"We can reasonably affirm that a true Right without the monarchy ends up deprived of its natural centre of gravity and crystallisation, because in almost all traditional states the principal reference point for realising the independent and stable principle of pure political authority has been the crown."

- Julius Evola

Like a child raised without a father, a people without a monarch is incomplete: unwell on the whole. A bad monarch is no refutation of monarchy, but the very exception which proves its rule. In negating its own principle, the rotten monarch only highlights the moral value of the good and proper crown that has temporarily forsaken its people. The pathologies between a poor monarch and the total lack of a crown seem similar on the surface, but a regrettable monarch is a far lesser disease to cure than a democracy is.

Aristotle's maxim is very fitting on the question of monarchy: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A people is not complete without its crown—that is, its mandate from Heaven.

"The Song of Zazen" by Hakuin:

All beings by nature are Buddha,
As ice by nature is water.
Apart from water there is no ice;
Apart from beings, no Buddha.
How sad that people ignore the near
And search for truth afar:
Like someone in the midst of water
Crying out in thirst,
Like a child of a wealthy home
Wandering among the poor.
Lost on dark paths of ignorance,
We wander through the Six Worlds,
From dark path to dark path--
When shall we be freed from birth and death?
Oh, the zazen of the Mahayana!
To this the highest praise!
Devotion, repentance, training,
The many paramitas--
All have their source in zazen.
Those who try zazen even once
Wipe away beginning-less crimes.
Where are all the dark paths then?
The Pure Land itself is near.
Those who hear this truth even once
And listen with a grateful heart,
Treasuring it, revering it,
Gain blessings without end.
Much more, those who turn about
And bear witness to self-nature,
Self-nature that is no-nature,
Go far beyond mere doctrine.
Here, effect and cause are the same,
The Way is neither two nor three.
With form that is no-form,
Going and coming, we are never astray,
With thought that is no-thought,
Singing and dancing are the voice of the Law.
Boundless and free is the sky of Samádhi!
Bright the full moon of wisdom!
Truly, is anything missing now?
Nirvana is right here, before our eyes,
This very place is the Lotus Land,
This very body, the Buddha.

Jupiter took the shape of an eagle and abducted Ganymede, first king of Troy to serve as a cup bearer to the gods in Olympus.  Jupiter granted him eternal youth and immortality and to honor these events it is said that Jupiter placed Aquila (the eagle) and Aquarius (the water bearer) as constellations in the heavens.
Mosaic from 3rd Century AD Tyre.

"Saturn", Jan Collaert II (ca. 1561 - 1620), Flemish

"Jupiter, the greater benefic, is a much more popular fellow than his dour compeer Saturn... The jolliness of his nature is much too stressed today, for he is more than just the planet of parties and ice-cream. The word 'jovial', derived from the Latin name of the planet, has become increasingly trivialized in our language until it describes just someone who has been at the sherry. True, a common manifestation of Jupiter's expansive nature involves unbuckling one's belt, but his real nature is as a spiritual guide, and in this he does not work alone, but hand in hand with Saturn. They are the carrot and the stick, 'Thy rod and Thy staff' which comfort me though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
Saturn is the rod, that beats me onto the straight path; Jupiter the staff that pulls me out of the thorns. They are expansion and contraction, mercy and justice. We like mercy — or at least, we think we do: we like it until it is shown to the man who has wronged us."

- John Frawley

"The Yule Goat", John Bauer (4 June 1882 – 20 November 1918), Swedish

The Julbock is a gift bringer in Scandinavian folklore & is also a common Christmas decoration in Scandinavia . The goat is associated with the Sun's transit into the astrological sign of Capricorn (the birth of the Sun), symbolised by the goat. It is also connected to the goats Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjóstr who pull the Thor's chariot.

Attendees of the funeral of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India.

Standing from left to right:
- Haakon VII, King of Norway
- Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria
- Manuel II, King of Portugal
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia
- George I, King of Greece
- Albert I, King of Belgium

Seated from left to right:
- Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
- George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India
- Frederick VIII, King of Denmark

Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, British Empire. 20 May 1910.

Merry Christmas. I hope you left some breakfast out for the gnomes.

"For the Mind being God, Male and Female, Life and Light, brought forth by his Word another Mind or Workman; which being God of the Fire, and the Spirit, fashioned and formed seven other Governors, which in their circles contain the Sensible World, whose Government or disposition is called Fate or Destiny.

Straightway leaped out, or exalted itself from the downward Elements of God, The Word of God, into the clean and pure Workmanship of Nature, and was united to the Workman, Mind, for it was Consubstantial; and so the downward born elements of Nature were left without Reason, that they might be the only Matter."

— Corpus Hermeticum Book I

"Time, then, came into existence along with the Heaven, to the end that having been generated together they might also be dissolved together, if ever a dissolution of them should take place; and it was made after the pattern of the Eternal Nature, to the end that it might be as like thereto as possible; for whereas the pattern is existent through all eternity, the copy, on the other hand, is through all time, continually having existed, existing, and being about to exist. Wherefore, as a consequence of this reasoning and design on the part of God, with a view to the generation of Time, the sun and moon and five other stars, which bear the appellation of 'planets,' came into existence for the determining and preserving of the numbers of Time. And when God had made the bodies of each of them He placed them in the orbits along which the revolution of the Other was moving, seven orbits for the seven bodies. ...
In this wise and for these reasons were generated all those stars which turn themselves about as they travel through Heaven, to the end that this Universe might be as similar as possible to the perfect and intelligible Living Creature in respect of its imitation of the Eternal Nature thereof."

— Plato, Timaeus (38b-39e)

Awareness of sin is not innocence of sin, but the beginning. To be aware that one is doing wrong and do nothing to change it is infinitely worse than to do wrong in the darkness of ignorance. To know what one must do and not do it is properly evil. Thus to simply speak of what is right is of no good whatsoever in itself, but in fact the opposite; the idle talk of the vast majority of modern 'philosphers' is less than worthless but defiles worthiness itself.