# oswald (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover oswald. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Analemma of History: A Spenglerian Philosophy of Universal History](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/the-analemma-of-history-a-spenglerian) _2026-08-08 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ Speculative philosophy of history, cultural morphology, Big History, semiotics, and eschatology ## [The Stran-“ger” in Our Midst](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/the-stran-ger-in-our-midst) _2026-07-21 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Immigration, Episcopal Rhetoric and the Bounds of Hospitality ## [ὁ Χθουλοῦ καλεῖ](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/c55) _2026-06-30 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Innsmouth as Counter-Platonic Descent ## [My Name is Alban](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/my-name-is-alban) _2026-06-22 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ From King Oswald's Heirs ## [Light has no colour](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/light-has-no-colour) _2026-06-19 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ 不可思議光仏, the universality of light-dark imagery, and the need for the Light of the World ## [Your life in the mission house](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/your-life-in-the-mission-house) _2026-06-10 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Do you want to make this dream real? ## [Why do so many Japanese resist baptism? And what can Christian missionaries do about it?](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/why-do-so-many-japanese-resist-baptism) _2026-06-03 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Part 1. On Comparative theology as a missionary necessity ## [Return to the Empire](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/return-to-the-empire) _2026-05-29 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ On Japan, Gospel Simplicity, Fr Crouse and Whitsuntide ## [Update: King Oswald's Heirs](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/update-king-oswalds-heirs) _2026-05-03 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Available now: hardback, paperback and ebook ## [Strangers and pilgrims](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/strangers-and-pilgrims) _2026-04-26 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Farewell sermon to the parish of St Margaret of Antioch, Iver Heath ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4drLvGggwGmq) _2026-04-26 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [The Hour for Wine](https://frthomasplant.substack.com/p/the-hour-for-wine) _2026-04-24 · Fr Thomas Plant SSC · Ghostly Counsel_ Sermon at Pusey House on the Eve of St Mark's day ## [Herder, Spengler, and the Goethean Paradigm](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/herder-spengler-and-the-goethean) _2026-02-21 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ The following is a short essay I had written almost a year ago when tracing the roots of Spengler’s own philosophy, which had ultimately led me to the works of Herder. ## [Spenglerian Optimism: American Cosmists](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/spenglerian-optimism-american-cosmists) _2025-07-27 · Maverick · Spenglerian Musings_ Paleo-Futurism's techno-frontiersman ## [Spenglerian Optimism: A Reappraisal](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/spenglerian-optimism-a-reappraisal) _2025-06-10 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ The longue durée nature of Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West (1917) cannot be overstated, almost a century after his magnum opus has been published it still stands in the face of its critics, who can neither refute it, nor accept it. ## [Spenglerian Optimism: The Case of Reactionary Hispanidad](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/spenglerian-optimism-the-case-of) _2025-05-31 · Spenglerian Musings_ Eric Aaron Castro argues that an extension of Faustian civilization is possible only through an affirmation of the Spanish spirit, which he described as possessing a “Faustian drive fused with eschatological yearning and honor-driven fatalism”. ## [Spenglerian Optimism: The Space Race, 20th Century Pop Culture, and the Rise of the American Civilization](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/spenglerian-optimism-series-the-space) _2025-05-31 · Aspen · Spenglerian Musings_ In this specific contribution to the Spenglerian Optimism series Elliot “Aspen” Smith explores the possibility of a new high culture emerging from the Southwestern American region — the Aridoamerican plane. ## [Oswald Spengler on Islam: Spiritual 'We' Over the Spiritual 'I'](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/oswald-spengler-on-islam-spiritual) _2025-05-15 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ The following is an excerpt of an essay on Islamic civilization within Oswald Spengler’s philosophy of history published with Qawwam Magazine. ## [The Historical Dimension of the Popper-Kuhn Debate](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/the-historical-dimension-of-the-popper) _2025-05-06 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ This specific short piece is an introduction to some of my arguments concerning the implicit philosophies of history of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, and how the debate between the two had to a degree shaped the reception of speculative philosophies of history in modern Western thought. ## [The Middle East: Civilizational Dissonance](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/the-middle-east-civilizational-dissonance) _2025-03-09 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ The following excerpt was posted on my X profile a while ago, I thought I would share it here after the current developments taking place in the Middle East, and the rest of the world. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eSLaEefGGexA) _2025-03-09 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Pan-Turkic Nationalism: Corrosive Irredentism around the Neo-Silk Road](https://naifalbidh.substack.com/p/pan-turkic-nationalism-corrosive) _2025-03-05 · Arabian Magus · Spenglerian Musings_ I posted this on X a while ago, and thought I would share it here, primarily because it has been a growing topic of discussion recently.