ON MAY 11, 1918, my maternal grandfather, a physician who volunteered to serve in the British medical corps during World War I and sustained lifelong injuries in the war, wrote home to his mother. In the letter, he speaks mostly of his fondness of home, but also of the cause of the war: the “lust for power of man.”

Dearest Mother,

I happened to see in the Paris paper that Sunday, the 12th is Mother’s Day and that we might celebrate by writing to our Mothers, such letters to receive special consideration in the mails. So these are my thoughts to you Mother mine.

You must know it is not necessary for me to have a special day in which to remember you, for in my thoughts every day is Mother’s Day and many are the spaces of the day and the restless moments of the night that I think of Mother and of home and how much I wish I could see them both.

I have seen a good bit of England and of France and they are both quite nice but they can’t compare with little old Dunmore with all its mud and it’s not the excitement of the gay little place that makes me think it is so fine, but because you and the girls are there.

Tonight is most beautiful — warm and balmy — with thousands of stars above. Overhead you hear the monotonous drone of the planes and see their lights flashing in competition with the twinkling stars. In front are the uninterrupted flashes of guns — and out over the lines rockets and chains of light, the signals of friend and foe. A wonderful night and how calm and peaceful the elements are but how disturbing and deadly the hand of man. The continuous roar of our big guns, the short angry cracking of the machine guns in the distance, the whiz and shriek of the Hun shells going on their way to still pound to dust the once happy and serene little villages of this beautiful land. Mother Nature must indeed be sorrowful these days to see how cruelly her lovely charms are trampled upon by the lust for power of man. How little we think, in these days, of the wonders of the budding flower or of the greatness of the mother robin with her young, but all of our thoughts are of the seventy-five mile gun or the latest type of aeroplane. Read More »

“TO experience the tremendous power of genuine, unaffected folk songs, you must sing them yourself, sing them often, and sing them well. You cannot possibly experience the beauty of folk music if you simply hear the songs performed by a choir in picturesque costume. In folk singing, the goal is to sing, and this fact distinguishes the folk song from all other types of song. In the concert hall, in the cabaret, on the radio, the singing is a means to excite emotion in a passive audience who sit quietly and listen. The art song and the modern popular song are founded entirely on an appeal to the ear. But the folk song is founded on the joy of active singing, the joy of rhythmic movement of the entire voice organism. The frequent repetitions of a refrain which are so characteristic of the folk song are evidence that folk music is basically kinesthetic in its appeal. These refrains are a pure delight to the active singer, he does not tire (as a silent listener would) of repeating the same chorus many times. Folk singing is active in goal and method. It is essential to join in the singing to experience the deep beauty hidden in the music.

“If you begin to sing folk songs and to make them a part of your life, you will soon discover that they have the power to form your taste and to cultivate your artistic judgment. You will become aware of the pretension and insincerity in works of art which perhaps you admired before. You will find that you have come to prefer simplicity to sophistication, genuine feeling to empty sentimentality, real joy to superficial amusement.”

— Dr. Jop Pollmann, Laughing Meadows Songbook, Grailville Publications, 1947 Read More »

“CONCERNING the duration of Purgatory, the Church simply tells us that it is not a place of everlasting pain, but will end at the last judgment; neither are we informed of the length of time required for the purification of a soul. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the soul, to be reunited to her Creator in Heaven, must be in the state of primitive innocence which adorned her when she proceeded from His hand. The image of God must be entirely restored within her, commensurate with the degree of glory awaiting her in Heaven. Read More »

ORDINARY Jews in America (and Europe) publicly call for genocide.

They will not spend a millisecond in jail for hate crimes, “domestic terrorism,” or “incitement of racial hatred.”

The spirit of vengeance knows no bounds.

TWO Jews, Bill Maher and Sharon Osbourne, applaud multiculturalism in England.

Never forget: They hate your guts.

FROM Understanding the Jews, Understanding Anti-Semitism by Hervé Ryssen (Translated by Carlos W. Porter; published by same, 2014):

The Jewish people consider themselves the bearers of a project governing humanity as a whole, a grandiose project which they have pursued for centuries, through and despite everything: the instauration on earth of universal and lasting peace. The notion of “peace”, in fact, lies at the very heart of Judaism: it is not by chance that this one word (“shalom”, in Hebrew) appears so frequently in the speech of all Jews, all over the world. It is not just a religious concept – one of a belief in God’s work in a distant future – but of a guiding principle which determines the commitments of Jews on a daily basis. It is in fact the Jews themselves, who, through their work, their actions, their involvement in politics, work each day for the construction of this “peace”.

In the perfect world which they believe they are creating, all conflict will have completely vanished from the face of the earth – particularly, conflict between nations. That is why, wherever they settle, Jews militate ceaselessly and untiringly for the elimination of all borders and the breakdown of all national identity. Nation states are the cause of war and disorder; they must, therefore, be hollowed out from within and without, and – in the long run – eliminated entirely, replaced by World Government, solely capable of bringing about the reign of human felicity and endless prosperity on Earth.

The aim is to unify the world by all means possible, leveling all cultural differences, which are believed to be the source of conflict. Jewish intellectuals, all over the world, work without letup for this ideal. Whether Left or Right, Marxist or liberal, believers or atheists, Zionists or “perfectly integrated”, Jews are the world’s most fervent advocates of this messianic global empire.

Judaism is, therefore, essentially a universalist political project, the objective of which is the unification of the world, as the prelude to global pacification. It is a long, difficult job, they admit, but the Jews are absolutely convinced that they can succeed in achieving this aim, obsessed, as they are, with the “Mission” entrusted to them by God. Or as the prophet Isaiah puts it: “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them…” (Isaiah, XI, 6-9).

Contrary to Christianity or Islam, the Jews do not intend to convert others to Judaism; rather, they intend simply to persuade them to renounce their religion, their race, their identity, their family and all their traditions, in the name of “Humanity”, and “Human Rights”. This Global Empire, in fact, can only be built upon the ruins of great civilizations, using the human detritus produced by so-called “democratic societies” and the capitalist system. Read More »

Remains of Mamilla Reservoir in Jerusalem where thousands of Christians were massacred.

“IN THE Other Face of Israel, Israel Shamir recalls the conquest of Palestine by the Persians, in the 7th century. In 614, Palestine formed part of the Byzantine Empire, which had succeeded the Roman Empire. The Jews of Palestine, he explains, allied themselves with their fellow Jews in Babylon to lend support to the Persians in their conquest of the Holy Land. An estimated 26,000 Jews participated in the offensive. After the Persian victory, the Jews perpetrated ‘a massive holocaust’: ‘They burned churches and monasteries, killed monks and priests and burned books … [This was] the most frightful year in the history of Palestine, right up until the 20th century,’ writes Shamir, who cites Oxford University Professor Henry Hart Milman: ‘It was here at last, the long-awaited hour of triumph and vengeance. The Jews did not miss their chance, and they washed away the profanation of the holy city in the blood of Christians.’ According to Shamir, they purchased Christian prisoners from the Persians and murdered them in the reservoir of Mamilla, a district in Jerusalem. ‘In the city of Jerusalem alone, the Jews massacred between 60,000 and 90,000 Palestinian Christians … A few days later, having understood the scope of the massacre, Persian soldiers prevented the Jews from pursuing their exactions … The genocide of 614 A.D was the most terrible, but it was not the only genocide perpetrated by the Jews in this chaotic period of history.'”

— Jewish Fanaticism, Herve Ryssen, p. 226

Softly and gently, dearly-ransom’d soul,
In my most loving arms I now enfold thee,

And, o’er the penal waters, as they roll,
I poise thee, and I lower thee, and hold thee.

And carefully I dip thee in the lake,
And thou, without a sob or a resistance,

Dost through the flood thy rapid passage take,
Sinking deep, deeper, into the dim distance.

Angels, to whom the willing task is given,
Shall tend, and nurse, and lull thee, as thou liest;

And Masses on the earth, and prayers in heaven,
Shall aid thee at the Throne of the Most Highest.

Farewell, but not for ever! brother dear,
Be brave and patient on thy bed of sorrow;

Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here,
And I will come and wake thee on the morrow.

—  From“The Dream of Gerontius” by Cardinal John Henry Newman

Rest on the Flight to Egypt, Giovanni Battista Crespi

“IF a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out. Keep the stove tightly shut so that it will not lose its heat and grow cold. Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.”

— St. Charles Borromeo

FROM Thuletide:

Thanks to huge longitudinal studies conducted by the Danish government (2021), Amsterdam University (2023), and Migration Watch UK (2014), we now know the financial damage of importing and supporting non-Western migrants.

The Danish government found that Third World migrants collectively make a net-negative lifetime financial contribution. Read More »

JUST follow these steps if you’d like to take down an entire society:

1. Seduce and demoralize the youth with false doctrines.

2. Destroy the family life.

3. Dominate humanity by preying upon their lower instincts and vices.

4. Debase and vulgarize Art, and introduce filth in Literature.

5. Destroy respect for religions; undermine the reputation of the clergy through scandalous stories and back up the so called “Higher Criticism” so that the old fundamental faith is shattered and quarrels and controversies become permanent in the churches.

6. Introduce the habit for luxuries, crazy fashions and spendthrift ideas so that the ability for enjoying clean and plain pleasures is lost.

7. Divert the attention of the people by public amusements, sports, games, prize contests, etc., so that there is no time for thinking. Read More »

FROM the website of Timothy Fitzpatrick:

The Zionist script is fundamentally nationalistic, moralistic, and ethno-centric, which is what the West had been up until about the 1960s when world Jewry introduced their immigration schemes and cultural Marxism. World Jewry doesn’t care for nationalism because world Jewry is cosmopolitan (Chabad admits it is “not Zionistic”). Nationalism is a hindrance to their advancement. They are after world government while rank-and-file Jews simply want a homeland of their own and to, more or less, live under the security of Western mores. Ultimately, world Jewry is stringing along little Jews with a deliberately handicapped Zionism. We know this is true because world Jewry funds the anti-Zionists as well, mainly through their Eurasian channels (Russia, China, North Korea), and more and more portrays Zionism unfavourably in their mass media racket. When Soviet garden gnome Henry Kissinger not long ago predicted the imminent end to the state of Israel, he wasn’t making an educated guess, he was revealing part of world Jewry’s plan. Read More »

“THROUGH its text and melody, the folk song is the mother both of literature and of music. This sung poetry is our earliest poetry; this poetic song is our first music. Thus, the well known folk song , ‘Summer is icumen in’ is the beginning of polyphony as well as the earliest recorded poem in the English language. Out of the background of lyric, ballad and other types of folk song, the more complex forms of literature have developed; from the simple melodies of the people, the elaborate harmonies of modern music have grown. But while it has given birth to many forms of music and poetry, the folk song is a mother who remains eternally young and beautiful. Can we ignore this mother or become so clever as to do without her? Must we not always return to her as to the source and crown of our musical culture? folk songs deal with universal realities of life

“The folk song deals with the fundamental, universal realities of human life, realities which belong equally to the present and the past, and which always hold deep meaning for us. Thus, nothing has has changed in the relation between God and man in spite of modern atheism; nothing has changed in the relation of boy and girl, man and wife, despite rising divorce rates; nothing has changed in the relation between mother and child despite birth control; nothing has changed in the relation of a man to his country despite treason and cowardice. Folk music sings of life and death, the joy of true love and the pain of disappointment, daily chores and heroic adventure, the jovial comradeship of the tavern, the difficulties of this earthly pilgrimage and the longing for our heavenly home.

“Because folk songs present these universal human experiences in a simple and beautiful form, they have the power to stir the souls of men in every age. They are always contemporary; they speak to us now as clearly and warmly as when they were first sung. We experience today the timeless beauty of the anonymous folk poetry, a beauty often equal to the work of our greatest pets and composers.”

— Laughing Meadows, A Book of Song; Grailville Publications, Loveland, Ohio; 1947

ALAN writes:

One day recently an old song came spontaneously out of the catacombs of memory and into my awareness.  Decades had gone by since I last listened to “Puff, the Magic Dragon” in its original recording by Peter, Paul, and Mary.  I remember when it was brand-new in 1963.  I knew who Peter, Paul and Mary were because one of my classmates and I enjoyed their song “Lemon Tree” in 1962.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the old days, 1954-’63.  When “Puff” became popular, I was in 7th grade at St. Anthony of Padua school.  I had left boyhood behind, but I could still enjoy a charming story-song like “Puff”.  How fondly I remember those nights in the warm, secure, and serene setting that my mother created for us in our modest apartment on Dewey Avenue in south St. Louis.  It was so long ago that I can remember seeing civilized human beings in that area. On such nights in 1963, “Puff, the Magic Dragon” was one of several favorite songs I would listen to before falling asleep.  It was a most agreeable way to top off the day.

Of course I took the song at face value. I could not have imagined in 1963 that the “true meaning” of its lyrics would become a matter of controversy in later years, with some contending it was really about smoking marijuana.

Did the lyrics mean what they appeared to mean — a story of boyhood days and an unlikely friendship — or were they code for something else? Or did the words represent both meanings simultaneously to different audiences? Read More »