Bleaching- 7th June 2026

Maurice Lalau

Faraway into the land of the indistinct, the realm of sleep mumbles its incantations, drowsy and incoherent - rudderless, we step into these waters nightly with careless enterprise. One could say it is an act of total faith to give way to the intoxicating slumber ahead of us nightly.

For some, there are frightening aberrations, who with a speeding heart and moribund dread, the ghouls encircle the worries that beg to be heard. And the mind although fatigued is unwilling to surrender its taut repetitions.

Similar to a rebellious shaking dog, stubborn to the leash, obstinate to move forward, the insomniac shall not surrender their worldly consciousness with the peacefulness that is generally required.

The previous day calls to them to be seen and heard in ways that they have missed or ignored. How can one move forward and through the gates of sleep leaving behind the treasures so gathered?

This is one of the reasons that the nightly practice of recall: reviewing the day is so thoroughly practical. Every day spent within the physical world is so prized from the spiritual perspective, it is important to receive and reflect and acknowledge the gifts of the day just passed.

Our friends who are not embodied comprehend life - physical life - very differently. The trials of concern although apparent, are not the features of the extravaganza that daily waking presents.

After death when the soul reviews their life it is experienced then, as our spiritual fellows experience it with us now.

In many ways their watching on and becoming witness to our lives helps our own self build a catalogue - an album of sorts, for further insights.

We (all of us) can miss so much when it comes to the experiences of self and the physical world. Every interaction, thought and colour, intention and then kindness, revelation, sanctification, enables both the world and ourselves - doing our part in the formation of the future world to come … for those to come closer, that eventually the incandescent shall materialise and the material world shall draw into its arms and heart the godly enterprise.

Prayer shall best take thee into sleep - the holy thoughts of the divine are best our pillow to nest our worries upon.

May the grace of peace infill the unquiet both day and both night as one gives over to the other.

Up on the Bridge- May 26th, 2026

Phillip Otto Runge

The caul at the water’s edge is more or less alike to a bridge for the soul who is placed upon and waiting, just before their leap into life.

Worldly incarnation sports spurious arrangements … “meet me at the bridge” one soul makes promise to another looking out at the vista of consequence and habitat.

The life which is yet to be can only perceive key glimpses of the prelude - the details which fill the ledger become exquisitely timed - nuanced and satisfied - the gentle moments within the perpetual calendar.

Life lives and expands within these subtle spaces.

The holy breath seeks a quiet appreciation: the pause, bespoke to the moments before and after.

And what of consciousness? Is it a tedium or donkey-wise to the mundane? Or, collectively skilled with a magnetic pull to ideas that are grand and large, cosmically, economically, and delicately profound? A loadstone of complexity, with an eager soul who delights with each uprising of curiosity, and although fathoms but a fraction, sits upon a bridge that is knowing.

The Trials of Mary- 15th May 2026

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

The feminine ingenue is no mere role or archetype. There has been a considerable targeted intentional effort to degrade and denounce the spiritual feminine - assaults, contortions, denigrations of this principle are neither tedious or whimsical … nor benign - but sinister in ways unimaginable.

The ‘mother’ principle underlies all of Creation both literally and spiritually. The force that is motherhood is at the very apex of all that is good and great and redeeming within our very souls.

This force majeure extends beyond Humanity to the caretakers within the elemental fields, the beloved species throughout, the plant kingdom with the sophisticate conduct of the trees, and even to the consciousness of crystalline rocks: the mothering principle works as a pulse, and, a holy spirit driving forth sacrificing self, beneficently, caring for the lesser, the young, the needy, the infirm, making way for new life, making strong.

The mothering principle works through both men and women - yet is replete in pure form in the feminine.

Not by subjugation and never by slavery - only through willingness, kindness, community - giving with a whole heart, with a gentle strength that rests in God.

When the Devil himself derides the feminine and speaks the jargon of stereotypes, he asks you to betray your own soul - for it is the most feminine of all.

The true glamour is in the goodness, the loveliness is reflective of the sweet spirit within. It is to no wonder that the Devil despises the feminine!

The Hand of God -7th May 2026

Louis Janmot

Great men with great souls embody a collective of lesser ones - as satellites of euphorious splendour, juggernauts of inspirational endeavour, who with tumbleweed fashion collect as they go, being a nucleus and a gravity to those lesser of souls.

And thus inspired, these pupils remain so attached to their beloved inspiritors - they who hold magnetic sway and providence - who by sincere effort and spiritual achievement have carried the others throughout dark times and solemn interludes.

It is with great gratitude we acknowledge those great men who thusly are caretakers and the best of friends to our simple selves - true fathers to the many, endowed with a strength of striving, enabled by wisdom, firm in themselves.

Yes, we cleave to such - and if this be but one discretion, it is this.

For the orderly progression rests on such charity as known firstly from our Father, and then secured in our Christ to whom we cleave, to the great charity that is Him, and His accompanying cohort of Angels … and the charity of great men who are good men, faithful to all the above.

Like becomes like, and knows the other amidst all conditions … goodness will find you, Grace shall infill you, love will divine you, amidst the comedy of Man.