By James Lucas, “Beauty is Truth” Substack

They say the devil hates his servants the most.

Here’s why…

This painting is called Allegory of Satan, or Lord of the World, painted around 1900 by the Polish artist Ludwik Stasiak. It is not the devil you might expect. There are no flames, no chaos and no horns leering out of the dark. Stasiak painted something far more unsettling.

Here the devil sits enthroned like a ruler of the world, with a sardonic grin on his face, surrounded by the symbols of earthly power: wealth, ambition, domination. Evil, he suggests, never arrives as something horrifying that we instantly reject. It arrives as something attractive. It looks like success. It looks like money, and status, and control. It looks like everything the world tells us to want.

And that is what makes the painting feel so modern, more than a century after it was made. Stasiak was working at the turn of the twentieth century, an age obsessed, like ours, with progress, fortune and getting ahead. And he was warning that the most dangerous evil is not the kind that frightens us, but the kind that seduces us, the kind we serve willingly because it promises to make us powerful…

Which brings us back to the old saying: “the devil hates his servants the most.” Look closely at what lies beneath his throne. Scattered at its base are the skulls of the powerful, still wearing their crowns and their helmets in death, the very people who traded their souls for money and power. And he sits above them, amused, because the joke is on them. This is why the devil hates his servants the most: he does not respect them for serving him, he despises them for it, because they handed over the only thing that ever mattered in exchange for things that rot.

It’s my favorite depiction of Satan because Stasiak did not depict a devil we would run from, he painted a devil we would kneel to, and follow, and call our lord, mistaking our own chains for a crown. And I think that comes much closer to the truth. The artist was giving form to a warning as old as the Gospels themselves: “No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money.”

By James Lucas, “Beauty is Truth” Substack

I don’t ask overmuch of men. I simply ask for logic. I simply ask that the Law of Non-contradiction be respected, followed, and applied.

A thing cannot be X and not-X simultaneously. A thing cannot be legal and illegal. A man cannot be the Pope and not-the-Pope simultaneously. To claim that he can be is pure irrational female-think.

Mike’s quote is at the 14:54 mark:

Mike’s push to unite the Remnant Church “clans” is correct in general, BUT that unity MUST, MUST, MUST be around the TRUTH, whole and entire. And the whole and entire truth is that Bergoglio was an Antipope from the very beginning, as Mike said in the video above, and PERVost is also an Antipope, obviously.

Trying to unite anything around a false base premise is like trying to climb a greased pole. The pole is there, strong and stable. This is The Holy Catholic Church. The problem is that the pole is covered in a thick coating of silicone grease – the lie that Bergoglio and PERVost are or ever were popes. You cannot get traction to climb the pole so long as you keep slathering the pole with grease – that is, living by the lie that either of these wretched apostates are or ever were Christ’s Vicar on Earth.

Degrease the pole and the climbing is easy. Degrease the pole, eliminate the false premises, and you can hold on to the pole without difficulty. And the pole goes all the way up to heaven.

God isn’t a jerk. He hasn’t greased the pole and is watching people slide down and is laughing at the spectacle. It is when we ourselves insist upon holding false base premises, holding lies as truth, in this case the lie that Bergoglio or Prevost are or ever were Popes, that we ourselves grease the pole.

Mike Matt, stop greasing. Only the TRUTH, WHOLE AND ENTIRE, is a sound base around which genuine unity is possible. The grease of untruth cannot serve unity.

Now, here is an obligatory video of a squirrel trying to climb a greased pole. In this allegory, the cameraman watching and laughing at the squirrel isn’t God, it’s satan, the father of lies.

Pope St. Linus, martyr, pray for us, and for the Petrine See, vacant these 1362 days and counting.

I look forward to his feast so I can post this image. It makes me smile.

Meet St. Maurice, or Mauritius. Today is his Feast, and you need to know ALL about him. St. Maurice was the leader of the elite Roman Theban Legion headquartered in Egypt. The Theban Legion was comprised of 6,666 men, who all converted, with their commander Maurice, to Christianity en masse late in the Third Century. Emperor Maximian ordered the Theban Legion from Egypt to France in order to put down a peasant revolt.

When the Theban Legion arrived in France, Maximian ordered them to start persecuting Christians. The Theban Legion, led by Maurice, REFUSED TO OBEY MAXIMIAN’S ORDERS. Ahem. Cough.

Maximian ordered a decimation of the Theban Legion as punishment. The actual meaning of the word “decimation” means to kill one out of every ten men. After Maximian’s men had killed every tenth Theban, Maximian again issued orders for the Thebans to persecute Christians. Under Maurice’s virile, manful, authoritative and inspiring leadership, the Theban Legion stood firm and still refused Maximian’s orders, even though it meant certain death. Ahem. Cough.

Maximian ordered the entire remaining Theban Legion killed to the last man in what is now present-day St. Maurice-en-Valais, Switzerland.

Now, look at the picture above. St. Maurice is the soldier in the middle in full battle armor, manfully grasping his ASSAULT WEAPON as he consults with St. Erasmus, on the left.

St. Maurice was a black African. He wasn’t a north African. He was a sub-Saharan black man.

St. Maurice was HUGE in the Church, and was THE patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors. In fact, the Holy Roman Emperors knelt and were anointed before the altar of St. Maurice at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The Austro-Hungarian emperors used St. Maurice’s spurs and sword (assault weapon) as an integral part of their coronation rite until ARSH 1916.

Compare this to the pathetic, flaccid, supine pseudo-men of today who couldn’t even figure out if Antipope Bergoglio is a heretic, much less an apostate, much less an Antipope usurper, much less the likely False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist. And now his openly heretical, sodomy-loving successor Antipope “FtR” Prevost. It’s just sickening.

https://novusordowatch.org/2026/09/taylor-marshall-prays-to-pope-francis/

St. Maurice, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

(I’m also going to include a picture of this famous statue of St. Maurice purely for its “trigger” value.)

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This Presbyterian “pastor” thinks Jesus supports killing babies in abortions. https://t.co/xoQw1DjIH9

— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) September 20, 2026

This is so sweet.  Look at the eyes.  Sigh.
I hereby reaffirm that Guido Reni is my favorite.

St. Matthew, pray for us!

Be still, and see that I am God…

Vacate, et videte quoniam ego sum Deus…

Psalm 45:11

I’ve been a science geek since pretty much day one, and I’ve always been ESPECIALLY fascinated by anything to do with astronomy and astrophysics.  I consider it a great consolation, and CLEARLY of the Divine Providence that here, now, in what appears to be a massive epochal shift at minimum, or the End of All Things at maximum, that we have the technology to not only SEE the physical universe in ways never before imagined, but that such knowledge can be so easily shared and consumed on YouTube.

When I was a very young sapling, while knowing without a doubt that God existed, was PERSONAL, and that Jesus was God, I would become very frightened as I lay awake in bed at night thinking about the vastness of the universe, and especially about TIME, and whether or not time and space were infinite, and what exactly that meant.  These questions, absent the One True Faith in its fullness, were terrifying to me.  And now, here I am forty-odd years later, and I find that which so shook me as a child to be now a massive source of consolation and CONFIDENCE.

A Supernova is when a star exhausts all of its fuel, and since there is no longer the massive OUTWARD pressure of the fusion explosions to offset the massive inward, compacting force of the star’s own gravity, the gravity wins, and the star implodes so violently that it causes shock waves that bounce back out and cause the outer layers of the star to explode.  The amount of energy released in a supernova is simply incomprehensible.

The most well-known Supernova is actually what we now see as the Crab Nebula, the first object listed in the Messier Catalogue.  The Crab Nebula came into existence according to human observation here on earth when its star went Supernova on 4 July, ARSH 1054. It was visible for 642 days, until 6 April, ARSH 1056.  For the first 23 days after the explosion, it was so bright that it was visible in the DAYLIGHT.  The nebula of the remnants of the exploded star were identified first in ARSH 1731 using telescopes, and again in ARSH 1758 by Charles Messier, who tabled it as the first object in his now-famous Catalogue of celestial objects.

There have been EIGHT observable supernovae in recorded history in what we now know is our Milky Way galaxy.  It is now estimated that in our Milky Way galaxy, there is approximately one supernova per century. Current estimates for the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy now stand at 100 to 400 BILLION stars.  And of those, ONE goes supernova per century.

The Milky Way is BIG, huh?  And supernovae are EXCEPTIONALLY rare events, agreed?

Well, consider this: astronomers now estimate there to be one to two TRILLION galaxies in the universe (and that number keeps climbing as space-based telescopes come online).  Let’s use TWO TRILLION as our number of galaxies, and assume that our Milky Way is an “average sized” galaxy.

So that means that there are TWO TRILLION supernovae per century.
Divide by 100 and you get TWENTY BILLION supernovae per year.
Divide 20,000,000,000 by 365 and you get 54,794,520 supernovae PER DAY.
Divide 54,794,520 by 24 hours and you get 2,283,105 supernovae per hour.
Divide 2,283,105 by 60 minutes and you get 38,051 supernovae per minute.
Divide 38,051 by 60 seconds and you get…

634 supernovae PER SECOND, EVERY SECOND, in the observable universe.

 Take a normal breath. Inhale-exhale. Roughly 1250 stars went supernova as you took that breath.

Folks, the physical universe is BIG. And you know what? God made it EXCLUSIVELY for us. And it can even be said, EXCLUSIVELY for YOU. That’s right. Because God is infinite, it is possible for Him to love each individual as a separate subject, which contains in it the entire universe. He made the entire physical universe for ME exclusively, and for YOU exclusively. Because each of us subsist in a discrete “ocean” of His Love, each of us, and every human being that has ever or will ever exist, are the exclusive cause of the physical universe. (When you start doing business with the infinite, things get weird, hence my use of the adjective “exclusive” which would be a contradiction of terms outside of the domain of the infinite.)

I even have a proof text of this for you, and it will stop you in your tracks. Our Lord told St. Teresa of Avila, doctor of the Church, the following:

“I would create the universe again, just to hear you say that you love Me.”

So if you’re feeling worried or anxious, just take a breath and say to yourself, “1250 supernovae just happened. And He made it, sustains it, and would make it all again, just to hear me say to Him, “I love You.'”

In those two trillion galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars, He holds EVERY electron in its valence shell orbit, and holds every atomic nucleus together, and holds every quark that makes up every proton and neutron in place. Consciously.

And while He’s doing that, He is in rapturous attention of your every thought and feeling, always respecting your free will as a sovereign being, and coming down on the altar at every Mass to be close to you in the Eucharist, and waiting for you in the confessional to forgive your sins, if you will just only say that you are sorry and mean it. And then, while sustaining the physical universe, clicking off over a thousand supernovae for every breath you take, He also reposes in the Tabernacle of every Catholic church in a ciborium, under the appearance of bread wafer, hoping like a lovestruck youth that you will walk in the door and… acknowledge His existence. Maybe even tell Him that you love Him. Or that you will stay and hear Mass and be present at the foot of the Cross in ARSH 30 as He dies in The Eternal Sacrifice for love of you, so that you might be with Him forever – IF you so choose, freely.

Inhale. Exhale. 1250 supernovae.

And you worry? You worry about a bunch of imbecilic perverted criminals? You tell yourself that “God has been beat. His Church has been destroyed.” REALLY? Do you REALLY believe that? You REALLLY believe that Antipope Jorge Bergoglio and now Antipope “FtR” PERVost and the Roman Antichurch Queeria “beat God”? Or ever could?? That’s a laugh line if ever there was one, folks.

Everything that happens is driving toward a greater good. This Antipope/Antichurch situation WILL resolve. And you should pray and work toward being a part of that resolution, because God put you here in this time and place for exactly that.

The accelerated advances in astrophysics and cosmology have matched EXACTLY the temporary reign of Satan as revealed to Pope Leo XIII in ARSH 1884. Why? Maybe so you could read this post and know that God’s love for you is greater than the entire universe, and so you could be reassured and edified at any moment, in any place, including a prison cell or concentration camp, simply by taking one breath.

Inhale. Exhale. 1250 stars just went supernova. And He made it and sustains it all for me, and would make it all again just to hear me say that I love Him.

Hang in there, folks.

As always, I hope this helps.

Sacred Cardiology – on the Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

As research on Diabolical Narcissism revealed, the demonic, murderous hatred that narcissists have for other people revolves around human beings who, unlike them, are capable of and have a massive capacity to love, and who experience all of those emotions which derive from love, including sadness and mourning, most especially the capacity to empathize and mourn for others. Diabolical Narcissists, by a free choice and movement of their will, have purged themselves of love, are thus incapable of empathy, and thus only experience the demonic emotional palate of anger, hatred, jealousy and fear. They invariably accuse people who experience normal emotions of being “needy”, “insecure”, self-absorbed”, “manipulative” and “emotional blackmailers”, and, ultimately, of being “crazy”. This is a species of gaslighting, a hallmark tactic of pathological narcissists.

We know from the example of Our Immaculate Mother, conceived without Original Sin, who suffered more than any non-divine human being, and the words of Christ Himself that those who mourn are blessed, and will be comforted, that the Narcissists’ contempt for those who love and are normally, humanly affective is, in fact, diabolical.

Now we just said that the Blessed Mother suffered more than any mortal person before, or since, or yet to come. And science, specifically cardiology, has just recently identified that people can and do die of a “broken heart”, meaning from intense sadness and suffering. It is called “Broken Heart Syndrome”, or Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. It is a completely different physiological event from a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, even though the symptoms and outcome (heart failure) are exactly alike. It centers on abnormal movement of the interior heart wall of the left ventricular apex. Remember that. It is going to be important in a minute.

So, if Mary Immaculate did indeed suffer more than any mortal person ever, WHY DIDN’T SHE DIE OF A BROKEN HEART, WHICH IS A VERY REAL THING?

Well, as was initially covered in the Science of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption essay, cells pass from every unborn child to the mother, and then persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life. Now, we all thought that factoid was pretty spectacular by itself, right? Oh, just wait until you hear THIS:

Some of the cells passed from unborn children to their mothers are STEM CELLS. These stem cells persist in the mother’s body for the rest of her life, and when a trauma happens to the mother, the stem cells from the baby spring into action, migrate to the area where help and healing are needed, where they then undergo cellular maturation and integrate themselves into the mother’s tissue. Guess what the most common locus for these healing events is?

Her heart.

The Blessed Virgin didn’t die of grief because she carried in her body stem cells from Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which grafted themselves into her Immaculate Heart and kept her from dying of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. His stem cells kept her from dying of a broken heart – until she had completed the course of her earthly life and it was time for her to be assumed body and soul into heaven and crowned its Queen by her Son.

Three concluding points:

1. Women who have murdered by abortion their unborn children have been healed later in life by stem cells donated by the very children they murdered.

2. The locus of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in the heart is the interior wall of the left ventricle at the apex. This is literally “the bottom of your heart”, or the “depths of my heart”.

3. All of the Eucharistic miracles involving the Host manifesting as flesh that have been tested have yielded the same results. The flesh is that of a human male, blood type AB+, and the cells are myocardium – that is, interior heart wall.

Our Blessed Lord comes to us in the Eucharist, and will graft our broken hearts with His own flesh, just as He did with His Mother. But we have to love Him, which means follow His Law and confess our sins, and have hearts that are capable of breaking, and which we allow to be potentially broken in the first place by loving others.

…Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.
…Qui sanat contritos corde, et alligat contritiones eorum.
PSALM 146

Blessed Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Our Lady of Sorrows, Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces, and Queen of Heaven and Earth, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.