A Tournament Of Shadows: “Someone To Open The Gates”

Last updated on: September 7, 2024 at 2:02 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

A Tournament Of Shadows III. “Someone To Open The Gates” General Napoleon Bonaparte first held command in Italy in 1796. The land at the time being a collection of city-states, Papal States, and territories under the Austro-Hungarian Empire ruled over by the Habsburg Dynasty.[1] In the words of Austrian chancellor von Metternich, Italy was not a nation, it was a “mere geographical expression.”[2] Napoleon’s army, “heroes in rags” as they would come to be known, were of poor material.... Read more

A Tournament Of Shadows: Andrei Mikhailovich Fadeev

Last updated on: September 7, 2024 at 1:42 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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A Tournament Of Shadows II. Andrei Mikhailovich Fadeev Andrei Mikhailovich Fadeev, from his youngest, one might say, his teenage years, was already in the service of Russia. He was born on December 31, 1789, in Yamburg, St. Petersburg Province, where his father, Mikhail Ilyich Fadeev, was quartered with his regiment. Having entered military service in 1762, in the Pskov Dragoon Regiment, Mikhail Ilyich served in it throughout his thirty-two years of service, He was considered a good officer, and... Read more

A Tournament Of Shadows: The Third Rome

Last updated on: September 7, 2024 at 1:31 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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A Tournament Of Shadows I. The Third Rome The Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great, converted to Christianity. With the Edict of Milan in 313 C.E., the beleaguered cult from Palestine was made the religion of the Empire. Eleven years later (324 C.E.) Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the Greek city of Byzantium which he renamed Constantinoupolis, or Constantinople. At the inauguration of the “New Rome” the Emperor declared that no pagan rites should ever be performed... Read more

Modern Olympics And Secret Societies

Last updated on: August 3, 2024 at 4:07 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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As they were held on the sacred soil of Elis, the Olympic games had always been accompanied by solemn offerings to the gods, along with processions, sacrifices, and prophecy. In the year 393 C.E., the Roman Emperor Theodosius, inspired by religious zeal, declared the Olympian games forever abolished. Theodosius, it was said, was unable to disconnect “athletics from heathenism.” Many centuries later, the Olympian games were celebrated once more on Greek soil, under the auspices of a Christian... Read more

Theodora Dodge: A Flagrant Insurrection

Last updated on: August 1, 2024 at 6:12 am By Shawn F. Higgins

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PART VI A FLAGRANT INSURRECTION The longer I stayed in Brussels, the more I saw of relentless oppression on the part of the Germans, of growing and reckless defiance on the part of the Belgians. For every man who was deported or shot, ten seemed to spring up to avenge him in some strange and unexpected way. Yet the shooting continued. Denunciations were aimed at those in the highest positions of authority as well as at the most obscure,... Read more

Theodora Dodge: Life In Occupied Belgium

Last updated on: July 10, 2024 at 8:42 am By Shawn F. Higgins

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PART V LIFE IN OCCUPIED BELGIUM After that terrible night when the Germans had come to the Château d’E——, there were, of course, the bitter and galling readjustments to the new conditions which their coming necessitated. I saw little of this myself, however, for as soon as full daylight had flooded the house, and we were set at liberty from that closed chamber of death; as soon as the poor dead boy had been laid to rest in the garden—Félix... Read more

Theodora Dodge: The Fall Of Antwerp

Last updated on: July 6, 2024 at 7:45 am By Shawn F. Higgins

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PART IV THE FALL OF ANTWERP The fall of Antwerp was one of the most dramatic incidents of the War. Coming when it did and as it did, it cut sharply across the hopes of a world which was awaiting the outcome of the siege in anxious suspense; a world which, despite the gathering evidence to the contrary, still clung to the hope which had been kept alive all through the terrible weeks since the first shock of Liège, that... Read more

Theodora Dodge: The Race To The Sea

Last updated on: July 5, 2024 at 5:33 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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PART III THE RACE TO THE SEA About the middle of September 1914, the world began to waken to a realization of the fact (still only dimly felt, however) that the War was entering a new phase; that the theatre of the fiercest conflict was to change, and those of us in England who were straining at the leash in our eagerness to get “over there,” breathlessly snatched at any, and all news which came from the front. Looking back... Read more

Theodora Dodge: “It’s War.”

Last updated on: July 3, 2024 at 9:27 am By Shawn F. Higgins

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PART II IT’S WAR It is with a peculiar reticence, difficult perhaps to explain, that many of us who took part in the War speak of it and of our own War experiences, although very probably few of us have memories which are more tragically dear. To those of us who passed through it (even those who, like myself, played such very insignificant roles,) the world still continues largely to be divided into two parts—those who were “in it” and... Read more

Theodora Dodge: The Creeping Shadow

Last updated on: June 30, 2024 at 5:21 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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During the Great War, Theodora Dodge (1871-1936,) one of the first women Egyptologists from America, volunteered for civilian relief work in France. When the conflict ended, Dodge returned to Manhattan where she resided in a hotel at 37 Fifth Avenue hotel.[1] Soon after arrival, she began contributing articles to pertaining to Egyptian mythology under the pseudonym Hetep en Neter (offering to the god or satisfaction of the god.) Dodge was a member of the Order Of The Living Christ, and... Read more