David Myatt: Philosophy, Peregrinations, Allegations

2022·3.1 MB·English

by  Rachael Stirling

Concerning David Myatt

Philosophy, Peregrinations, Allegations

Spain, 1993

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Overview

The Mystic Philosophy Of David Myatt

Myatt And The Renaissance of Western Culture

National Socialist Ideologist

The Urban Tale Of Myatt And Long

Modern Tale Of An Antifascist Propagandist

In Their Prejudice They Prefer To Prejudge

Author Profiling In The Case Of Mr Myatt

Old Accusations

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An Overview Of The Life Of David Myatt
Visiting A Catholic Church, 1995
According to Myatt's own account in published documents - primary sources {1} - such as his autobiography Myngath,
{2}
° His childhood was spent mostly in British colonial Africa and in Singapore. In Singapore he studied Ancient
Greek, Latin, and a Martial Art based on Taoism.
° He returned to Britain in 1967 and was a full-time boarder at a College in England.
° In 1968 he joined Colin Jordan's neo-nazi British Movement and on a few occasions acted as Jordan's
bodyguard.
° In the early 1970s he moved to Leeds and after a racist incident in Wakefield was arrested and imprisoned
for violence.
° After his release from prison he, together with fellow neo-nazi Eddy Morrison, in late 1973 formed the
National Democratic Freedom Movement (NDFM).
° In the Summer of 1974 he was arrested by the Yorkshire Regional Crime Squad. Some months later he was
found guilty of leading a gang of thieves and was given an 18 month suspended prison sentence.
° In 1974 following a violent incident in Leeds near the Town Hall he was arrested and was later imprisoned
for a second time.
° After his release from prison in 1976 he entered the novitiate of a Catholic monastery where he continued
his study of Latin and Greek.
° In 1978, having left the monastery, he moved to rural South Shropshire, married, and worked as a gardener
at a country house.
° In the 1980s he began writing about National Socialism, with his monograph Vindex - Destiny of The West
published in America in January 1984. A year later he and wife separated then divorced.
° In the early 1990s and following the early death of his then partner from cancer, he joined the neo-nazi
group Combat 18, was active on their behalf, and produced their monthly newsletter under the title The
National-Socialist.
° Several years later, having remarried, he moved to a village near the Malvern hills, worked on a farm, and
in early 1998 was arrested by Detectives from SO12 (Special Branch) on suspicion of inciting racial hatred
and incitement to murder. He was later released on bail.
° In Autumn 1998 he converted to Islam at a Mosque in Worcester.
° After being released from his bail in 2020 he separated from his wife, moved back to Shropshire to live on a
farm, travelled to several Muslim countries, and began writing about Islam including in support of bin Laden
and the Taliban.
° In 2006 his then partner committed suicide, leading him to question his commitment to Islam and, in 2009,
to publicly renounce his extremist past and writings, and to begin to develop a non-violent, non-theological,
philosophy based on his own pathei-mathos, his own learning from his varied experiences.
° In 2012 he published writings about his 'philosophy of pathei-mathos' and went on to publish translations of
and commentaries on eight tractates of the ancient text of the Corpus Hermeticum followed by chapters 1-5
of the Gospel of John and his monographs Classical Paganism And The Christian Ethos and Tu Es Diaboli
Ianua.
Rachael Stirling
2022
Further Reading: Works By David Myatt
° Myngath
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/david-myatt-myngath.pdf
° The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/numinous-way-v5c-print.pdf
° Corpus Hermeticum: Eight Tractates
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/eight-tractates-v2-print.pdf
° Gospel According To John, 1-5
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/gospel-john-chapters1-5.pdf
° Classical Paganism And The Christian Ethos
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/classical-paganism-v2-print.pdf
° Tu Es Diaboli Ianua
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/tua-es-diaboli-ianua.pdf
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{1} Primary sources are original documents or texts or items contemporaneous with the period or event in question or
produced by the person or persons or group being researched.
{2} Myngath, https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/david-myatt-myngath.pdf
Typical of the unsubstantiated allegations made about Myatt by his political enemies is the 2022 claim that "Myatt lies
through his teeth" and that "nothing in Myatt’s sanitized autobiography [Myngath] should be taken too seriously."
 As is typical in such cases, no evidence, from primary sources, for this allegation -  for the publication of this malicious
personal opinion - was presented.
Appendix I
Wikipedia And The Fallacy of Appeal To Authority
The fallacy of Appeal To Authority, also known as argumentum ad verecundiam, is when someone references what
others have said or written about a subject because they believe or claim that those others are 'reliable sources' or
authorities on the matter.
A classic example is when someone cites a particular book or books or published article(s) about a subject or a person
whose author or authors they or others believe to be a 'reliable source' and whose opinion or verdict or opinion they
accept and repeat.
That is, they for a variety of reasons rely on such sources having not undertaken their own detailed research using
primary sources and then formulated their opinion abased upon a reasoned, unbiased, assessment of the knowledge
acquired by such research, with that opinion about the matter or topic or person being logically derived. They thus
follow an ancient wisdom: οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ἐφ᾽ οἷς γὰρ μὴ φρονῶ σιγᾶν φιλῶ, "I do not know. About things I have no [personal]
knowledge of, I remain silent." {1} Which wisdom is one of the principles of those who uphold the noble virtues of
καλὸς κἀγαθός. {2}
A modern example of the fallacy of Appeal To Authority is citing the internet-based Wikipedia article about a person
despite the fact that the criteria used by Wikipedia are not evidential facts established by unbiased scholarly research
but the sources being published or broadcast by mainstream, established, mediums. The result makes Wikipedia
reproduce or cite propaganda, opinion-pieces, and authors, including academics, who (i) commit fallacies of reasoning,
including the fallacy of Appeal To Authority and the fallacy of Incomplete Evidence, and/or who (ii) have not undertaken
their own scholarly research using primary sources. {3}
Those so using Wikipedia as a 'reliable source' therefore replace the above ancient wisdom with the modern: "I don't
know, but I trust the opinion of someone who I believe does know." Does the fact that only a few realize that relying on
sources such as Wikipedia is committing the fallacy of Appeal To Authority implies something about the majority who
do rely on such sources?
In the case of Myatt, Wikipedia cites (i) academics who - as described in Appendix II - commit fallacies of reasoning,
including the fallacy of Appeal To Authority and the fallacy of Incomplete Evidence; (ii) opinion-pieces and propaganda
by those, including antifascists and journalists, who provide no evidential facts {4} for their allegations about Myatt;
and (iii) authors and items who or which have as sources (i) and (ii).
Such citations, their use in Wikipedia and elsewhere, has resulted in what can only be described as an Establishment
orthodoxy about Myatt, and reveals an astonishing lack of logical reasoning among the populace and among the
educated professional class; an astonishing acceptance of propaganda by the majority, and an astonishing lack of
scholarship in academia; and astonishing because of the well-established tertiary educational system of Western
societies and the mandatory schooling of children.
Such an astonishing lack of logical reasoning among the peoples of the West after thousands of years of civilization is
perhaps an indictment of modern government, an indictment of the modern State; an indictment of mass urban living;
and an indictment of the modern educational system. It is also an example of how the causal abstractions now
embedded in ideologies and political parties as well as in the educational system have triumphed over pathei-mathos
and the virtues of καλὸς κἀγαθός.
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{1} Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 569.
{2} According to Myatt, καλὸς κἀγαθός
"means those who conduct themselves in a gentlemanly or lady-like manner and who thus manifest -
because of their innate physis or through pathei-mathos or through a certain type of education or learning -
nobility of character."  Classical Paganism And The Christian Ethos, p.27.
https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/classical-paganism-v2-print.pdf
{3} Scholarly research is (i) meticulous research focused on a specific matter or topic or person undertaken over a
period of at least a year using primary source material; and (ii) a reasoned, unbiased, assessment of the knowledge
acquired by such research, with one's conclusions about the matter or topic or person being logically derived.
{4} Among evidential facts in regard to Myatt are documentary evidence verified to be authentic primary sources
regarding Myatt's life; archived published books or essays authored by Myatt under his own name; sworn testimony by
witnesses who are available for cross-examination in a Court of Law; classified files held in the archives of national
security agencies such as Britain's MI5; and so on.
Appendix II
Case Studies: David Myatt
In the matter of Appeal To Authority (argumentum ad verecundiam) and Myatt and the accusation of him being a
satanist and founder of the O9A {1} - an accusation Myatt has consistently denied on his word of honour - the most
cited academic authorities are: (i) the book Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity
published in 2001 and written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke {2}; (ii) a 2009 MA thesis titled Political Esotericism & the
convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles; written by Jacob
Senholt, a revised version was published as a chapter in the 2012 book The Devil's Party - Satanism in Modernity; {3}
and (iii) a chapter in a 2016 book by Massimo Introvigne titled Satanism: A Social History. {4}
° Goodrick-Clarke
His identification of Myatt as 'Anton Long' is solely based on his claim that Myatt was the author of a typewritten
manuscript titled Diablerie, Revelations of a Satanist a copy of which is in the British Library. He provides no evidence,
no sources, for this claim of his, or for his other claims such as that "the ONA was founded by David Myatt" and that
Myatt was "a long time devotee of satanism."
Goodrick-Clarke also failed to research and provide any documentary evidence from primary sources regarding Myatt's
life so that it could be compared to the life described in the Diablerie manuscript; failed to ask Myatt himself about the
manuscript - which Myatt had denounced as a forgery - and which manuscript in addition makes several factual errors
including the year of Myatt's birth, the year he first met Colin Jordan, and that Myatt's two terms of imprisonment were
both for six months. Goodrick-Clarke also did not mention relevant facts such as Myatt's 1970s arrest by the Yorkshire
Regional Crime Squad and Myatt's subsequent criminal trial and conviction for organizing and leading a gang of
thieves.
Goodrick-Clarke therefore presents only his personal opinion and thus his book does not provide any evidential facts in
regard to Myatt being Anton Long or having founded the O9A.
That Goodrick-Clarke's book is and has been often cited as 'proof' of that urban tale thus provides a classic example of
the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam.
° Jacob Senholt
In his thesis, Senholt - after claiming along with many others, and like them without providing any evidence, that Myatt
wrote the terrorist manual A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution which allegedly influence David Copeland {5} -
presents his circumstantial evidence that Myatt=Long.
i) He mentions a 1978 text, Copula cum Daemone, which he claims was written by a DW Myatt and was "in a collection
of ONA manuscripts" manuscripts but does give the title of this collection nor any details of publication or images of
the text nor any evidence that it was written by Myatt. He then claims that in later digital editions of this text - which
again he provides no references to or images of - it was attributed to various other authors and concludes that this is
"a clear example of a text originally issued by Myatt, and later disguised with a pseudonym."
In other words, he does not provide any evidential facts but presents only his personal opinion.
ii) He goes on to claim that the Diablerie manuscript "reveals details of Long's life that appear remarkably similar to
Myatt’s own life" and cites Goodrick-Clarke and yet as with Goodrick-Clarke he does not provide comparisons using
research based on documentary evidence from primary sources regarding Myatt's life.
Thus and yet again he does not provide any evidential facts but presents only his personal opinion.
iii) His next claim is that since writings by Myatt and the ONA have been published by the same publisher there "is a
direct connection" which is a spurious conclusion since publishers often print items from various authors which does
not mean the various authors are connected in any way.
iv) His next piece of circumstantial evidence "concerns the use of alternate dating-systems", about which he states
that since both Myatt in his National Socialist writings and the ONA use "yf, designating the Year of the Führer" there is
a connection, neglecting to mention - or failing to discover through research - that other groups such as the Ku Klux
Klan and Willian Pierce of National Alliance fame and other neo-nazis have used the same dating system, both in its
English form and its German form of 'Jahr des Fuhrers' {6}.
(v) His final piece of circumstantial evidence is linguistic, claiming that "when one has a closer look at many of the
basic ideas and the terminology used in the ONA, it appears as if there are many glaring similarities to Myatt’s own
ideas." He cites terms such as Homo Galactica, causal and acausal, and Aeons while failing to mention that such
borrowing of terms, ideas and concepts, is and has been common for centuries and is not evidence of a direct and
personal link between those using such terms, ideas and concepts.
Following these claims, he further claims that Myatt's diverse and exeatic life is an example of O9A Insight Roles which
mean "gaining real-life experience by working undercover for a period of 6-18 months".
Of five Insight Roles Senholt cites three - (a) "Join or form a covert insurrectionary organization, dedicated to National
Socialism", (b) "Convert to Islam and aid, through words, or deeds, or both, those undertaking Jihad against Zionism
and the NWO", and (c) "Join or form a National Socialist group or organization, and aid that organization and especially
aid and propagate historical revisionism" - which he claims Myatt has undertaken.
What Senholt neglects to mention is that Myatt promoted National Socialism for thirty years (1968-1998) not for the
"6-18 months" of an Insight Role, and was a Muslim who supported Jihad for over ten years (1998-2009) not for the
"6-18 months" of an Insight Role.
Which places Senholt's claim into perspective. In addition, he does not mention the obvious facts that the O9A might
have been inspired by the exeatic nature of Myatt's exeatic life to concoct such Insight Roles, and that Myatt's life does
not include other suggested roles such as being an assassin and joining the police or the armed forces.
In summary, Senholt's thesis does not provide any evidential facts in regard to Myatt being Anton Long or having
founded the O9A. That it is often cited as 'proof' of that urban tale thus provides another classic example of people
committing the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam.
° Massimo Introvigne
In his treatment of Myatt and the O9A, Introvigne himself commits and relies on the fallacy of argumentum ad
verecundiam by blandly stating that Goodrick-Clarke had 'confirmed' Myatt was Anton Long and that Senholt "offered a
number of elements confirming that Long was indeed Myatt". Relies on, because Introvigne offers no evidential facts
whatsoever, provides no research of his own, in regard to Myatt being Anton Long or having founded the O9A.
K.S.
2022
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{1} In over forty years no one has provided any evidential facts (evidence acceptable in a Court of Law) that prove the
urban tale that Myatt is Anton Long or that he founded and led the O9A. 
Evidential facts in this case include evidence from primary sources, such as documents which Myatt under police
caution admitted to writing; a confession or signed
statement by Myatt; sworn testimony by witnesses who are available for cross-examination; forensically verified
video/audio recordings of Myatt admitting to being Long and/or of having founded the O9A; surveillance and other
classified files held in the archives of national security agencies such as Britain's MI5; and so on
Lacking such evidential facts, those who believe this urban tale usually do so on the basis of one or more of the
following: (i) the fallacy of ad populum, claiming it is "self-evident" because so many others believe it; (ii) the fallacy of
argumentum ad verecundiam because others including the media, some academics and journalists and political
activists and politicians have said or written that he is Long and did found the O9A; (iii) hearsay; and (iv) the fallacy of
Incomplete Evidence - also known as the fallacy of suppressed evidence - when material concerning or assumptions
about a particular matter are selected and presented to support a particular argument or conclusion while other
material or assumptions which do not support, which contradict, the chosen argument or conclusion are withheld or
not discussed.
As in case of Senholt - discussed below - selective evidence and/or selective argument are employed in order to 'prove'
a particular point, with such selectively being deliberate, or the result of fallacious reasoning or the result of
unscholarly research because secondary and tertiary sources rather than primary sources are used.
{2} Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, 2003.
{3} Per Faxneld and Jesper Petersen (editors), The Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity, Cambridge University Press,
2012.
{4} Brill, Leiden, 2016. ISBN 9789004244962.
{5} Following Myatt's arrest in early 1998 by police officers from Special Branch based at Scotland Yard, the British
police in conjunction with the Canadian police and the FBI spent three years trying to prove that Myatt wrote that
document, having seized his computers and files, searched his home for over seven hours, and travelled to places such
as Canada to interview witnesses. They failed to find any evidence and Myatt was released from his bail in the Summer
of 2001.
{6} https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/world/klan-seizes-on-germany-s-wave-of-racist-violence.html
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The Mystic Philosophy Of David Myatt
Contents
Preface
I. A Modern Mystic: David Myatt And The Way of Pathei-Mathos
II. A Modern Pagan Philosophy
III. Honour In The Philosophy Of Pathei-Mathos
IV. An Overview of The Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos
Part One: Anti-Racism, Extremism, Honour, and Culture
Part Two: Humility, Empathy, and Pathei-Mathos
V. Classical Paganism And A New Metaphysics
Appendix I. A Note On Greek Terms In The Philosophy Of Pathei-Mathos
Appendix II. Towards Understanding Ancestral Culture
Appendix III. From Mythoi To Empathy: Toward A New Appreciation Of The
Numinous
Appendix IV. Preface: One Perceiveration
Appendix V. Appreciating Classical Literature
Appendix VI. Physis And Being: An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Pathei-
Mathos
Appendix VII. The Concept of Physis
Preface
The essays included in this book - two written by JR Wright, and the others
by R. Parker, and reproduced with their permission - not only provide an
introduction to the philosophy of pathei-mathos as advanced by David Myatt
between 2012 and 2015 but also place that philosophy into perspective,
which is of a modern mystical philosophy with roots in Greco-Roman culture.
Which somewhat distinguishes Myatt's philosophy from other contemporary
philosophies and from the weltanschauungen of various individuals during
the past three or more centuries. Myatt's philosophy is thus part of the
Western philosophical tradition.
It is worth noting that in his more recent (2014-2015) essays Myatt has
described his 'way of pathei-mathos' not as a philosophy but as a
weltanschauung, writing in The Way Of Pathei-Mathos - A Précis [1] that
"What I have previously described as the 'philosophy of pathei-
mathos' and the 'way of pathei-mathos' is simply my own
weltanschauung, a weltanschauung developed over some years as a
result of my own pathei-mathos. Thus, and despite whatever
veracity it may or may not possess, it is only the personal insight of
one very fallible individual."
Given Myatt's use of various terms from ancient Greek I have, for this third
edition, included as appendices the Preface from his 2020 compilation One
Perceiveration [2] and his 2019 text Appreciating Classical Literature [3] as
well as his 2019 text Physis And Being: An Introduction To The Philosophy Of
Pathei-Mathos, [4] and his The Concept of Physis which was included in the
fifth, 2018, edition of his compilation The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos.
All of which additions further explain his mystical philosophy of pathei-
mathos.
I have also updated references to his translations of tractates from the
Corpus Hermeticism given the publication in 2017 of a book [5] containing
his translations of and commentaries on the following eight tractates: I, III,
IV, VI, VIII, XI, XII, XIII.
I have updated some of the web-links in the text including in the appendices;
also, in the footnotes the number beginning 978 - which generally follows the
title of a printed book and its date of publication - refers to the International
Standard Book Number (ISBN) as for example in the reference Corpus
Hermeticum: Eight Tractates, 2017, 978-1976452369
Richard Stirling
Shropshire
Third Edition, 2021
[1] The essay is included in One Vagabond In Exile From The Gods: Some
Personal and Metaphysical Musings. 2014.
[2] https://davidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/dwmyatt-one-
perceiveration-v5.pdf
[3] https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/appreciating-classical-literature/
[4] https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/collected-works-2/physis-and-being/
[5] Corpus Hermeticum: Eight Tractates, 2017, 978-1976452369
I. A Modern Mystic
David Myatt And The Way of Pathei-Mathos
Philosophy of a Modern Mystic
The 'way of pathei-mathos' (πάθει μάθος) is the name given, by David Myatt
himself, to his own particular Weltanschauung, his own perspective about
life, which he has expounded in numerous essays since 2011, and which
perspective or personal philosophy he developed after he "had, upon
reflexion, rejected much of and revised what then remained of my earlier
(2006-2011) numinous way." (1)
Myatt has conveniently collected most of the essays expounding his personal
philosophy into four books: The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos, published
in 2013; Religion, Empathy, and Pathei-Mathos, published in 2013; One
Vagabond In Exile From The Gods: Some Personal and Metaphysical
Musings, published in 2014; and Sarigthersa, published in May 2015. These
works amount to some 240 pages.
In one essay he makes it clear that the way, or the philosophy, of pathei-
mathos is
"simply my own weltanschauung, a weltanschauung developed over
some years as a result of my own pathei-mathos. Thus, and despite
whatever veracity it may or may not possess, it is only the personal
insight of one very fallible individual, a fallibility proven by my
decades of selfishness and by my decades of reprehensible
extremism both political and religious. Furthermore, and according
to my admittedly limited understanding and limited knowledge, this
philosophy does not - in essence - express anything new. For I feel
(and I use the word 'feel' intentionally) that I have only re-
expressed what so many others, over millennia, have expressed as
result of (i) their own pathei-mathos and/or (ii) their
experiences/insights and/or (iii) their particular philosophical
musings." (2)
As described in those four collections of essays, Myatt's particular
perspective, or philosophy of life is, in my view, fundamentally a mystical one