A PROTOTYPE

 

To pretend that the Greater German Reich

Was Germany is at best self-deception,

At worst political naiveté.

Hitler created, at first Austria's

And then Czechoslovakia's expense,

A supra-national entity distinct from Germany,

And owing nothing to republican precedent.

In the Greater German Reich we perceive

The rudiments of a theocratic union,

Which was subsequently extended at Poland's expense

And was originally designed to embrace

The racial folk community of the Teutonic peoples,

Who, in Hitler's estimation, were alone qualified

To receive the (false) theocracy of National Socialism,

And thus, in comparison with surrounding

Democratic peoples (both liberal and communist), become

A 'master race', living in a superior, or theocratic, system

In which sovereignty was vested in Hitler

Who, as Führer, approximated,

No matter how crudely, to a Second Coming,

The saviour of his people, meaning

Those capable of being thus theocratized,

Who acknowledged the Leader

And were obligated to obey him.

Being a false theocracy, National Socialism

Assuredly deserved to fail, but I would be a hypocrite

Not to perceive in it the crude prototype

Of a higher order, an intimation of things to come ...

With the rebirth of theocracy in Centrism,

And consequent emergence of Social Transcendentalism

As the ideology destined to complete what Nazism,

In its socialistic imperfection,

Ultimately failed to achieve - namely

The overcoming of all democracy and

Advancement, throughout the world,

Of genuine theocracy, albeit by degrees

And according to ethnic suitability.

What National Socialism inevitably failed to do,

Social Transcendentalism must succeed in doing,

To the greater glory of world-historical progress!