“Do not for one moment stand anywhere but in the place of Truth, a Man hath no guardian like the Seeing Eye.” – Rumi, The Mathnawi; 4:330
Mission:
- To rediscover and restore to public consciousness (and conscience) eternal Truths contained in books buried in history – or committed to the ash heap of political correctness – with the purpose of providing permanent solutions to recurring problems of humanity.
- To serve as voice for those “crying from the dust.”
- To counter the destruction of America’s historical narrative and the story of Western Civilization being committed by “Progressive” revisionists throughout the nation.
- To sift through the literary sands of time in search of Truth and Morality.
- To provide historical examples in hopes of avoiding similar recurring societal ills.
- To examine relevant history in every facet of civilization: Political, Military, Economic, Social, and Spiritual.
“Reason is trained by reading, writing and reckoning [rhetoric], but the intellect can only be improved through furnishing it with knowledge and wisdom, by acquainting it with Truth, by giving it a mastery of ideas. The “Great Books“, the master productions in all fields, philosophy, science, history and the “belles lettres” [Great Essays]. They constitute the [path] by which the intellects of each generation must first be cultivated.
Wisdom, if it consists of insights and ideas that change little from time to time, if the great works of Literature as well as philosophy touch upon the permanent moral problems of mankind and express the universal convictions of men involved in moral conflict – if these things are so, then the Great Books of ancient and medieval as well as modern times are a repository of knowledge and wisdom, a tradition of culture which must initiate each new generation.
These books are to be read because they are as contemporary today as when they were written, and because the problems they deal with and the ideas they present are not subject to the law of perpetual and interminable ‘progress.’ ” – Mortimer J. Adler, Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind, 1977, p. 75
(see also: Adler’s Ten Philosophical Mistakes)
Board of Directors
Herodotus (484-425 B.C.): Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars described by Cicero as “The Father of [objective] History”
Socrates (470 – 399 B.C.): first Greek philosopher to focus philosophy on questions of morality, ethics, and human conduct.
Hieronymous of Cardia (354?-250 B.C.) The Epigoni, A History of the Diadoci.
Polybius (c. 200 – 118 BC)
Diodorus Siculus (1 B.C. – )
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 AD – c. 100 AD)
Flavius Josephus (c.37 A.D. – c.100 AD)
Epictetus (50 AD – 135 AD)
Tertullian (c. 155 – 220AD)
***The Dark Ages (476 – 1000 AD) Following Tertullian, a thousand years of intellectual and Spiritual darkness covered the Western World. It was during this time that the Catholic Church consolidated and combined religious and political dominance controlling both secular and spiritual thought in the Western World.
The Black Death (1346 – 1353) was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe and North Africa that killed between 30-40% of Europe. While many infected with the plague survived, survivors often had genetic advantages like mutations in the ERAP2 gene, which helped fight the bacteria but also increased risk for modern auto-immune diseases.
It wasn’t until Johannes Gutenberg perfected the Gutenberg Press in 1450 in Mainz, Germany combining metal movable type, a screw press (adapted from wine presses), and oil-based ink that stuck to the type better than water-based that mass production of books – like the Gutenberg Bible – was possible. The Gutenberg Press sparked a revolution in information sharing and enabled the Dawn of the 7th Dispensation of Time beginning with the Reformation.
Salimbene di Amo (1221 – 1290)
Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) ushered in the Reformation by writing his 95 theses mainly “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences” – the practice of the Catholic Church leadership “exchanging” forgiveness of sins for donations of money. Luther later wrote several anti-Jewish tracts that caused great oppression on Jews and was later used by the Nazis to justify the Holocaust.
Erasmus (b. ? – d. July 12, 1536)
Sir Walter Raleigh ( ? 1553 – 29 October 1618)
John Amos Comenius (March 1592 – November 15, 1670)
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662)
John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28 1704)
Giovan Battista Vico (June 23, 1668 – January 23, 1744)
Turgot (May 10, 1727 – March 18, 1781)
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797)
Edward Gibbon (May 8, 1737 – January 16, 1794)
Nicolas de Condorcet September 17, 1743 – March 28, 1794
Philip Morin Freneau (January 2, 1752 – December 18, 1832)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Frederic Bastiat (June 30, 1801 – December 24, 1850)
Joseph Smith (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844)
John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 – May 7, 1873)
Lord Acton (January 10, 1834 – June 19, 1902)
Ida M. Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944)
Edmund Gustav Husserl (April 8, 1859-April 27, 1938)
Gustavus Myers (March 20, 1872 – December 7, 1942)
Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968)
Mary Antin (June 13, 1881 – May 15, 1949)
Will & Ariel Durant (Nov. 5, 1885 – Nov 7 1981; May 10, 1898 – Oct 25, 1981)
Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971)
F.A. Hayek (May 8, 1899 – March 23, 1992)
John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)
Mortimer J. Adler (Dec. 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001)
George Orwell (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950)
Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982)
Andreas Kinneging (February 26, 1962 – ). The Geography of Good and Evil: Philosophical Investigations, 2005
Iris Chang (March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) “…to be remembered simply as a good and decent [person], who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.” – RFK
Military
Sun Tzu (771-256 B.C.), The Art of War
Captain B. H. Liddell Hart (October 31, 1895 – January 29, 1970); The Strategy of Indirect Approach, 1941.
T. E. Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926; Revolt in the Desert, 1927; Guerilla Warfare, 1929.
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976); Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book), 1964
Sir Robert K. Thompson (April 12, 1916 – May 16, 1992) Defeating Communist Insurgency, 1966.
Frank Kitson (December 15, 1926 – January 2, 2024) Bunch of Five, 1977; Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping, 1971; Gangs and Counter-gangs, 1960
David Galula (January 10, 1919 – May 11, 1967) Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, 1964
Colonel Qiao Lang (January 9, 1955) and Wang Xiangsui (1954) Unrestricted War, 1999; China’s version of Mein Kempf for their war against America in the 21st Century
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