The pope caused a commotion when he washed the feet of heathen women on Maundy Thursday. The Traditionalists were peeved that yet another tradition was transgressed. The liberals, on the other hand, were thrilled. Not because they approved the significance of it all, but rather because they took schadenfreude in the overturning of the established order of things.

Am I the only one who found it kinky?

To all those who pride themselves on following the crowd into some promised Edenic future of perfect justice, peace, and equality:

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ~ Giordano Bruno

However, after they win the cause of equality, another cause will need to arise, since they are unable to feel good about themselves without such a cause. They will be glued to their television sets to learn the next thing that progressives need to accept. As the masters of discourse tell them:

When we want your opinion, we will tell it to you!

They are an interesting type to observe. Like a horde of locusts that immediately change direction to cause their devastation as though with a single mind. Thus we change from “global warming” to “climate change” or from “gay marriage” to “marriage equality” in a moment. The Proverb says:

Although they have no king, the locusts fly in unison.

They may have no king, but we know who they serve. Fr. Seraphim Rose claims that the air is replete with demons. They have long experience with humans and can easily convince them to feel good while doing bad. It is really a simple choice. Either those in the past had it right, handed down their inheritance to us, which we then squandered on the next big thing. That is the esoteric meaning of “honor the father and thy mother.” Or else they had it all wrong, and only people in the present can see things truly. But then won’t people 100 years from now mock us for being so benighted?

I heard a professor on the Internet talking about an amazing Jewish gene that scientists have traced back to Abraham. I wonder if those Ethiopian Jews own all the banks, newspapers, and TV stations in Ethiopia?

Death is inevitable, the time of death is uncertain, every moment counts

That is the lesson from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Atisha taught his students:

For a person who is unaware of death, meditation has little power, but a person who is mindful of death and impermanence progresses steadily and makes the most of every precious moment.

The Kadampa school teaches:

If one does not meditate on death in the morning, the whole morning is wasted, if one does not meditate on death at noon, the afternoon is wasted, and if one does not meditate on death at night, the evening is wasted.

On the other hand, American Buddhists meditate because it lowers blood pressure, calms the mind, makes them support progressive causes, and basically makes life better. Men often get restless meditating since it is difficult to focus on one thing as random thoughts intrude. Women seem to have less trouble since they don’t fight random thoughts, which seem quite natural to them.

Of course, there is the sex appeal of women meditating in their yoga pants. How many seem to be meditating on sickness, old age, and death?

Would anyone like a sponge and a bucket of water?

My younger son follows the Lenten fast, maintains his traditional views, and claims to have faith, but he told me he doesn’t like to go to mass. He told me about a friend, a young woman, who went to confession and the priest took a phone call in the middle of it. She won’t go to confession anymore; I think she perhaps ought to have better sins in order to hold the priest’s interest.

My son said his parish church got too slick with a rock band, TV monitors, and priests with great haircuts. It has a big stage with a lot of activity. A bunch of altar girls in white robes are wandering around; it looks like a Druid ceremony from a Hollywood B movie.

It seems “gay” to him. I told him there are probably a lot of gay priests these days. He has an interesting theory that I am not sure I refuted. He told me a priest can’t be gay. I responded, that he shouldn’t be gay, at least that is the official policy. He insisted it is not a question of “should” but of necessity. Go on, I said. A priest is celibate, so he is beyond straight or gay; it is irrelevant. Hmm, but they can have fantasies, I pointed out. But that would be lust in the heart and a mortal sin, he argued. I had no good answer.

My books by the Ur/Krur groups arrived today. If I post some translations, will someone volunteer to try the exercises for a week and report back? Most likely essays: “The esoteric doctrine of secret centers of the body in a Christian mystic” by Julius Evola and “Tradition and Realization” by Guido De Giorgio.

I will try to find some interesting passages from The Magic World of the Heroes, and also review Fr. Seraphim Rose‘s book on the post-mortem states.

Imagine if the Pope, or your parish priest, would give sermons on the interior parts of the soul, the soul after death, angels, and demons, instead of all the talk about the “poor” and other Marxist baubles. That is not such a crazy idea, because all the old books were concerned about such topics.

You do understand this is satire, right?