Rediscover Family in Fatherless Society

In the shadows of our crumbling world, where the towers of modernity rise like Babel and yet collapse into emptiness, the deepest evil reveals itself: the fatherless family. Not the seemingly harmless 'single mother'—that rhetorical softening, which veils the truth like a shroud—but the brutal reality of a society that has banished the father from the heart of the home. This is the core of our spiritual and moral desolation, a spiritual abuse that turns individuals into orphans of the spirit and states into ruins.

Yet hear the glad tidings: There is conversion! In the symbol of the father—that earthly image of the heavenly Father—lies the rediscovery of the Divine, the union of Animus and Anima in holy completeness. Only in healthy families, led by the father as head, does true humanity flourish, and from this springs a healthy state, founded on morality, reason, and the eternal truth of Christ. This is by no means a degradation of the mother and wife—on the contrary: It is a hymnic honor to her holy role, which shines in the divine order, complemented and perfected by the father, so that love triumphs as union and completeness, celebrating femininity in its beauty and nurturing power, not isolated, but in harmonious unity with healthy masculinity.

The Symbolic Wound: The Loss of the Father as Loss of God

The Holy Dyad of Father and Mother: Animus and Anima in Union

Consider the family as the mystical Garden of Eden, where man and woman are united in divine order: The father as symbol of the Creator, strong, paternal, unrelenting in guidance, yet full of love that does not weaken but strengthens. He is the Animus, the rational protector, who complements and completes the Anima of the mother—that nurturing, intuitive femininity. The mother, as the first bearer of the soul-image, the archetypal Anima-image that shapes the child's soul, protects against the dangers of the inner world, the shadows of the dark that threaten the soul. She is the sacred haven of childhood, where feelings are awakened, positive or negative, and the soul-image echoes in later women.

The Necessary Separation: Men's Initiations as the Path to Maturity

Yet this bond must be dissolved—not through mere external separation or growing up, but through delicate, incisive men's initiations and rebirth ceremonies that separate the son from the mother and thus from childhood. Herein lies the highest educational significance: The father acts as protection against the dangers of the outer world, becoming the model for the Persona, the outer self. In the initiations, the initiate receives instruction about the otherworldly things, the mystical truths of the Divine, whereby he can dispense with the mother's protection and enter into full manhood—a conversion to the symbolic Father in heaven, to God Himself.

The Honor of the Mother: Completion in the Embrace of the Father

In this holy dyad, children grow into healthy souls: Boys learn courageous masculinity, girls the beauty of healthy femininity. Here we honor the mother not less, but more—as the crown of creation, as the bearer of life, who unfolds her full splendor in the embrace of the father, far from the wokeist lie that degrades her to a lone fighter. Yet today? Society has dethroned the father, reduced him to a mere shadow—or worse, to an absent one. Fatherless families are no "modern models," but deserts of the soul, where the wind of wokeism howls and dries up every root of morality. Without this paternal initiation, sons cling eternally to the maternal Anima, unable to attain the full union of Animus and Anima, and fall into spiritual immaturity.

The Prophetic Call: Return to Your Father!

This loss is no accident, but an attack on the Divine itself. As the prophet Jeremiah lamented over errant Israel, so I cry: "Return to your Father!" For the earthly father is the guide to the symbolic Father in heaven, to God, who calls us in His paternal strictness and infinite mercy. Without him, the family disintegrates into chaos: Children grow up without discipline, without reason, without the courage to choose the good. They become victims of an emasculated culture, where "self-realization" triumphs over responsibility and the lie of individualism devours the truth of community.

Dr. Dr. Raphael Bonelli, that wise soul physician and defender of reason, has clearly recognized this: Only in the intact family, with the father as head, does psychic health arise. He warns against the illusion of "single parenting," which in truth inflicts fatherless wounds—wounds that lead to neuroses, addictions, and societal decay. Bonelli, Catholic-oriented and courageous against the spirit of the times, teaches: Morality and reason flourish only where the father reigns, where love acts as union, not as egoistic distraction.

The Fruits of Fatherlessness: A Society in Decline

The Symptoms of Spiritual Castration: Eunuchs of the Spirit

Behold the symptoms of this spiritual castration! In fatherless homes, sons do not learn healthy masculinity: The courage to protect, to lead, to sacrifice. Instead, they grow into eunuchs of the spirit—soft, indecisive, trapped in the snare of wokeism, which brands masculinity as "toxic," and unable to accomplish the necessary separation from the maternal Anima. Daughters, robbed of paternal affirmation, seek fulfillment in false idols, losing the beauty of their Anima to the heresy of gender blurring.

The Mirror of Brokenness: Corruption and Loss of Reason

And the state? It becomes a mirror of this brokenness: Corruption, weakness, a loss of reason, where laws no longer protect the good but celebrate the lie. Bonelli speaks of the 'father wound' as the cause of societal pathologies—from crime to spiritual emptiness. Without fathers, society disintegrates into tribes of the lost, where neither truth nor beauty reigns.

Catholic Mysticism as Counterforce: Saint Joseph and the Desert Fathers

Against this darkness stands Catholic mysticism: Think of Saint Joseph, the paternal protector of the Holy Family, or the Desert Fathers, who sought divine fatherhood in asceticism. In Nigredo Monastery, under my guidance, we live this conversion: Strict discipline, symbolic rituals that honor the father—Zazen blended with Christian contemplation, where men and women rediscover their roles in holy harmony. Here we educate not to weakness, but to strength; not to woke illusions, but to the glad tidings of Christ. Through men's initiations and mystical initiations, we teach instruction about the beyond, which makes the mother's protection superfluous and paves the way to full unity.

The Path of Conversion: Back to the Holy Order

The Glad Tidings: It Is Not Too Late!

Yet let us be optimistic, brothers and sisters! The glad tidings are: It is not too late. Return to the symbolic Father—to God in heaven—and the earthly father will rise anew. Build healthy families: Where the man leads as head, the woman nurtures as heart, and children grow in morality and reason. Reject the rhetoric of "single parenting"—it is a veil over the fatherless desert. Follow Bonelli's wisdom: Therapy alone does not heal; only the return to the natural order, founded on religion and reason, brings healing. And herein lies the true elevation of the mother: Not as an isolated figure, but as a beloved partner, whose femininity blossoms in union with the father, to the beauty of the good and the completeness of love.

The Invitation to Nigredo Monastery: Alchemical Transformation

In Nigredo Monastery, we invite you: Come, experience the transformation—from the Nigredo of darkness to the golden union. Here we sharpen the spirit like a sword, honor healthy masculinity and femininity, and proclaim the truth boldly. Love is completeness, not fragmentation. God as Father calls: "Come to me, you fatherless ones, and I will give you rest—in the strictness of my embrace."

Time for Reconquest: Sharpen the blades of morality. Rebuild the fortress of the family. The Kingdom of God draws near—through the Father.