The Tiger's Leap

By G.K. Chesterton The middle classes of modern England are quite fanatically fond of washing; and are often enthusiastic for teetotalism. I cannot therefore comprehend why it is that they exhibit a mysterious dislike of rain. Rain, that inspiring and delightful thing, surely combines the qualities of these two ideals with quite a curious perfection. … More The Romantic in the Rain

NB: there are few authors who are more influential to me these days than Nicolas Gomez Davila, he has been left off this list solely because there is no authoritative translation of his work into English. The Wake, by Paul Kingsnorth Dreamtime, by John Moriarty Turtle Was Gone a Long Time, by John Moriarty The … More Recommended Reading List

Dear Friends, My first book “Wyrd Against the Modern World” will be available for purchase this winter. As this first run will be quite limited, please pre-order to ensure that you are able to receive a copy. The culmination of many years of thinking and writing, “Wyrd Against the Modern World” reflects upon our present … More Pre-order “Wyrd Against the Modern World”

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?” — The Illiad   Sing then of the year of Our Lord 1237, when the godless Batu Khan did come in his wrath to the fields of Rus and did fall upon the people of that country as a wolf … More The Wheel of the Sun

“Bring me my Bow of burning gold: Bring me my Arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold: Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In Englands green & pleasant Land.” — William Blake The meaning … More Harrowed Yet Fallow

   Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves. — Teresa of Avila   And I swam into that primordial twilight of the soul, Suffused with liliac and grey, Where ancestral shadows wander and hunt and love and fight, Where time ends and is forever … More Dissolution

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death. –J.A. Baker   In the first case, let us be quite plain: regardless of how this present crisis plays out, we should not mourn the death of the old world.  The death of one world is … More Time Drops in Decay

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the grey twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn. — W.B. Yeats Meandering among the heather and gorse, the late John Moriarty perceived the resonant vibrancy of the … More The Beauty of Inscape Unknown