Chasing Dawn

Health of the People as the Highest Law

Historically independent states have been enticed to compete for leadership of this international framework, providing the appearance of competition between distinct states while ensuring homogeneity of thought as technology and migration eliminates local identity.

To What We Wake

From Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option:

“I am a college-educated American. In all my years of formal schooling, I never read Plato or Aristotle, Homer or Virgil. I knew nothing of Greek and Roman history and barely grasped the meaning of the Middle Ages.

“The fifteen hundred years of Christianity from the end of the New Testament to the Reformation were a blank page, and I knew only the barest facts about Luther's revolution…My understanding of Western history began with the Enlightenment. Everything that came before it was lost behind a misty curtain of forgetting.

Nobody did this on purpose…But nobody felt any obligation to present it to me and my generation in an orderly, coherent fashion. Ideas have consequences - and so does their lack.”

Our Night, Defined

Industrialization

The scientific revolution deconstructed Europe’s transparent feudal system rooted in faith and land and built in its place opaque bureaucracies rooted in technology and wealth. States which decentralized power as private oligarchies came to rule the world.
Globalization

Industrialists mobilized civilians in revolution and war against traditional authorities, promising equity and wealth through democracy while centralizing influence on a global scale. Developing markets liberalized in order to integrate into the international framework.
Multi-Polarity

Historically independent states were enticed to compete for leadership of this international framework, providing the appearance of competition between distinct states while ensuring homogeneity of thought as technology and migration eliminates local identity.
Fabion-inspired strategies of social nudging allowed the U.S. version of liberalism to out-compete the Soviet’s post-WWII. Its international institutions offered Western civil rights and finance to integrate the globe under managerial classes divorced from local preferences.

Our Dawn, Defined

Our Name

Aurelia is a derivation of the Latin word meaning “golden,” referring to the belief that a more equitable era will emerge after our Dark Night of materialistic inequality. Thus, its mantra: per noctem, ad auroram; or, “through night, unto dawn.”
Our Symbol

Aurelia takes as its symbol all Western origins: a Catholic Cross, wreathed by Greek laurels, supported by prongs of the Trifunctional Hypothesis, whose three social classes unite to represent the necessity for individuals to sacrifice for society’s future.
Our Vision

Aurelia is inspired by Catholic social teachings, and thus seeks a future tied to land, family, and God through a change in the guiding principle of society, from “do as thou wilt” to salus populi suprema lex; or, “the health of the people is the supreme law”.

Our Principles (What We Believe)

Catholic Mysticism

Esoteric pursuit at the base of the material Church; the walk with Christ towards Union with God, through the rite of one’s Dark Night of the Soul
Re-Territorialization

Act of re-embedding the Self into one’s natural context; to be again a part of the world from which we have so alienated ourselves via Technics
Formalized Influence

Clarification of the natural and social hierarchies in every society; the accountability and unifying ethic born from Noblesse Oblige
Communal Sovereignty

A People’s ability to identify themselves as distinct from all others; the right to protect an unbroken chain of faith, family, art, and war
Holistic Vitality

Intersection of all that makes one human; the physical, spiritual, familial, cultural, and ethnic health born from a living heritage - i.e., thumos
Aesthetic Beauty

Rebirth of standard in every aspect of life; the restoration of skill and poise via education and judgment so to restore a High Culture for all

Our Values (What We Embody)

Yeoman (Fertility)

One of three Trifunctional Classes: those embodying the Principles of Re-Territorialization and Communal Sovereignty, who use their hands to build and maintain society: farmers and miners; carpenters and plumbers; accountants, seamstresses, coders, and engineers.
Warrior (Order)

One of three Trifunctional Classes: those embodying the Principles of Holistic Vitality and Transparent Influence, who deal with death to protect and organize society: soldiers and police officers; firefighters and EMTs; doctors, trainers, body guards, and military spies.
Priest (Ethics)

One of three Trifunctional Classes: those embodying Aurelia’s Principles of Catholic Mysticism and Aesthetic Beauty, who explore the unknown to guide society both culturally and morally: priests and poets; authors and artists; teachers, mystics, and guides.

Our Objectives (What We Seek)

I: Health

A successful holistic education will manifest as health in heart, mind, body and soul for the student who authentically reaches for that kind of wellness the ancient Greeks referred to as eudaemonia.
II: Home

A successful holistic education will manifest the sense of home, in both the individual and communal sense, for the student who authentically reaches for that which the ancient Greeks called oikos.
III: Heritage

A successful holistic education will manifest as a cultural heritage in art, blood, and soul for the student who authentically reaches for the fulfillment of potential that ancient Greeks named arete.