Articles
On Essence and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist: Finding Identity, Community and Mission in a Meaningless World
For Mémé Darling and your life of real assent. Your “grain of wheat” continues to bear much fruit. Ours is an acedic age, one of distraction, where we wander about like chimeras, fragmented beings hungry for meaning.((Pageau, Jonathan. “March Q&A 2021,” at...
Joan of Arc: Antidote to Symbolic Inversion
Inverted depictions Symbolism expert Jonathan Pageau recently put out a video addressing a viewer’s question about the movie The Green Knight. A few months back, Pageau had made another video discussing the symbolism of the original Green...
Why Stories? Because the Cosmos is more poem than proposition
Logos without mythos is itself the great myth of modernity, the Cosmos itself is communication, Being is communion. As such, there are no other means to access truth other than narrative, imagination, emotion, and rhetoric.
On the Fairy Forest
Near my home lies a fairy forest. It started in the winter of 2020 and has gradually grown through the spring of 2021. At first blush, this folk project may seem a strange phenomenon, but its existence shows not only a longing for, but the inevitable return of...
The Symbolism of Contraception and Natural Family Planning
Now that almost everyone accepts the use of contraception, the continued opposition of traditional Christians can seem stubborn. And since many debates around the issue take place in a highly theological language that appears abstruse to many modern people, the whole...
The Transfiguration on Mount Tabor: The Symbolism of the Mountain
This article takes a look at the symbolism of the mountain in order to eludicate the meaning behind the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. To do this, it uses symbolism of the mountain across the globe (Asia, Indo-Europeans, Mesopotamia) and looks into the biblical symbolism of those higher realities.
Some Observations on Louis Charbonneau-Lassay’s “The Vulnerary of Christ”
The Vulnerary of Christ-The Mysterious Emblems of the Wounds in the Body and Heart of Jesus Christ has recently been published after a near century of being lost. For its rediscovery, reconstitution and publication we are indebted to Gauthier Pierozak, a French...
The Symbolism of the Cyclops
The cyclopes are commonly thought of as a race of one-eyed giants. This description, however, can be doubly misleading. Firstly, the cyclopes do not belong to the race of gigantes proper, being “gigantic” only in the sense of being physically large and in the sense of...
The New Internet Hierarchies and their Significance
In which we explore the powerful new online hierarchies, their significance, potential and dangers.
Rebuilding Men with Symbolism after the Desolation
Imagine being a member of a people, taken captive by a hostile, foreign state, having the fabric of one’s life shredded, one’s family, friends, sports clubs, associations, political parties, all other intermediary institutions forbidden from meeting, and then forced to live under the bureaucratic control of the alien power….