Likewise I advise those who cherish the ways of freedom and shun the yoke of slavery as something evil, to beware lest by an excessive and ill-timed thirst for freedom they fall into the affliction of their ancestors, the excessive anarchy they experienced as a result of their unmeasured passion for liberty. For the Sicilians before the reign of Dionysius and Hipparinus lived happily, as they thought, faring sumptuously and ruling their rulers; they it was who, without any legal judgment, stoned to death the ten generals who preceded Dionysius, in order not to be subject to any master, not even justice and the law, but to be altogether and absolutely free. This is why tyranny came upon them. Both servitude in excess and liberty in excess are very great evils, but in due measure both are great goods. Due measure is found in obedience to God, the absence of measure in obedience to men. And the god of wise men is the law; of foolish men, pleasure.

Plato(?), Letter VIII 354d-e

The devastation we are confronted with in tragedy is that the whole of law, the utmost violence, is left to one figure. The world of mortal pain set upon the earth itself. A figure abandoned to the world; not even a titan can overstretch the chasm. It is the continuation of the titanic battle after the fall and eternal judgement of the titans.
One man is left to drag the world behind him, all the rest – beholden.

"There are two ways to meet a glorious death, and both are very rare. One is to die after performing mystic yoga, especially bhakti-yoga, by which one can control the mind and living force and die absorbed in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The second is to die on the battlefield, leading the army and never showing one’s back. These two kinds of death are recommended in the śāstra as glorious."
- Srimad Bhagavatam, 6.10.33

"Man, more than wanting to be understood, wants what is incomprehensible in him to be respected."
~ Ernst Jünger

"A Catholicism that is raised up to the level of a truly universal, unanimous, and perennial tradition where faith can be integrated into a metaphysical realization, the symbol integrated into the path to awakening, the rites and sacraments into acts of power, dogmas into expressions of an absolute and infallible consciousness because it is beyond human and, as such, alive in beings unbound from terrestrial chains through an ascesis, and where the pontificate recovers its primal mediating function — such a Catholicism could supplant every “spiritualism”, both present and future." - Julius Evola, "Mask and Face of Contemporary Spirituality"

"Oldřich and Božena", František Ženíšek (25 May 1849 – 15 November 1916), Czech

"To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen, and having some likeness to it. Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty."

Plotinus

He that overtalks himself on the topics of the "Dionysian" and the "Apollonian", he has evidently never shown up well and fully inebriated to his choir practice.

If, on the other hand, anyone wants to witness the union of the two, such a one ought to take a stroll in the streets of a university town, late on a Saturday night in May.

"Contemplation of God in woman is the most complete and perfect, because in this way he contemplates God in both the active and receptive modes, whereas by contemplating God only in himself, he beholds him particularly in a receptive mode. Because of this the Prophet ﷺ loved women, because of the perfection of his witness of God in them"
- "Fusus al-hikam" (2 vols. ed. Abu ‘Ala ‘l-‘Affin. Beirut: Dar al-kitab al-‘arabi. 1:217), Ibn Arabi

Art: Delphin Enjolras (1857-1945), French

Remember

No matter what you do, you will always have your detractors. This will never cease to occur. Do not change your course to critics. Hear the constructive criticism from close friends, and take it under advisement. Even then, be prepared to walk alone. Be spiritually self-confident and, if necessary, charge alone as your own vanguard. Never doubt yourself or your cause. All there can ever be is the attack.

There are no non-combatants in the apocalypse.