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Luc Olivier Merson, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1879
Translations: German, Spanish
William Butler Yeats penned his most famous poem, “The Second Coming,” in 1919, in the days of the Great War and the Bolshevik Revolution, when things truly were “falling apart,” European civilization chief among them. The title refers, of course, to the Second Coming of Christ. But as I read it, the poem rejects the idea that the literal Second Coming of Christ is at hand. Instead, it affirms two non-Christian senses of Second Coming. First, there is the metaphorical sense of the end of the present world and the revelation of something radically new. Second, there is the sense of the Second Coming not of Christ, but of the paganism displaced by Christianity. Read more …
The Counter-Currents 2018 Fundraiser
Assimilation = Nihilism
In the last week, we have received 16 donations totaling $2,605 for which we are enormously grateful. Our goal this year is to raise $70,000. So far, we have received 125 donations totaling $19,152.27. Read more …