Raspail has said his inspiration came while at the French Riviera in 1971, as he was looking out at the Mediterranean. St. Cyril was born at Caesarea, and, while yet a child became a Christian, in consequence of which he was maltreated, and finally turned out of doors by his idolatrous father. Information to this effect having been given to the judge, he caused Cyril to be brought before him; and, being told that the child frequently invoked the name of Jesus, he promised him that he would effect a reconciliation with his father, on condition that he would never more pronounce that name. The holy child replied: "I am content to be turned out of my father's house, because I shall receive a more spacious mansion in heaven; nor do I fear death, because by it I shall acquire a better life."'

The invasions themselves seem logistically impossible to me, at least the sea-borne flotilla from India to France, and from Indonesia to Australia. That's why I think this book edges into the realm of sci-fi. But then who would have imagined (I write this in September 2015) an invasion of Syrians passing through Turkey and the Balkans to take up residence in Germany? Yet there it is on our TVs each night recently. And just like the invaders in the book, the invaders from Syria are not happy or grateful for the largess shown them by their new (if grudging) hosts, but angry and violent and destructive. And just like the French leftists in the the story, all manner of Europeans who, in their self-loathing, would like to see Judeo-Christian European civilization come crashing down are doing all they can to pressure governments to accept these "migrants" (they are nothing of the kind) and guilt the native European populations into not resisting them. As I say, Camp of the Saints is an astonishingly prescient metaphor for the civilization-changing events we're watching right now. In any case, don't compare this to The Turner Diaries or something like that. I've read The Turner Diaries and there is not even remote comparison between these works. The Camp of Saints is poetic, sublime, a product of Enlightened tought, and a masterpiece. You may feel a bit like Pandora if you choose to open it up. But then, who could ask for more of any book? Elbers' oubollige vertaling kwam midden 2016 opnieuw uit als 'De ontscheping' (een eufemistische titel die minder oudtestamentisch klinkt en de roman wegtrekt uit de apocalyptische metaforiek van de katholiek Raspail) bij de conservatieve Groningse uitgeverij 'De Blauwe tijger' (die onder meer de boeken van de controversiële Antwerpse islamcriticus Wim van Rooy uitbrengt: diens zoon Sam is politiek actief voor het Vlaams Belang en werkte voor Wilders' PVV). Through this involvement they were led, through divers errors and sufferings (along with the rebel angels, their corruptors and possessors and companions), to that final stage of punishment without end. "Thus by one man, sin entered into the world and death through sin; and thus death came upon all men, since all men have sinned." By "the world" in this passage the apostle is, of course, referring to the whole human race. This, then, was the situation: the whole mass of the human race stood condemned, lying ruined and wallowing in evil, being plunged from evil into evil and, having joined causes with the angels who had sinned, it was paying the fully deserved penalty for impious desertion.' I found this book to be both profound and utterly un-put-down-able. The idea is very simple: A flotilla of a million of India's poorest and most wretched sets sail for France. Along the way, as this gigantic flotilla gets close to Egypt (in an attempt to pass through the Suez), and then again South Africa, the militaries of these countries threaten to sink the ships and drown the migrants rather than let them land and be forced to deal with them. A regrettable solution, killing them before adopting them, but the only real choice given what might happen if the migrants did land -- right?Cover of volume 1 of S aints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days, available in print later this year.

The church will also launch the third season of the “Saints” podcast, which goes behind the scenes to tell more about the people and events in the books. A new episode will be released each week. James Perry, a British historian, will host the podcast this season.And what is virginal chastity but purity free from stain? And whom can we judge to be its author but the immaculate Son of God, Whose flesh saw no corruption, Whose Godhead experienced no infection? Consider, then, how great are the merits of virginity. Christ was before the Virgin, Christ was of the Virgin. Begotten indeed of the Father before the ages, but born of the Virgin for the ages. The former was of His own nature, the latter is for our benefit. The former always was, the latter He willed.' Raspail, John (1995). Le Camp des Saints (Édition 2011). Social Contract Press. ISBN 978-1-881780-07-6. What else was the happiness you felt at having freed yourself from the miseries of this world, and at having received the pledge of love from the celestial King, but a sign that your change of plans proceeded, not from your own inconstancy, but from God, Who had put the desire into your heart. The happiness came from him as a testimony and pledge of the many great and pure joys He will give you if you prove faithful to Him. The least or these is incomparably better than husband, children, riches, or anything else this world can give. Would that you knew by experience how sweet God is to those who forsake created things to gaze on their Creator! How tenderly the Divine Spouse cherishes those who cast away all transitory joys. They are like the chaste turtle doves which refuse all earthly comfort and long only for the love of their Lord in Heaven, and like the dove which returned from her flight from the ark to her master's hand as pure as when she left him, undefiled by having touched any dead body even with her feet. Is anything the world contains of less account than a corpse full of corruption? Why unite ourselves with what will only contaminate us? For the bitterness its joys leave behind is a thousand times greater than any pleasure they give us. Return heartfelt thanks to Christ for the light to distinguish between the priceless and the worthless, between eternal and temporal things, between God and a mortal man.'

Add in the current conflict in Ukraine, and the stories told in the volume feel more relevant now than when the project started, Hales said.

Deze van een extreemrechtse zweem doordrongen editie is tot mijn grote verbazing opgenomen in het Schwob-programma van het Nederlands Letterenfonds. Ik zal hen hierover aanschrijven, om meer duiding te krijgen over hun keuze. 'De blauwe tijger' zelf heb ik reeds aangeschreven om hen te melden dat de 2de druk krioelt van ergerlijke fouten: typo's, ontbrekende woorden, taalfouten, verkeerde hoofdstuknummering, etc. Ik telde er meer dan 50: op een boek van net geen 400 pagina's is dat om de 8 pagina's een fout. Ik kreeg nog geen antwoord. The global reach of the restored gospel since then and the Lord’s command to keep the history continually ‘for the good of the church, and for the rising generations’ ( D&C 69:8) signal that it is time to include more Latter-day Saints in the story,” Elder Snow wrote in his article. The essential practice of this devotion is to perform all our actions with Mary. This means that we must take her as the accomplished model for all we have to do. Before undertaking anything, we must forget self and abandon our own views. We must consider ourselves as a mere nothing before God, as being personally incapable of doing anything supernaturally worthwhile or anything conducive to our salvation. We must have habitual recourse to our Lady, becoming one with her and adopting her intentions, even though they are unknown to us. Through Mary we must adopt the intentions of Jesus. In other words, we must become an instrument in Mary's hands for her to act in us and do with us what she pleases, for the greater glory of her Son; and through Jesus for the greater glory of the Father. In this way, we pursue our interior life and make spiritual progress only in dependence on Mary.'

a b Jones, Sarah. "The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right". The New Republic . Retrieved 28 March 2018. This is terrifying, chilling stuff, an exceedingly clear call to arms for a genocidal race war, a call to return to the most horrific ideologies of the twentieth century. And this is what the people running the United States are reading and discussing: A book that advocates mass murder and genocide to preserve imagined racial purity. Writing about courageous Latter-day Saints and how they helped one another during events like the Great Depression and World War II became a source of strength for Hallstrom during that isolation of the pandemic.And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them. [14] Plot [ edit ] The whole thing in Europe is all about immigration. It’s a global issue today — this kind of global Camp of the Saints” (January 2016)