This scribbling expounds upon the Fehu-Othal Connection, being one of the Runic Mystery Lessons of the BOV, and examines it in relation to certain other occult matters of interest to the perspicacious reader.
Fehu signifies mobile wealth: assets, hustles, and businesses that generate capital for the Tribe. Othala signifies immobile wealth: the rural properties, outdoor temples, and authentically Pagan way of living handed down within our Tribe and which all represent the practical realization of the Fourteen Words. The purpose of Fehu is to make possible that which is represented by Othal, and Othal is only achievable through the materialist side of things connected to Fehu. Contained within the two is the entire “esoteric” aspect signified by the other 22 Runes, whose Lessons as taught by the BOV are largely considered in the context of the ways of living intimated by Fehu and Othal.
With regard to the above statement let us consider Jera, for instance, which the author considers to be especially esoterically pertinent in this regard. Firstly we know that it relates to the Cosmic Tides and Earth Tides whose perception is one of the skills of the bona fide volva/seidhmann (that is, a practitioner of Seidhr, also called Rounwytha for women and Rounerer for men, approximate to what is known by the hoi polloi as a shaman). One of the principal methods of learning this particular esoteric skill is through the yearly enactment of the Wheel of Seasons–also signified by Jera–at an outdoor location called an Earth Gate. What distinguishes the Earth Gate from other types of Ve (that is, outdoor temples and shrines honored by the vitki) is that the Earth Gate is Wyrdful, Ancestral, and Folkish: for while other places of power may come and go, the Earth Gate is lasting, protected over the years as the Tribe’s very life and soul. Because of this it presences (or manifests) a species of Vril that is significantly stronger and more far-reaching than what is possible by an individual vitki working alone, as it is Aeonic Vril capable of influencing the Wyrd of entire civilizations. As a matter of fact, the esoteric long-term aim of the BOV is the opening of not just one such Earth Gate, but Nine of them, the reason for this being discernible to the perspicacious, and it is the essence of this long-term that is conveyed in the esoteric acronym Vril Ov Thee Aeonic Nexion: WOTAN.
Now, no matter how skilled of a vitki you might be the opening of an Earth Gate by its very nature is not something that happens in the backyard. That is of course assuming you don’t already live on a rural property of appreciable size and isolation that you have dedicated to the Tribe–with such an esoteric place being called Lebensraum and this particular kind of magickal, weirdful thingy being signified by Othala. Now assuming that you do not have Lebensraum to work with, wherein you can properly learn the Rouning and enact a rural, Pagan way of life, then most of your exoteric short-term goals–namely those associated with generating income, or perhaps more appropriately making and saving money, signified by Fehu–should be geared toward the esoteric long-term goal of rural repatriation back to the countryside, which is signified by Othala. This means that unless and until you go through the trouble of getting your personal affairs in order so that you can actually get back to a simpler, more numinous way of living where the REAL magick begins, the acquisition of Lebensraum will hardly amount to more than a fantasy.
This is just one example of how the Fehu and Othala connection can shed light on the meanings of the Runes. A further example will be considered later but first let us extrapolate on the last sentence of the previous paragraph. Now the Magnum Opus, which is the core of Dark Heathenism around which it revolves, can be summarized as basically the vitki fulfilling their personal Orlog and then their supra-personal Wyrd all in the span of their one very brief causal lifetime, and in this regard the former relates to Fehu and the latter to Othal. The means whereby you will generate Fehu’s mobile wealth that gets you back to the countryside is tied up with your Orlog, your personal destiny, which Orlog is first realized during the Dark Retreat (called the Grade Ritual of Internal Adept in Hebdomadry) and is then fulfilled as the main esoteric task that comes after. During this time the Adept has to get all of their personal affairs sorted from start to finish, backwards and front, for in the Passing of the Abyss that comes next one must be completely ready to shed all personal selfhood and be reborn into their supra-personal Wyrd. Any untangled karmic threads binding one to mundane reality should be dealt with so that when the vitki descends into the Abyss, the Cosmos may flow unmitigated through them and take them beyond themselves, to the Wyrdful and the Aeonic. Indeed, prior to Crossing the Abyss the vitki has to not only achieve a knowledge of Self, but to exhaust that Self altogether so that it can be safely discarded once and for all. In one sense, during the Grade Ritual of Internal Adept brings about the communion and knowledge of one’s Holy Guardian Angel, and then during the Passing of the Abyss one actually joins with their Holy Guardian Angel.
This merging with one’s astral double (or Baeldraca) represents the birth of the Rounwytha/Rounerer, who, having achieved a realization of supra-personal Wyrd by Entering the Abyss, has become like unto the Nornir Themselves and is now a weaver of the threads of Wyrd. Such a special kind of person is a direct nexus between the land, their volk, and the Cosmos itself, and has become permanently rooted in all of them so that even after death the Rounwytha or Rounerer reverberates through them generation after generation. Now the vitki may move on to the next phase of the Great Work dealing with the fulfillment of their own Wyrd, and this is signified by Othal in connection to Fehu as explained in the last paragraph. The vitki, having started at Point A (Fehu) and having followed the magickal course outlined by the next 22 Runes, arrives at a Wyrdful, Aeonic level of being where one is, in a sense, their very own system, represented at the very end of the Runes, Othal. And this end of the Runes is in one sense a beginning of the Rounerer, who is actually no longer bound by such forms of magickal symbolism like the Runes, and who like the Norns weaves the threads of Wyrd and influences events in all of the Nine Worlds, while being beyond and aloof to the Nine Worlds altogether.
Going back to examining the Runes in the context of the Fehu-Othal connection, another one worth considering here is Beorc, which according to the paradigm of the BOV signifies in part our patron goddess Eorthe, consort of Schatten (Wotan) and Mother of Thor, the bloody Earth Goddess to Whom sacrifices were and are made; She is known within Hebdomadry by names such as Baphomet, Darkat, and Azanigin, and within other LHP kurrents as Lillith. It is important to emphasize that this conception of a bloody Earth Goddess as the patron of the BOV is not merely an intellectual concept: implicit in the ethos of Paganism is a rural volk who live off of the land, who see themselves as deriving their livelihood from a fecund, fertile, and nurturing Earth (Eorthe) and who thus consider their temporary and insignificant mortal existence in relation to this Mother and their kin who are all the children of this Mother. The perspective engendered by this way of life and ethos cannot be reconciled with modern urban living, and so for those living in the cities or neighborhoods who aspire to enact authentic Paganism in the real world–who aspire to aid in a practical and serious way the fulfillment of the Fourteen Words of Bruder David Eden Lane–getting out of the cities/neighborhoods is the main objective. Whatever mundane work (Fehu) the vitki does in the city, it should probably be geared toward securing a way out of there (Othal).
So to whom then does the Pagan return? To the Earth Mother, to Nature, to the land: to Beorc. Thus it is that in Dark Heathenism Lebensraum about much more than just having tribal land; it’s about honoring Eorthe, who is manifest physically as the Earth Gate, and about presencing Her on this Earth Planet in increasingly significant levels over the years. This is the Othal aspect. But before we get to that point, we can still honor Eorthe with how we use our money and mobile wealth: we can go vegan, we can refuse to support businesses and corporations that disrespect and degrade Eorthe, we can go to work for eco-friendly employers, and so on. This is the Fehu aspect.
Thus does the Fehu-Othal Connection always imply pragmatism as the basis for our Tribe’s mysticism. It represents an approach that is appropriate to the Aryan Race, one where there is movement and activity, practical deeds and engagement in the real world It frames the Runes and therefore the mysteries They signify in the proper aeonic context and provides a long-term vision for the vitki’s occult quest, ensuring that all of the mystical elements are appropriately considered relative to the Great Work that is both personal and supra-personal. As usual the BOV makes no claim as to the historical authenticity of this teaching regarding the meanings of the Runes; rather it represents one of the unique esoteric lessons of Dark Heathenism, a unique development within our paradigm formulated with certain long-term aims in mind.
-Bedwyr Thuban
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