Vincit Qui Se Vincit
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The 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.
Those in positions of influence, who should be doing the most, do the least. Those tasked with defending the breach, protecting the stuttering candle of the lantern from the encroaching darkness, abandon their post, embracing luxury. Where there should stand austere sentinels to God’s Law on earth, instead there are vacant bunkers now ravaged by the denizens of the cess pit, clawing their way to the very throne of God.
St Paul declared that we are to focus on what is good, pure and ennobling in the combat against Satan; to paraphrase, “be careful when fighting monsters lest ye become monsters”.
Like Boromir, we run the risk of being devoured by our desire for weapons against the Enemy. Why cover yourselves in the mantle of despair which pollutes everything around you? You are slick with sweat, slipping down the piss strewn slope, straight to Hell.
We must abandon even the smallest facet of their worldview and prepare ourselves with joy for the days to come, sure as we are, that the darkest night heralds the coming dawn.
Bellum Omnes Contra Omnes
(We are indebted to the work of Yves Dupont in detailing what is to come.)
Over a period of agonising decades, possibly centuries, the world descends into universal civil war, along all possible religious, political and social fractures.
All Western democracies and republics collapse; a simultaneous convergence of apocalyptic scenarios of environmental, cosmic, and political cataclysm.
Former alliances capsize and a million competing micro-cultures emerge seeking to liquidate each other over millennia old rivalries. Transplant the condition of 21st century Afghanistan across the fractious divisions of the entire world, with every opponent going blow for blow until extinction.
Where today we experience judicial rule over the finest detail of our lives there will suddenly be no rule whatsoever and instantaneous obliteration of everything civilised.
The Pope flees a burning Rome in ignominious disguise and dies in exile in a most humiliating fashion; a resurgent Russia invades Northern Europe and conquers Paris and London, uniting with the terrorist Republics in the south.
Europe is divided between the conquerors.
Millions, out of fear for their pathetic lives, betray their countries.
The USA is ravaged by civil conflict, whilst fighting a simultaneous brutal war of attrition against Russia in the Arctic, and China in the Pacific; the mighty US military is poured into the abyss of constant pyrrhic attempts to restore order worldwide.
The last great act of honour and nobility by the United States will be to try to help NATO allies whilst the White House is on fire.
The American Empire comes to an stuttering halt in a river of fratricidal blood.
The UN dissolves into competing local and national sects and ancient alliances break down into ruthless global civil war.
The Roman Catholic Church splits in two: one extremely worldly liberal “Church” which embraces the sins which led to the chastisement, in union with all worldly Communist principles; the antagonist remnant church hides in obscurity protecting a very small number of traditionalist priests who preserve the sacraments.
Ultra-traditional versus ultra-liberal; the story is played out across the planet, all without a shepherd to guide them and without Rome or Jerusalem as a harbour. The Church is rudderless, leaderless, alone and facing extinction.
Terrorists commit innumerable atrocities, nuns are raped, priests mocked as they are hanged, churches burned, property stolen and ancient communities wiped from history.
If you doubt any of this for a second you reveal your upper class Western experience of the world, for this exact situation has been experienced by communities across the Middle East in the last 25 years. Syrian refugees could tell you face to face, with the scars on their hands, of priests defending the Eucharist alone as their community was enslaved.
At the height of this worldwide revolution God will send all conceivable means of natural disaster to compound the chastisement.
A comet drags its poisoned tail through the atmosphere, causing three days of darkness, poisonous smog suffocates whole continents; earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and floods.
Two thirds of humanity is snuffed out.
The Katechon
All hope is lost.
The Church has faced its Helms Deep and failed. Nowhere remains untouched by famine, death, war, and rape.
Do we doubt God now?
Somewhere in that ancient homeland of the House of Anjou, where the greatest battles of the last millennia have been fought, in the heart of the First Daughter of the Church, an outlaw of Royal blood (a claimant to the thrones of France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire) rises up to lead a band of exiles and rebels.
They have no chance of success.
Dedicating their efforts to the Sacred Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, they offer their sacrifice in battle to the memory of Rome.
Unexpectedly they win victory after victory, swelling their numbers, gaining territory after territory in what quickly evolves from a guerrilla war into a full blown liberation from the quisling forces.
As the Prince rises, a new Pope emerges from the ranks of the priests living in secret exile across the nations, anonymously continuing the Latin Mass in bunkers, catacombs and ruins. This new Pope is a hard traditionalist, a new Pope Pius; he anoints the Prince in the same manner as Samuel did King David, in secret, surrounded by only the most loyal soldiers.
A great battle is fought in the Caucasus; two armies face each other, one small and desperate led by the Great Prince and the other a mighty band of pagans, traitors, Communists, and terrorist rabble; all fight to the death.
The Prince and the Pope emerge victorious from all who oppose them.
Upon the culmination of victory the new Pope is thrice crowned (with the Papal tiara) in the ruins of St Peter’s and he crowns the Prince as Emperor of the New Holy Roman Empire. All nations are converted; Russia is consecrated to the Blessed Virgin’s Sacred Heart as she commanded and the world converts en-masse.
A period of worldwide peace lasts until the coming of Antichrist.
At the end of his life the Emperor will prepare the way for the coming of the Man of Sin by laying down his sword upon the altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, thus standing out of the way in his divine role as Katechon, or “he who is holding back the Judgement”.
Other prophecies say that this peace will last a hundred years, in which time everyone forgets the evils of the 20th century and descends back into degeneracy one last time before Antichrist brings creation to a close.
Venit Hora
“Cometh the hour, cometh the man.”
For the first time since the resurrection, many of the prophecies regarding the end of time can come to pass.
You may be a sceptic or you may be a Bible thumping believer, what difference does it make?
Man is required first to be man. All else flows from that singularity.
The masculine movement growing in the pews of the West requires guidance and growth from every one of us, it is our responsibility to ask the hardest questions of ourselves and each other.
The core intention of Fortress is to ask those questions and offer answers; always in keeping with the dogma and pointing towards the conclusions reached by the heroes and saints of the past.
Where someone else has said it better before, we won’t bother to say it again.
Why the name Fortress?
The symbolism is clear: the body as fortress; the polis as fortress; the Church as fortress.
Our symbols are tripartite:
The Blessed Virgin Mary inside a spent shell casing;
The Lord Jesus Christ hanging on a crucifix of 7.62 rounds;
The Jerusalem Cross emblazoned upon a tower.
Our motto is dual:
Pro aris et focis – for home and hearth;
Diex aie – God with us
We are called as followers of Christ to struggle in the physical, against physical evil; in the intellectual, against moral evil; in the spiritual, against the Devil.
We are commanded to ascend through incremental phases of usefulness and duty until we become something valuable in the mighty hands of God and the Church. We are called to faith in action, fitness of action and philosophy of action.
We look forward to working with the Roman Catholic men on this path.
