Sunset Of Empires?
The ancient world order
Reader Note: I’ve been taken to task by Dr. Farrell for my oversimplification of the theological issues discussed below. We are making plans to record a discussion on these topics, which should be absolutely fascinating. Updates as warranted.
One of my first posts on the new Substack site, entitled “Royals, Reich or Wrong”. posited that world events were the result of royal families attempting to revive ancient empires. I followed it up in a mind-bending discussion with Joseph P. Farrell on “Princes, Persons & Power”. I began fleshing out my thesis in my book “Paper Golem: Corporate Personhood and the Legal Fiction” (currently working on expanded 2nd Edition).
My developing thesis has been that the ancient royal houses, primarily in Europe but worldwide in scope, are using corporations and NGOs as cut-outs to steer world events to the point of collapse, for the purpose of destroying self-rule, eliminating the Enlightenment innovations, and resurrecting the monarchies and empires of yore.
To appreciate how this is playing out, we need to go beyond the bird’s eye view of Global Bumbledickery, and get up into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) so we can see the Really Big Picture. It’s hard to appreciate a tapestry when you are standing close enough to see the stitches.
If you squint just so at global events, you might perceive something interesting. We have a war in the Ukraine (meaning “borderlands”), which is an ancient touch-point between East and West. We have war in the Levant, which is an ancient battleground between East and West. And we have disturbances in the Force in the Far East, as Japan, India and China slowly and quiety polarize.
We might also perceive twitchings in the corposes of the Aztec, Inca, Tolmec, and Maya empires, but that’s for another column.
Let’s begin with the Ukraine. If you’ve been paying attention to the details, this war is not about territory, culture, or just plain idiocy. Rather, it’s the revival of the ancient conflict between the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. This brings into play the Russian, Ottoman and Persian Empires, which we will come to shortly.
After the fall of the Classical Roman Empire, it split into the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires, with Rome and the Vatican ruling the former, and Constatinople and the Hagia Sophia rulling the latter. Note that I equate the ruling city with its primary temple, since both capitals were theocracies at heart.
The East-West schism was driven by linguistic differences (Latin and Greek) at a superficial level, but more profoundly, it was caused by Pope Boniface VIII and his Unam Sanctam papal bull in AD 1302. The schism had been brewing for centuries over the concepts of Filioque and Original Sin, but Boniface’s declaration of Rome’s supremacy and papal infallibility drove a stake through the heart.
Unam Sanctam laid claim to the entire world, and everything above and below it, which launched the Age of Discovery and ultimately the wave of European colonialism. When you lay claim to a piece of land, after all, the first thing you do is survey and occupy it. Needless to say, this didn’t sit well with Byzantium.
Augustine’s views on Original Sin have formed the basis for all of Western philosophy and history. His presumption that, due to Adam’s sin, humans are born corrupt and must be perfected is the underlying predicate for Western political and legal frameworks.
In contrast, Orthodoxy sees humans as born in a state of perfection and corrupted by their environment, which leads to a fundamentally different view of the world.
These views are incompatible at the root level. Western law seeks to control the individual, while Eastern law seeks to control the environment.
The concept of Filioque states that God the Father is eternal. His love for His Creation manifests as God the Son, and their love for each other creates God the Spirit. In essence, this is polytheism, since the Father creates the other two. In Orthodoxy, there is one eternal God in three co-equal and co-existing aspects, or monotheism.
If you combine Filioque with Augustinian Original Sin, you find that Human Nature is corrupt and humans are inherently immoral, and must be forcefully guided to Salvation. Thus, we arrive at the concept of Collectivism, and oppressive governments and legal systems that assume guilt from birth.
Collectivism finds its greatest expression in the modern “corporation,” in which a group of humans combine their efforts to create a separate and unique entity called a “corporate person” in law. This entity, a Paper Golem if you will, is treated as a person in itself, granted rights and self-determination apart from the humans that create it.
At this point, one can appreciate just how radical the Enlightenment thinking was, and why Western governance required Divinely Ordained monarchs to guide us corrupt, vile little creatures to Salvation. The idea of individual humans being able to govern themselves and being endowed with unalienable rights went against a thousand years of Western political thought and development.
Now, when you see headlines of Ukrainian “authorities” expelling Russian Orthodox clergy and destroying Orthodox churches, it makes a bit more sense, right?
The fact that Western monarchies were subservient to the Vatican also clarifies the psychopathic obscession with destroying Russia, and the incessant cheerleading for the Ukraine coming from Western-controlled media. Orthodoxy, and Russia, challenge the Vatican’s claim to global stewardship and supremacy.
It also explains why the Western powers would fall on their own swords to arm and fund the Ukraine, seemingly against all self-interests and to the point of economic collapse — they are following orders from the Vatican. From our perch in LEO, all the military and financial largess heaped on the Ukraine might be seen as the Vatican taxing its subjects to support its war.
The EU and NATO are nothing more than secular expressions of Vatican rule, ultimately created by Boniface VIII, and currently being resisted by the BRICS, which are the secular expression of Orthodoxy and the other empires we will come to presently.
In the Western philosophy, Collectivism is the only means to salvation, which is why the Enlightenment and the US Constitution are so deeply reviled by the Bumbledicks, though most of them have no idea why. The Western system seeks global dominance and unification in a collectivist system.
In the Eastern philosophy, individuals are conceived and born with perfect Human Nature. Thus, the BRICS concept of national sovereignty and individual dignity seek to maintain maximum control over the local environment, so as to aid in expressing the individual’s Perfect Nature.
Byzantium fell to the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453, and the Ottoman Empire fell to the Holy Roman Empire in AD 1922. In the aftermath of the collapse, Western powers — particularly Britain and France — snatched up bits and pieces of it. You can see this process dramatized in the magnificent film Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
One of Britain’s trophies was a strip of desert called Palestine. Seeing this as an opportunity to retake the Levant from the Saracens, George V of the Anglo-American Empire began offering homesteads to British Jews who emigrated to Palestine, which we commonly refer to as Zionism, which was intiated with the Balfour Declaration.
And so we come to the Israel-Hamas-Hazbollah war, which is slowly consuming the ruins of the Ottoman Empire (Istanbul and temple Mecca) — Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Arabia, and Turkey, and soon the Persian Empire (Iran). From our position in LEO, this war is the Holy Roman Empire attempting to subdue the Saracen invaders, which is an extension of the Crusades and the foundational impetus for the Ottoman Empire.
It’s still hard to tell in the fog of war, but it appears that Israel, the Holy Roman Empire’s cut-out, is not following orders. This is leading to some consternation within the walls of the Vatican and among Western powers. All of this may also be why Joe Biden, ostensibly a Catholic, was installed as US President at this time.
Meanwhile, in the Far East we see the Han and Japanese Empires resurrecting. Xi Jin Ping, an ethnic Han, has claimed near-emperor status and powers within China. At the same time, Japan is emerging from under the Anglo-American Empire’s thumb and reasserting itself. These events are far quieter and more subtle than the dust-up in the West, but you can appreciate the Belt and Road initiative, shifting alliances, the re-assertion of the 9-Dash Line, and various other movements going on in the region.
Up here in LEO, we can further appreciate the re-emergence of the Mughai Empire in India. This is particularly interesting, as it was one of the first empires overthrown by Western collectivist powers, in the form of the British East India Company, a corporation that assumed all the trappings of governance (fascism). The reach of this corporate empire can still be seen in the many flags with horizontal red-and-white stripes and/or St. George’s Cross in the upper left canton.
As the old Asian empires shed the shackles of Western colonization, they are slowly gathering themselves once again. While Westerners may view events in Asia as nascent nationalism, those who know the history and cultural sentiments of the indigenous populations feel the empires re-awakening, turning the technologies and institutions of former colonial powers into their own emergent power structures.
Up here in LEO, we see Japan, the Han, the Moghis, Ottoman, Byzantine, and the Holy Roman empires all stretching and rubbing the sleep from their eyes. At a more granular level, we appreciate the stirrings of Persia, Russia, the European royal houses, Thailand, and others.
Through their corporate cut-outs, like the Central Bank network, massive holding companies like BlackRock and Vanguard, and the myriad of NGOs/QGOs, the Western collectivists are running around mucking with internal national affairs and creating “regional authorities,” which are thinly veiled reassembly of empires.
The gentle reader may have noticed that I did not dwell much on the American empire. In my view, it is just an extension of the Anglo-American empire (13 red-and-white stripes), occasionally aligning with the Holy Roman empire when interests align, but generally pursuing its own interests. Nevertheless, US presidents still make the pilgrimage to Rome early in their administrations to offer at least ceremonial allegiance to the Holy Roman empire.
Depending on how we line up the pieces, we are either looking at the final death throes of the Age of Empires, or the revivification of the Ancient World Order.
For me, it depends on which way the wind is blowing today. As in the story of Frankenstein’s creature, it’s yellow visage is either startling us from our sleep on the day of its rebirth, or being buried under tons of Arctic ice to sleep forever.
Either way, it seems we will have our answer sooner than later.
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Today’s cinematic selection is one of my favorite films of all time, The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Combining the wordsmithing of Rudyard Kipling, the masterful directing of John Huston, and the brilliant performing of Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer into one epic story of empire and collapse makes for an experience rarely equalled and never surpassed. Look for Caine’s wife Shakira playing Roxanne.
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This is fantastic, thankyou so much. Articulates much of what I've been ruminating on for the last few months. Your analysis of the east-west divide and its origins is great food for thought and makes perfect sense to me.
If I wanted to read further into this thesis, where best to go other than your book?
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