The Bible of Amiens

Posted on 2012-11-16 by Logres

Romanides argues that the Franks decimated Roman urbanization & established feudalism in an effort to maintain a precarious grip on overextended power from their home bases: “In the time of Pippin of Herestal (697-715) and Charles Martel (715-741), many of the Franks who replaced Roman bishops were military leaders who, … Continue reading →

Vox Populi

Posted on 2012-11-15 by Cologero

Because quantity is the sole criterion, any tactic whatsoever can be used to gain a vote. Issues are secondary, since very few people know what they are beyond the simple-minded propaganda statements that can fit on a placard. Continue reading →

Prolegomena to Historiography

Posted on 2012-11-13 by Cologero

it may take generations for the lesson to be learned. As it is said, the iniquities of the fathers fall on the children. Very few men have the acuity to see how decisions made today will affect their descendants three generations hence. Continue reading →

November Musings

Posted on 2012-11-12 by Cologero

The past is considered to have been inhabited by ignorant, superstitious, stupid, intolerant, and evil men. The corollary is that men of today have “evolved”, apparently through no effort of their own. Hence, they cannot possibly be ignorant, superstitious, stupid, intolerant, or evil, no matter what they say, do, or think. Continue reading →

Principle V: Freedom

Posted on 2012-11-11 by Cologero

From Chapter II, “Principles”, La Liberté, of Mes Idées Politique, by Charles Maurras. Freedom is not at the beginning, but at the end. It is not at the root, but in the flowers and the fruits of human nature or, better said, human virtue. A man is freer in the … Continue reading →

Liturgy and the Logos

Posted on 2012-11-09 by Logres

A popular refrain I hear from fellow Protestants is that “meaningless rituals”, gestures, “smells and bells”, or vain repetitions (a Scriptural phrase) won’t help find favor with God. While I am certain that ritual can (and does) degenerate into “those of darkness” who are fascinated with the dead (Rene Guenon) … Continue reading →

Pray, Fight, Work

Posted on 2012-11-07 by Cologero

The historiography of the Right needs to be presented in two parts. Evola has written about one of them, specifically, the need to understand historical and current events as manifestations of the degeneration of caste. The other, and more important, is to show how a spiritual elite was able to … Continue reading →

Tradition and German Philosophy

Posted on 2012-11-06 by Cologero

It may be hard to accept that the physical world is the creation of my “I”, but if we restrict ourselves to the social world, it gains much more credibility. Specifically, it reveals itself in the modern idea that our social world is a construct. Continue reading →

Historiography of the Right

Posted on 2012-11-05 by Cologero

This essay by Julius Evola was originally published in the journal “Roma” on 7 August 1973 under the title “Storiografia di Destra”. In developing some considerations on the European meaning that can be attributed to Donoso Cortes, the Spanish thinker and an interesting type of the political man, who developed … Continue reading →

Principle IV: Authority (Its Exercise)

Posted on 2012-11-04 by Cologero

From Chapter II, “Principles”, L’Autorité, of Mes Idées Politique, by Charles Maurras. The property of power resembles other properties; it results from work, from work done and “done well”. Totally naked force can be applied for good and for evil, for construction, for destruction. When it did the good, when … Continue reading →

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Liber esse, scientiam acquirere, veritatem loqui

The Bible of Amiens

Vox Populi

Prolegomena to Historiography

November Musings

Principle V: Freedom

Liturgy and the Logos

Pray, Fight, Work

Tradition and German Philosophy

Historiography of the Right

Principle IV: Authority (Its Exercise)