There is much you learn in the cold. I refer to a real cold, the kind where your snot freezes around your nose and a gust of wind penetrates like a knife to your core. Your feet turn numb in your boots. That kind of cold, the quantitative descriptions of … Continue reading →

It should be kept in mind that flesh and blood communities rarely resemble their quirky counterparts on social media. Oftentimes you’ll find amongst “trad” Catholic and Orthodox individuals on various platforms a level of neuroticism, argumentativeness, and mood swings typically varying from sneering triumphalism to utter despondency. I’m exaggerating a … Continue reading →

285. And each brother should ensure that the Enemy does not find him lazy, for the Enemy assails more boldly and more willingly with evil desires and vain thoughts and mean words, a lazy man than he does one whom he finds busy in good work. ~Rule of the Order … Continue reading →

70. The company of women is a dangerous thing, for by it the old devil led many from the straight path to Paradise. ~ Rule of the Templars

“…the ‘asceticism’ inherent in warrior discipline: the ability to see reality , suppressing every particularistic haughtiness, every irrational affectation , every ephemeral pride; scorn the comfortable life and for materialistic ideas of well-being; a style of simplicity, audacity and conscious force, in the common effort, on all planes.” ~ Julius … Continue reading →

  Part of this project is one of discovery. I’m making an effort towards a restoration of the Templar warrior ethos in our current context. I have a few different projects in mind to guide efforts.   One avenue is covering a few figures from relatively recent history and the … Continue reading →

Entryism is the idea of infiltrating an organization in order to take it over. For our purposes, that would be inappropriate, since a society of independents cannot create a permanent society. Nevertheless, the idea of an anchor point is certainly worth considering. This idea has been proposed several times — … Continue reading →

If by setting one’s heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way.~ Hagakure At times it is important, to begin with the end in mind. One’s own inevitable end especially so. Death is a … Continue reading →

For those that belong to the Emperor   There is much talk and digital ink spilled over the crisis of modernity the West finds itself in. While particulars differ all agree that a great deal is wrong. I feel the best description lies with a man of the desert who … Continue reading →