Underlying the two main geopolitical systems in the world –
the Western unipolar model and the BRICS+ multipolar model – are the opposing spiritual
realities of pride and humility. The
Western model, having its foundation in satanic pride – that Western
civilization, especially the United States, is superior to any other, whether
past, present, or future – shows that the Western elite and many of the
plainfolk are spiritually sick and blind and have doomed themselves to
destruction. The BRICS+ countries, on
the other hand, are content to let each country in their bloc and elsewhere in
the world develop according to her own logos and telos, to not impose, to show
restraint. This is a mark of humility,
which will bring the blessings of God upon them.
The remarkable spiritual writer of the Orthodox Church, St
Ignatius Brianchaninov (+1867), lays bare the character and motivations of the
proud and the humble, and these in turn give us the keys to understanding the
actions of the major geopolitical actors today.
He begins Chapter 36
of his book on monasticism, The Arena,
‘A
monk must be extremely cautious of carnal and animal zeal, which outwardly
appears pious but in reality is foolish and harmful to the soul. Worldly people
and many living the monastic life, through ignorance and inexperience, often
praise such zeal without understanding that it springs from conceit and pride.
They extol this zeal as zeal for the faith, for piety, for the Church, for God.
It consists in a more or less harsh condemnation and criticism of one's
neighbors in their moral faults, and in faults against good order in church and
in the performance of the church services. Deceived by a wrong conception of
zeal, these imprudent zealots think that by yielding themselves to it they are
imitating the holy fathers and holy martyrs, forgetting that they—the
zealots—are not saints, but sinners.’
Who are the ones constantly, harshly criticizing country
after country around the world for shortcomings of one kind or another? The Western countries, who, as we have said,
are blind to their own sins, making them hypocrites:
‘If the saints accused or convicted those
who were living in sin or irreligion, they did so at the command of God, as
their duty, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, not at the instigation of their
passions and demons. Whoever decides of his own self-will to convict his
brother or make some reprimand, clearly betrays and proves that he considers
himself more prudent and virtuous than the person he blames, and that he is
acting at the instigation of passion and deception and diabolic thoughts. We
need to remember the Savior's injunction: "Why do you look at the speck in
your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can
you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' and look, a
plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye,
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's
eye."
‘What is a plank in this connection? It is
the earthly wisdom or carnal outlook, hard as a plank, which deprives the heart
and mind of all capacity for true vision, so that one is quite unable to judge
either one's own inner state or the state of one's neighbor. Such a person
judges himself and others as he imagines himself to be, and as his neighbors
appear to him outwardly, by his carnal mind, mistakenly. And so the Word of God
is extremely just in calling him a hypocrite.’
Having rejected any thought of submitting themselves to the
commands of God the All-Holy Trinity, the Westerners have made themselves
servants of their fallen passions and of the fallen angels. The actions of people dominated by such
forces will never bring forth anything helpful in the world:
‘A
Christian, after being healed by the Word of God and the Spirit of God, gains a
true view of his spiritual state and that of his neighbors. The carnal mind, by
striking his sinning neighbor with a plank, always upsets and confuses him,
often ruins him, never does any good and cannot bring any benefit, and has not
the least effect on sin. On the other hand, the spiritual mind acts exclusively
on the soul-sickness of one's neighbor, compassionates, heals, and saves him.’
On the contrary, the Western peoples constantly exaggerate little
faults and offenses into world-threatening catastrophes, which leads to
overreaction, sanctions, wars, death:
. . .
The rest may
be read here:
https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/pride-and-humility-geopolitics
Or here:
https://katehon.com/en/article/pride-and-humility-geopolitics
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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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