The Jugular: On Freedom

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT You know, Octavian, it’s quite possible that when you die . . . you will die without ever having been alive. Mark Antony to Octavian, Cleopatra, 1963 FFrreeeeddoomm ! ! ! Breathes there…

Artificial Intelligence, National Sovereignty, And War-Fighting Capability

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This essay is a spread of observations launched against idolators, those who claim for something status it lacks, who claim ultimacy for something not ultimate, who seek to extract money and prestige from…

Christmas In Tibet

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT America faces west.  Asia is America’s west.  The vector of American expansion — expansion is life, contraction is death — points west.  It always has.  It came west from Europe and…

The Red Blaik Statue At West Point

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A non-public struggle has been ongoing among some West Pointers since the early 2000s.  Superficially, the struggle regards a statue, now on post, that commemorates West Point Graduate and famous Football Coach Earl Red Blaik.  Actually, the…

Bill McWilliams: Son, Warrior, Husband, Father, Military Historian

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Warmest Thanks to Michael Quine / Las Vegas Review-Journal for this video! In November 2020, Bill wrote to four members of Cadet Squadron 16, USAFA, Class of 1970, as follows: Let…

Re-Forming Western Civilization (The Latin Church), In Partes Tres

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT   Out With Political Science – In With Political Philosophy Strategic Goal And Posture: Vigilant Quiet Foreign And Domestic Policies To Implement Vigilant Quiet Labor Improbus Omnia Vincit Out With Political…

Svastica

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Ay, the svastica is a universal symbol, cross-cultural, and I have for many years yearned that it be reclaimed. On three of Mary’s pictures of St. Francis, years ago, I lovingly drew in…

Curriculum Vitae Meum

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Before Swami hauled me in, I had risen rapidly (age 23) to the verge of very great prominence in both academic, governmental and industrial circles. I was a classic “fair haired boy.”…

St. John’s Bread And The Sun/Son Liturgy

Guidance And Request For The Bishops Memorandum For The Bishops November 12, 1996 Exegesis of St. John in the desert focuses, usually, on a diet of bugs washed down with a dollop of honey.  “Phew !” one thinks, and rightly, “Who would want to eat that?”  Well, apart from an assassin or a survivalist, no…

Three Depositions On Theological Education

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Deposition  I: Curriculum For A Theological Education Deposition II: Delusion And The Doctrine Of Original Sin Deposition III: A Festival Composition For The Feast Of The Holy Trinity D e p…

Suggested Questions for SEAD (Scholarly Engagement in Anglican Doctrine)

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. 1- Where is the Anglican Magisterium? 2- Which comes first: systematics, liturgy, scripture? 3- Does Anglican Doctrine include or need Logos Theology? What is Logos Theology? 4- Assuming that the Realism/Nominalism discussion is archetypal, how is it playing out today? 5- Is there…

Musician : Audience : : Theologian : Student

When an ordinary person wants to listen to a Brandenburg Concerto, they put on a CD. When a musician wants to listen to a Brandenburg Concerto, they leaf through the score. A musician hears far more from the score than an ordinary person hears from the CD. Likewise: When a student wants to delve into…

Epigrams III

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT All that is embodied embodies all.   India, United States, Russia, Germany and Japan are going to destroy the Chinese capacity for belligerence so that the Chinese can be taught.  …