The
nations of the world have nothing to fear in the long run: The Holy Republican Empire of America will
eventually collapse, for it has cultivated no faculty capable of discerning,
appreciating, participating in, or creating spiritual beauty.
China
has her foundation in the refinement of the soul through the teachings and
example of such sages as Confucius. The
guqin, for instance, was ‘the favored instrument of Confucius’:
“Many people are saying we should restore
traditional Chinese culture,” said Zhao Jiazhen, a guqin master whose audience
has included President Barack Obama. “Qin is the vector of this culture. It was
played by many emperors and ancient poets. If you think about Chinese culture,
you have to consider the qin.” (“Gu” means ancient, and the instrument is
sometimes simply called “qin.”)
Indeed, the guqin was the quintessential
musical instrument of traditional China’s educated elite. For millennia, any
gentlemen worth his salt was expected to be proficient at it, along with chess,
calligraphy and painting. The guqin was believed to be the instrument best able
to link man and cosmos, to harmonize heaven and earth; some even claimed it
could summon ghosts, cure disease, make birds dance and fish fly.
The paulownia tree, from
whose wood the instrument is crafted, was believed to be special, thriving in
remote areas, standing still as a spirit, and absorbing the luminescence of sun
and moon.
So deeply embedded is the guqin in Chinese
culture that to study it is to embrace an all-encompassing moral philosophy
known as “the way of the qin,” essentially a lifestyle of moderation,
self-cultivation and decorum. A sincere follower of the way of the qin does not
seek fame but, like Boya, prefers a select audience of fragrant pines, craggy
peaks, swirling mists and the occasional discerning human. Indeed, a true guqin
devotee does not have to play the instrument at all. He can simply possess it
and appreciate its “soundless music.”
Proper playing of the guqin is a metaphor
for good governance — “if the large strings are too tight, the small strings
will break” — and emperors were often portrayed holding a guqin.
--Sheila Melvin, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-guqin12.html (Our thanks to Mr
Cristian for this link)
For
an idea of how the guqin sounds when played:
Russia
has her foundation in the radiant beauty of the One True Faith of the Holy
Orthodox Church, which brings forth from her storehouse of holiness abundant
blessings of kindness, gentleness, light, and healing such as this:
In the 16th Century, this Icon was found in
a lovely setting on Mt. Kuremyae, known to the Estonian populace as
“Pyukhtitsa,” i.e. “Holy Mountain.” At the foot of the mountain there is a
spring flowing with healing water.
According to tradition, the Holy Icon
appeared at a time when the German nobility was striving to forcibly convert
the locals to their faith. It was then that the Mother of God showed her kind
mercy to the local populace in order to strengthen them in the Orthodox
Faith.
One morning, an Estonian shepherd witnessed
the Virgin standing in a radiant light upon the mountain; each time he
attempted to come closer, she would become invisible. The astonished shepherd
described this miraculous apparition to his fellow villagers, who in their turn
were able to confirm that his account was true. The next day, an Icon of the Dormition
of the Mother of God was
found there, resting in a fissure in an ancient oak tree.
The Estonian shepherds who found the Icon
of the Mother of God gave it to the Orthodox residents of their village. Then
the villagers constructed a chapel to house the Holy Icon near the healing
spring at the foot of the mountain.
In 1876 a church was erected on the site of
the finding of the Holy Icon, and in 1891, the women’s Monastery of the
Dormition was established there. Righteous St.
John of Kronstadt, a great
pastor and prayerful intercessor for all Russia, was a true native and
spiritual father to the nuns of the monastery, providing them with spiritual
nourishment and instruction. He foresaw that on the site of the blessed
apparition of the Mother of God, a there would arise a great cathedral church
monastery, which would become a beacon of Orthodoxy in the Estonian land. Fr.
John loved the Pyukhtitsa Monastery very much, and often, sending his spiritual
children there, would tell them, “There you will be three steps from the
Kingdom of Heaven.”
Each year on the Feast of the Dormition of
the Most-holy Theotokos, such great numbers of the faithful would gather at
Pyukhtitsa that during the All-night Vigil, the entire mountain would be
illuminated by the candles being held by the faithful
The Pyukhtitskaya Icon of the Dormition of
the Mother of God is relatively small in size. Applied to the Icon below the
depiction of the Mother of God in the tomb is an open-mesh silver net serving
as her shroud.
Pilgrims for everywhere continue to come to
Pyukhtitsa to bow down before the Icon granted [to the faithful] by the Queen
of Heaven herself, and to wash in the healing waters of the spring.
Western
European nations had the same foundation in the Orthodox Faith as Russia before
the Great Schism gave them a new half-heathen underpinning (something Dr Joseph
Farrell amply notes in God, History, and
Dialectic). But they nevertheless
retained some sensitivity to beauty in the centuries that followed, as is
evident in, for instance, musical works by Corelli, Haydn, and others.
And
likewise for many other places in the world.
The
American Empire, however, is founded not on truth, beauty, and goodness, but on
lies, ugliness, and violence. Its
foundations were laid on the bones of hundreds of thousands of slaughtered
Southerners and Native Americans, an invitation to the demons which has never
been revoked. Rather, this Empire has
only strengthened its demonic domination over the States by killing millions of
unborn children through abortion at home and hundreds of thousands of adults
and children in wars overseas.
It
knows little of spiritual beauty and refinement of the soul but is instead much
inclined toward the stimulation of the brute passions in the quest for money,
pleasure, and the like.
The
physical fabric of its communities (if one can call them that) which it has
built is a true reflection this spiritual ugliness - deformed, bizarre,
disorienting:
. . .
The
rest is at https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/collapse-america .
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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