Courage is not the same as bravery, for courage comes from the same Latin root which deals with “heart”, hence Richard the Lionheart, “Coeur de Lion”; courage is heart, and oft bravery is coupled with recklessness, for only the Fool can set off on the journey which leads to his annihilation and sublimation into the high(est) form (fool-initiate-knight-king-hero).
Read MoreThe knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.
- CS Lewis
Overture: the scene opens on a frigid mud encrusted battleground; the valley floor is strewn with the mangled dead, limbs pointing up at a pale cloudless sky; the valley is named “the 20th century” and two hills littered with the emaciated bodies of a million heroes bare mildew smothered signs reading “Church” and “State”. A sleeping hero among the bodies begins to stir.
Do you understand?
Read MoreThe faithful are assaulted on all sides by corruption; what is the dominant symptom of moral collapse?
Mediocrity.
Doubtless, the worst crime of those who can be saints is that they are not.
Moral weakness is the treason of modernism.
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