THE COMING 'KINGDOM'

1. I have taught the way to 'Kingdom Come' on the basis of Social Transcendentalism and a democratically-mandated assumption of religious sovereignty by the People, as the type of society commensurate with the achievement of deliverance from 'sins and/or punishments of the world' - the former having more relevance to the Church, and the latter to the State.

2. I have also stressed the desirability of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales joining together into a Gaelic Federation within the European Union, and I believe that such a federation, commensurate with 'Kingdom Come' so far as the British Isles is concerned, would deliver the Gaels from both English rule and/or domination and, no less importantly, the political and religious divisions which currently still keep them apart, as in Northern Ireland, where Protestant Unionism is ever at variance with Catholic Nationalism, despite the racial similarities which exist between a majority of people on each side of the ethnic divide.

3. Thus I have offered a way out of the divided predicament in which, due to English meddling traditionally, the Gaels of Ireland, both Protestant and Catholic, still find themselves, and I have stressed that any prospect of a united Ireland can only be premised upon the basis of a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, such that would deliver the peoples concerned from their respective nationalities and correlative sectarian divisions, making, in the long run, for a new nation with a new and (so far as I am concerned) altogether superior religion to that which, in the dichotomous nature of the world, was and continues to be responsible, in no small measure, for their divided predicament, a predicament over which England still profitably prevails, as of yore.

4. For until Christianity is democratically rejected on both sides of the ethnic divide, the people of Ireland, and hence Gaels in general, will continue to be divided and, what's worse, divisible between Irish and British nationality.

5. But if the acceptance, through a majority democratic mandate for religious sovereignty, of Social Transcendentalism is the way out of the dualistic and even pluralistic divisions of the world for peoples of Irish and/or British nationality, making for a Gaelic identity common to both traditions in which, for literally the first time in their history, people of Irish, Scotch, and Welsh descent can join together in a new and altogether superior 'Kingdom' to anything that has gone before, could not such a solution to the major political and religious problems of the British Isles also have applicability elsewhere, where similar ethnic divisions exist, as in the Middle East?

6. For if Gaels of Irish and British nationality can be prevailed upon, through Social Transcendentalism, to abandon their respective nationalities in favour of a new and better nationality ... such that enables them to unite in a supra-national framework commensurate, so I believe, with 'Kingdom Come', why shouldn't Semites of Israeli and Palestinian nationality, of Jewish and Arab descent, be prevailed upon to put the past behind them and build towards a better future on the basis of the religious ideology in question?

7. For people are divided, in Israel, between those who, being Jewish, properly identify with Israel and those who, being Arabic, aspire towards the establishment of a Palestinian State, a State which can only be achieved with the consent of Israel.

8. Yet Israel is reluctant, for a variety of reasons, to relinquish too much territory to Palestinian aspirations, since Israel is a small country anyway, and one that is surrounded, moreover, by numerous Arab nations, most of which, being Moslem, have no great love of Israel, homeland, traditionally, to Jewish refugees and immigrants, more recently, from the Diaspora.

9. Hence there is a reluctance on the part of Israel to allow for the establishment of a Palestinian State in its midst, a State which could further threaten Israel's existence in the future by striving after more land for its growing population(s) and simply adding, in the process, yet another Arab nation to the mass of such nations which already exist, and which Israel, being Judaic, has every reason to fear.

10. For the Arabs have never shown any great love of Israel, and Israel, for its part, has refused to allow itself to be bullied and intimidated by Arab opposition to its existence, even to the extent of waging terrible war for its survival.

11. Yet so long as Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, Judaists and Mohammedans exist, there will be the threat, if not actuality, of war; for the one side can only profit at the other's expense, since, beyond a certain restricted point, mutual compromise is impossible.

12. But supposing Israel, which, despite giving citizenship to Arabs and other non-Jewish minorities, continues to be a solution to the Jewish Diaspora and to the terrible crimes of the Holocaust, were to compromise with Social Transcendentalism and thus cease being a predominantly Jewish state, as at present, would not a solution to the problem of Israel vis-à-vis Palestine, or Palestinian aspirations, then be possible, a solution, I mean, which transcended both Judaic and Moslem, Jewish and Arab, Israeli and Palestinian divisions?

13. For the divisions which currently exist between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland are to a certain extent similar to those which exist between Judaists and Moslems in Israel, whereby religion rather than race is the underlining reason for separate national identities or, at any rate, for aspirations towards independence from Britain by Irish Catholics and for independence from Israel by Palestinian Moslems?

14. Whether such aspirations were to result in unity with traditional co-religionists, as in Ireland, or in a separate Palestinian State, complete, one can only suppose, with defence and diplomatic rights, as in Israel, the fact of the existence of such aspirations cannot be denied, though it is difficult, to the point of impossible, to see them ever being fulfilled.

15. Old religions create the divisions between Irish and British, Israelis and Palestinians: therefore only by democratically abandoning such religions can there be any prospect of unity between the peoples concerned, unity in a new religion which, offering people deliverance from Creator-based religious traditions, brings the possibility of a new nation to pass on the basis of either a Gaelic Federation (for the British Isles) or a Semitic Federation (for the Middle East), a federation that leaves the state/church, state/synagogue, state/mosque relativities behind it, as it brings those on each side of the ethnic divide to a common religious and cultural identity in Social Transcendentalism, thereby allowing things to pass from alpha to omega, from the Beginning to the End, and hence from the Creator to the Ultimate Creation.

16. Thus a Semitic Federation for those who, whether Jew or Moslem, Hebrew or Arab, Judaist or Islamicist, Davidian or Mohammedan, Talmudic or Koranic, Israeli or Palestinian, etc. etc., democratically opt, if and when the opportunity were officially to arise (with due consent from all concerned) to abandon both their religious traditions and, no less importantly, the 'sins and/or punishments of the world' which, in the dichotomous nature of state/church relativity, still divide them, precluding the possibility of genuine and lasting peace.

17. For how else can Israel move forward, in the medium-to-long-term future, except on the basis of a new religion in 'Kingdom Come', a 'Kingdom' that effectively transcends Israel, as Social Transcendentalism would transcend Judaism as well as Palestine and Mohammedanism, neither of which can do anything more than perpetuate the past.

18. For Israel is inseparable from Jehovah, Judaism, Jews, Hebrews, and other such Creator-based traditions deriving from Judea and now owing allegiance, via Jerusalem, to the 'Star of David', the Israeli national flag, while Palestine is inseparable from Allah, Mohammedanism, Moslems, Arabs, and other such Creator-based traditions deriving from Arabia and now owing allegiance, via Mecca, to the Palestinian emblem. The one is rooted in the Torah, or Jewish Bible, and the other in the Koran, the Moslem Bible. Neither can prevail except at the other's expense, and that is the real problem.

19. Consequently, only be abandoning what divides them in favour of what they have in common, namely their Semitic ancestry and culture, can Jews and Moslems, Hebrews and Arabs, unite, creating, under Messianic auspices, a Semitic Federation based on Social Transcendentalism, which would allow, under religious sovereignty, for a triadic Beyond of religious praxis in which persons of Islamic, Christian, and Judaic descent could practise emotional self-realization according to their tier entitlements within the overall structure of the Centre, the context of religious praxis for a religiously sovereign People.

20. Such a federation, commensurate with 'Kingdom Come' in the Middle Eastern context, will have an emblem of its own, the Supercross, with colour-variations applicable to the context of Israeli and Palestinian fusion, and be akin to a butterfly escaping from a chrysalis, the 'butterfly', in this case, being a Semitic Federation that democratically emerges from the 'chrysalis' of Israel and its Palestinian host.

21. Should this prove acceptable to both the Israeli (Jewish, Hebrew, Davidian) and Palestinian (Moslem, Arab, Mohammedan) peoples, then I can see no reason why the solution to their divided predicament should not be found within it, since unity rather than conflict is what will guarantee genuine peace, even if further struggles lie ahead, both within Israel/Palestine and without ... vis-à-vis the Arab states in general and hard-line fundamentalist ones in particular.

22. Certainly, it is probable that an internal deal between Jewish and Moslem elements in Israel of the sort that I have been hinting at on these pages, a deal, or 'New Covenant', that left not only Israel and Palestine behind but, no less significantly, Judaist and Islamicist, would prove less than attractive or even acceptable to the rulers of certain Arab states, fearful lest their own fundamentalist power base be undermined and democratically eroded in due course.

23. There will always be opposition or reaction from vested interests to revolutionary and progressive proposals or implementations, and a Semitic Federation that was Social Transcendentalist, given to complete independence from Creator-based religious primitivity, could expect nothing less from those who felt vulnerable to the threat of or clamour for religious sovereignty, and the deliverance from fundamentalism which it expressly implied.

24. Whatever form this reactionary opposition to religious deliverance were to take, I am confident that Israel or, rather, our hypothetical Semitic Federation, the coming 'Kingdom' of a united Social Transcendentalist people, would be able to deal with it, especially with the prospect of external advice and/or assistance from other peoples, including those of our hypothetical Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales who would be on the side of religious progress against religious tradition, determined to ensure that the exponents of 'environmental determinism', and other such reactionary ruses, were not able to prevail over the 'free spirits' who believe that environment can be artificially modified and religious and other matters along with it, to the end of evolutionary progress away from cosmic evil and towards an ever deeper universal wisdom.

25. For, in the end, however difficult the path, God and Heaven must prevail over the Devil and Hell, truth and joy over beauty and love (to say nothing of their negative equivalents), if mankind are to maximize their wisdom and minimize their evil, thereby affirming the soul-self at the expense of the id-self in 'Kingdom Come'.