Papers, Comrade! - LOTR 59
The Devil Goes First.
In a fallen world, Satan has the initiative. Or so it would seem, at first. Satan rules over the world of Coin and the kingdom of Illusion, and Illusion and Mammon are King. In the delusionary illusional world. In Reality (meanwhile), the leaven of God's Kingdom works so powerfully, but subtly, that Satan is given an inverse unholy energy and power, for his time "is short". The cup of wickedness has to be "filled up".
Since most of Christ's Church is asleep in Zion, when they finally do wake up, it seems like the Devil is calling all the shots. That's because they don't notice anything until it's almost too late. Our nation was created by what the British called the "Presbyterian Black Regiment" of parsons. These were the men who actually did believe that "Christ was King", not King George alone. They preached Election Sermons, back in those days, and knew about Jean Calvin's doctrine of the lesser magistrates. They were men, all in all, who at least notionally were convicted that they must "obey God rather than men".
Now, it is a matter of more than scholarly interest whether one views the American Revolution as under the aegis of Satan, or of Christ. However, existentially, whatever Good remains in the country now, it stems from that bottleneck and watershed of that concrete Christian political praxis. It is impossible, therefore, to abandon our founding Fathers, or our political roots, although perhaps we could transform and redeem them. Melting down Robert E. Lee's bronze statue does not qualify as transmutive political alchemy, but is an act of political black magic (according to Valentine Tomberg, the worst form of any black magic). Redemption and transmutation can only come through Grace perfecting Nature, an organic process according to Cosmic Law and Grace. It is not accomplished through political acts of violence and transgression.
“It felt like an execution,” said Jalane Schmidt, co-founder of Charlottesville Black Lives Matter and a professor at the University of Virginia.
Well, Jalane, it was an execution. The only question is, whom did they kill? I don't think they really hurt Robert E. Lee, and something tells me they realize that, too. So who was it? The unholy energy of the Crusade for Utopia, must go forward! It must! Why? Because it Must! There is no alternative. There is no choice.
This form of compulsion claims to be the gospel of Christ, because it claims to be sovereign and omnipotent, as well as self-referential, thus incapable of submitting to the Question. This claim to speak for God enhances its Evil and potential for harm.
In this, the world of torrential passions, the Devil goes first, and it's always "must", and "ought", and "should", whipped to a frenzied froth. One will never hear of the freedom of the Liberty of Christ. They hate Christ. You can blaspheme Christ, or counterfeit Him, & you will be celebrated and given monetary renumerations. If you blaspheme against Democracy, Equality, or Diversity, you can go to lose your job, go to jail, or maybe even be killed, extrajudicially. That should let you know where their priorities lie.
Does that seem Christian to you?
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Cor. 3:17
The American ideal, revolutionary or not, was always ostensibly and formally, Ordered Liberty. It was not license, passion, or vice. It was not disorder, revolution, or democracy, but the ordered liberty of the traditional rights of Englishmen. Yes, Enlightenment thinkers such as Paine and Jefferson and Hamilton did some co-opting and rewriting, (Jefferson famously cut out of the Bible, those parts he didn't like), but the Revolution was always carried on outwardly under the name of the Liberty of the true Christian.
We have a Divine Calling to hold the Devil's toes to this fire. It is not un-Christian to force Caesar to play by his own rules (which he has cribbed from the Gospel). These are their rules, not ours! Their promises, their rules, their lies. They wanted to be in charge. That comes with God-given responsibility, and they hate God (we knew that when we let them be in charge). But ever since Christ's coming, even the Devil has to pretend to be a Christian. Any political change must be subservient (directly or indirectly) to the Gospel of Christ. If it is not, or cannot be, then it is a false Gospel, true Heresy, and Anti-Christ. How is it that our American Baptist Culture does not understand this? Why, oh, why, are we still surrendering to Satan? Why are we still pretending that they can, and ought, to run God's Creation for all His other creatures? What do we hope to gain, what have we gained, from neutrality in the public sphere?
The whole project seems to have been an agreement for Christians to unilaterally disarm themselves of cultural influence, mandates, and control, which amounted to giving up the Anglo-British projected of self-government and ordered liberty. In its place, we have been given the religion and ideology of Neo-Liberalism, in which everyone but Christians can fight for power.
There is a difference between libido dominandi (on one hand) and the tradition of ordered Christian liberty (on the other). A gulf, in fact. Despite all efforts to convince to the contrary, it seems to be the case that man is not fated to absolute freedom - he can choose Chaos, or he can choose to live under a relatively just Christian ruler. There is no excluded middle ground. What replacement do people have for the Common Faith that allows for societas to exist in the first place? Neopaganism? Communism? Secular humanism? Islam? The CCP?
Where, O Man, is the replacement for Christ?
Christians have a calling to protect God's natural order. It behooves us to keep abridge of developments in Mordor, the coming and going, the bustle, the preparation for war. The forging of Rings, and the sending out of the Nazgul. In the new Mordor, we can certainly worship God in the space between our ears: as long as we bow the knee to Sauron. Does this sound like something Christ is "on board with"?
It's good to know the tunes the Devil is calling. The New Gospel of Mordor is this:
In the video, which is a few years old, Yousaf, now the leader of the country, states “most senior positions in Scotland are filled almost exclusively by people who are white” going on to give examples like the Lord Justice Clerk, Solicitor General, and other senior political figures, claiming it is “not good enough.” Elsewhere in the speech Yousaf, claimed that “we have to accept the reality and the evidence that is in front of us, that Scotland has a problem of structural racism.” Link
Since the coming of Christ, no political Evil can present itself (as of old) in the garb of Behemoth and Leviathan, as the naked Beast of Roman power. It must assume the garb of the Deliverer in the Victim-Oppressor-Deliverer narrative. It must be passive aggressive, and plead the virtue of Christ's sufferings as a basis for political revolution. The new Gospel (which is the ancient Beast) is that Christ's Gospel is just updated. No longer is it Jesus 1.0 or 2.0, but a progressive, novel, adaptative civil religion. It is Word made Flesh indeed, since the first time wasn't good enough. That is why we have Woke (or Enlightenment) instead of Illumination, and Social Justice or "Just Us" instead of Redemption.
How much of this Rat Poison do we want to drink?
If Jesus had thought we needed Social Justice, He would've assumed the mantle of Messianic Zealotry, rather than dying on a cross. Where are His screeds against Rome, arguably the most racist and brutal Empire in the West since the fall of Atlantis? Where is His denunciation of ethnic Jews or racial kin? Jesus always affirmed that He came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, first.
The new Gospel is going in under various names and guises, but it is Biopower, or the power over Bios. This is the power to force Nature to her knees, and put a new yoke of Grace upon her trembling shoulders:
I say it again, once the legal framework for citizenship is incorporated into a biopolitical paradigm of governance administered by a continuum of regulatory apparatuses, then legislative, legal and political means of contestation will no longer exist except as spectacles of a democracy long since dismantled. In reality, Western democracy, for some time now, has only existed in the fantasies of an endlessly deceived electorate. But it’s a measure of how far we have come since March 2020, how far we have declined as a citizenry worthy of the name, and how ready we are for the totalitarianism of biopower, that there was no protest and little outrage in response to this trial of our abject obedience. On the contrary, the same mouths and faces were wheeled out by the media to repeat the mantra of the unfailing obedient: ‘Well, if it saves lives . . .’ This is the essence of biopower to which the politics of the West is being reset by stakeholder capitalism. And, somehow, the people of the West have to stop it, if we don’t want to live in a camp with no outside. Link
Au contraire, this system of Biopower does have a Face. We can assign it one, for instance. It is Legion and Faceless, because Christians won't call names.
Christians don't want to be called names, so we don't call names. Bill Maher knows how to do it, but the Children of the Light apparently cannot.
Tyson tried to argue that there was surely "a portfolio of jokes that would work on a college campus," to which Maher replied: "I would hope not. Maybe some college campuses. The ones you read about are f*****g insane-- Link
I wonder what the Cossacks think about all this...
Where are the Christian leaders with guts, hearts, brains, and backbone, to speak Truth with Power, in Love, for Beauty, towards the Good?
We've been in the new world order for awhile. I doubt if Kenya's (British East Africa) Christian colonial rulers would have allowed this, for example. What have we gained from this abortive experiment in Social Justice? The right to eat bugs? Better art? A happier world?
Read old letters, from the bad old days. Do the people seem unhappy?
Uncle Cader says that it will stretch him to make Heaven but he can spend one day away back in the Bidville mountains and see Heaven kissing the earth. The hardest old heart will be soft as a dead ripe pawpaw that won’t hold handling!
Having overcome Nature (we thought), Humanity is now realizing that we have not overcome ourselves: "Collapse is Humanity Adapting to its own Presence".
These systems of production will manifest through incredibly sophisticated observations and interactions with their environments. I would also hazard that the most successful of these societies will exhibit high levels of compassion and individual freedom. There are two good reasons for this. One is that compassionate societies that take care of their members have higher levels of trust and cohesiveness. They more efficiently distribute resources for the good of the larger community increasing their ability to operate and survive in difficult times. The second is that societies that do not force individuals into monolithic, pre-scripted narratives of behaviour increase the adaptability of their individual members and thus the total community. By creating a society that embraces a diversity of ideas and behaviours in its population it algorithmically increases the possible responses of the society to various circumstances.
If this prophecy is accurate, there is no danger of Christianity perishing. There is only the question, of whether each of us, individually, is "fit" enough spiritually to be included in the seed-corn Remnant.
We have met the Enemy, indeed, and indeed, He is Us. The techno-optimists, neo-liberals, Islamicists, red Chinese and a host of others are in a bit of trouble. But this shouldn't trouble the truly free, Christian individual.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Our trust is not in our "Papers", but in the Living Lord. Our enemies are inspired by an unholy, zealous energy, because their time is short. Desperation, frenzy, and the mistakes that doom an entire Epoch to oblivion.
Everything but the seed corn. Don't be digestible.