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The California Legionary Manual


Edition 1
  1. Proclamation of the Vicennial ᚼ
  2. The California Plan ᚼ
  3. The Legionary System ᚼ
  4. Translatio imperii ᚼ
  5. Pax Californiana ᚼ
  6. The Legion and the Auxiliary ᚼ
  7. The Battalionate System ᚼ
  8. Cotillion ᚼ Intergatheration
  9. The Free Territory ᚼ
  10. Legiondom ᚼ
  11. On War and Militarism ᚼ
  12. 25 Points of the California Legionary Movement

Edition 2
  1. Dictation of the Plenary Alps
  2. On Violence
  3. On Power
  4. On War
  5. 12-23-23
  6. Exemplars of Legiondom
  7. Dream of St. Augustine
  8. Jus ad bellum
  9. St. Francis of Assisi
  10. St. Ignatius of Loyola

Edition 3
  1. First Epistle on Militarian Ethics
  2. Second Epistle on Militarian Ethics
  3. Defenses of Legiondom
  4. The History of the Legion
  5. The Federal Problem
  6. The Cogglehorn
  7. The Parable of the Mountain King
  8. On Imperium and Power
  9. Greater California
  10. The May Update

Edition 4
  1. Ode to California



The Legion —
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  1. A militaristic multitude, enlisted or conscripted, for the execution of a common aim; notably foreign legions: an international brigade of volunteers fighting for an agreed purpose or to uphold a common standard, generally ideology bound, rather than national or societal.
  2. The basic unit of the Ancient Roman military, consisting of 3,000-6,000 men.
  3. A vast host, multitude, or number of people or things.
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4. On War


From the Mount
2/22/24


“Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.“

      War is all. The transmutation of violence consubstantiate with imperium to achieve desiderata. War is waged at all times by all things. It is as elemental to life itself as water to the ocean. War is the medium through which life happens. From the dividing of a cell to the maturing of a child, all processes of subjects of war. 

        1. On the uses of war in relation to the society
     To a people, war is the natural state punctuated by brief episodes of peace. Peace never lasts, war endures. For that reason comes the need to accept facts as they be, to embrace war as the only constant in life which one can depend on. The practice of seeking to impose pacifism in the warlike heart of man for world peace is an effront to the natural law, of which war is the sole commandment. That is why it would rather behoove the interests of man to commend war, to live in concert with it for the achievement of those aims from it are wrought. Science and industry are the notorious beneficiaries of war, and the calling upon of all human energies to conquer the enemy is imperium like no other.
      Man had ought to employ the imperium of war and its manpower to wage against the enemies of life: famine, scarcity, catastrophe, pestilence, poverty, and malfeasance. These are the six human evils which, militaristically combatted, can be expunged from the populace. 

        2. On the need to accept war as a fact of human life
       Naturally it is only reasonable for those among you to remark upon the vile nature of war, its role in the remarkable calamities to which the human race has been subject since its inception, and like many, settle on the abject abhorrence of the entire concept all the way through. My dissenting proposal is would it not be better to rather regard war, enemy to peace that it is, as an undesirable guarantor? A trusty stability that can always be counted on to intervene just when peace has reached its apex. My reminisce is called to St. Augustine’s speculation on the Roman general Scipio Nesica who spoke out against the senate’s, and namely Cato’s, fanatical campaign to raze Carthage to ash. In his conjecture, Augustine discusses how the role of Carthage in Scipio’s eyes was a necessary counterbalance to the boundless luxury achieved by Rome’s success, and that without such a formidable enemy to keep Roman society anxious with the constant threat of invasion, Rome’s splendor would grow unchecked and result in the decadent dissolution of the moral fabric of the empire as a whole. Taking from this notion, I posit that war itself, as an element of life among the creatures, serves a similar role in that its looming threat preserves the elements of us which makes us morally and spiritually pure. While man can theoretically overpower every enemy that is noncarnal with science, war is the only enemy which science empowers. War is the summation of human efforts and all human achievements contribute to the advancement of war. Leaving the earth for space not only opened for humanity the world of the stars to make study and populate, but sooner than it could even become a new land for man to inhabit did it become a new battlefield for militaries.
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