Continued from prior columns. Christendom is no longer Christian, but Woke, which is to say, benighted with a proud pretense of enlightenment leading civilization to self destruction, and souls to damnation.
This ideology, here proclaimed “the Ideals of Death,” arose after the time of the Terror in France, ironically self-proclaimed “the Age of Reason.” This ideology is the latest in a long line of long-hidden cults, heresies, and crackpots reaching back to antiquity, called the esoteric tradition.
The esoteric tradition takes the form of philosophies, ideologies, and radical movements in the modern day: Hegelianism, Marxism, Cultural Marxism, Feminism, Gender Ideology, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionalism, but also ecological and political movements, as Climate Panic Ideology, Globalism, and the Great Reset.
These various modern ideologies are one and the same philosophically and theologically with their ancient and medieval precursors, forming an unbroken historical tradition, differing only in application: one army under one banner fighting on multiple battlefields.
Philosophically, each promotes, literally or tacitly, nihilist metaphysics, self-contradictory logic, mystical epistemology, relativist ethics, antinomian politics, non-objective art, and esoteric theology: Reality is unreal, dependent on human will, and is created in ongoing evolution by a clash of opposites.
Theologically, each promotes Hermetic theodicy, Gnostic soteriology, Alchemical anthropology, and Neoplatonic eschatology: Evil emanates from the godhead, salvation is by rebellion, man is god, and the end of man is pantheistic reabsorption into the godhead from which all things emanate.
Nominalism, which holds words to be arbitrary; hypocrisy, which dismisses ethical standards; and syncretism, which holds all religions to be one, are recurring essentials of the esoteric tradition.
Previous columns have proposed that Hegel is a philosophy-flavored version of Boehme, who is a Christian-flavored Neoplatonist. Both are Gnostic in outlook, hence both firmly in the Esoteric tradition.
Marxism, by his own admission, is a materialistic version of Hegel. Cultural Marxism is a cultural version of Marxism: and when applied to the sexes, is Feminism; to sexual perversion, is Gender Ideology; and ; to race relations, is Critical Race Theory. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, also called Intersectionalism, is the doublethink amalgam of these mutually contradictory Cultural Marxist theories. Everyone is both oppressor and oppressed, both and neither, at the same time and in the same sense.
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