Modernity and Madness

There is something about an over-emphasis on the rational that leads to a sort of irrationality.  The West became the rationalist culture that had the hubris to believe it could step outside and over and above its own rootedness, its own  heritage and its own culture.  Rationalism becomes a sort of reductive madness.  And the West has ended up with post-modernism and transgenderism.

The root of the madness lies in the attempt to remove ourselves from our historical and cultural context.  We deny our spiritual beliefs. We see ourselves as modern and able to view the world objectively and neutrally.  In the end though it means we become completely rootless and disorientated so we can no longer account for the reality of gender, why cultural and ethnic homogeneity is necessary to cohesion or what the difference is between human consciousness and AGI.

Modernity, with its objective rationality and scientific and empirical approach actually contained the very seed of subversive and irrational post-modernism.  The madness all around us is rationalism gone mad.  We need to be able to have an orientation for the higher and for what is beyond us if we are actually to remain sane.  A completely materialist and rational world sends us mad, because we cannot contain human reality within such a reductive paradigm.

In trying to be objective and neutral, in denying the existence of the mysterious or the spiritual we are no longer able to defend what is most precious or sacred.  No longer ethnocentric, we are unable to defend our culture and instead take the side and promote the interests of the alien against our own culture.  Reducing our people to atomised individuals where no generalities or universals hold but are seen as oppressive, we are chemically castrating our children in the name of the absurdity of transgenderism - objectivity as a refusal to judge has led to the ultimate subjectivity. It is the subjectivity of the rootless mad man who belongs to no general identity but only exists in his solipsistic world containing only himself as reality.

And so the unquestioned shibboleths of modernity - objectivity, individualism, materialism - and the shaking off of what is dismissed as obscurantism and superstition has sent us mad.  Modernity turned out to be a pathological neurosis not a great liberation and enlightenment.  Indeed much of what is most important and most sacred about being human is no longer understood, valued or given any place.  Instead we have created a cage of our own making and are trapped by a great machine in the name of our own liberation.  All those identities we dismissed as oppressive and rooted in obscurantist mythologies turned out to validate and give proper status to all that is sacred about being human.

It turns out that putting liberation from tradition and the sacred at the pinnacle of our so-called values has alienated us from our humanity.  We have become enslaved to a system of our own making and keep ourselves falsely satisfied with the dainties and distractions modern industry can mass produce.  Now our very existence is becoming virtual as we disconnect even from the mass-produced physical items.  The more general identities - gender, ethnicity and religious faith gave our lives meaning and purpose, but were cast off as primitive prisons as we actually imprisoned ourselves in a world of ugliness - the world of the Machine.

Our survival as families, as ethnos, as a Church is all under attack.  Liberal legislation has broken the family.  Our borders are left open and we are losing our ethnic and cultural identity.  Our established Church promotes the very ideological agendas destroying us.  We live in a system of abstract and legal rights, but the very value of our lives as everything worth belonging to is taken away is being degraded.

Modernity is not post modernity.  It focused on the objective, the scientific, the rational.  This though was a reductive process.  Seemingly sterile, modernity actually spawned a gross, mad and degenerate monster - the worst aspects of post-modernity that have subverted everything and created the very topsy turvy and upside down world  in which we in the West all languish.  in the dialectic of modernity post modernity challenges the logocentrism of Enlightenment modernity, but in reality it was the next stage in the West's unquestioned faith in human "progress".

The Hexing of the West

 When Father Seraphim Rose, the American Orthodox monk, published his book Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, he warned of a coming re-enchantment not in the rediscovery of traditional Christianity, but in occultism, New Age and fascination with the extra terrestrial.  As time went on with the rise of New Atheism and aggressive secularism it seemed to have been a misreading of the signs.  Today though, as has been emphasised in the works of Father Spyridon Bailey, we are facing a dangerous re-enchantment by the demons.  Another Orthodox writer, Rod Dreher, has argued in his book Living in Wonder that the bleakness of Western secularism has led to a craving for spirituality, but often being found in the wrong place  as well as in the increasing growth of traditional Christianity.  Both occultism and traditional Christianity are now on the rise with the Boomer secularists becoming less of a cultural factor.

It almost looks as though New Atheism simply served the purpose of attacking the Church and the long term strategy of the Enemy was a reinvigoration of occult spirituality and the use of demons interpreted as alien extraterrestrials.  The battle lines are now drawn between the witchery and occultism of the dark forces on the one hand and the forces of light in the reinvigoration of traditional Christianity on the other.  Both Latin Rite Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy are seeing significant growth in the West, especially amongst young men.

Nonetheless, the establishment is clearly on the side of the occult and anti-Christian forces.  Anti- establishment figures such as Donald Trump are targeted by witches loyal to the establishment of the West.  And it is no wonder witches are loyalists as in the name of secularism and/or multiculturalism or any other justification they can think of Western governments are targeting the Christian faith with lawfare.  There are famous cases from one of the most anti-Christian countries, the United Kingdom, of people being arrested for praying.

The links between the establishment and the occult go back a long way, to John Dee at least.  The lead Satanist Aleister Crowley was close to British intelligence.  He indeed encapsulated liberal values with his Satanist maxim - do as thou wilt.  Undoubtedly senior American Democrats such as the Clintons and Jack Podesta have Satanic links, not only because of their links to Marina Abramovic and spirit cooking, but because of their bloodthirsty advocacy of killing unborn children and even post-natal abortion (infanticide).

As Father Spyridon Bailey has explained in his book Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan, occult and demonic ideas reach to the very top of globalist institutions, in particular through the influence of theosophist Alice Bailey at the United Nations.  Her Lucis Trust, etymologically derived from the name Lucifer, the light bringer, has special privileges at the United Nations and Ms. Bailey set out her own manifesto for the globalists, in terms of destroying the church, the family and promoting homosexuality that has been pushed through in most countries in the West at least.  

Recently on youtube in an interview by Michael J. Knowles of the Daily Wire with former witch and Christian convert Julie Lopez, https://youtu.be/fFWvO6t8Zvw?si=ikzJIMVVeZqmgNhd  much was revealed about the power of witchcraft in the Western system.  This followed on from the conversion of former Satanist Kat Von D to Christianity, who revealed much about the influence of the occult.  Mrs Lopez in particular pointed to the corruption by witchcraft in high places and how political leaders are handing over countries to the Devil,  

In certain Western countries we see the domination of LGBT, the promotion of castration of confused teenagers and abortion, which all indicate the power of the demonic over society.  In a youtube talk entitled Did the Witches Win? in late 2024, https://youtu.be/S75AfTuzLQg?si=RNMQfZ_QAeEqtLz3  Orthodox iconographer Jonathan Pageau discussed ideas of witchcraft in the early modern period as found in the book the Malleus Maleficarum.  He draws the conclusion that the means by which witchcraft achieved its ends can be seen today.  Methods used by witches were intended to spread infertility.  They would cause children to be stillborn or steal male seed via a succubus visitation, men would be magically castrated.  All this was to achieve their envious goal of destroying human fertility.

Pageau identified several links between ideas of witchcraft and what is occurring today in Western society.  The killing of babies is achieved through abortion.  Male seed is stolen by succubi through the female image in pornography.  The male member is destroyed through operations to “transition” from male to female.  All these methods are regarded as weirdly sacred and beyond criticism by the Western establishments.  This has led to a demographic crisis whereby Westerners are not reproducing, which as it happens is the excuse for replacing indigenous Westerners with Third World migrants.

It is starting to look like the West, formerly Christendom, has been hexed by witchcraft.  The narrative used to justify these seemingly demonic moves is that of liberation and the gaining of rights.  The real consequence has been demographic collapse, demoralisation, anomie and meaninglessness.  It is as though some force behind our political class is motivated by a deep hatred of the West and its traditions.  

We see witchcraft moving into mainstream culture with Wicca and white witches.  Satanism too is being promoted in popular culture.  These movements, which are defined by their parasitic relationship with Christianity, are increasingly dominating the narrative and pleading liberal tropes such as freedom of religion, protection from discrimination and liberation from patriarchal institutional religion.  Many deprived of meaning in this secular and empty inheritance from the Post War generation are drawn to New Age spirituality and the idea of being “spiritual but not religious”.  It looks more and more as though Father Seraphim Rose understood exactly what was happening in Western society and was not at all off the mark.  We should never have doubted his perspicacious analysis of our declining civilisation.

Have witches then hexed and cursed the collective West?  That might be what has happened.  It may be even more likely that establishment figures drawn to the murky beliefs and practices of the occult reshaped the West in a way that meant we lost touch with Orthodox belief and became more and more Faustian as a culture, where many micro decisions accumulated to alienate Christendom from Christ.  No doubt powerful figures were determined to help this process along, which they arguably initiated to a degree.

We have become a culture that has struck a Faustian bargain with filthy lucre and technology.  Since Genesis with the figure of Tubal-Cain of the line of the first murderer the spiritually wise have understood the link between technology and evil.  Technology is not in itself evil, but is easily exploited to manipulate and control the world.  Its practice is rooted in the same ethos as magic - the attempt to control the world pridefully for our own ends and not to pray for God’s grace and providence.

There is an ideology behind the secular West, rooted in a rebellious rejection of faith in the Christian God.  It is one of taking control of the world, which led indeed to great technological advances, but we also sold our collective soul.  What we see now with the growth in the interest in black magic and witchcraft is the fruit of the Faustian powers that be.  

In reaction to this and the meaning crisis, traditional Christianity is likewise seeing a resurgence.  We must be prepared to understand that in the West we are entering a period of spiritual warfare and should keep the words of the Apostle always in our heart:

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."