July 13, 2025

Hindu depiction (Udaipur, India)
of Lord Krishna (कृष्ण)

Sunday:
My views on determinism – July 13, 2025

The human condition is shaped and bound by natural laws, and these natural laws exist outside human reach, for they are in other words: not subject to change; the human condition is anchored in the celestial order and laws exist for the purpose of putting the scales of the moral order into proper balance. Verily, the fate of man may prompt many people to adopt a deterministic view of the world: for after all is it not the case that man is subject to providence? It is surely the case that man is subject to providence, but this also should not imply that there is no room for man to improve himself in the material domain, for providence works in more than one way: it is the case that improvement and betterment of man is just as providential as the adverse material circumstances man found himself in prior to achieving self-betterment, and it is also not quite possible in any moment to know where the winds of providence should flow and this should prompt any far seeing man to adopt the deterministic view, for it is not compassionate to expect a bird without feathers to fly, even though the revolutionary elite has decreed that the hen can fly in the name of egalitarianism. It is also the case for many individuals that their material circumstances should become more adverse as a function of time, for these men have not attained self-betterment; often they have fallen into sin and lust in the form of addiction and other immoral lifestyles. Determinism serves the purpose of instilling within every man the celestial order, for the deterministic outlook is the outlook of true compassion based on the objective and factual particles that can be said to constitute every individual man; to look on men with determined manliness is to look on them with decent respect and love for their place within the creation, it is to recognize their individual contribution to the societal organism.

    The deterministic outlook however, is not to proclaim every mans individual contribution as essentially equal and fundamentally in the same shape and of the same sacred qualities, for that would be an abominable lie and an attempt to manipulate the forces of the universe, which the humanist axiom actively calls for. Verily, in the modern world man has proclaimed his own righteousness in the name of tearing down barriers and promoting economic growth, but this has not teared down the sacred and the fundamentally transcendent within the creation; instead modern man has covered the essential and the profound insight with a veil; he has hidden the truth from himself and his prodigy, for he believes himself to stand above the orderly and the natural – he claims to be the nonpareil being outside the natural laws. In the end, there is no escape from providence and man can continue to rearrange the material in newer and ever less useful ways, but this will not affect his fate, as the man who turned his back to the sacred and embrace the beast, for modern man wants to appear as the nobleman yet he wants to act as the beast, this is the fundamental contradiction at the center of the imperial core. Modern men claim to be acting for the benefit of the all, yet they demand evermore personal rights to impose themselves onto the world, as seen in socialism.

Krishna (कृष्ण) dances in the
Raslila (रासलीला) with the Gopis (गोपी)

    Determinism is not a natural law, instead it is the description of the Universe, it is the conservative outlook, and it is the compassionate view of man among other men, for it is essentially the antithesis to the willing chaos of the modern world, the reign of quantities. All men are not equal in quality for they are not shaped by the same forces under the same circumstances, but all men are essentially equal in their creation; men are unequal in their constitution, but equal in their creation, for every sentient being in existence share the same fundamentally transcendent quality, but to expect beings of different constitution to appear the same and perform the same in the material domain is the very opposite of compassion – it is the hubris of modern man. Verily, the Kali Yuga makes itself known in the form of supposedly "good" intentions, but the revolutionary elite does not have good intentions in mind; the have been acting out of malice at every step for they are trying to superimpose themselves on top of the celestial order, even if their original sin was the sincere belief in the material betterment of man. You will be treated as the enemy for questioning the material order, but do not fear; the world is quickly approaching the light after the close of the Kali Yuga for the light will once again cover the entirety of the Earth and the beast will be vomited out by the land.

    Few men long for the salvation but most men are not evil for they are acting not out of malice, they are acting out of confusion and misguidance in a world that is falling apart all around them. Do not become like these men, the beast, become the nobleman and transcend the material – embrace purity and always apply the proper discipline expected of you as the being above the material for the noble and the sacred is better than the beast.

Reginald Drax – July 13, 2025.