The Golden One - Actually, Yes. You Should Read Books

00:00:00.000 Admire immediately my physique.

00:00:05.000 So, this is a follow-up to my latest video.

00:00:09.000 Perhaps you've seen it. If not, then you can watch it first.

00:00:13.000 I asked the question whether it's a waste of time to read books or not.

00:00:19.000 Now, I will make this clarification video.

00:00:22.000 Reading books is a great investment for your overall happiness and joy in life.

00:00:28.000 in life. So if you're not reading books, you're missing out. So I just wanted to make this video

00:00:33.340 as a sort of follow-up. Now, the reason I made the previous video is that we are politically

00:00:39.740 speaking, socially speaking, our civilization is burning quite literally. So we sort of need to

00:00:45.680 lock in, get our priorities straight. I need to, as often as possible, encourage primarily then

00:00:52.220 young guys to go into politics and law and you know contest institutions of power so anyway that

00:00:58.540 is the more political thing now we're going into the you know quality of life life improvement

00:01:04.860 self-improvement that sort of area so when i say that you're missing out if you don't read books

00:01:12.700 absolutely true if you don't read books you are missing out i was just meditating a bit after

00:01:17.420 making the previous video and i thought to myself i looked around at my own books and yeah the joy

00:01:23.740 and um and such they have given me so we're gonna get into it the topic at hand but first a message

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00:02:23.960 on to the topic at hand. You should absolutely read books. You are missing out if not. So I was

00:02:30.880 just looking around a bit in the library here or in the esoteric chamber of knowledge here in

00:02:38.760 shambhala so i just picked out a few books that i wanted to show you so we have this is why i train

00:02:45.320 in the gym so i can carry around books look look how massive my um my arm is there that's why i can

00:02:50.800 be so strong as to pick up all of these books to show you look here so i'm just gonna talk a bit

00:02:59.020 about them so the reason here i'm telling you that you want to fall in love with the world

00:03:06.840 You want to enchant the world

00:03:09.680 If you read a book, you will notice that you will perceive life

00:03:15.940 You will perceive yourself, the world, wherever you might be

00:03:20.920 You will perceive it in a different way

00:03:22.600 So we can talk about the cognitive benefits of reading

00:03:26.860 That you will be able to retain attention longer

00:03:30.200 You can train your imagination by producing images in your mind

00:03:34.540 all of these things, they're good to train your brain, simply put. But what I want to, you know,

00:03:40.180 I'm a romantic dreamer, I'm a sensitive young poet, so I want to re-enchant the world. You know,

00:03:46.560 you want that childlike wonder of the world. If you lose that as an adult, you have lost something,

00:03:52.180 so you need to regain it. So anyway, I'm just going to talk through some of the books here.

00:03:57.120 In no particular order. This is a very chaotic video. I'm just, in this particular

00:04:02.360 video. I'm an unstructured artist. It's okay to be unstructured sometimes if you're an artist. So I

00:04:11.000 approach this as a sensitive poet now. So very unstructured, just rambling on about books and

00:04:16.400 hopefully it's somewhat interesting. I have no idea. Let me know in the comments if this is an

00:04:22.100 insightful video. So we have the greatest author, Tolkien, of course. Not only a fantasy writer,

00:04:31.100 he revived European mythology. He made European mythology accessible to all of us. So it's not

00:04:39.160 only a fancy book he presented to us, he brought back powerful ancient archetypes that are in our

00:04:45.320 psyche as Europeans. So anyway, this is an extremely beautiful book, The Children of Hurin.

00:04:51.520 Perfect to read on a windy autumn day, as it is here in Hyperborea at the moment. So

00:04:57.440 this is tragic, a tragic tale, but sometimes it can be good to explore the full range of your

00:05:05.680 emotions. Sometimes it can be good to be a bit sad, beautiful and tragic. It can be good to

00:05:12.860 explore those areas of yourself. You shouldn't always be, you know, you shouldn't go around

00:05:17.240 being sad, but sometimes it can be good to sort of, again, explore different emotional wavelengths,

00:05:24.340 so to speak. And it's a beautiful book. It's beautifully written, a beautiful story. So

00:05:28.040 children who are in, um, recommended to read. Moving on to something more. So this, by the

00:05:35.640 way, it's a high Thumos book. No, no doubt about it. It's a, it's a strong masculine protagonist 0.53

00:05:41.300 as well. This is not beautiful in a tragic sense, but beautiful anyway. It's about a beautiful

00:05:49.240 moment in European history. If you have watched the film 300, you know what I'm talking about.

00:05:55.600 It's the Battle of Thermopylae. So this is very well written. You get a good insight into that

00:06:03.400 particular event. You have some nice motivating passages here as well regarding Polynikis.

00:06:10.620 I've quoted that before. So anyway, it's about a Spartan soldier who's very aesthetic. So if you

00:06:16.160 read that you of course you want to go to the gym to sort of become like that so you can view books

00:06:23.920 as motivation essentially you read this you get motivated to train mma or train in the gym or

00:06:29.840 or whatever it might be so great stuff great stuff indeed we have the prince by machiavelli

00:06:37.400 now i actually bought this simply because of how aesthetic the this edition is maybe you can't see

00:06:43.800 I don't know but it shim... now you can see it. It shimmers in a nice purple and gold and has a nice

00:06:51.080 fleur-de-lis. So this is good to sort of gain an understanding of the psyche of the

00:06:58.520 late middle ages early modern period. I was actually surprised when I read it that it's not so

00:07:04.920 Machiavellian to actually use that term. It wasn't as bad as you would expect but in contrast to the

00:07:10.760 the sort of chivalric zeitgeist of the Middle Ages,

00:07:16.160 it becomes a bit more practical.

00:07:18.040 So in that context, it's a bit cynical maybe.

00:07:21.820 But for us reading it now, it's really nothing controversial at all.

00:07:25.820 So anyway, I read this first and foremost because it's a historically important work

00:07:30.640 and also because I wanted to get an insight into the psychology of the time.

00:07:34.940 So you open your mind, you read a book, you expand your mind,

00:07:38.360 you get new insights and it's stimulating for you.

00:07:40.760 Here's a great book by Aki Sederberg, Holy Europe.

00:07:44.940 So you can read this, and if you want to travel a bit, you know where to go.

00:07:48.820 So you have places in Sweden, Lithuania, France, all over Europe, really.

00:07:52.820 So he writes very compelling, interesting about the spiritually holy places in Europe.

00:08:00.160 So this can also make you fall in love with the land.

00:08:04.480 And for everyone who is checking in from good old America or Australia,

00:08:08.580 If you, yeah, if you go on a pilgrimage to Europe, then I can definitely recommend reading something like this before, so you have some ideas where to go.

00:08:18.660 Then I read a while back a rather hefty tome of knowledge in Swedish.

00:08:25.860 The world's oldest history.

00:08:28.120 Now, this was extremely interesting, because I have, over the last few years, I've gained, I've fallen in love with European prehistory,

00:08:36.800 especially Scandinavian prehistory because Scandinavia is sort of like the Urheimat of the Germanic peoples

00:08:43.360 and of course the Germanic peoples took over Europe in the migration era, so a lot of...

00:08:49.680 Also if you are in, of course, wherever you are, you have an impact from Scandinavia itself.

00:08:56.400 So there is actually a place, I will make a video on it at some stage, I will go to a place

00:09:02.400 where there is a rather large petroglyph from the Bronze Age.

00:09:06.920 I've been there before, I'll go there again to film, and actually because he talks about it.

00:09:11.940 He talks about the entire story being presented in the petroglyph. So that's rock carvings, by the way.

00:09:17.420 So reading this, I was, you know, you get... it's the same places. I've been there before,

00:09:22.520 I've been in the vicinity. When you read about it, you understand the historical context, then

00:09:28.040 you fall in love with the land. The land becomes enchanted in a way that you feel this was an

00:09:34.020 important cultic place. My ancestors, they've been here before going out to sea. Yeah, it just,

00:09:41.360 it's a hard feeling to really describe, but when you read about a particular place, a particular

00:09:47.340 people, you sort of, you appreciate it a lot more. Otherwise, if I hadn't read this book, I would have

00:09:52.580 said to myself, okay, cool, this is some nice rock carvings, not really much more to it, but

00:09:57.900 when you know the history behind it it becomes you appreciate it a lot more so you want to become

00:10:03.880 a connoisseur of life a connoisseur of history just as you drink a nice coffee or a nice wine

00:10:09.420 or something if you're a connoisseur you you appreciate it a lot more you just not you know

00:10:14.100 sipping it down but you sip and savor you sip and savor life that's a good way to to look at it i

00:10:22.780 read this fine book a while back i made a podcast episode about it as well which i recommend that

00:10:27.880 you listen to you should listen to all of my podcast episodes become a youtube member immediately

00:10:34.060 to gain access to all of the podcast episodes so this i knew that the vikings were in greenland

00:10:39.820 but the full story of it i wasn't all too familiar with so this sort of opens up a new chapter for me

00:10:46.460 about our own people not only about vikings but also you know similar the the greater world the

00:10:54.600 greater world of the Atlantic during the Middle Ages. So when I read this, I gained a new found

00:11:01.400 appreciation for that whole story. Now, I have a message for a leftist, Jan Guillaume. This is fun.

00:11:08.580 So this is a Swedish author, and he wrote this series. In retrospect, very politically correct,

00:11:15.300 but jokes on you, Jan Guillaume. Jokes on you, because reading these books made me a lot more

00:11:21.460 patriotic. It made me love Sweden more. It made me love our history more. And now you have here

00:11:27.300 a famous and infamous right-wing radical influencer, to use your terminology. So yeah,

00:11:36.140 I read these books. So it's about Sweden in the Middle Ages, basically, about a crusader

00:11:42.200 goes to the Holy Land and he comes back and many back and forths there in medieval Scandinavia. So

00:11:50.420 yes, I read these books when I was 13, 14, and yeah, it made me love Sweden even more. Now we move to

00:11:58.020 something I don't have any connection to at all, whatsoever. We have the Empire of the Mughul. So 1.00

00:12:05.660 this is about Babur Khan, descended of Timur Lenk and Genghis Khan. So this is the gentleman. He

00:12:13.720 invaded India and established the Mughul dynasty. Quite a beautiful story as well. He wanted to, 1.00

00:12:19.300 you know claim Samarkand the city of his dreams but he couldn't he held it three different times

00:12:25.140 but eventually he said let me invade India instead which you know it's a bigger price but still

00:12:31.080 there's a beautiful tragedy that he couldn't capture the city of his dreams but yeah he traded

00:12:36.320 up in in that sense because of course India is a it's a wealthier and more grandiose place than

00:12:41.600 Samarkand and the surroundings even though Samarkand of course has always been an important

00:12:46.860 trading city along the Silk Road.

00:12:49.920 So anyway, this also, nothing to do with me personally as a European man,

00:12:55.980 but still I gained an appreciation for that part of the world.

00:12:59.920 And of course, yeah, it's interesting and important as well.

00:13:02.800 So if you're interested in Indian history, you can read this.

00:13:05.840 Now, moving back to Europe, something I haven't actually read before.

00:13:10.120 So I still have this to read.

00:13:12.360 I will for sure make a video or a podcast episode about it.

00:13:16.860 Dominic Wener, I've read several books of him.

00:13:19.660 Man of action, man of knowledge, someone I have great respect for, Dominic Wener.

00:13:23.960 So I will read this and, as you can see on the title,

00:13:26.460 30,000 years of identity will be good to, again, gain an even deeper appreciation for the European bio-spirit.

00:13:37.160 Now then, you might ask, who is this fine gentleman on my newly released t-shirt?

00:13:42.160 Yes, of course, it's Julius Evola, Baron Julius Evola.

00:13:46.160 And the thought behind this design is that you have the tiger from one of his most famous books, Ride the Tiger.

00:13:56.260 Which essentially means the teaching is that you stay on top of the tiger until he gets tired enough.

00:14:02.300 Because if you fall off the tiger, he will maul you.

00:14:04.740 But if you stay on until he collapses, then you can actually gain the upper hand on him.

00:14:09.600 And so therefore you see in the modern world that you shouldn't become a victim by blackpilling or by giving up or by engaging in degenerate behaviors.

00:14:18.720 You should stay on top, you should stay on top, you should lock in, you should try to ride a tiger upwards and onwards.

00:14:24.980 And then when it collapses, so in our case the sort of left-wing liberal zeitgeist, when it collapses we are ready to assume political power.

00:14:34.300 So, I mention this because we have, by this fine author, Eros and the Mistress of Love.

00:14:40.460 Now, it was said before that Julius Evola is not primarily a political thinker.

00:14:45.500 He's a magical thinker, an esoteric thinker.

00:14:49.180 So, this book is very beautiful.

00:14:52.620 It will make you view intimate matters in a more poetic sense, in a higher sense.

00:14:58.540 So, the entire thing, the main thing in this book is that you have two different views of sex.

00:15:04.020 One is a really low one that is only about procreation.

00:15:08.780 His view is that sex is also a way for a man and a woman to unite, to become one with each other and to become one with God.

00:15:16.780 That you transcend reality for a moment of time.

00:15:20.100 You sort of escape reality.

00:15:21.840 You escape this mundane plane of existence for however long you engage in that intimate ritual.

00:15:30.660 So it's a very beautiful way to approach intimate matters.

00:15:36.820 And of course, if you have that mindset, it becomes more beautiful, it becomes higher,

00:15:41.020 it becomes something more pleasurable than only viewing it as some sort of base desires in humans to procreate.

00:15:48.360 It's so much more.

00:15:49.540 So when you have that mindset, the act of intimacy, it becomes something more,

00:15:54.980 it becomes more pleasurable, it becomes better in every way.

00:15:57.680 So the reason I'm mentioning this is that you have, you read a book and you get, you expand your mind, you get a better experience with other things.

00:16:09.440 So anyway, I have rambled on for long enough.

00:16:12.540 Very unstructured video, but hopefully it was useful anyway.

00:16:16.940 Do read Don't Listen Them God Mentality, also available at legiogloria.com.

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The Golden One - October 25, 2026

Actually, Yes. You Should Read Books

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