Essays in Idleness

One continues to think of Saint Michael, archangel in the Haggadah, throughout all Abrahamic lands and the world; because yesterday was his feast in Western Christendom. The Israeli incursions, through the skies above Lebanon and Yemen, gave it an illustration; and the celebrations, even within Shia communities in Beirut and Tehran, reminded us of the final victory.

The modern, alas, does not believe in victory, but in a “negotiated two-state solution” between Heaven and Hell — and in the perpetuation of bureaucracy. But victory remains possible, and it is possible that Israel, by ignoring e.g. all the idiots in the Biden administration, has changed the rules of play. The isolation and defeat of Iran and “Islamism” is beginning.

For peace comes after Victory. It is the end of war, as we seem to have forgotten since World War II (the last time we achieved an undisputed victory, against Germany and Japan). But even that was succeeded by the Cold War, as the Christian West no longer had it in them to take on, and permanently extinguish, Communism — an even worse evil than Nazism. We entered the “brave new world” of containment.

And the world must permanently face the prospect of war, until the end of the world; and Saint Michael will always be fighting for us, within every conscience, when we are on God’s side. And we will never be defeated, though we are defeated in battles along the way. There is War in Heaven, and it unambiguously continues on the battlefield of earth. We “fight, fight, fight.”

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TWELVE YEARS. — We began on Michaelmas, 29th September 2012, to write these Idle Essays, upon being tossed out of the last Canadian daily that was printing our column. We thus went “underground,” in what was once a free, and Christian, country. I haven’t given up, idly writing, and will continue for as long as I can. O Prince of the Heavenly Host, pray for us!