{"id":1090,"date":"2010-10-13T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2017-10-13T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T11:52:09","slug":"violence-and-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Violence and Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

~ Valentin Tomberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWhat is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.<\/p>\n

~ Joseph de Maistre<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWhile the world does not understand these three words: Truth, Reason, Justice, and these: Duty, Hierarchy, Society, the revolutionary motto, ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,’ will be nothing but a threefold lie.<\/p>\n

~ Eliphas Levi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Little comment is needed, as these three Hermetists speak clearly. If revolution is the negation of hierarchy, then the opposite of a revolution is the restoration of hierarchy. Eliphas Levi proposes the motto for the counter-revolution based on Truth, Reason and Justice. Eliphas describes the coming government:<\/href><\/p>\n

\nThe government of the future will be that whose model is shown to us in nature, by the family, and in the religious world by the pastoral hierarchy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is recognized more so by initiates:<\/p>\n

\nThe idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hierophants the first classification of the whole of natural history.
\nThe initiate respects the hierarchy before all, he loves and preserves order …\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Valentin Tomberg traces this to the founding myths of the West<\/p>\n

\nThe story of Cain and Abel is a myth<\/em>, i.e., it expresses, under the form of a tale of a particular case, an \u201ceternal\u201d idea. Consequently, it pertains to time<\/em>, to history<\/em>, and not to space <\/em>and its structure. It shows us how brothers can become mortal enemies through the very fact that they worship the same God in the same way. The source of religious wars is revealed here: and it is not the difference in dogma nor forms of worship or ritual which is their cause, but exclusively the pretention to equality, or if one prefers, the negation of hierarchy<\/em>. This is also the world\u2019s first revolution — the archetype of all revolutions which have taken place and which will take place in the future of humanity. For the cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cause of all wars and revolutions — in a word, of all violence — is always the same: the negation of hierarchy. ~ Valentin Tomberg What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre While the world … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,93,111],"tags":[269,251],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hermetism","category-joseph-de-maistre","category-valentin-tomberg","tag-counter-revolution","tag-eliphas-levi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}