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The other day I was thinking about the 'Lord's
Prayer', or at least the way I think about it, in relation to Adolf Hitler,
since I have long been of the view that the Third Reich was a kind of crude approximation
to 'Kingdom Come', and this is what I came up with:-
'Our Father, who art in heaven (National
Socialism),
hallowed be thy name (Heil
Hitler!).
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done (as
all-powerful dictator),
in earth (the Third Reich) as it is in heaven (Mein
Kampf).
Give us this day our daily bread (full
employment),
and forgive us our trespasses (against Jews,
Communists, smaller countries, etc.),
as we forgive those who trespass against us
(French, British, Americans, etc.).
Lead us not into temptation (prostitution,
homosexuality, jazz, cabaret, etc.),
but deliver us from evil (the
For thine is the
kingdom (the Greater German Reich),
the power and the glory (chancellor and president
combined into the office of Führer),
for ever and ever (the Thousand Year Reich).
Amen (Sieg Heil!).
Nicht schlimm,
oder? In fact, you can believe there are some who
would argue that 'Kingdom Come' has already come (and gone) with the Third
Reich, and that Adolf Hitler, as Führer, was akin to
the 'Second Coming' … of Christ, who saved his people, the Aryan Germans and
Germanic Aryans, from civil strife and moral corruption, as he set about
cleaving the faithful (in National Socialism) from the faithless (in Socialism,
Communism, Liberalism, etc.) as a matter of eschatological necessity,
simultaneously delivering them from the punitive restrictions of Versailles and
its corresponding privations, of which there were a great many, including loss
of territory.
Others would argue that even if there was a parallel of sorts between the
Third Reich and Judgement, it was too narrowly European and thus limited to
Christians or persons of Christian descent. Which is basically what any
Christ-orientated 'Kingdom Come' would be anyway, thereby being of little or no
relevance to Judaists, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists,
and others of non-Christian practice or descent in the world at large.
Consequently it inevitably incurred the wrath of those nations, like the Soviet
Union, the United States of America, Great Britain, and France that, for
various reasons, were more international and even global in outlook, whether
because they were themselves multi-racial and multi-cultural (like the Soviet
Union and the United States) or because (like Britain and France) they had
large overseas territories in their empires which made them more open to
foreign influence and correspondingly less disposed to a narrowly European
outlook deriving, in large part, from Christian and, more specifically,
Catholic eschatology, with its belief in the Second Coming of Christ. Thus, in
a very real sense, the international predilections of both Western Capitalism
and Eastern Communism triumphed over National Socialism, and the result is a
world that, ever more global in character, reflects the multi-culturalism and multi-racialism of the former Allies.
So if anything has still to come, it would have
to be less of a 'kingdom', in the autocratic sense as largely embodied by
Hitler's dictatorship, than what I have termed a 'centre', the Centre, if you will, of a
religiously sovereign people who have rights in relation to religious
sovereignty, conceived by me as the ultimate sovereignty, that not only
reflected a universal bias, but implied the global overcoming of man in the
interests of a male-biased superhumanism commensurate
with divine and, for females, pseudo-diabolic criteria, analogous to the
distinction between the proverbial saint and (neutralized) dragon or,
alternatively, lamb and (neutralized) lion and/or wolf that I have customarily
thought of in terms of metaphysics and pseudo-metachemistry
at the northeast point of the intercardinal axial
compass upon what would be a stepped-up, or 'resurrected',
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis.
And there I rest my case, which, in any case,
those who have studied the progress of my writings over the years and, indeed,
decades will, I trust, be sufficiently familiar with not to require any
additional reiteration here. Although the point needs to be made, I think, that
if, in contrast to petty kingdoms or principalities, nationalism is the omega
of worldly criteria and internationalism the alpha of post-worldly, or global,
criteria, then the omega of global civilization could only be a kind of super-
if not supra-nationalism that took us beyond the divergent and heterogeneous
into the convergent and homogeneous, replacing the centrifugal with the
centripetal, the various federated states of the modern age with the universal
centre of the future one.
As for the alpha and omega of pre-worldly
civilization, I guess one would have to settle for tribal groupings on the one
hand and city states on the other, conceiving of the latter of as the
antithetical equivalent of the coming post-worldly omega which, to cite John
Bunyan, would probably have more to do with a 'celestial city' than with
anything earthly, and thus with a kind of space centre (station) apotheosis of
civilized development that some would identify, beyond de Chardin,
with the true nature of the Omega Point.
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There is arguably nothing as shocking as an
electric shock, but don't get too shocked by this revelation, since it is also
pretty shocking to suffer a power cut and find oneself in the dark, with no
heating or lighting and little if anything to do, not even an acoustic guitar
to strum. Without electricity modern life would grind to a halt, as one's own
life tends to do when deprived of it.
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The mad night, November 5th, has
come around again, obliging me to resort to Ozzy Osbourne in order to block out, at least partially, their
fiendish delight in burning effigies of Guy Fawkes, that unfortunate Catholic
Dutchman who didn't succeed in blowing up the British parliament back in the
seventeenth century, and letting off innumerable fireworks, most of which would
appear to be designed to explode with a bang or even a series of bangs. I've
never allowed myself, not having married and fathered kids, to get drawn into
that madness, which I regard as a kind of British and, more specifically,
English disease.
Of course, it didn't start on November 5th,
and it certainly won't end there. But it comes to a kind of head, or climax,
tonight, which, for me, is one of the blackest days of the year. I guess Guy
Fawkes night is the British equivalent of Carnival, when ordinary everyday
people take leave of their senses for a number of hours, if not days and weeks,
and get carried away by the general orgy of combustion which rakes the night
sky with a plethora of coloured explosions.
In contrast to all that, my experience of Ozzy Osbourne's The
Essential Ozzy tonight, despite having
been virtually driven to it by all the extraneous noise, has been totally
uplifting. This is true greatness! I mean, the sheer fecundity of his music and
profundity of his lyrics combine to create a monumentality
that is, frankly, unsurpassed in modern music. This is way beyond the likes of
Beethoven, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Sibelius, Martinu,
or whoever. Only Alice Cooper comes anywhere close to matching it, since he, as
is well known, is pretty much Ozzy's only equal in
hard rock/heavy metal, and one cannot but suspect a degree of genius at work in
both men.
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