Western Civilization: Preserved Through The Fire

Refinement Is Coming

Bishop Williamson has not been holding back as of late. I am neither Catholic nor French, but sometimes his quick analysis is still interesting. Especially so for the wider dissident sphere, given what he often writes about.

One such piece is his ‘The Downfall Of Europe‘ articles:

The collapse of France and of Europe as a whole is a catastrophic reality. It did not happen overnight. The undermining has been going on for a long time, as French nationalists most keenly saw, predicting the grave consequences for society and civilisation, which are now evident. Several outstanding writers, and magazines like Rivarol, have long been sounding the alarm, as dark events followed one after another.

After the collapse of France’s colonial empire and the betrayal of French Algeria the student uprising of 1968 in Paris demonstrated that the French people in general were ready to accept the overthrow of all common sense, Tradition, sane morals, of whatever used to make the greatness of our civilisation. Then came the legalising of abortion, a socialist government in 1981, anti-racism, engineered immigration, reshaping the family, LGBT, transgender, paedophilia, adrenochrome (a real horror), organ sales, “climate change,” chemtrails, etc. Yet there was little public reaction. People might be a little shaken for a moment or two, but soon they settled down again. Yet we speak of “a rise in the standard of living” as though there has been a real bettering of life, when in reality it has been little more than technical – better machines making available more material goods. The result has been that the household’s need for two salaries instead of one splits the mother from the home, especially if she may not like mothering. 

For a whole age France radiated worldwide, in general for good, but now it is itself sinking in a moral and economic decline, in such a social and intellectual crisis that it can no longer exercise any such influence. Worst of all, it rejects, scorns and is ignorant of all that it once achieved. Yet surprisingly, that “West,” which is no longer anything more than the puppet of satanic masters who are an oligarchy of materialistic and gnostic globalists, still behaves as though it has a calling to lead the world, somewhat like the Talmudic Jews pretending themselves to be the priesthood of mankind. 

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Our task in politics is to do whatever we can that may have an effect, but it is mainly to preserve for a better future the best fruits of France’s glorious past, just as, when in the sixth century the Roman empire was being swamped by the barbarians, the monks in the monasteries preserved the glories of antiquity. These glories, preserved, played a large part in the building up which followed, of 1500 years of European and Christian civilisation. 

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PART 2 [Found Here]

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What these would like to prove is that the most serious problems of human politics cannot be solved without the Catholic religion. To prove that, is easier said than done, because the whole mentality of modern man is that politics, economics, art, medicine, law, music, etc., all have nothing to do with religion, or, religion has nothing to do with them. In other words, the best of political arguments do not go far enough. Let us begin by an even briefer summary of last week’s summary in seven paragraphs, of the article – 

1 France and Europe are collapsing. We nationalists have long been announcing the catastrophe. 

2 From the 1950’s onwards, one political disaster after another has caused little public reaction. 

3 Ever since the Middle Ages, France had a largely beneficent worldwide influence – no longer. 

4 Today France and Europe are fast enslaving themselves to the banksters of New York and London. 

5 By their proxy war in the Ukraine the USA have broken the competition of Europe and Germany. 

6 Here is the end of a world, yet the highest institutions of France are silent, docile, go with the flow. 

7 Solution? In politics we must do what we can, and preserve cultural treasures for better times. 

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6 But why is France currently being led by such “infamous” individuals? Because these are the men being currently voted for, if you please, by “politics” in a “democracy.” And the same is happening all over Europe. Modern man believes not in God or religion, but in man and politics. Is the resulting trash any surprise? 

7 No wonder the good nationalist writer arrives at such a weak solution. True, the medieval monks squirrelled away treasures of antique culture for the benefit of all mankind, centuries later, but by what were they motivated? Not by politics, but by that religion which taught the enduring value of Beauty, Good and Truth. 

Of course politics are subject to religion, or to the lack of religion, and religion, or its lack, governs politics. The reason is not far to seek. God exists, infinitely above His merely human creatures, and in Him they all “live and move and have their being,” every moment of their existence (Acts XVIII, 28). Politics can be nowhere so close to any man alive. For indeed religion is the relationship that every man must have to this God so deep within him, politics are merely the exterior relationship he has with his fellow-men. But if a man refuses to believe in God, then naturally his politics become his substitute religion. Beware, nationalists! 

If you like those snippets, I encourage you to read the full thing. For dissidents, these articles are of note because his arguments are formed originally by French Nationalists from Jeune Nation (which is a source I read occasionally). Bishop Williamson adopts them in the sense of a Christian heritage.

There is a deep sense of truth in much of this discourse. For instance, I always enjoy when people call out the Middle Ages as not so “Dark” as they are sold to us as, which he did here:

Yet we speak of “a rise in the standard of living” as though there has been a real bettering of life, when in reality it has been little more than technical – better machines making available more material goods.

As I have also done in places articles such as this one: The Dark Ages: Pretty Great.

More plastic garbage from China does not raise our actual standard of living, but it certainly raises it from a materialist, economic standpoint.

Who cares that we’re all significantly less healthy, more depressed, being ethnically cleansed/replaced, and without hope in God? Surely, according to the modern materialist, we just need even more Hot Pockets and POP! collectibles.

But the best part of this article, and the reason I wanted to share it, is because of his answer to the great collapse:

Our task in politics is to do whatever we can that may have an effect, but it is mainly to preserve for a better future the best fruits of France’s glorious past

When Rome fell, the monks, the archivists, and all the true believers in enduring truth and goodness took the relics of Rome and secured them so they could once again be found in the future. These treasures upheld our civilization through Christendom, even to now.

Hilariously, the reason we have Roman-Pagan fanboys is because of dedicated Christian Romans that preserved that heritage and history.

I have called for much of this preparation in my Ways To Contribute series. The collapse is coming, now really is the time to be bunkering down and storing the wealth of knowledge, history, and tradition for when the rebuild occurs.

Western Civilization has an amazing tradition; tradition worthy of saving. But far too many of our own are focused on the temporary, material problem of politics that will inevitably result in failure. There is no way to stop the crash course we are on—As the Bishop said, the downfall of Europe is already underway. The use of politics now is only to slow down that fall so we can do our duty as the new Monks of Rome.

Listen, the fire is coming. It will burn our civilization. As the Sciptures say: All goes through the fire to be refined. What is worthwhile will remain. What is not will be burnt up. We are on the cusp of this happening on a civilizational scale. Make sure you are a part worthy of making it through and make sure you preserve whatever you feel is likewise important to keep through this fall.

Our goal now is to get through this collapse intact. We cannot prevent, but we can preserve.

So let me be the first to say: Congratulations! You’re a Monk of Rome now.

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