Sunday Wisdom

 

"He who exalts himself will be humbled," says Christ, and "he who humbles himself will be exalted." To that end I sermonized on pride this morning. Avoid it, dear friends, like the plague it is, the deadliest of deadly sins. Yes indeed, and in that resolve hear this by Austin Farrer:

We never come to God without committing ourselves to him entirely, so far as in us lies, and in the present moment. It seems sometimes to be preached, however, that by a decision once for all made, we can commit ourselves irrevocably. But if this is preached, then it is not true. Today’s decisions cannot tie tomorrow’s hands. What I give to God today, such is my frailty, I may take back or withhold tomorrow. It is through this that God disciplines me, through this that he breaks my pride. The heart is sick and desperately perverse, even the redeemed heart: what it gave God yesterday it takes back today. Our wickedness is so great that we fail to do promised actions, which we had perfectly envisaged at the time of promising. But even if we had the virtue to keep our promise with God when the circumstances are foreseen and unaltered, we should still lack the power to commit ourselves on issues which cannot be perfectly felt or foreseen in advance. He who promises to be chaste, does well and may be perfectly sincere; but he has not by that promise dealt with the temptation he will face when he falls in mutual love with an actual woman, and cannot marry her. Our fences cannot be jumped beforehand, nor our battles won before the enemy appears. You promise fidelity to Christ today, and you are sincere; but it will spare you none of the agony of decision, if a day comes when political brigands hold to our heads the pistol of absolute power, and say, ‘Your religion or your life.’

No, we cannot commit ourselves in a day, because we cannot, merely by saying we will, put our whole trust in God. To trust in God is a thing which has to be learnt. We may stand up and make our profession of faith, clasp a missioner’s hand and say, ‘I have taken Christ for my Savior, I trust him for all.’ But we shall still trust ourselves to do our part in the new covenant we have entered. For we do not learn what dependence on God is, except through having our self-dependence broken in the mill of life, slowly and painfully. Many tears, much shame, continual repentance, this is the lot of those who pledge themselves to God. A paradoxical pledge; we learn to keep it by breaking it. True confessions, bravely and sincerely made to our confessor and absolved with the word of Christ, these are the means by which we learn distrust of ourselves, and trust in God alone. On every such occasion we affirm our self-commital. We bring to life every promise we previously made, back to our confirmation, back to our baptism when others’ lips promised for us, back behind that to the cross, on which Christ committed us to God by dying for us.

 

Such wisdom, and this stood out, "For we do not learn what dependence on God is, except through having our self-dependence broken in the mill of life, slowly and painfully. Many tears, much shame, continual repentance, this is the lot of those who pledge themselves to God."

We can add: The lot of those who take the lowest place at the marriage feast only to be called, "Friend, come up higher." Higher, to paradise itself.

God bless you all,

LSP

Like What?

 

Pause for a moment and consider the significance. The DHS, right there in the belly of the beast, from the heart of USGOV, urging us to pray without ceasing. Reflect on that, ponder it, what a reversal and unthinkable here up until now. A seismic shift. Europe and the Anglosphere, what was once Christendom, might want to sit up and take notice. Change is apparently coming. You know it's happened before, heathen Rome became Christian.

Dear readers, did you know that demons flee before prayer?

Non Draco Sit Mihi Lux,

LSP

Import Export

 

Nice Shirt Dude

Look, we're all in favor of fair trade and that's exactly it. Why should the poor citizens of the United States of America have to put up with British import Harry and his simpering LA D-List actress wannabe-but-never-will-be Queen figure? Why, why should we, it's unfair. 

Looking Good, Feeling Good until TRUMP

Fortunately the selfless royal couple are attempting to redress this shocking trade imbalance on their own, by self-deporting. Why? Because the evil Orange Dictator insists, like a typical and literal Nazi that his country should and does have an enforceable border. Wow. What. A. Fascist. Such unendurable tyranny for the unelected, fabulously wealthy, privileged, entitled, utterly selfless royal couple. So maybe Harry and Meghan will return to the Sceptered Isle, as an export.

Fierce

Not everyone's happy about this in the UK. A 14 year old Scottish girl was seen protesting with axe and knife. Can you blame her? She's been arrested, we hope, by agents of the Crown.

Savage

Prince Harry was a perfectly good and popular officer in the British Army until he was bewitched by the Californian Simperer-in-Chief. Will the UK have them back? Will the brave young savage girl with axe and knife repel the imports or will Harry and beloved no-talent Meghan set up in England at taxpayer expense?

Stay tuned, and as always, you be the judge,

LSP

Let's Calm Down Kids

 

Wow, what a news cycle, tumultuous, eh? And unrelenting, as though we're accelerating into some new evolution. Perhaps, and let's hope it's a good one. Whatever, calm right down, take a deep breath and enjoy Stardust. 

I remember my parents slow dancing to it in Dallas in the '70s when the album came out and everything seemed better. Of course I was a child at the time and everything was magical. It is in my mind today.

Then there's "Kier" Starmer and the Worldwide Anglican Non Communion (WANC). Sorry! Don't get all riled up! No, dear friends, just relax and enjoy Stardust.

Best,

LSP

What Devilry is This?

 

You've all heard about 23-year-old transgender man Robin (Robert) Westman who shot up a Catholic school in Minneapolis, killing two and injuring 17 more. Was Robin a victim of the trans cult which fuels the identity politics of the Rainbow Left and lines the pockets of Big Pharma? 

He certainly seems to have thought so. "I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself," wrote the Robin/Robert trans human hybrid in his bizarre manifesto. 

So, victim? I'd argue yes, but surely other forces are at work here beyond the deadly inanity of the Left and its alliance with Mammon. Demons. These want to kill, destroy and maim God's creation, especially children. They're nihilists, see Bolshevikism, and their end or telos is destruction, pure and simple. Far-sighted readers will recall Manasseh in Williams' War in Heaven, "They build, we destroy."

That in mind, let's rebuild Christendom, by the grace of God, and end this utter, satanic iniquity. Know this too, they lose and we win.

Baphomet, you'll recall, is trans,

LSP

Let Em Come

 

Old but gold.

Cheers,

LSP

Free The UK - September 13

 

Do you think the tide's turning? About dam time. Who knows, maybe JDV will be there on September 13; it'd be a Trumpian moment, do you not think? Regardless, here at the Compound we're endeavoring to entice a rooster to the halcyon timbers of the back deck. C'mon. let's see the Admin on mission to save the UK. 

Cheers.

For St. George and England,

LSP

The Faraway People - A Parable

 

Look, there's even a few videos:

Here's another, just for kix:

Stay tuned. 

St. George and England forever,

LSP

A Short Sunday Reflection

Here's a short Sunday meditation on supernatural inspiration; no small thing. Via Eclectic Orthodoxy:

Supernatural inspiration involves the infusion of knowledge from beyond the upper bounds of natural consciousness. In exploring this idea, Farrer finds it necessary to distinguish supernatural inspiration from “inspired wit” and from “preternatural” consciousness. He explains that “the excellence of the mind consists . . . of a conscious intelligence based always upon acute senses and riding upon a vigorous imagination.” He uses several analogies:

"The previous labour of the intelligence is thrown down into the imagination as into a cauldron, from which it emerges again fused into new figures and, it may be, enriched with materials from the subconscious sphere, which were never in distinct consciousness at all. . . . In inspired wit a spark leaps from intelligence to intelligence across a field of imagination: whereas in weird abnormal consciousness the spark leaps from the outer dark into imagi­na­tion itself, providing an image of which the intelligence must make what it can. (24-25)"

 

The infusion of divine knowledge and, surely, being; our Orthodox friends, I think, would call this divinization. Is this not what we're all about as Christians? Strive, my friends, to enter by the narrow door, the strait gate which is Christ Himself. Here endeth the reflection.

God bless,

LSP

How Very Awesome

 

Right on. Let's see more of this, far more, until at last the world can breathe free of rainbow poison and degeneracy. And Georgia Meloni is awesome. At least that's what we think at the Compound, you may not, no rule.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

About Bloody Time

 

Enough

Florida Governor DeSantis has ordered the immediate removal of all rainbow pride propaganda from public facilities and roads, and what can we say? About bloody time. Here's ZeroHedge:

Let's make one thing very clear from the start:  LGBT pride flags are political symbols for a political movement with an undeniable agenda.  They are not "art murals" or expressions of civil rights, they are information weapons designed to saturate the American environment with far-left propaganda. 

Woke activists have no right to paint their ideological symbols on taxpayer funded roadways.  No political group has that right.  The fact that progressives and Democrats were allowed to hijack US flagpoles and streets as their own personal indoctrination tools shows just how far America has fallen into the abyss in the past several years.  Luckily, the pendulum is swinging back to center.      

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been disinfecting his state and killing the woke mind virus ever since his victory against the attempted coup by Disney in 2023.  Leftists were dumb enough to believe that Florida needed Disney more than Disney needed Florida and the end result was predictable.

 

Nasty, Degenerate, Dangerous

 

You can read the whole thing here if you like. While you're at it, earn useful community hours by erasing, painting over and removing loathsome, sinful, degenerate, ugly PRIDE chevrons from the public square. Good heavens, it's ugly enough as it is, don't you think? Aesthetics aside, I've had enough, you've had enough, the whole world's had enough. Let's see it gone.

Rainbow fatigue, there it is.

Cheers,

LSP

Texas Eagle

 

Gentlemen and gentlewomen, did you know that there's such a thing as passenger rail between San Antonio and Cleburne, Texas? I didn't until yesterday, but there is, seriously. The train leaves San Antonio at 06.48 and rolls into spiffy little Cleburne at around 13:00, and all for what? The stupidly low price of 20-40$.

This saves me a 6 hour highway slog, there and back, to pick up a member of the team, result. And result for the passenger, 6 hours of blissful train journey through the rolling plains and sylvan mesquite groves of Olde Texas. Nice, I'm jealous.

That in mind, you can take the Texas Eagle to Chicago, which might be interesting, see recip clubs, then take it back to California, behold the desolation, and then back to the safety of Free State Texas. This appeals to me, and it'd appeal a whole lot more if there was an equivalent with an open carriage and opening windows. Perhaps you know what I mean.

As it is, Amtrak has an interesting rail solution, the Texas Eagle. Let's check it out, and while we're at it, why can't America provide us with a convenient, workable, affordable rail solution? It's not as though we're not the richest, most powerful country on the planet, for goodness sake.

So let's see fewer billions sent to transsexual theater groups in Uganda and more money spent on passenger rail. It'd benefit us all, don't you think?

Cheers,

LSP