Book Review: Lord of the World by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
“And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.”
– 1 John 4:3
Author: Theodosius
Book Review: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition by David Bakan
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
Book Download: English Literature: A Survey and A Commentary by Brother Leo
The soul, the mind, needs food and exercise just as the body does; but the food of the mind is not bread, and its exercise is not games. It feeds on visions of truth and beauty as supplied by the master word artists in literature; its exercise is to wrestle with ideas enshrined in noble books, even as Jacob wrestled all the night with the angel; and its reward is, like Jacob’s, to receive a joyful blessing at the dawn.
Via Veritas: Why Tolkien Triumphed Where Lucas Failed
“Even if Epictetus did see the way clearly, he only told men: ‘You are on the wrong track.’ He shows us that there is another, but he does not lead us there. The right way is to want what God wants. Christ alone leads to it. Via veritas…”
– Blaise Pascal (Pensées, fragment 466)
Book Review: The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order by Otto Von Simson
“Against the darkness of the interior, the windows are in effect grey or black, and one must go inside the church and turn round in order to see the fire of the glass catch alight; the outside is here sacrificed to the inside. Why?
Perhaps, Durtal answered himself, it’s a symbol of the soul illuminated in its innermost places, an allegory of the spiritual life…”
– The Cathedral, J.K. Huysmans
Light and Darkness
“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
– John 8:12
Book Review: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If I lose myself, I save myself!”
– Galahad
(HG 178)
Right and Might: The Reign of Christ the King and National Identity (Part I)
“We must therefore combine right and might, and to that end make right into might or might into right.”
– Blaise Pascal
Why Are They So Devoid of Eloquence?
“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.”
– Psalms 13:1