TOWARDS
A GAELIC FEDERATION
1. I hinted above that so long as 'Britannia'
remained enthroned as symbolical illustration of realistic freedom in the
United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) there would be no
appreciable change for the better, so far as the continuing dominance of female
objectivity was concerned, and thus little or no prospect of an end to sensual
primacy and of a return not merely to sensual supremacy but to sensible
supremacy, particularly with regard to a Superchristian
disposition surpassing anything Christian.
2. Thus a democratically-mandated political
dismemberment of the United Kingdom is crucial, so I contend, to the
achievement of the desired change and to the dethronement, in consequence, of
'Britannia', since such a symbolical effigy of the realistic mechanism of
sensual primacy is only meaningful in relation to the existence of Great
Britain, and thus to the Union of England, Scotland, and Wales (together, in
the broader context of the United Kingdom, with Northern Ireland, that greater
part of the province of Ulster).
3. However, such a Union, presided over by the
monarchy, is not only bad, I shall argue, for Britain, particularly for the
predominantly Gaelic countries of Scotland and Wales, but is also bad for
Ireland, both North and South, since the loyalty of Protestant Ulstermen to the
British throne and/or 'mainland' is - and has long been - an obstacle to a
united Ireland, and hence to lasting peace within Ireland as a whole.
4. The fact of a divided Ireland can only
continue to bedevil hopes for lasting peace, since those who, as pro-republican
Catholics, seek unity with the South have to be weighed against (the
falsely-contrived majority within the Ulster statelet
of) those who remain loyal to Britain and whose opposition to Irish unity is
the principal reason for the island's continuing division.
5. So long as Catholics and Protestants continue
to exist and to espouse their respective aspirations or loyalties, as the case
may be, there will not be a solution to Ireland's divided predicament, a
predicament historically created by the British and maintained, with British
military support, by their colonial offshoots.
6. Thus any solution to the tragedy of Irish
partition requires an end to sectarian rivalry and division, and the adoption, in
its place, of a new religion such that transcends the phenomenal shortcomings
and moral limitations of Christianity, be these
Catholic or Protestant.
7. There can be no unity between Irishmen in a united
Ireland so long as sectarian divisions exist, and therefore the religion which
created those divisions and which is responsible for their continuance will
have to be democratically rejected by the peoples concerned, in order that they
may opt for unity on the basis of the Superchristian
religion which I have identified, throughout my work, with Social
Transcendentalism, as being that which accords, in its metaphysical
completeness, the completeness of metaphysical sensibility, with the will of
the (Gaelic) Second Coming or, to all intents and purposes, Messianic Superchrist.
8. But I do not regard
a united Ireland as possible so long as Britain continues to exist, since
loyalty by Protestant Ulstermen to
9. Thus I foresee the need to placate that loyalism through the concept and, hopefully, future
actuality of a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, since if
Ireland is to be united, it should only be on the basis of a compromise between
Nationalist and Unionist traditions, such that requires acceptance of a new and
better - from the Gaelic standpoint - Union, in which Irish unity can
officially come to pass.
10. For, even without
sectarian divisions, the prospects for a united Ireland that ignored Unionist loyalism would be very bleak, bearing in mind the
inevitability of loyalist opposition to Irish nationality.
11. But a united Ireland that came to pass because
the majority of Unionists, arguably of Scotch and/or Welsh Gaelic descent, were
prepared to live within a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales,
and because Nationalists were prepared to accept unity on the basis of
Ireland's inclusion within such a federation, would, it seems to me, prove both
durable and peaceable.
12. For then one has what is best for Irishmen in
general, viz. unity between Gaels of every national persuasion in what would
effectively be a new country that, with Scotland and Wales, gave Ireland the
added security of not having the British giant, that superstate
created by Englishmen to control Gaels and enable England to pursue her
civilized goals wherever she might, 'breathing down its neck', as at present,
but of having 'the old enemy' at a significantly greater remove from itself in
what would eventually amount, in all probability, to an English republic, an
English nation that, without territorial claims or responsibilities in respect
of the United Kingdom, would no longer have need of the monarchy and no longer
be prevented, in consequence, from drawing closer to Rome via a disestablished
Church.
13. Yes, I have no doubt that the only 'way out'
of Britain for Scotland and Wales is through the establishment of a Gaelic
federation with Ireland, and that the only way that Irish unity can be
honourably and lastingly effected is through acceptance of a federal unity with
Scotland and Wales, so that, for the first time in their turbulent history,
Gaels may join together into a supra-national federation within the European
Union and achieve a permanent accommodation with one another on the basis of
Social Transcendentalism, the Superchristian
successor, so far as I am concerned, to the terrible dichotomy within
Christianity of Catholicism and Protestantism.
14. But to have the chance of so doing, Gaels must
be granted the opportunity, in all three Gaelic countries, of voting for
religious sovereignty, the ultimate sovereignty in the evolution of
sovereignties, and, by implication, for the right to religious self-determination
within the meritocratic framework of Social
Transcendentalism, with its concept of a triadic Beyond (the Centre) in which
persons of Puritan, Anglican, and Roman Catholic denominational descent could
find a common Superchristian identity for themselves,
independently of Creator-based worship, not only in Ireland but eventually in
Scotland and Wales as well.
15. For so long as Christianity persists in
existing, there will be no prospect of religious harmony between the polarized
denominations, and no prospect, moreover, of Gaelic unity both within Ireland
and, more generally, within what has been termed a Gaelic Federation,
potentially commensurate, so far as I am concerned, with the principal, if not
pristine, manifestation of 'Kingdom Come'.
16. For 'Kingdom Come' is no myth or figment of
the imagination, but something that can initially be brought to pass here on
earth, provided that the will is there and that people are sufficiently
acquainted with the implications and teachings of Social Transcendentalism to
be able to respond in a positive manner to the prospect of Messianic
deliverance from 'sins and/or punishments of the world', of which their
respective (republican and parliamentary) modes of political sovereignty are a
case in point.
17. For that which, in religious sovereignty, is
not of the world lies beyond it, and that which lies beyond the world is
germane, in its otherworldly pursuits, to 'Kingdom Come', particularly when
conceived in relation to the establishment of a Gaelic Federation whose
Messianic figurehead and effective leader would, in his supreme metaphysical
bias, be a 'god-king', the 'philosopher-king' long hoped for by 'the faithful'
to lead them beyond the 'sins and/or punishments of the world' into the graces
of the Superchristian Other World, wherein godly
truth and heavenly joy would reign for ever more, and specifically within the
top tier of the triadic Beyond for those who were most deserving of it.
18. Yet authentic grace through respiratory
sensibility, viz. transcendental meditation, would be a very different
proposition from the inauthentic grace that obtains, through verbal absolution,
for repentant Catholics, and the fulcrum of religion would accordingly be
shifted-up from what, in Christianity, is effectively an economic 'bovaryization' in the sin of knowledge to a religious per se in the grace
of truth, whose psychocentric transmutation is not
the heaviness of pleasure in physical soul, but the lightness of joy in
metaphysical soul, the soul-of-souls.
19. Even those who have been earmarked for the
bottom and middle tiers, duly subsectioned, of the
triadic Beyond ... would experience something of this religious per se, albeit duly
modified in watery (feminine) and vegetative (masculine) terms to suit their
more purgatorial and earthly overall dispositions.
20. Yet those who, for whatever reasons, had no
desire to become a part of 'Kingdom Come' in either its administrative or its
religious manifestations would be well advised, in the event of a majority mandate
for religious sovereignty under Social Transcendentalism, to take themselves
away, presumably, in most cases, to England, with due eschatological
implications.
21. For the prospect of a Gaelic Federation would
divide the wheat from the chaff, the Gael from the Brit, and result, sooner or
later, in the exodus of the latter, whether as Anglo-Irish, Anglo-Scotch, or
Anglo-Welsh, from those countries which were opting for religious sovereignty
within a Social Transcendentalist context.
22. Since a Gaelic Federation would have to be
Gaelic in all contexts, intellectual as well as cultural, persons who could not
abide the supersession of English by Gaelic as a
first language would have little option, it seems to me, but to remove
themselves from the federation in question.
23. For Gaelic unity cannot be achieved on the
basis of English, but only in relation to the Gaelic language, even if,
initially, Irish Gaelic, Scotch Gaelic, and Welsh Gaelic were obliged to
co-exist in each of the respective Gaelic countries ... prior to the creation,
in times to come, of a unitary Gaelic language drawn from, yet also
transcending, each and every Gaelic tradition.
24. Only Gaelic can do proper justice to the
cultural aspirations of Social Transcendentalism, not a genderless tongue like
English which, even if regarded in a 'civilized' light, would fall as far short
of the Superchristian mark as woman of superman or
water of air or ... literature of music, if not altogether antithetical to it
in terms of its materialistic rejection of gender.
25. And this Gaelic manifestation of 'Kingdom
Come', of a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, would need a
unitary emblem, an emblem transcending the national flags of the Republic of
Ireland and Great Britain, a banner, I mean, in which the Superchristian
ethos of Social Transcendentalism was granted due emblematic exemplification in
the guise of what I have elsewhere described as a 'Supercross',
or inverted CND design upon which both masculine and feminine signs were
granted due prominence in reflection of their harmonious co-option to the
ideological religion in question.
26. I have occasionally changed my mind as to what
colours would best characterized this Supercross of
'Kingdom Come', but I believe I have finally settled on a compromise solution,
from a supra-national standpoint, by opting for a ruby-coloured Supercross upon a turquoise ground, the ruby a tempering of
Welsh red and the turquoise a combination of Irish green and Scottish blue,
thereby representative of the blending into one harmonious colour of the two
principal components of our prospective federation.
27. Be that as it may, I have no doubt whatsoever
that such a unitary emblem, whatever its final colouration, is absolutely
crucial to the establishment of a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and
Wales (together, if mutually desirable, with the Isle of Man and certain
offshore islands), since it will be necessary to put all historical flags,
including those of Scottish and Welsh nationalism, behind it in the interests
of Gaelic unity and the development of an ultimate culture such that will do Superchristian justice to each of the countries in
question, duly blended, following 'Judgement', or the democratically-mandated
option on religious sovereignty, into one nation within the European Union.
28. Doubtless England will retain its own national
flag, the Cross of St. George, even if the 'Union Jack' of Great Britain is
destined to be discarded in the event of Ireland (both North and South), Scotland,
and Wales opting to join together in the interests not only of deliverance from
English dominance, but of unity between all Gaels in what would
amount to an altogether new type of 'Kingdom', one vastly different, in its
heavenly orientation, to the old, in which Social Transcendentalism would reign
supreme in testimony to the transcendence of Catholic and Protestant divisions
through Superchristian resolution.
29. The Gael, be he Catholic or Protestant,
'Irish' or 'British', has much need of such a transcendence of dichotomous
Christianity, and only through voting for religious sovereignty via Social
Transcendentalism can there be any prospect of lasting peace and reconciliation
coming to pass, since he will never again be politically divided through
religion.
30. What England initially created, only the Gael
can re-create, for it is in his interests to be delivered from the republican
world (of Southern Ireland) and/or monarchic netherworld (of the United
Kingdom) to the Messianic otherworldly salvation of 'Kingdom Come', in which
culture will blossom as never before under the wise guidance of the
'philosopher-king' and effective Second Coming ... of Superchristian
Revelation.
