00:00:00.000There is a misconception about Ausatru that it's a nature religion or that we worship nature or that, you know, nature is like the highest good.
00:00:14.520And we get these memes out there like nature's my church and whatever.
00:00:19.980I think that people come by that honestly, and I don't want to be insulting, but I think it misses a great deal of the point of our lore.
00:00:27.260Our gods, and something else that I want to correct, yes, the Aesir, they are of a cosmic order orientation, and the Vanir are associated with nature, but our nature has two faces to it.
00:00:48.040there's destructive the jotnar are just as much nature as the vonir the chaotic forces of the
00:00:57.560storm giants and mountain giants and the destructive deep ocean and the bad guys are nature too
00:01:07.320so natural order of things certainly there is a order to how midgard is because of the imposition
00:01:17.320of the will of our gods and i don't think we emphasize enough yes the iser are gods of cosmic
00:01:24.920order but that is a willful order it is ordering nature to their will the struggle of man against
00:01:34.280nature is a fundamental of our race and of our cosmos cutting down nature to build homes and
00:01:44.200halls and hoffs and civilization is what we do now yes if that's unbalanced of course
00:01:54.520but it's really important to understand that we all feel a sense of awe when you go out into the
00:02:01.000wilderness and i'm not diminishing that at all it's really spiritual and it's wonderful and it's
00:02:05.640it's fantastic so there's a certainly a place for nature but an over reverence of nature is
00:02:12.040a misunderstanding of fundamentals of our faith. Our faith are about using nature to structure
00:02:19.440our willed existence inside of. We want to work with nature in lots of ways, certainly,
00:02:27.140but we do a disservice when we overly celebrate that. One of the things that stands out so much
00:02:33.240about Aryan people and nobility itself is something higher imposing itself upon nature.1.00
00:02:40.920If all we are is claw and tooth and savagery, that's the antithesis of being noble people.0.81
00:02:50.660That's remaining in a bestial state and not becoming more and not ascending.