Antiochus Epiphanes
10-07-2004, 01:55 PM
Napoleon: Lawgiver and saviour of France, Villain, or Merely Victor?
Saviour of France: The French Revolution was a disaster. The excesses of the aristocracy were given a cure ten times worse than the disease. The "EGALITARIANISM" of the creed "liberte, egalite, and fraternite" haunts us to this day and brings all Europeans dwon to the social and political level of savages. In the days of the Terror, murder of the State of the best White French ran amuck. Ridiculous social schemes were debated while Madame La Guillotine drank her fill. Masonic intrigue and Jewish subversion and exploitation and the perverted mind of Sade all ran into the same filthy culture destroying current. Night reigned. I believed this for years, and thought of Napoleon as one who extended this chaos to other parts of Europe. To some extent, that is true.
But later I began to see him as Lawgiver. Into this vacuum, this chaos of the Terror, came the tyrant like one restoring order to Athenian chaos of old. And, like Pisistratus or Draco, Napoleon is remembered in France and everywhere around the non-Anglo-Saxon world, as LAWGIVER who took Justinian's Code and revitalized it and spread it worldwide.
Then I visited his grave. At L'hotel Des Invalides, I walked slowly around the large red marble cendrier containing his ashes. I looked on the friezes on the wall, and began to understand how profoundly chaotic France had become, and how the strong hand of Napoleon saved the nation from self-immolation. So I began to see Napoleon, that day, in a more balanced light.
Now consider Napoleon as merely White warlord: he took the supple clay of France and in a few short years, almost restored the European Imperium, but an Imperium wholly secular and egalitarian, as opposed to the sacred and hierarchic Imperium of Rome and its Successor the Holy Roman Empire of Carolus Magnus. Appropriate to his origins and bold nature, he crowned himself emperor, rather than being crowned, and in turn his crown was snatched away. The end of Napoleon marked a short but strong suppression of Jewish and rationalistic Enlightenment social subversion that burst from its seems in 1917.
Oddly then, the next great Warlord to raise his head, was one who like Napoleon was a Thermidorian restorer of Order, and a Lawgiver, and a military genius, and a governmental centralizer, but one who instead of using the perilous forces of modernity to advance the antithesis of Traditional order, used them to try and transcend our current contradictions and take us across the abyss.
You know who that was: both the lightening and the sun.......
Saviour of France: The French Revolution was a disaster. The excesses of the aristocracy were given a cure ten times worse than the disease. The "EGALITARIANISM" of the creed "liberte, egalite, and fraternite" haunts us to this day and brings all Europeans dwon to the social and political level of savages. In the days of the Terror, murder of the State of the best White French ran amuck. Ridiculous social schemes were debated while Madame La Guillotine drank her fill. Masonic intrigue and Jewish subversion and exploitation and the perverted mind of Sade all ran into the same filthy culture destroying current. Night reigned. I believed this for years, and thought of Napoleon as one who extended this chaos to other parts of Europe. To some extent, that is true.
But later I began to see him as Lawgiver. Into this vacuum, this chaos of the Terror, came the tyrant like one restoring order to Athenian chaos of old. And, like Pisistratus or Draco, Napoleon is remembered in France and everywhere around the non-Anglo-Saxon world, as LAWGIVER who took Justinian's Code and revitalized it and spread it worldwide.
Then I visited his grave. At L'hotel Des Invalides, I walked slowly around the large red marble cendrier containing his ashes. I looked on the friezes on the wall, and began to understand how profoundly chaotic France had become, and how the strong hand of Napoleon saved the nation from self-immolation. So I began to see Napoleon, that day, in a more balanced light.
Now consider Napoleon as merely White warlord: he took the supple clay of France and in a few short years, almost restored the European Imperium, but an Imperium wholly secular and egalitarian, as opposed to the sacred and hierarchic Imperium of Rome and its Successor the Holy Roman Empire of Carolus Magnus. Appropriate to his origins and bold nature, he crowned himself emperor, rather than being crowned, and in turn his crown was snatched away. The end of Napoleon marked a short but strong suppression of Jewish and rationalistic Enlightenment social subversion that burst from its seems in 1917.
Oddly then, the next great Warlord to raise his head, was one who like Napoleon was a Thermidorian restorer of Order, and a Lawgiver, and a military genius, and a governmental centralizer, but one who instead of using the perilous forces of modernity to advance the antithesis of Traditional order, used them to try and transcend our current contradictions and take us across the abyss.
You know who that was: both the lightening and the sun.......