These days certainly remind me more of C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" than "Atlas Shrugged."
But I don't believe the passive Let the Angels Fix It solution which ended Lewis' book is our way out. Nor do I think the solution is all that esoteric.
It could be a little bit esoteric, in the sense of reviving High Church ceremony and meditative practices for those who crave such things. I, for one, cannot be Christian and attend modern Praise and Worship style services at the same time.
But the real spiritual practice needed to push back the demons is much more mundane: it is DOING good works and seriously attempting to live a righteous life even when your swinging neighbor is having hot tub orgies next door.
During the 20th Century western Christians have outsourced our spirituality. We have turned over most of the tasks of charity to government and organizations with large endowment funds. And merely writing a check to a charity has not the same spiritual impact as helping wayward church members get their lives back in order.
When we slack off, the Tempter -- aka the Tester -- is granted permission to create more insistent tests. Outsource the instruction of your children to the state? How about we throw out phonics and teach your kids to "read" as if text was hieroglyphs. Still outsourcing? How about we have the state schools teach self hate (if you are white)? Or how about some Drag Queen Story Hour?
Outsourcing higher education to the state and foundations? Not keeping a sharp eye on the remaining Christian schools and letting them teach Lite Christianity? Let's have those schools trash Western Civilization. Not bad enough? How about some full on mind warping, with a garnish of genocide.
Outsourcing the task of taking care of the needy sick? Have some ObamaCare or National Health Service. Not bad enough? How about sex change operations for your kids?
As the years have rolled on, I consider C.S. Lewis', "That Hideous Strength" to be a work of near-prophecy in how accurately, in the early 1940's, Mind, Lewis depicted the Postmodern world. From how the N.I.C.E. (brilliant in just *calling* it that!) controlled both sides of an argument, to how even the Elites themselves are being lied to by the powers they serve. ('Deceiving and being Deceived')
However, that the final and ultimate victory does and always has, belong to Jesus Christ, that hardly means we were ever meant to just sit back & be passive.
In another comment here, I compared Humanity fighting the forces of Chaos on our own to a 5-year-old wanting to fight a Navy Seal. I'm sorry if it hurts egos, but we are *absurdly* outclassed by the beings the Elites serve. I confronted one in 1993 & everything we are told in Scripture about the danger they pose was made viscerally clear to me on a personal level.
But whatever, that's anecdotal & nobody needs to believe me. The bottom line is that the analogy of our comparative weakness holds. So why, other than pride, is it so offensive to think we need to be saved? I highly doubt anyone who has actually been rescued by another out of a life-or-death situation was complaining about how they, 'could have done it themselves.'
Our job as believers has never been to win the War, but to Stand for what is Right and let others know there is Hope. Those situations themselves can be Battles for which there may be consequences greater than we can know & if we are blessed with Victory in them that victory may be great enough indeed. Certainly great enough for the likes of us.
As an aside, I get what you are saying. I really do. The Joy in my Border Collie's eyes as I throw her toy again and again and again and... (you get the picture. She's a BC, there's never enough 'again') is a Good worth more than all the plots, plans & schemes of the Great. The blessings we are given that we pass on to others is a light that pushes back the darkness wherever it is done.
I think that God acts through us. We are the beneficiaries of God's justice, yes; but we are also the *instruments* of His justice. This is a very old view, unpopular today, but it would be familiar to the ancient Christian theologians who saw in Constantine's unending string of battlefield victories proof that he was God's instrument for Christianizing Rome. Those ancient Christians knew that Constantine's Might showed that he had Right on his side.
"When we slack off, the Tempter -- aka the Tester -- is granted permission to create more insistent tests. "
The Tempter is GRANTED PERMISSION to get more ugly when we slack off.
We don't have to be mightier than the adversary's minions. If we do our jobs, angelic intervention will be our force multiplier.
But we aren't going to win in this life by singing a zillion Jesus Jingles and expecting things to get better. For the Dead in Christ, this life is boot camp. We are preparing to wield more power than the angels. See 1 Corinthians 5 and 6. Then review the parables in the gospels.
If singing Jesus Jingles motivates you to get through said boot camp, sing away! If contemplation while listening to Gregorian Chants or 4 part hymns with proper voice leading motivates you then do that. If you need Fourth Way will power building exercises, do those.
Do what it takes to psych yourself up to audition to be part of the KINGDOM of heaven. Then DO, even your effort seems hopeless.
You see those greenies buying free range chickens because they don't believe in cruelty to animals? They are doing the sort of thing that Christians should be doing, but Christians should be doing far more because our potential reward is so huge.
Show more faith than a lettuce clad PETA activist and you might be able to move some molehills. Maybe more.
The Enemy may be allowed to do anything he wishes, if the Ancient of Days so decrees. The entire book of Job is a Proof Text of that. Of course this doesn't mean Christians can't make themselves vulnerable, of *course* they can, but sometimes, perhaps many times, our personal actions have nothing to do with the evil that can come our way.
Putting the Immediate before the Important seems to be a common trait among professing Believers, at least the ones I have known. That Jesus referred to the Church as 'Sheep' likely included negative, as well as any positive, comparisons.
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I hesitantly offer what may be a plausible, simple explanation that even materialists can accept.
Petersen writes about an “intellectual attractor” (not using that term) where people who are struggling say, “the problem is outside of me”, and see themselves as judges fit to judge all of reality. Often this leads to a sense of duty to rebel against being itself.
I had this exprience personally, before reading him. My life was a mess. I was spending a lot of time high, and trying to understand life. At one point I found myself so obsessed with the evil and suffering in the world that I wondered, whether it would be better to just destroy it all. Fortunately for me, one fact I could never deny was that I knew my mother loved me, and I loved her. Something fierce in me said, whoever it is in here (my mind) that says by accepting the world as is, I accept all of the crimes ever - fine, I accept. I love my mother. If that makes me to blame for the holocaust, then so be it. I will shove those children into the ovens myself if it is necessary to defend the existence of the world I know against the possibility of it’s total negation.
I now believe this was Satan, aka “the adversary”, aka, the aspect of my own mind that is necessary for questioning the accuracy of my own beliefs, come to ask me, what is my relationship with the truth?
I think we can understand occult forces simply as the result of people whose fundamental attitude to the truth is, “I could do better.” This is a very easy attitude to fall into, and a hard one to get back out of.
I think morality is nothing more, and nothing less, than total love for the truth. The opposite - hatred for the truth - is much more stable of a mentality than ambivalence. Hence I think there are two fundamental psychological attractors - love of the truth, and with it respect for and admiration of being, and all that entails, or hatred of the truth, and a subsequent desire to uproot, to break, to defile.
I am sadly, more familiar than most with the personal cost of this madness. Having lost the Love of my Life to it. And I would agree- There is no hope in 'Humanity' for two main reasons- 1.) Our nature, already has an affinity for the Chaos. We are from Birth, predisposed for it. 2.) The forces OF Chaos are greater than Humanity. Stronger, Smarter, with vastly more experience, wisdom & knowledge both corporately & personally.
To say that these forces can be fought, of our own volition, under our own power, is like a 5-year-old insisting he can fight a Navy Seal. The concept is absurd on the face of it.
Our only hope is and always has been, One greater yet. The Ancient of Days, the Living God for whom Thought and Power are synonymous & whose Goodness & Holiness is so Great it can't help but strike Terror into our dark little hearts.
There was a pastor of the Old School, Henry Alford, who in a more modern parlance could be called a 'Downer' or perhaps a 'Wet Blanket' by his professing Christian peers, as he often spoke of such things. One of his best responses to those complaining of his 'negativity' I reproduce in honor-
"If it be said that this is a somewhat dark view to take of the
prospects of mankind, we may answer, FIRST, that we are not speculating
on the phenomena of the world, but we are interpreting God's word;
SECONDLY that we believe in One in whose hands all evil is working for
good, — with whom there are no accidents or failures, — who is
bringing out of all this struggle, which shall mould and measure the
history of the world, the ultimate good of man and the glorification of
His boundless love in Christ; and THIRDLY, that no prospect is dark for
those who believe in Him. For them all things are working together for
good; and in the midst of the struggle itself, they know that every
event is their gain; every apparent defeat, real success; and even the
last dread conflict [is] the herald of that victory, in which all who
have striven on God's part shall have a glorious and everlasting share".
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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Amen, Let it be so and so forth. I tried to 'like' the post but for some reason, it isn't working. :-/
On a note related to your quote, it is one of the biggest Blind Spots of the (so-called) Skeptic Community that they adhere so tightly to the Materialist-Only view. I present a rather blunt, though done in the polite English style, acknowledgement that 'Magic', in the real & ritualistic sense, is an absolute given. From a source perhaps surprising to some. Christopher Lee, while being interviewed on his films in 1975, gave a very frank acknowledgement of such things. It's a fascinating interview & I hope Mr. Lee was being honest when he said he was not a part of such things. As Holly-Wood is and has been, full to bursting of Arts Most Dark.
Nov 30, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Liked by Tree of Woe
It took a Century of Humiliation (the Opium Wars, the Taiping rebellion, the Sino-Japanese war), the Boxer Rebellion, the Warlord era (with its fragmenting of wider Chinese society), the Second Sino-Japanese war & a bloody conclusion to a civil war FOLLOWED by decades of starvation, regrouping, consolidation and tenacity for even the Chinese (who on par with the Indians are one of the oldest civilization-states on the planet) to "Come Back".
If anything, I have no doubt that likewise the descendants of the West will likewise "Come Back". But it wont be in its current form, nor will it pursue the failed ideals which have brought about this temporary victory of the Shayateen. In fact, the pathway is clear:
>> Al-Miqdam ibn al-Aswad reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No house of brick, nor fur, will remain upon the face of the earth but that Allah will cause the message of Islam to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced.”
Source: Musnad Aḥmad 23814 <<
As the birth rate falls off the cliff, baseline morality (modesty in women, chivalry in men, respect in kids) declines and a Boxer rebellion "8-nation alliance" style Humiliating Existential Invasion (likely over the Arctic), Conquest, Subjugation and Genocide of North America and Continental Europe looms and draws ever closer... the natural tendency will be to move toward the "strong horse".
When the Mongols fractured and the Tatar yoke was shattered by Muscovy and other descendants of Kievan Rus, Genghis khan's descendants (now discriminated against and slaughtered due to being "oppressors and conquerors") gladly joined the Winning Team in droves. Even though it was their forefathers who merely 50 or so years after the great Khan's conquests had murdered millions in Baghdad and sacked the city irreparably.
The West's descendants will do the same; even though their forefathers levelled Fallujah (i.e. the "City of Mosques") to the ground with depleted Uranium shells. Alex Jones (prior to his demise and inevitable meeting with The Creator) may even be those who join wholeheartedly.
If Geert Wilders's party member Joram van Klaveren (who openly strove in Dutch parliamentary sessions to ban everything Islamic) can join the Winning Team because Allah Most High softened his heart to it, Alex Jones can likewise be impacted the same way as well; it is all in Allah Most High's Hands!
The whisperings of the Shayateen and Djinn which are used by individuals and human societies since antiquity (i.e. the "Occult" if you will) are only a minor 'victory' which can never amount to anything, because the following holds True now and always:
>>That Allah guide one man through you is better for you than the entire world and whatever it contains.
Az Zuhd War Raqaiq of Imam ‘Abdullah ibn Al Mubarak, Hadith: 1375<<
So despair not!
Because only with the Total Annihilation, Subjugation, etc of the West by the Sino-Russian coalition will its descendants come to what Ibrahim ibn Adham (may Allah be pleased with him) the great ascetic and Sufi saint realized with regard to worldly suffering and poverty:
>> Ibn Asakir reported: Ibrahim ibn Adham, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “If the kings and their sons knew what we experience of spiritual pleasure and happiness, they would fight us for it with their swords.”
My father has often said “Christians need seek no central, coordinating organisation behind the evil in the world: evil IS coordinated. The seeming intelligence of corruption as it seeks out new weaknesses is true intelligence.”
The occult view of the action of corruption in this respect comports entirely with the Christian one.
It would also explain why social and political movements so often generate and turn loose on the world the exact monsters and spirits they claim to fear.
These days certainly remind me more of C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" than "Atlas Shrugged."
But I don't believe the passive Let the Angels Fix It solution which ended Lewis' book is our way out. Nor do I think the solution is all that esoteric.
It could be a little bit esoteric, in the sense of reviving High Church ceremony and meditative practices for those who crave such things. I, for one, cannot be Christian and attend modern Praise and Worship style services at the same time.
But the real spiritual practice needed to push back the demons is much more mundane: it is DOING good works and seriously attempting to live a righteous life even when your swinging neighbor is having hot tub orgies next door.
During the 20th Century western Christians have outsourced our spirituality. We have turned over most of the tasks of charity to government and organizations with large endowment funds. And merely writing a check to a charity has not the same spiritual impact as helping wayward church members get their lives back in order.
When we slack off, the Tempter -- aka the Tester -- is granted permission to create more insistent tests. Outsource the instruction of your children to the state? How about we throw out phonics and teach your kids to "read" as if text was hieroglyphs. Still outsourcing? How about we have the state schools teach self hate (if you are white)? Or how about some Drag Queen Story Hour?
Outsourcing higher education to the state and foundations? Not keeping a sharp eye on the remaining Christian schools and letting them teach Lite Christianity? Let's have those schools trash Western Civilization. Not bad enough? How about some full on mind warping, with a garnish of genocide.
Outsourcing the task of taking care of the needy sick? Have some ObamaCare or National Health Service. Not bad enough? How about sex change operations for your kids?
As the years have rolled on, I consider C.S. Lewis', "That Hideous Strength" to be a work of near-prophecy in how accurately, in the early 1940's, Mind, Lewis depicted the Postmodern world. From how the N.I.C.E. (brilliant in just *calling* it that!) controlled both sides of an argument, to how even the Elites themselves are being lied to by the powers they serve. ('Deceiving and being Deceived')
However, that the final and ultimate victory does and always has, belong to Jesus Christ, that hardly means we were ever meant to just sit back & be passive.
In another comment here, I compared Humanity fighting the forces of Chaos on our own to a 5-year-old wanting to fight a Navy Seal. I'm sorry if it hurts egos, but we are *absurdly* outclassed by the beings the Elites serve. I confronted one in 1993 & everything we are told in Scripture about the danger they pose was made viscerally clear to me on a personal level.
But whatever, that's anecdotal & nobody needs to believe me. The bottom line is that the analogy of our comparative weakness holds. So why, other than pride, is it so offensive to think we need to be saved? I highly doubt anyone who has actually been rescued by another out of a life-or-death situation was complaining about how they, 'could have done it themselves.'
Our job as believers has never been to win the War, but to Stand for what is Right and let others know there is Hope. Those situations themselves can be Battles for which there may be consequences greater than we can know & if we are blessed with Victory in them that victory may be great enough indeed. Certainly great enough for the likes of us.
As an aside, I get what you are saying. I really do. The Joy in my Border Collie's eyes as I throw her toy again and again and again and... (you get the picture. She's a BC, there's never enough 'again') is a Good worth more than all the plots, plans & schemes of the Great. The blessings we are given that we pass on to others is a light that pushes back the darkness wherever it is done.
I think that God acts through us. We are the beneficiaries of God's justice, yes; but we are also the *instruments* of His justice. This is a very old view, unpopular today, but it would be familiar to the ancient Christian theologians who saw in Constantine's unending string of battlefield victories proof that he was God's instrument for Christianizing Rome. Those ancient Christians knew that Constantine's Might showed that he had Right on his side.
Hey now, remember who you're talking to. ^_ ~ I know for an objective fact that God works through us, and at times DIRECTLY, not just passively.
Note this sentence:
"When we slack off, the Tempter -- aka the Tester -- is granted permission to create more insistent tests. "
The Tempter is GRANTED PERMISSION to get more ugly when we slack off.
We don't have to be mightier than the adversary's minions. If we do our jobs, angelic intervention will be our force multiplier.
But we aren't going to win in this life by singing a zillion Jesus Jingles and expecting things to get better. For the Dead in Christ, this life is boot camp. We are preparing to wield more power than the angels. See 1 Corinthians 5 and 6. Then review the parables in the gospels.
If singing Jesus Jingles motivates you to get through said boot camp, sing away! If contemplation while listening to Gregorian Chants or 4 part hymns with proper voice leading motivates you then do that. If you need Fourth Way will power building exercises, do those.
Do what it takes to psych yourself up to audition to be part of the KINGDOM of heaven. Then DO, even your effort seems hopeless.
You see those greenies buying free range chickens because they don't believe in cruelty to animals? They are doing the sort of thing that Christians should be doing, but Christians should be doing far more because our potential reward is so huge.
Show more faith than a lettuce clad PETA activist and you might be able to move some molehills. Maybe more.
The Enemy may be allowed to do anything he wishes, if the Ancient of Days so decrees. The entire book of Job is a Proof Text of that. Of course this doesn't mean Christians can't make themselves vulnerable, of *course* they can, but sometimes, perhaps many times, our personal actions have nothing to do with the evil that can come our way.
Putting the Immediate before the Important seems to be a common trait among professing Believers, at least the ones I have known. That Jesus referred to the Church as 'Sheep' likely included negative, as well as any positive, comparisons.
I hesitantly offer what may be a plausible, simple explanation that even materialists can accept.
Petersen writes about an “intellectual attractor” (not using that term) where people who are struggling say, “the problem is outside of me”, and see themselves as judges fit to judge all of reality. Often this leads to a sense of duty to rebel against being itself.
I had this exprience personally, before reading him. My life was a mess. I was spending a lot of time high, and trying to understand life. At one point I found myself so obsessed with the evil and suffering in the world that I wondered, whether it would be better to just destroy it all. Fortunately for me, one fact I could never deny was that I knew my mother loved me, and I loved her. Something fierce in me said, whoever it is in here (my mind) that says by accepting the world as is, I accept all of the crimes ever - fine, I accept. I love my mother. If that makes me to blame for the holocaust, then so be it. I will shove those children into the ovens myself if it is necessary to defend the existence of the world I know against the possibility of it’s total negation.
I now believe this was Satan, aka “the adversary”, aka, the aspect of my own mind that is necessary for questioning the accuracy of my own beliefs, come to ask me, what is my relationship with the truth?
I think we can understand occult forces simply as the result of people whose fundamental attitude to the truth is, “I could do better.” This is a very easy attitude to fall into, and a hard one to get back out of.
I think morality is nothing more, and nothing less, than total love for the truth. The opposite - hatred for the truth - is much more stable of a mentality than ambivalence. Hence I think there are two fundamental psychological attractors - love of the truth, and with it respect for and admiration of being, and all that entails, or hatred of the truth, and a subsequent desire to uproot, to break, to defile.
I am sadly, more familiar than most with the personal cost of this madness. Having lost the Love of my Life to it. And I would agree- There is no hope in 'Humanity' for two main reasons- 1.) Our nature, already has an affinity for the Chaos. We are from Birth, predisposed for it. 2.) The forces OF Chaos are greater than Humanity. Stronger, Smarter, with vastly more experience, wisdom & knowledge both corporately & personally.
To say that these forces can be fought, of our own volition, under our own power, is like a 5-year-old insisting he can fight a Navy Seal. The concept is absurd on the face of it.
Our only hope is and always has been, One greater yet. The Ancient of Days, the Living God for whom Thought and Power are synonymous & whose Goodness & Holiness is so Great it can't help but strike Terror into our dark little hearts.
There was a pastor of the Old School, Henry Alford, who in a more modern parlance could be called a 'Downer' or perhaps a 'Wet Blanket' by his professing Christian peers, as he often spoke of such things. One of his best responses to those complaining of his 'negativity' I reproduce in honor-
"If it be said that this is a somewhat dark view to take of the
prospects of mankind, we may answer, FIRST, that we are not speculating
on the phenomena of the world, but we are interpreting God's word;
SECONDLY that we believe in One in whose hands all evil is working for
good, — with whom there are no accidents or failures, — who is
bringing out of all this struggle, which shall mould and measure the
history of the world, the ultimate good of man and the glorification of
His boundless love in Christ; and THIRDLY, that no prospect is dark for
those who believe in Him. For them all things are working together for
good; and in the midst of the struggle itself, they know that every
event is their gain; every apparent defeat, real success; and even the
last dread conflict [is] the herald of that victory, in which all who
have striven on God's part shall have a glorious and everlasting share".
— Henry Alford
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Amen, Let it be so and so forth. I tried to 'like' the post but for some reason, it isn't working. :-/
On a note related to your quote, it is one of the biggest Blind Spots of the (so-called) Skeptic Community that they adhere so tightly to the Materialist-Only view. I present a rather blunt, though done in the polite English style, acknowledgement that 'Magic', in the real & ritualistic sense, is an absolute given. From a source perhaps surprising to some. Christopher Lee, while being interviewed on his films in 1975, gave a very frank acknowledgement of such things. It's a fascinating interview & I hope Mr. Lee was being honest when he said he was not a part of such things. As Holly-Wood is and has been, full to bursting of Arts Most Dark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqKWAOl2nAw
It took a Century of Humiliation (the Opium Wars, the Taiping rebellion, the Sino-Japanese war), the Boxer Rebellion, the Warlord era (with its fragmenting of wider Chinese society), the Second Sino-Japanese war & a bloody conclusion to a civil war FOLLOWED by decades of starvation, regrouping, consolidation and tenacity for even the Chinese (who on par with the Indians are one of the oldest civilization-states on the planet) to "Come Back".
If anything, I have no doubt that likewise the descendants of the West will likewise "Come Back". But it wont be in its current form, nor will it pursue the failed ideals which have brought about this temporary victory of the Shayateen. In fact, the pathway is clear:
>> Al-Miqdam ibn al-Aswad reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No house of brick, nor fur, will remain upon the face of the earth but that Allah will cause the message of Islam to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced.”
Source: Musnad Aḥmad 23814 <<
As the birth rate falls off the cliff, baseline morality (modesty in women, chivalry in men, respect in kids) declines and a Boxer rebellion "8-nation alliance" style Humiliating Existential Invasion (likely over the Arctic), Conquest, Subjugation and Genocide of North America and Continental Europe looms and draws ever closer... the natural tendency will be to move toward the "strong horse".
When the Mongols fractured and the Tatar yoke was shattered by Muscovy and other descendants of Kievan Rus, Genghis khan's descendants (now discriminated against and slaughtered due to being "oppressors and conquerors") gladly joined the Winning Team in droves. Even though it was their forefathers who merely 50 or so years after the great Khan's conquests had murdered millions in Baghdad and sacked the city irreparably.
The West's descendants will do the same; even though their forefathers levelled Fallujah (i.e. the "City of Mosques") to the ground with depleted Uranium shells. Alex Jones (prior to his demise and inevitable meeting with The Creator) may even be those who join wholeheartedly.
If Geert Wilders's party member Joram van Klaveren (who openly strove in Dutch parliamentary sessions to ban everything Islamic) can join the Winning Team because Allah Most High softened his heart to it, Alex Jones can likewise be impacted the same way as well; it is all in Allah Most High's Hands!
The whisperings of the Shayateen and Djinn which are used by individuals and human societies since antiquity (i.e. the "Occult" if you will) are only a minor 'victory' which can never amount to anything, because the following holds True now and always:
>>That Allah guide one man through you is better for you than the entire world and whatever it contains.
Az Zuhd War Raqaiq of Imam ‘Abdullah ibn Al Mubarak, Hadith: 1375<<
So despair not!
Because only with the Total Annihilation, Subjugation, etc of the West by the Sino-Russian coalition will its descendants come to what Ibrahim ibn Adham (may Allah be pleased with him) the great ascetic and Sufi saint realized with regard to worldly suffering and poverty:
>> Ibn Asakir reported: Ibrahim ibn Adham, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “If the kings and their sons knew what we experience of spiritual pleasure and happiness, they would fight us for it with their swords.”
Source: Tārīkh Dimashq 4475 <<
My father has often said “Christians need seek no central, coordinating organisation behind the evil in the world: evil IS coordinated. The seeming intelligence of corruption as it seeks out new weaknesses is true intelligence.”
The occult view of the action of corruption in this respect comports entirely with the Christian one.
It would also explain why social and political movements so often generate and turn loose on the world the exact monsters and spirits they claim to fear.