There
is a very telling gap in the historical documents that have been collected to
show the development of the modern Western paradigm of individual rights and constitutions:
. . .
Foundations of the West (Ancient-1492)
·
The Code of Hammurabi (1727-1680 B.C.)
·
The Ten Commandments (1447 B.C.)
·
The Constitutions of Clarendon (1164)
·
The Magna Carta (June 15, 1215)
·
The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
Exploration and the Colonial Era (1492-1765)
·
Martin Luther: Ninety-Five Theses
(October 31, 1517)
·
The Augsburg Confession (1530)
·
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (March 25, 1584) . . .
Source: https://patriotpost.us/documents,
opened 10 Jan. 2018
What
is missing? Anything from the first
1,000 years of Western European Christian history. And why is that significant? Because this is the era when Western Europe
was part of the Orthodox Church. The
political system that developed under her care must therefore be very different
from what developed under Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. But before we look at Orthodox politics, let
us have a look at what has transpired in the West religiously and politically. Fr Andrew Phillips of England writes:
Introduction: The
Year 1000 – When the West was Lost
The historical term
‘the geographical West’ means Western Europe, the extreme tip of the northern
Eurasian landmass. In the first millennium this Western Europe went through a
process of Christianization, called ‘The Age of the Saints’, which resulted in
the conversion of many to Christ. However, despite this spiritual light among
many, dark and heathen undercurrents remained. These threatened the very
existence of this Age of Saints of the Old West. Already from the middle of the
eighth century, and persistently throughout the last quarter of the first
millennium (750-1000), the greedy aggressiveness of Frankish barbarians started
coming to the fore, combined with the old pagan Roman imperialism and its
military technology. Once the merger between them had been practically
implemented in north-western Europe, the fall of Western Europe became
inevitable. The West was lost.
This came about in
the justification for the merger of this violent and greedy barbarianism and
arrogant and pagan imperialism of the pre-Christian West. This can be seen in
the implementation of ‘the papal claims’, established as an ideology in ‘the
filioque’, which was fully developed in the second half of the 11th
century. The papal claims asserted that the leader of Western Europe, who lived
in the old pagan capital of Rome but was a Frankish barbarian, had an absolute
and Divine right to control the world; this was expressed ideologically in this
‘filioque’, which asserted that papal authority came to this leader directly
from the Son of God, whose unique representative on earth He was. Thus, the
world was conceived of in ’feudal’ terms, a crude pyramid scheme which placed
this leader at the top and the people at the bottom. The old ‘Age of the
Saints’ was well and truly over, replaced by ‘Feudalism’.
Feudalism 1000-1250
Thus, the term ‘The
West’ is not a geographical term, but above all an ideological one. The
expression of this latter West, masking the geographical West, was in this
Feudalism, which placed the Western leader at its apex and those who aided him
just beneath him. This system was first seen in the once Roman lands between
the Loire and the Rhine, occupied by the barbarian Franks, in the late 10th
century. It developed greatly in the late 11th century and came to
fruition in the 13th century. The outward signs of this Frankish
ideology of Feudalism were: castles, knights, aggressive military technology,
serfdom (slavery) and, in the 12th century, the Gothic style. This
was spread to southern Italy and Sicily in the first half of the 11th
century by the barbarous Viking Normans, who then took it to England in 1066
and from there to Wales, Scotland and Scandinavia and, in the late 12th
century, to Ireland.
The Spread of
Feudalism 1250-1500
Having taken this
feudal ideology to what became Spain and Portugal in the 11th
century, the Franks then took it to the Holy Land with their anti-Christian
Crusades, which resulted in the sacking of Christian Rome in 1204. The Frankish
Germans also took it into southern Scandinavia, eastwards into Poland and the
Baltic, the Czech Lands, Slovakia and Hungary and through the crusades of the
Teutonic Knights into the Russian Lands. The whole of Western Europe had become
Frankish. However, this was only the beginning of the story. Within three
centuries these absurd claims, fully formulated in the eleventh century, were
to be carried across the ocean. As naval technology developed, the Frankish
south-west began to expand to a new world, invading and massacring in what came
to be called Latin America. Here they built their forts, their new castles, and
enslaved native peoples, their new serfs.
Feudalism 1500-2000
However, in
north-western Europe, the Germanic peoples protested, challenging the original
myth of the Western leader’s superiority and asserted that not he, but only
Western people who protested against him, themselves, were superior. They
claimed that they alone had the Divine right to represent God on earth, that
all was permitted, but only to them, that they alone were ‘saved’. This was the
‘democratization of the filioque’, placing all people like themselves at the
apex of the still feudal pyramid. This movement marked the second half of the
second millennium. These ‘Protestants’, as they called themselves, with the
same greed and even fewer vestiges of Christian feeling, also invaded and
massacred the new worlds, North America and Australasia. Together with the
south-western Europeans who began imitating them, especially after 1750, they
also invaded and massacred in Asia and Africa.
The Third Millennium
and Feudal Globalism
Thus, the ideology of
the ‘filioque’ was carried worldwide and ‘globalism’, the ideology of the
superiority of ‘the Western world’ and its ‘Divine’ right to control and
interfere in all the countries of the planet, was born. This came to fruition
at the end of the second millennium, making its wars into ‘World Wars’, under
competing names like Capitalism, Communism and Fascism. Thus, today’s third
millennium still proclaims Feudalism. Today it asserts that all who are true
believers in the ideology of the superiority of the West, regardless of their
race, manmade religion and gender, stand at the apex of the feudal pyramid. All
who resist, all the native peoples of the world, are to be enslaved and
crushed, militarily, politically, economically and socially. Nothing has
changed: the aggressiveness of Germanic barbarians is still combined with the
old (‘new’) pagan Roman imperialism and its military technology.
Conclusion: The New
West and the Lost West
This is ‘the West’,
in structure the same today as yesterday, a totalitarian feudal pyramid. True,
today’s totalitarianism is not that of previous Western -isms, like the
Feudalism of the Middle Ages between 1000 and 1500, or the last century’s
Communism and Fascism, but it is still totalitarian. This is because it is
still based on the pyramid, at the apex of which stands the elite which is
opposed to the people, lording it over them and despising them as ‘populists’.
And this pyramid is today not just in ‘the West’, but is global. Today’s
totalitarianism imposes ‘political correctness’, ‘Western values’ (‘European
values’) on all and excommunicates them (‘sanctions’ them) if they do not accept.
This is not a question of conservatism. Those who are conservative simply
regret the pyramid of the past. We reject both the past and the modern pyramid,
for our guiding light is the Age of the Saints of the first millennium.
. . .
Source: http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/the-feudal-west-and-the-lost-west/,
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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