"According to the old moral system, the most important virtues are: first, filial piety (hsiao) and loyalty (chung); next, humanity (Jen) and love (ai); thirdly, sincerity (hsin) and righteousness (yi); and lastly, love of peace (ho p'ing). While many of our people still emphasize these virtues, the "new culturists" who are influenced by foreign moral teachings are trying to overthrow our old moral system and adopt a new code of morality.

This is very unfortunate for it has caused a moral disorganization of the nation so that at the present time the rank and file of the country are altogether confused as to which moral code they should follow. As a result, neither the new morality nor the old morality is effective, and now the nation is plunged into a disgraceful condition of anarchism and chaos. We ought to preserve the old moral values that are good and at the same time reform harmful traditions."

President of Nationalist China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, 1924

Mycenaean bronze dagger with agate hilt and inlaid gold, 14th C. BC

Three models of the creation and maintenance of dogma within an orthodoxy structure.

The connection of mysticism and consciousness; it is esoteric metaphor about our true subjective experience

“The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.”

~Louis-Philippe I, King of France

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

~C.S. Lewis

If you haven't already, watch Asha Logos' Subverted History series on YouTube or another platform. His production is impeccable and his wealth of knowledge is illuminating. The history of our people goes much deeper than a being a mix of related tribes. We were one race led by an unbroken royal lineage back to the genesis of "Indo-European" culture which, according to its own most ancient accounts, itself stems from the far more ancient Atlanteans and Hyperboreans. Our genetic and cultural lineage is shared, in varying degrees, in peoples all across the globe that met our ancestors in war and peace.

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Delphic Maxims, pt. 5

104. Πρᾶττε συντόμως Act without hesitation
105. Φιλίαν φύλαττε Guard friendship
106. Εὐγνώμων γίνου Be grateful
107. Ὁμόνοιαν δίωκε Pursue harmony
108. Ἄρρητον κρύπτε Keep secret what should be secret
109. Τὸ κρατοῦν φοβοῦ Fear what rules
110. Τὸ συμφέρον θηρῶ Pursue what is profitable
111. Καιρὸν προσδέχου Accept due measure
112. Ἔχθρας διάλυε Dissolve enmities
113. Γῆρας προσδέχου Accept old age
114. Ἐπὶ ῥώμῃ μὴ καυχῶ Do not boast about power
115. Εὐφημίαν ἄσκει Exercise (religious) silence
116. Ἀπέχθειαν φεῦγε Shun hatred
117. Πλούτει δικαίως Acquire wealth justly
118. Δόξαν μὴ λεῖπε Do not abandon honour
119. Κακίαν μίσει Despise evil
120. Κινδύνευε φρονίμως Take sensible risks
121. Μανθάνων μὴ κάμνε
Never tire of learning
122. Φειδόμενος μὴ λεῖπε Never cease being thrifty
123. Χρησμοὺς θαύμαζε Admire oracles
124. Οὓς τρέφεις, ἀγάπα Love those whom you rear
125. Ἀπόντι μὴ μάχου Don't fight an absent foe
126. Πρεσβύτερον αἰδοῦ Respect the old
127. Νεώτερον δίδασκε Instruct the young

“Salvation is more than forgiveness. It is a genuine renewal of man. And this renewal is effected not by the discharge, or release of certain natural energies implied in man’s own creaturely being, but by the ‘energies’ of God Himself, who thereby encounters and encompasses man, and admits him into communion ‘with Himself.” George Florovsky “St. Gregory Palamas and the Tradition of the Fathers”☦