Anarch (sovereign individual)
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The Anarch is to the anarchist, what the monarch is to the monarchist…
An Anarch is a revolutionary conservative ideal of a sovereign individual, conceived by Ernst Jünger.[1] Jünger was greatly influenced by individualist anarchist Max Stirner and described the Anarch as embodying Stirner's conception of the unique, a man who can form a bond around something concrete, rather than around an idea.[2]
Aleister Crowley developed his concept of sovereignty of the individual with his precept "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This was part of his religious or mystical system called Thelema[3] which combined a radical form of individualism, akin in some ways to Friedrich Nietzsche, with a mystical initiatory system derived in part from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn[4]. Crowley had taken over the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) following a squabble with the anarchist Theodor Reuss in 1921[5]
Although highly critical of Crowley - indeed denouncing him a black magician - Harvey Spencer Lewis embodied the same principle in the Eleventh Grade of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis which he set up in 1915. Lewis had got a charter to organise the OTO in America from Reuss in 1912[6].
[edit] References
- ^ Macklin, Graham D. (September 2005). "Co-opting the counter culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction" (.pdf). Patterns of Prejudice 39 (3): 301 - 326. doi:10.1080/00313220500198292. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.
- ^ Warrior, Waldgänger, Anarch: An essay on Ernst Jünger's concept of the sovereign individual by Abdalbarr Braun, acessed 22th december 2007
- ^ Introduction to Thelema], by the Grand Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis, accessed 22nd december 2007
- ^ The Vindication of Nietzsche by Aleister Crowley, Morton Press 1979
- ^ History of Ordo Templi Orientis by Sabazius X° and AMT IX°, accessed 22nd december 2007
- ^ A.M.O.R.C.'s use of the lamen of the O.T.O. by Kjetil Fjell, accessed 22nd december 2007
