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The mission of The Postil Magazine is to work for the return of Christendom (the Sacrum imperium), and then to nurture its inevitable outgrowth—high culture, which is the pointing of the soul to Beauty, the first mystery of God. And the quest for Beauty is to follow Truth wherever it may lead, for so the medieval romance cycles knew well in their resonance, allegorizng Christ’s teaching of the narrow road.
We recognize that human beings cannot live without Ideals, without Transcendence, without Truth, without Beauty: there is no humanity without God. And all four are magnifications of a celebratory soul.
Much of the West today is lost to ugliness, with its inevitable consequences: anger, hatred and violence, an unholy pall of confusion that some mislabel as “collapse.” It is rather the growth of Modernity which knows only the sowing of chaos as it mows down tradition and leaves behind emptiness. The West needs reseeding with good ideas so that it can again seek Beauty and thus realign itself to Truth, that it not gain the whole world and thus preserve its soul. This is also known as courage.
Rootlessness is burking the West. It is a true Dark Age, where Wisdom is flounced with information, Truth is besieged by spin, and Faith is pilloried as superstition; and thus language is winnowed into absolutes, thought is stunted into propaganda, and common sense discountenanced by combative emotion pandering as “science.”
And yet a hunger for deeper faith, for purer enlightenment, for greater virtue, for sharper reason, and for good ideas persists. In other words, a hunger to be rapt in Beauty. It is this hunger that alone can build and sustain Civilization, in which men and women know and pursue their eternal purpose. All else is dystopia.