Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

Bhagavad Gita 3.21

[Picture: "Crossing the Rubicon"]

"You are allowed to enchain kings and trample all over them because they are abhorred by the Holy Ghost whom you signify perhaps. Only, do not be too clever and do not undertake to do away with the mountains that belong to God. Until then, you will be invincible, but not much longer, and you will understand soon enough."
- Léon Bloy, The Soul of Napoleon

Simon de Vos, The Death of Decius Mus, 1641

The pontifex instructed him to don the toga praetexta, to veil his head and, with one hand held out from under his toga touching his chin, to stand on a spear laid under his feet and speak as follows: 'Janus, Jupiter, Mars Pater, Quirinus, Bellona, Lares, divine Novensiles, divine Indigetes, gods whose power extends over us and over our enemies, divine Manes, I pray to you, I revere you, I beg your favour and beseech you that you advance the strength and success of the Roman people … As I have pronounced in these words … I devote the legions and auxiliaries of the enemy along with myself, to the divine Manes and to Earth.'

Folio 150: "In the year 1545, on the twenty-ninth date of March, on Palm Sunday, a terrible, ghastly vision was seen in the kingdom of Poland. At eight o'clock in the morning, a great peal of thunder struck. After this, three red crosses were seen in the east, in the middle of which was a man in armour with a fiery sword. A great band of warriors came towards him on horseback and on foot and fought with him until one o'clock in the afternoon..." 

"For René Guénon, the "hermetic tradition" concerns a knowledge that is "not metaphysical" but rather
''cosmological" (micro-macrocosm relationships). The hermetic teachings, as specialized bodies of knowledge, are only derived and secondary, with respect to principles."

- 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑬𝒔𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒗𝒓𝒆

"Clouds and dust are carried by the air, but less intelligent persons say that the sky is cloudy and the air is dirty. Similarly, they also implant material bodily conceptions on the spirit self." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 1.3.31)

Lemurian genetics:

The superior man can make himself honorable, but he cannot ensure that others will honor him. He can make himself trustworthy, but cannot ensure that others will trust him. He can make himself useful, but cannot ensure that others will employ him.

And so, the gentleman is ashamed of not being cultivated; he is not ashamed of being maligned. He is ashamed of not being trustworthy; he is not ashamed of not being trusted. He is ashamed of being incapable; he is not ashamed of not being employed.

Thus, he is not tempted by praise, nor is he intimidated by slander.

~ Xunzi

"Representations of the beyond realize our desires, not because they point towards the far distance, but towards something that is very close to us; they are projections. In this sense, approach both confirms the religions and their greatness and at the same time it does away with them."

Ernst Jünger and Albert Hofmann

"In the politico-social field the phenomenon presents such definite forms that it is almost superfluous to linger on them. No one is so myopic as to fail to understand, by now, what the famous “social justice,” for example, really means. It is in no way true justice, the distributive justice of the suum cuique, based on a principle of inequality, and already defended by the classics beginning with Aristotle and Cicero. It is rather a partisan pseudojustice, at the exclusive service of the interests of the lowest classes, the socalled “workers,” and at the expense of all others. It exists under the sign of myths that serve only to pave the way little by little for the ascent of the leftist forces in the State." - Julius C. Evoal, Recognitions

"One should react, that is, not in the name of “proletarian” so-called “social” or collectivist values, but rather in the name of aristocratic, qualitative and spiritual ones: that which could bring about a yet more radical rectifying action, if only men could be found who are truly up to the heights, and who are armed with sufficient authority and power, so as to prevent or to smash, by a revolution from the heights, any such velleity or principle of revolution from below." - Julius C. Evola, Recognitions

"Because God's Son could not suffer in the Godhead and in eternity, the heavenly Father sent him into time, to become man and suffer. So, if you want to be God's son and yet do not want to suffer, you are wrong. In the Book of Wisdom it says that God proves and tests to find out who is righteous, as we prove and test gold by fire in a furnace (Wisd. 3:5-6). It is a sign that a king or a prince trusts a knight when he sends him into battle. I have seen one lord who sometimes, when he had taken a man into his retinue, would send him out by night and then attack him and fight with him. And once it happened that he was nearly killed by a man he wanted to test in this way; and he was much fonder of that retainer afterward than before."

- Meister Eckhart, The Book of Divine Comfort

"The kshatriya – the ‘knightly’ type – has a keen intelligence, but it is turned towards action and analysis rather than towards contemplation and synthesis; his strength lies especially in his character; he makes up for the aggressiveness of his energy by his generosity and for his passionate nature by his nobility, self-control and greatness of soul.

For this human type it is action that is ‘real’, for it is by action that things are determined, modified and ordered; without action there is neither virtue nor honour nor glory.

In other words the kshatriya believes in the efficacy of action rather than in the fatedness of a given situation: he despises the tyranny of facts and thinks only of determining their order, of clarifying a chaos, of cutting Gordian knots."

— Frithjof Schuon, The Meaning of Caste.

Those among kshatriya rulers who perform great sacrifices, who are possessed of a knowledge of the Vedas, and who gain victories in battle, become foremost of those that acquire many blessed heavenly regions hereafter... There is no higher duty for the kshatriya than defeating corrupt people.

Mahabharata, Raja-dharma-anushasana Parva, 60

Very often, too many intelligent people assume that the foundation of Europe is based upon the spread of Christianity. In fact, it is the merger of the Germanic and the Latin worlds what creates Europe as such—with slavs and Celts being subservient to Germanic peoples. The Germanic invasions are the seed of Europe and the West. With the isolation of the Byzantines from the Germanic influx and subsequent Islamic invasions, the Mediterranean and the Greek worlds became disconnected and this destroyed the Græco-Roman unity of antiquity. Let me offer an example. My country, Catalonia, is Latin and Mediterranean. Even though it built a vast empire overseas in the Middle Ages, its foundational lore is purely Frankish—thus Germanic. This is what creates the European bond of union in the nominally Christian space. Ultimately, what keeps together Latins and Germans isn't Christianity but the merger—the mixing if you want—between these two peoples. With all the nostalgia and admiration for the Roman past, the leadership, even if romanized, was Germanic in the West.

This is an incredibly ignorant and myopic take. The myth of a distinct, united, and continuous pan-European 'West' was simply never reality. It is quite romantic to picture the Germanic Middle Ages as the next great age of one continuous race and culture after the magnificent age of the Greco-Romans, but this is not what happened. Spiritually, culturally, and racially, that is not how things occurred across Europe as unfortunate as it is for the romantic Germanicist narrative. Nor were Slavs and Celts 'subservient' to Germans any more than the Germans were to them in other ages; by the time of the rise of the Germans the Celtic race had already seen its own glory days (MP's own Celtiberian blood, the Italo-Celtic Latins, the invasion of British Isles) and were on the decline (corrupted druid priest class) while the Slavs were yet to mature to their own age of greatness, or if their own claims of Scythian kinship have any merit at all, their age of greatness had long ago risen and fallen. But all these millenia of history of empires from one end of Europe through Asia is irrelevant—MP does not understand any of this nuance when he describes the isolated bubble of the Middle Ages of Central Europe. Exactly how much of the Germanic Middle Ages were Roman (with a Roman brand of Christianity coupled with re-found Greek philosophy) is up to some debate, but the truth is that the German spirit remained consistent and took the dominant place over the decadent Mediterranean spirit moreso than incorporated it and became anything new. What is even less ambiguous is how Germanic the rest of Europe became because of it. With the rise of the Germans came written history (as a Roman cultural influence) to all the "barbarians" and one should not make the mistake of attributing all the great aspects of this new German culture as precisely German when much of the same characteristics can be found in accounts of the ancient Celtic, Gaelic, Scythian, Nordic, and all the other Aryan races. This is the real issue, is that many use 'German' as a stand-in for what is more crudely 'white' or more properly 'Aryan' when there is no evidence that the German lineages better represent the ancient Aryan royal lineages any more than any of the other Aryan races did. The claim that Roman royalty was German is preposterous. There are distinctly German attributes of mind, body, and spirit that did not transfer to other peoples beyond the ones they directly conquered during Rome's fall: modern-day England (Scotland and especially Ireland remaining very Gaelo-Celtic), modern France, Switzerland/Austria, and bits of Eastern Europe. Beyond that, the changes were merely cultural if not negligible altogether. And here the nature of false unified 'West' becomes clear. The spirits of the races of the European continent were never one, nor were those races ever without influence from the North or East or South of the continent's mainland. There simply was not an unbroken chain or clear mixing of cultures, races, or spirits that passed the Greco-Roman torch to the Germans. At best some threads survived; Tradition was broken, and some German elements replaced some of the lost Greco-Roman, but the reality is that overall the chain linking them was cut.

Been working back over Spengler's Decline of the West, and two interesting points: 1. He absolutely rejects "Europe" as a valid category, 2. He refuses any continuity between Ancient Greece and Rome and our current Western Civilization.

We must confront these difficult arguments

"In an absolutely miraculous universe, miracles are unnecessary. For this reason, the Heavenly City has no temples or sanctuaries. And for this same reason, the miracles in the New Testament are much weaker than the parables. “Your son lives!”: this is not a miracle, but a parable that points to a miracle."

This parallels with many powerful realities. In an absolutely magical universe, 'magic' is unnecessary. 'Magic' is not real because everything is already magical, and so in truly spiritual living one does not occupy one's time performing rituals and crafting spells. The Golden Age empire, like Heaven, does not need to be dotted with grand temples and pre-occupy itself with lavish state ceremonies of a religious nature. Its mechanisms and way of being already perform these subliminally; holy ritual is built in to every action of the culture. There is little to no distinction between church and state, monk and warrior.