Marie-Julie Jahenny, Breton mystic, prophetess and stigmatist:

The Coming Catholic Monarch will be French; known only to God (a man after His own heart), following the pattern of the exiled hero king, possibly of Bourbon blood, possibly Capetian, Carolingian or Merovingian, the anonymous royal (the King David archetype); he is the Last Holy Roman Emperor, fulfilling the duties of Charlemagne (the sleeping king who wakes at the last day), rightful king of both the western (Frankish/Roman Catholic) and eastern (Byzantine/Orthodox) empires.

In Marie-Julie’s vision: the French monarchy would return to its subjects (and vice versa in the Arthurian-Grail King relationship) in miraculous manner when the lily flower is upon the forehead of the heir (i.e. monarchy no longer a puppet of a secular Republic, but the rightful divine ruler of a holy kingdom); the king will come “thick with the dust of exile” stirred up by the “murderers of his country”, and that the land will be foreign to him; coming from the north of the borders he will pass unharmed through legions of enemies and reclaim the sceptre of glory (crowned in exile – think Robert the Bruce).

Of interest, the name of the exiled king’s faithful warriors: Cruciferi, “the Crucified”, those who have renounced the world and taken their cross, to live or die by the law of the church. He leads this band of devotees, Cruciferi or Cross Bearers, restoring Roman Catholicism from West to East in union with the Angelic Pontiff.

The Baltic Forest Brothers, Polish Cursed or Doomed Soldiers and the Croatian Crusaders who fought in eastern Europe against Soviet occupation in the 1950’s and 60’s are a clear comparison.

Let us continue.

GEOPOLITICAL FAULT LINES & THE KING OF THE OUTLAWS

God is a storyteller, repeating the same myth; he holds up a mirror to history, in His own image, foreshadowing and retelling the mythos Christus, first as exile (Crucifixion) and finally hero-king (Second Coming): the Grail Quest.

Structure: a heroic warlord falls from grace due to sin (usually sexual) and loses everything; his firstborn is raised in obscurity, an orphan, hidden from his enemies (and also those who would force him onto the throne of his fathers for their own gain); he discovers he is the rightful heir and makes a bold attempt to save his people from tyranny, catastrophically fails, and flees with only the most loyal disciples; he meets a wise figure or priest who initiates him into the mysteries, calling him to fulfil his destiny through mercy not vengeance; he returns to his people, willing to die, as a moral quest (the Grail); he faces his metaphysical shadow (a black mirror), rescues his people and ascends the throne.

All heroes follow this pattern.

Everyone from Moses to Aragorn lives and serves thus: orphan-exile-outlaw-hero-king; occurring in real history as often as it does in myth and legend.

Reality: man’s father Adam (Christ is the second Adam), sins through the sin of woman, brings death into the garden; man is exiled, compounded by the sin of Cain; the rightful heir Jesus, the only one who can heal sin, is born into obscurity to a virgin peasant, living in poverty among a band of dissidents; faces his enemy (Satan) in the desert, rises to his calling and returns to Jerusalem to fulfil his destiny, is murdered on behalf of his people on the grave of Adam at Golgotha; at the resurrection the Gospel message is spread (the last two thousand years of history); at the end (Revelation/Apocalypse) Christ triumphantly rides out at the head of an army of martyrs and angels to trample death, sin and Satan, rescue his people, and bring them to the new physical kingdom of heaven on earth (the White City).

This is the story.

This is God’s method of delivering justice against tyrants and bringing rightful rulers to their divine appointment. It is the way in which the Coming Catholic Emperor will inherit first the throne of the Lily (France), and eventually a new Rome (a reborn and united Holy Roman Empire) spanning East and West as we have discussed.

If we are to understand how the Emperor will emerge we must understand the role Russia has to play in the coming chastisement and how Russian aggression on the borders of Europe has prepared the playing field for the great cataclysm of our time.

Blessed Sister Aiello:

“Russia will march upon all the nations of Europe, particularly Italy, and will raise her flag over the dome of St Peter’s…Russia with her secret armies will battle America, and overrun Europe.”

The prophecy of Jasper:

“When men indulge in sensuous pleasures, voluptuousness, when no one wishes to obey anymore, when there is widespread discontent amongst the peoples of the earth, then Russia will pour out masses of soldiers and they will reach the Rhine.”

Sister Rosa Di Taggia:

“A lawless democratic spirit of disorder shall reign supreme and there will be a general overthrow. There shall be great confusion of people against people, and nations against nations with the clashing of arms and beating of drums. The Russians shall come to Italy.”

If you look at our great myth from a purely political perspective it is senseless, so one must look at it from a meta-political Biblical view. Only then does the seemingly irrational bellicosity of the Russian war machine make historical sense (as does the virus of Communism spreading so quickly amongst the peasant marauders of the steppe). Barbarians have always sought to conquer Paris, not because it makes political, economic or geographical sense but because of its symbolic nature.

When one looks at the fault lines along which Russian-European aggression is beginning to erupt into open war, one can see ancient animosities which cannot simply be switched off with economic pacts or treaties. The people of Eastern Europe have a long memory and the tribes of the Baltics and the Balkans are not hemmed in by borders on a map but by the tombs of their ancestors and the steel of the swords which defended them in centuries of war.

THEY MAKE OF US BEASTS

This conflagration, from which the Coming Catholic Emperor will emerge, doth not require more outlaws, or more cruelty, or more masculinity. It requires only one thing: more penance.

The great wars of the next century, and the centuries after that, until the Second Coming of Christ, will not be fought by savages with archaic weapons in memory of an antique era; they will be fought by soldiers, trained men who know what they are doing. This miserable and thankfully brief age of boys playing at manhood will happily end on the chopping block of worldwide collapse.

It is in this context that boys in the bodies of men slope about in the west masquerading as warriors, donning the robes of knights or the pelts of marauders, ignorant to the fact that modern knights wear Kevlar vests and the marauders are carrying a PKP and an AK12.

Many people ask, how do we make men strong again? How do we approach this question of masculinity which has been haemorrhaged from the western world and appears to be approaching its zenith in the absolute emasculation of every noble thing?

The answer is simple, and it is the same answer that God has always provided those he loves: war.

Only war makes people strong.

The virus of the age: decadence, decay, doom and death.

The cure: morality, growth, hope and new life.

The catalyst: war (as spark to light the tinder).

The gardener cannot bring the allotment into fresh bud until he has first cleared the ground of weeds and turned the soil; this is by necessity a violent act, God as gardener is by necessity cruel, for the husbandman (Adam) has shirked his duty.

To act out of love for the garden one must first observe that the fruit trees are withered and the vine is choked by weeds; what kind of man then looks at this chaos and says “well at least I still have apples”, to provide for the family and for the future, God calls farmers from among the people.

“The 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.”

Meekness: patient and hopeful endurance of undesirable circumstances.

Fierceness: unrestrained violence or brutality; that which inspires fear through fury.

The aristocrat: one who rules because he is best; by nature the happy mean between two extremes. He has won his kingdom at the blunt end of a battle axe and is descended from pirates (think William the Conqueror) but he is selected from among his peers as King because he is the wisest (think Alfred the Great). Rulers of old were simultaneously blood soaked, iron clad warlords but also legislators, judges, philosophers and deeply religious (the Priest King).

We pray for an age of warrior poets:

Wolfram von Eschenbach, a Bavarian knight and also Minnesänger (singing poet); Cervantes fought in the Holy League at Lepanto against the Ottomans before retiring and writing Don Quixote; Ignatius of Loyola was a soldier in the army of the kingdom of Castile before converting on his sick bed and developing the ascetic “Spiritual Exercises”; CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, both soldiers in the trenches of WW1, also poets and storytellers.

We are inheritors of the warrior poet tradition; those who do not care if they live or die, through our poetry we become Cruciferi, the Crucified Ones, the Doomed Soldiers, and it does not matter what the world says, believes or does.

Do we esteem those who came before us as weaker men because they failed, or strong because they fought, and died, defending the weak without thought of victory?

The knight is making his way to the Golden City; he is not a Fool for long, his antithesis is the ignorant bandit who remains in the woods, a temporary state for the hero, not a permanent resting place. He must ascend beyond the notion of being exile and when he returns to his people as hero only then does he become aristocrat.

Fun loving and dangerous, the archetype of the one who is as violent towards himself as he is with the world, and as cruel towards his lower nature as he is merciful towards the weak. This is the last great adventure.

A soldier is not a saint unless he ascends past his lower self (the desire for cruelty) and fights for a higher mode of being (Chivalry), a higher order of why and not simply how.

We are therefore each of us already Hanged Men, Cursed Soldiers, Cruciferi, there is no meaning left in modernism and therefore we seek the end of war as an end in itself, an internal process leading to a higher class of life (Warrior Monk).

THE HERMITAGE

Modern definitions according to medieval monasticism:

contrary to moral decline (the brothers live by a strict set of rules governing their daily life from waking to sleep)
egalitarianism among the brethren vs exclusivity toward the world (the brothers share everything with each other, they have no private possessions)
rigidly authoritarian (the brothers live in a militarised hierarchy, governing each thought and word, they do not require policing, they police each other)
romanticised militarism (the brothers practice a form of ascetic Roman Catholicism which elevates battle to the highest form of private duty, and service to the poor, widows and orphans as the highest public duty)
hyper masculine culture of conformity (women are banned from the monasteries)
the enemy manifests simultaneously as an external invasive force and an internal force of decadence, modernity is the principle of communal decline, tradition is the principle of communal perfectionism
principles of sacrifice (the brothers are willing to put their life on the line for the dogma)

We do not require a system which we can live by; instead we seek an inner force, a governing and guiding definition of what can be achieved by the power of the Holy Ghost. We seek another Pentecost, just as the Knights of the Round Table received before setting out on the Quest, when the Grail fed each man until he was truly full (by the grace of God, this is not a physical sustenance).

The world speaks of revolution;

The culture speaks of regeneration;

The masses speak of renaissance;

The Holy Ghost and the Holy Grail speak of rebirth and resurrection.

That which is drawn from the whitewashed tomb can only be breathed back to life by the Lord, and therefore it must be determined by the Lord’s timings.

The Knights of the Grail endure this process and every man must personally and privately understand (through pilgrimage) how they relate to Lancelot, Gawain, Perceval, Bors, or Galahad in their own quest. Each one of us is Lancelot in our arrogance, sin, and failure, but how many of us would be willing to hang up the shield and lance and go into a monastery? The true hero of the story is not Galahad (destined from before his birth to fulfil the role of seeker and soldier, never really succumbing to the fool archetype) but those knights who fail constantly, and still persevere.

Practical steps towards neo-asceticism:

Pilgrimage – constant seeking after that which was lost, looking for the Grail in reality, through the sacraments, in tombs, in dream and vision, seeking after that which was hidden, Magnum Opus.
Hermitage – the conversion of the private space into a sacred space; modernism steals from us our private devotions, our living spaces are vehicles for projecting the degeneracy into our own homes, we give pride of place to television or computer or mobile phone in our houses and hands. Return pride of place to books, art, heavy bag, squat rack, barbell, flag, banner and symbol and the ultra-minimalism of the monastic in at least one private place in your life.
Fostering the militarised principle – we make every moment of our life a decision toward penance or not, to become something holy or something sinful, every moment of our lives is either a prayer to Christ or a prayer to Satan (Loyola’s Two Flags).

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