Tag: Christmas
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Spiritual Combat and the War on Christmas
With all the recent publicity about the so-called “war on Christmas”, as it has weirdly become the “holiday that dare not speak its name”, it is easy to forget that there has always been a war on Christmas, ever since Herod.
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New Birth, New Death
As the festival of the Gentile world nears, Christmas will cast its inevitable charm over the hardest pagan heart, and it will beguile the most Christian heart (as it humanly should) into a forgetfulness of the metaphysical foundations of the Faith; we will forget our deep questions, and will instead celebrate like little children, only…
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Christmas and the Winter Solstice
In ‘Roma e il natale solare nella tradizione nordico-aria’ (La Difesa della razza, 1940), Evola writes: Very few suspect that the holidays [i.e., Catholic holy days] of today, in the century of skyscrapers, radio, great movements of the masses, are celebrated and continue … a remote tradition, bringing us back to the times when, almost…
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The Meaning of Christmas
At this time of year, many voices arise to tell us the “true” meaning of Christmas. On the one hand, we are told that it is a reminder to be “nice” to one another. Then there are the “Marthas” of the world who tell us to do less “shopping”, apparently on the theory that it…
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How the Angel Gal-el became Gloria, the Christmas Angel
The tiny angel Gal-el embraced the fetus. It could feel its heart thumping with fear. The voices of the nurses in the room increased their intensity inside its mother’s watery womb. “Honey, don’t you worry. The thing in there, won’t feel a thing it will go to sleep and never wakeup,” one of the younger…