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Chapter 5
Malevolent Beast Resisting the
Grip of the Boa Constrictor
News 346
The Australian, March 28,
2005
The
Chinese Anschluss ?
In History, Review and Overview ...
Ch. 1, there was news of the Chinese Anschluss,
its Hitleresque pontifications concerning, not this time Austria, but ...
Taiwan.
Since that time, there has been a development. It
is noted in The Australian, March 28, 2005. We see this report: that
hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese massed to march in protest at China's new
anti-secession law ... Law ?
This means that China would rather have the
surrender of the anti-Communist rump which left China when by force a new
government, profiting from the war, was able to grab China, just as Russian
Communists, profiting by the war of 1914-1918, was able to grab an emaciated
Russia. It would prefer that they came quietly: this time, it is China which has
the preference, not Russia.
However, this is not the police arresting a
criminal, but a group of force-men, whose morality is officially not to be
found, since they seem to like to leave morals somewhere in the hinterland of
matter, in stark contrast to the possibilities of action by that substance, and
to bring prescription somehow out of description, which has always been
impossible. ONE of their prescriptions, which is identical with the manipulation
of force if one is systematic about their actual basis, is this, that Taiwan is
making too much noise.
So might a boa constrictor object if some
beast in its powerful twists, were to wriggle unduly, and perhaps disturb a
prior meal, interfering with digestion.
Calm down! it might intimate
(using body language, which in the figure would
relate to the hundreds of Chinese missiles reportedly pointing somewhat
meaningfully at Taiwan),
and be gobbled*1A.
Now that the boa constrictor might PREFER this,
is obvious. Why disturb breakfast when you have no hope anyway. Be reasonable!
might be the cry, as might have been that of Hitler towards Great Britain in
1940, for how could the little bit of a thing possibly defend itself against his
cumulative, far less against his culminating might, as he dismantled and
remantled much of Europe! But it did! Actually, with its allies, it won. It is
time to reflect on the annoyance of the frustrated, when in their imperious
mode, is it not!
Such cries from annoyed force have a rather
brassy sound, and do not have that certain splendour of freedom, reason or
righteousness. Hitler lost, though it did not look as if he would, and to some,
could have done so! His silly theories helped him to do so, but then, these are
matters of logic and truth, to which force as such, has no access.
His cause was a mutilated theory of race, with
Darwinesque overtones of the stronger overcoming and ditching the lesser; but
the spirit of the thing escaped him. So it is with the Chinese government, by
all accounts. They WANT Taiwan, they did not GET Taiwan and they now intimate
that if Taiwan has the illusion, or rather dares to mention it, that it is an
independent nation, it will become a legal matter to remove its power to think
so. This is, apparently, to be done by removing the mouths that say so (with
missiles), or the wills to use them so; and so to adorn the glorious testimony
of liberty and mutual understanding on this earth.
In what way adorn it ? You can perhaps ask them
that question. It is outside the scope of logic to reply to it.
Let us for review, recall some of the things said
before the Chinese Government indicated that Taiwan is being provocative, in
allowing "extreme revisionists" to bring "new tension across the Taiwan Strait".
Not merely so, but the report continues, the people of Taiwan, has "extreme
...independence secessionists" who "malevolently" are "distorting the
principles".
But WHAT principles, for how can you have
principles, except those of power in such a show ? They are called the
"principles of the law". What law ?
Now Hitler could perhaps have learned from this
double-talk, and even Dr Goebbels could perhaps have sat as a student before
this manifestation of the forces of history. It is precisely the ways bullies
behave in school yards. Let's audit a little.
HOW DARE you resist my will ? Can you not see
that the historical grip on power in the Primary School Yard which
incontestably is mine, as I point these two protoplasmic missiles, known as
fists, at your very face, is being flouted ? Do you know nothing, kid, of the
law that might is right and that might is mine ? It is mine by historical
processes, you see, since I beat up seven other kids before I came to you. Big
kids like me always do.
Malevolent, that's what you are, parading your
face as if you were some kind of a free person in the very place where I rule!
You escaped yesterday, when you left the mainland of my outer yard, to crawl
to this island near the Staff quarters, but realise, kid, that this isn't
going to work. The Staff don't want to interrupt their tea, and don't want to
acknowledge that I am a roaring defiler of their little yard, since their
reputation is easier to defend if they ignore me. You have no hope. Give in,
and stop this insolent talk back.
Do you think you'll even be ABLE to talk when
your teeth are bashed in, and (moving nearer), that is well within my reach.
Capitulate and be quiet, and give us five dollars, right, and then bow before
me, and I'll look at ignoring you till next time. Understood!
Let us recall from the earlier chapter some more
aspects of the 'historic process', in a citation which will take us through our
next heading.
Taiwan, subject of a
Chinese Anschluss, as was Austria a German one in 1938! And is the
world any more sensible about it than it as in 1938, before the German
expansionism ? On the contrary, to apply the present to the past: it is as if
they were straining to build more factories in German, importing capital, to
do more trade, and in every way to make the Germany of FORCE the German of
power.
This they did not do in Hitler's day. Yet now
they tumble to build in China, they hurry to divulge secrets, whether by
carelessness or on purpose. The scandal about what was gained from trade with
a famous US Aircraft Company is distant, but its rays still move. Nice little
atomic weapons for China from spying elsewhere, this too with guidance systems
makes it neat. Then the Chinese Communist Party - never to be confused with
China, any more than Stalin's group should be confused with the Russia it
impounded - can elegantly seek to intimidate with minimum regional disaster
... although of course the earth may be more polluted than ever through a
system which in Russia is responsible for the radioactive pollution of the
largest fresh-water lake in the world, and for similar horror in the Arctic
Ocean. Where there is precedent spiritual pollution, does this matter ?
Does the world need much thought, when
marvellous systems are to run it! Such appears the death of logic, the
wantonry from reason and the extravanganzas of a 'youth' which is far from
perpetual on this earth!
MAGICAL LAWS WITHOUT CAUSE NEED NO APPLAUSE
When myth is your master, magic is very often
your thought. Stalin thought that a peace could descend because Class Conflict
could be removed; but he removed the idea, along with multitudes sent to
freeze slowly in Siberia, not so fast that their labour could not adorn the
'State', whatever that is, but not so slowly as to cause undue nuisance when
their tasks and health were done. What liberation was this!
So man sets up his
national interest as if this were some virtue, not hitherto thought of, to be
added to man-made morals for reasons inscrutable. These, they are not morals,
but desire, for man can no more legislate what is right, than can he legislate
the course of the sun. (Cf. News 19.)
China must be strong. It does not seem to
matter if she is wrong, if huge troubles arise in the rural areas because of
plain want and need, while many in the cities become absurdly rich, in a
system as far from justice as could be imagined and from Communist dreams and
systems as the furthest star from a drop of water on this earth. Yet with this
additive (like adding LSD or heroin to watery soup for food), that there is no
independent judiciary, elected parliament or means of redress, it makes laws
as if it had invented man, the earth and the reason for both. Whether,
however, in physics, chemistry, mathematics or politics, the tedious
tomfooleries of presumption and arrant arrogance never substitute for the
simple realities of truth.
You can say what you like; it does not alter
that of which you speak, what it is.
In delusive situations however, it seems so.
All is coloured by totalitarianism, which
simply means that some people, who have a power placement, can dictate without
review, to others; and the dictators are few. In practice, Communism in its
famed forms, is simply political oligarchy.
So too Japan had to be strong, as did Germany;
but the problem is this: WHY ?
It is because their culture must rule ? Why on
earth ? What more depraved and elementarily deprived than this, that you are
subject to people with unlimited powers, except such as occur beyond them,
whose word is law. What is the good of being strong in the wrong!
What was the good of the German Aryan concept,
or the Communist power from guns, as if man were ultimately subjectible to
force, and his planning, understanding and creativity were mere objects for
manipulation.
What is the good of mere force ? What wisdom
does this have ? Where is its knowledge of the meaning of life and what is the
good of ruling if you mismanage even your understanding! The power to impart
acceleration to matter did not make the thing it moves! The power to move did
not make thought, analysis and truth. The absence of truth does not allow you
to state it. The presence of truth requires a perspective not subjectible to
mere interaction. Assume the latter lacking, and you are deprived of the
former, including any validity in your statement about what you assume! It is
all self-contradictory confusion.
In fact, it is when God is mocked, that man is
like a madman, throwing away his gifts and capacities to the love of money, of
power, of manipulation, of crazy modes neither scientifically allowable nor
purposively other than a sodden mess of presumption and baseless imagining.
After all, if you like talking of law, and like basing it all on force, which
has no morals, and merely proceeds within the bounds set for it, you are not in
a position to ruminate on what is NOT force, and what is NOT set in the bounds
of natural law. Further, even if the way nature works were thus and so, there is
no obligation to work with it.
Since however it does NOT work in this way, since
moral questions per se have often determined the nature of history, as in
the Battle for Britain and the European brain drain to the US in order to resist
the force of Hitler with the feast of freedom, which is not force; and since
force is a utensil of spirit in man, for this or that purpose, and spirit has
its own resources, not least God who made it: then the use of the term 'law' in
this case is canny, to be sure; but it is irrelevant.
It merely means that they are parading their
mouths, in logical terms, if you insist on their presuppositions, as they do.
What if Communists pass a law ? Is this their
'interpretation' of what force is doing ? If so, so what! What of the 'theory'
of force, even if it were relevant ? It refuses to co-operate (cf. SMR pp.
925ff.,
149ff., TMR
Ch. 1).
The question of what force will do, moreover,
may be seen at the end of World War I, World War II, and in Russia more
recently. It has no ambitions, no rights and is normally misinterpreted in a
world which has paid the consequences rather heavily in WW I, WW 2 and in the
Cold War. It tries, humanity defies: this is a familiar pattern. The tyrant
talks of his ambitions and methods; but 'Nature' does not listen. It is merely
being itself.
It has no plans, except of course that inherent within it, to run
down according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics (cf.
News 94*1). This does not tell us how to
run up! That takes effort, thought, intelligence and purpose. In human terms,
this may be good or bad in intent, and man, for all his imagination, is WITHIN
the universe, and limited in power towards its nature; but when you move to the
Creator, He has His own ways, neither dependent on any, nor in need of any, nor
in a system with any, but Author of all, to whom each is referrable.
WHERE THE
CAUSE IS AND THE RESULTS ARE
It is He who rules with the delicious constancy
of One who needing nothing from what He has exhaustively created, and complete
at all times, indeed the Maker of the time that MAKES you wait, is limited by
nothing, accountable to nothing and is forced by nothing. His rules are stated,
His laws not contrived for advantage, since neither in person nor in power does
He have need, being not delimited by system, but its creator with all its
dependencies; and His rules are realised, His statements are fulfilled.
What
would you expect ?*2 and what would you
expect of what opposes Him ? It is what you find. That is merely one of the
predictable verifications of the thing.
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It is one of those things impossible to man, but open to God,
and He has elected
to deploy His unique understanding and dynamism accordingly.
Moreover, when it is thematic to His intent, He can answer in the most
dramatic of terms,
as in the case of the attack by the invading tyrant Sennacherib, who indeed
swept away the North,
but but was baulked by Judah, And why ?
It was because it waited on the God who gave the land to Israel in the first
place
(cf. Galloping Events Ch. 4) ,
and He heard, and acted as the case required, in spectacular fashion (cf.
Isaiah 37-38).
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The arrant arrogance of the scheming sovereign of Assyria,
who in ways not unknown to this day,
had tried open propaganda methods to humiliate, alienate and overcome
the Jews
(Isaiah 37:8ff.),
soon found its challenge met, whihle his lordly threats were swiftly reduced
to rubble, by the
active involvement of the Lord
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The daughter of Jerusalem had tossed her head at him, announced the prophet
(Isaiah 37:21ff.),
in bringing the rebuke to self-enchantment, in the retort Almighty, first in
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God was committed to Israel, and in answer to faith, acted. This did not
alleviate the coming decline in the faithfulness of Israel over a century later,
which in due time received its correction; but at that former time, in answer to
believing prayer, and the appeal to the covenant, God acted catastrophically
against
the impudent, boastful and predatory Assyria.
This deliverance He provided again in 1948 in bringing the Jews back to the
foretold State status (as in Luke 21:24, Ezekiel 36ff., Isaiah 49, cf. SMR
Appendix A), and giving them victories over
overwhelming odds, as in Zechariah 12, in 1948, 1967, 1973, to which must
be added protection in the First Gulf War, and indirectly, in the Second.
They lived in the midst of the cauldron of anti-semitic onslaught; for it is not
the 'odds' but the God who created, on whose word and will it depends in the
end.
But running up instead of running down ? The
universe is not doing this now in any facet, phase or member, requires what it
takes, and what it takes is not now moving that way. Knowledge increases, but
not the knower, in accord in fact with the prediction of Daniel 12, the Jewish
prophet, who like the rest of them in the Bible has this delightful distinction
in utter diversity from the intonings of presumption, materialist or other: THEY
WORK!
Running up ? What determines that is
impossible, irrational as an object of thought, unless and until you find the
moral laws of the universe, in terms of which the thing does not run down, but
was run up in the first place, so that it might have a chance to run down. You
need even more, you need to find the Maker who has His own principles and
procedures, incandescent in originality as life depicts.
When you do this (as in
SMR, cf.
News 19), then you find that mere force is infantile.
Moreover, it is initially clear on inspection at our own level, in general
terms.
It is not WHO has the gun, but who makes new types of weapons, and why, what is
his thrust and sense of 'must', his response to situations and his reasons for
this, what is his spirit and his dynamic, his drive and his overview of things.
Ultimately, it is who is his God, and then, what is the power and purpose of
that God. The Bible has made this clear for millenia, and man has nowhere to go
for any other option. The rest is simply what he wants, adorned with propaganda
as if it were moral. A law without morality, however, is merely the mouthpiece
of force, which having no mouth, is merely plagiarised by the performance.
The Chinese Communist 'law' accordingly, outside
the domains of its own depressed dominion (not economically depressed, since the
world is scrambling to pour in many more billions to make the cogs turn, but
politically, ethically and spiritually depressed as the Falun Gong is so well
aware in the experience of Chinese history's laboratory, in labour camps or the
like): it is merely an expression of force. Its 'principles' are merely, in this
its chosen milieu of thought, the mouthing of the ways it WANTS to proceed.
Taiwan sees the point, indeed hundreds of points
pointed at it; but there is nothing moral in the points in the domain of the
irrational and reductionist philosophy of force and matter (cf. Repent or
Perish Ch. 7,
That Magnificent Rock 5, 7). In the darkness of
their imaginative theories, they are merely matter
directed, making with impossible ideological precision for heaven on earth,
which in fact has close resemblances to hell; but such is the nemesis of
antilogy. Ignore who it is that is speaking, his mind, spirit, reason and
morals, and you find that your projections are inane; for they are his product
who speaks.
If a moron speaks, you should KNOW that this is
the speaker; if matter speaks, you should consult a psychiatrist. It is unable
to manifest such powers, their originating dynamic or their progressive
implementation. It is like saying that a skyscraper built itself, installed its
air-conditioning on top, because every time it did not work, it tried again.
Tried ? learned ? Originated because something did not work ? Nothing is
originated because something did not work. Installing human powers in matter, by
imagination, is infantility at work. They are not there.
You need intelligence for that. To MAKE
intelligence you need an analytical power which man lacks, for in the end, even
all of his contrivances are controlled by devices, statistical or mechanical,
physical or chemical, at the will of the maker. To make what defies you and
gives grounds, that is another matter than matter. Man is in no need of arrant
reductionism to find the way to live; though admittedly it does, as a matter of
plain historical fact, greatly help him to die, in agony, by torture and by
laws, which tell the victim about his destiny, for the time being.
What is not matter, however, does not like
the point; and it has said so. Taiwan prefers to be free from the dictatorship
of the Communist party representatives in their unknowledgeable tyrannies,
simple preferences and materialist confusions. No law can force you to err;
though some capitulate. Few admire them, any more than they would have admired
England, had the First of the Few been the Last of the Resistance, speaking of
overwhelming might, and not doing much.
There were many relatives of Germans in Britain;
but what is the point about being relatives when you want absolute dominion over
them, in terms of some imperialism that appeals to you. If blood is thicker than
water, it is not the main part of man.
This little domain of the Creator has been gifted
with thought, values, morals and might; and if he chooses to ignore his Maker,
he becomes a curse to both himself and his race. Does rebellion against the
Almighty want to make itself mandatory ? It has often tended to do so, in Europe
in the Inquisition and in the day of Napoleon, of Hitler, in Russia in that of
Stalin et al. It is just like that. It has nothing else to think about when it
denies both itself and its Maker. Force without reality tends to be a loose
cannon, or in this case, a multiplication of missiles: it is its milieu. It is
beside the point.
Where is the malevolence in saying that you
prefer your own ambulatory equipment to that provided in the considerable
entrails of a boa constrictor ?
Since when were boas moral! ...
or their victims malevolent in seeking another
life,
than that of internalisation within their
travails ?
NOTES
*1A
Being gobbled is a possibility for a maw, but not thereby sanctioned by the
Owner and Maker, as a moral. In fact, He is not impressed with mere bluster and
self-important self-acclamation (cf. Isaiah 2:17, 23:9). He will
“stain the pride of all glory”. In His
judgments, the flight will perish from the swift (Amos 2), as maws without
morals open in vain their disastrous interiors:
“ ‘Behold, I am
weighed down by you,
As a cart full of
sheaves is weighed down.
Therefore flight
shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall
not strengthen his power,
Nor shall the
mighty deliver himself;
He shall not stand
who handles the bow,
The swift of foot
shall not escape,
Nor shall he who
rides a horse deliver himself.
The most courageous
men of might
Shall flee naked in
that day,’
Says the Lord.”
In
The Pitter-Patter of Prophetic Feet Ch. 4, you find that God is
not impressed by petty gobblers, and examples of Empires meeting their end in an
overseen manner. You see it in Isaiah 13-14, 44-45, Ezekiel 26, 30-33 and so on.
SMR often mentions such things, and you could consult SMR pp. 712ff..
For that matter, relative to ‘victims’ when the word of God delivers His own
forecast, there is a famous case which is unique in the field of predetermined
declarations of history of nations, SMR Ch. 9 together with The Defining
Drama Ch. 10, It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls Chs. 1, 10.
NOTES
A) Preliminary
On China and
Taiwan, and further on Chinese Communism:
see
Indexes, but also compare
News
37,
History, Review and Overview ...
Ch. 1 and
See News 150, News
98,
The Frantic Millenium Ch. 8,
RED ALERT Ch. 13;
OVERFLIGHT
Ch.
1, *1A.
More recently ? See Impossible to Man, Open
to God Ch. 5.
B) Numbered
*1
EARTH SPASM, CONSCIENCE CHASM:
AND
RENEWAL OF LIFE
Stepping Out for Christ
Ch. 10;
Wake Up World!
...
Chs. 2,
4, 5, 6
Delusive Drift or Divine Dynamic
Ch. 3
*2
See ...
Calibrating Myths, Machining Dreams and Keeping Faith Chs. 6,
8, T
hree Anzas, One Answer Ch. 3;
Acme ... Chs.
8, 9,
The Marvels of Predestination ... Ch. 3,
Of the Earth, Earthy, or Celestial in Christ Ch. 14, esp.
*1,
Worn-Out World and Coming King Chs.
1, 2,
3,
News
122, 126
That Magnificent Rock 5, 7,
Delusive Drift or Divine Dynamic
Ch. 3