September 11, 2026
September 11th, 2026 by G.
September 11, 2001. 25 years have passed—25 more nails in the cross—but we remember.
2749 is the number who died. Some were in the bowels of the towers when the towers fell. Some died beating on the doors to the roof, kept locked after the bombing in 1993. Some fell through the air. Firefighters rushed into the dark, into the cries and the dust, and passed there beyond the world of men. Rick Rescorla, security chief for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, sang Men of Harlech. He was last seen carrying a crippled member of his firm down the stairs.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, America weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Vader
September 12, 2011
I believe there is a tradition in orthodox Judaism that to kill one man is to kill a whole universe. We find some echoes of that in our own scriptures:
And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Enoch, and told Enoch all the doings of the children of men; wherefore Enoch knew, and looked upon their wickedness, and their misery, and wept and stretched forth his arms, and his heart swelled wide as eternity; and his bowels yearned; and all eternity shook.
Zen
September 12, 2026
It is wonderful to see Vader, as it were, posting from the Beyond.
And this is a solemn anniversary, ripe with portent, and grief. Rod Dreher has a great story of a historical flag being rent on this date, suggesting we have lost, if only temporarily, the mandate of Heaven. The portents continue to be dire omens.