Lanced Hearts of Lovers & Martyrs

I'm Eric, a young poet who seems to have been swept away in the Romantic Spirit of Beethoven's Symphonies, struck by the philosophies of Plato & the Poets' lyrics, burned for love like the martyrs of Rome, and can see an honest beauty in love & faith.

This blog is dedicated to my passions in Poetry, Literature, History, Philosophy, and Music, along with exploring the beauty and truth in the Christian faith-- how it rebels and transcends the ways of the world and burns it ablaze; preaches it's the Heart that counts, sings how Love endures, and that Truth is a beautiful Bride & hypocrisy a sin. It reveals that love is self-less, death is no end, and that there's no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends.

• Faith & Philosophy
• History (esp. 19th cen.-WWI)
• Poetry & Literature
• Catholicism

• Christ
• St. Justin Martyr
• Socrates
• Victor Hugo
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Richard Wagner

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"Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless."
-St. Justin Martyr

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  1. "A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good man or of a bad…. The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death."
    — Plato
     
     
  2. necspenecmetu: Johann Georg Trautmann, The Fall of Troy, 18th century

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    Johann Georg Trautmann, The Fall of Troy, 18th century

     
     
  3. centuriespast: TINTORETTOThe Ascension1579-81Oil on canvas, 538 x 325 cmScuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice ‘What then is Love?’ I [Socrates] asked; ‘Is he mortal?’ ‘No.’‘What then?.. ‘What is he, Diotima?’‘He is a great spirit, and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal.’ ‘And what,’ I said, ‘is his power?’ ‘He interprets,’ she replied, ‘between gods and men, conveying and taking across to the gods the prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commands and replies of the gods; he is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides them, and therefore in him all is bound together, and through him the arts of the prophet and the priest, their sacrifices and mysteries and charms, and all prophecy and incantation, find their way.’ Excerpt from Plato’s Symposium,  c. 385–380 BC

    centuriespast:

    TINTORETTO
    The Ascension
    1579-81
    Oil on canvas, 538 x 325 cm
    Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

    ‘What then is Love?’ I [Socrates] asked; ‘Is he mortal?’
    ‘No.’
    ‘What then?..     ‘What is he, Diotima?’
    ‘He is a great spirit, and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal.’ ‘And what,’ I said, ‘is his power?’ ‘He interprets,’ she replied, ‘between gods and men, conveying and taking across to the gods the prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commands and replies of the gods; he is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides them, and therefore in him all is bound together, and through him the arts of the prophet and the priest, their sacrifices and mysteries and charms, and all prophecy and incantation, find their way.’

    Excerpt from Plato’s Symposium,  c. 385–380 BC

     
     

  4. Crapy Movies and Hellenistic Greece

    After the waining of Greece’s Golden Age, where all the immortal plays and art we know today have come to pass, the Hellenistic Age brought upon a new genre of Greek theatre, called the New Comedy.In short— they were simplistic, conventionalized, re-used plots with stock characters, typically centered around thwarted lovers that live happily in the end.

    If we look at the social lifestyle of the Hellenistic Age, the Greeks were under great stress and paranoia over economic woes. It’s been noted through history that artistic values mirror the quality of living. In times of stress or difficulty, art more and more becomes simply outlets of distraction, where intellectual or thought-provoking tales are cast aside for quick, cheap laughs.

    So the next time you notice what crappy movies Hollywood is dishing out, you might want to check the value of the dollars you wasted on seeing it.