27 Thursday Aug 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
America, christendom, Civilization, Culture, Europe, Europe is the Empire, Holy Roman Empire, lie of race, race, racism, unity
The broad modern mind will often narrow or even restrict ideas. I suppose it is a natural consequence of trying to cram all ideas equally into one’s head. The modern mind has narrowed the idea of Europe to an arbitrary geographical area and called it a continent. But let me tell you a secret; Europe is not a continent. Europe is a way of life.
17 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in Christendom
“the Holy Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire are one and the same thing, in two aspects; and Catholicism, the principle of the universal Christian society, is also Romanism; that is, rests upon Rome as the origin and type of its universality; manifesting itself in a mystic dualism which corresponds to the two natures of its Founder. As divine and eternal, its head is the Pope, to whom souls have been entrusted; as human and temporal, the Emperor, commissioned to rule men’s bodies and acts.
-James Viscount Bryce, The Holy Roman Empire Theory of the Medieval Empire
30 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in The World of THE WAR FOR CHRISTENDOM
Tags
Austria, Cardinal Seldon, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial History, Medieval, Prophecy, Sacretemporal
Going through my copy of Cardinal Seldon’s important and monumental work, Imperial History, I came across two very interesting full color illustrations. Both are texts in the form of stylized Sacretemporal (Medieval) Manuscripts, and both inscriptions are in Old High German. The inclusion of these illustrations in color suggests that the book was very expensive to print, though no records of the productions costs of this book can be found.
The first is the Sacretemporal (medieval) text of the Prophecy of Six Crowns (my translation of which can be found here), compiled from various chronicles into a single text. The text is found in the chapter entitled The Rise of the House of Austria, and underneath the text is a pseudo-heraldic symbol representing the Prophecy:
The second illustration contains the original Old German text of the enigmatic poem, Wolves with the hair of Ermine, which is (like the other text) followed by a series of pseudo-heraldic symbols, representing the first ,second, and fifth verses of poem, which is found in the chapter entitled The Fall of Rome:
The translation on the facing page reads:
Wolves with the hair of Ermine
Crows that are crowned as Kings
Though these things be many as vermin
ONE shall outlast these things
In the mountains an EAGLE shall rise
The Flag of the Desert shall burn
Renewed forever shall be old allies
And the KNIGHT TWICE CROWNED shall return
Surprisingly, no translation is given for the third stanza, which I can only assume is the lost stanza beginning A Sword shall be his token, in which case it is extremely interesting that no translation is given, as no complete version of the stanza is known to exist. It is also noteworthy that these verses are referenced as being attributed to a certain Blessed Heinrich Arnhold von Heiligwaldenstein, though no other records or mentions of this personage can be found.
25 Saturday Jul 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
Austria, Dollfuss, Fascism, Hero, Hitler, Holy Roman Empire, House of Hapsburg, Last Catholic State, Otto Von Hapsburg, Patriot, World War II
I am convinced that it is the will of a higher power that we preserve our home country Austria with its glorious history, even though today in a smaller form, I am convinced that this Austria will be exemplary in the shaping of public life for other peoples, that in this Austria we must also have a great and valuable service to fulfill, and to fulfill to the whole of Germandom. This Austria remains our and our children’s homeland… Just as the crusaders were imbued with the same faith, as a Marco d’Aviano preached here before Vienna, “God wills it” – so we also see with great confidence in the future, in the conviction: God wills it
-Engelbert Dollfuss, Trabrennplatzrede
Born in Texing in Lower Austria on the fourth of October 1892, Engelbert Dollfuss is perhaps the second most controversial Austrian of the Interwar Period. A devout Catholic and Patriot, he is often accused by the Left of being a Fascist. His government is criticized as being Totalitarian and Nationalistic. But was it really? Continue reading
16 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
Austria, christendom, History, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, House of Hapsburg, Imperial History, Prophecy, Reich, Rudolf I, Sacred Ages, Sacretemporal, The Line of Hapsburg
After the death of Conradin, the grandson of the heretic Frederick II, the Empire was thrown into a lawless chaos now called the Interregnum. Men forsook the laws that had governed them and turned to robbery and violence, especially in the region of Southern Swabia (now Switzerland) near the High Rhine and the Aar. Below follows a proximate translation of the history of Count Rudolf IV von Hapsburg, taken from the Chronicon Helveticum (which in turn was taken from earlier sources such as the Chronik der Königsfelden ):
Rudolff Grav von Hapsburg als er einen Priester, der das heilige Sacrament über Feld in tieffen-schlammigten Wege angetroffen…
12 Sunday Jul 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
Austria, Catholic Writing, Chesterton, christendom, History, Holy Roman Empire, House of Hapsburg, Politics
The double eagle is the ancient emblem of the double empire of Rome and of Byzantium; the one head looking to the west and the other to the east, as if it spread its wings from the sunrise to the sunset.it had been the badge of Austria as the representative of the Holy Roman Empire.- The New Jerusalem
Very few authors have written on as many subjects as the great Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), a journalist converted to the faith as well as a poet and fiction writer, and he had very much to say on the subject of the Holy Roman Empire.
07 Tuesday Jul 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
christendom, Civilization, Death of Civilization, Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial History, Nationalism, Pope
Allegory of the Painting: The Common Man has been despoiled of the Authority and Protection of the Holy Crown, and now must bow to the self-serving Mob who stole it.
As I said in my last post (The Death of Civilization Part I), Civilization is a moral choice, a constant struggle. Part of that choice is to accept God-given Authority, for God is the Author of Authority. To preserve any good, we cannot reject the Authority of God’s Vicar, or the Authority of Church to confer Authority, or even the Authority of the State to Govern us, for all of these have their ultimate source in God.
Our Civilization is dying and among the symptoms of its fatality is the rejection of Authority, yet if we hold fast in submission to authority and to the ultimate Authority, Christ our King, our Civilization will not die.
20 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
christendom, Henry VIII, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial History, Martin Luther, Protestants, William of Ockham
Nationalism is a threat to the International Good, a subversion of true Patriotism. Its fruits are self-evident; endless war, tyrannical Statism, the Annihilation of Nations, and violent Racism. Yet despite these plainly visible effects, we live today in a Nationalistic world. Without a comprehensive International System or indeed Worldview, Civilization will kill itself, and yet that is exactly what is happening. The question is not when will it happen, the question is why is it happening now? Continue reading
13 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted in Random Days
Tags
Cardinal Seldon, Catholic Church, christendom, Foundation, Foundation Series, Future Catholic Church, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial Star Fleet, Politics, Science Fiction, Star Fleet
Besides my work as the Head of the English Speaking Branch of the HRM and my work on The War for Christendom book series, I have also written a few works of science fiction (sci-fi), specifically the (as-of-yet) unfinished St. Damian’s Chronicles: Tales of Catholicism Amongst the Stars. The St. Damian’s Chronicles are a sort of Asimov’s Foundation about Catholics on different colony planets struggling to survive and spread the Faith.
(This Paragraph is for those of you who have no idea what Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is.) The basic premise of the Foundation is that a Statistical Wizard named Hari Seldon predicts the fall of a Galactic Empire (unlike Star Wars this is good empire) and sets up a group of scientists who use religion and money to gain control of surrounding barbarians in order to create a second Galactic Empire. They botch the job and Psychologists/Psychiatrists rush in to save the day. (Enough summarizing, back to the main post.)
The St. Damian’s Chronicles‘ analog to Foundation would be incomplete without a corresponding Empire and Starfleet, so without further fanfare, I present:
07 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted in Christendom
Tags
Austria, Body of Christ, christendom, Corpus Christi, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, House of Hapsburg, Imperial History, Procession, Rudolf I, Sacred Ages, Vienna
In 1264, Pope Urban IV issued the Papal Bull Transiturus de Hoc Mundo, promulgating to the Latin Rite the Solemn Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, to be celebrated on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Around this same time, Rudolf the eighth Count of Hapsburg aided and protected a priest bringing the Viaticum to a dying farmer, giving the priest his horse and guiding him across a raging torrent, walking bareheaded. The priest then prophesied that the humble Count and his descendents would receive the Imperium of the Holy Roman Empire.
The War for Christendom 