Þere
(There) are praise-worthy things in Western European culture, as there are in
nearly any culture, but it is a mistake to call it the greatest the world has
known. The bad must be recognized and
repented of, and some of these sins are very grave indeed. Father Andrew Phillips of England posted
some good thoughts in this vein:
The
Frankish kinglet Karl the Tall (he measured 1 meter 90), better known in
English under his French name Charlemagne, was crowned ‘Holy Roman Emperor’ by
Pope Leo III in Rome in the year 800. This was absurd. He was neither holy, nor
Roman, nor an emperor, but a semi-literate barbarian, iconoclast and filioquist
heretic who had rejected the Seventh Universal Council of the Church in 787.
The real Roman Christian Emperors and Empresses, the heirs of the first
Christian Emperor, St Constantine the Great, reigned in New Rome, a city deliberately
founded by St Constantine away from pagan old Rome, the city of Christian
martyrdom, on the very edge of Europe and Asia. The symbol of this Christian
world unity was and is the double-headed eagle, combining and balancing both
east and west, so avoiding being one-sided and provincial.
The
‘empire’ of Charlemagne, essentially western Germany,
France and northern Italy, occupied about 5% of Europe.
However, it was to become the basis for a series of nationalistic,
pseudo-Christian, revolutionary empires, with Hildebrand, Frederick Barbarossa,
the self-crowned ‘Emperor’ Napoleon and Hitler, who both invaded Russia with
multinational, ‘globalist’ armies, with the EU and with today’s Obama. All
these neo-pagan tyrants have over the last twelve centuries tried to destroy
the real Christian Empire, that was founded in New Rome (later called
Constantinople) and then, when this had been sacked by barbaric Roman Catholics
and finished off by Islamists, was transferred to the New Rome in Moscow. All
these tyrants are forerunners of Antichrist, who have inherited and continued
the false empire and still proclaim it to be the true Empire of Christ.
Thus,
in 1941 the Austrian tyrant Hitler invaded Russia, calling his campaign
‘Operation Barbarossa’ and one of his sadistic SS divisions was called
‘Charlemagne’, whom he celebrated. Thus, under Chancellor Adenauer (1876-1967),
Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne called the US-instigated Cold War and its
threat of nuclear holocaust ‘the realization of Charlemagne’s ideas’ and every
year since 1950 the EU and its predecessors have awarded a ‘Charlemagne prize’
for implementing the tyranny of the US-run Fourth Reich. Little wonder that the
Russian poet Tyutchev (1803-1873) wrote long ago that: ‘In Europe there have
long been only two real forces – Revolution and Russia…As a result of the
struggle that has arisen between them, the greatest of struggles, has depended
for many centuries the whole political and religious future of mankind’.
Today
the usurpers of the one-sided, westwards-looking, false Empire are still at
work in their self-justifying Revolution, emptying the Middle East of
worshippers of Christ in conjunction with their Islamist allies and pushing the
borders of the heresies and nationalism of Europe ever more eastwards infecting
the Balkans and the Ukraine.
When will the West stop claiming to be superior to the rest of the world? Only
when the West has forgotten the founding myth of the semi-literate barbarian
Karl the Tall, renounced his iconoclasm and filioque heresy and at last
accepted the Seventh Universal Council of the Church. Only when it accepts the
real Christian Emperor, the heir of the first and last Christian Emperors it so
despises, thus renouncing the myth of the superiority of ‘the West’, accepting
its rightful place as a subject of the real Christian Empire.
Source:
‘From Charlemagne to Obama: The False Empire’, http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/from-charlemagne-to-obama-the-false-empire/,
opened 6 Oct. 2016. Posted in full with
permission of the author.
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the
South!
Anathema
to the Union!
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