King Leopold II, the Builder King, used the wealth from his personal dominion over the Congo to fund grand architectural projects in Belgium. It's being called "Style Congo" and Imperial Modernism.

The term “British race” is very old and refers to the combined nations of Great Britain (who voluntarily united fyi). I shall now post a thread of screenshots from the introduction of Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. Ebbutt published 1910. It defines the British

“If there is such a thing as a decadent right today, Baudelaire should be one of its patrons.” Two Translations From “Les Fleurs du mal” by Memnon Thiers californiareview.org/two-translatio…

Dr. Johann Eck, who wrote extensively against the Lutherans at the dawn of the Reformation, was just as critical about the Church's corruptions and clerical abuses, to include the very papacy. One can be a true reformer and not break unity. Some of his criticisms sound like if

“I am happy to admit that nothing more elevated and pleasing could have happened to me in my life than standing before the French Emperor..” — Goethe about his encounter with Napoleon in Erfurt on October 2, 1808

I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today. 🧵

Latest Bronze Age Pervert marriage episode is among the best, especially on the ancient and Biblical conception of wifely virtue as far more than sexual purity. Old Testament emphasizes the physical beauty and charm of Rachel and other wives of the patriarchs.

Good to remember at a time when Catholicism is experienced by a lot of devout intellectual types as basically a set of documents, read with a lawyerly lens and subject to the arbitrary will of the hierarchy. We have a real consensus of the faithful handed down to us.

Abraham wages wars as an equal ally of "kings" (rulers of cities) and does not seem concerned about law enforcement when he thinks he has to sacrifice Isaac. He commands sons, slaves, fighters. Even as pure myth, there are memories here of late Bronze age patriarchal society.

Third eye Open If one speaks of order merely as equilibrium, as the statistical stabilization of forces within a material system, then yes, equilibrium emerges. Markets equilibrate. Systems settle into patterns. But this is not order as principle. It is not ordo, but balance as aftermath; it is

"All beings celebrate creation" St. Hildegard von Bingen

If there is any vital spirit left among the young sons of the nobility, they ought to renounce their titles and vow to reclaim them by the sword under a worthy king

C.S. Lewis’s variations on a theme by Pseudo-Dionysius: “The Glory flows into everyone, and back from everyone: like light and mirrors. But the light’s the thing.” —The Great Divorce “In Isa. vi. 3. … the Seraphim are crying to one another ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’. Why to one

I have recently been listening to Raymond Ibrahim's Defenders of the West. It is truly incredible to hear the accounts of men like Godfrey de Bouillon who led the First Crusade and became the first Christian King of Jerusalem. This kind of man truly does not exist anymore,

Memory of Nazism is detailed descriptions of gas chambers, teeth extracted, piles of shoes, evil guards executing families in front of each other. Memory of Communism is intellectual soul-searching on evils of totalitarianism, high but abstract death statistics. Result is clear.

Rollo the Norman was converted to Christianity in 911 with a Carolingian king as his baptismal sponsor. His people followed him into the faith. No forced conversions among this group of Scandinavians. The Danish king Harold Klak was baptized in 826, with Louis the Pious standing

"We did not fight for the Congo itself...but for Europe in the Congo!" Siegfried "Kongo" Müller