Set the World on Fire
Augustus Sol Invictus
[12 August 2018]
I.
Sword of Fire
(February 2013 – August 2014)
Men and women of
the Earth, to you am I come from the Ages beyond the Ages,
from the Space
beyond your vision; and I bring you these words.
- Liber Porta
Lucis
II.
The Gathering Storm
(August 2014 – May 2015)
“O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable,
ever waxing and waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy
takes it; poverty and power, it melts them like ice. Fate – monstrous and
empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always
fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me, too; now through the game
I bring my bare back to your villainy. Fate is against me, in health, in
virtue, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. So at this hour, without
delay, pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me.”
- Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, “O Fortuna”
III.
United States Senate
(May – September 2015)
“Set the world on
fire.”
- Marilyn Manson,
“1996”
IV.
Undying Infamy
(September 2015 – February
2016)
“So they shall cry fool, liar, sot, traducer, betrayer.
Thou art not glad thou meddled with magick?”
- The Book of
Babalon
V.
Northwest Imperative
(February – March 2016)
“It was [his] conviction that no Communist on
earth should be left alive.”
- George Robert
Elford, Devil’s Guard
VI.
Combat Training
(March – May 2016)
“And he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy
one.”
- Luke 22:36
VII.
Revolutionary Speech
(May 2016)
“The tree of
liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants.”
- Letter of Thomas
Jefferson to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787)
VIII.
The Üntermenschen Revolt
(May – August 2016)
The
principle of popular election is a fatal folly; its results are visible in
every so-called democracy. The elected man is always the mediocrity; he is the
safe man, the sound man, the man who displeases the majority less than any other;
and therefore never the genius, the man of progress and illumination.
- Aleister
Crowley, Liber CXCIV
IX.
All Hell
(August – October 2016)
“Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or
fucking beatings.
The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've
got more punishment in store.
Stand it like a man – and give some back.”
- Ellis Albert Swearengen of Deadwood
X.
A Normal Life
(October 2016 – February 2017)
“Because I want to
fit in.”
- Patrick Bateman
to Evelyn Richards
XI.
War Flags
(February to May 2017)
“And many a one
who came along as a destroyer and as a hailstorm to all orchards, merely wanted
to put his foot into the jaws of the rabble and so to stop its throat.”
- Thus Spoke
Zarathustra, “On the Rabble”
XII.
Unite the Right
(May – August 2017)
“We must indeed all hang together, or most
assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
- Benjamin
Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
XIII. Nuclear Fallout
(August – December 2017)
“Fear not, o
prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art
emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with
gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall
fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.”
- The Book of the
Law
