Speech of 2025/10/03 in Athens by Evangelos Kiousis from House of Ethnikoi Hellenes - Thyrsos (Hellas)

"Rubedo": The urgently needed escalation of our efforts towards the catalytic next decade

Dear Friends, Sisters & Brothers of Traditions from all over Europe.

First of all, on behalf of all the Members of the House of Thyrsos, in Athens, Corfu and abroad, I extend to you our heartfelt greetings and solidarity. It is our pleasure to be here today, as Children of Europe, with our dear Friends of Traditions from wherever they have managed to join us in Athens.

I would prefer, not to be necessary for me to be the one who has to sharply point out problems and dangers ahead. I would rather avoid bringing alarms and calls for vigilance into my speech. However, reality, as it is, does not allow me to do so.
Today we are talking about the clarification of the European Identity and the contribution of its Ethnic Traditions to it.
We seek to clarify, with common understanding and externalization, all that we feel we are within, as we actively experience our lives under this prism.
So far, so good. However, we are not alone on this continent or in this world. On the contrary, we constitute a, for the time being, minority, which to the greatest extent, seems incomprehensible, difficult to understand, unknown, or even "strange" and "dangerous" for the absolute majority of our fellow citizens.
The modern way of life and social conditions allow the possibility of defining small communities within the common whole, their emergence, to a certain extent, and allows "some" activity and influence, but only as long as the centralized control, which is exercised with an ironic denial of authoritarianism at the moment, is not disturbed or risks being lost by our efforts.
I do not have time to expand, but it is precisely there that problems begin which require our immediate attention.
Among our small communities that build a kind of environment, wanting to secure ourselves in our way of life socially, and avoid the control and plans that a very centralized and increasingly authoritarian power maintains and continues to grow hard.

Our self-awareness, when the demand for the restoration of our Traditions began to emerge again decades ago, seems in many cases to have bogged down in one of the initial stages, which had a natural tendency, initially, to draw upon the closest, most aesthetic perceptions.
You can observe this: The clothes of our public and organized expression, our costumes for example, followed and follow to a large extent, the invocation of the past, something normal in the linear understanding of time in which we were educated as children, but ultimately wrong because this linear perception does not concern us, and even more, it automatically cancels us within it, making us incomprehensible.

Our way of expression. The symbolic reproduction of ancestral sayings, expressions, artworks, ruins, beautiful indeed, very romantic, but, still ruins, it was a love-imitation, perhaps at the beginning, as it began.
And that is normal and beautiful, when you fall in love with such brilliance.
I will not give other examples, I think you all understand what I mean.

Then, years passed, where in a relatively safe, in most countries, social environment and regime, the core of our demands and complaints began to take shape, with some, more or less "upgrades" from our side.

However, I think some things escaped us along the way.
Very important ones, and these are what I am talking to you about today.
We have looked, until now, more backwards through time, yes, to learn of course, than at the present, and even less towards the future. And we have felt a little more secure than we should, in the temporary social peace that has nonetheless helped us in our struggle.

But now, this peace is changing, heading towards its elimination every day.
Because those who define the conditions according to their interests do not examine and do not consider us seriously.
I think they do not even give us importance, more than what is required by civil decency and behavioral protocols.

I will risk saying, assuming responsibility, that we are at the point where the operators of the System have understood that it has reached the limits of its aging, running out of fuel.
But, instead of changing the System, something that would immediately fit us there, as a living and powerful proposal, so that we could influence, with our demands, the direction of that which creates Culture and brilliance, they immediately decided to sacrifice people, so that the System could be renewed, as a necrophilic undead mechanism, and to exercise a new type of dominant model of it, with even more authoritarianism, invoking dangers and perhaps new forms of wars.
Digital warfare for example, is enough to plunge entire countries into chaos, without bullets.
The Bible, the Torah, and now the Koran, offer all the tools of authoritarianism, with all sorts of political inventions of their own.

The people of Europe, and not only, but I focus here, having been trained in an individual self-referentialism, are losing their reflexes day by day, both in understanding, and even more in denying that kind of evolution that is destined and planned for them as a future.
The system, in its material abundance, produced its goods by burning as fuel all the Spirituality that it could suck out of people. It is the Master Ethnocide mechanism.
I do not believe that we have remained unscathed by this. And it is not unreasonable that it happened. We are not cut off from the whole of humanity. We simply struggle, perhaps, more.

I think, and I submit it here to everyone, that the time has come to take the next strategic step.
Just as the alchemists worked to transform man from a being of raw matter to a being of spirit, with what they could understand from the Greco-Roman Tradition and Neoplatonism, just as they wanted to reach the "Rubedo" stage, that is, the Magnus Opus of their work in order to achieve the emergence of the Spirit, symbolically, as a Phoenix rising from the ashes, so too has the time come for us to work. Understanding in a different way how we should stand, what we should define and the Work that should be produced. Immediately.

The time has come to discern and spread the Sacred as a perception, not simply with aesthetic proposals, these will come naturally, extended by the quality produced.

The time has come to pass our adolescence definitively. From a rebellious shouting, which simply offers an escape, but rarely results in benefit, to move on to revolutionary work.
This one where our proposal is no longer only theoretical, but even more practical.
With more direct communication with the multitude of our fellow citizens.
With substantial and more dynamic participation and demands towards society.
With more specific complaints towards organized states, as long as they still retain the possibility. If, or when, fear and authoritarianism become stronger, the doors will close.

We must define ourselves, and work hard at it, in an even more understandable language.
As long as we use the tools from the same toolbox that the System provides us, in the end, we will build only a cell for ourselves and lock the door.

The body of the Traditions of the Nations of Europe must rally much more than in periodic meetings. Imagine the picture, that if someone looks at us from above, they will see an organized whole, with one or even many Cities, and not just "organizations".
The core of this foundation is the Altar, the root of a City. 

We have the favor of the Goddess Fortune/Tyche to understand that we are the people of all times.

We are, the people of the "past". Who have broken the fetishistic bonds of the image.

Those who, living here and now, define the future, because we remember and experience totally the "past" by not depending on it.

Friends. Sisters, Brothers.
The next Parthenon, the next Pantheon,
the highest and most powerful Irminsul,
the most fruitful Sacred Oak,
the next in a natural succession of creativity Newgrange,
the most famous Oracles of the future,
the new Ideas in Philosophy,
the new successes in the Sciences,
our wisest relationship with the Earth,
among us,
the New aspects of the States of men,
believe it, deeply!, are already within us.
Whether they will be founded, take root and bear fruit,
the result will depend on our choices in these years.
The Magnus Opus of this Great Work required, demands our absolute devotion.

May the Ancestors rejoice, the Goddesses and Gods Provide every choice and Shine upon us all!
Thank you very much, rejoice!.