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The Pagan Roots of Nazism

March 4, 2024

A SERIES at Tradition in Action on Nazism is, despite TIA’s errors on the crisis in the Church, well worth reading. It begins:

In 1931 and 1937 Alfred Rosenberg, the theoretician of Nazism who had such a great influence over Adolph Hitler, ordered the scholar Otto Rahn to make a careful study of the ruins of the Castle of Montségur, the citadel and temple of the Cathars. This castle was the last refuge for the Cathar heresy that contaminated Southern France in the 11th and 12th centuries.

At about the same time, Heinrich Himmler, the supreme commander of the SS, reconstructed the Castle of Wewelsburg, near Paderborn in Westphalia, Germany. In its gothic basement, he placed a black marble altar emblazoned with the silver letters SS. This altar was meant to hold the object that the heads of Nazism were expecting Otto Rahn to find at Montségur: the mysterious Grail and an ancient stone book that contained the compendium of the Gnostic tradition. In this sinister chapel, the SS, elite troops of the National Socialists, would meditate on the book of Otto Rahn, Lucifer’s Court in Europe.

These strange facts reveal that, different from what the general public thinks, Hitlerism was not above all a political movement.

Read more.

 

 

St. Casimir’s Spiritual Energy

March 4, 2024

“WHEN we read the Lives of the Saints, and find that persons, who were in the ordinary walk of life, practiced extraordinary virtues, we are inclined to think that they were not exposed to great temptations, or that the misfortunes they met in the world, made them give themselves up unreservedly to God’s service. Such interpretations of the actions of the Saints are shallow and false, for they ignore this great fact,—that there is no condition or state, however humble, in which man has not to combat against the evil inclinations of his heart, and that corrupt nature alone is strong enough to lead him to sin. But in such a Saint as Casimir, we have no difficulty in recognizing that all his Christian energy was from God, and not from any natural source; and we rightly conclude, that we, who have the same good God, may well hope that this Season of spiritual regeneration will change and better us. Read More »

 

International Women’s Day

March 4, 2024

MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day. This Communist feast day, like all feminist propaganda, ultimately celebrates the degradation of the female sex and the interests of the powerful.

 

 

Sophistries on Free Speech

March 2, 2024

JARED Taylor reviews the arguments before the Supreme Court in favor of censorship on the Internet.

On Monday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could determine whether there is free speech on the internet or unlimited censorship. Is YouTube, for example, like a newspaper, which has complete control over what it decides to print, or is it like the US Mail or the phone company, and must transmit all legal messages?

Transcript here.

 

 

The Truth about Racial Discrimination

March 2, 2024

THE South African writer Jan Lamprecht wrote in 2017:

What people refer to as “Racial Discrimination”, is nothing more than logic in action. You can legislate against it all you want and even throw people in jail but you will never kill it. You will never kill it because it is the truth, and even if people don’t know it exists they will sooner or later realize it for themselves. It will never die until the root cause of it is addressed. Any white or Asian person who remains in contact with black people for any length of time (years, or more likely decades), stands a very good chance of becoming a racist. I have seen this happen, and it is a fact of life. It often occurs that people from Europe or America come to Africa and stay here for a long time, and the process will cause them to become “racist”. Even Dr Albert Schweitzer, who devoted his life to helping black people in his little hospital, made statements which would be regarded as extremely racist.

Why do I say that people will become racist? Well, its because when you live among blacks for any length of time you start to realize that they are often their own worst enemies. You begin to realize that they are often the cause of their own disasters, and it also happens that many of them refuse to listen to reason. Read More »

 

Prudentius on Fasting

March 2, 2024

“FOR, if thou freely indulgest in meat and drink, and bridlest not thine appetite by fasting, it needs must be that the noble fire of the spirit, smothered by the frequent indulgence of the body, should grow dull, and the soul, like the drowsy flesh it inhabits, fall into heavy sleep.

“Therefore, let us bridle our bodily desires, and follow the clear interior light of prudence. Thus, the soul having her sight made keener, will breathe more freely, and will pray to the Creator with the stronger hope.”

— Prudentius (348-c. 413 AD)

 

 

The Religious Beliefs of Secular Jews

March 2, 2024

DENNIS Prager, who himself is Jewish, describes the religiosity of Jews who no longer follow traditional religious practices.

“Jews are to ‘isms’ what Italians are to opera. They create new movements.” Read More »

 

Hidden Faults: Timidity

February 29, 2024

FROM How to Root Out Hidden Faults by Fr. James F. McElhone:

Pride of timidity is self-love manifested by shyness, backwardness, cowardice. Pride of timidity is self-love protecting self through the hiding of weaknesses from fear of ridicule. Now it must not be thought that the quiet person is necessarily humble. A fine reserve is praiseworthy, but timidity is carrying reserve to excess. Quietness of disposition may not show that there is pride beneath.

Ordinarily the talented are not so subject to pride of timidity, just because they are talented. Still those who have ability are not so generally developed as not to have some weakness or other; and even a strong weakness, as they view it. Self-love seeks to protect, to hide that weakness, and so develops a habit of timidity from it. Moreover, the talented are sometimes very much under the rule of human respect. They fear what others may say or think about them; they are in certain circumstances afraid to do what is right or to avoid what is wrong. Read More »

 

Ordinary Heroism

February 29, 2024

OUR perfection does not consist in doing extraordinary things but to do the ordinary well.”

— St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

 

 

The Power of Music

February 29, 2024

                                   Mick Jagger

FROM the transcript of the searing documentary Hell’s Bells: The Dangers of Rock and Roll by Eric Holmberg:

Young people wake up to it, drive to it, play to it, study to it, and go to sleep to it. Studies show that between the 7th and 12th grades, the average teenager will listen to and watch 11,000 hours of rock music and rock videos – more than twice the time they will spend in class.

As Dr. Alan Bloom noted in his best-selling book The Closing of the American Mind, “Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.”

Incredibly, despite this unprecedented power and the mounting evidence that rock’s influence can be less than positive, most people have never stopped to consider what is really going on in and through contemporary music. Why is music so powerful? How does it affect us? What is its source? And to where is it leading us?

Throughout the ages, wise men have noted music’s profound impact on its listeners. For example, over 2,000 years before the birth of Christ, the musical systems of China were both highly developed and central to its society. It was to this that the philosophers directed much of their attention. Understanding its intrinsic power, they carefully checked their music to make sure that it conveyed eternal truths and could thus influence man’s character for the better.

To this end, tradition states that one emperor, by the name of Shun, would monitor the health of each of the provinces of this vast kingdom by simply examining the music they produced. Course and sensual sounds indicated a sick society, one in need of his intervention and assistance. Read More »

 

Thanks, Feminism!

February 29, 2024

 

The High Cost of Housing

February 29, 2024

KARL HAEMERS writes at Taboo Truth:

The master-minds at the World Economic Forum are offering to explain to us the current high cost of housing. They give us this simple paragraph:

“Renting an apartment in major cities has become highly competitive and expensive, prompting historian Jacob Anbinder to investigate the reasons behind the housing crisis. Anbinder explores the economic and political factors that have made cities like New York, Boston, and San Francisco unaffordable for many Americans. He traces the political evolution of the Democratic Party as a contributing factor to the current housing shortage. Anbinder’s research, supported by Cornell University, aims to uncover the interconnection between political liberalism and the housing crisis and will be published as a book.”

Read more.

 

 

Wanted: World Controller

February 28, 2024

WITH the death of Jacob Rothschild, a job has opened up and I imagine many people will be applying.

Requirements:

Willingness to enslave the planet

Experience manipulating fake money and world media

Tolerance for long meetings in Switzerland

Psychological warfare training

Compensation:

Everyone’s money

Castles in England

Girls

Politicians everywhere

 

If It Smells Like a Hoax …

February 28, 2024

I’M not buying the story of Aaron Bushnell.

Too many crisis actors. Too much publicity. The footage of him on fire was not realistic or convincing.

Aaron, or whoever, is probably playing video games in a nice hotel somewhere.

 

 

An Intensely Creepy Shill

February 28, 2024

JOEL OSTEEN gave a speech on Feb. 18, a week after the alleged shooting (wink, wink) at his Lakewood Church in Houston.

The speech is filled with the sentimental platitudes and emotional trigger words that accompany a staged shooting: “Healing” “Family,” “Praying,” “Fear,” “We Are Stronger Together,” etc.  Shooting hoaxes create fear and subservience. Ultimately they are aimed at demonizing and disarming those who own guns.

Get ’em cryin’ and huggin’, Joel.

— Comments —

Terry Morris writes:

This is a bit off topic, but I’m pretty sure I’ve coined a new term – Judeo-Charismanity. It occurred to me after watching several Youtube videos of Charismatic, prosperity gospel loons (Olsteen and his congregants definitely included) make fools of themselves and a laughingstock of Christianity for anyone who watches their circus sideshow acts and doesn’t know the difference. It’s even worse than that, though; I truly believe that many of these people, leaders and congregants alike, are possessed of demonic spirits. My wife and I used to tune into their broadcasts from time to time back in the mid-90s purely for the entertainment value alone. Back then they seemed rather harmless, but, my have they come a long way since!

 

 

Spiritual Thirst

February 27, 2024

THE soul drinks of a water unsuited to it, when it seeks pleasure in the objects of sense. The wise man teaches that the soul need not quit itself, nor divert streams from some distant mountain, since it has within itself an everlasting and inexhaustible living fountain.”

— Bossuet, (Sermons, Vol. V, p. 161)

 

 

Lenten Thoughts

February 27, 2024

                                Lamentation of Christ, Giotto

“THE wealth of God is not given to the soul all at once. It is to be increased as a reward for the soul’s own efforts, sustained by the supernatural aid of the Almighty. Growth in grace is growth in true greatness. To do and endure after the manner of Jesus, steadily refusing to part with the divine treasure, under the menaces of hardship or the allurements of pleasure, is the active way of promoting this growth.”

— Fr. Edward Leen (1885-1944), Why the Cross? (Sheed and Ward, 1938)

 

 

White Victims

February 27, 2024