Preamble

The Temple of Zeus issues this Declaration to place beyond all doubt, beyond all ambiguity, and beyond all future misrepresentation, the absolute and permanent separation of this institution from every political ideology, political movement, and political affiliation that exists, has existed, or will exist upon the earth.

This Declaration is not issued in response to an accusation. It is not issued defensively. It is not issued because we have been asked to clarify. It is issued because the Gods demand precision, and precision on this matter is overdue. Where there was once ambiguity, however unintentional, there shall now be none. Where confusion existed, it is hereby dissolved. Where association was inferred, it is hereby severed. The cut is clean, it is total, and it is permanent.

We issue this Declaration from the same authority by which we issued the Declaration of Principles: the authority of a sovereign religious institution operating under the Law of Ma'at, answerable to the Ancient Gods and to the truth, and to no political party, no political movement, no ideological camp, and no temporal faction of any description.

The Temple of Zeus is a religious body. It has always been a religious body. It will never be anything other than a religious body. This Declaration makes that fact architecturally inescapable.

Article I: The Nature of the Severance

The Temple of Zeus hereby declares, formally and irrevocably, its complete severance from all of the following, without exception, without qualification, and without reservation:

National Socialism (Nazism) in all its historical and contemporary forms, including neo-Nazism, white nationalism, Aryan supremacism, and every derivative ideology that claims racial hierarchy as a spiritual or natural law.

Communism in all its historical and contemporary forms, including Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Trotskyism, and every derivative ideology that subordinates the individual soul to the collective apparatus of the state.

Fascism in all its historical and contemporary forms, including corporatist authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and every derivative ideology that fuses the state with the sacred and demands the worship of temporal power.

Right-wing ideological movements of every description, including but not limited to: conservatism as a political identity, libertarianism as a political identity, nationalist populism, identitarian movements, "traditionalism" when defined by political rather than spiritual content, and every other formation that occupies or claims to occupy the right side of the modern political spectrum.

Left-wing ideological movements of every description, including but not limited to: progressivism as a political identity, socialism as a political identity, anarchism, social justice activism when organised as a political programme, and every other formation that occupies or claims to occupy the left side of the modern political spectrum.

All hybrid, derivative, and emergent ideologies that draw from any combination of the above, including: National Bolshevism, eco-fascism, accelerationism, "third positionism," techno-authoritarianism, and any ideology not yet named that will inevitably arise from the endless recombination of political thought.

The severance is total. The Temple of Zeus does not endorse, affiliate with, fund, promote, or lend its name, its symbols, its theology, or the authority of its Gods to any of the above. Any person or entity that claims otherwise is lying.

The Temple of Zeus stands outside the political spectrum. It has always stood outside the political spectrum. This Declaration makes that position architectural and permanent.

Article II: Why the Severance Is Necessary

II.I: The Contamination of the Sacred by the Political

The history of the 20th and 21st centuries is, in large part, the history of political ideologies consuming everything they touch: art, science, education, media, family, language, and above all, religion. Every major political movement of the modern era has attempted to either co-opt religion for its purposes or to replace religion with itself, such as in the case of Communist Ideologies. National Socialism constructed a pagan mythology to lend spiritual authority to it's political ideology. Communism declared religion the "opium of the people" and attempted to replace the worship of the divine with the worship of the state and figures like Lenin or Joseph Stalin. The contemporary left demands that religious institutions conform to its social programme or be branded as hateful. The contemporary right demands that religious institutions serve as the moral wing of its political agenda or be branded as irrelevant, or to follow faiths of Yehubor which are its mobilization machine for wars and other topics unrelated to religion, at the core.

In every case, the pattern is identical: the political movement declares itself the arbiter of truth and demands that religion kneel before it. In every case, the result is identical: the religion that kneels ceases to be a religion and becomes a department of the political apparatus, hollowed of its divine content, filled with temporary political ideology, wearing the vestments of the sacred while serving the interests of the temporal, limited to it's restraints and particular interests.

This is the pathology our theology names Yehubor: the bearing of a sacred form emptied of its sacred content. When a church becomes a political action committee, it loses connection with the Divine. When a temple becomes a recruiting ground for an ideology, it no longer recruits for the Gods. When the name of a God is spoken not to invoke the divine but to sanctify a political programme, one is not sanctifying the Gods. The pathology does not care whether the politics are left or right, revolutionary or reactionary, popular or fringe. The moment the sacred is subordinated to the political, the sacred dies. What remains is a corpse in ceremonial dress. The "politicians" try to dominate the Gods; and this is a notion of Izfet.

The Temple of Zeus will not become what the politics know how to create best: Corpses and obsolete fossils of political approaches, dressed in a ceremonial dress. Not for the right. Not for the left. Not for any flag, any party, any movement, any -ism that the political imagination of humanity has produced or will produce.

The moment the sacred is subordinated to the political, the sacred dies. We refuse to die, we choose to live.

II.II: The Historical Record of Political Contamination

We name specific examples, because precision is a religious duty.

National Socialism did not merely use pagan symbols. It constructed an entire politicized apparatus designed to lend transcendent authority to its ideology. The Gods however, extend beyond the guise and temporality of these and any other politics. The Gods of the Norse, the Greeks, the Egyptians were not localized deities that had to follow a political doctrine or a work that was arrayed by human beings. They were cosmic powers worshipped across continents by peoples of many ancestries. To reduce them to mascots of a any political programme is away from the path of revering them. It is the most profound form of limiting them: the use of the divine name to sanctify humanity's aims.

The consequences of this wrong approach persist to this day. Any person who expresses interest in the worship of the Ancient Gods is immediately suspected of fascist sympathies; of a political compass that doesn't exist. And it should not exist; only interest in the Gods should exist. Any organisation that practises reconstructed polytheism is scrutinised due to wrong association for certain political affiliations.

Politics should remain in their realm and we are not interested in blood spilled in the name of any ideology, that might use the Gods as stepping stones to further political ends.

Communism did not merely suppress religion. It attempted to exterminate it. The Soviet destruction any religious materials or even the idea of "God", of monasteries, or spiritual knowledge and even the instinct to believe in any God, across the empire was systematic. Anyone who wanted to believe, was executed. Texts were burned. Religious practice was criminalised; meditation seldom existed. The stated goal was the creation of "scientific atheism," a world purged of the "superstition" of the divine. In practice, the vacuum was filled not by reason but by the worship of the state, of the party, of the leader. Stalin's portrait replaced the icon. The party congress replaced the liturgy. The songs for Stalin and Lenin replaced the human need to worship and venerate something higher; all of this urge was redirected into the vanity of a few false, Yehuboric and Izfetic egos. Religion was not eliminated. It was replicated in political form, stripped of its divine content, of it's core purpose, and rendered more dangerous by its refusal to acknowledge what it had become.

The contemporary political spectrum, left and right alike, continues this pattern. Political identities have become, for millions of people, the functional equivalent of religions: complete with orthodoxies, heresies, rituals of affirmation, rituals of expulsion, defiled documents that are "sacred texts" to adherents, prophets, false prophets, and the unshakeable conviction that one's own tribe possesses the truth while all others live in darkness. The language of politics has become the language of salvation and damnation; not of reason and not of logic in many Nations of the world. Communism manifests inevitable consequence of a civilisation that destroyed its connection to the divine and now seeks to fill the void with ideology. The Gods are against Communism as Communism is the removal of the Divine and its replacement with mere atheism and worship of the "elect" or "the masses".

The Temple of Zeus does not fill voids with political ideology. It fills them with the Gods.

Where ideology fills the void left by the divine, severance from the Gods follows. We will not participate.

II.III: The Specific Danger to Reconstructed Polytheism

Reconstructed polytheism occupies a uniquely vulnerable position in the contemporary world. Because the Ancient Gods were worshipped by European civilisations, and because certain 20th-century political movements appropriated European cultural symbols, there exists a persistent and deliberate conflation between the worship of the Ancient Gods and political extremism. This conflation is maintained by two parties, both of whom benefit from it:

First, by political extremists who seek to cloak their ideology in the authority of the sacred. These individuals and groups adopt runes, adopt the names of Gods, adopt the aesthetics of the ancient world, and use them as camouflage for political programmes that have nothing to do with the divine. They want the legitimacy of the sacred without submitting to its demands. They practice nothing of the culture of the Gods; they just clothe themselves in these to appear divine while they merely further their own ends. These ends almost always involve nothing sacred. Symbols are used as covering for aggression and prayers just to pray over blades that they prepare for others.

Second, by opponents of polytheism (including Abrahamic institutions and secular critics) who find it convenient to dismiss the entire tradition as a front for fascism. This dismissal spares them the effort of engaging with the theology on its merits and allows them to maintain the comfortable fiction that the only legitimate forms of religion are the Abrahamic ones.

Both parties are wrong. Both are served by the ambiguity. This Declaration exists to eliminate that ambiguity. The Temple of Zeus is not a political movement. It is not a cover for a political movement and it never was. It is not adjacent to a political movement either. It is a religious institution that worships the Ancient Gods, practises theurgy, and operates under the Law of Ma'at. Any other characterisation is false. We respect human laws but we are sworn upon the Law of Ma'at, not the law of any party that was generated by any humans, let alone those who want to objectify the Gods.

The conflation of polytheism with political extremism is maintained by those who benefit from it. We eliminate the ambiguity they require.

Article III: What Has Been Done

The Temple of Zeus does not merely declare its severance from political ideology. It has enacted that severance materially, in the structure and content of its institutional life. We state what has been done, because declarations without action are the currency of the dishonest.

All content on the platforms of the Temple of Zeus, including templeofzeus.org, tozrituals.org, and the Forums, has been reviewed and revised to eliminate any material that could reasonably be interpreted as political endorsement, political affiliation, or political programme. Where language was imprecise, it has been made precise. Where framing was reactive rather than sovereign, it has been rewritten. Where legacy content from earlier periods of the community's development contained political undertones, those undertones have been removed.

All theological vocabulary has been constructed with deliberate expansion of meaning and an eternal standpoint. The ten pathologies of the Corpus of Spiritual Pathology (Yehubor, Birburim, Sahiburah, Izfet, and their counterparts) apply to every tradition, every institution, and every people without exception, including our own. They will live long after any political doctrines exist, or do not exist. They are diagnostic instruments, constructed with dual etymologies and explicit positive counter-terms. They target conditions, not peoples. They might or might not exist in political dogmas, Nations, or individuals, or collectives; but target none specifically. Any attempt to read them as political code will find no grounds in their construction.

All ritual content on the Rituals platform has been purged of any framing that could be interpreted as political in nature. We are beyond politics. From that point onward if anyone wants to interpret topics in this way, either does so for political motivation, or seeks a clutch to support their political beliefs. These are their words and not our own definitions. The rituals of the Temple of Zeus serve the Gods and the spiritual advancement of the practitioner. They do not serve political agendas. The Spiritual War referenced in our materials is a war of truth against Izfet, of Ma'at against cosmic disorder in all its manifestation, of the divine against the forces that obscure the divine. It is not a war against any particular group, any nation, any political party, or any earthly faction.

All historical connections to movements, organisations, or individuals whose primary identity was political rather than spiritual have been dissolved. The Temple of Zeus acknowledges its origins openly (see Declaration of Principles, Article VII). It does not hide its past. It has, however, completed the process of institutional transformation that renders those origins a historical fact rather than a present reality. The community that exists today is a sovereign Zevist religious body, unaffiliated with any external organisation, political or otherwise.

Going forward, the following standards are permanent and non-negotiable:

No content published under the name of the Temple of Zeus official sites or outlets will endorse, promote, or affiliate with any political ideology, party, or movement. Any positions of members on these topics, are solely their own and they do not reflect the official stance of the Temple of Zeus.

No member speaking in the name of the Temple will invoke the Temple's authority in service of a political cause.

No ritual, prayer, invocation, or liturgical act performed under the auspices of the Temple will be directed toward a political outcome. The outcomes served should be of the Gods and the spiritual domains solely.

No candidate for leadership or membership within the Temple will be evaluated on the basis of their political views; this was never also, the historical case. They will be evaluated on their spiritual practice, their knowledge of the theology, their alignment with Ma'at, and their capacity to serve the Gods and the community.

These standards apply without sunset clause, without exception, and without the possibility of future amendment by any individual, including the current leadership or future leadership of the Temple. The separation of the Temple from political ideology is a constitutional principle of the institution, not a policy preference of its present administration.

Declarations without action are the currency of the dishonest. We have acted. The record is visible.

Article IV: On the Eternal and the Temporal

The deepest reason for this severance is theological, borne out of the nature of the Gods.

Political ideologies are temporal. They arise from the conditions of a particular century, a particular economy, a particular configuration of power; of present day limited needs and wants or aims. They burn brightly and they die. Communism is a few decades old. Nazism lasted 12 years in power. Liberal democracy, the longest-lived of the modern political forms, has existed for roughly 200 years; malformed and adapted constantly to serve another ends. In the scale of human history, these are newcomers, sparks. They ignite, they flare, they are gone. And all of which that currently exist, will give in with the passing of time.

Ideologies who are that short lived, cannot by definition dictate nothing to the Culture of the Gods, which in it's restored fashion, does extend all the way back to anywhere from 6000 to 40000, to non-conventional sources, 85000+ years.

The Gods are eternal. Zeus has been worshipped under that name for at least 3,500 years in conventional historically approved "timelines", and under His proto-Indo-European name, Dyeus, for at least 6,000. The Egyptian Netjeru were honoured for more than 3,000 years before the Christian interruption. The Vedic Devas have been invoked continuously for at least 3,500 years and show no sign of diminishing. The Gods predate every political system that has ever existed, and They will outlast every political system that will ever exist.

To attach the worship of the eternal Gods to a temporal political ideology is to chain an eagle to a fence post. It is an act of reduction so severe that it constitutes a form of spiritual violence against the divine itself. The Gods cannot be limited on the conceptions of any politician. The swastika, which is a sacred solar symbol attested across India, Greece, Mesopotamia, and the Americas for at least 10,000 years, or it's future, cannot be bound by a 12-year political regime in central Europe. The runes, which are a sacred alphabetic tradition of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples, do not belong to the ideologues who might have by coincidence used them. The Gods and Their symbols belong to the Gods and to humanity. They do not belong to any political movement, and the Temple of Zeus will not accept them to be used as such within its walls.

As I have stated before: "I will wave no flag and wear no particular garment; for the Gods and their Eternal Teaching is above all the failed political, social or other forms of denominations which serve me nowhere." And: "All the flags you see today will not exist in two thousand years. Yet there is one thing that always has, always will, and currently is."

That one thing is the Gods. We serve Them. We serve nothing else.

To attach the worship of the eternal Gods to a temporal political ideology is to chain an eagle to a fence post. We refuse the chain.

Article V: On the Question of "Sides"

The modern world demands that every institution, every public figure, and every individual declare a political allegiance. "Which side are you on?" is treated as a moral imperative. Refusal to answer is itself treated as an answer, usually interpreted as complicity with whichever side the questioner opposes. Those who do not participate in the game have to face anything from penalties, to scrutiny, to even destruction. Those who serve, also have to follow strict religious norms of Yehubor, or worship "Das Capital", depending on what side they choose.

The Temple of Zeus answers this question once and finally: we are on the side of the Gods. Nobody else.

We are not on the right. We are not on the left. We are not in the centre, which is merely the attempt to be on both sides simultaneously while pretending to be on neither. Political beliefs even in the scope of a minimal human lifetime, will change like the wind in many people. We are not "apolitical" in the passive sense, as though we simply have not bothered to form opinions. We are deliberately, architecturally, and permanently outside the political spectrum, because the political spectrum is a human invention of the few centuries and the Gods are an eternal reality, and we will not subordinate the eternal to the temporary.

Individual members of the Temple hold political views. They are entitled to them. Those views are their private affair. The Temple does not police the political opinions of its members, does not require political conformity as a condition of membership, and does not evaluate spiritual advancement on the basis of political belief. We only evaluate what is against and for the Gods; nothing else. A Zevist may vote for any party, hold any political opinion, and advocate for any political cause, in their private capacity, as a citizen of their nation. What they may not do is invoke the Temple's name, the Temple's authority, or the Temple's Gods in service of that cause or pretending Zevism is subordinate to these temporal causes.

The Gods do not vote on ballots. The Gods do not campaign with books that claim ultimate authority and will be obsolete after the party changes. The Gods do not endorse candidates, platforms, or parties. The Gods govern the cosmos under Ma'at, and Ma'at does not appear on any ballot.

We are on the side of the Gods. The Gods do not have a political doctrine. They have only an Eternal law. It is called Ma'at.

Article VI: On Those Who Will Object

This Declaration will be attacked from multiple directions simultaneously, which is itself proof that it occupies the correct position.

Political extremists of the right will accuse the Temple of cowardice, of 'abandoning the cause'. We answer: the Gods were never your cause; as a result if we don't follow the doctrinal worship of some temporal figure, it doesn't matter. You used Their names as banners for political struggles that had nothing to do with Them. We have taken the banners back. You may continue your war under your own flag. Do not shrink the Gods to this level.

Political ideologues of the left will accuse the Temple of insufficient denunciation, of "refusing to take a stand," of hiding behind theological language to avoid criticism. We answer: our denunciation is in the architecture of our theology, not in the performance of our politics. We do not perform denunciation for the approval of a political audience. We state our position with precision and move on to the work that matters: the worship of the Gods and the advancement of the human soul. If that is insufficient for you, the insufficiency is yours, not ours.

Former associates from our community's past will accuse the Temple of "changing", of abandoning the "real struggle," of going soft. We answer: the real struggle was always the restoration of the Gods; we are now on hardcore power not limited by temporal political works. Everything against that power, was distraction. We are more powerful than needing guidance from politicians, who in most cases, cannot even guide themselves. We went correct. The difference is visible in what we have built.

The Abrahamic institutions will attempt to use our past associations to discredit us. We answer: your institutions have 2,000 years of documented atrocity; nothing in the face of the world compares even minimally to what you agents of Yehubor have caused upon humanity. You can spare us the narrative of imaginary politics that might have been discussed in internet boards. Meanwhile, these criticisers should answer about: Crusades. Inquisitions. Forced conversions of hundreds of years, on both gunpoint and sword-point. Answer further on the systematic destruction of every spiritual tradition that predated you. If you wish to have a conversation about institutional history, we welcome it. Comment on mere digital statements; we can comment on your hundreds of piles of human corpses and whole civilizations you sunk, and you sink to this very day in your wars of Birburim.

Bring your record. We will bring ours. The comparison will not favour you. We are inconceivably more holy and good compared to you.

This Declaration will be attacked from every direction. That is how we know it stands in the centre of the truth.

Article VII: Permanence

This Declaration is permanent. It is not a policy statement subject to revision by future leadership. It is a posture adopted for surpassing the current political climate. It is a constitutional principle of the Temple of Zeus, binding upon all present and future office-holders, all present and future members, and all present and future expressions of the institution in any medium, in any language, in any jurisdiction.

No High Priest, no Council, no vote, and no future Declaration may reverse this severance. The separation of the Temple of Zeus from political ideology is absolute and irreversible, in the same way that the Temple's commitment to the sovereignty of Zeus is absolute and irreversible. It is built into the foundation. To remove it would be to demolish the building.

Should any future leader of the Temple attempt to align the institution with a political ideology, that act shall constitute, by the terms of this Declaration, a violation of the Temple's constitutional principles, a betrayal of the trust of the community, and an offence against the Gods who govern the Temple's existence. The community is hereby authorised, by this Declaration, to resist any such attempt and to treat it as the institutional danger it would represent.

The Gods are eternal. Politics is not. We have chosen which one to serve. The choice is made. It is final. It will not be revisited.

This severance is constitutional, irreversible, and binding upon all who carry the name of the Temple. It will not be revisited. It will not be revised. It stands.