ON JOSEPHITES

[Monomakhos 1849]

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A THESIS ON JOSEPHITES, OR A RESPONSE TO A JOSEPHITE CRITIQUE OF THE CANONIST ESTABLISHMENT

 

Scribed by

FR. SERAPHIM OF LEORA

 

SUN’S SMILE

1771

 

An icon depicting the Archaengul Michael (Micahelus) as Lord of Battle shields the Faithful in God’s Name

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Section I - The Beauty of Creation

Section II - Civilization and Modern Opinions

Section III - Exalting the Rights of Man over God

Section IV - A Josephite’s War against Faith

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| Section I |

 

O Lord, Theós, our God, existing before all ages and remaining unto the ages of ages; whose ineffable mercy hath gifted us salvation in Your Kingdom. Show us how to rise above our enemies, visible and invisible. Place in us power from on high; keep us beneath the protection of thy wings and fortify us with love for one another and grant us unshakable peace. Instill in us your fear and your love that your holy name may also be glorified in us. Upon you alone we look, for you alone we have placed our hopes, to you we send glory, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

 

“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” (Maxims 7.8)

 

Look at what Theós created with His word alone. What harmony, for wherever does one turn shall he see His wisdom and grandeur as it was ordained in the making of all things. Gaze upon the celestial lights, the stars and the heavens above. By His divine hand were they scattered in the sky, and so do they give great comfort to mankind, whereas the lights of man, fire and oil and the spark of our hand are so tiresome. It is with harmony that He has designed all things. The trees of a forest that are planted by the hands of men resemble a regimental formation, whereas the woods of the land untouched by the tampering of us grant comfort to the eye, so peaceful and restful. Even the smallest of Theós’ wild flowers is bountiful with grace. But then look at flowers folded from paper, there is no grace in them! Everything that Theós has greeted is a wonder in and of itself. The human form, as an example, resembles a manufactory. For the Lord has arranged in us all things with great wisdom. Think of the wisdom with which the plants and beasts are made. We should find the Lord in animals, in plants, in all things. How can you sit there and not admire it all? It is His creation. You see the tiniest swallow carried south to winter, and brought home, back to its very nest, without the use of a compass or any tool. And then you have men who rely on all manner of map and sign and tool, and still they find themselves not in the destination they had sought. And it is not as if the birds walk upon the earth and mark their way as they go. There is no path for them to follow, for they fly in the sky above. Everything that our Father has created is so glorious and full of beauty. We men should be jealous; wherever you turn, you encounter His wisdom. Everything that you might see or hear in this world, you should make to aid you in reaching up to the Seven Skies. Let everything transport you on high. This is how a man raises himself from the beasts of the world to our Lord.

 

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| Section II |

 

“What shall it avail a man, if he gain the world, but lose his immortal soul?” (Maxims 6.1)

 

In this day and age we live in, civilization is good. But in order for it to be beneficial to men, the soul must in turn be civilized. Otherwise we are doomed from the beginning. A wise mendicant told me once, “Evil arises from those who are educated.” Despite the fact that the world has advanced so far in these last few hundred years, that so much tremendous progress has been made both within the sphere of the philosophical and the practical, when we use this new creations and new ideas to try and help people, they end up doing more harm than good, unintentionally. Theós has given unto his creation the freedom to do as they please. And since man often does not listen to the Lord, he ends up ruining not only his life, but that of all those around him. It is through our own sin that our destruction is wrought. What have we achieved as a people in the eighteenth century? We have driven people out of their minds with these supposed ‘forward-thinking’ ideals, and we have brought great destruction upon ourselves. And often is this destruction simply the desolation of the land around us for ‘progress’. In the days of our forefathers men suffered from war, and today? They suffer from civilization. War stirred man to depart his cities and live in the hamlets and villages. And it is now that civilization will drive them from these great metropolises. War brought death, and now civilization brings disease.

 

 Men rely too much today on the auspices of science and of ‘progress’. For now is the era of the Josephite. And I do not mean to disparage them, but I speak to the beliefs they hold in their hearts. For these modern notions of civilization as we know it are born from their declarations and their ‘liberties’. But how can we call them liberties, when they have become slaves to the world and to their own egos? To this I say remember the words of Ven. Humbert the Slave of God, “I have heard enough of the so-called rights of man, let us now talk of the rights of God.”

 

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| Section III |

 

And you may ask, how do the wisdoms of our Lord’s creation play into the subject we reach now? As I had written before, the trees of a forest that are planted by the hands of men resemble a regimental formation, whereas the woods of the land untouched by the tampering of us grant comfort to the eye, so peaceful and restful. And much in the same way, do these rights of man resemble the forest planted by man’s hand. Man’s creation, imperfect as it is. But you cannot say this to a man with Josephite convictions! You cannot quote to him the teachings of Ven. Humbert, or of the Exalted and the Saints. Because he does not care for the rights of God! He cares for the rights of man, meaning the rights of the self, and it is this self-love that corrupts the relationship between man and Theós. Allow me to quote a publication; A Josephite Critique of the Canonist Establishment - this treatise put together by an Arthur Callahan speaks foul of our Holy Church. And in doing does it speak foul of Theós, for the Church is the making of the Prophets by the Lord’s word and does the Lord sits at its head. The Josephite writes of a spiritual slavery that has befallen man. So allow me to quote my brother Pius of Sutica. 

 

“Sin is a black form of slavery. Wrath, lust, inability to forgive, avarice and pride, all of these enslave a man to his passions and render him unable to attain to his true potential, that is, to allow God to fashion him into a man reborn in His grace. Let us therefore translate this rightly, cast off the unholy chains of sin and embrace the merciful yoke of our Creator.  This will be the basis for the devotion which I will here unfold, which I consider to be way of quick progress in the spiritual life: indeed, Divine Slavery is the finest means of divine union.” (Thesis on Divine Slavery, Pius of Sutica)

 

Where the Josephite paints devotion to the Lord as foul shackles meant to restrain man and keep him mired in so-called ignorance, we see it as the virtue of our inheritance, for we as men of the cloth devote ourselves to holy and spiritual living. This angers the Josephite, who sees the virtues of the Lord’s words as arbitrary and archaic in hindrance to all the progress and ego they strive towards. For, to the Josephite, man must be in control of his own destiny in order for a culmination of his ‘rights’ to be achieved, to know true liberty as it were. And doing so does he cry all spiritual guidance and bearing upon his life for how can he with a clear conscience indulge within the love of himself and the worship of the idol of ego if he still holds in his heart any love for Theós? The Josephite decries faith as superstition and wishes to make of it a sacrificial lamb upon his altar of ego. And so does the blood of this metaphorical lamb awaken the darkness in the Josephite’s heart, who then eschews his morality in favor of freedom, of liberty. For he has no need of morals but for the morals of his idolatrous spirit of mankind, Joseph and his golden laurels of freedom. The Holy Scrolls become secondary to these three inalienable rights, for who are they to respect the word of He who made all things when they are freed from such shackles by their liberty to pursue any manner of hateful blasphemy or debauchery. They hold themselves upon a pedestal of moral and intellectual virtue of which is born a superiority to the backwards and narrow minded institutions that they call faith. The only concern of theirs is the secular power they command, and for the Josephite to speak out against out Church as he does is to show that they fear it, for the virtue of His flock is the only thing that stands as a bulwark against the senseless trespasses who would otherwise commit against both his fellow man and against our Lord O God. 

“Even further, the use of Canonism as a state religion has hampered our ability to fully unite humanity in any true form, for bygone are the days where Canonism reigned outright. Countless humans, from north to south, have sought spiritual comfort in diverse religions and codes of conduct, and no longer can we claim that humanity’s religion is truthfully Canonism. In reaching the goal of a humanity united under one nation and one law, we must realize that the unifying ties of Canonism in fact creates needless division, an ethos which has failed its very purpose. Look we must instead to a civic religion, a duty not to any god but to the Crown, with any responsibilities given for the sake of humanity and not injudicious superstitions. Our neighbors and peers of Oren must be joined together in hands of common kinship and nationality, and in achieving this goal, we must do away with that which disregards blood for supercilious faith.” (A Josephite Critique of the Canonist Establishment, Arthur Callahan)

 

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| Section IV |

 

It confounds me, the audacity of men in this day and age. They know no humility, for as I have said before and will say again they build for themselves a cult of ego and love of the self. Let us break apart these silly and nonsensical arguments. To presume that Canonism has served to hamper humanity - to claim that humanity’s religion is not, in truth, Canonism, is to blaspheme against the Lord. I cite the Scrolls;

 

“But you remain My prophet. And that My word is kept, you shall anoint servants in your lineage. For you are their lord, and bear the laurel of Horen. So Owyn left the palace of Harren, and he came into the city of Alduun. He found that the lords of mixed blood had fled into the north with the heir of Harren, and took many of their servants with them. Those virtuous freedman that remained were anointed as priests of GOD, and they bore the Virtue and the Spirit. Thus the Word of GOD was kept for a thousand years of His Silence, and man’s purity of faith and blood was so sworn.” (Gospel 4:56-62)

 

“Owyn obeyed the command of GOD and anointed the brothers Evaristus and Clement, who jostled in the same womb, as joint bearers of the laurel of Horen. He entrusted to them the Word of GOD, which were the Virtue and the Spirit, and charged them to instruct their brethren in the path of holiness. At Owyn’s command, the brothers set shepherds over the flock of men, and so created a priesthood for their instruction, in anticipation of the second son of spirit.” (Gospel 5:3-5)

 

“O James, pious son of the Lord, I have seen the glory of God in your heart and His word on your tongue. You will be my high priest, as in the days of Evaristus and Clement. I name you pontifex, for you are a builder of bridges.” (Gospel 6:59-61)

 

To try and rationalize that the Canonist Church does not inherit the Word of God, to keep in earnest the covenant of man with the Lord and shepherd His flock towards faith and virtue is foolish. Our holy texts are clear. He seeks to diminish the stature of the Church by decrying the existence of those who do not exalt in all things the Lord, but even in the day of the Exalted Owyn, have the idolaters invested themselves into sin and hatred of the Lord. I sincerely worry for the salvation of those men who have taken into their hearts the writings of this Josephite, of this ethos of liberty that reviles all things which do not exalt the self. Humanity shall always be united in spirit and the love of Theós, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. To exalt nationality and blood over the holy bonds of the Lord's flock is characterized by a term we have used in Old Rhen, phyletismos, or what we call the barbarity of tribalism.

 

“Remember, therefore, that thy true citizenship is in Heaven: God wants thee, and he wants thee a Saint. Be ever a foreigner to the world, and the closest son of the Skies instead.” (Maxims 2.4)

 

The Josephite wishes for us to uphold our civic duties before our spiritual ones. They wish for us to worship not in the theatre of our Lord, but in the theatre of secularism. They wish for us to worship liberty and not God. The Josephite speaks of the sake of humanity yet forgets what is the true inheritance of mankind, and that is the spiritual kingdom that lies beyond this life and this world. But yea to a blasphemer as he would say we ‘follow a sadistic god, for we are his villainous band of preachers’. How will you explain these words to the Lord when comes the day you are judged? And this is what I must stress to all people reading this, and especially to the Josephites who shall certainly meet my writings with hatred and revulsion for I have made my stance against their sacrosanct rights gifted unto themselves by themselves, in contempt of Theós. I bid all those who do carry in their hearts with sincerity these beliefs espoused by that Josephite in his musings against our Holy Church to repent, to prostrate thyselves before the Lord and allow His mercy to garb you in His love for mankind. For man to love and exalt himself is the gateway to vanity, and certainly does this ethos espoused in the writings and virtue of the Josephite cause become so. Let us recall the teachings of our Lord, and practice humility unto all for all fall short of Him. Exalt Him, not mankind, nor rights that are not the Lord’s Own or else you will certainly find yourself in spiritual waste.
 

Light of Lights, Holy of Holies, and Blessed God, grant us the gift of discernment from unholy and vile beliefs, that we may fully submit to your Holy Mother Church and the Venerable Priesthood you have graced us with. Grant us all a long life so we may repent from any wicked actions we have taken or thoughts persisting in our minds. Let us know peace through your holy and life-giving way.

 

Through the prayers and intercessions of the holy Exalted prophets, righteous and blessed Holy Mother of Peace Saint Julia, Venerable Humbert who has enlightened our darkened minds with his words, and all the saints. Amen.

 

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Fr. Griffith read over the thesis, nodding to his Brother-in-the-cloth, and simply stating, “Let us hope the Josephites read this response and realize the error of their ways. They are kind men and women deep within their hearts, I know this to be true after speaking with their chairman, but in loving themselves they truly forget to love the Lord of their hearts.”

 

The priest offered a silent prayer for them, especially the acquaintances he has in the party.

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Venerable Humbert looks down from the loftiness of that mountain, to the lowliness of this valley; from that habour of quietness and tranquillity, to this calamitous sea, and now that the darkness of this world hinders no more those benignant eyes of his from looking clearly into all things, he blesses and prays for the Acolyte and asks the Creator if he can be his intercessor.