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absolute instance of the Comrades, the perfect coincidence of those who are going to fight in
favour of the same ideal. Because, and the clarification is evident, the instant of the hero is
time own of Kshatriyas, of Warriors, i.e., of Comrades.

In a trench, a chief and ten soldiers are sheltered. A lethal grenade falls inside all of
sudden. A soldier throws himself upon it and absorbs the explosion with his body: he has died
but he saved all the others; he is a hero. It must be warned, in this example, that the hero, in
his absolute instance, if the charismatic leader of the group. Let’s see well: it treats about a
professional army, there are hierarchies and military grades, superiors and subordinate, chiefs
and soldiers. However that exterior organization, that superficial order, it doesn’t matter
before the imponderable Death; the inner forces of the human order are impotent to oppose
the dissolvent potence of the Death. When the grenade falls, in the trench, only the Death and
men who are going to die are real: in that instant of terror there are no superiors or
subordinates, chief and soldiers, but men who are going to die. But someone decides to oppose
his body to the Death. He thinks it an instant and decides it: he will stop the Death, he will not
let it pass beyond himself. It is not a suicide: it is an act of ginving his own life in favour of an
ideal. «I die for their triumph».

First act: A man rises from his own humanity and decides «to die just he and save the
others», «for their triumph». And who acts thus is not a chief nor a soldier, because the courage
doesn’t require hierarchies, but the hero. Here is the miracle: a soldier seizes from the
absolute instance and stops being soldier to become a hero. And there are no chiefs
nor soldiers anymore, not even men who are going to die, but the hero and his
Comrades.

His partners, chief and soldiers, are the Comrades who coincide with him in the act of
the Death. But, above all the acts, is the objective of the war, the ideal of the warrior, the
homeland or perhaps a national goal. The realization of the ideal needs, then, the fact of the
life. The Death, in that case, is the Enemy. Hence that, to stop the Death, avoide to take the life
of those who fights for the ideal, be an act of service for the ideal, out from every regulation. If
that would not be thus, the act of the hero would be a mere suicide and the survivers would
save a life without sense. But the life rescued from the Death has a sense: the triumph of the
ideal. The hero throws himself over the grenade but says very clear to all: «I die for your

triumph», i.e., triumph!; no «I give you my life».

And how he says it?: charismatically. Everyone hears it with the Blood; for such reason
they don’t feel that they owe their lives to the hero but that they must triumph, defeat the
Enemy, comply with his command. So, there is an order? Yes, but not in the artificial order
of the military organization but the formality of the Mystic: in the instant of the fearlessness,

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