‘Harmonica’
has been writing some good essays on Christianity, heathenism, and Europe that
have become necessary as apostasy spreads over the West. The mentioning of Charlemagne got things a
bit offtrack, however. The key passage
is this one, from Part
3 of the series:
‘The real
origins of the West do not reside in Plato’s Athens, but rather in
Charlemagne’s Carolingian Empire. It was at this point where all three of the
West’s major influences, the Classical world, Christianity, and Germanic
culture, all cohesively came together.’
In a sense,
he is correct: The founding of the
Carolingian Empire was the beginning of something new, but not in the positive
sense – rather, in the sense of a deviation from what is true and right. For Charlemagne swerved away from universal
Christian teaching in two major ways, both of which have led the West to the decrepit
state she is in now. First, he rejected
the decision of the Seventh Ecumenical (Universal) Council of 787 A.D., which
upheld the veneration of icons of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the saints and
angels. Second, he unlawfully modified
the Nicene Creed, so that the Holy Spirit is said to proceed from the Father
and the Son, rather than simply from the Father as the original version
approved by the Second Ecumenical Council (+381) reads.
By rejecting
the Seventh Council at the Frankfurt Synod (+794), Charlemagne rejected an
essential teaching about Jesus Christ, rejected His full humanity. In rejecting the veneration of Christ in
icons, he belittled the human nature of Christ.
But the Lord Jesus, being fully God and fully man, is 1) able to be
depicted in icons, mosaics, etc., and 2) receives honor when men and women
venerate His holy image. This distortion
of belief and practice by Charlemagne disincarnates Christ, separates us from
Him by making Him a shadowy ghost somewhere up in the heavens rather than the
God-man Whom we may see, taste, touch, kiss, etc. These falsehoods that have uglified Christ turn
people away from Christianity and cause them to seek out pagan alternatives.
But this is
not his most serious error. His addition
of the Filioque (‘and the Son’) to the Nicene Creed, which deformed the true
Apostolic teaching of the Holy Trinity, is what has truly devastated the
West. Dr Joseph Farrell in the foreword
to his magnum opus God, History, and Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of the Two
Europes and Their Cultural Consequences goes into some of the details. What follows are a just a few of the
highlights:
These essays are about the Two Europes and
the Three Trinities on which they are based. The first Trinity is the
Holy Trinity of classical Christian doctrine, uncorrupted by its Augustinian
formulation, the Trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Ghost. As the first term of the second Trinity is St. Augustine of
Hippo’s Dialectical Formulation of the Holy Trinity; as the second term of the
second trinity is the History which that dialectical formula-tion moulded and
shaped, and as the third term of the second trinity are the divisions which
resulted from the application of Augustine’s trinitarian dialectics in History,
the resulting schisms of “Europe” into First Europe, Second Europe, and Russia.
The causes for the Second Europe’s tripartite division of History into
its Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Ages is thus to be credited to St.
Augustine’s dialectical formulation of the Trinity. This
transub-stantiation of the Trinity from a revealed Mystery to a dialectical
deduction, and finally, to a dialectical process at work within History is
simply unintelligible without Augustine. In the thirteenth century,
Joa-chim of Floris’ Age of the Father, Age of the Son, and (coming) Age of the
Spirit, or Petrarch’s or Gibbon’s Golden Age, Dark Age, and Renaissance, or
Hegel’s well-known Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis, or Comte’s
“superstitious, metaphysical, and scientific” periods, and finally, our own
superficially academic and objective divisions of Ancient, Mediaeval, and
Modern “History” are but tired exhausted reworkings of the original
heresy which split the Latin Church from Eastern Orthodoxy and created the Two
Europes. The Second Europe’s historiography, even in its most
avowedly secular form, Marxism, is thus one of many logical implications and
inevitabilities of the Augustinizing of doctrine which took place from the
fifth to the ninths centuries in the Christian West.
. . .
The rest is here:
https://identitydixie.com/2023/05/01/second-thoughts-about-charlemagne/
A somewhat different version is here:
https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/globalists-obsession-charlemagne
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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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