Beautifully written. Incredible that you can extract such meaning from a single image.
The sex deficit in the modern West is certainly partly a function of the proliferation of spiritual eunuchs. The flip side however is also important. In the absence of real men, tempered by war and hardship, women have nothing to aspire to themselves. They let themselves go both physically and spiritually. Thus the increase in the various species of female degenerate: the fat and aggressively ugly, on the one hand; the superficially attractive but vapid and narcissistic, on the other. Both are entirely lacking the feminine essence, and therefore neither is able to inspire men to be their best - they aren't prizes worth winning.
Judeo-messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are more recent, but they have only come to reinforce the old Jewish narrative. They are the same ideals.
The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (across peoples, races, cultures) and which are the daily sustenance of our schools, in our media, in our popular culture, at our universities, and on our streets, have ended up reducing our biosymbolic identity and ethnic pride to their minimal expression.
Jewish bankers flooded Europe with Muslims and America with third-world garbage . . . Exile as punishment for those who preach sedition should be reinstated within the legal framework of the West . . . Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are death cults originating in the Middle East and totally alien to Europe and its peoples.
One sometimes wonders why the European left gets along so well with Muslims. Why does an often overtly anti-religious movement take the side of a fierce religiosity that seems to oppose almost everything the left has always claimed to stand for? Part of the explanation lies in the fact that Islam and Marxism have a common ideological root: Judaism . . .
We can't afford healthcare for American children because we need to keep bombing everyone else's for the love of Jesus and Israel. . . So . . . we outlaw abortion because Jesus needs or babies for his war machine? See what I mean?
I felt carried through “A Huguenot” so softly and yet sturdily by your unfolding of the piece. You enlightened the story with a truth that’s ever so relevant and relatable today. Thank you, I now have a new favourite painting
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
This is a beautiful evaluations of the painting, Megha!! Love how you use a metaphor of the woman sometimes being the dragon needing slain... quite thought provoking!
Beautifully written. Incredible that you can extract such meaning from a single image.
The sex deficit in the modern West is certainly partly a function of the proliferation of spiritual eunuchs. The flip side however is also important. In the absence of real men, tempered by war and hardship, women have nothing to aspire to themselves. They let themselves go both physically and spiritually. Thus the increase in the various species of female degenerate: the fat and aggressively ugly, on the one hand; the superficially attractive but vapid and narcissistic, on the other. Both are entirely lacking the feminine essence, and therefore neither is able to inspire men to be their best - they aren't prizes worth winning.
Judeo-messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are more recent, but they have only come to reinforce the old Jewish narrative. They are the same ideals.
The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (across peoples, races, cultures) and which are the daily sustenance of our schools, in our media, in our popular culture, at our universities, and on our streets, have ended up reducing our biosymbolic identity and ethnic pride to their minimal expression.
Jewish bankers flooded Europe with Muslims and America with third-world garbage . . . Exile as punishment for those who preach sedition should be reinstated within the legal framework of the West . . . Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are death cults originating in the Middle East and totally alien to Europe and its peoples.
One sometimes wonders why the European left gets along so well with Muslims. Why does an often overtly anti-religious movement take the side of a fierce religiosity that seems to oppose almost everything the left has always claimed to stand for? Part of the explanation lies in the fact that Islam and Marxism have a common ideological root: Judaism . . .
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
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We can't afford healthcare for American children because we need to keep bombing everyone else's for the love of Jesus and Israel. . . So . . . we outlaw abortion because Jesus needs or babies for his war machine? See what I mean?
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/we-cant-afford-healthcare-for-american
I felt carried through “A Huguenot” so softly and yet sturdily by your unfolding of the piece. You enlightened the story with a truth that’s ever so relevant and relatable today. Thank you, I now have a new favourite painting
I have Huguenot heritage on my mother’s side. I didn’t know about the white scarf.
I had not heard of the Paglia quote before. Quite profound.
I will happily share this wonderful article. Thank you for sharing this.
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
This is a beautiful evaluations of the painting, Megha!! Love how you use a metaphor of the woman sometimes being the dragon needing slain... quite thought provoking!