As the World Descends

 As the world descends further into spiritual chaos, we need to learn to stand back and watch it with detachment. I know many feel they should resist the obvious evil and they are not wrong, but the truth is those who do actively resist risk get sucked into the same spiritual evil as that which they are resisting. It’s as Jesus told Peter when he was being arrested, those who live by the sword will die by the sword. But does this mean we should just do nothing and let evil take its course?

Of course not. We must resist the evil but we must do it in the right way. (As an aside, resist not evil means do not react to it in your heart – it doesn’t mean we should let evil ride roughshod over us. Jesus spent his entire mission resisting evil.)

 

In the previous post I envisaged the world in terms of a cross with horizontal and vertical axes. You can apply this scheme in other ways too.  For instance, the horizontal is engaging with the world on its own level. The vertical means being polarised to the transcendent, to God. The vertical should always take priority over the horizontal for while the horizontal is important, our relationship with it should be in terms of the vertical. This is why Christ never spoke from a political, i.e horizontal, level. He always spoke from the point of transcendent reality. For Christ the political life was something that had no reality in itself. The organisation of worldly life would grow naturally out of a proper polarisation to God. Politics is only necessary when you have lost that spiritual connection but when you have lost it your ability to organise life will be so compromised that it will never run smoothly.

 

This is the basic flaw in democracy (other than giving every one of every sort, every background and every intellectual and spiritual level an equal say in how things should be run - the perfect example of quantity over quality.) Democracy means choice but if you are centred in God there is no choice. There is only the inevitable way to be, growing naturally from that.

 

Liberals think the world should be run on love while those on the right think that truth should be the guiding light. They are both correct but because neither side has any connection to God, they do not know either love or truth. They only know their debased and ignorant mind-created versions of these. They know theories not facts. Love, for instance, is not the sentimentalised, egalitarian, non-discriminating mush those on the left turn it into. It must include truth and justice to be proper love. It includes compassion, but it must also include order. By the same token, truth must encompass love to avoid being hard and merciless. On the divine level, love and truth are one. It is only in their distorted images reflected in the human mind that they are split apart and become concepts.

 

In the modern West masculinity is under constant attack and one reason is that the masculine protects. If you remove that masculine protection, which is necessarily exclusive as in there is good and evil and the evil must be rejected and defeated, you lay yourself open to invasion from evil. Also, the masculine is naturally hierarchical. If you undermine hierarchy, you allow the lower to overwhelm the higher, all in the name of equality. You break down barriers, but barriers don’t just exclude. They also protect and they maintain order. A state of no barriers, no boundaries means no order and no justice, and that is the situation we are creating when we undermine masculine authority. Then we are left with an unconstrained feminine pole which promises love but, without the discipline of the Logos, descends to chaos, and that's where we in the West are heading today.

The end times means everything is being reduced to the horizontal axis. It means the system is winding down which means it cannot be saved. That is why at such a time we must turn our attention inwards and build an inner sanctuary which replaces the crumbling external fortress. We should certainly speak up for eternal values where they are being crushed (which is everywhere), but that is more to support others lost in the chaos of the modern world than to expect to see them restored. They will be restored but first a great purification must take place.