

Having reminded them of this relationship, he then said that today the Guru needed something from his Sikhs.

Everyone responded “Hukum Karo, Sache Patshah” [“Order us, True Lord.”].

Then, drawing his curved sword, a khand, he asked for a volunteer who was willing to sacrifice his head.

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The symbol of the Sikhs is curved swords, called “scimitars,” and a scroll and circle in a manner that is both feminine and masculine.

No one answered his first call, nor the second call, but on the third invitation, Daya Ram (later known as Bhai Daya Singh) came forward and offered his head to the Guru. Guru Gobind Rai took the volunteer inside the tent. The Guru returned to the crowd with blood dripping from his sword.

He then demanded another head. One more volunteer came forward, and entered the tent with him.

The Guru again emerged with blood on his sword. This happened three more times.

Then the five volunteers came out of the tent in new clothing unharmed.

Gobind Rai then poured clear water into an iron bowl and adding Patashas (Punjabi sweeteners) into it, he stirred it with double-edged sword accompanied with recitations from Adi Granth. He called this mixture of sweetened water and iron Amrit (meaning “nectar”) and administered it to the five men.

These five, who willingly volunteered to sacrifice their lives for their Guru, were given the title of the Panj Piare (the five beloved ones) by their Guru.[17]

They were the first (baptized) Sikhs of the Khalsa [meaning in the Punjabi language “pure,”a term of Persian origin. This word now refers to the collective body of all baptized Sikhs. The Khalsa was originally established as a military order of saint-soldiers on March 30, 1699, by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru.

It was the name given by the Guru originally to his five disciples baptized in the Amrit Sanchar ceremony: Daya Ram, Dharam Das, Himmat Rai, Mohkam Chand, and Sahib Chand.

 

A Sikh with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Baltej Dhillon Singh

One of the foundations of the Sikh religious community was belief that their leaders had contact with the divine; and further, that the divine was within every individual.

Guru Gobind Singh then recited a line which has been the rallying-cry of the Khalsa since then: Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji Ki Fateh

Our Khalsa ( = Our pure people”) belong to God; victory belongs to God).

He gave them all the name Singh (lion), and designated them collectively as Khalsa (the Pure Ones), the body of baptized Sikhs. The Guru then astounded the five and the whole assembly as he knelt and asked them to in turn initiate him as a member, on an equal footing with them in the Khalsa, thus becoming the sixth member of the new order. His name became Gobind Singh.

Today members of the Khalsa consider Guru Gobind as their father, and Mata Sahib Kaur (not the Guru’s wife, but a member of his household) as their mother.[17] The Panj Piare were thus the first baptised Sikhs, and became the first members of the Khalsa brotherhood. Women were also initiated into the Khalsa, and given the title of kaur (princess).[17] Though women are considered equal in Sikhism, men have been very slow to allow women to serve as the Panj Piare who handle baptism into the order to this day.

The reason is that Guru Gobind Singh-ji, when he asked his Sikhs for their head, he never specified that he wanted the head of a man or a woman, just that his sword needed a head of a Sikh, who may be a man or a woman.

Because only men among the Sikhs offered their heads in love and reverence to their beloved Guru, those first five men were given the title of PANJ PIARE, the five beloved ones, though if any woman had offered her head to the Guru at that time, then she would have been including in the Panj Piare. In any case, from that day to this, only five Sikh men have been Panj Piare.

Guru Gobind Singh then addressed the audience [and the following speech sums up Sikhism so well]:

From now on, you have become casteless. No ritual, either Hindu or Muslim, will you perform, nor will you believe in superstition of any kind, but only in one God who is the master and protector of all, the only creator and destroyer.

In your new order, the lowest will rank with the highest and each will be to the other his bhai (brother).

No pilgrimages for you any more, nor austerities, but the pure life of the household [in other words, no monks or celibacy, just being a family member], which family life however you should be ready to sacrifice at the call of Dharma [Sanskrit = “path,” thus duty, and in this case, be ready if needed to go off to war].

Women shall be equal of men in every way. No purdah (veil) for them any more, nor the burning alive of a widow on the pyre of her spouse (sati). He who kills his daughter, the Khalsa shall not deal with him.

Five words beginning in “k” you will observe as a pledge of your dedication to my ideal.

Kesh: Hair unshorn, the representation of saintliness.

Kangha: a comb to keep it clean and untangled.

Kara: a iron/steel bracelet to denote one universal God and to keep you handcuffed from doing wrong.

Kacchha: a piece of practical wear to denote modesty [a sacred underwear, which Mormons also wear].

Kirpan: a steel dagger for your defence and to defend the helpless.

Smoking being an unclean and injurious habit, you will forswear. You will love the weapons of war, be excellent horsemen, marksmen and wielders of the sword, the discus and the spear.

Physical prowess will be as sacred to you as spiritual sensitivity.

And, between the Hindus and Muslims, you will act as a bridge, and serve the poor without distinction of caste, color, country or creed. My Khalsa shall always defend the poor, and the Deg (the community kitchen) will be as much an essential part of your order as the Teg (the sword).

And, from now onwards all Sikh males will call themselves Singh [lion] and women Kaur [“princess”] and greet each other with Waheguruji ka Khalsa, Waheguruji ki fateh (The Khalsa belongs to God; victory belongs to God).[18]

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To summarise (and bring everything forward to our times):

We have the inspired leader, John de Nugent, and the word which his book will clearly issue.

Now we must spread the message and gain converts (especially women); raise huge families, have training and succession. And in a world where our white community lives as a minority there must be an undisputed creed:

You will love the weapons of war Physical prowess will be as sacred to you as spiritual sensitivity.

-Guru Gobind Singh

And what became of Guru Gobind Singh and the Sikhs?

Shortly before his death, Gobind Singh ordered that the Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh Holy Scripture), would be the ultimate spiritual authority for the Sikhs and temporal authority would be vested in the Khalsa Panth, the Sikh Nation.

A former ascetic was charged by Gobind Singh with the duty of punishing those who had persecuted the Sikhs. After the guru’s death, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur became the leader of the Sikh army and was responsible for several attacks on the Moghul empire. He was executed by the emperor Jahandar Shah after refusing the offer of a pardon if he converted to Islam.

The Sikh community’s embrace of military and political organisation made it a considerable regional force in medieval India and it continued to evolve after the demise of the gurus.

After the death of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh Confederacy of Sikh warrior bands known as misls formed. With the decline of the Mughal empire, a Sikh Empire arose in the Punjab under Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with its capital in Lahore and limits reaching the Khyber Pass and the borders of China. The order, traditions and discipline developed over centuries culminated at the time of Ranjit Singh to give rise to the common religious and social identity that the term Sikhism describes.

After the death of Ranjit Singh, the Sikh Empire fell into disorder and was eventually annexed by the British Empire after the hard-fought Anglo-Sikh Wars of 1845-49. This brought the Punjab under the British Raj. Sikhs formed the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee and the Shiromani Akali Dal to preserve the Sikhs’ religious and political organization a quarter of a century later.

With the partition and independence of India from Britain in 1947, thousands of Sikhs were killed in violence and millions were forced to leave their ancestral homes in West Punjab. Sikhs faced initial opposition from the Government in forming a linguistic state that other states in India were afforded. The Akali Dal started a nonviolence movement for Sikh and Punjabi rights. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale emerged as a leader of the Bhindran-Mehta Jatha,  which assumed the name of Damdami Taksal in 1977 to promote a peaceful solution of the problem.

In June 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian army to launch Operation Blue Star to remove Bhindranwale and his followers from the Darbar Sahib. Bhindranwale, and a large number of innocent pilgrims were killed during the army’s operations. In October, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The assassination was followed by the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots massacre[34] and Hindu-Sikh conflicts in Punjab, as a reaction to the assassination and Operation Blue Star.

Sikhs are now the fifth largest religious community in the world, feared, admired, respected, wealthy, powerful — and going strong after 500 years.

A Sikh man; note the light eyes