“Among the Indo-Europeans there is a continuity between the most humble of creatures and the highest of the gods. This in no way implies that all these beings are commingled or equal; quite the contrary, they form clearly separate and hierarchical groups. … The norm is for each living being to fully assume his personal condition or, as it is expressed in the Vedas, his dharma: both his ‘status’ and his ‘position,’ that is to say, his place in the hierarchical scale of things.”

~ Alain de Benoist, On Being a Pagan