Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Prudence Regained

I Who erewhile the happy Garden sung,
By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recovered Paradise to all mankind,
By one man's firm obedience fully tried
Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled
In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,
And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.
Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious Eremite
Into the desert, his victorious field

Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted song, else mute,
And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds,
With prosperous wing full summed, to tell of deeds
Above heroic, though in secret done,
And unrecorded left through many an age:
Worthy to have not remained so long unsung.


Milton - Paradise Regained

Prudence once had its wings spread over us, covering our eyes from the sheer madness that surrounds us, and giving all man who could listen a true sense of order. It has been a long time since we lost that sense. The world is upside down, and not in a good way. Prudence is lost, and it is our hope that we may join forces with all those people out there who are making a true effort to regain it. I would not have paradise on Earth, it is a blasphemy to believe such thing might come from human hands, but I can hope for some relief from the firm grasp of the heathen authorities who try to push away the Kingdom of Heaven and to smother the faith of the believers. If we are to stand against such evil, we must find once more the ability to reason and discover the truth beyond all deception. Prudence is the virtue that allows a man to weigh and tell apart the sound truth and the modern discourse of desperation. And so we go in search of Prudence. May God be with us.