Julnacht – Weihenacht (English post)

Nordic-Germanic belief in God has lived for millennia in symbols and in those who created these symbols. Symbols are more than ornamentation, more than symbols in the general sense; they are images of an innermost experience, shaped in forms that speak mysteriously to those who have blood from blood and spirit from the spirit of those who once created those symbols from their world experience in primeval times. That is why they still speak to us today, that is why they awaken that primal experience in us, which is unique and eternal, which is not subject to any psychology or development, because it starts directly from that point of the soul where the human touches the divine .

This primal experience is the birth of light. To the Teutons everything that appears to us perishable is a parable of the great immortal, the All-Father of the world, of life and our being. And that is why for him dying and becoming is a guarantee for the eternity of being. But holy days and holy nights are for him those times in which this eternal being becomes visible in the fact that death and life touch. In prehistoric times, on the edge of the Arctic, this experience gripped and shook people from the north anew every year.

When the sun, long sunk in the darkness below the circle of vision, for the first time flashes again behind the southern mountains, over the southern winter seas, when the light shines in the darkness, then he was seized with overwhelming joy, and it was a happy festival time consecrated to this rebirth of light. It was not much different for the farmer on the German plains and in the mountains: when the new light announced new life and new growth to him, he felt himself to be inwardly connected to this new life. The spark of a life that was joyful in God and in action arose in him and raised the soul to free action and work.

This primal light enlightened and enlivened the Teutons wherever they went to fulfill their mission. It shone in the youthful multitudes of popular spring when they went out to gain new land for light and life out there in Utgard; it shone for the warriors, who unchanged as the sun paced its path, "joyful as a hero to victory." The daring Vikings shone when they steered their quills across the dark gullies of the sea on world-wide voyages. And those German men and women who looked for the divine in themselves apart from a foreign externalization and found it in the "sparkle" of which the master Ekkehard speaks shone.

The pious disposition of our people has experienced the rebirth of light in various pictures and has written about it. One of the oldest and most beautiful is that of the newborn child who lies in a golden cradle in the hill of the ancestors and who wonderfully expresses the belief in the sun-like divine life in the clan. Another is that of the evergreen tree, which preserves life through the night of the year and lets it flare up in light on its branches. And a third picture, much sung about in legends and fairy tales, is the virgin with the golden hair, who is locked in a dark tower, to appear again on the battlements after the captivity, radiant with new life. This tower, made of clay, is one of the most beautiful symbols of our Weihnacht season.

It is adorned with the wheel of the year, St. Jul, and the heart, the symbol of Germanic godliness. At the bottom of the tower a little light burns, the symbol of the light in the darkness, until with the beginning of the new year and the turn of light the big light on top of the tower is ignited. In prehistoric times, for example, there may have been a fire on the towers of our ancestors, of which only a single learned message, but many legends and fairy tales and, above all, these tower candlesticks in folk custom tell.

In this symbol, Germanic heroism and deep temperament have found their common expression. They are still living today in our German Weihnacht experience, in which no alien spirit has ever been able to twist or obscure anything. And because Adolf Hitler's Schutzstaffel is called to protect the highest values ​​of the German soul, the Reichsführer-SS chose this Julleuchter as a Weihnacht present for his SS leaders and presented them with the following dedication:

“I'm giving you this Julleuchter as a present . It is modeled after an old piece passed down from our people's early past.

Its lights should burn on the night of the turn of the year, according to our current usage, from December 31st to January 1st.

The little light that stands under the candlestick burns as a symbol of the end of the year in its last hour.

The great light flames in the first moment as the new year begins its pace. There is a deep wisdom in the ancient custom.

May every SS man see the little flame of the old year of a pure, clean heart go out and, with exalted will, be able to kindle the light of the new year. I wish you and your clan that today and in the future. "

For we will only form a brazen wall against all alien and Bolshevik decomposition if we establish its foundations in the depths of the German soul. It is important to follow the traces with an open eye and with loving understanding that the German spirit and its deepest experiences have drawn in our soil since prehistoric times, in our pictures, in the poetry and aspirations of our folk spirit - in order to return them to the blood and spirit of the Fathers and from it build a bright, new, sunny future!

The Reichsführer-SS tackled this task when he brought the "German Ahnenerbe" into being, as a lively fighting community of all those who fight back for us this sacred Ahnenerbe (ancestral heritage). Your Kampfblatt (publication for the struggle) is the magazine "Germanien," a monthly magazine for Germanenkunde (Germanic studies) dedicated to the knowledge of the German essence, the only German magazine that, since its foundation in 1928, has made all prehistoric, Germanic and historical research serve this great goal.

In it the German, who strives back to the sources of his being, finds again the whole richness of the millennia-old spiritual heritage; in these sources he finds spiritual enrichment and a redirection to the eternal goal that the Allfather himself set for the Germans. The December issue of this year will introduce him to the origins of our German Weihnacht experience and report on an abundance of folk symbols and forms in which this Weihnacht experience has found its expression up to our days.

So all branches and all friends of the SS should hear the good news that the ancestral soul proclaims to us in order to participate in the great work of the Reichsführer: the renewal of the German soul from its eternal roots.

Sources: https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Julnacht_–_Weihenacht

Photos of the Julleuchter taken from: http://www.ns-kunst.com/porzellan-allach-ss-julleuchter/