THUS SPEAKS THE SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALIST
Five speeches to his friends followed by five speeches to his
enemies
"Love,
my friends, is a Protestant ideal relative to Christ. Have Catholics ever been Christians? Traditionally, I don't think so; though these
days there are apparently quite a few of them who put Christ before everyone
else, including the Blessed Virgin, and are consequently akin to Protestants in
Catholic disguise, heretics posing as adherents to the main, or absolute, part
of the theocratic spectrum. I know this
isn't simply a failing of the common people.
But a catholic Protestant is not the true Catholic allegiance which, now
as before, continues to be the Blessed Virgin, that second deity in the
evolution of religion from pagan Creator propitiation to an aspiration towards
the Holy Spirit via the Catholic, Protestant (Christ), Communist (Antichrist),
and Centrist (Second Coming) 'deities' respectively.
"Yes, my friends, Roman Catholicism,
corresponding, in its prime, to an early-stage grand-bourgeois age, put the
relativistic absolutism of the Holy Virgin above pagan absolutism and paid due
homage to her as an intercessor between mankind and
the Father. Catholicism was always
essentially a religion centred in refined sensation, as with incense, holy
water, the mass, et cetera. Stoicism, or
the endurance of pain, had preceded it in absolute pagan times, and Christian
love, or positive emotionality, was to follow it, with the development of
Protestant civilization.
"Stoicism pertained to the autocratic
spectrum of the God-Kings, but refined sensation, conceived as morally
preferable to crude sensation, i.e. hedonistic sin, pertained to the inception
of the theocratic spectrum in a grand-bourgeois age. The subsequent subdivision of that spectrum,
relative to the Protestant heresy, ushered in the religion of love, with Christ
as the religious cynosure. This was not
only an impersonal love of one's fellow man in humanism, but a personal love
for another person as well - the emotional love of the sexes sanctified through
marriage. If the former kind of love is
wise for a time, then the latter must fall somewhat short of wisdom,
corresponding, as it does, to a fool's paradise. Wisdom and folly are but two sides of a
relative coin."
"There
are those, my friends, who claim that Hitler was the Antichrist; that the deity
which follows on behind the Christian one must be the Antichrist, and, to be
sure, there is some truth in that idea.
But Hitler didn't follow on behind Christ for the simple reason that
Fascism, to speak in general terms, appertained to the main part of the theocratic
spectrum as the enemy of everything democratic rather than to an extension of
the heretical subdivision of it from the religion of love, in Protestantism, to
the religion of hate, in Communism - this latter germane to people's democracy.
"No, Marx was the closest
approximation to the Antichrist (even closer than Engels),
while Lenin was his 'Pauline' disciple, the founder, in effect, of a communist
'church' or, rather, antichurch, viz. the totalitarian state. Communism is but the logical outcome of the
Protestant heresy, the antithesis to Christian love for all men in the hatred
of one category of men, namely the proletariat, for another, namely the
bourgeoisie. It would be illogical to
think of the Antichrist as pertaining to the true part of the theocratic
spectrum, as did Hitler, who, by contrast, signified an antithetical equivalent
to the Blessed Virgin, a kind of crude approximation to the Second Coming,
necessarily subordinate to the main deity of the age, namely the Antichrist
(whose Soviet followers were chiefly responsible for defeating Nazism), and
therefore not entitled to consideration in any evolutionary list of principal
deities from pagan beginnings in the Primal Creator (Father) to transcendental
endings in the Ultimate Creation (the Holy Ghost).
"So, my friends, we can dismiss
Hitler as a secondary god, a failed god, whose eventual eclipse was inevitable,
given the heretical status of the age.
He may have been the antithetical equivalent to the Blessed Virgin -
Fascism as much post-Protestant as Catholicism was pre-Protestant - but the
subdivision of the theocratic spectrum remained dominant over truly theocratic
interests in the guise of Soviet Communism, that legacy of Marx.
"So any list of principal deities
would have to proceed thus: The Father, the Blessed Virgin, Christ, the
Antichrist (Marx), and, in due course, the Second Coming, as signifying, in the
name of Social Transcendentalism, a return of theological primacy to the true
part of the theocratic spectrum in the wake of the heretical Antichrist."
"If
Protestantism was a religion of love, then Fascism, contemporary with the
religion of hate (Communism), must be accorded a bias for refined feelings, the
antithetical equivalent to refined sensation.
In a word, happiness!
"Yes, the happiness of the German
people was of cardinal importance to Hitler, even if it had to be obtained
through force of arms. There was much
positive feeling at the annual party rallies in
"There is something about the
tail-end of the democratic spectrum which intimates of the contemporary
(fascist) part of the theocratic one. In
an extreme relativistic age, necessarily late-stage petty-bourgeois in character,
overlappings and hybrid interbreedings
are less the exception than the rule.
Does not a military dictatorship often appear fascist or even communist?
"Be that as it may, the extension of
the true part of the theocratic spectrum beyond Fascism and its positive
feelings can only lead to a more absolute religious ideal, the antithesis to
stoicism ... in awareness, the pure awareness of meditation as germane to
Social Transcendentalism/Super-transcendentalism (synthetically-induced
visionary experience/hypermeditation), the brainchild
of the true approximation to the Second Coming, the Messiah long awaited by
both Jews and Gentiles alike ... as embodiment and intimation of the Holy Ghost
- the ultimate deity of undifferentiated pure spirit at the culmination to
evolution.
"So in a sense this successor to the
Antichrist is the real antithetical equivalent to the Virgin Mary, the
penultimate deity in the evolution of deities from the Father to the Holy
Ghost. Between the two absolute
extremes, that of pure sensuality and pure spirituality,
come the two relative absolutes, both celibate in constitution. And between these come the two relativities
of the heretical subdivision of the theocratic spectrum, viz. the moderately
relative Christ and the radically relative Marx, Protestantism and Communism,
bourgeois democracy and proletarian democracy, liberalism and socialism - from
religion and politics to economics, the three forever intertwined throughout a
relative age."
"Not
so in the coming absolute age, when sovereignty would be vested in the Leader
and the ownership or, rather, trusteeship of the means of production pass to
the Centre, of which the Leader is sovereign.
There politics and economics will be absorbed into the Leader, who will
bear these 'sins of the world' in his sovereignty, much as Atlas bore the world
on his shoulders in the pagan mythology of the ancient Greeks, and Christ did
the same for the ensuing Christians.
"There theocracy alone will prevail,
the relativity of politics and economics becoming a thing of the past, like the
democratic and autocratic spectra to which they correspond, economics preceding
politics no less than the God-Kings preceded people's representatives, religion
succeeding politics no less than the people's representatives succeeded kings,
everything passing from matter to spirit, from doing to being. The Truth alone triumphant, as mankind is set
on course for the post-human millennium.
Aesthetics and ethics having faded away or been killed off. The Leader beyond good and evil,
not motivated by ethical considerations, like a democratic politician, but
solely by service to the Truth, considering 'good' that which furthers and
consolidates the Truth.
"Yes, my friends, I am beyond good
and evil, and I rejoice in my freedom, the freedom of the Free Spirit! 'The Good' are not admirable to me, they are
the obverse side of a dualistic coin, striving to combat and counter evil. They're part-and-parcel of a relative
compromise, the existence of the one presupposing that of the other, 'the Good'
continuing to exist so long as there is evil, 'the Right' so long as there is
'the Left', private enterprise so long as there is state socialism.
"But I, who represent the Truth, am
beyond good and evil, and my followers would live in a society where there was
no compromise between these two adversaries of the ethical spectrum, where evil
had been stamped out for all time and 'the Good' ceased to be necessary, there
being no good for them to do in a society where 'the Evil' no longer held sway
because no longer able to do evil.
Ah, such an absolute society would be free for the Truth, saved from
good and evil by the Truth!"
"Like
the Blessed Virgin, the True World Messiah, loosely corresponding to a Second
Coming, pertains to the true, or absolute, part of the theocratic
spectrum. In being the antithetical
equivalent of the Blessed Virgin, he, too, is virginal, celibate, pure - a
relative absolutism. Even the crude
approximation to this deity, as signified by Hitler, was in some degree
virginal or, at any rate, less carnal than the average German.
"Yes, my friends, he was no great
womanizer, being too shy as a youth and too preoccupied with saving the German
people from their enemies as a man ... to have much time or inclination for
women. As Leader, he took Eva Braun for
mistress, being in theory her lover but in practice somewhat neglectful of
her. He only married her after
"Well, my friends, marriage would be
quite inappropriate for the more credible manifestation of the Second Coming,
so you needn't expect him to get married at any time, even if he were
subsequently to take a woman or female companion for domestic help, which is
not impossible though, given his celibate past and absolutist integrity, by no
means guaranteed! Rather, he must
maintain his celibacy in conformity with his status as embodiment and
intimation of the Holy Ghost. After all,
he pertains to the main part of the theocratic spectrum, unlike the Antichrist,
Marx, whose status on the heretical subdivision of that same spectrum wasn't
entirely incompatible with lecherous proclivities!
"There is no intimation of the Holy
Ghost in endomorphic Marx, simply an extension of Protestant love into
communist hate, the hatred of the proletariat for the bourgeoisie, the division
of the ethical spectrum into warring factions more sharply polarized than ever
before, the former striving for an ultimate victory over the latter, but
without the guidance of the Truth, without which no ultimate victory can be
achieved, Communism being but an extension of the ethical antagonism of the
middle spectrum to a polarized antithesis between private capitalism and state
socialism, in which the great world Illusion of Marxism seeks to overcome
Ethics. So not, my friends, 'the Good'
against 'the Evil', as in a liberal democracy, but 'the Illusory' against both
'the Good' and 'the Evil' in the name of the Great Illusion of World Communism,
that heretical ideology of the Antichrist!"
"Know
then, my enemies, that the Truth alone will ultimately be victorious! There can be no question of Illusion
triumphing over Truth. The way to the
post-human millennium leads through Social Transcendentalism, that historical
successor to Fascism and antithesis to autocratic royalism
- the age of leaders superseding that of people's representatives, even those
who, in communist states, represent the people dictatorially. Dictatorial representatives correspond to the
Illusion, not an absolute antithesis to Truth, to the theocratic leader, but
falling just short of it, a near miss or relative antithesis.
"You will have noticed, my enemies,
how fashionable it has become, in this post-Hitlerian
age, to speak of people's representatives as 'leaders', how even bourgeois
prime ministers are regarded, if superficially, as 'leaders'. The age, even now, isn't wholly sympathetic
towards mere representatives. The Zeitgeist
increasingly points towards the coming of leaders, the 'Caesars' in Spengler's paradoxical prophecy, who lead the People from
above, scorning identification with democratic criteria, knowing themselves
to be above and beyond the scope of prime ministers and presidents.
"What use had Hitler for the
Chancellorship or the Presidency? He
absorbed both offices into himself and transcended then in the guise of Führer, the Sovereign Leader of a fascist state. As Nietzsche to the Kaiser, so Spengler to the Führer. Away with petty democrats! The age calls forth theocracy!"
"Even
the Americans, despite their democratic traditions, have an inkling of the
Truth, an interpretation, necessarily bogus, of the Second Coming ... in the
guise of Superman, whether on film or in comic books. This Superman, owing little or nothing to
Nietzsche, arrives on earth as a boy from a distant galaxy, like a Christ from
'On High', and is found and raised by latter-day equivalents of Mary and
Joseph. They discover, in due course,
that their adopted child has superhuman powers, and he learns from the spirit
of his true father - another New Testament parallel - that he must use these exceptional
powers for good, not to alter the destiny of the world but to combat evil
wherever it may arise.
"So, my enemies, this bogus Second
Coming is implicated in the ethical spectrum and is only marginally wiser,
despite his extraordinary powers, than the good right-wingers who, in liberal
societies, are accustomed, after their fashion, to combating political evil in
the form of the left-wing opposition. He
stands no more chance of overcoming evil, in any absolute sense, than they do,
and is all the more bogus from a genuinely Messianic point-of-view, since it is
precisely the American way of life, with its liberal institutions and
capitalist freedoms, that he wishes to protect.
He's not 'the True' but 'the Good', and if 'the Evil' are among his
chief enemies, they certainly aren't the only ones! He would oppose 'the Illusory' as well,
assuming there were any Communists at large in the land of his adoption.
"Fortunately for
"Could
Social Transcendentalists be statesmen, in any real political sense? No, my enemies, Social Transcendentalists
should never be defined in terms applicable to the democratic spectrum. Rather, they're theocratic Centrists, for
whom the meditation centre takes precedence over any parliamentary
assembly. Indeed, there wouldn't be a
parliamentary assembly, since parliaments appertain to democracy as places
where people's representatives congregate to do the people's business.
"If theocratic Centrists were to
congregate anywhere, it wouldn't be in a parliament building but in a special
Centre, a kind of arch-cathedral equivalent in which they would discuss what
needed to be discussed in relation to Social Transcendentalist progress, and
where they would listen to the Leader haranguing them on the domestic and
global situation, ideological ambitions and obligations, or the finer points of
Centrist logic. They would face the
Leader in a kind of semi-circular arrangement, followers in the presence of the
ideological cynosure, somewhat along the lines of Mussolini's Grand Council,
the Leader and his chief disciples - members of the ruling elite.
"Naturally there would also be
regional Centres, where the generality of theocratic Centrists in any one area
could congregate to discuss local affairs and carry on the business of what
would formerly have been called Local Government. Most if not all Centrists should, in
addition, have an individual meditation centre for purposes of religious
instruction and enlightenment of the masses, their role there akin to that of a
priest in a church, being effectively the successors to priests.
"Unlike in a relative society,
however, these theocratic Centrists would not function separately from
politicians, since there would be no politics as generally understood within a
democratic context. With the supersession of democracy, legislative and administrative
authority should pass exclusively to the theocratic spectrum, as signified by
the Centre. Just as in Catholic
"Of
course, I know that you, my enemies, will try to prevent Social
Transcendentalism from coming to pass in
"But just consider, my enemies, how
dissatisfied he would feel if, in being democratically elected, he was duly
obliged, along with his chief enemies, to take a seat in parliament, in the dáil, and play the democratic game, co-existing with
political parties on the basis of democratic representation, obliged to face
the prospect of future general elections and a permanent or intermittent
representative status!
"No, that kind of situation he could
never tolerate! So if he were to be
elected democratically - and there is no other way that he would want to assume
political responsibility - it would have to be on the prior understanding,
backed and sanctioned by the Church, that he intended to abolish the
parliamentary system and set up a Social Transcendentalist administration -
admittedly a most unorthodox and paradoxical basis for being elected, but not
altogether inconceivable in a country where 'God and the Church come first' and
a majority of people could therefore probably be depended upon to use democracy
in order to vote for a new and ultimate theocracy, even granted hard-line
democratic opposition to theocratic absolutism.
"Yet he knows that even if he were
elected in such a paradoxical fashion, there would still be parliamentary
opposition to his intentions to abolish the democratic constitution, so that,
one way or another, friction would probably break out between those on his side
- the true and theocratic Irishmen - and those on the other side - that of the
state, democracy, capitalism, private property, petty-bourgeois
internationalism. There is no way that
my enemies, a sizeable minority of the population of
"So,
my enemies, I take up the responsibility of the Last Judgement and I say: if
struggle there must be, then we shall struggle to the end, using the
opportunity any such reactionary revolt against majority interests may give us
to remove your influence from the land, in order that our people may go forward
to a Social Transcendentalist salvation ... free from all alien influences,
free to be true to their selves, to develop an absolutely theocratic
Ireland. We would rejoice in the
opportunity any such struggle would give us to purge you from our midst!
"Eventually, my enemies, there would
be few if any enemies left on the island, and the Irish people would be free
from oppression for all time, free to develop their theocratic potential to its
utmost, as they grew into the True World Religion ... of Social Transcendentalism/Super-transcendentalism
and paid regular visits to its meditation centres, the future successors to
churches.
"But, of course, the Irish Social
Transcendental Centre, as
"Ah, hear this well, my enemies: we
Social Transcendentalists have truly global objectives! We are no petty-bourgeois internationalists,
still less bourgeois nationalists, but proletarian supra-nationalists for whom
the existence of nation states is but a passing phase of political evolution,
one especially pertinent to the democratic spectrum. We of the theocratic spectrum know where
evolution is tending and, rest assured, we shall know how to further it as
well!"
Thus speaks the Social Transcendentalist.
