“A man’s reaction to Monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.” - C.S. Lewis, “'Equality', Present Concerns"

It's no secret that monarchs have been reduced to symbolic and ceremonial icons in today's Europe. And that's the only level on which they are relevant in public life.

And what do they symbolize in the hearts of millions? They represent sovereignty, identity, patriotic solidarity, tribal loyalty, and an organic and socially accountable relationship with the state and its institutions; all of which have no place in our alienated, deracinated, and technocratic modern western world.

"Cain was very old and had children. Abel also left children, and there were other brothers and sisters, the children of Adam. But God replied that it would not be so; that whoever should kill Cain should himself be punished sevenfold, and He placed a sign upon him that no one should slay him. Cain’s posterity gradually became colored. Cham’s children also were browner than those of Sem. The nobler races were always of a lighter color. They who were distinguished by a particular mark engendered children of the same stamp; and as corruption increased, the mark also increased until at last it covered the whole body, and people became darker and darker. But yet in the beginning there were no people perfectly black; they became so only by degrees."

~ 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝑽𝒐𝒍 𝑰, 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝒍. 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑬𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉

“The Sanskrit language, whatever may be its antiquity, is of wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of the grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.”

- Sir William Jones
(February 2nd, 1786)

"The first tongue, the mother tongue, spoken by Adam, Sem, and Noe, was different, and it is now extant only in isolated dialects. Its first pure offshoots are the Zend, the sacred tongue of India, and the language of the Bactrians. In those languages, words may be found exactly similar to the Low German of my native place."

~ 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝑽𝒐𝒍 𝑰, 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝒍. 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑬𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉

Great quote. The one thing Sir William Jones gets wrong is that Sanskrit is the common source.

Fun fact: the Baltic Lithuanian language is often claimed to be the most phonologically and lexically similar to Proto-Indo-European.

The connections between Lithuanian — the most conservative Indo-European language — and Rigvedic Sanskrit serve to validate the Aryan Invasion Theory. The ancient Sintashta Culture (2100-1800 BCE) derived much of its genetics and culture from the easternmost reaches of the Corded Ware horizon - which corresponds to the region in which Proto-Baltic, the ancestor language of modern Lithuanian, developed. Archaeological evidence shows that Sintashta was part of the Andronovo Horizon, from which emerged the Sanskrit language and the Vedic hymns.

Some examples of linguistic similarity...

Sanskrit sunus, Lithuanian sunus — Son
Sanskrit avis, Lithuanian avis — Sheep
Sanskrit padas, Lithuanian padas — Sole
Sanskrit viras, Lithuanian vyras — Man
Sanskrit dhumas, Lithuanian dumas — Smoke

As I first struggled to understand what age-old thinking like this could teach us, I began to notice a curious connection between the many problems our modern world view had created and a subject that increasingly fascinated me. It was a surprising subject. It was the design and symbolism of the architecture of the temples, mosques, and cathedrals of the world. The more I learned about it, the more I became aware that there was a similarity between the way ancient civilizations built their sacred structures and the way the natural world itself is structured and behaves. The ratios and proportions that define the way natural organisms grow and unfold are the same as those that underpin the structure of the most famous ancient buildings. I was among a number of people who began to piece together a great jigsaw which revealed, much to my surprise, a profound insight into what really lay at the heart of ancient thinking.

Seeing this, I began to realize that the great juggernaut of industrialization relies upon a somewhat aberrant kind of language–a man-made one–which articulates a world view that ignores Nature’s grammar. Much of the syntax of this synthetic language is out of synchrony with Nature’s patterns and proportions and this is why it so often jars with the language of Nature. This is why so many Modernist buildings don’t feel ‘right’ to so many people, even though they may find them clever; or perhaps why we feel uncomfortable with factory farming, even though it makes economic sense because it supplies such a lot of food at such low prices; or why we feel something is missing from a form of medicine that treats the body like a machine and does not accommodate the needs of the mind or the spirit.

I find, by contrast, that if people are encouraged to immerse themselves in Nature’s grammar and geometry–discovering how it works, how it controls life on Earth, and how humanity has expressed it in so many great works of art and architecture–they are often led to acquire some remarkably deep philosophical insights into the meaning and purpose of Nature and into what it means to be aware and alive in this extraordinary Universe. This is particularly so in young people and the results of such immersion are as heartening as they are surprising.

King Charles III

Desire to heal–to heal the dismembered landscape and the poisoned soil; the cruelly shattered townscape, where harmony has been replaced by cacophony; to heal the divisions between intuitive and rational thought, between mind, body and soul, so that the temple of our humanity can once again be lit by a sacred flame; to level the monstrous artificial barrier erected between Tradition and Modernity and, above all, to heal the mortally wounded soul that, alone, can give us warning of the folly of playing God and of believing that knowledge on its own is a substitute for wisdom.

King Charles III

Hegel has an aristocratic conception of Freedom. In order to be free you have to be autonomous, and because Freedom is inseparable from law, this means imposing an absolute law upon yourself in order to express and realize your Freedom. The family is one such structure, and this logic is brought to its finale in the conception of the state.

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