Knights of Honor

Military tribunals are appropriate when American civilian justice has gone off the rails (i.e., when the Justice Department and its FBI, the United States Supreme Court, and many state and federal courts and agencies have been fatally compromised).

In a time of declared national emergency, as so determined on September 12, 2018 by Executive Order 13848—and specifically when the Insurrection Act has been activated—law and order will be restored in an emergency fashion according to military operational plans and guidelines.

The oath to protect and defend the Constitution (the real, original Constitution for the United States of America) is the military’s guiding light, and not, for example, some seemingly de facto USA, Inc. version as reflected in the dark tenets of the globalist-Illuminist Georgia Guidestones. Under the leadership of President Trump, Americans should be assured of this essentially crucial fact (and if they are not, then they’re probably still watching TV propaganda and accessing online neo-appendages thereof).

Before invoking the military option, President Trump has properly undertaken to exhaust all existing institutional avenues available within our three branches of government, while exhorting officials on the state level to do the right, lawful and constitutional thing; all to no avail.

Thus, our world is currently at war with the cancer that has infected this constitutional republic. And despite whatever disabilities may inhere in the fracturing corporation known as USA, Inc., cyber and kinetic defense of the nation will proceed and ultimately have its end point in courtrooms against defendants that are presided over by our military and conducted in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

The military has jurisdiction. This means that the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC), within the bounds of its mandate, will be overseeing the meting out of the due process of justice during this time of socio-political strife, chaos and disorder. The JAGC (whose individual officers are known colloquially as “JAGs”) will be prosecuting the charges against suspected enemies, both foreign and domestic.

As this process is already underway, it may be instructive to look behind the formalities to consider the requisite foundational role of HONOR in their military judicial function. As the below essay extract discusses, the process of recovering and restoring HONOR requires the assistance of a gallant coterie referred to as “Knights of Honor.” The complete title of that essay is Restoring Honor: The Art of Verbal Swordsmanship. For serendipitous reasons, as articulated following this essay extract, the epithet, “verbal swordsmen” is a particularly fitting distinction to bestow, first and foremost upon The Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army. Read on to see whether you agree:

The astronomy of Ptolemy was earth-centered. The astronomy of Copernicus is solar-centered. The verbal swordsman includes both in his world-view: earth-centered in terms of the matter at hand, the what-is; solar-centered in terms of the rules of engagement. He himself must be the mediating term, the medicinal anthropic principle that heals the poisoned spear that has been thrust into our side.

The “sickness of cognition” that poisons the modern world has to do with our relationship to what is: that is, the relationship of mind to world through the medium of Language. The Path of Honor is defined as being true to what is: true, steadfast, and unswervingly faithful. Honor seeks to direct the Copernican sunbeam upon the Ptolemaic material by means of anthropic responsiveness: a new three-fold integration.

The problem consists in the determination of what is. The art of verbal swordsmanship, which involves the placement of the maximum load of thought into the smallest possible compass, is viewed as a process between two persons who have voluntarily agreed to engage in a mutual determination of what is according to clearly defined and mutually agreed upon rules. The process of discovering these rules, stating them openly, weighing and evaluating them in the light of fairness to the two parties concerned, may be said to be a large part of the determination of what is.

The object of verbal swordsmanship is not to engage in personal attack, to achieve revenge, to be right, or to win. What matters is the engagement with honor: not to wound or demean the opponent, but to maneuver him into an engagement with truth, i.e., the processes in his own soul. There is no other end in view but the means.

For: remember our threefold integration. We need to approach the matter at hand in the light of honor by means of anthropic responsiveness. It is only through these small mutually-agreed-upon oscillations of process that the ‘matter’ can be determined. We ‘weigh’ by means of light.

This is not to say that the Knight of Honor cannot make mistakes. In such situation, the Knight can accept handicap: i.e., admit that he is wrong. The important point is the recovery of honor: that the Knight be able to deflect the mistake back into the process. Likewise, the same rule applies to the opponent. The acceptance of handicap is made out of deference to the process.

Cases of bluntness, plain speaking, moral righteousness and judgment do not automatically incur handicap. Each incident has to be weighed and evaluated by both parties. Even a well-crafted insult is, from a certain point of view, an admirable thing. But insults, and compliments for that matter, are “points” only insofar as they serve truth. Truthfulness is the only thing that matters. But it is incumbent on the one who accepts handicap to discover the means by which combat can be continued.

The Rules of Engagement follow strict laws of formality, courtesy, logic, consistency and what may be called “moral consciousness” or “moral imagination.” It is recognized by the Knight of Honor that what is being attempted is the handling of ‘esoteric energies.’ It is the aim of the Knight of Honor to become a Master of such energies, and in his practice enable his opponent to contact such energies in himself. This is what is meant esoterically by the phrase the ‘saving of the soul’ of another.

Normally, energy is viewed in the light of ‘efficiency’—that is, employ only so much energy as will accomplish the immediate task. Esoteric energies involve the concept of surplus: that is why terseness or brevity is the aim of the deft s-wordsman. Here is another example of the “strange logic of reversal”—that surplus manifests in terseness. There is an analogy with the beauty and universality of a scientific equation—the beauty which, according to the physicist Paul Dirac, is an index of its truthfulness. As for terseness, one physicist remarked that the equations pertaining to the script of the world can be written upon the back of an envelope.

It is toward a perception of the supernatural in Man that the Knighthood of Honor is pledged. Only then can we approach truly the what is. For what is is not, in itself, sacred. The pledge of the worth of the what is was granted by the Coming of the Savior into the flesh—into the world, into the what is. With respect to the problem of truth, it is recognized that on this point even the Savior elected to remain silent. (John 18:38) It is the Savior who deflects dead ends back into processes. Such an example informs the practice of the Knight of Honor.

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NOTE: Towards the Recovery of Honor: The Art of Verbal Swordsmanship by an author known only as "Caryl," whom the author believes (going strictly by her online "profile") is, or was, a professor in the Philadelphia area. The piece was written on or before March 1996. It had been published online in April, 2008, but has since vanished, only to be recovered by the Way Back Machine. Go figure:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190815200843/http://recovery-of-honor.blogspot.com/

 

The Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the United States Army is the oldest of the judge advocate communities in the armed forces—as well as being the oldest law firm in the United States of America. General George Washington founded the U.S. Army JAG Corps on July 29, 1775. The branch insignia consists of a gold quill crossed above a gold sword, superimposed over a laurel wreath. The pen signifies the recording of testimony, the sword represents the military character of the JAG Corps, and the wreath indicates honor. The insignia was created in May 1890 in silver and changed to gold in 1899.

Serendipitously, as well as symbolically, Army JAGs should ideally embrace those unique qualities of “s-wordsmanship” as defined and discussed in the brilliant essay above. In any event, they are now called upon to comport themselves accordingly.

In the turbulent months ahead, as our country rights itself, we pray that they and all other judge advocate communities in the armed forces of the U.S.A., may be found truly worthy to be called “Knights of Honor.”