Yet even this nihilistic dream is of early date.
In the period when Clootz and Grégoire were presenting their utopias...
the Marquis de Sade [1740-1814], secretary of the notorious Jacobin section of the Pikes, revealed the true objective of the Revolution in his pamphlet entitled Frenchman, greater effort is needed if you wish to be Republicans, in which he celebrated the apotheosis of evil and the dissolution of all moral standards,
Before de Sade...
the theoretician of the metaphysics of dissolution was Dom Léger-Marie Deschamps [1716-1774], an atheist Benedictine monk, who secretly influenced Diderot and the French Encyclopaedists.
His manuscripts were discovered almost a century after his death, and first published in Bolshevik Russia in 1930. The Russian scholar Igor Safarevic and the Polish academic Bronislaw Baczko emphasise the significance of these writings, which deify [vergoddelijken] evil.
Deschamps proclaimed a general equality in which everything coincides with nothingness: “All beings flow out and into one another and all persons are merely different aspects of a single universal race.” Pantheism coincides with nihilism, because everything is nothing and everything must make itself nothing. Nothingness is the only rigorous antithesis of being. Anticosmism, which is the negation and annihilation of every reality, is manifested in the dissolution of every ethic, every right, every society, every family, every propriety.
If we apply to our own times a celebrated page written by Mons. Jean-Jacques Gaume [1802-1879], we can say: “If, stripping the mask from Revolution, you will ask: Who are you? I will tell you: I am not what people believe. Many speak of me and very few know me. I am neither the financial oligarchies, nor American globalism, nor the Russian Moloch, nor the Chinese Dragon. I am not the Islamic migrants who invade Europe to conquer it, nor the sodomites who demonstrate against the family in order to destroy it. I am neither Marco Pannella nor Emma Bonino. I am neither Obama nor Soros. These people are my children, they are not me. These things are my works, they are not me. These men and these things are short-lived and I am a permanent state.
I am hatred for every religious and social order which man has not established and in which he is not king and God together. I am the proclamation of human rights against the rights of God. I am the philosophy of rebellion, the politics of rebellion, the religion of rebellion: I am the armed negation (nihil armatum); I am the foundation of the religious and social state underlying the will of man instead of the will of God! In a word, I am anarchy, because I am God dethroned and man instead of Him. This is why I call myself Revolution, that is overthrow.”
Nihil armatum: this definition captures the essence of the Revolution, which is not nothingness, because if it were nothingness, it would not exist. But it is an organised march, an armed march towards nothingness, guided by the dark power spoken of so frequently...
in the letters of St Paul [Eph. 6:12; Col. 1:13; Lk. 22:53].
the theoretician of the metaphysics of dissolution was Dom Léger-Marie Deschamps [1716-1774], an atheist Benedictine monk, who secretly influenced Diderot and the French Encyclopaedists.
His manuscripts were discovered almost a century after his death, and first published in Bolshevik Russia in 1930. The Russian scholar Igor Safarevic and the Polish academic Bronislaw Baczko emphasise the significance of these writings, which deify [vergoddelijken] evil.
Deschamps proclaimed a general equality in which everything coincides with nothingness: “All beings flow out and into one another and all persons are merely different aspects of a single universal race.” Pantheism coincides with nihilism, because everything is nothing and everything must make itself nothing. Nothingness is the only rigorous antithesis of being. Anticosmism, which is the negation and annihilation of every reality, is manifested in the dissolution of every ethic, every right, every society, every family, every propriety.
If we apply to our own times a celebrated page written by Mons. Jean-Jacques Gaume [1802-1879], we can say: “If, stripping the mask from Revolution, you will ask: Who are you? I will tell you: I am not what people believe. Many speak of me and very few know me. I am neither the financial oligarchies, nor American globalism, nor the Russian Moloch, nor the Chinese Dragon. I am not the Islamic migrants who invade Europe to conquer it, nor the sodomites who demonstrate against the family in order to destroy it. I am neither Marco Pannella nor Emma Bonino. I am neither Obama nor Soros. These people are my children, they are not me. These things are my works, they are not me. These men and these things are short-lived and I am a permanent state.
I am hatred for every religious and social order which man has not established and in which he is not king and God together. I am the proclamation of human rights against the rights of God. I am the philosophy of rebellion, the politics of rebellion, the religion of rebellion: I am the armed negation (nihil armatum); I am the foundation of the religious and social state underlying the will of man instead of the will of God! In a word, I am anarchy, because I am God dethroned and man instead of Him. This is why I call myself Revolution, that is overthrow.”
Nihil armatum: this definition captures the essence of the Revolution, which is not nothingness, because if it were nothingness, it would not exist. But it is an organised march, an armed march towards nothingness, guided by the dark power spoken of so frequently...
in the letters of St Paul [Eph. 6:12; Col. 1:13; Lk. 22:53].
~bron~
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