Hierarchy

Saptarishi (सप्तर्षि), Seven Sages,
according to Hindu (ॐ) mythology

Hierarchy |
Thursday – March 5, 2026

Hierarchies express the most outwardly (exoteric) qualifications, that is to say the discernible and continuous differentials between substances as they manifest in the material world, and as such hierarchies are to be found everywhere in the material world; really hierarchies are the raison d'être for discrimination and segregation, the basis for meaning and the defining descriptor of substance as substance descend from the higher principle—the primordial body of pure potential, pure essence. Verily, hierarchies make sense of the world and enable meaning to promote the basis for sanity. Hierarchies order the world in accordance with nature and the law of the cosmos; without law and order there can be no structure of meaning and no distinction between what essences enables and what essences destroys—really without hierarchy there can be no complementary forces and no principles from which everything in existence descends, really nothing but an empty and homogeneous space that is as much a void as it is everything cramped into a point approaching the limit of discernible measurement. Without distinctiveness, there can be no feature and no substance and no structure to reality, and everything that descends from this point can only be insanity, a nonsense creature, a cosmic soup really, and then the mind is insane. Truly, the most accurate meaning of mental illness is the inability to sense the structures of meaning, to sense reality itself and to operate within every domain with a clear orientation, that orientation always being somewhat sensitive to the distinctiveness inherent in each substance, and with greater and greater skillfulness that sense of distinction, that ability to discern, grows more accurate – this is the meaning of knowledge in the truest sense. Yes, to know is to be qualified and each substance is qualified perfectly within its default domain, that is to say: each substance knows its own limits and cannot reach beyond this limit, and this limitation inherent in substance may not be altered or manipulated. This means that the means of reaching higher knowledge, superior knowledge, is different for each substance, and here I refer particularly to humanity, for the stone and all other inanimate objects in existence have already attained the height of essence – the stone is perfectly and truly qualified stone. This is of course, true for each individual as well, and this is why the notion, the humanist assertion, of equality (egalitarianism) must be understood as something quite impossible, for egalitarianism violates this previously asserted "identity of indiscernibles", the very foundation of existence itself; egalitarianism can therefore never manifest in existence, as it is situated outside of reality at, what scholars describe, as the lowest level of the substantive pole of existence, the diametrical opposition of pure essence, the essential pole of existence. The notion of equality renders each substance one substance, permeating homogeneity across all of existence. Hierarchies are natural and they describe certain qualities that can be understood in the corporeal sense, or the immediate sense, and really from this point of view it's clear that hierarchies are the closest form in which quality manifests to the moderns, and this is why it makes sense that the moderns crusade against nature so insistently aims to destroy hierarchy and really all qualification, rendering each substance identical. What sets one stone apart from the other? Quality, essence, the principles form which substance descends—the principle of the container, of the shape, and of form. Indeed, nothing of quality, nothing that descends from essence is formless, and this is why hierarchies appear all around us. Really, it would be false to assume that chaos is anything but that which cannot be described, that which cannot be sensed and therefore not understood, that which has no place in the natural order of things; indeed, substance without essence has no place, has no discernible feature, no shape, no form, no existence – chaos is antithetical to being.

    In most traditional societies it was understood that qualification was necessarily ordered and therefore hierarchical, and this ordered and sane knowledge is the basis for the caste system in India and was the basis for similar systems in Medieval Europe, a knowledge that has been completely lost. The Brahmin (ब्राह्मण) is qualified to attain the highest level of knowledge, but qualification does not beget destiny, and many Brahmins may never attain the highest level of knowledge. This hierarchical, which really means ordered or sane, organization of society is something that occurs naturally, in other words hierarchies follow a natural flow, and this is truly the case for all traditional societies as well as the definition feature, and this defining feature is, as stated above, completely lost in the Western or modern world. It should be pointed out that the word "order" describes the nature of hierarchy better, especially for a Western audience, for whom the word hierarchy is associated with "oppression"; and indeed for men who only seek liberation from every conceivable inconvenience order appears quite naturally as "oppression" and even "injustice", but really this "injustice" is a modern confusion, an inability to know, and really an inability to orient the world, which is why the Western world appears to be insane, and truly this is why mental illness is so common in the Western world and indeed so common that people even embrace the notion of being affected by disabilities, especially mental disabilities. But all of these modern confusions and deviations have one thing in common, they reject hierarchy, order, and meaning, and now the point of completely denying substance itself has been reached; this monstrosity of hypermodernity is a sign of our times – the Kali Yuga.

    Of course, to a certain extend most moderns agree that there is such a thing as distinction and qualification, but the modern insistence of denying suprahuman truths, the metaphysical order of things, renders this notion of "quality" merely superficial or subjective, and really qualification only serves one end – the perpetuation of the material order: that is to say, qualification, as the moderns conceive of it, serves quantitative means; in the modern conception of reality quantity precedes quality, and whatever qualification distinguishes one individual from another can easily and mechanically become imposed on the other individual, through industry and modern education, and in the end everything consist of the same, always malleable, substance – quality is merely substance distinguished in the service of materialism. Therefore, modernity constitutes the negation of knowledge, meaning, and of hierarchies, and the continual division and multiplication of substance, quantification, into homogeneity will lead to, what the moderns describe as, the final liberation from the human condition, the last frontier – the victory of artificiality over quality. Of course, this point will never be reached as it is impossible to do so, and this is why the balancing of the scales of the celestial order will destroy the deviation and with it the disorder of modernity at the close of the Kali Yuga.

Reginald Drax – March 5, 2026.