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Reflections on Forty Years of Service at the Altar

Quench not the Spirit.

(1 Thessalonians 5, 19-21)

When I was a child, I did not believe in God, I knew God. He was – and is – a fact. I did not seek Him, I knew Him. Fifty years ago, in 1975, the closest disciple of St Silouan confirmed my experience that God is known by the Holy Spirit and that if someone has come to know God by the Holy Spirit, his soul will burn with the love of God by day and night and his soul will not be bound by any earthly thing.

 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you (John 15, 19)

Five years later, in May 1979 in a deep and warm conversation at Philotheou Monastery on Mt Athos, the ever-memorable Fr Ephraim (now of Arizona) confirmed this to me. And so it was that forty years ago I went with fear to St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris to be ordained, believing that our purpose in life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, as St Seraphim of Sarov declared.

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6, 33)

Now the name ‘Antichrist’ does not mean he who is against Christ, but he who is in place of Christ. In other words, Antichrist does not appear to be outwardly against Christ, he is a substitute for Christ. From the world in which we now are we can conclude that we live in the time before Antichrist, where faith, the presence of the Holy Spirit, is being substituted by falsehood, ‘a den of thieves’.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away (2 Timothy 3, 5)

Thus, the most obvious thing that I have noticed about the last forty years of service at the altar has been the persistent determination of satan to destroy all that is spiritual, both directly and indirectly. He has always recruited his agents to substitute for the real Church, to set up a satanic church, where the Holy Spirit cannot abide and is replaced by the pseudo-spiritual, which stems from hatred.

You pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgement, mercy, and faith (Matthew 23, 23)

Forty years ago and more, I had seen how satan used such isms as ecumenism, modernism, liberalism and freemasonry to destroy and then substitute for the Church. They considered the Church had to be brought into line with the anti-spiritual ways of the world, secularism. All who challenged these movements against the Holy Spirit were slandered. Like others, I was one of them.

Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake (Matthew 5, 11)

Twenty years ago and more, I saw how the cunning and evil satan changed his tactics to destroy and substitute for the Church. He began using the opposite forces to the first, pretending to be pure, employing such isms as sectarianism, traditionalism, conservatism and the spirit of schism. All who challenged these movements were slandered. Like others, I was and am one of them.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of those who killed the prophets (Matthew 23, 29-31)

All the servants of satan, of both sorts, close churches and forbid missionary work on the pretext of ‘protocols’ or ‘covid’. They replace faith, which is built on real experience of the Holy Spirit, the Giver of life, Who speaks ‘by the prophets’, with mere ‘religion’, the ideology of hired servants. This substitution of ideology for any spiritual experience, which alone gives wisdom, is why faith is dying out.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves (Matthew 7, 15)

Thus, Protestants predict that Protestantism in Western countries will die out within a generation, by 2050. Roman Catholicism in Western countries will not be far behind. Both are being replaced by the ideology of secularism, where anything goes, for they have lost their faith and follow the ways of the world. However, in the Church of God, the war against Orthodoxy is just as fierce.

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets (Luke 11, 43)

Satan is working against us in the Church in exactly the same ways. The temptations of power and wealth are the rewards for those who use either ecumenism, modernism, liberalism and freemasonry, or sectarianism, traditionalism, conservatism and the spirit of schism. We avoid power and wealth and all the isms, which they use in order to persecute us.

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers….My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves  (Matt 21, 12-13)

We create life and community, where before there was death and darkness. We grow the culture of life, as pastors, the voice of the people, in our hearts there is no hatred. And we are victorious over the narcissistic, jealous, resentful, corrupt and effeminate, the Establishment elite who love the uppermost seats, who are of their father the devil…for he is a liar, and the father of it (John 8, 44).

The thief comes only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10, 10)

Today, the Russian Church, just like the Church of Constantinople, has fallen under the influence of this world. We fight for Orthodox freedom from political deviations. Canon XV of the First and Second Council is clear about those worthy of honour: they have not broken the union of the Church with any schism, but on the contrary, have been diligent to rescue the Church from schisms and divisions.

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord (Romans 12, 19)

We fight for the Truth of God and the Righteousness of man from the middle ground, from the fourteen Local Churches between the extremes, but among those in the extremes there are many who agree with us. Our role is to ‘knock heads together’ to bring away from the extremes. Like Christ, Who was crucified between the extremes of the two thieves, we too are persecuted for this.

Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Jesus Christ will suffer persecution (2 Timothy 3, 12)

Rome is in crisis and has to recall its legions from the far-flung provinces to protect Rome. The governors of the provinces feel abandoned, threatened by the rebellions of the people against their untruths. But the rebels know what to do, for those who told lies about us have discredited only themselves. Rome will return to where it came from, for it is now known the world over to tell untruths.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6, 7)

Forty years ago I went to St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris to be ordained. I was mindful of the words that the pen is mightier than the sword, or as St Alexander put it far better: God is not in force, but in truth. Nearly ten years ago it was my joy to open a new church dedicated to St Alexander in my native East Anglia. I know that God is working through His saints to cleanse His Church.

That He might present Her to Himself as a glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that She should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5, 27)

Mitred Archpriest Andrew Phillips,

St John’s Orthodox Church,

City of Colchester.

27 January 1985 – 27 January 2025

 

 

Why Does the British Establishment Hate Russia?

 

My best friends and so many of my relations are British and I am devoted to them and to much in the English way of life….It has never been possible to discuss with them the utterly vile politics of successive British Parliaments. They were nearly all anti-Russian – and so often without the least cause. So much of British policy is wholly contrary to their own tradition of fair play. Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, The Last Grand Duchess, by Ian Vorres, P. 240.

The Western elite hates Russia, Look at Biden or, in France, Macron, or in Germany, Scholz and Baerbock. However, none hates Russia as much as the British elite. Whether it is the host of nonentities who have been Prime Ministers, like Starmer, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, or the foolish Secretaries of State for Defence (= Offence) like Wallace, Shapps, Healey, they all come and go in swift succession. Conservative or Labour, they all belong to the same Uniparty, whose only aim is the unprincipled, as with Litvinenko and the abducted Skripals. Clearly, there is something here that is deeply theological. Because they hate Christ, they hate Orthodox. But what of the history of their hatred and the tanks, missiles and drones that they use against Russia today?

Emperors Paul I (+ 1801) and Nicholas II (+ 1918) of Russia were both removed and then murdered as a result of plots hatched by the British ambassadors in the Saint Petersburg of their times. As John Gleason points out in his 1952 book The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain, systematic and institutionalised British Establishment hatred for Russia began after the liberation of Paris by Russian troops in 1814. This Russophobia was an artificially manufactured product of a campaign of a relatively small number of men who won acceptance for their views by force of repetition. In other words, if you repeat the lie often enough, it will stick. It was all about the British elite’s fanatical ambition for world hegemony. No rivals could be allowed.

Despite the invasion of Russia and the occupation of Moscow in 1812, Russia emerged from the Napoleonic Wars as the dominant land power in the world, its troops liberating Paris in 1814. By then it had the largest army in Europe by far and the proven capacity to project its forces from Paris to the Caucasus and Central Asia. Consequently, by the 1830s jealous British Establishment chauvinists and imperialists had started presenting the Russian Empire as an evil rival. This Russophobia developed through the 1840s and in the early 1850s British Russophobes were raising fears that Saint Petersburg would liberate Bulgarians and others from the Ottoman Empire, free the Greeks in Constantinople and would also control the Black Sea.

Therefore, in 1853 the British engineered the ‘Crimean War’. This was fought mainly in the Crimea because that was the only place where the British and their proxies, the Turks, the French and thousands of German mercenaries, could feasibly project armed power against Russia. Fruitless British attacks on Russia from the White Sea, involving shelling a monastery and churches, and another operation involving a landing of marines on Russia’s Pacific Coast opposite Japan led the British to understand that they could not invade Russia – it was vast and although the British were a strong naval power, they were only a very weak land power. The British Establishment’s only hope was to dismember Russia from inside through traitors and so destroy it and exploit it, like a new India.

Having invaded the Crimea, the British elite understood from their poor performance and huge losses that it would be better to use proxies to defeat Russia, either internal or external enemies. Thus, they began their ‘Great Game’, their attempt to destroy Russia, surrounding it, invading Cyprus, Persia and Tibet. Therefore, in 1904, the British next used a proxy, the Japanese Empire, to attack Russia with its battleships, many of them built or financed by the British. The attack on the Russian Pacific Fleet in Port Arthur was unannounced, an act of ‘infamy’ and treachery, just like the Japanese attack on the US Fleet in Pearl Harbour in 1941. However, even after this the British still failed to overthrow the Tsar through the Japanese attack and the ensuing ‘1905 Revolution’.

Therefore, in 1914 the British again used jealous proxies to try and destroy Russia, this time Germans and Austro-Hungarians. Seeing the coming Russian victory in 1917, In December 1916 British spies fired ‘the first shot of the Revolution’, assassinating Gregory Rasputin with the help of degenerates, like the transvestite Yusupov. Thus, it was that the British engineered the overthrow of the Tsar on 15 March 1917. On 6 April 1917 they brought their new ‘useful idiot’ proxy, the USA, into the War and freed Trotsky on 29 April 1917, allowing him to arrive in Russia on 17 May, so that he could lead the war against Russia, as Lenin was incapable. (On 2 November 1917 the British passed the Balfour Declaration, creating the present bloody chaos in the Middle East).

However, despite all the chaos after the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, the British elite could still not destroy the USSR. Thus, in 1941 they once more used their German proxies to destroy and break up Russia. After they had failed in this, with the miracle of the Soviet liberation of Berlin in 1945, they decided with the Americans to use Nazi Galician fanatics to terrorise the Ukraine, right up till 1959. Today there are still British-protected Nazis in Kiev. The British Establishment divided Europe in order to rule it and, since 1917, has used the USA as a proxy in all its wars. But I write about the British Establishment, not the peoples who live in the British Isles and Ireland. One day, we, the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh, will rise up and end millennial British Establishment tyranny.

 

 

Suicide or Healing? On the Crisis of Legitimacy in State and Church

There are no demons in hell, they all live on earth.

The gap, or rather, abyss, between the elites and the peoples throughout the Western world, and it is a Western phenomenon, is causing crisis after crisis. It began in 2016 in the UK with the long-delayed popular vote in favour of Brexit, at last allowed by the hubristic British elite which had never imagined that the ‘plebs’ would dare to vote against them, followed soon after by the popular vote for Trump in the USA. However, both revolts turned out to be something of damp squibs, as the British Establishment elite never allowed Brexit to be implemented and between 2017 and 2020 Trump was surrounded by fawning members of the US Establishment, there called ‘the Deep State’, and, flattered by them, Trump did not do very much of what he said he had wanted.

This time it is serious. Following the oppressive policies of the Globalist elite dictatorship during covid and then during the NATO war against Russia, the Sovereigntist ‘plebs’ throughout the Western world are now in revolt. This is not just the election of a new Trump or the Reform movement in the UK, but also Orban in Hungary, Fico in Slovakia, Georgescu in Romania, when the authoritarian and Fascist EU allows him to be elected, and every European country whose people yearns to overthrow the US/CIA/EU/NATO-selected elites. Whether it is Weidel in Germany, Le Pen in France, Kickl in Austria and all the other European freedom movements from Croatia to Denmark, from Italy to the Netherlands, from Poland to Moldova, the movement is the same.

Nationalist governments are going to take over. Macron can forbid Frexit, Scholz can outlaw the AfD, Starmer can forbid elections in the UK, the Brussels dictatorship can cancel free elections and candidates through a corrupt Supreme Court in Romania, the US can defraud the electorate in Moldova, but it will make no difference. This is a crisis of legitimacy and the people will win, whether by violent revolution or peaceful evolution, whatever delaying tactics the CIA elite uses. Anyway, the CIA is under threat from Trump’s expanded America, just like NATO and its economic EU arm. For the unelected commissars of the European Union (EU), founded a few days after the fall of the Soviet Union (SU), will follow it into the same black hole of authoritarianism and autocracy.

However, as St Paisios the Athonite prophesied, it is not just the world that has become ‘a madhouse’, believing that men are women and that women are men, it is the Westernised administration of the Church too that has gone berserk, believing that good is bad and that bad is good. The Western world can commit suicide, or else it can seek healing. It is the same in the Church administration. They can behave like politicians and ideologues and commit suicide, or else they can behave like pastors and shepherds and find healing. If they choose the latter, they will find legitimacy, that is, the people will follow them. For that is what the sheep want of the shepherd, someone to follow. But if the shepherd is in fact a wolf in shepherd’s clothing, as he was, the people will quit him, as they did.

From Recent Correspondence: The Secret is Out!

Dear Father Andrew,

It’s been a long time since we last spoke or saw each other. I was engrossed in my own journey that requires a face-to-face meeting to share.

In these strange and challenging times, I currently work between Moscow, X, and (to a lesser extent) London. I planned to reach out to you when I am next in the UK.

Throughout this time, the memories of our few meetings and your work in the Orthodox Church have remained cherished treasures in my heart. I often revisit your Orthodox England website, sharing the link with those I believe might be interested.

Yesterday, I intended to browse through your ‘Orthodox England’ book online. On searching for you on Google, I came across the news three years ago of your departure from the “jurisdiction.” This development didn’t come as a surprise, given the current state of affairs within the Church and the world…..

 

Dear Z,

We are all very well.

Our Orthodox England site is very active and still very popular. The book, The Orthodox Faith and the English Tradition, is now fully online, under Resources on the website: http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oe4/e-books/. Our story is quite simple, though quite shocking, as it concerns corruption in high places inside the Russian Church.

In 2017, exactly ten years after the now American, but once Russian émigré, group entered into canonical communion with the Moscow Patriarchate in 2007, it was infiltrated by the CIA. This was not surprising to me, as it had already been infiltrated by the CIA as far back as the 1960s, under the then Fr George (later Bp Gregory) Grabbe. However, after the fall of the USSR in 1991, the CIA abandoned it, as it had no more interest in it, and the CIA stopped giving money to it. ‘Mission accomplished’ for them, as they said at that time. However, by 2017 the time to infiltrate again had begun.

When I spoke at the émigré Church Council in San Francisco in May 2006, it was attended by the former US ambassador to Kiev, the notorious neocon John Herbst, who lost his job in Kiev on 26 May 2006. I overheard him saying to one bishop in Russian (he thought I could not understand him), that ‘they would have to do something about the ROCOR decision to rejoin Moscow’, taken at the 2006 Council. The CIA duly subsidised a crazy man who lives in Odessa and calls himself Metropolitan Agafangel (not the canonical and real Metr Agafangel). But that was only the start.

It all went much further than that. In 2017 the CIA infiltrated the now American group in the hope of destroying it and so harming the whole Russian Church. So, in 2017 they tasked someone with destroying the Church here. He did this by creating a schism with Moscow.

Now we had been working successfully for Russian Church unity for nearly 50 years, so his schism went against the work of a lifetime, so they had to persecute us and try and close all our churches. So we went to try and join the local Moscow bishop. To our astonishment, he refused to take any of us, 15 clergy, 6 parishes and 5,000 people. Now he is a nice man and he let us know that his refusal was on orders from Moscow.  So we think that the Church in Moscow itself has been infiltrated by the CIA. After all, there are people there who will do anything for money. The recent scandal with that Metropolitan proves it.

Today the now American group is beset by scandals which it created, not only here, but also in the USA. Worse still, under CIA pressure, after 2022 it openly took the Western side in the US-Russia proxy war in the so deeply tragic Ukraine. In that way it lost a lot of its Russian base. Russians were understandably scandalised by the new anti-Russian, pro-American standpoint, and without attracting any Ukrainians, who go to their own churches and do not want anything to do with Russians. As the American group is dying out as a consequence of its not merging into the structures of the Russian Church, it is now desperately trying to recruit converts. However, as it is a schismatic and sectarian group, it has problems attracting normal people, but quite often extremists or fanatics with pathological problems, for instance, unstable young men who dislike women or homosexuals.

In any case, three years ago, before the SMO, we joined the Romanian Orthodox Church, who have been wonderful to us. Here we continue exactly as before, only without corruption, without schism and without the CIA. We are getting to the point here, where there are more Russian Orthodox outside the Russian Church than inside it, because of the corruption inside it.

The Big Three and the Coming Changes

After 20 January, will we see a meeting of the Big Three, China, the USA and the Russian Federation, perhaps in Kazakhstan, in the heart of the Heartland? If so, that will mark the end of the old post-1945 settlement and with it the end of the lingering remains of any domination of Western Europe. If so, the Big Three will discuss the future of security in the new multipolar world, neither unipolar, nor bipolar, after the emergence of these three Regional Superpowers, each with its own sphere of influence around it. These are:

The Russian Federation, with its sphere of influence of Belarus, the Ukraine, or whatever it will be called, the rest of the old Russian Empire of Eurasia, but now also including the Korean Peninsula and Western Europe; the USA, perhaps renamed the USNA, the United States of Northern America, with its sphere of influence of Greenland, its 51st State, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, perhaps extending even to Iceland, Ireland and the British Isles, but only if those Isles can be liberated from its Fascist Establishment; China with its sphere of influence of East Asia, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and perhaps even neighbouring Australia and New Zealand. The rest of Asia will be dominated by the three ‘I’s – Indonesia in South-East Asia, India in South Asia and Iran in West Asia. Elsewhere, in Africa and probably also in South America, there will be decolonisation and the turning to China and Russia.

Debilitated Europe is irrelevant to the Big Three, as Europe is imploding, which process already began with Brexit. The European countries have all lost their war with Russia, and they include once neutral countries like Switzerland, Sweden and Finland. The future of Europe is in Eurasia = Russia. Already Danish socialists want Russian help to protect Greenland. But Russia will not help a country which sent arms to fight against it. Much will happen in Europe first. Soon Russia will control Odessa, and so the Black Sea and the Danube delta. All of South-East Europe will be the first to fall into the Russian sphere of influence. Hungary, Slovakia and now Croatia are clearly anti EU, and probably Czechia, Slovenia and Austria, with its new national-popular government, are also heading to freedom.

Romania is now racked by protests and rebellion against the EU elite, which forbade the Romanian people to have the President of their choice. The EU cancels elections, as it wills. Be careful, however, the Romanians shot the last unelected President who was imposed on them. And then what will happen in Moldova? Surely it will join a liberated Romania with a new national government, And in much-wronged, but Russia-loving Serbia and the countries around it? And in Bulgaria, already moving closer to Russia? And Greece and Russian Cyprus? The whole of South-East Europe is now moving towards Russia and China, with impoverished Italy and imploding Germany not far behind them. Germany cannot live without Russia.

Once Germany has renewed its relations with Russia, it will leave the EU, after which the EU will collapse. The trainwrecks of NATO and the EU are not going to survive their defeat in the Ukraine, especially not in South-East Europe. Nor will Western European financial markets, which will probably face recession, stagflation or even hyperinflation. As for Syria, it is in chaos, caused by the Western removal of Assad. This chaos is spreading to Syria and Turkey. The prophecy of St Paisios the Athonite that Erdogan will be the last President of Turkey is coming true, for Turkey itself is not long for this world. As to Armenia, the foolish choices of its elite are costing it dear.

Some believe that the victory of Russian Tradition after the Ukrainian conflict is also the victory of Western conservatism. This is not true. Russian Tradition is all about traditional values, whether Orthodox Christian, Muslim (15%), Buddhist or other. In other words, Russian Tradition is constructive, for it not only believes in social conservatism, but also believes in social justice. However, Western conservatism is destructive, as it is all about supremacy and domination, notably it is anti-Muslim and anti-socialist. It will have to change, if the Western world is to survive.

 

Our Archdiocese (Roarch) Has a New Website

The website of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of Western and Southern Europe of 870 parishes had not  been updated for ten years.

Thanks to the efforts of our dear Archbishop Athanasy, our Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland now has its own website, where of course we are also to be found: https://roarch.org.uk/parishes-england/. Listed are 65 parishes and communities in England, served by 45 priests and 13 deacons. There are also 10 priests, 2 deacons and 9 parishes in Scotland and 2 priests and 2 parishes in Wales. 23 men are currently awaiting ordination. Vladica is going to be very busy!

Twelve Questions and Answers on the Ukraine January 2025

Foreword

The conflict in the Ukraine has been reshaping the world ever since 2022. First of all, there was mass emigration from the Ukraine to Europe by both genuine refugees (millions of these were evacuated to or fled to Russia) and others who just wanted to take advantage of Western political ideology and propaganda. Paying for them was bankrupting for Western European countries. Even more bankrupting were the suicidal, self-imposed, anti-Russian, in fact anti-Western, sanctions. Then it became apparent that the Western world was now isolated – China, India, Latin America and Africa, which know all about Western colonialism, either directly took the Russian side, or gave no support to the West. The old ‘Third World’, called by the politically correct name pf the ‘Global South’, became the Global Majority, the 87% of the world supporting Russia.

The development of the Russian-founded BRICS, now with Indonesia, was vastly accelerated after Western sanctions and illegal confiscations in 2022. Suicidal Western sanctions against Russia also vastly accelerated the boom of the powerful Russian economy, which soon became the fourth largest economy in the world, overtaking both Germany and Japan. It was clear that the post-1945 settlement, the world led by the US and Western-dominated, was over. This was confirmed by the US election results, which chose the nationalist, but not imperialist, Trump, who had survived two assassination attempts. As a result of the self-imposed collapse of Western European economies, unable to print dollars like the US, whose governments, after depriving themselves of cheap Russian gas, oil, fertilisers, cereals and minerals, began to collapse.

The latest disastrously managed Establishment regime to collapse is the Canadian, notorious for supporting Ukrainian Nazis. The propagandised and brainwashed peoples of the Western world are finally waking up and refusing to vote for their corrupt and authoritarian oligarchic elites, from which they no longer receive any benefit. Instead of Russia being regime-changed, which is what the Western elite falsely claimed was to happen at the beginning of 2022, Western regimes regime-changed themselves, starting with the rejected Biden. These regime changes were due to the curse of their support for Kiev, which seems to have the Midas touch in reverse. Now national-patriotic parties of left and right are taking over Europe, with the agenda of the overthrow of EU tyranny and the reset of relations with Russia after its victory in the Ukraine.

  1. Why does Trump want to end Biden’s Ukraine project?

Like most Americans, and like all successful American businessmen, Donald Trump does not like losers. That is why he got the US out of the war it had lost in Afghanistan. And this is why he is ending Washington’s next losing and bankrupting project in Kiev. He is a dealmaker, not a loser, especially not in a distant and notoriously corrupt country, in which the US has no strategic interest. Biden was surrounded with people who had an ideology to impose. As a pragmatist, Trump now has to manage the defeat of the Biden ‘Project Ukraine’, making it look as far as possible like a triumph for himself. Whatever we may think of Trump with his many obvious faults, he is a pragmatist. The Biden ideologists are now leaving the sinking ship.

Trump’s pragmatism and America First nationalism are the strategic logic why he wants to control his side of the Arctic. He would like to get the ten provinces and three territories of Canada to join the USA. To some that seems like a fantasy for the moment, especially in the form of one single state, but it may happen. Canada is only just over a tenth of the USA in terms of population. And Trump may very well purchase Greenland, just as the USA purchased Alaska before. How much would Greenland’s 50,000 people want to vote yes to US rule in a referendum? $100,000 each? $5 billion in all? This is a fraction of the $177 billion that the US taxpayer has been forced to waste in the Ukraine. Tiny Denmark’s colonial claims are totally irrelevant here and Greenland long ago left the EU.

Greenland with Canada could create 64 states in the USA and consolidate Northern America into one single geographical, political, economic and cultural entity, the largest country in the world, with US ownership of the Panama Canal and ‘The Gulf of America’ reinforcing that nationalism. This Trumpian policy of US national security behind a sphere of influence is exactly what President Putin is doing – securing his borders. And Trump, not Biden, is already the de facto President, ruling from Florida. In effect, whether he realises it or not, Trump is preparing Northern America to enter the multipolar world of BRICS, as one of six Great Powers: China, India, Russia, Brazil and Latin America, South Africa and Africa, and then Northern America/USA.

Finally, there is the humanitarian side of this immense post-Soviet tragedy. Knowing that the Kiev Ukrainians have lost over a million troops, killed and wounded, and the eastern Ukrainians, Chechens and Russians have lost over 100,000 troops  killed and wounded, who would not want an end to the conflict? There will be so many Ukrainian (called ‘Russian’) brides, as there is no-one to marry. The men are dead and crippled.

The country has been destroyed, all on account of the West Ukrainian-Hitlerite fantasy that the Ukraine could win a conflict launched against a Superpower, a conflict that the Ukrainian people had clearly rejected before it even began, just as they had rejected NATO, both then and now. Only the panicking EU and UK elites and Zelensky and his gang in Kiev want the conflict to continue. Neither Putin, nor Trump wants this. Above all, the Ukrainian people do not want to be, and never wanted to be, victims of this obscene tragedy of power politics. 84% of them want peace talks to begin now.

  1. Once Trump hands over the Ukraine project to Europe, why don’t the EU and the UK simply take the place of the US as sponsors of the Kiev regime?

There are two reasons why they cannot do this.

Firstly, Western Europe is financially bankrupt. It has no more to give, neither from its depleted arms stocks, nor from its empty bank vaults, especially not the UK.

Secondly, it is morally bankrupt. On its conscience, together with that of the Biden regime, is the war crime of having had killed or maimed over a million Ukrainian men, soon from the age of eighteen up, told to fight and die for the West by their racist masters ‘to the last Ukrainian’, and all for nothing, certainly not for the Ukraine. What does it matter to them if Slavs die? They are subhuman anyway….

The Western world is going to get a new elite for whom the conquest of Kiev is not existential, unlike for the present elite of the legacy parties and the legacy media. They have staked everything on the loser in Kiev in their desperate attempt to expand their ramshackle EU empire eastwards. Instead, the prosperous Russian Federation is consolidating Eurasia, moving westwards, retaking Orthodox land, and other countries will soon come into Russia’s economic orbit, including Germany, whose now faltered success is dependent on Russia. Victory in the Ukraine is only the start. The new European elite will, like Trump, be composed of those who are opposed to the Globalists’ proxy war in the Ukraine.

This is already happening with leaders like Orban, Fico, Meloni, Georgescu, Le Pen, Weidel of the AfD (supported by Musk), and Farage. It is exactly the same process Europewide. For good or for ill, the national-patriotic parties in Western Europe have grown from support of 5% to 10%, from 15% to 20% and are now polling 25% to 30%. Who knows how far they will expand further? In most Western European countries, these new parties are already the second biggest parties in their respective countries, like the AfD in Germany and Reform in the UK. These are at present heading towards becoming the biggest parties.

The anti-English Starmer regime will collapse, just as the hated Scholz regime and that of ‘Governor’ Trudeau have collapsed and then that of Macron will also collapse. All were supported by only about 20% of the electorate, though by 100% of the heavily censored legacy media, which has told the most outrageous lies from the start. The other regimes will fall in Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland, which have all betrayed their neutrality. Ultimately the US puppet regimes in Poland and the depopulated Baltics will fall, once the Washington and Brussels string-pullers of the puppets fall, as their proxy war against Russia is defeated.

  1. Why are the Russian armed forces making a frontal attack on the Ukrainian forces? Why do they not take the easy and fast way and simply go round the side, invading the Ukraine from Russian territory in the north, going round the back of the very strong Ukrainian fortifications, built up by NATO for eight years since 2014? This is what the Germans did in 1940, when they went round the side of the impregnable Maginot Line and so took France within a few days, instead of within a few years and with relatively few losses.

The frontal attack is taking place because of Russia’s three clear aims, none of which includes taking large amounts of Ukrainian territory, unlike the German aim in France in 1940. (When you are by far the largest country in the world, as Russia is, nearly thirty times the size of the Ukraine, you have no interest in taking a little more territory). Let us recall what the three Russian aims are, as they were clearly stated on 24 February 2022 and have been restated ad nauseam, though few have listened. These three aims are: the liberation of the two Russian provinces of the Donbass, which had been genocided by Kiev for eight years before 2022, and the demilitarisation and denazification of the Ukraine.

True, the first aim had to be expanded from two eastern provinces to the liberation of the four easternmost Russian provinces. This occurred after the Kiev regime illegally tried to cut off water supplies to the Crimea which go through those two additional provinces. (The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954 and voted massively to rejoin it by internationally-observed referendum in 2014). In order to ensure those water supplies and because of the massive support for Russia in the two additional south-eastern provinces, which had been part of Russia until 1922, in 2022 they too returned to Russia.

True, the second aim of demilitarising the Ukraine was achieved in just a few months in 2022, but then NATO modified it into the aim of Russia having to demilitarise the whole of NATO. This was because NATO supplied Kiev with massive amounts of NATO equipment and half-trained huge numbers of Kiev troops in using that equipment in Western countries. This is why the conflict has taken three years, and not three months.

The third aim of denazifying the Ukraine, that is of ensuring the freedom there to use the Russian language, to live according to Russian culture and to practise the Orthodox Faith of the majority of Ukrainians, has been occurring in a tragically different and cruel way to that hoped for. It has been occurring through the deaths of tens of thousands of Neo-Nazi, Kiev regime, elite troops, like those of the Azov battalion. This is denazification, the Nazis are literally dying out.

  1. Will there be a stalemate in the Ukraine?

This is delusional, a fantasy, wishful thinking, propaganda, a ‘narrative’, or in plain English, a lie. There can only be a stalemate in the Ukraine, if Russia wants one. And it does not. Since the Kiev regime is crumbling and heading for collapse, there is and there can be no stalemate, only Russian military victory. Russia decides the military outcome, not Western fantasy-writers and politicians who only talk to each other, never to Russia, which alone will decide the outcome.

  1. Why does Moscow not assassinate Zelensky?

Moscow does not act like the CIA, assassinating leaders of other countries. Apart from the immorality and illegality of such an act (President Putin is a lawyer by training and always acts very cautiously and legally, in self-defence), why assassinate your greatest ally? Zelensky’s foul-mouthed incompetence has been the guarantee of Russian unity and success. He was selected by the CIA for his acting ability as a talented PR frontman and to deliver the Western scripts provided to him. He has no grasp of either political or military matters, as we can see from his disastrous PR-motivated, British-planned ‘offensives’ in Kherson and invasion of Russia via the tip of the Kursk province. He is therefore the CIA’s greatest gift to Russia. His fierce opposition to peace talks means that Russian forces will continue to advance for as long as they want.

  1. Will Moscow enter into peace talks with Kiev?

This question is purely theoretical, since in 2022 the Kiev regime outlawed negotiations with Russia under pressure from Western countries, notably from the USA and the UK. The disgraced ex-Prime Minister of the UK, Johnson, a proven liar, played a crucial role as Washington’s errand boy in forcing Kiev to break off the nearly successful talks in Istanbul and then forbidding negotiations in early April 2022.

Let us recall that the Ukrainian leaders of the Donbass in eastern Ukraine tried to negotiate with the Western-installed regime in Kiev for eight years between 2014 and 2022, but US and EU-controlled Kiev always refused to talk seriously and failed to honour any agreements. The last Russian peace offer, made in June 2024 on behalf of the eastern Ukrainians, was as generous as it will get (see below). The longer Kiev refuses to negotiate, the harsher the Russian conditions will become.

  1. What are Russia’s current peace terms?  i The people of the Crimea and the four Russian provinces, which have already officially been taken into Russia, must be recognised as for ever Russian citizens. (Condition one). ii The Ukraine can never join NATO and can only have very limited armed forces. (Condition two – demilitarisation). iii The authorities in Kiev must cease all persecution of the Russian people, language and culture and also of the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine, returning its churches, seized by violent thugs. (Condition three – denazification). iv Illegal Western sanctions against Russia and trumped-up criminal charges against Russian politicians must be withdrawn immediately. v Democracy and freedom must be restored on all remaining Ukrainian territory, with free political parties, free elections and an end to censorship and the reign of terror of the CIA-trained SBU secret police.
  2. What will happen if Kiev refuses these conditions and continues the conflict to the end?

In this case, Russia will take back the whole of the formerly Russian eastern and southern half of the Ukraine, including cities like Kharkov, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and Odessa. This will cut Kiev off from the Black Sea coast, making what remains of the Ukraine into a landlocked country, and linking Russia to Transdnistria. This could create pro-Russian protests in Moldova and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The hated, US-installed regimes and elites there may be pushed out by popular pressure, just like the anti-Russian French puppet government in Georgia, which has already been pushed out. Russian victory is going to encourage a lot of suppressed pro-independence and anti-NATO feeling throughout Eastern and Central Europe.

  1. In that case, will there appear a new Ukrainian state?

Definitely, and possibly even two Ukrainian states. Once the two small Romanian and Hungarian parts of the western Ukraine have been returned to Romania and Hungary, there will remain Eastern Galicia. This consists of the provinces of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and the western half of Ternopil (the rest of that province belongs historically to Volyn). This could either become part of Poland again, or else even become a new independent Roman Catholic state of some four and a half million people, called Galicia, and belonging to the EU. It is not part of the Orthodox world.

The rest of the old ‘Ukraine’, a name invented by Austrians at the end of the century before last together with the Ukrainian flag, will perhaps return to its dignified and historic name of ‘Kievan Rus’. This country could be similar in size to Belarus to the north, though with a population two times larger, of 18 million. This will be quite independent of NATO and NATO’s economic arm, the EU, neither of which, in any case, will last long in Trump’s Western world. That is a minimum. It could be bigger.

  1. What will the future of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the schismatic groups be after the Russian military victory?

This is the question which concerns us far more. As for the rest, we are just outside observers of the political and military facts, however tragic they may be.

The schismatic sects will wither and die. The small but very violent, State-created and US-financed Constantinople group under the puppet Dumenko and the tiny group under Filaret will both die out. They will both have to return the churches that they stole from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. And this real Church, under Metropolitan Onufry, will have to receive autocephaly from Moscow. Ukrainian hatred for Russia and Patriarch Kyrill, who has appeared to support this tragic war and then uncanonically ‘defrocked’ some 60 members of the clergy who were opposed to it, is now such that the gross insensitivity and chauvinism of Muscovites have made this autocephaly inevitable. There must be a truly independent Ukraine, not a Western puppet.

As we have said from the outset, winning the war is not the same as winning the peace. Hence the need for a real Ukrainian State, where people can live in peace and democracy, speak Ukrainian, and live freely, without fear of Zelensky’s censorship and secret police. By backing this war, the tragic events of which we have been observers, the administration of the Russian Church has compromised itself before the faithful clergy and people of the Church of all nationalities, not least Russian. Naturally, this autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church will then look after its Diaspora in Western Europe and elsewhere, which already has 100 parishes.

  1. If Moscow has to cede autocephaly to the Church under Metropolitan Onufry, what consequences could that have for the rest of the Russian Church?

Firstly, the Russian Church still has to undergo full ‘destatisation’. This word does not mean independence from the State – the Church received that in 1992 after the collapse of Communism. Then the attitude of the Russian State to the Church became one of indifference, rather than hostility. ‘Destatisation’ means the end of a mentality of dependence on the State. This mentality gradually evolved after the Church was deprived its own Patriarch in 1700.

Then it became an Imperial Church, with its caste of paid clergy and professional choirs, leading to clericalism, and the destruction of eucharistic life and resulting community/parish life, replaced by private services of intercession and memorial. Membership of the Church is by definition voluntary. An attitude towards the Church as some kind of welfare state, for which the people have no responsibility, is not healthy. This mentality of dependence has in one way or another lasted ever since then.

However, it is also true that this mentality of reliance on the State had appeared even before that, as is shown by the Old Ritualist schism in the 17th century. The fact that the schism was about a State-imposed ritual, is highly significant, for it is the State that divides through rituals and ritualisation, because ritual, like the State, is all about the outward, not about the inward and Faith. The Faith of the Old Ritualists was identical to those who followed the new ritual, which in any case was identical in 99% of its acts.

Such destatisation today means decentralisation, that is, the granting of autonomy or rather autocephaly to others. Others means any Orthodox group numbering 100,000 or more, which lives on territories outside the Russian Federation and has at least four bishops and monastic life. The Russian Church administration in Moscow has to catch up with the division of the Soviet State, which over thirty-three years ago divided into fifteen independent republics. In other words, the Moscow administration is still thinking in centralised Soviet terms.

The second consequence is that the Church administration, which is responsible, must cleanse itself of the wave of corruption and homosexuality, which has come to infiltrate certain senior groups among the clergy, especially since the fall of the USSR. From then on Russia became the victim of ‘Wild East’ capitalism, characterised by the Western-style oligarch mentality. This was promoted both inside and outside Russia by the CIA and its subdepartments. This mentality came to affect the Church administration. My friend and colleague, the late Fr Vsevolod Chaplin, who died in mysterious circumstances in Moscow in 2020, was of the same opinion.

Here is the harsh truth about what has become necessary after the Russian Church administration has so discredited itself over the last thirty years. The Church administration now has to regain the lost trust of the Orthodox people, clergy and monastics everywhere.

  1. How could the Russian military and political victory in the Ukraine affect the rest of the Orthodox Church?

If the concerned elements in the Moscow Church administration are ‘destatised’, then the same freedom of destatisation can at last come to Constantinople, which suffers from the same dependence on politicians (only in its case on US politicians) and an equal level of corruption and homosexuality. As Trump abandons the Ukraine, he abandons Constantinople. Trump is a disaster for Constantinople, just as he is for the unelected EU Commissars who detest him. At that point, with both Moscow and Constantinople deservedly humbled, a real and very welcome and long overdue Unity Council of the whole Orthodox Church and a return to the canons become not only possible, but, at last, real.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regrets and Hopes in 2025

Q: In the New Year we tend to look both forwards and backwards. Can you tell us what regrets you have about the past? And what hopes do you have for the future?

A: I have three regrets, but a hope that far outweighs them all!

My first regret is the killing off of the Western European Archdiocese of ROCOR. We always used to concelebrate with everyone, with Constantinople, with the Serbs etc. We also had parishes on the new calendar with us. There was no problem with any of this and we were pleased to live like this. This was our tradition of being on good terms with all the Local Churches, faithfully handed down to us without change from pre-Revolutionary Russia. It used to be the norm for the whole Russian Church.

However, the ever-memorable Archbishop Antony of Geneva, who ordained me and whose spiritual child I am, was attacked by sectarians from the USA for keeping to this tradition, just as his predecessor, Archbishop John (Maximovich), was suspended and put on trial by those very same CIA-financed sectarians in the USA. There are narrow and racist, politically-minded pharisees, who cannot tolerate openness to other nationalities, unlike St John and his successor.

In 2007 we finally defeated the US fanatics, we ‘drained the swamp’, as they say, and brought ROCOR back into canonical communion with the rest of the Russian Church. However, ten years later, the CIA, working hard through its Cold War-founded select but powerful network of clerical agents in New York and elsewhere – their names are well-known to us, for many of them were recruited long ago – subverted our victory. They did this by having collected ‘dirt’ on individuals (they especially like to recruit homosexuals, who are then compromised and in debt to them), for, as they like to say, ‘every man has his price’, often literally. In this way they infiltrated the Church and created what they had long wanted – sectarianism and schism.

I realise that the New York group was desperate to find bishops, but there is a minimum level. They should exclude CIA agents by thoroughly vetting and training candidates for the episcopate in seminary and monastery, and also exclude homosexuals, narcissists and money grubbers, before they consecrate anyone. The liturgical, historical and legal ignorance of the CIA generation of recruits should not be such that they get arrested twice in one day in two different countries! Candidates should also understand the canons, especially those of the First and Second Council under St Photios. And they should also be equipped linguistically, which is so important in Europe. Communication by google translate has made a laughing-stock of that jurisdiction.

Then came the shock of 2017, a very recent convert, knowing little apart from American culture, which he tried to impose on everyone together with his American language. This was teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. Lacking all respect for local traditions, the new convert made nasty racist attacks on all Orthodox nationalities, Russians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians and Moldovans, demanded ever more money at every stop, persecuted the faithful, tried to close our churches, flew off into hateful rages, insisted on ‘protocols’ and micromanaged bureaucracy, and set himself up as a guru, just like the invaders of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan had done before him. ‘I’m American, I know everything and you owe me complete obedience’. That was the attitude. There is nothing Christian in any of this, just neophyte arrogance.

In December 2020 he went into schism. That was the last straw for all of us. Despite his guru claims, he was not followed. Clergy in Western Europe ignored him and continue to concelebrate with others, including with the Moscow Patriarchate, from which he had also gone into schism. But for us who have always fought against sectarianism, this was the end. We will ever uphold the traditions of St John of Shanghai and Western Europe and of his successor Archbishop Antony of Geneva, who would have supported us. We will never, on principle, support schism and sectarianism. As St John Chrysostom said: ‘The sin of schism cannot be washed away even by the blood of martyrdom’. We pray for him that he will repent before the end.

My second regret is that so much time has been wasted by others. I have been held back. I could have done so much more, but was not allowed to, for reasons of racism, jealousy and politics. I hope I have a long life because there is so much more to do towards building the Local Church of Western Europe. Thirty-six hours a day would not be enough. Parishioners are praying for me that I live to 100. They want me to baptise their grandchildren. Of course, maybe I won’t live until next week, I don’t choose. As God wills.

My third regret is that the Moscow Church administration, with all its vast potential, fell into exactly the same nationalist and racist trap as the Greek Church administration. It began to exclude Non-Russians, not just Ukrainians, but even their own children, from their once multinational Church, despite the warnings of my dear friend, the late Fr Vsevolod Chaplin, who died in mysterious circumstances in Moscow in 2020, aged just 52. This ‘Russian world’ concept is exactly the same racism as Hellenist nationalism. They have lost everyone outside themselves, Ukrainians, Moldovans, those from the Baltics, those from Western Europe, isolating themselves from the mainstream, just like the Greeks.

As a result, the responsibility for building the Local Church of Western Europe has fallen to the Romanians, together with the old calendar, Russian-speaking Moldovans and those of other nationalities, including canonical Russians, who are likeminded, like ourselves. Will we manage to do it, overcoming nationalism, keeping our hundreds of thousands of Western European-born Romanian and Moldovan children in the Church through a new Local Church? We shall do our best to do so.

And this is my great hope, far greater than all these details of history, that I shall live to see our Local Church emerge from the hundreds of thousands of Orthodox children, not just Romanian and Moldovan, but those of many other Eastern European nationalities and of those whose ancestors have lived in Western Europe for generations and centuries, including our own six children, six sons and daughters-in-law, and twelve grandchildren so far.

Thus, we hold firmly to the tradition of the Western European diocese of ROCOR, of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Church. Nothing will be lost. This year we have an important project towards this. It is all under way and hopefully it will be completed and revealed before the end of 2025. Unity, not sectarian schism, is the way forward and that is our way and always has been!

Thank God for the Romanian Church. Through our Church we have been able to keep Russians and Ukrainians together (only a few nationalistic and ritualistic Muscovites did not stay with us), just before their conflict hotted up on 24 February 2022, not to mention Moldovans, Romanians and others. I know that we are very grateful to Metr Joseph and he is grateful to us, as he wants to build a multinational Church. In a few days’ time our new Archbishop Athanasy, a Russian-speaking Moldovan, will be enthroned for us. Glory to God!

 

Even Dragons Have Their Ending

Even Dragons Have Their Ending

The Addresses of His Majesty King Alfred II, His Excellency President J. D. Vance and His Majesty Tsar Nicholas III at the Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of John Tolkien and the Unveiling of His Statue in Oxford, England, 3 January 2042

 

His Majesty King Alfred II

Your Majesty Tsar Nicholas, Your Excellency President Vance, ladies and gentlemen.

The day before yesterday I was crowned the first English King of England for a thousand years. By the grace of God, the English monarchy has returned for the first time since the half-Norman came here in 1042 and through weakness betrayed this land and all these islands into a millennial catastrophe. After French, Welsh, Scottish, Dutch and German Kings, I was crowned King Alfred II. This crowning came after a particularly disgraceful, ignoble and scandalous period in the history of England and all these islands. This was the period of the end of the delusions of empire.

The British Empire essentially ended in 1956 through the betrayal of the United States. And yet after this, one British Prime Minister after another tried to foster British imperial delusions by supporting the same American Empire, however immoral and illegal its acts. That shameful age is over. When that Empire came to its end as a result of its defeat in the then Ukraine, the British elite, known by its Norman name of ‘The Establishment’, ended with it. Since then a new government has formed, come up from the people of this new but very old land, who had been oppressed for a thousand years. Last year Ireland was at last reunited and Scotland and Cymru reclaimed their lost independence.

England has at last been freed from the British elite after a thousand years of captivity. England has become an independent country once more. Our royal capital has left Norman London and returned to Winchester, our political capital has left Norman London and moved to the New Witan, set up in Atherstone. This is a small town on the borders of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, in the very geographical centre of England. Its very name reminds us of Athelney, where King Alfred prepared the triumphant English resistance.

British history with all its injustices against the English, then against the Celtic peoples and then against many other people of the world, in Asia and Africa especially, is over. But it also committed injustices against both the American people under the German kings in the eighteenth century. And against the Russian people from the nineteenth century on under a Germanic queen and kings, overthrowing Tsar Nicholas II through Establishment plotting. That age is over. We ask forgiveness of all these peoples for the iniquities visited on them by the greed and evil of the Norman British Establishment.

Two days ago the history of England began again after its millennial interruption. The new and old royal capital of Winchester is in Hampshire, which like Tolkien’s Worcestershire and neighbouring Warwickshire and Leicestershire, are all shires. The real England is the England of the shires, of the Shire, which was John Tolkien’s inspiration. It is our renewed focus on this real England which is now our hope for the reconstruction of our land.

John Tolkien is one of our inspirations in our battle against the dark, satanic mills of which our poet William Blake wrote. Here I do not mean the dark, satanic mills of industry which still disfigured this land and created the ‘Black Country’, as it was then called, in the childhood of John Tolkien and which he portrayed in the evil of The Lord of the Rings. They are gone. What I mean is the dark, satanic mills of the mind. In this New England, which has finally broken through the rusted old shackles of the British Establishment, we are looking to the inspiration of such as Blake and Tolkien.

We are a Nation now seeking restoration, just as King Alfred I, Alfred the Great, Alfred the Truthteller and Alfred the Wise, England’s Lawgiver, England’s Shepherd and England’s Darling, restored England after the Viking invasion. Like him, we too have suffered a Viking invasion, that of the Northmen in 1066, which then turned into a millennial Viking Occupation. We are now freeing ourselves from this, not only politically and so socially, but, even more importantly in my view, spiritually and so morally.

This means arranging new and friendly relations with the rest of the world, with whom the old British Establishment always cultivated conflictual relations. This means firstly with the Celtic peoples of these islands, and then with the peoples of the new Confederation of Western Europe, of which we are one of the now twenty-four Sovereign Nation members, with the Confederations of North-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, which are today so closely and amicably tied to the Russian Tsardom, their obsessions with the Soviet past healing. And it also means new and friendly relations with the wider world of the New Fellowship of the Ring, the Alliance of Sovereign Nations, which grew very swiftly out of the Russian-founded BRICS and so quite replaced the old and quite discredited post-War UN.

This is why we are honoured to welcome here today the heads of state of the two largest nations of the world, of the Tsardom of Russia and of the Confederation of Northern America. In three years’ time we in England are looking forward to the military band of our English Army marching in the Great Centenary Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow to the music of our national flag, The Standard of St George, composed by the genius of Alford. This will be the commemoration of the Victory of the Peoples over Fascism, which victory was won mainly by the East Slav peoples at such huge sacrifice. We honour the victory of your peoples, Tsar Nicholas.

We hope that John Tolkien, who felt so deeply English and so loved the Old England and also its Old English language, those of our national champion and saint, King Alfred the Great, will inspire all of us. John Tolkien once wrote: I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull and for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. And that is exactly what happened. We want to continue to strive against the dragon darkness of Mordor of our recent past and towards the beacon brightness of the Fellowship of the Ring of the Nations of our future. Today we recall the courage of John Tolkien, who one wrote: Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. Our New England is not faithless.

As another John, our national poet, John Masefield, put it 100 years ago: We are called to re-establish the England ‘of the uplifted heart, that has so often borne beauty, of the idea of holiness, of the brightness that endures, of the truth that blesses, of the peace that burns away all self…The moving of the world with the glory of the English spirit is now the one thing left to us. That is also the vision of our John Tolkien and it is also our vision.

Thank you all for your attention.

 

His Excellency President Vance

Your Majesties King Alfred and Tsar Nicholas, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for inviting me here on this historic day in this historic city in this historic land. It is a privilege and an honour.

Over the last seventeen years we have witnessed extraordinary transformations in the arrangement of our world. The old post-Second World War organisations like the UN, EU, NATO, G7 and G20, which today’s children have never even heard of, are gone. Having long ago outlived their purpose, they have been replaced with the Alliance of Sovereign Nations (ASN), which has its roots in the Russian-founded BRICS and ultimately in the international peace proposals of His Majesty Tsar Nicholas II at the end of the century before last.

Today, we see the Big Four, consisting of the Tsardom of Russia, the Empire of China, the Republic of Bharat, formerly known as India, and my own Confederation of Northern America, working together. The expanded group, the ‘Big Ten’, represents the whole world, consisting as it does of Russia, Northern America, China, the Confederation of Western Europe (now twenty-four nations in number), Bharat, the Confederation of South-East Asia, which includes Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Japan, the Confederation of West Asia and the Organisation of African Unity.

The beginning of these changes came in 2025, when my predecessor, President Donald Trump, sat down to talks with President Vladimir Putin of the then Russian Federation to end the tragic conflict in the old Soviet Ukraine. Those talks ended within twenty-four hours, with the granting of self-determination to all the peoples of the then Ukraine, the south and the east voting to join Russia, others returning to Romania and Hungary, and the formation of a truly independent Kievan Rus in the north and west. Then came at once the dissolution of the warmongering and Nazi NATO, which had caused the conflict. Then President Trump headed to Beijing and the potential conflict over Taiwan was also swiftly resolved, when Taiwan returned to China as an autonomous island-province of the then People’s Republic of China.

The issues in these two areas of contention were easily overcome, compared to the conflict in the Middle East. It took President Trump his full term of four years and involved a third assassination attempt on his life in order to reach a deal. But with the unanimous co-operation of the Big Four to make peace arrangements there, with the formation of a small and peaceful Jewish State, centred on Tel Aviv in the north of the old Israel, a Palestinian State in the south and west of the old Israel, now rebuilt by Chinese Empire, and the status of Jerusalem as a neutral Capital under the control of the Big Four. This was itself an organisation formed in 2025 to put an end to the conflict and stagnation of the old Security Council of the UN, which you may recall.

Donald Trump, who had the same first name as my father and whose name is also my own second name, was born in 1946. Born after the Second World War, which was won mainly by Moscow, he put an end to the long outdated post-Second War settlement. This had become archaic, with its EU, NATO, IMF and alphabet soup of exclusive and aggressive political, military and monetary organisations, which did not represent anyone except the Globalist elite. Donald Trump saw the need for the peoples of the world to decide their own fates and leave the anachronistic post-1945 elitism behind us, as it in no way represented anyone outside that elite.

For these deeds, the then Globalist elite branded Donald a ‘populist’! What greater compliment could there have been! What they considered to be an insult was the guarantee of his success and the success of the people whom he represented. I am one of them. My Scots-Irish family roots go back to the Appalachians, one of the poorest places in Northern America. I got out of it and in this I was greatly aided by Usha, the First Lady, my dear wife, who is here too. It was her Indian wisdom that has always guided me and I wish to thank her publicly today.

It was only after the presidency of Donald Trump, in the early 2030s, that the world scene was really transformed, with the founding of the Confederation of Northern America, the CNA, following the dissolution of the old USA, Canada, Greenland, with just under 400 million people, some 4.5% of the world population. Thus, we saw the unity of our American sphere of influence, just as we saw the unity of the Russian sphere of influence around Russia. Soon after the unity of Northern America came the collapse of the EU, replaced by the Confederation of Western Europe (CWE) and the Confederations of North-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Then came the founding of the Confederation of South-East Asia, which includes Australia and New Zealand, and also of the Confederation of West Asia. Both the CNA and the CWE then set about paying off their massive debts, which had almost bankrupted both of them. It was in this way that the world witnessed the birth of the Security Council of the Alliance of the Nations, popularly known as the ‘Big Ten’, at last a Council representative of our planet.

I speak of all this today because the transformations that we have witnessed over the last seventeen years were envisioned and longed for by the great man whose 150th birth we commemorate today. John Tolkien, born exactly 150 years ago, on January 3, 1892 in what is now South Africa, was a man who had experienced the horrors of the First World War. I have long admired him and especially his work The Lord of the Rings. That was the work which inspired my path towards Catholicism when I was a young man.

John Tolkien’s portrayal of the goodness and innocence of the people of the Shire of Tradition, of my Appalachians, in their struggle for their Sovereignty against the utter evil of Globalist Mordor was key in this. It is my belief that, whatever his personal weaknesses and mistakes in the past, my predecessor President Trump was he who made Gollum fall into the Fire, taking the Ring with him, and when the Ring was destroyed, Sauron lost all his power. For me that is the triumph of our President, whose forebears came from the Hebrides and the Bavarian lands, for he destroyed the Ring of evil which so threatened world peace until 2025 and cast it into the Fire. As John Tolkien wrote and those words are now inscribed on the plinth of his statue outside this very Theatre: Even dragons have their ending.

Donald’s mother, the Gaelic-speaking Mary Anne MacLeod from her very poor home on Lewis, by the white-sanded shores of the remote Outer Hebrides, where they praise Mary and Brigid and Columba, was so proud of her son. She named him Donald after her grandfather. Had she lived to see his work as President from 2025 on, she would have been even prouder of him. Today I say to you together with the Gospel: Blessed are the peacemakers.

Thank you.

 

His Majesty Tsar Nicholas III

Your Majesty King Alfred, Your Excellency President Vance, ladies and gentlemen.

First of all, I would like to thank the Reform Government of the newly independent English Nation and the governing authorities of the University of Oxford for inviting myself and Tsarina Alexandra here today, and also the staff of the Randolph Hotel for their wonderful hospitality. There was a time, and not so long ago, when Russian leaders were not at all welcome here. Glory to God, that dark age is over.

Since the coronation of His Majesty King Alfred in Winchester Cathedral on 1 January, we have been revisiting places in England visited by my most noble, martyred predecessor, Tsar Nicholas II. He was a great anglophile and once dreamed of living in Norfolk as a gentleman farmer. Yesterday I was in Sandringham and Kings Lynn, where we prayed at the consecration of the new church dedicated to Tsar Nicholas and his August Family on land generously donated to us by the Council of Kings Lynn. White and fair, it is called on to become an inspiration to the people who live there in that old Hanseatic town. This evening King Alfred has invited us to a banquet at Buckingham Palace. Tomorrow, we go to the Royal Palace in Winchester in this renewed Kingdom of England, and then on 5th January to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, before we return to Saint Petersburg and our Orthodox Christmas Feast there.

Like President Vance, I too have long been an admirer of the work of John Tolkien, who, as a Christian, was profoundly aware of the great gulf fixed between good and evil. That was the origin of his deep moral sense, which he displayed so fully in all his works and in all his life. At the end of that life he also made a donation to our Russian Orthodox church in Oxford.

John Tolkien began writing in 1917, that fateful year, which was so disastrous in the history of my own country, after the overthrow and then martyrdom of my ancestor Tsar Nicholas II and His August Family. That overthrow was prepared here, only a few hundred yards from where we speak in the Sheldonian Theatre, plotted at University College, which, ironically, by legend, though only by legend, was founded by the sainted King, the Great King Alfred I. That overthrow, or ‘regime-change’ as they used to call it, was plotted by a depraved British Prime Minister, British spies and a renegade Russian prince, a traitor and a transvestite of base morality, typical of the worst fabulously wealthy Russian aristocrats of that age. Today history has turned full circle and exorcised that terrible past.

After 1917 my country was thrown into the Fire of Mordor, so vividly portrayed by John Tolkien, who had passed though that same Fire on the killing fields of the Somme, when the European elite bowed down in worship to its cannibal gods. The massacres which that elite had been performing in its far distant colonies, not least in the Belgian Congo, were revisited on its lands as retribution.

John Tolkien understood that death is the enemy of life, that the kingdom of death is called hell and that it is the devil who keeps the laws in hell. And he portrayed that hell in his books. After 1917, my own forebears suffered directly in torture and death, repression and camps, and then the catastrophes of exactly fifty years ago, after the collapse of the atheist regime, and not least my dear mother, who, as you know, was a Romanov. In those days I was much comforted by the words of John Tolkien:

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Thus, I can say that my whole country also went through a Somme, but a Somme which lasted with varying degrees of intensity for 110 years, until 2027. On a theological level, we too were faced with the monumental struggle between the Shire and Mordor, between Life and Death, between what in Russian we call Православие and Кривославие, between Orthodox Christianity and Twisted Christianity, of the Orthodox Church and a pseudo-Church, a Church of a Political Ideology and Corrupt Business. That has been cleansed, not least through the zeal of His Holiness, our Patriarch John of New Jerusalem and All Russia, who has swept away all that filth, which is such a shameful stain in the annals of our Church.

As regards our judgement of the past, we ask all our ancestors what they lived and died for? Did they live and die for Faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland, or not? By Faith we mean Faith in the Redeeming Power of Love; by the Tsar, we mean just Christian government; by the Fatherland we mean all those parts of the world which identify as Russian. Gone is the time of the dead hand of State Religion; of corrupt and merciless Government; and of the Imperialism which oppresses other nations and exploits their resources.

Our task for the last fifteen years, since 2027, has been to rebuild and heal our Russian Shire. Seventeen years ago, the world stood on the brink of World War III. Only that visit to the doors of death softened the hearts of pride. By the prayers of the saints the world drew back from the brink, and with the help of several leaders, real statesmen who stood head and shoulders above the pygmy politicians of that time, we avoided planetary tragedy. Statesmen had learned the lessons of the disastrous World Wars, which had brought to ruination twentieth and early twenty-first century Europe. They steered Europe to Renewal and Resurrection.

The statesmen had not been prejudiced by the propaganda which justifies acts of evil. They had understood the futility of empires, which rise in blind enthusiasm, but always fall in decadence. In particular, they learned this lesson from the fall of the last empire, the American Empire, which had exhausted and bankrupted itself in futile wars and invasions all around the world and which ended in vulgar materialism and frivolous infantilism, in greed and selfishness.

Today we have seen how the world which faced Sauron and Mordor has drawn back from the Ring, which bound them all in Evil. John Tolkien understood that peace on our Middle Earth can only come through the co-operation of the Nations, a Fellowship of the Ring, now called the Alliance of Sovereign Nations, a rebuilding of the many Shires, the best in every nation and people, in ‘sovereignty and freedom, justice and humanity, mercy and compassion’, as my predecessor put it. So too do our statesmen. And so too did our saints.

I would like to end my address to you this day by quoting from the Akathist service to one of those saints, who was also called John. This is St John the Wonderworker, whose lifespan covered much the same years as those of John Tolkien. Born into the Maximovich family in what is now Kievan Rus in 1896, he was exiled and lived in Belgrade and Shanghai, in Western Europe and Western America. We praise him because he was ‘filled with love for his fellow-men and did all possible for their salvation’, because he was the ‘righteous accuser of impiety and false teaching’, because ‘his love knew no bounds of land or race’, because he ‘destroyed lies and exalted truth’ and ‘kept his faith and courage amid unjust persecution’.

And was this not also what John Tolkien tried to do? On this the 150th anniversary of his birth, we thank God for him and for all those who do good, bringing peace to the Nations and Hope for humankind. It is our task to remake this broken world a little nearer to the heart’s desire, knowing that this world is only a shadow of the glory of the world to come, but that Help and Hope are always near.

Thank you for listening.

3 January 2025

 

 

Prehistory, the Flood and History

Dating

Radiometric dating methods currently reckon the age of the Earth to be some 4.5 billion years and the age of the Universe to be nearly 14 billion years. However, scientists modify these figures more or less every generation according to the latest theory. The accuracy of such methods, for example carbon-14 for recent dates, or potassium-argon for long ago, is dubious. Carbon-14 sometimes gives the most contradictory dates for anything more than about 2,500 years old and even before that it can err by up to two or three centuries. As for potassium-argon, it can date a rock formed by lava from a volcanic eruption a few years ago as being 200 million years old.

This imprecision comes about because these dating methods presume that depletion of the element in question is constant. It may not be. Given this inaccuracy, suppose we suspended our disbelief and regarded such dating systems and ‘scientific’ mythologisation regarding Creation as a cultural error? What if we took literally, and not symbolically, the traditional Christian Roman dating system, as used by the Orthodox Church? Whereas the old pagan Roman calendar dated everything from the foundation of pagan Rome in 754 BC, the Christian Roman calendar dates everything from the Creation, dated to 1 September 5509 BC.

In other words, in order to convert to the Christian Roman calendar, we must add 5,508 to the current year, if it is between January and August, and 5,009 to the current year, if it is between September and December. Thus, in December 2024 the Christian Roman date from Creation is 7,533. (Fundamentalist Protestants use the much later Jewish text of the Old Testament and generally date Creation to 22 October 4004 BC, making today 6,028 years from Creation). Most Orthodox Christians treat the date for Creation and the Six ‘Days’ of Creation as purely symbolic, and none of this is a dogma. However, if taken literally, it would have some very interesting implications.

From Prehistory to History

The acceptance of such dating would completely change our understanding of what is known as ‘Prehistory’, more precisely ‘pre-literary history’. For Prehistory was transmitted only orally, as it is the period before writing systems were invented –which was soon after the Flood, as dated  according to the Septuagint (see below). Therefore, taking the Christian Roman calendar, Prehistory would have lasted not billions or millions of years, but only about two millennia, from 7,533 to 5,291 years ago (Genesis 1-5), as the Church’s Septuagint text of the Old Testament dates the Flood to 5,291 years ago, 2,242 years after Creation.

We know little of Prehistory because of the Global Flood of Noah’s time which literally washed it all away, including the corpses of the relatively few people (a few tens of thousands?) then living. However, we do know what was later written down by Moses from the oral tradition passed down from the survivors, the much-mocked Noah and his family, who alone had not consorted with demons. And we should recall that since people lived for hundreds of years (for example, Adam = 930 years, Jared = 962 years, Methuselah = 969 years) oral traditions were basically stories handed down from ancestors, whom they had personally known. Thus, Adam was Noah’s seven times great-grandfather. (For comparison, one of my seven times great-grandfathers was born fewer than 400 years ago, not 2,242 years ago).

For instance, the first Book of Moses records that between the Fall and the Flood people, often called ‘neanderthals’, at first lived primitively in caves and wore animal skins, becoming hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists (see Genesis 3, 23-24 and 4, 1-3). What is clear is that those who had such long lifetimes must have become very skilled and technologically sophisticated, especially because of the presence of half-demon giants (nephilim) with their immense strength (Genesis 6, 1-4). From this period we also have folk memories, recorded universally in folklore with its giants (Genesis 6, 1-4), monsters, dragons, demons (elves, goblins, gnomes etc), angels (fairies), wizards and witches. With a lifetime of many centuries to experience, learn and think, many things became possible. Their civilisation was surely advanced.

In recent years there have been discoveries of complex stone structures now hundreds of feet under the sea, which may indicate that such technological progress took place. Some have interpreted these as confirming the many legends of vanished advanced civilisations, now flooded worlds, such as that of Atlantis. In any case, Genesis 4, 17-20 records the first settlements and towns. Genesis 4, 21 records the first musician. And Genesis 4, 22 records the first use of bronze, dated to about 5,300 years ago by archaeologists, and the use of iron, again showing the progress from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Why was it all destroyed by the Flood? Because the Earth had been demonised and, apart from Noah and his family, there was no further possibility of salvation. The existence of the Earth had become senseless until it had been cleansed.

The Flood

In Chapters 5-9 the Book of Genesis records the Universal Flood of 5,291 years ago. This Flood would have formed all geological layers, or strata, of rock, formed for instance from crushed clay (shale), chalk and seashells (limestone) sand (sandstone), mud (mudstone), trees and vegetation (coal) and other geological materials. The Flood, providentially for us, formed ‘petroleum’ (literally ‘rock-oil’), that is, oil, as well as gas from buried sea creatures and coal from buried forests. This also created fossils of animals which drowned instantly and were crushed, for there was no time for decomposition, as with animals which die slowly and naturally. (Fossilisation has hardly ever occurred in recent millennia). The future fossils were buried immediately beneath the floodwaters and the silt they carried – 4.5% of all fossils are of plants, and 95% are of marine creatures, which are also found on mountain peaks. Only 0.5% are of birds, animals and mammals.

The Flood formed the continents and islands, more or less as we know them today, as the original single land mass or ‘Pangea’ (Genesis 1, 9) was separated out as moving tectonic plates divided them. Continental drift began, as mountain chains rose up thousands of metres high from plains through very violent volcanic activity and the movement of the tectonic plates, when ‘the fountains of the great deep burst forth’ (Genesis 7, 11). Meanwhile, mainly in the far north of Europe and North America, there began the Ice Age, the result of floodwaters, heated by volcanic eruptions, condensing and freezing. The volcanic eruptions would also have blocked out the sunlight in those areas and killed the mammoths by asphyxiation through dust particles, which is how they died out. This Ice Age lasted for several hundred years over northern land areas, but it continues today in the Arctic and the Antarctic, though the ice there has been contracting for at least two centuries.

All animals and mammals, including the many which are today extinct, are descended from those in the Ark and developed into different species. They had obviously been selected and entered the Ark when they were very young. These did not include any fish, like ‘the leviathan’ (recorded in Job and the Psalms) and the sea monster (the Book of Jonah, where it was mistranslated as a ‘whale’). However, they would have included ‘dinosaurs’, recorded in the Old Testament as ‘the behemoth’ (Job 40, 15-24) and ‘dragons’, (see especially Daniel 14 in the Septuagint and the Psalms), as also in all folklore. (Did St George later kill the last ‘dragon’?). As Genesis 8, 4 tells us, the Ark was deposited on the mountains of Ararat, in the far west of today’s Turkey near Armenia.

People moved down from here along the rivers and settled in what is now called Mesopotamia (the land between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates) in today’s Iraq. The Flood is also recorded in garbled legends, like that of the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh, and the other 300 ‘creation myths’ of different peoples worldwide. All humanity is descended from the 8 people, 4 couples, with their huge gene pool of all humanity, who were saved in the Ark. Indeed, genetics tends to confirm the origin of humanity from those eight people. This means that all human-beings are much, much closer to one another than according to the ‘scientific’ version, which dates human-beings back hundreds of thousands of years. In the Septuagint version we are all cousins, descended from only 5,291 years ago through only 200 or so generations.

History Begins

Now we enter recorded history and parallels with the Old Testament. Interestingly, according to archaeologists, the earliest known writing systems appeared about 5,250 years ago. This was just after the Flood, as dated by the Septuagint. At that time Noah planted the first vineyard (Genesis 9,20) and in Genesis 10-11 we read of the building of a great Tower (of Babel) some 5,150 ago. After its collapse, people were scattered (Genesis 11,9) to the ends of the earth, in a confusion of tongues, which led to the development of today’s more than 7,000 languages. People moved north, west, east and south, founding new civilisations in the course of time. Thus:

Stone Age monuments in Europe, like Carnac, Stonehenge, Silbury, Avebury and Skara Brae in Orkney, date back to about 5,100 years ago.

The Indus civilisation began about 4,500 years ago.

The first Egyptian pyramids were built some 4,500 years ago and African civilisations developed, gradually spreading further south. Thus, the Bantu moved into Central Africa some 4,000 years ago, finally arriving in South Africa some 2,400 years ago.

Genesis 11,26 records the birth of Abraham some 4,145 years ago.

The first Chinese dynasty appeared some 4,100 years ago.

The African-looking Olmecs settled in Central America some 3,200 years ago.

Civilisation began in Japan some 2,700 years ago.

The first people reached Tahiti some 2,500 years ago.

Amazonian civilisation began about 2, 500 years ago.

In Australia civilisation appeared some 4,000 years ago.

The Cahotian, Aztec and Inca civilisations in the Americas appeared about 1,000 years ago.

The first people settled in Hawaii some 1,000 years ago.

Finally, people reached New Zealand and Easter Island some 800 years ago.

Most will not be able to suspend their belief in the customary secular system, which since the last century has dated the age of the Universe at billions of years. They will regard the above as fantasy. But if they took it seriously, then very different perspectives would open up before them.