The following is reprinted with permission from Odinic Rite
Vinland. Originally printed in ORBriefing 157 (Oct. 1996)
it is adapted by Oswin CG from Prof. Wilhelm Haver's
"Germanic vision of God".
To the Odinist faith the Blood is holy. In it has run from time immemorial the creative secret of families, tribes, and peoples. This wonderful life has been fashioned by the creative will of God; it comes flowing from the eternal ground which is actually present working within it. Blood is the bond of community. Inwardly the thread of the blood of one generation is joined up with those thousands of others in a people which have been spun by the same fate.
The heart of the people is the bond of blood. Even the spirit's root goes down into the blood. No doubt the spirit creates the body, but it wraps itself up in the secret of the blood which runs from generation to generation and determine's Man's spiritual being. Thus the blood is a fateful demand which none can evade. The man of Odinist faith accepts it with its light and its darkness as at once gift and task, from the eternal hand.
The Nordic soul has from time immemorial divined the holiness of the blood. Thus even the Nordic sagas and the Edda are saturated with the sense of what the blood means for strong creative life and work. In loyalty to inherited blood the will of the Gods is fulfilled. In the course of the centuries and with influences from the soil, from the areas occupied, the creative spirit of inherited blood gives itself the form of the race. It is of the highest importance for a people which racial image it regards as authoritative. The best and the highest that man longs for is connected with the image of the Nordic species of humanity. But the Nordic species is what has for all time been the divine destiny of all that goes by the name, Indo-Germanic. The divine formative will, which is never completely realised, but that always remains longing and aiming, is the "ought" of a race. This is the reverence for race which we have described in the past as being a sacred obligation.
Not only race, however, but also place belongs to a people, the land upon which it has developed. The soil, the earth, is the sanctuary in which the Gods meet it as nowhere else. The soil is the ground out of which there grows for the people, with diligent toil, the bread which nourishes the body. The mountains and the woods are for it the sacred places in which it worships the invisible powers which are present to it in calm and storm. Throughout the centuries there has been sung the song of the English earth and of the English homeland. And because the Earth is sacred to us we not only love it with a passionate love, we care for the gifts which it gives us with profound reverence and responsibility. The bread of its soil, the springs which quench our thirst and refresh us, earthly love, embrace of body and soul, the mother, the child which is nourished from her strength, the force within us, driving us, the fighting spirit that makes us shout for joy when the call comes to risk our lives- this spirit is ODIN.
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