ON IDEOLOGY
1. Nationalism is the mundane/transcendental
compromise between tribalism and ideological transcendentalism.
2. Nationalism is mundane
to the extent that it affirms an allegiance to a given area of land, which
exists as a country, but transcendental to the extent that the nationals of any
given country may stem from diverse tribes.
3. Ideological transcendentalism transcends the
boundaries of any given country by embracing peoples of all national
backgrounds and integrating them along ideological lines.
4. Evolution thus proceeds from the absolutely
mundane to the absolutely transcendental, both materialist and spiritualist,
via a relative compromise between mundane and transcendental.
5. A concrete example from each stage of this
evolution could run as follows: Semite - Englishman - Socialist; Celt -
Frenchman - Nazi; Slav - German - Fascist.
6. Keeping these stages of evolution to the
confines of any one geographical area could give rise to a progression such as
the following: Slav - Russian - Socialist; Latin - Italian - Fascist; Teuton - German - Nazi.
7. In each case, we
are dealing with a progression from the concrete to the abstract via a
concrete/abstract compromise - a progression, in other words, from the natural
to the supernatural via a natural/supernatural compromise.
8. Toleration of the natural, i.e. tribalism,
inheres to the compromise stage of evolution, and occasionally nationals will
speak in tribal terms, as when an Englishman refers to either himself or others
as Anglo-Saxon.
9. Opposition to the
natural, i.e. tribalism, inheres to the ideologically transcendental stage of
evolution, as when Socialists denounce tribalists, or
people who identify either themselves or others in tribal terms. A Socialist doesn't like to regard either
himself or others as a Slav or a Celt or whatever.
10. Anti-Semitism, while being illogical in the
compromise stage of evolution, becomes logical in the ideological stage,
because toleration of the natural tribal root ceases to apply.
11. A man who identifies himself as a Jew in
societies that have become absolutist on the ideologically transcendental level
is unlikely to be treated with the same respect (or toleration) as would be the
case in a relative society.
12. Nazism, with its anti-Marxist and
pseudo-spiritual bias, was particularly sensitive to tribal anachronisms, as
its appalling record of anti-Semitism attests.
Both Jews and Gypsies were systematically persecuted from an ideological
point of view.
13. Socialism, with its materialistic bias
stemming from Marx, is less intolerant of Jews or other tribalists
than (was) Nazism, but is by no means immune to anti-Semitic tendencies.
14. The salvation,
relatively speaking, of Jews, now as before, is to become Israelis and thus
gravitate from the tribal to the national stage of evolution in anticipation of
further advancement, in literal transcendental terms, once the adoption of the
teachings of the Omega Messiah, or True World Teacher, becomes possible.
15. An Israeli is not in Israel simply for the
fun of it - as most Israelis who have had any experience of Arab antipathy will
testify - but to escape the curse of diaspora
tribalism and prepare himself for a superior religious allegiance than Judaism.
16. Jews who cling to tribal identification in an
age when the State of Israel exists ... put themselves in an increasingly
illogical and morally untenable position, which may have grave consequences in
any 'host' state either moving towards or actually in an ideologically
transcendental context.
17. Whether the Jews in question be German Jews,
French Jews, American Jews, or whatever, the fact that they regard themselves,
through Judaism, first and foremost as Jews signifies a tribal
allegiance the main justification for which is to enable the persons concerned
to identify themselves as Jews when the opportunity comes for them to
emigrate or, rather, return to Israel (Zion).
Clinging to a tribal identification for its own sake is both illogical
and morally untenable!
18. Undoubtedly there are, for a variety of
reasons, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, etc., of Jewish descent, and for them
the criteria applying, from a transcendental standpoint, to Jews is largely
irrelevant. A Christian of Jewish
descent cannot, strictly speaking, regard himself as a Jew. A Jew who becomes a Christian automatically
becomes a national of the country in which he is resident - the country, in all
probability, of his birth.
19. Thus, to take but a single example, the
composer Gustav Mahler became, following his conversion to Christianity, an
Austrian of Semitic descent, and, by rights, no such person should ever be
persecuted, from the standpoint of ideological transcendentalism, as a Jew.
20. As to the moral significance attached, from
the Jewish standpoint, to such a conversion, the convertee
necessarily forfeits the possibility of becoming an Israeli in a Judaic
culture, and may therefore be said to have betrayed his people in their
determination to regain a homeland and become not merely united again but ...
witnesses to transcendental truth.
21. But, by a similar
token, could not those who have remained Jews but failed to return to
22. Either way, there may be penalties to pay,
both relative and absolute. The convertee to Christianity may find further spiritual
progress barred to him; he may even have to suffer the humiliating fate of defeated
nationals at the hands of a bellicose ideologically transcendental people. The Jew who remains a stuck-in-the-mud of
tribal identification may pay for his, from the ideological standpoint,
anachronistic allegiance with his life or, at the very least, freedom.
23. What, then, is the moral position as regards
anti-Semitism? Clearly, the position is
logically valid when directed against Jews from a radically ideological base,
but invalid and, indeed, quite illogical when directed against said tribalists from a national base, whose respect for the
natural compels if not admiration, then at least toleration of Jews.
24. Thus regardless of the apparently nationalist
motive for anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, Nazi
opposition to Jews (as to Gypsies) was logically valid, and followed from the
evolutionary right of a pseudo-spiritual and ideologically-transcendental state
to transcend tribalism in outright hostility to the mundane root.
25. No-one, however, who professes to a national
integrity in atomic societies has the right to uphold
anti-Semitism. Those who don't profess
to such an integrity but, nevertheless, still exist
within the confines of an atomic society, may pay the penalty for being
anti-Semitic if they are such on blatantly activist terms.
