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Ranking according to prestige of the ancient Roman priesthood (ordo sacerdotum):

Rex sacrorum, also called the rex sacrificulus. The title of this priesthood means variously "king of the sacred". The man who would hold the office of rex sacrorum would have to be a patrician born to parents married by the rite of confarreatio, and he would have to be married in the same way, and he would also have to be elected through the Collegium Pontificum by the pontifex maximus. His wife (by requirement a virgin when she married her husband) would hold the priestesshood of regina sacrorum ("queen of the sacred"), and should she die her husband would have to abdicate his office due to the shared nature of their responsibilities. He wore the toga, carried a ceremonial axe and wore the traditional calceus shoe.

Despite the name, it is not certain that this office stems from the period of the Roman Monarchy. It could likely be an office created deliberately by the republican revolutionaries to separate the formerly unified regnal powers into different offices; imperium going to consuls and praetors, auctoritas going to the senate and the jurors, potestas going to the magistrates and publicans, etc. It should be significant that sacral powers and duties were as distributed between all of these classes and groups as they were. The rex sacrorum was specifically and deliberately barred from both military and political matters, and it was thus often treated as de facto lower in rank to the pontifex maximus, even if it held more prestige in theory.

Under the rex sacrorum there were three high or major priests, in Classical Latin the flamines maiores, these were according to legend founded by King Numa Pompilius. They were:

The Flamen Dialis, or high priest of Dialis, an Archic Latin term for Jupiter (compare Greek Dias and OL Diespiter), aided by his wife (same conditions applies here as with the rex sacrorum) the flaminicia Dialis or high priestess of Dialis. The flamen Dialis was the highest in rank, below only the rex sacrorum.

The Flamen Martialis, or high priest of Mars, aided by his wife (again, same conditions, save possibly that he did not have to abdicate his office should she die) the flaminicia Martialis. Second in terms of prestige and rank among the three high priesthoods.

The Flamen Quirinalis, or high priest of Quirinus, who is likely Romulus deified, aided again by his wife (same conditions) holding the title of flaminicia Quirinalis. He was forbidden to ride a horse, touch metals or be outside the walls of Rome after sunset.

It is speculated that these three high priesthoods (of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus-Romulus) represent the original, main three gods of the Early Roman period, a so-called Archaic Capitoline Triad.

The pontifex maximus also belonged to the flamines maiores, but I trust that his function, role and duties are well-known to most of you.

I highly recommend Dumezil's Archaic Roman Religion. Specifically you will find this information and much more in part I, chapters I-II.

Music is a clue of the impossible, its translation into the possible.

- Ernst Jünger

It is evident how necessarily our Self is rooted and grounded in Him who created it, so that the knowledge of our Self does not lie within our own power, but that in order to measure the extent of the same, we must press forward into the very heart of God Himself, who alone can determine and resolve the whole mystery of our nature.

- Johann Georg Hamann

You are now souls, nothing but souls, all alone, disburdened by their bodies left to the devourers of the earth, vagabonds, if you will, in the immense day or night, but clairvoyants beyond what might be imagined.

- Léon Bloy

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

- C.S. Lewis

The Lord blesses the poor, those who hunger and weep, and the persecuted, under the condition that it is all for the sake of the Son of man. This means that He blesses a life which is surrounded by every kind of need and deprivation. According to this saying, pleasures, ease, and esteem are not something good - and indeed, this is the way it is. But while a person finds rest in these things, he does not realise this. Only when he frees himself from their spell does he see that they are not good things of themselves, but only phantoms. A soul cannot do without consolations, but these should not be of the senses. It cannot do without treasures, but these should not of gold and silver, not in luxurious houses and clothes, and not in outward plenitude. It cannot get by without honor, but this lies not in people's servile bows. There are other consolations, other kinds of pleasure, and other kinds of honour, but these are spiritual, akin to the soul. He who finds them does not want the outward ones. Not only does he not want them, but he scorns and hates them, because they obstruct the spiritual and do not allow one to see it. They keep a soul in darkness, drunkenness, and phantoms. This is why such people with all their soul prefer poverty, sorrow, and obscurity, and they feel good amidst them, as though behind some safe enclosure against the spell of the deceptions of the world. What about those people who have all these [treasures of the world] without trying? They should relate to all of these things, according to the word of the Holy Apostle, as one who possesses not (I Corinthians 7:30).

• Saint Theophan the Recluse

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

• Saint Gregory of Nyssa

The machine and technique are the product of the mental development and discoveries of culture; but they sap its organic foundations and kill its spirit. Culture, having lost its soul, becomes civilization. Spiritual matters are discounted; quantity displaces quality. The assertion of the will to 'life', power, organization and earthly happiness, brings about mankind's spiritual decline; for the higher spiritual life is based upon asceticism and resignation. Such are the tragedy and fate of historical destinies. Knowledge and science become the instrument of realizing the will to power, earthly happiness and the triumph of technique whose sole aim is the enjoyment of life in its immediate manifestations. Art, too, becomes an instrument of technique and a decorative element in the organization of life. The whole beauty of culture associated with its temples and palaces now becomes a lifeless museum exhibit. The museum is the only tie civilization has with the past. There springs up a cult of life which has no regard for any deeper purpose behind it. Nothing has an authentic value any longer. No moment or experience of life is sufficiently profound to permit of communion with eternity. Every instant and experience is but the means for speeding up the life processes aspiring towards a false eternity and the all-devouring vampire of the future, the promise of power and happiness. The ever-quickening tempo of civilization destroys all notion of either past, present or eternity.

- Nikolai Beryaev