I do not care how I die, but for what I die. I do not count the years I have lived, but the deeds I have carried out. Tonight they will execute me, but the sons of my creed will triumph, and their triumph will come as a revenge for my death. We all die, but few of us earn the honor of dying for a creed. How shameful this night is to history, to our descendants, to our expatriates, and to foreigners. It seems that the independence we watered with our blood on the day we planted it is now thirsting for our veins anew.
- Antoun Saadeh's words executed today July 8th 1949
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Forwarded from Oltre la Morte
"The damned generation that came before us cultivated anti-heroic and defeatist values.
They were unfaithful to Hispanic blood, bowing servilely before the foreigner. This cannot be — and it will not be! Today, heroism must be wielded at home. No alliances with the old traitors! The political nerve of youth cannot accept the comfortable dilemmas offered to it.
The revolution must be deeper — in substance and structure, not surface. The old pacifists and the shallow want to stop everything with their clichés.
Away with them! Let us return to Hispanic authenticity, to Hispanic imperatives.
On one side, the new Spaniard with a new responsibility. On the other, the old Spaniard, burdened with the tired responsibility of his wailing and tears."
– Ramiro Ledesma Ramos 🇪🇸 | La Conquista del Estado
They were unfaithful to Hispanic blood, bowing servilely before the foreigner. This cannot be — and it will not be! Today, heroism must be wielded at home. No alliances with the old traitors! The political nerve of youth cannot accept the comfortable dilemmas offered to it.
The revolution must be deeper — in substance and structure, not surface. The old pacifists and the shallow want to stop everything with their clichés.
Away with them! Let us return to Hispanic authenticity, to Hispanic imperatives.
On one side, the new Spaniard with a new responsibility. On the other, the old Spaniard, burdened with the tired responsibility of his wailing and tears."
– Ramiro Ledesma Ramos 🇪🇸 | La Conquista del Estado
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Forwarded from The Inkless Pen
What follows is a very interesting quote from the philosopher Rene Guenon. It is helpful to note that he did not count most modern Protestant groups as Christian, he saw them as products of modernity. He treats primarily with Roman Catholicism (in his times pre-Vatican II), because of its prominence in the West, when he thinks of “Christianity”. Nonetheless, a number of his points are of great interest and worth considering. Ultimately, authentic Orthodoxy holds the seeds of resurrection for the West.
“The modern West is said to be Christian, but this is untrue; the modern outlook is anti-Christian, because it is essentially anti-religious; and it is anti-religious because it is essentially anti-traditional; this is its distinguishing characteristic and this is what makes it what it is. Undoubtedly, something of Christianity has passed even into the anti-Christian civilization of our times, even the most 'advanced' of whose representatives, to use their own jargon, cannot help, involuntary and perhaps unconsciously, having undergone and still undergoing certain Christian influence, tough an indirect one; however radical a breach with the past may be, it can never be quite complete and such as to break all continuity. More than this: we assert that everything of value that there may be in the modern world has come to it from Christianity, or at any rate through Christianity, for Christianity has brought with it the whole heritage of former traditions, has kept this heritage alive so far as the state of things in the West made it possible, and still contains its latent possibilities. But is there anyone today, even among those who call themselves Christians, who has any real consciousness of these possibilities? Where is to be found, even in Catholicism, the men who know the deeper meaning of the doctrines that they profess outwardly, and who, not content with 'believing' in a more or less superficial way –and more through sentiment than intelligence– really 'know' the truth of the traditions they hold to be theirs? We would wish to see proof that there are at least a few such men, for this would be the greatest and perhaps the sole hope of salvation for the West; but we have to admit that, up to the present, we have not encountered any … The West was Christian in the Middle Ages, but is so no longer; if anyone should reply that it may again become so, we will rejoinder that no one desires this more than we do, and may it come about sooner than all we round about us would lead us to expect. But let no one delude himself on this point: if this should happen, the modern world will have lived its day,” Rene Guenon (The Crisis of the Modern World).
“The modern West is said to be Christian, but this is untrue; the modern outlook is anti-Christian, because it is essentially anti-religious; and it is anti-religious because it is essentially anti-traditional; this is its distinguishing characteristic and this is what makes it what it is. Undoubtedly, something of Christianity has passed even into the anti-Christian civilization of our times, even the most 'advanced' of whose representatives, to use their own jargon, cannot help, involuntary and perhaps unconsciously, having undergone and still undergoing certain Christian influence, tough an indirect one; however radical a breach with the past may be, it can never be quite complete and such as to break all continuity. More than this: we assert that everything of value that there may be in the modern world has come to it from Christianity, or at any rate through Christianity, for Christianity has brought with it the whole heritage of former traditions, has kept this heritage alive so far as the state of things in the West made it possible, and still contains its latent possibilities. But is there anyone today, even among those who call themselves Christians, who has any real consciousness of these possibilities? Where is to be found, even in Catholicism, the men who know the deeper meaning of the doctrines that they profess outwardly, and who, not content with 'believing' in a more or less superficial way –and more through sentiment than intelligence– really 'know' the truth of the traditions they hold to be theirs? We would wish to see proof that there are at least a few such men, for this would be the greatest and perhaps the sole hope of salvation for the West; but we have to admit that, up to the present, we have not encountered any … The West was Christian in the Middle Ages, but is so no longer; if anyone should reply that it may again become so, we will rejoinder that no one desires this more than we do, and may it come about sooner than all we round about us would lead us to expect. But let no one delude himself on this point: if this should happen, the modern world will have lived its day,” Rene Guenon (The Crisis of the Modern World).
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Forwarded from Lithuania’s School of Thought
There is nothing contemptible or nihilistic in the title "Son of Nothing", although this does not mean that a person is not a nihilist. However, even his ineradicable nihilism does not give the right to either condemn or praise a person. Only a higher being could have such a right, but a philosopher is not one; he can only try to tell [...] a plausible myth about Nothing, extending already known myths. The Christian version of the creation of the world from Nothing is silent about an essential detail. The myth does not say what happened to Nothing after the creation of the world. It is incredible that ALL Nothing turned into its opposite - a monolithic reality. Therefore, this myth can be supplemented by relying on the current astrophysical myth, which is somewhat similar to the Christian myth. The Universe has a beginning. It arises from a primordial atom, scattering in an unimaginable place and in an unimaginable time, because before the emergence of the Universe there is neither space nor time. The primordial atom can also be considered a bubble of Nothingness to human eyes, because it is the center of absolute being, and absolute being is no different from absolute Nothingness.
Arvydas Šliogeris.
Nothingness and Essence
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