CYCLE THIRTY-FIVE: THE ROLE OF CONSERVATISM
1. The ultra-libertarianism of the (genuine)
Kingdom, rooted in noumenal objectivity, is
commensurate, through competitive individualism, with whatever is extreme left,
while the libertarianism of the (genuine) State, rooted in phenomenal objectivity,
is commensurate, through competitive collectivism, with that which is moderate
left.
2. The conservatism of the (genuine) Church,
centred in phenomenal subjectivity, is commensurate, through co-operative
collectivism, with whatever is moderate right, while the ultra-conservatism of
the (genuine) Centre, centred in noumenal
subjectivity, is - or will be - commensurate, through co-operative
individualism, with that which is extreme right.
3. To contrast the
competitive individualism of metachemical materialism
with the co-operative individualism of metaphysical idealism, the
ultra-libertarian extreme left-wing nature of the Kingdom with the
ultra-conservative extreme right-wing nature of the Centre.
4. To contrast the competitive collectivism of
chemical realism with the co-operative collectivism of physical naturalism, the
libertarian moderate left-wing nature of the State with the conservative
moderate right-wing nature of the Church.
5. Not only, in general terms, is the Kingdom extreme
left and the Centre extreme right, but the Kingdom is that which, ever metachemical, is rooted in fire, whereas the Centre is that
which, ever metaphysical, is centred in air.
6. Not only, in general terms, is the State
moderate left and the Church moderate right, but the State is that which, ever
chemical, is rooted in water, whereas the Church is that which, ever physical,
is centred in vegetation.
7. Conservatism defends against libertarianism,
but it does so either in the interests, if physical, of Christian nonconformism against Heathen humanism, as in the case of
the Church, or, if metaphysical, in the interests of Superchristian
transcendentalism against Superheathen
fundamentalism, as in the case (hypothetically) of the Centre.
8. Conservatism is therefore designed to protect
subjective values from the encroachment of objective values, defending that
which properly appertains to the male side of life from the possibility of
female subversion, the latter of which, taking an overly libertarian guise, can
only prove to its lasting detriment.
9. The conservation of Christian values from the
threat of Heathen values continues to be the principal concern of conservatism,
which takes the form of the genuine Church and requires, for its own sake, the
co-existence of a pseudo-State, a State which, far from being genuinely
libertarian, is quasi-conservative in its vegetative aloofness, through
republicanism, from watery parliamentarianism.
10. It is to be hoped that the twenty-first
century will witness the emergence of ultra-conservatism to conserve Superchristian values, appertaining to 'Kingdom Come', from
the threat of Superheathen ones, and that the genuine
Centre, as already defined by me with regard to the triadic Beyond, will be
able to draw upon the assistance of a pseudo-Kingdom which, far from being
ultra-libertarian, will be quasi-ultraconservative in its airy aloofness,
through Social Transcendentalism, from fire.
11. For only the pseudo-Kingdom of 'Kingdom Come'
can deliver to the People the administrative service that will guarantee them
continuing access to the ultra-conservative benefits of religious sovereignty
in the triadic Beyond.
12. This pseudo-Kingdom, which I anticipatively
equate with a federation of Social Transcendental Centres in what has elsewhere
been called the Centrist federation ... of, principally, Ireland, Scotland, and
Wales, will be presided over not by a Devil-King, as in those contexts where
the Kingdom is genuine, but by a 'God-King', the Messianic figurehead of the
Centre.