Becoming Law & Order
/
Overture: the scene opens on a frigid mud encrusted battleground; the valley floor is strewn with the mangled dead, limbs pointing up at a pale cloudless sky; the valley is named “the 20th century” and two hills littered with the emaciated bodies of a million heroes bare mildew smothered signs reading “Church” and “State”. A sleeping hero among the bodies begins to stir.
Do you understand?
The Sleeping Hero is the katechon; from the Greek τὸ κατέχον – “that which withholds”, or ὁ κατέχων, “the one who withholds”.
2 Thessalonians 2:6-7: the appalling reign of Antichrist is conditional upon the complete absence of Law upon the earth. Antichrist is primarily “the lawless one”; he desires complete adoration from all creation as he deceives the world into worshiping the Abomination of Desolation. Whilst there is any religious or secular power resisting lawlessness, the Lawless One himself cannot manifest.
The avatar of Law holds back Judgement Day because he (it/they) stands against the chaos swallowing civilisation.
Verse 6 in the passage is the Roman Empire; verse 7 the Roman Emperor.
The rule of the Katechon is the Holy Roman Catholic Empire; the Katechon is the Roman Catholic Emperor.
The force that will restore order upon the earth is the heir to the Roman Catholic Imperium; the imperial order which will be restored is that of the Holy Roman Empire (the Western Frankish and Eastern Byzantine reunited).
The finest example of our current condition (i.e. the throne defended but technically vacant) is that of the steward Denethor in Gondor; the Catholic Monarch is the rightful king in exile, Aragorn Elessar.
JRR Tolkien’s mythical theology distilled the essence of all Indo-European heroes into one character (Aragorn) foreshadowing his imminence (see also the work of Robert Graves on this account).
The Katechon, the Monarch and the Imperium are inseparable; just as the avatar of lies (Antichrist) finds his ultimate doctrine in weaponised Communism, absolute anarchy and the Law of the Jungle, so the avatar of truth finds his ultimate doctrine in legitimised aristocracy, absolute order and the Law of Justice.
The Katechon’s primary role is holding back the bellum omium contra omnes, the state of absolute anarchic totalitarianism which manifests as “every man for himself”, the antagonist of Christian charity and fellowship.
Our role as Roman Catholic men, firstly in Eden (“go forth and multiply”) and at Calvary (“go forth and tell the good news”) is not only to act in the world as creative and productive forces but also to act against disorder. Otherwise we are just running with the flow of the tide; we were told to be light on a hill, fire in dry wood, a crash of lightning, there is no reason for our being promised that “the forces of evil will not prevail against thee” if we do not challenge those forces.
This combat is far older than the events of Golgotha reaching back to the War in Heaven between St Michael and Satan. Shadows and glimpses of that great cosmic warfare were handed down in myths and legends as a great solar hero slaying the ancient dragon of chaos; Enki, Marduk, Ra, Indra, Apollo, Zeus, Jupiter, Hercules, Beowulf, Siegfried, Lancelot, all slayed chthonic dragons in their mythologies. It could be argued that alongside the story of the defeat of chaos by the sacrificial hero (exemplified by Christ) all religions have their root in the bastardised retelling of the story of St Michael conquering Satan.
This is what Nietzsche’s dichotomy of the Apollonian versus the Dionysian was rooted upon: Order versus Chaos.
Not as the Freemasons would have it, Ordo ab chao, Order from Chaos, but divinely constructed Law and Order through the conflict with, defeat and chaining of chaos and the forces of disintegration.
Everywhere law holds back the chaos of the jungle we have the presence of God as ultimate magistrate overseeing the punishment of the wicked. St Paul reminds us that only the criminal need to fear a sovereign who punishes evil. We have a duty to oppose immoral non-Christian governments in which we live but where they are champion of law, justice, honour, nobility and the roots of Western Civilisation in Roman Catholic legalism, we must abide by their will as if it were the will of God.
Where the law restrains chaos, against terrorism as a nation, protecting the weak from harm (chivalry), or the simplest method of bringing control and order into our personal lives, we each individually act as and foreshadow katechon (in essence Christ himself).
This is the meaning of the word Christian, and the way Christ commanded us to take up our cross and follow Him.
From this vantage point, the idea of opposing a so called “world police”, in the form of NATO, US or UK military activities is preposterous; where there is just cause, when the law tolerates it and the dogma is clear cut, we support the interference of the righteous in the affairs of the wicked, no matter where they are, even if it means sacrificing our own life, prosperity and comfort.
St Padre Pio, speaking about kingship and the role of the Katechon points out that the absence of law upon the earth, and the absence of kingship (revolution) is a direct consequence of the wickedness of men:
“Without the support of the royal power of King David, which is authentic anointed kingship, the Church falls into decadence, corrupted by the power of the spirit of the serpent, which raises its proud head above the head of the Church (the Vicar of Christ). Royal power, derived from Christ the Supreme King, is a divine power which brings down serpents. Republics, on the other hand, where power is placed in the hands of people, raise up serpent spirits from the earth which harm the people of God and stop them rising up to the God of Heaven. This is the evil which reigns nowadays in Europe and elsewhere under the republics....
This royal power, which is hidden by God in this time of madness, is the same royal power given to King David, and is the only power which can successfully rule the governments of peoples. Without David's royal power, recognised and set in its proper place, the Christian religion lacks the indispensable support on which to rest the truth of the Word of God. Hence, there must not be separation of Church and State. The madness of men has been in trying to kill off royalty and the world is paying heavily for this today....
In Europe, without the true king, the eldest son of the Church, the King promised by God from amongst David's descendants... the power of God no longer resides in the hearts of heads of states and governments. Satan has been able to exercise tremendous power in the absence of the royal power of David. How great shall be the world's misery before men are able to understand this truth, a truth found only in hearts of a few hidden men, but in those hearts are all the powers of the living God....”
God requires us to put our own house in order that we may restore the world and bring about the presence of the katechon to restrain the ultimate chaos at the helm of modernity.
If we desire the restoration of Roman Catholic monarchic rule, we must embrace Roman Catholic rule in our own hearts, lives, relationships, and households, only then will Christ procure the restoration of villages, towns, cities, nations and eventually empires (toward the grandest Roman Catholic Imperium).
If the katechon is the one who chains the chaos, then go forth and chain the chaos.
