It Was a War From the Beginning
25/3/22
Today there is a war in the air. It breathes into the lungs of every one. It is a war on the mind. A very vicious and brutal war.
To put it simply, it can be related to the encounter in the garden between Eve and the Serpent. The fruit of knowledge resulted in the death of Abel by Cain. The desire for enlightenment (knowledge) led to the murder of one man by another. Truly this is the law of the world today.
In man’s innocence he was pure of heart. In his desire for knowledge he learned of Good and Evil. It was the ultimate crime. And now we deal today with the consequences.
Ever since those early days God would still have mercy on man. He had mercy on man in the form of the prophets. Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Samuel, Ezra, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, eventually leading to Christ. From these prophets who received teachings from God we learned the right way to go. Many times the Israelites refused to listen to the prophets and punished them. This continued with the apostles. Only John lived to an old age and died of natural causes.
If the law of the prophets remains relevant, then we must be living today in their time. To think that the 21st century is beyond the laws of the prophets cannot be true. For the words of the prophets contain within them many subtle teachings.
Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn articulated this battle in his book The Menace of the Herd. He begins by critiquing the concept of democracy. It is a work comprised of two roots, demos and kratos, meaning people power. Democracy was sometimes the case in Ancient Athens. It meant that every citizen was able to vote and have political power, but not everyone in Ancient Athens was a citizen. Slavery was widespread throughout antiquity, and Greece and Rome were at their heights aristocratic societies. Even their democracies in antiquity were essentially aristocratic. That is Kuehnelt Leddihn’s point when he describes the founding of the United States of America. The founding fathers created an aristocratic republic on the examples of the Roman Republic and Athenian democracy. The failure to grasp this point has led many today to believe that democracy is the rule by everyone regardless of differences. Differences continue to exist no matter how much people may try to ignore them.
God punished Adam and Eve for their original sin by compelling them to work by the sweat of their brow. In today’s world there is an attempt to bring widespread socialism, where the few will be made to work to produce the goods for the many. All good things require effort to be brought forth and to be maintained. The Aristocracies and Monarchies of Antiquity devolved because those aristocrats and kings failed to maintain themselves by their efforts.
The struggle to maintain one’s soul is the essential spiritual war. This was our war from the beginning, since God cast Adam and Eve out of the garden. Kuehnelt Leddihn describes the herd mentality as tending to mediocrity, sameness, faithlessness, spiritless. The herd gains energy through conformity with other lackluster people the same as themselves. Today we would call them Non-Player Characters, or NPC’s, lacking any facial expression or character, or personality. In psychological terms, these people would be termed “well-adjusted” to technocratic urban society. The mass man rejects all forms of hierarchy, and especially God, because God stands at the top of the hierarchy. Believing in God places greater demands on man than if he were to simply follow the herd.
Being a part of the herd means that one does not have to think. All ideas are provided for the herd by specially chosen “experts”. Christ spoke of the way of the herd as the broad path, and that it would ultimately lead to destruction. The reason is that those “experts” who so often guided the herds of the past led many millions to their deaths.
Dr. Jones’s favored example is when the Jews chose Barabbas over Christ. Barabbas represents the worldly revolutionary, while Christ represents the otherworldly redeemer. Everything about Christ exists in opposition to the demands of material living. The revolutionary will go to any lengths for the cause of material living – the goal of heaven on earth. But this effort will ever be doomed to failure, for heaven truly can only ever exist outside the material.
America was founded on the principles of Aristocratic republicanism. The founders were not against aiding those with lower status than themselves. They freed their slaves upon their deaths. Yet today there is a call for absolute equality. There is an attempt to abolish standards of taste. It is the idea that all men are equal at all times. It follows that these equalitarians believe that all works of art are equal, even if one simply tapes a banana to the wall. But if I have some common sense I can clearly see that taping a banana to the wall and painting a Renoir require very different levels of effort. The simple law applies that for anything to be well done it must be pursued with consistent effort over time.
An image which lacks form is like a book of philosophy which lacks ideas. If common sense is lacking it is very unlikely anything of value will be produced. So it is a war against chaos to bring meaning into the world. Yet the meaning is not simply imposed by Man. Upon close examination, most things in the universe can be seen to contain patterns of order. The better we can grasp these patterns the wiser we are. The world is one of meanings and patterns, and God left patterns in the world for man to discover. Survival depends upon comprehending these patterns.
On the other hand, by denying meaning one is quickly put on the path to disintegration. The personality cannot function from meaninglessness. Everything in the past century has been contrived to make the mass man harmless. All of the information in legacy media is contradictory. The non-sense is amplified and shouted without a break. It is all designed to fragment the mind of those who seek comfort in numbers. They will seek peace and safety and find sudden destruction.
It would be far better to be an anarchist today, like the Crowhouse, than to be one of the herd. But even better than being an anarchist would be to be a traditionalist Catholic along the lines of Kuehnelt Leddihn. He was of Austrian descent, being in favor of traditional Catholicism, Catholic Monarchy, and Austrian Economics. Kuenhelt Leddihn is unusual in the fact that he grasped both the problems and the solutions facing us at the end of the 20th century.
He was a fascinating man who showed by example that we should aspire to be the best we can be. In Ancient Greek terms, Aristos meant best, and the Aristocracy was the rule by the best. Much has been made of the French Revolution, where the Monarchy and Aristocracy were overthrown in a bloody revolution. The French aristocracy of the 18th century has been condemned, as well as the monarchy, for being out of touch with the people. But I heard it from Bishop Williamson that the Aristocracy was corrupted by the Freemasons, who are some of the most vicious enemies of God and all good things in the world. I argue that the French Revolution was one of the greatest crimes in history. It led to the modern secular state, ruled not by Catholicism, but by Oligarchs who care nothing for laws or justice. We would be better off with a nation ruled by an Aristocracy, like the America of the founding fathers, or even a rule by Monarchy.
In a monarchy historically one has always known whether a King is following tradition, via the Church, and adhering to just judgement. In an international oligarchy, such as we have today, we see a surface level of lies proliferating constantly in the legacy media. Yet the truth cannot be hidden, it can only be covered over. One needs only scratch the surface to discover the festering sores of the crimes hidden by the international oligarchs.
These oligarchs push for absolute equality in western states. They have pushed for sexual liberation and widespread drug use. They have attempted to present the complete slavery of the spirit as the absolute freedom of the body – and even attempt to present this as the greatest possible freedom. Instead I have come to see it as the greatest possible evil.
The problems today will require a very serious and focused solution. It will have to come from a traditionalism so great as to strike the man of the herd dumb. There can be no substitute for effort.
The government schools of the world serve the purpose of attacking the souls of the children. They intend to deprive all youths of the necessary knowledge of traditions. They have conspired to replace knowledge of aristocracy, and the classical education, with Marxism and critical theory. Yet every socialist revolution, from that of Thomas Muentzer, to the French Revolution, to the German Revolution of 1848, to the Russian Revolution of 1917, to the Chinese Maoist Revolution of 1949, has led to suffering and death on greater and greater levels. It seems the greater the desire for heaven on earth, the socialist utopia, the greater the willingness to sacrifice human beings. But these socialist leaders do not see their fellows as human beings – they see them only as a means to an end.
God is at the top of the hierarchy, then the King and the Pope, followed by the ecclesiastical hierarchy. We have yet to wrangle with the hierarchy of doctrine, whether Vatican II should take precedence over Vatican I, or previous Church councils. It stands to reason that Pope St. Pius X’s teachings on Modernism should be revived because they fit the present time. Hierarchy is the law of existence, and only by recognizing it can the fully formed personality and the fully formed work of art be achieved.
All those who will persist in radical equality will have to be segregated. The Freemasons, Jewish revolutionaries, socialists, Fabians, democrats, etc., will all have to be segregated in their own area to live out their values of absolute equality. This was the solution worked out in the middle ages to maintain just relations between Catholics and Jews. The Catholic position has always been that if a Jew wishes to become a Catholic they may do so, and can be accepted fully. Kuenhelt Leddihn rejected national socialism as being a doctrine for the herd, which socialism basically is. Any doctrine for the herd without Christ will eventually result in the suffering of the herd by oligarchs.
Throughout history socialist states have always risen through the will of oligarchs, such as Stalin, Lenin, Hjalmar Schacht, Mussolini. The goal of socialism is to produce the absolute conformity of the mass man. Socialist man is made in the image of an Oligarch who would be king. Lacking God, these socialist oligarchs tend to place little value on human life. Seeing little value in the mysteries of the spirit, oligarchs use socialism as a tool to steal the wealth of nations for themselves. They attempt to drown their souls with endless material pleasures, but being left empty by these, they eventually lead their state into a nihilistic war. The ultimate result of the socialist state will be the attempt to destroy all life on earth. Such are the violent actions brought forth by the Oligarch tired of the emptiness of life.
Such were the essential conditions brought forth when Eve sought the knowledge of Good and Evil. Hers was the same desire of the socialist oligarch to know all worldly things. Instead of remaining within the innocence of spiritual things – Eve and the Oligarch gave in to temptation. It was only a short distance from attaining the knowledge of Good and Evil to committing the first murder. It was a war from the beginning.
In this essential spiritual war we must recognize categories of reality and categories of the mind. Failure to do so will lead to our destruction at the hands of soulless oligarchs. We must recognize the importance of hierarchy, especially laid out in traditional Catholic church doctrine. The documents of the founding fathers of America hold value today because they were aristocrats. It is only by recognizing hierarchy that we will recognize the value of effort. All good things will come forth with spiritual knowledge and the pursuit if the imitation of Christ.
Faith and Reason 451 