A theme has emerged throughout recent posts, writings, publications, and private conversations in which some important points should be shared about a stance taken on the mysteries of God, valuing the unknowable, and protection of the clues that lead us along the secret paths to the Grail, lest we be tormented by false knights. For they are as greedy intellectual archeologists after sacred artifacts for their own passions and lusts. We come as Romans marching toward the Bridge under the vision of Constantine; Pilgrims, alone and famished in tattered cloth seeking the relic; or as pairs of privative Knights patrolling the perimeter in 90s model steeds and hand-me-down armor; and as weeping Priests who know the blackest parts of all the tormented souls standing before the altar.
These thoughts were shaped by, and points are made by men who must be listed as various members of the Brotherhood of the Angelic Crown, Fortress Grail, the Blue Shepard, our military and police Chaplains, Priests, Pastors and Monks.

“Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens above - what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below - what can you know?”

Love of this world is death, and so we see human corpses walking among us, going about their business; soulless, making plans for next week; shrieking like witches when the Pope makes headlines, hissing like demons at the sign of the cross, scoffing like liberal feminist professors at masculinity. “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
A landscape of consequences lay ahead of us we’re sure, like trip-wires as we gravitate toward each of them like some sort of magnetic ricochet bouncing off canyon walls. But the walking dead rise with the sun, and this city will swallow a man with a Bible and a gun. We are the horseman and archers from whom all take flight into their thickets, up into their rocks. They do not live in these towns - they are but carcasses merely taking up space. We are evangelists, but there are no souls here to be saved. Our dreams tonight are of a tomorrow in which the city is in flames and we are lead upriver in that joy and laughter, ringing true this hope in our hearts. We are making our way…

Not for mass consumption… As if this needed reiterating: this is a project of deepening Roman Catholic masculinity for Roman Catholic men. It is obvious then that our agenda is private, our goals esoteric, our battle an internal one and our means not of this world. We don’t intend to mass produce our work or hope to see a copy of the Manual [or other publications] on every bookshelf. This would be counter productive, especially as our highest goal, that of achieving the Grail, is not won in the physical realm.

Instead we reiterate the elitist, selective, sifting and anti-democratic process at the heart of the Roman Catholic Church. This elitism is essential to the success of the mission which may not be achieved by for another hundred years or more. Christ opens the door to all who knock, he sets a seat at the banquet for any who would ask, he offers his Holy Cup to the purest of heart, but he requires men of iron to guard the door. Stoic hearted men of iron do not quickly allow their ranks to be breached by any newcomer touting the supposed rights and tick boxes to access an inner order. We wont’t publicise the book, we won’t forward of events until they occur and certain waymarks in the earthly pilgrimage will always remain secret.

“True knights recognized from false ones, and the earthly knighthood becoming the heavenly knighthood.”
- Grail Quest Manual

We do not wish to make the mysteries of God tangible. But we are constantly at war against heresies and apostasies. On one hand we have the responsibility to understand God with reason to the best of our capacities. On the other hand, we shouldn’t be obsessive over solving things that Scripture says are mysteries. Nor should we be quick to make dogmas out of things that are rather ambiguous or that can be understood multiple different ways.
Calvin, for example, took many things that are incapable of being dogmatic and turned them into creed. We see all kinds of examples of these throughout all Protestant articles of faiths.
The Catholic Church gets heat from the Eastern cultures and from non-religious bodies for its tendency to nail down doctrine and precepts. However, none others have had to face heresy and paganism quite like the West has and still does. The Catholic Church, in order to save itself from within and preserve truth, and to convert wild people beyond the Alps, by necessity had to do a lot of work in canonizing and organizing Christian dogma, doctrine and teaching.
We are the guardians of the Holy Grail, knowing only where it does not rest as we map our quest, traversing our moral and social landscapes with our faces set like flint.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) is like a glue that holds together the holy body of Christ on Earth, one mind and one heart. Its content is not to explain away the mysteries of God to outsiders. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. We value the secrets of God and the unknowable as much as that which we know to be absolute. We want to know and understand our Father in heaven that we may do his will, make converts and disciples - so we do the work. But not as it is with Protestant sects, with whom their own limited human logic is all the criteria needed to determine fundamental truth. For much of contemporary evangelical doctrine comes from the Bible only and what one man’s brain can make of it. Thus it witnesses continuous schism and division year after year. With no authority, no tradition, and an incomplete canon, it has failed to do what the Catholic Church has done so well for 2,000 years: stay glued.

The duty of the church in society is to prevent men from being too rational… the evidence is clear among so many denominations who abandoned traditions and practices and chopped off portions of scripture simply because they could rationalize the favorability of such actions. Almost a form of spiritual sociopathy where our relationship with things of our heritage is only valued so long as its immediately beneficial or gratifying. “The tide turns against praying with beads, so let’s not do it…. People don’t like the word ‘rite’ so let’s not use it…. The Maccabees are spooky necromantics, and just don’t jive with our enlightened politics, so burn them. Military saints make us look no better than jihadists in a portion of the public’s eye, and our history of heresies and religious wars is balked at by today’s humanistic and hedonistic thinkers, so let’s denounce it all and say We’re not with them…”

These are the greedy gold-diggers in search of holy relics, intellectual adventure junkies climaxing over their latest little nugget of pseudo-truth wrapped up into a nice little package with a cute bow on top. The Indiana Jones’, Da Vinci Coders, conspiracy theorists, Calvinists, luke-warm admins of dainty “Christian” meme pages, obese neckbearded twenty-somethings engulfed in Warhammer 40K or Assassin’s Creed, and all these brainless dweebs out there who think there is a fence to sit on between neo-Germanic pagan wiccan-shamanism Odinic-buddhism and Roman Catholicism. We’re not with them. They are not worthy. They will never reach the Grail Castle. Lord, have mercy on their souls.
We are the headhunters of all roads that lead to Rome, confronting false knights, stamping their arms with abatements.

”It is the responsibility of the noble to ensure that they make use of their gifts and take up the duty of the inner crusade, but it is also their responsibility to keep out the unworthy.”

To be continued… perhaps.

The Brotherhood