“The Scout goes by compass, both morally and navigationally and ventures only to glean the best of the whole. Mankind is dependent on The Scout. Information is The Holy Grail. Clarity is the Treasure! In our Scouts, our Rangers, the young men of the old, Mankind instills its faith.”
-Christopher Van Hassel
MSA
Non Nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomini Tuo da gloriam
“In arrogance, there is great ruin and great instability. In idleness, there is loss and dire poverty, for idleness is the mother of famine.”
Book of Tobit 4:13
“Do not keep with you overnight the wages of those who have worked for you, but pay them at once. … Be on guard, son, in everything you do; be wise in all that you say, and discipline yourself in all your conduct. Do to no man or woman what you hate yourself.”
Book of Tobit 4:14-15
In the Cub Scouts and the Boy Scouts, young men all take the following oath:
“I promise to do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the law of the pack.”
Boy scouts teaches a young man both survival and social skills, requiring him to do things for the community, perform the basics of starting a fire, setting up camp, sewing clothes and a sheath for his knife; and it also requires him to delve into his own personal interests and to share his unique personality with the rest of the pack.
Moving up the ranks, there is rarely an idle moment. Boy Scouts is a fraterinity that teaches a long-lasting, long needed foundation upon which building one’s manhood is cememted. There is no secrecy in Boy Scouts, but to learn the next step, you must complete the current task required to reach the next level.
I attended both the Boy Scouts (then, The Royal Rangers, later in life). The Ranger is a scout, a man of self-reliance, survival and resourcefulness. He has a mission and a purpose and travels paths unmarked, unseen by most , and he accomplishes The Greater Goal. After he reaches his destination, it is his duty to report back to his people, what he learned and saw, heard, smelled and tasted. He shows them what he experienced. He is the eyes and ears of the pack.
With each young man individually choosing to do what is honorable, the Scouts are a vast, respected group who all work toward a common goal. The American Boy Scouts show a Bald Eagle as their highest emblem; and the Royal Rangers use the Compass Rose. Freedom and navigation are the Scouts’ and Rangers’ forefathers. Duty, Honor and Loyalty are their fathers. Boy Scouts learn to navigate the social environment while The Royal Rangers master navigating the earthly environment; both instilling humble beginnings; therefore, far-reaching benefits for all of mankind. When enough young men act in correctness and servitude to what is right, it is near impossible for the outside force of corruption to control the population.
“If mankind is indeed so depraved and immoral that it requires a militia and an armed police force to keep its members in line, than no defense for Anarchism can be made.”
The Scout is a man who must carve his own path in order to survive. He carves that path with the pocketknife of humble beginnings, serving the community through kindness with hard work. He does so regardless of the wrong that goes on around him. Even when the government around him persists in doing wrong, the Scout chooses to do his best to do his duty to God and his country; so let us recognize that his, “country,” is not of the government, by the government, for the government. The Scout’s country is of the People, by the People and For the People.
In the religious esteem, God is supreme over man. God’s law is not the law of man; and the law of God supersedes any law written by man. The Scout vows his duty to God’s law. Secondly, he vows his duty to his country, not necessarily his country’s government(s)! He vows to obey the law of the pack.
A pack of wolves is a small group when compared to the planet’s entire population of wolves. It is this third vow, “to obey the law of the pack,” that ensures survival from the small scale which promotes survival on the planetary scale. If swearing your allegiance to the common man, or smaller packs which comprise the entire population, is, “anarchism,” than so mote it be; and sign me up for Anarchism!
Since the Scouts and Rangers are the younger generation, now, the generation after the “Millennial Generation, ” it is they who hold the torch and we who hold-firm, the grip on that torch, to teach them how to hold it up; how to hold up The Light before we are destined to let it go. We are hard-pressed and steadfast to notmake it fall out of the sky!
The Scout is on both sides of the formation, scouting the land for adversaries and for allies. He scouts the land to which the tribe is to arrive. The formation, as it’s treasure, the, “jewel in the crown,” escorts the tribe’s Scribe along with its second most valuable artifact, the Pope. (Most times, the tribes’, or villages’, most pious, or high priest, is in place of the Pope.) The Scribe is the recorder of Man’s deeds. The Pope, … has been covered by previous chapters of history. The Scout is the Lonesome Glory of the world, for he is both its ambassador and its warrior. He is a navigator and a spy. Not all spies are bad. Not all Scouts survive our mission.
The Scout wears the least amount of armor. He sets up camp in solitude and travels alone. He is self-sufficient by trade. When anarchy ensues around him, he has neither defenders nor guards, no shield or cannon to hide behind. He either fights in the skirmish or he evades the skirmish. One-by-one, the Scout’s survival is crucial to the tribe’s survival, for he is, along with the Archer, the eyes and ears of the world, reporting his observations back to the pack. He never sits at idle, either in action or at heart. He seeks-out the Truth, finds those who do not ask for him and sees people and places unfamiliar to the new.
The Scout goes by compass, both morally and navigationally and ventures only to glean the best of the whole. Mankind is dependent on The Scout. Information is The Holy Grail. Clarity is the Treasure! In our Scouts, our Rangers, the young men of the old, Mankind instills its faith.
“So for that knowledge is its own reward. I suppose that it may be worth its cost; but if any department of research should be ruled out of the sphere of operation processed by this truism, it is occult science and philosophy, so far, at least, as the majority are concerned. The labour involved by their exhaustive study repays those who undertake it only in a few cases.”
