The Canon

To Save the Future, Hold Tight the Past

To define a new future, one must first understand the present; to understand the present, one must first understand the past. Such is history: a collective memory conveyed as story, chanted about bonfires, recited before battle, whispered in children’s bedrooms as the lights turn slowly off. These tales are both fantastic and true, fearsome and beautiful, woven together as thread into a single yarn. Aurelia seeks to take this heritage on its shoulders, singing it into the unknown night and on towards a distant dawn.

Maintaining Beauty

From J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories”:

“The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside.

“It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of bread or wine or stone or tree, it appeals to the whole of these things…yet each hearer will give to them a peculiar personal embodiment in his imagination.

“If a story says 'he climbed a hill and saw a river in the valley below', the illustrator may catch, or nearly catch, his own vision of such a scene; but every hearer of the words will have his own picture, and it will be made out of all the hills and rivers and dales he has ever seen.”

  • L.I.M.B.

    Localized Institutions of Media and Broadcasting

    Project-Based Education in Monetary and Communications Systems

    xperience the poetry, stories, essays, and visual artwork of post-liberal thinkers as Aurelia attempts to consolidate the thought of those who seek the development of a new movement rooted in beauty.

  • B.R.A.N.C.H.

    Building Records for Administration of Nnational and Communal History

    Education in Legal and Financial Management

The Works

To provide free access to the Western literary canon for any curious soul, curating works from the public domain so that a clear picture might emerge as to what we were, are, and might one day be. Eventually, Aurelia seeks to do the same for every folk around the world, that we might restore the love of home and heritage necessary to inspire a renaissance of thought in a stagnating 21st Century.

Pillar I: Literary Arts

THE CURRENT MISSION: To provide free access to the Western literary canon for any curious soul, curating works from the public domain so that a clear picture might emerge as to what we were, are, and might one day be. Eventually, Aurelia seeks to do the same for every folk around the world, that we might restore the love of home and heritage necessary to inspire a renaissance of thought in a stagnating 21st Century.

Pillar II: Visual Arts

THE CURRENT MISSION: To provide free access to the Western artistic canon for any curious soul, curating works from the public domain so that a clear picture might emerge as to what we were, are, and might one day be. Eventually, Aurelia seeks to do the same for every folk around the world, that we might restore the love of home and heritage necessary to inspire a renaissance of thought in a stagnating 21st Century.

(Development to start upon completion of Pillar I)

Pillar III: Performative Arts

THE CURRENT MISSION: To provide free access to the Western musical canon for any curious soul, curating works from the public domain so that a clear picture might emerge as to what we were, are, and might one day be. Eventually, Aurelia seeks to do the same for every folk around the world, that we might restore the love of home and heritage necessary to inspire a renaissance of thought in a stagnating 21st Century.

(Development to start upon completion of Pillar II)

Ethnic Canon(s)

Read and collect the foundational texts of World Traditions, ranging from ancient epics to modern novels, and eventually projecting into the 21st Century as Aurelia seeks to foster a restoration of contemporary art by publishing works to encapsulate the current post-liberal moment. The Beginnings of a People

European Literature

  • The Theogeny

    The Iliad

    The Odyssey

  • The Aeneid

    The Metamorphosis

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  • Beowulf

    Canterbury Tales

    Paradise Lost

  • Song of Roland

  • Lay of El Cid

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  • The Lusiads

  • Nibelungenlied

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World Literature

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  • Song of Roland

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