All Saints Day in the Cemetery

One night I fled, beyond the dread,
And looked for place to lay my head,
So thought upon the sainted dead,
Yea, how it was if they were gone.
Oh, wished it well, for such a spell,
As would sure the truth to tell,
How when at tripping heart's last knell,
My sun chimed the ice at dawn.
If by hap some ghost was true,
Or Aiken Drum feared hallowed dew,
Nor even if the haunted folk grew few,
This chanting sunrise would last long.
All dead are holy, even they,
Who perished in that loathsome way,
Yet never life could have these fey,
'Lest saint could sing their song.
They rise again, no doubt gone by,
The fated ones with only sighs,
Who perished e'er they ever die,
To rise again in a dun saint's eye,
Who gleams to right a wrong.
Perish then who doubts this rune,
Until your angel finds your tune,
And plucks the strings unslung at doom,
When Good makes one with Strong.

Colors, Metaphysics, Races

Another good post at Unurthed. Using a Greek skyphos (I didn't know what this was, but it needs to have a good mystery novel written about it), excerpts from Benson's Inner Color of Nature are used to explain the four elements in relation to the colors white, yellow, red, and black (which are used much in Greek painting, leading one to reconsider the meanings of icons and their colors). I need hardly point to an obvious fact here : mankind is divided into white, red, yellow, and black races (roughly). Are these arbitrary? According to many, yes. If one believes in the Logos of John (the Christ) then this is nonsense. The various skin colors of man symbolize their inner, spiritual nature. Black is always more solid/physical, white is always the least physical (most subtle), and yellow and red exchange places (depending upon the cycle of the stars). Of course, within the various races there is the fact of various subgroups - for example, the white race has a "black component". Naturally (as well), we could say that all of the races undergo a continual movement or dance between or amongst themselves.

“Having established a structured visual paradigm for the relationship of the four elements among themselves [see previous post], we can now consider the associated colors when the paradigms are repeated to show the effects of the respective dominant process… [As] Empedokles himself envisioned: ‘Those elements and forces are to be understood as equally strong and coeval, yet each of them has a different function, each has its own characteristic and in the rounds of time they take their turn being dominant” (p46).

This is hardly to say (practically) that all races are different species, or that all races are One (this would be to take one of two modern positions). What it tells us is that everything we see means something, even the color of our skin.

Spiritual Fatherhood, Magnetism, the Matrix

Another good post at Unurthed.

The A arrows represent the blind forces of Fate, which drive man in misery from birth to death. If he succeeds in absorbing magnetic impulses (Wordsworth's "vernal wood" impulses?) from the Divine, which flow from Center E, outside or transcendent from profane Life as man begins it, he will develop a small clear center which is magnetized to the Good. This provokes conflict in himself and around him (Jesus' "sword" which divides man from himself and crucifies the "old man"). Man, at this point, must survive, because to lose this center and fight would be to end up worse than before. But now he has help - he will be linked magnetically to stronger men or women with stronger centers, in a chain which leads closer and closer to the Divine. This was the old Catholic ideal of spiritual fatherhood and obedience.

Logos & Alchemy

For modern minds, Logos & Being are not inseparable, but, rather, both optional. The modern mind prefers plastic arbitrariness to order, and Chaos or illusion/appearance. This is hardly surprising, because modern minds (even very Catholic ones) view theological debates such as Arianism as essentially a tempest in a teapot. If Arius was right, and Logos was created, then God could have created the world one way, or another.

Calvinism (and Islam), we will note, essentially think this. In their worldviews, God's will (rather than His nature) is paramount - God decided to create the world according to His choice, or predestination (which is dependent on nothing else, even in God).

On the contrary, the world could have come to be in no other way than it did. God created after His nature, His heart, therefore, Reality is neither optional, nor arbitrary. Just because revolutionaries imagine or wish or deeply pine for things to be one way, and not the way they are, is only slightly less irrelevant than they are.

For instance, at Unurthed, we see that even the Four Elements reflect God. Thus, properly practiced, any metaphysical experience leads to God. Theology and revelation (ideally) make this process much easier and bring clarity and speed and illumination to what is already there. This is consistent (by the way) with the relation of the Old and New Testaments:
"The New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New Revealed".
Not that many Christians have noticed.

When the King Enjoys His Own Again

Posted to Gornahoor

Post Ghaddafi Chaos

American crusade for democracy and love produces huge swath of Islamic sharia chaos, refugees of around 250000, and more "death to Satan" government. But don't worry, I'm sure they thought of this when they instigated the brutal and degrading murder of Momar at the hands of a surly mob of free-wheeling opportunists.

Present Day Amerika

Note who or what is the spiritual authority at any moment, or how it has changed over time. The spiritual authority is whatever cannot be publicly doubted or challenged. This is the legitimate task of a lawful spiritual authority, whose job is to maintain spiritual unity of the whole. However, an illegitimate spiritual authority will be enforcing palpable untruths for the benefit of a subgroup. As Guido de Giorgio pointed out, the true light of God is faceted into a multiplicity through a hierarchy of spiritual beings. Each nation is under the guardianship of certain beings. However, it a state of disorder, an alien spirit may be (mis)guiding a nation. This requires keen discernment. Note that by nation, here, we mean fundamentally a group that is spiritually united before any other considerations, as we have described in the several posts on the Ancient City. These nations can be related vertically in a hierarchal way without destroying their individual characteristics.
from Gornahoor, Cologero

Can you say, the Beast of Ephesus, or the Prince of Persia?

Clearly, America is under the domination of a dark power, as "outcasts" routinely run for and achieve high office. The "unthinkable" is now a reality - America could "go socialist" voluntarily. America was discovered by stone Age Europeans, colonized by Phoenicians and Celts (this is why American Indians on the East Coast are non-Oriental), and later settled by the Northern Europeans. It was founded as an extension of old Europe's principles, but cleaned up and universalized so that the internecine wars between those powers would not be perpetuated. That was its angelic intention. It was a land where everyone who was loyal to this, down to the lowest serf, could unite in a fuller expression of God's universal reign of peace, while remaining loyal to old Europe's best.

Now, however, it is a land where victimhood and self-pity are the moral requirements for being part of the ruling class, where the "world is turned upside down", except in a perverse and dark way. Above all, it is a land where old Europe is not only forgotten, but attacked and hated openly by the new and obscene self-pitiers who hate everything about that world.