“Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God, and those that are ordained of God. Therefore, he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resisteth purchase to themselves damnation. For princes are not the terror to the good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God’s minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil. Wherefore be subject of necessity: not only for wrath, but also for conscience’ sake. For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving unto this purpose. Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honor, to whom honor.” -Romans 13:1-7
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It is this passage which leads St. Basil the Great to declare, “Rulers are the custodians of the decrees of God.” Moreover, many passages in Proverbs lend greater insight into the authority of the regal function going so far as to state, “Divination in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgement. Weight and balance are judgements of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag. They that act wickedly are abominable you the king: for the throne is established by justice. Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right things shall be loved. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it. In the cheerfulness of the king’s countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain” (Proverbs 16:10-16).
In this regal function, spiritual authority and temporal power are made manifest, and these individual functions are thus subordinated to it in their rightful positions; all else is inversion.
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It is this passage which leads St. Basil the Great to declare, “Rulers are the custodians of the decrees of God.” Moreover, many passages in Proverbs lend greater insight into the authority of the regal function going so far as to state, “Divination in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgement. Weight and balance are judgements of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag. They that act wickedly are abominable you the king: for the throne is established by justice. Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right things shall be loved. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it. In the cheerfulness of the king’s countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain” (Proverbs 16:10-16).
In this regal function, spiritual authority and temporal power are made manifest, and these individual functions are thus subordinated to it in their rightful positions; all else is inversion.
Those who resist legitimate authority resist God Himself, and therefore, condemn themselves. While some proclaim that their rejection of legitimate authority is due to their reverence for the Lord, the opposite is truly the case. Rather, their defiance is not in accordance with the law of the Lord but one of their own construct.
In reality, these individuals are servants of the adversary, of the devil, and of their own inferior natures. They desire to usurp authority from those to whom the Lord entrusted it and claim it for themselves.
One can even observe this same tendency in Lucifer’s revolt in heaven, which elucidates the matter further: these individuals wish to become their own gods.
In reality, these individuals are servants of the adversary, of the devil, and of their own inferior natures. They desire to usurp authority from those to whom the Lord entrusted it and claim it for themselves.
One can even observe this same tendency in Lucifer’s revolt in heaven, which elucidates the matter further: these individuals wish to become their own gods.
“No king but Christ” is a specious pretense unbeknown to the Christian world prior to the dubiety of ambitious men. These revolutionaries sought to usurp power on the grounds of “justice”, feeding the desires of nobles themselves into abdicating their rightful positions for the purpose of “liberating” oneself of the duties their birthright demands of them. Where legitimate rule is toppled, all else spirals into chaos, with the subjects of the former authority following suit in their abandonment of the societal function bestowed upon them by nature.
The undistorted title given to Our Lord, the King of kings, is thus reduced to nothing more than mere poetry, losing its essence, with these corrupted state officials becoming themselves disloyal subjects, unconstrained by the law of the Lord.
This is the logical conclusion of nominalism. The inversion of the natural order, the verve with which the inferior forces of the world operate. This must be combated, for there is no authority except from God.
The undistorted title given to Our Lord, the King of kings, is thus reduced to nothing more than mere poetry, losing its essence, with these corrupted state officials becoming themselves disloyal subjects, unconstrained by the law of the Lord.
This is the logical conclusion of nominalism. The inversion of the natural order, the verve with which the inferior forces of the world operate. This must be combated, for there is no authority except from God.
The modern world has placed man in such a state that even the superior may lose sight of their vocations or be subjugated to the inferior, at least apparently, in order to survive.
This state truly is despicable, being an inversion of proper order, as it is the superior which justifies the inferior, never the other way around.
It is no wonder that civilization continues to deteriorate in every domain, for the superior, which grant structure and form, are incapable of occupying their proper positions. Instead, the inferior predominate, furthering chaos and leading ever more people astray, far from their natural functions.
Only the most wretched slavery can come of such a situation, paving the way for despots and usurpers where God’s custodians once stood.
“Nature does nothing in vain. It is imperative for each person to act in accordance with their nature in order to be content and complete.” -Aristotle
This state truly is despicable, being an inversion of proper order, as it is the superior which justifies the inferior, never the other way around.
It is no wonder that civilization continues to deteriorate in every domain, for the superior, which grant structure and form, are incapable of occupying their proper positions. Instead, the inferior predominate, furthering chaos and leading ever more people astray, far from their natural functions.
Only the most wretched slavery can come of such a situation, paving the way for despots and usurpers where God’s custodians once stood.
“Nature does nothing in vain. It is imperative for each person to act in accordance with their nature in order to be content and complete.” -Aristotle
Fiat voluntas Dei; God’s will be done
“Some aspects of God’s will are revealed to us by the eternal truth of Nature.
Other matters depend on God’s free choice. To know God’s will in those matters, he has to reveal them to us. We know Christ wants people to be baptized, because he told us.
Most of the time, our own decision-making process involves discernment using the virtue of prudence and the gift of counsel, not explicit divine revelation. God doesn’t tell us whether to eat ham or turkey for lunch.
To seek undue certainty about the future or the hidden things of God, things he hasn’t revealed, is divination. To make assertions about what is or isn’t God’s will in respect to contingent events is dangerous—appointing oneself as God’s prophet or mouthpiece.
This is an affront to God’s sovereignty, as if God cannot act or refrain from acting as he chooses. It also belies a lack of trust, as if we don’t expect God to do anything and instead invoke him like some kind of talisman.
The cases where we can speak for God is the cases he has given us, written in the book of Nature or the book of revealed truth, entrusted to the Church and to those whom Christ appointed to teach on his behalf.”
~Fr. Dylan Schrader
“Some aspects of God’s will are revealed to us by the eternal truth of Nature.
Other matters depend on God’s free choice. To know God’s will in those matters, he has to reveal them to us. We know Christ wants people to be baptized, because he told us.
Most of the time, our own decision-making process involves discernment using the virtue of prudence and the gift of counsel, not explicit divine revelation. God doesn’t tell us whether to eat ham or turkey for lunch.
To seek undue certainty about the future or the hidden things of God, things he hasn’t revealed, is divination. To make assertions about what is or isn’t God’s will in respect to contingent events is dangerous—appointing oneself as God’s prophet or mouthpiece.
This is an affront to God’s sovereignty, as if God cannot act or refrain from acting as he chooses. It also belies a lack of trust, as if we don’t expect God to do anything and instead invoke him like some kind of talisman.
The cases where we can speak for God is the cases he has given us, written in the book of Nature or the book of revealed truth, entrusted to the Church and to those whom Christ appointed to teach on his behalf.”
~Fr. Dylan Schrader
“Even in its outward and social sense, legitimate war, which is waged against the disturbers of order and aimed at reimposing order upon them, is essentially a function of ‘justice,’ or in other words a balancing function, whatever the secondary and transient appearance may suggest; but this is only the ‘lesser holy war,’ which is a mirror image of the ‘greater holy war’ ... The ‘greater holy war’ is man’s struggle against the enemies he carries within himself, that is, against the elements in him that are opposed to order and unity.” -René Guénon
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Though it appears to have its basis in disorder, legitimate war not only produces rectification, in accordance with just war doctrine, but also opens the door to higher possibilities for those capable of receiving them. Therefore, the supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal is affirmed, and the emphasis on material loss or gain is all but eliminated.
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Though it appears to have its basis in disorder, legitimate war not only produces rectification, in accordance with just war doctrine, but also opens the door to higher possibilities for those capable of receiving them. Therefore, the supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal is affirmed, and the emphasis on material loss or gain is all but eliminated.
“[M]an severed himself from heaven with the excuse of conquering earth... [T]he alteration consisted in the shift in the center of being, from that which represents the dimension of transcendence in man to that which is purely human, in a one-sided abnormal, finally teratological development of the latter to the detriment of the former, and even unto the atrophy and silencing of the former: whereas it was precisely this aspect - the dimension of transcendence - which characterized the true dignity of man” -Julius Evola
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It is characteristic of the modern world to eliminate all traces of the divine and reduce the last bastions of resistance to their lowest, most ineffectual levels. As such, it becomes crucial for those who do not bear the taint of modernity to recognize this occurrence in every aspect of life in order to appeal to higher powers rather than the grossly material. Too often, those who claim to represent the Traditional spirit are just as corrupted by modernism as our contemporaries, and this is evident most of all in their appeal to modern conceptions. The Traditional spirit has no need to be justified by modern science or philosophy, for it transcends them both.
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It is characteristic of the modern world to eliminate all traces of the divine and reduce the last bastions of resistance to their lowest, most ineffectual levels. As such, it becomes crucial for those who do not bear the taint of modernity to recognize this occurrence in every aspect of life in order to appeal to higher powers rather than the grossly material. Too often, those who claim to represent the Traditional spirit are just as corrupted by modernism as our contemporaries, and this is evident most of all in their appeal to modern conceptions. The Traditional spirit has no need to be justified by modern science or philosophy, for it transcends them both.
Forwarded from 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓐𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬
Those who have embraced the myth of individualism at all costs are struggling against reality as it is. They are fighting a losing battle against the truth. As a result, radical individualists despise tradition. They reject it and want to smash anything that smacks of it, as they would smash the bars of a prison. If a man really believes the world is subject to his whims and folly, he must reject anything that even resembles a perceived reality, anything that reminds him of what has come before him in the long chain of existence - whether it be liturgical, architectural, or social.
“As power, depersonalized and socialized has become gold, capital, so likewise has wisdom, depersonalized and socialized, become ‘concept’, ‘rationality’. And this is the second root of the European evil.” -Julius Evola
When power and wisdom are divorced from personality and placed within reach of all, they lose all meaning, all significance. Rather than being granted to the worthy, they are profaned and lowered that all might lay claim to them. This eliminates all capacity for excellence and inevitably, results in mediocrity, for there is not only corruption of principle, but also usurpation of right.
When power and wisdom are divorced from personality and placed within reach of all, they lose all meaning, all significance. Rather than being granted to the worthy, they are profaned and lowered that all might lay claim to them. This eliminates all capacity for excellence and inevitably, results in mediocrity, for there is not only corruption of principle, but also usurpation of right.