I suppose that’s OK as long as you are honest about it. It is even possible that you give fear your first priority. Mainly in the mental world and just don’t relate much to physical Pull the skin off your face – but gone on anyhow to protect the weak,Ībuse is not everyone’s style. Possibly you have never felt fear so intense you think it will Possibly you have never interfered with conscious, determined evil atĪll. The activities of a bully or with physical abuse of any kind. Most people on this planet have not the luxury of abstract philosophy Violence! Hostility! Unpleasantness! Yes, dear gentle reader. To protect in spite of danger, fear, difficulty, pain, and These are the four sacred directions of the Way of the Weak, and vulnerable the home the sovereignty of the individual Only by personal experience, not by principle or logic. Trample you, depending on how realistic you are. Without the existence of human consciousness. Gentle reader this is empirical reality- that which is, with or Warrior cannot be discussed or even comprehended in an ivory tower. This is not a philosophical or in any way abstract subject the The warrior does combat where and when necessary and not otherwise. The function of a warrior is to eliminateĪn exterior enemy presence. Issue 21: Holy War / A Journal Of The Western Inner TraditionsĪs a real, live initiated, trained, experienced, traditional, hereditary warrior with thirty-seven scars and a trophy or two on my belt, I find such expressions as “peaceful warrior” offensive, trivializing, and insulting.Ī contradiction in terms. With permission from his family, and for your enjoyment, here is Ambrose’s original piece of writing below featuring this now very popular quotation. Gnosis Magazine is now out of print, and I’m not aware of any other copyrights on the article. I feel it is time to reproduce his original article in full, since it is now thirty years since it was published in Gnosis Magazine. It is unfortunate that Ambrose died before he was able to appreciate the impact that this article has made even in pop culture.

It has even made it into the script of the movie, The Sisterhood Of the Travelling Pants as I recall. The quote above has gone viral over on the internet, and usually with Ambrose’s name attached to it instead of Roosevelt’s. But that was his way, he was a slightly controversial man. Needless to say its a rather brilliant article, though slightly controversial for the New Age consciousness. So one night with his rough draft in my hand I sat in a nice hot bubble bath and read it. He had asked me to give him my opinion of it before he sent it off to the magazine. I fondly remember reading the rough draft of the article in my early 20’s prior to it’s submission to Gnosis about 30 years ago. The Late James Neil Hollingsworth / AKA Ambrose Hollingsworth Redmoon

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