Ragnarök
Vidar, Son of Woden
‘Existential Sovereignty’
Bridge to the “Broad Land”
Vidar’s role in Ragnarök transcends mere physical vengeance. When viewed through the lens of the cyclical physics (Lynd’s) previously discussed and the Henad’s, Vidar represents the essential "silent" continuity, the “need” rune (Nauthiz (ᚾ), that bridge the transition between cosmic cycles.
Vidar a Supra-Essential Henad :: Nauthiz (ᚾ)
Vidar’s rune "need" or necessity is Nauthiz (or Naudiz/Naudhiz), represented by the symbol ᚾ. It signifies survival, the "need-fire" required to overcome. It represents a necessity for endurance and introspection during times of restriction.
As a Henad, a divine unity that exists "beyond being" (supra-essential). While other gods are embroiled in the active "self-diremption" of the current cycle, Vidar embodies the ontological sovereignty of the primordial source. “The One” Itself, for Proclus, which according to the First Hypothesis of the Parmenides neither is, nor is one, is instead as each henad, that is, as each God.
The henads or Gods thus form a multiplicity unlike any other. Ontic multiplicities always exhibit mediation, in accord with a logic subordinating the many to the one. Correlatively, ontic unity is formal unity, structured by a logic of wholes and parts. These are the dominant characteristics of the realm of Being. The hyperousios, or "supra-essential" domain of the Gods, by contrast, is that of a multiplicity of absolute individuals with no totalizing principle over them and no reciprocal relations between them, insofar as either of these would diminish that quality which they pre-eminently possess, namely unity. The supreme form of unity in Proclus' universe, therefore, is the individuality possessed by each absolutely unique God.
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The Silent Essence: His silence is not an absence of action, but an expression of the Stille—the foundational stillness that precedes and outlasts the roar of cosmic destruction.
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Existential Continuity: As a Henad, Vidar acts as a "point of persistence." He does not just survive Ragnarök; he is the divine principle that ensures the essence of the old world is carried into the next without being lost to the "void" of Fenrir.
Ragnarök, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle or Indeterminacy principle and Lynds’s Time and classical and quantum mechanics:
Indeterminacy vs. discontinuity
Heisenberg’s and Peter Lynds's work focuses on the continuity of time and the rejection of "frozen instants". This aligns with the Heathen view of Ragnarök.
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The "Gap" of Fenrir: The wolf Fenrir represents the entropy that threatens to "swallow" the cosmic timeline. If the cycle were to truly stop, it would create a "precise instant" of non-being, which as shown by the theoretical work of Heisenberg and Lynds, recently proven by Professor Pan Jianwei of China, that non-being is impossible as matter and energy are neither created nor destroyable.
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Vidar’s Boot: Vidar’s “magically” armored shoe—made from the "scraps" of all history—functions as the physical and metaphysical bridge. By pinning Fenrir’s jaw, Vidar prevents the total "closure" of the system, allowing the "flow" of existence to pass through the singularity of Ragnarök and emerge into the new world. (See the physics here: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612053 ; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.2720 ; https://cds.cern.ch/record/622019/files/ext-2003-042.pdf
Heathen Soul Lore and Self-Diremption
The Heathen Soul complex (consisting of parts like the Hugr, Hamr, and Hamingja) illustrates the "self-diremption" of the divine into the human.
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Ontological Sovereignty: Vidar represents the Mód (the totality of being) in its most refined, sovereign state. While the Hugr (mind) and Hamingja (luck) of other gods are consumed or transformed, Vidar’s essence remains unified.
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The Survivor’s Role: In the aftermath, Vidar and his brother Váli inhabit the "Broad Land" (Vidi). This space is the "unfolding" of the new cycle where the diremption begins anew, but under the "sovereign" watch of the gods who maintained their essential henadic individual unities throughout the collapse.
“The One” …of the Many
According to Proclus and Edward Butler, PhD., the Henads are supra-essential (hyperousios) and therefore do not have essence, but are existential. They are "pure ones" (unities) that precede the "Being-Life-Intellect" triad.
Recasting Vidar’s role through this lens, particularly in the context of my Occidental Commonwealth's focus on Ontological Sovereignty and on Heisenberg’s and Peter Lynds’s physics:
Vidar, a Supra-Essential "One’-of-the-Many"
As a Henad, Vidar is not a "being" with a fixed nature (essence), but an individual of “unical” power. In the mythology of Ragnarök, while other gods are defined by their essential roles (Odin as Wisdom, Thor as Protection), Vidar represents the unity that persists when all essences dissolve.
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Beyond Essence: Vidar’s "silence" is the mythic expression of being beyond the Intellect (Nous). Essence belongs to the realm of the participable, but Vidar, as a Henad, is the unparticipated source of the new cycle’s unity.
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Existential Sovereignty: His sovereignty is not over "things," but is the primordial "Oneness" that remains when the multiplicity of the old world is extinguished.
The Non-Essential Continuity
The current known physics posits that time has no "instants" and that physical continuity is absolute.
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The Singularity of Ragnarök: In a system where essences are destroyed (“the death of the gods”, there must be a supra-essential bridge to prevent a "stop" in time.
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The Shoe as Non-Essence: Vidar’s magically armored shoe—made of discarded scraps—symbolizes the gathering of the non-essential. It is the physical manifestation of the Henadic ability to "contain all in all" without being limited by a single essence. By pinning Fenrir’s jaw, Vidar ensures the continuity of the flow (“reversing”, Lynds), acting as the "unical cause" that allows the "Big Crunch" to transition into the "Big Bang" of the new world. ( On a Finite Universe with no Beginning or End https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0612053 )
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Heideggerian Dasein and the Return to the "One"
In the section on "The Gods & self-diremption," Vidar’s role is to halt the "tearing apart" (diremption) of the divine.
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Authentic Silence: Because he has no essence to defend or lose, Vidar’s silence is a pure negation of the inauthentic "chatter" of the dying world. He is the Dasein that has returned to its supra-essential root.
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Heathen Soul Lore: In the Heathen Soul complex, Vidar represents the Mód in its most "un-dirempted" state—a power that does not "exist" in the world but grounds the possibility of existence itself. https://heathensoullore.net/introduction-to-heathen-soul-lore/
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Existential Sovereignty
The supra-essential interpretation of Vidar’s “vengeance” and his relationship to Váli, the god of "Instant Vengeance," who likewise survives through Ragnarök
To discuss Existential Sovereignty in the context of a Henad, we must move entirely away from the idea of "sovereignty" as a king ruling over subjects. Instead, we must view it as the ontological priority of “the One” over the Many.
Existential Sovereignty as Supra-Essential Persistence
When the "multiplicity of the old world is extinguished" at Ragnarök, what remains is not a "thing," but the unparticipated Unity that Vidar embodies.
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The Void of Fenrir vs. the Silence of Vidar: Fenrir represents the privative void—the entropy that seeks to swallow the "All." Vidar, as a Henad, represents the productive void. His sovereignty is the fact that he is prior to the collapse. Because he has no essence (ousia), there is nothing within him for the jaws of entropy (Fenrir) to catch or consume.
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The ‘Primordial “Oneness”: In the physics of Peter Lynds, where there are no discrete "instants," Vidar is the continuous flow itself. His sovereignty is the "Existential" fact that the cycle cannot stop. He is the "Oneness" that remains when the "Many" (the individual gods, stars, and men) are stripped of their accidental qualities. He is the Pure Act of survival.
Vidar and Váli: The Dyad of the New Dawn
The relationship between Vidar and Váli, when viewed through a supra-essential lens, mirrors the Neoplatonic procession from the One. If Vidar is the Henad (“The One” … of the Many), Váli, Vidar’s brother, represents the first movement toward Limit and Infinity.
Feature Vidar (The Silent) Váli (The Instant)
Philosophical Role The Henad: Supra-essential, The Procession: The immediate
non-acting until the end, "acting out" of divine will; the pure persistence. first step into "Being."
Relation to Time Aeonic: Represents the Momentary: Represents the
eternal continuity that "instant" of vengeance/birth
current physics describes. (born specifically to kill Höðr).
Vengeance Style Total/Final: He ends the Immediate/Directed:
threat of the Void (Fenrir). He rectifies a specific
forever. imbalance in the social/divine order.
The Perspective of the Occident Race:
By viewing Vidar as supra-essential, his relationship to Váli shifts from "two brothers surviving" to a metaphysical necessity (the Rune “Need” or Necessity: Nauthiz (ᚾ).
Vidar is the "Rest" (Stasis): He is the silent ground that holds the space for the new world. He is the Ontological Sovereignty that ensures there is a "There" for the next cycle.
Váli is the "Motion" (Kinesis): He is the "Instant" vengeance—the force that ensures the new cycle has direction and justice.
In my view expressed on OccidentalCommonwealth of self-diremption, Vidar is the point of re-collection (“the One” gathering the scraps of the world into his shoe), while Váli is the point of re-manifestation (the immediate assertion of the new divine order).
The Heathen Soul and the Broad Land
In the “new” world of a ‘Finite Universe with no Beginning or End’ they inhabit Vidi (the "Broad Land"). This is not a physical geography, but a metaphysical state.
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Vidar provides the Sovereignty (the right to be).
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Váli provides the Vitality (the drive to become).
Together, they ensure that the "Soul" of the cosmos is not just preserved as a memory, but re-instantiated as a living reality. They are the Henads who allow the "Physics of Ragnarök" to be a transition rather than an end.
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