THE END OF HISTORY

1. A people who had democratically opted to advance beyond the world to the inceptive manifestation of the omega paradise, viz. 'Kingdom Come' conceived in terms of a federal structure in which political sovereignty had devolved upon a 'God-King' in return for the religious sovereignty that his truth alone had made possible ... would, under Social Transcendentalism, have effectively passed beyond history, since where Eternity takes over from the temporal comings and goings of the world there must necessarily be an end to history, which is of the world.

2. Hence 'Kingdom Come' will be beyond history in the sense that its structure is commensurate with Eternity for mass, volume, and space, the three planes of what, in previous texts, I have described as the triadic Beyond. Should 'Kingdom Come' initially manifest, as I would like, in a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, then those countries would have passed out of the becoming of worldly history and into the being of otherworldly eternity, even if still subject to the sway or influence of history from, in particular, countries still very much a part, for the foreseeable future, of the world.

3. The important thing to grasp is that history effectively ends with Eternity, with the coming to pass of 'Kingdom Come', since history is a reflection of the world, and once the world has been democratically and peaceably overcome, then the return to self in terms of soul is as much posterior to history as adherence to the primitive id-self was anterior to it. So until 'Kingdom Come', there can be no end to history but, rather, the perpetuation of history in conventional, and even unconventional, terms.

4. Both the alpha paradise of adherence to the id-self and the (coming) omega paradise of adherence to the soul-self are outside of history, or the record of worldly unfolding. For the very nature of paradise is its timelessness in relation to an absolutist identity with the self, and whether that paradise be apparent (and instinctual) or essential (and soulful), it will be eternally independent of worldly becoming.

5. If mankind 'fell' from paradise, it was in terms of an evolutionary progression from the id-self towards the not-self and selflessness of the egocentric world. If, in the future, mankind (or a certain section of it initially) returns to paradise, it will be in terms of a devolutionary progression from the world towards the soul-self, which we may term a 'rise' and equate, in consequence, with the resurrection of the worldly 'dead' to the Life Eternal.

6. In reality the worldly 'dead' are either subject to the life-in-death of purgatorial punishment or the death-in-life of earthly sin, broadly identifiable with the distinction between Protestants and Catholics, especially with regard to the ethnic divisions of Ireland, but, either way, they can be saved from their respective worldly fates to the otherworldly Beyond ... of 'Kingdom Come', wherein history has no meaning.

7. That man who is saved from the history of worldly becoming passes into the eternity of otherworldly being, and for him the only thing that really matters is self-realization and, ultimately, self-transcendence.

8. For to transcend one's self one must first of all know one's self, to know oneself as either chemical (and feminine), physical (and masculine) or metaphysical (and divine), so that one knows what kind of self it is that has to be transcended, and how.

9. Knowing oneself is thus not only a precondition of transcending one's self, but a precondition of knowing whether one's mode of self-transcendence will be in giving (and feminine), taking (and masculine), or being (and divine), and accordingly germane to the bottom tier of mass, the middle tier of volume, or the top tier of space within the otherworldly context of the triadic Beyond.

10. By and large people of Puritan background would be in the bottom tier, people of Anglican background in the middle tier, and people of Roman Catholic background in the top tier, even though each tier would be subsectioned on a three-way basis in relation to disparate manifestations of nonconformism, humanism, and transcendentalism, according to the overall dictates of the elemental context.

11. All tiers, however, would be of eternity in their deliverance from worldly temporality, and hence history. For mass, volume, and space are not of time but independent of time, especially in the sensible manifestations of mass, viz. massed; volume, viz. voluminous; and space, viz. spaced, that would typify the triadic Beyond.

12. The only context of 'Kingdom Come' still open to time would be the administrative aside to the Centre, as I have often termed the triadic Beyond itself, and such an aside, the focal-point of a Christ-like sacrifice of bearing political 'sins and/or punishments of the world' in the interests of the People's salvation from them through religious sovereignty in the event of their having democratically opted to be saved from the world, would be very sensibly of repetitive time in its refined service of the Centre or, more correctly, Centre proper.