The loss of the Grail, or of one of its symbolic equivalents, is the loss of tradition with all that the latter includes;

nevertheless, the tradition is, in truth, hidden rather than lost; or at least it can only be lost as regards certain secondary centers, when they cease to be in direct relation with the supreme center.

So far as the latter is concerned, it always preserves the deposit of tradition intact, and is not affected by the changes which occur in the outer world.

~ Rene Guenon

Plutarch - Life of Romulus

I. [8] «The Roman state would not have attained to its present power, had it not been of a divine origin, and one which was attended by great marvels.»

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Following the Victory at Catalaunian Plains
June 20-21, 451 AD

“Then the Visigoths, separating from the Alans, fell upon the horde of the Huns and nearly slew Attila. But he prudently took flight and straightway shut himself and his companions within the barriers of the camp, which he had fortified with wagons. A frail defence indeed; yet there they sought refuge for their lives, whom but a little while before no walls of earth could withstand. (210)

“But Thorismud, the son of King Theoderic, who with Aetius had seized the hill and repulsed the enemy from the higher ground, came unwittingly to the wagons of the enemy in the darkness of night, thinking he had reached his own lines. As he was fighting bravely, someone wounded him in the head and dragged him from his horse. Then he was rescued by the watchful care of his followers and withdrew from the fierce conflict. Aetius also became separated from his men in the confusion of night and wandered about in the midst of the enemy. Fearing disaster had happened, he went about in search of the Goths. At last he reached the camp of his allies and passed the remainder of the night in the protection of their shields. (211–212)

[With a high level of confusion, and expecting the worst, the allies awaited the dawn, with Thorismund receiving treatment for his head wound.]

“At dawn on the following day, when the Romans saw the fields were piled high with bodies and that the Huns did not venture forth, they thought the victory was theirs, but knew that Attila would not flee from the battle unless overwhelmed by a great disaster. Yet he did nothing cowardly, like one that is overcome, but with clash of arms sounded the trumpets and threatened an attack. He was like a lion pierced by hunting spears, who paces to and fro before the mouth of his den and dares not spring, but ceases not to terrify the neighbourhood by his roaring. Even so this warlike king at bay terrified his conquerors. (213) Therefore the Goths and Romans assembled and considered what to do with the vanquished Attila. They determined to wear him out by a siege, because he had no supply of provisions and was hindered from approaching by a shower of arrows from the bowmen placed within the confines of the Roman camp. But it was said that the king remained supremely brave even in this extremity and had heaped up a funeral pyre of horse trappings, so that if the enemy should attack him, he was determined to cast himself into the flames, that none might have the joy of wounding him and that the lord of so many races might not fall into the hands of his foes. (212–213)

“Thorismund was eager to take vengeance for his father’s death on the remaining Huns, being moved to this both by the pain of bereavement and the impulse of that valour for which he was noted. Yet he consulted with the Patrician Aetius (for he was an older man and of more mature wisdom) with regard to what he ought to do next. But Aetius feared that if the Huns were totally destroyed by the Goths, the Roman Empire would be overwhelmed, and urgently advised him to return to his own dominions to take up the rule which his father had left. Otherwise his brothers might seize their father’s possessions and obtain the power over the Visigoths. In this case Thorismund would have to fight fiercely and, what is worse, disastrously with his own countrymen. Thorismud accepted the advice without perceiving its double meaning, but followed it with an eye toward his own advantage. So he left the Huns and returned to Gaul. Thus while human frailty rushes into suspicion, it often loses an opportunity of doing great things. (215–217)

— Jordanes, De origine actibusque Getarum: 40-41

What is striking in studying European history is just how ahistorical a pan-European idea of 'the West' is. Joining forces against the Huns did not stop the politics between the Goths and Rome. Likewise the invasions of the Tatars, Ottoman Turks, and Moors did not elect a united, collective response from the whole of Europe, but required a higher calling in the holy Crusade. In all these scenarios it was only a common spiritual force that could supercede the mundane interests of what were truly separate peoples to bring them together and repel the far more foreign invaders.

Yet again, because it can not be said enough, biological race is real but that does not reduce today's problems to demographics—what we are facing today is a spiritual crisis, and it can only be solved with a spiritual solution.

Aarvoll puts forward a more reasonable and realistic political agenda than any talking head e-celebrity by rejecting 'politics' as it is generally understood. Reject populism and engaging with degenerate power structures, embrace building real communities and independent infrastructure. That is, as it has always been, the way for any people to succeed.

https://youtu.be/t162so9jMGU

The way back is already here.
https://www.gornahoor.net/?p=16359

“The profound thing which Cardinal Manning said to me was this: ‘all human conflict is ultimately theological.’”

“This saying of his (which I carried away with me somewhat bewildered) that all human conflict was ultimately theological: that is, that all wars and revolutions and all decisive struggles between parties of men arise from a difference in moral and transcendental doctrine, was utterly novel to me. To a young man the saying was without meaning: I would almost have said nonsensical, save that I could not attach the idea of folly to Manning. But as I grew older it became a searchlight with the observation of the world, and with continuous reading of history, it came to possess for me a universal meaning so profound that it reached to the very roots of political action; so extended that it covered the whole.”

- Hilaire Belloc, The Cruise of the "Nona"

Carl Schmitt would agree. Political Theology goes past the illusury show of modern politics to describe political phenomena, which are only always conflicts, in theological terms. This is the only way to think about politics: as spiritual conflict. It is no different from war.

🇫🇷 On this day 233 years ago, the Bastille was stormed. If it only contained seven inmates at the time of its fall, the fortress was seen as a symbol of Royal authority in the centre of Paris.

“What makes the French Revolution unique in history is that it is radically bad, where no good element comforts the beholder. It is the highest stage of corruption that is perceived, it is pure impurity.”

- Joseph de Maistre

"The spirit of technicity, which has led to the mass belief in an anti-religious activism, is still spirit; perhaps an evil and demonic spirit, but not one which can be dismissed as mechanistic and attributed to technology. It is perhaps something gruesome, but not itself technical and mechanical. It is the belief in an activistic metaphysics—the belief in unlimited power and the domination of man over nature, even over human nature; the belief in the unlimited “receding of natural boundaries,” in the unlimited possibilities for change and prosperity. Such a belief can be called fantastic and satanic, but not simply dead, spiritless, or mechanized soullessness.
The fear of cultural and social nothingness sprang more from an anxiety-ridden panic over the threatened status quo than from a cool-headed knowledge of the peculiarity of intellectual processes and their dynamics. All new and great impulses, every revolution and reformation, every new elite originates from asceticism and voluntary or involuntary poverty (poverty meaning above all the renunciation of the security of the status quo)."
~ Carl Schmitt, The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations

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