No Sith Lords, No Jedi Knights

There is no intent to be elitist here.

The nature of what we pursue winnows out most of humanity before we get started. Most of us — most of you who take my blather seriously — can look back over our lives and realize that we were searching virtually from the start of our awareness. If we were at all aware of where the mainstream stood, something inside of us revolted and said there had to be another way. And somehow we became aware of that inner resistance and began searching. Among those actively searching, a few have found an affinity to what I have managed to put into words here.

It’s humbling; it makes me weepy-eyed to think I’ve been able to serve you. The sense of privilege and good fortune is off the scale. I’ve talked about what I believe were the primary symptoms of searching and finding God’s truth, and it includes the crushing sense of humility as a mighty gift from His hand. Surely you see the paradox of having to claim verbally to all the world that God has given us that gift. It requires that we invest some effort showing how it works in us. It’s the difference between proclaiming you are humble versus acting with humility. It’s not native to our social mythology, but nonetheless recognizable.

Mythology is fundamentally the broad feel about reality that characterizes a culture or civilization. It was never a question of whether the myths were an accurate record of history, but the need for a narrative that establishes how it feels to be alive. Much of my blather here aims at deconstructing and dismissing the mythology of Western Civilization. We struggle to build a new mythology from the ancient ruins of what stood in the Bible. I can’t estimate how conscious ancient men were in shaping the mythology of their times, but it seems we can’t get far without it now.

The West has simply swallowed the dour, sour Nordic gloominess without even recognizing it. This background eliminates the underlying flavor of so very much of what is in the Bible. About the only way you can be happy in the West is to be drunk or otherwise insulated from the gloom. Meanwhile, that underlying gloom never goes away. I cannot for the life of me see how the Ancient Near East could have ever developed the horror genre of fiction. But because Westerners read their gloomy outlook back into the Hebrew Scriptures, you’ll see various claims about Sheol and the grave that simply aren’t supported in ancient literature of neighboring cultures. The Bible uses those terms contextually, which is something Westerners simply cannot grasp, at least not on the scale of variability natural to the Ancient Hebrew mind.

I’m touching on all of this to offer an antidote. If you have been following recent blog posts at all, you might have caught onto the humming, thrumming, joy of living that one finds in communion with the Spirit Realm. That such divine music can be discerned in nature is a natural result of recognizing that God is our Creator and Lord, and has said that His character was injected into the DNA of all things that exist. It’s not just a figure of speech in the Bible to suggest that all of nature is alive in its own right. Whatever it is that cathexis is faking, the real thing does exist — you can connect to the universe in full joyful communion without losing your identity. You will surely shed some moral injustice, but whatever it is that God knows about you that makes you unique does not atomize and dissipate in communion with His divine work. We don’t lose our selves; we simply shed the damage and find our real selves.

I seek to act on behalf of my Father’s glory. When I wander in the woods, whatever is out there cannot upset His plans for me. That I might not like some elements of those plans is merely a reflection of how much farther I have to go to be morally just. When I learn to like what God likes, I am living in that alternative universe that He designed us for.

So I don’t fear the shit that you can read in the likes of the Left Behind series. That’s not from Scripture, but a reflection of that Nordic false mythology injected into biblical words. Because of my alternative grasp of reality, I seriously doubt there is any human agency that fully understands that communion without being captivated by it. While Satan and the demons do understand it, they are not able to transfer the full weight of their perversion into human souls without killing them. So there are no human-demon hybrids on par with Christ, the Son of God. They cannot be.

Rather, what you and I can expect from the future of human maneuvering excludes the idea of Sith Lords or what have you. People cannot become acquainted with the fullness of such power without surrendering to Christ. We have no shortage of folks convinced that they have such power against the Kingdom of Heaven, but it ain’t happening. So you should expect their plans to fail in the long run, because they lack the fullness of moral wisdom woven into reality. The only reason they’ve gotten this far is that God has use for them.

A genuine global government is unlikely. We might get some agency claiming such power, but it will be inherently false. In fact, things are pretty fragile at lower levels. Thus, about the time some movement is made to take over the existing US (however you interpret that), a number of states will simply revolt. Maybe it will be a piecemeal rejection of federal laws (already happening) that simply metastasizes or there could be one or more clear and formal departures. Either way, this thing isn’t going to be that simple. That there will be much mayhem, destruction and death is taken for granted. War is the number one growth industry in our world, but we won’t have any single human agency running all of the wars at the same time.

What we will have is an implacable lust for power and wealth reaching for all it can get until the system on which it relies comes apart. There is no way any alliance based on such lusts can remain united and stable against all opposition. There are too many unreliable humans involved. So at some point the current system will break down, and the only question is the what kind of entertainment it will be. Personally, I tend to think it will come as a mixture of big chunks and a thousand fractures on the side.

By the same token, we are not Jedi Knights, either. There is nothing belonging to this world that is worth saving. Whatever power God grants us, it won’t be much use in activism of any kind. The greater your spiritual depth, the less interest you have in such things. Once again: Our divine mission is not to get involved in any of the fights willfully, but to find where God leads us so that we can exploit it all for His glory.