June 28, 2025

Six-Armed Mahakala (महाकाल),
Likir Gompa, Ladakh

Saturday:
My views on Natural law – June 28, 2025

Certain conditions, qualities, and patterns make themselves apparent across time and cultures – they can be summed up as the Natural law or just natural laws and in their application they can be thought of as an attempt by man to put himself closer to the celestial order, often by invoking God and the source. The Natural law is therefore the closest thing to universality and in turn the source, or the transcendent, it is in other words: the attempt to describe the seemingly invariable equilibrium of the universe that is expressed as a sense of justice by human beings, and justice is surely a necessary prerequisite for any civilization and anything of the material that can be described as belonging in part to the transcendental. Natural laws are not derived merely from what can be considered egalitarian or tolerant: natural laws are derived from the highest from of objective reasoning, in the attempt to actually describe the laws and motions of the world and how they are expressed across as many dimensions as possible, in order to put the scales of the celestial order into proper balance – it is the pursuit of the source in the creation. Natural laws are universal because they have survived the test of time, they have shown themselves to express some part of the world that is objective and undeniable, thus natural laws are not subject to change or democratic discourse – they are in their transcendental inception absolute, but vary to some degree over time and cultures, often in relation to how certain aesthetic aspects should be applied.

    In the modern world however, there is no such thing as laws derived from nature, from the closest thing to the source, because laws are ever more derived from the material needs of man, or rather laws exist to justify mans apatite for materialism and his attempt to solve the human condition, and as such modern man is less and less in tune with nature – he is transforming into the beast. Verily, the modern conception and its many fantasies about human rights, derived from the humanist axiom, is not concerned with nature or staying on the righteous path, because in his beastly form, man does not correlate his actions with the motion of nature; modern man is out of tune with nature and subsequently the celestial order, as he removes himself further and further from nature and its laws. Notions of egalitarianism and democracy are indeed very far away from the natural and hierarchical order, but the revolutionary elite requires the populist horde to seek out freedom in the material domain, even though no such thing is possible, because the revolutionary elite needs to keep justifying its own existence and its own need to take away more and more power and put the world of the material domain into motion so that the parochial and earthly qualities of life, true freedom, gets ever more dispersed and removed from ordinary men – inevitably the meaning of natural laws and the source itself is changed beyond anything that can be described as aesthetic, anything that is superficial and bound by regionalism.

Martin Johnson Heade —
Orchid Blossoms

    Of course, in the world of the unbound beast, the ungodly and the sinful, there is surely no wish for the law of the land to be anchored in the source, to be natural to each man as the member of a society that is bound to the cosmic order? Surely not, and such is the case in the modern world of the Kali Yuga, quite in line with the hubris of modern man, for he has made himself God, he has committed idolatry, and rejected the need to instill order based in the celestial and the transcendental, for each man is the same and unique at the same time, he represents the fundamental unit of society, the individual unbound from the societal fabric and its long history yet he is expected to be as obedient to that society as he is to his own flesh – this is indeed the fundamental contradiction of the modern world. Thus laws have to be derived, not from the natural or the transcendent, but from the whims that suits each individual man, even though such an enterprise has shown to be quite impossible, and completely unfeasible in the pursuit of justice, for the justice of one man is seldom the justice of another, particularity in conflict. The overriding principle is that of more materialism, at the expense of all qualities necessary to life, and anything natural, organic, or objective have to bend to the will of the beast and the revolutionary elite driving the beast towards the goal of liberation, liberation from the human condition. What was once the natural and the pure, has degenerated into the unnatural, the artificial, the industrial, the massive, and the contrived, all with one goal in mind, to protect and perpetuate the machine of the modern world, the uncaring and the cold machinery of a few men's pursuit of vanity and power, in the belief that the human condition is something that is fundamentally flawed and needs correction – so that men can become better men and the world can progress ever slightly more. What is progress in a world where progress doesn't have a goal? I will not answer that question, since it is a question that I really shouldn't answer. In the meantime I continue to hold the same: embrace purity and depart the material world!

Reginald Drax – June 28, 2025.