On Heritage: The Importance Of The Stones

The Significance Of Heritage

During the course of the life of any nation, there are memories that have to be preserved. These memories must be sustained so that the nation can retain and cherish its unique position among all the other different peoples and lands of the world. 

Every nation is distinct, and because of that every nation has their own unique blood memories. If or when these are forgotten, so too will the nation itself fall shortly thereafter.

These memories are the heritage of the nation. They can come in many forms, such as stories being passed down, lessons learned, myths, and even in physical things like statues or architecture. 

They form a central point for the nation’s overall culture. It becomes kind of like a foundation and a barrier at the same time; a framework to contain cultural norms, but also a standard for what is considered normal and healthy in the eyes of that people. 

Moreover, of course, this is something that is passed down from generation to generation. It is not something that is enforced, but is willingly cherished in a healthy society. 

Heritage—in all of its unique forms—is a beautiful thing.

It is how and why we have the unique peoples of the world today.

Unsurprisingly, its loss is why we are losing the unique peoples of the world today. It is why everything is being consolidated into one giant monoculture. 

The loss of each heritage is the loss of all the uniqueness of the world’s people. 

If not reversed, we’re all going to be grey blobs soon. The elites of this world are trying to dwindle down each nationality so they can just be one giant consumer blob of nothingness. Completely devoid of anything unique.

But what the merchants and elites don’t seem to understand is that a nation without heritage is simply a nation on the verge of dissolving. Even that is pretty much a contradiction in terms: A true nation by default has to have heritage, or it’s not a nation. 

Therefore, to lose heritage is to invite catastrophe. There’s a very famous quote by George Santayana, which goes as follows: “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

And one lesson from history is clear: nations that love their heritage, keep their nation. The nations that lose that love, lose their nation.

So heritage is important for many reasons. It preserves the uniqueness of a people, it helps teach the descendants about essential lessons that the ancestors have learned regarding their particular region/history, it helps ground and stabilize the nation’s culture, and it even helps prevent the slow-decay of a nation into a different group(s) of people. 

But this isn’t just a secular topic, either. Heritage is equally grounded in the Way. 

Joshua 4:19-23 says:

The Memorial Stones

¹⁹ Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. ²⁰ And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. ²¹ Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ ²² then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land’; ²³ for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over,

(NOTE: It is helpful to read all of Joshua 4 to understand the context. But in short, this is God commanding that Joshua plant specific stones for the people to remember their heritage of crossing the Jordan under Joshua’s leadership. These stones were meant to be a memorial for the nation “forever”—Not a temporary or short-lived symbol, but a tangible physical icon of the blood-memory heritage of the nation of Israel. All national heritage should be treated with such regard.)

This example is certainly not the only time in the Bible that heritage is (literally and directly) commanded by God, but it is probably the clearest and most obvious.

Another big one is the famous Exodus 20 verse 12, also known as the Fifth Commandment:

¹² “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

This commandment is not limited to only your parents, but it clearly continues up the line as you honor your parents by honoring their parents, and so forth. This in itself is a commandment to honor all of your ancestors (and many would also argue this applies in the context of all authority through hierarchy, but that’s a subject for later). What is usually not up for debate is that this commandment includes your ancestors.

But who are they? Well, your ancestors are your genetic line and your civilizational heritage. The people that planted the seeds for your culture and society before it was torn down by modernity.

For example, the reason why most of us are Christian is because of our heritage of Christendom. We are directly commanded to honor this heritage and our ancestors that built such a civilization. We honor them by honoring the political system stones they created for us.

Another way to honor those ancestors is to not destroy everything they have created or to ascribe to a blank slate ideology that we’re all the same, when they specifically cultured us to not be like other nations. Surprising, I know.

But our ancestors made our heritage for a reason. They don’t want us to abandon it. Not for their own selfish gain (they don’t care—they are already long dead), but because they know it is what is best for us. They already went through the trials and tribulations to figure out the best way forward.

By distancing ourselves from them, we are not trailblazing a new way forward; we are just forcing a new generation to learn the same mistakes that our ancestors already solved. It’s a setback to a previously worse condition, not a push forward.

Thus, our true heritage has many purposes. Both secular and faith-oriented. It’s important we don’t lose sight of this as we struggle to overcome modernity.

To the leftist, the stones at Gilgal are just rocks. Meaningless, lifeless, and void of any purpose, just like their ideology and their impact on society.

To us, those stones are our legacy, our beloved ancestors, and a gleaming beacon of hope in this wicked, upside-down world. They give us a rock on which to return and a foundation on which to further build upon some day.

To us dissidents, they aren’t just stones. They are a legacy worth both living and dying for.

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