July 2, 2025

Caspar David Friedrich —
Wanderer above the sea of fog

Wednesday:
My views on the progress maxim – July 2, 2025

In line with the humanist axiom of the liberal paradigm, modern man expects his warfare against the natural and celestial order to yield great results in the material domain, results that can liberate him from the judgment of the moral order and the fabric of the society he exists within – indeed he expects "progress" to push against the celestial order so that he can justify his transformation into the beast. By turning society and the traditions shaped by that society inside and out in the name of liberty and individual sovereignty, modern man believes that he can enter the natural state of man, that he can become enabled to exist in opposition to the natural and the organic, by idolizing himself in the man that is governed by his reason and free to reshape nature to his benefit – for modern man this is "progress". To create more and more, to defy the moral order, and to allow for and encourage the atrophy of morals and quality so that modern man can make the world his, so that he can be remembered in history not as the transcendent being in harmony with nature, but as the victor, the victor in the beast above the celestial order and nonpareil in the history of man – the beast who conquered the universe and made himself God, the victory of idolatry. Verily, every aspect of the sacred as manifest in the material domain is being attacked and challenged, and anyone and anything that stands to uphold some part of the celestial order is being condemned and labeled reactionary, for in the modern world only the complete liberation from the human condition, the anti-Bodhicitta, the perversion of love and compassion can be allowed to stand, always in the name of "peace", "justice", and "understanding". But what is this love for man, I ask, that the liberal, the beast, believes in? The liberal man doesn't believe in love, peace, or honor; he believes only in the utter destruction of the moral boundaries of the universe so that he can justify ever more sin and ever more lust for sin and hedonism.

    The progress maxim is derived from the humanist axiom, in other words: it is a necessity for the liberal man that the human condition should always improve and that humans should with every subsequent generation become more liberated, more liberated from their material circumstances and the societal fabric that ties them to certain sacred institutions and obligations such as God and family, to the point where the body itself is considered a form of incarceration, for less and less the individual should be held responsible for his actions, which his body is the material representation of. What is man supposed to be liberated from? As I previously mentioned: his own body is the ultimate circumstance that he must be liberated from, for the material victory demands that man should be in complete control of his destiny, he should have every calculation and every potential circumstance within his reach – until then, man remains yet to be liberated and yet to be fully "enlightened"

Mahākāla (महाकाल)
Protector of the Dharma

    In the end, when man has become fully liberated, and every act, every improper mode of being, and every adverse material circumstance has been rectified by man himself, when he has proclaimed his own holy order, without the source and without the sacred, man will have truly become the beast, he will have completed the transformation into the beast of the material for the material. Progress, in the modern and political sense of that word, is really nothing but the process of leading man astray, of removing the societal anchor in the celestial order and the man therein from his purpose and his calling, to ascend the material and strive for the betterment of himself and in turn every sentient being in existence – the Bodhicitta. Of course, modern man won't stop expecting progress and the betterment of the world and of himself, but do not fear this, for this is a sign of our times, the Kali Yuga, and we are rapidly approaching the close of this era and the willing chaos of man, but before that time it will only get worse and the moral order will only further degenerate, until the forces of good, the forces of the celestial order, strikes down the idol of man, and that point far seeing men will lead humanity into the new era – the era of rebirth.

    Cast out the demons and the forces of decay and death within you, keep yourself pure and always protect yourself from the malign and contaminating influences of the modern world, for they exist to justify sin, and they will justify sin in the name of progress; this has been done to the point that the liberal concept of progress has been made into a maxim. Transcend the material and enter the plane of pure being before you descend down to the Earth at the start of the new era – allow yourself to become reborn. Strike down sin, strike down sin, keep your purity!

Reginald Drax – July 2, 2025.