Nihilism

Human nature could never become so base and so blinded as not to revolt against a principle so pernicious.

It may last for a season amidst the most pioneers of the Alta Vendita, amongst the Black Hand in Spain, amongst the Nihilists in Russia, amongst the Invincibles in Ireland, amongst the Trade Unionists of the Braglaw Swamp in England, or amongst the Communists in Paris.

It may serve as a means to hold in terror the unfortunate prince or leader who may be seduced in youth or manhood to join secret societies from motives of ambition, and when that ambition was gratified might refuse to go the lengths for socialism which the Alta Vendita required.

But otherwise assassination did not by experience prove such a sovereign power in the hands of the Carbonari as Mazzini expected.

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The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization by Monsignor George F. Dillon.

Chapter Twenty: The International, the Nihilists, the Black Hand, etcetera.

I am well aware that there are multitudes in Freemasonry, even in the most advanced Freemasonry of Italy and France, who have no real wish to see the principles of these anarchists predominate.

Human nature could never become so base and so blinded as not to revolt against a principle so pernicious.

It may last for a season amidst the most pioneers of the Alta Vendita, amongst the Black Hand in Spain, amongst the Nihilists in Russia, amongst the Invincibles in Ireland, amongst the Trade Unionists of the Braglaw Swamp in England, or amongst the Communists in Paris.

It may serve as a means to hold in terror the unfortunate prince or leader who may be seduced in youth or manhood to join secret societies from motives of ambition, and when that ambition was gratified might refuse to go the lengths for socialism which the Alta Vendita required.

But otherwise assassination did not by experience prove such a sovereign power in the hands of the Carbonari as Mazzini expected.

The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization by Monsignor George F. Dillon.

Chapter 20.

The International, the Nihilists, the Black Hand, etc.

I am well aware that there are multitudes in Freemasonry, even in the most advanced Freemasonry of Italy and France, who have no real wish to see the principles of these anarchists predominate.

Eckert says, La Franc-Maçonnerie, Tome 2, page 218 and 219, Mazzini was the head of that young empire and the warlike power of Freemasonry.

And we find in the Latomia that the minister of Notorobe had retired from it, said to M. Verbejem, even in the national palace in the presence of six deputies that Freemasonry at the present time in Belgium had become a powerful and dangerous arm in the hands of certain men that the Swiss insurrection had its resting place in the machinations of the Belgian lodges and that brother de Foch grand master of these lodges had undertaken in eighteen forty-four a voyage to Switzerland only in order to prepare that agitation end of footnote one which formed we know a part of the system of all secret societies and which the Alta Vendita deprecated because they feared that it was about to be employed just then against the members of their own body Mazzini speaks of having arisen from his bed one morning fully satisfied as to the lawfulness of removing whomsoever he might be pleased to consider an enemy by the dagger and fully determined to put that horrible principle into execution he cherished it as the simplest means given to an oppressed people to free themselves from tyrants but however much he labored to make his terrible creed plausible as being only permissible against tyrants and traitors it was readily foreseen how easily it could be extended until it became a capital danger for the sectaries themselves human nature could never become so base and so blinded as not to revolt against a principle so pernicious it may last for a season amidst the most pioneers of the Alta Vendita amongst the Black Hand in Spain amongst the Nihilists in Russia amongst the Invincibles in Ireland amongst the Trade Unionists of the Braglaw Swamp in England or amongst the Communists in Paris it may serve as a means to hold in terror the unfortunate prince or leader who may be seduced in youth or manhood to join secret societies from motives of ambition and when that ambition was gratified might refuse to go the lengths for socialism which the Alta Vendita required but otherwise assassination did not by experience prove such a sovereign power in the hands of the Carbonari as Mazzini expected his more astute associates soon found out this and not only in a qualms of conscience but from a strong sense of its inexpediency for their ends they determined to reject it they found out a more effective though a far more infamous way for attaining the dark mastery of the world it was by the assassination not of bodies but of souls by deliberate systematic and persevering diffusion of immorality footnote one Nubius who in conjunction with the Templars of France and the secret friends of the revolution in England had caused all troubles endured by the church and the Holy Father during the celebrated Congress of Rome and during which the reign of Louis Philippe had so ably planned the revolutions afterwards carried out by Palmerston and Napoleon the third was written to before his death by one of his fellow conspirators in the following strain we have pushed most things to extremes we have taken away from the people all the gods of heaven and earth that they had in homage we have taken away their religious faith their monarchical faith their virtue their probity their family virtue and meantime what do we hear in the distance but low bellowing we tremble for the monster may devour us we have little by little deprived the people of all honorable sentiment they will be without piety the more i think on it the more i am convinced that we must seek delay of payment end of footnote one the Alta Vendita then sat down calmly to consider the best means to accomplish this designs Satan and his falling angels could devise no more efficacious methods than they found out they resolved to spread impurity by every method used in the past by demons to tempt men to sin to make the practice of sin habitual and to keep the unhappy victim in the state of sin to the end they had being living men means to accomplish this purpose which devils could not use without the aid of men Christian civilization established upon the ruins of the licentiousness of paganism had kept European society pure vice when it did appear had to hide its head for shame public decency supported by public opinion kept it down so long as morality existed as a recognized virtue the revolution had no chance of permanent success and so the men of the Alta Vendita resolved to bring back the world to a state of brutal licentiousness not only as bad as that of paganism but to a state at which even the morality of the pagans would shudder to do this they proceeded with caution their first attempt was to cause vice to lose its conventional horror and to make it free from civil punishment the unfortunate class of human beings who make a sad trade in sin were to be taken under the protection of the law and to be kept free from disease at the expense of the state houses were to be licensed inspected protected and given over to their purposes the dishonor attached to their infamous condition was as far as the law could affect it to be taken away that wholesome sense of danger and fear of disease which averted the criminality disposed from sin was to disappear the agents of the Alta Vendita had instructions to increase the number and the seductiveness of those unfortunate beings while the state when revolutionized was to close its eyes to their excesses and to connive at their attempts upon the youth and of the country They were to be planted close to the great schools and universities and wherever else they could ruin the rising generation in every country in which the sect should obtain power.

Then literature was systematically rendered as immoral as possible and diffused with a perseverance and labor worthy of a better cause.

Railway stations, newspaper stands, bookshops, and restaurants were even to teem with infamous productions, while the same were scattered broadcast to the people over every land.

The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization by Monsignor George F. Dillon.

Chapter 20.

The International, the Nihilists, the Black Hand, etc.

I am well aware that there are multitudes in Freemasonry, even in the most advanced Freemasonry of Italy and France, who have no real wish to see the principles of these anarchists predominate.

But it's different.

What we're talking about today sounds like Nihilism, it sounds like absurdism, it's not.

It points to something beyond the absurd, beyond the Nihil.

It makes an absolute out of a void, not a nothingness, but a God.

It was a situation where...

I was, and I addressed it in the preface to the book, but I was about 10, 15,000 words deep into a book that I'm probably never going to publish because once I read Nihilism, My Father's Seraphim Rose, it was a situation where I was like, oh no, I'm never going to write anything this good.

And this, what the material that was covered was the answer to exactly what I was looking for in that book.

Wow.

But St. Herman's been trying to for a while.

But that one goes all the way back to the schism through all the revolutions and revolutions.

Nihilism, it was really his exploration from the Enlightenment project into modernity.

So going through Nietzsche and going through different phases.

Is men are going to move in the direction of of masculine traits one way or the other.

Nihilism, violence, one way or another, they're going to go there.

You can't deprogram millions of years of hominid evolution.

Right.

End of Part 2 of The Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Phibson

The Crisis, Nihilism and the Idea of Recurrence by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, from The Will to Power, Book 1.

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The Crisis, Nihilism and the Idea of Recurrence Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.

And thus the belief in the utter immorality of nature and in the absence of all purpose and sense are psychologically necessary attitudes when the belief in God and in an essentially moral order of things is no longer tenable.

Nihilism now appears, not because the sorrows of existence are greater than they were formerly, but because in a general way people have grown suspicious of the meaning which might be given to evil and even to existence.