{"id":522,"date":"2013-11-25T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2013\/11\/25\/liberty-and-christocracy\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:56:45","slug":"liberty-and-christocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/liberty-and-christocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"LIBERTY AND CHRISTOCRACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-521\" src=\"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/noah_benadam.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"522\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Globalisation is an irreversible trend of the present-day world. It has created a \u2018global village\u2019, increasing cultural exchange by means of technology development, particularly in transport and communication. However, this development cannot sidestep the fact that globalisation, because of its liberal character, is unable to address the current key challenge of sustainable development: the conciliation of economic growth with social justice and the protection of environment against pollution. Having begotten worldwide economic and social disparities and rampant financial crisis depressions, and facing powerless the apocalyptic plight of global warming, the phenomenon is the main cause of the rise of the global anti-systemic currents, such as the broadening anti-globalisation civil society movement and the staggering Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The disorientation of this normal course of globalisation lies in its deviated liberal kind, which has propagated the false notion of liberty as absolute freedom. The author in these lines adjusts the course of this decisive phenomenon by bringing humanity back into her natural position\u2014that of the bound liberty\u2014on the grounds of Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity. The notion of bound liberty is expressed in general relativity through the latter\u2019s three principles: (1) spacetime is curved; (2) spacetime curvature is creature by stress-energy within the spacetime; and (3) inertial motion is geodesic motion. These principles of the system of physical universe are transposed into the proper, corresponding system of political community\u2014coined <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Christocracy <\/em>by the lecturer in his 1996 dissertation for an honours degree in philosophy, at ISPL-Cardinal Malula University, Kinshasa, DRC\u2014sweeping aside the inappropriate political systems of liberal democracy and socialist democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The Christocratic society, like spacetime, is curved, and each person moves freely within her orbit (curvature). This can be realised if is upheld as truest in social sciences the following perspective: the Christocratic worldview, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Pleromism<\/em>. According to the latter, Christ Jesus, the revealed Logos of God and the systemic core principle, is the stress-energy that creates society curvatures for individuals to move in around him. Thus the citizen of the Christocratic state has an inertial motion, i.e. an inalienable unique identity, which is made of his innate and acquired potential and a passion driving him to its fulfilment. Yet his inertial motion is geodesic: the trajectory towards his fulfilment, instead of being straight, well paved as a highway for motorists, is rough, beset with curvatures, in conformity with law of self-sacrifice symbolised by the cross of Calvary. Therefore, into the Christocratic world, and thanks to the law of love-energy, globalisation attains its genuine achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-ZA\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">1.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt \"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-ZA\">INTRODUCTION<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">To paraphrase Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, mankind has entered the final phase of compression on earth since the last century, being conditioned by the spherical dimension of our planet and of the universe in general. Thus the tide of totalisation (or globalisation) had begun, even though many liberals are burying their heads in the sand, like an ostrich, before this reality. This has entailed the clash of civilisations and the consecutive crisis within either of the concerned cultures. For instance, totalisation begot the collision of liberalism and Islamism vying for global hegemony, as exemplified in 2006 by the wave of protestations in the Muslim world in the aftermath of the publication of the Danish cartoons derogatorily depicting the Prophet Muhammad. In the liberal world, many people thought that the Danish newspaper was right to publish the cartoons because this is in conformity with the freedom of opinion and of press, whereas others considered the necessity of drawing lines to freedom. In the Muslim world, while crowds inundated the streets violently defying the West, some intellectuals believed that despotic Islamic states are more insulting the Prophet and the Muslims than the cartoons, and that the latter are relevant insofar as they raise the need of democracy and liberty in this part of the globe. In short, the Danish cartoons revealed the certainty of globalisation and simultaneously exposed the failure of its current liberal type, just as is the case with the socialist type, to win and fusion minds and hearts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The object of my intervention is to situate the disorientation of the normal course of globalisation in its deviated liberal kind, which has propagated the false notion of liberty as absolute freedom. I shall adjust the course of this decisive phenomenon by bringing humanity back into her natural position\u2014that of the bound liberty\u2014on the grounds of Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity. The balanced society is <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">hyper-Einsteinian<\/em><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">, <\/em>i.e. its conception expands Einstein\u2019s physics to include Teilhard de Chardin\u2019s Christian spirituality\u2014the whole based upon the assumption that the laws that govern the physical universe are identical to those that govern the psychic and spiritual universe, given the union and interaction of the body, the mind and the spirit in the constitution of the microcosm, man. That is the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Christocratic<\/em> society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">This essay is articulated into three points, which consist in: (1) presenting a brief critique of liberalism and its notion of freedom; (2) defining Einstein\u2019s principles of general relativity, notably those regarding my topic, in avoiding mathematical elaborations whereupon I am a layman; (3) transposing, by philosophical considerations, those principles to the psychic-spiritual realm, and thereby spelling out some basic principles of the Christocratic polity. This leads me to the conclusion that the genuine globalisation attains its achievement in Christocracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-ZA\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">2.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt \"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-ZA\">A CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Liberalism is the philosophy according to which liberty of freedom is the highest value and constitutes the essence of a person. John Locke, the paradigmatic thinker of liberalism, defining liberty as the substance of humankind, argues that humans are naturally in \u201ca <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">State of perfectFreedom<\/em> to order their Actions\u2026as they think fit\u2026without asking leave, or depending on the Will of any other Man\u201d<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. The basic idea underlying this claim is that freedom is unlimited unless any attempts to draw lines for it by the government are justified. Liberal philosophers have based this justification upon diverse foundations. I shall highlight here three of them since they are deemed the dominant ones over almost all liberal democratic nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">First, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">the harm principle<\/em>: freedom can be restricted if and only if its holder exercises it in way of injuring others. John Stuart Mill argues that \u201cthe only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others\u2026In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign\u201d<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Second, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">the ideal of freedom as autonomy<\/em>: It refers to the uniqueness of the person, to her being an end in itself, as proclaims Kant. The British neo-Hegelian Thomas Green rightly adds that freedom as autonomy implies that one is self-oriented, unconditionally aiming at one\u2019s own long-term goals, and not sacrificing them on the altar of enslaving compulsions or short-term pleasures<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Amongst the compulsions that keep humans in bondage are alcoholism, all kinds of addictions (e.g. related to drug, sex, pornography, aesthetician perfectionism, etc.), homosexuality, and the cult of money. Furthermore, liberals attach to the ideal of freedom as autonomy the right of private property and enterprise, and the claim of market as the foundation of society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Third, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">the social contract theory<\/em>: Commenced by Thomas Hobbes and crowned by John Rawls, and having as its starting point the belief in the natural freedom and equality of humans, it stresses the necessity of promoting them by limiting freedom within a set of principles agreed to by all society members in the state of nature (original position) so that be avoided the enslaving of some people by others. Thence, Rawls set up his first principle of justice: \u2018Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system for all\u2019<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Notwithstanding these three bases of constraints to liberty, liberal societies throughout the planet have failed to attain the goal of freedom for all. The reason of this failure lies in the infirm character of the abovementioned constraints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Mill\u2019s harm principle is crippled since it wrongly establishes that there is a place where one\u2019s acts cannot harm others: one\u2019s solitary body and mind. In other words, a lonely microcosm is a lieu of human sovereignty. The problem is that, insofar as \u2018no man is an island\u2019, as rightly points out Joel Feinberg<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, there is no action occurring anywhere which cannot affect others, positively or negatively. A financially self-reliant person, who would decide to live lonely in wilderness and to indulge every moment in alcoholism, would harm at least whosoever loves her or invested many means for her reaching her high financial standard: parents, siblings, friends and the state that guaranteed her education and security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Green\u2019s ideal of freedom as autonomy, reverberated into by Kant\u2019s teleology, though praiseworthy, is not distinctly freed from the materialistic prison of market and consumerism set up by fellow liberal Adam Smith and his followers. In other words, Green\u2019s human is torn between the pressure of lofty, long-term goals to achieve, and the solicitation of her infinite animal urges incessantly aroused through marketing by goods and services supplied by the capitalist society. Unfortunately, the latter often overcomes the former in human soul, as it is easier to reach the base of a mountain from the top than its summit from the bottom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The liberal state\u2019s social contract is deficient for two reasons. On the one hand, its principles are not morally binding, i.e. it lacks a moral consensus. This leads to the fragmentation of society, given the multiplicity of conceptions, often contradictory, of the good in the part of group identities, interest cartels, and individual selves. To borrow AlaisdairMacIntyre\u2019s metaphor, liberal society is a \u2018collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints\u2019<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. Hence is begotten a permanent social conflict insofar as different and opposite interests are clashing in their quest of hegemony; and the inability to settle them brings the state, notably the judiciary power, to arbitrariness<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. On the other hand, the social contract (fundamental law) cannot make man virtuous, i.e. respectful of the neighbour\u2019s freedom and rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Liberty as the supreme value of the liberal society is not experienced by all for the organization of the liberal state does not comply with the principles ruling over the physical universe. I shall analyse three of these principles as ascertained by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-ZA\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">3.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt \"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-ZA\">EINSTEIN\u2019S PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL RELATIVITY<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Firstly, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">spacetime is curved<\/em>. In general relativity, Einstein\u2019s geometrical theory of gravitation, reigns the elliptic geometry that is contrasted with Euclidean geometry. The difference between the two geometries is as follows: consider two lines in a two dimensional plane (a surface extending from north to south and from east to west), which are both perpendicular to a third line. In Euclidean geometry, the two lines are parallel and remain at a constant distance; whereas in elliptic geometry, the lines curve toward each over, and eventually intersect; thus no parallel lines exist in elliptic geometry.<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> In other words, according to Einstein, wherever in universe matter is present, space is elliptically curved or spherical (non-Euclidean), while wherever it is absent, space is flat, i.e. Euclidean. This leads us to the second principle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Secondly<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">, spacetime curvature is created by stress-energy within spacetime.<\/em> A heavy massive object (mass- or stress-energy) curves the universe (spacetime) in its vicinity, and the light massive object moves freely in that curved pathway of spacetime. Thus, in general relativity, massive objects do not impart a force on other massive objects as hypothesized in Newton\u2019s action at a distance idea to explain gravity; rather other massive objects respond to how the first massive object curves spacetime. E.g.: a bowling ball placed on a trampoline will produce a dent in the trampoline, and a light object such as a ping-pong will accelerate toward the bowling ball in a manner governed by the dent, that is, responding to the dent rather than to the bowling ball, it will be orbiting the latter. This is the sameas the earth orbiting the sun or the moon and other spacecrafts orbiting the earth or the electron orbiting the atomic nucleus.<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Moreover, Einstein\u2019s equations of relativity predict that gravity, or the curvature of spacetime by matter, not only stretches or shrinks distances (depending on their direction with respect to the gravitational field) but also will appear to slow down or dilate the flow of time. In most circumstances in universe, such time dilation is miniscule, but it can become very significant when spacetime is curved by a massive object such as a black hole. For example, an observer far from a black hole would observe time passing slowly for an astronaut falling through the hole\u2019s boundary. In fact, the distant observer would never see the hapless victim actually fall in. His or her time, as measured by the observer, would appear to stand still.<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Thirdly<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">, inertial motion is geodesic motion. <\/em>Inertial motion means the constant velocity of an object. This can be illustrated by the earth\u2019s rotational motion. Isaac Newton codified it in his first law of Motion: \u201cUnless acted upon by unbalanced force, an object will maintain a constant velocity\u201d<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. The revolution brought about by Einstein\u2019s general relativity has affected this classical law of motion. In general relativity, the constant velocity of an object cannot be altered by any force since gravity is not the effect of the latter. Instead, gravity being the curvature of spacetime by matter, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">itmerely deviates<\/em> in its course within the curved pathway (geodesic line) shaped by a mass-energy in curved space. Hence, it is a geodesic motion, i.e. the particle it animates follows a geodesic line\u2014which is not straight but incessantly deviated in a series of two points, even in way of winding\u2014in a curved space. Mathematically, this is demonstrated by the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">equation of geodesic deviation<\/em><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Do these laws of the physical universe apply to the political community?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-ZA\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">4.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt \"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-ZA\">CHRISTOCRATIC SYSTEM AS THE HYPER-EINSTEINIAN SOCIETAL EQUILIBRIUM<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">In the perspective ofpolitical psychology, I contend that all the above explained principles of the physical universe are transposable to the body politic organized into Christocracy. Let us unveil this in three postulates that run as follows: firstly, Noosphere is curved; secondly, Jesus-Christ achieves Noosphere into Pleroma; and thirdly,human attains Liberty in Christocracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Firstly, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Noosphere is curved<\/em>. By Noosphere I mean the spherical layer of the thinking humanity that covers the surface of the earth\u2014in short, human society.<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Its features are the progress and complexity of science and technology, and the essential role of ideology (the social soul) in winning and cementing hearts and minds of the community members. It is curved because, given the spherical character of the earth, it has been engaged since the World War I into its second phase of socialization: totalization or compression<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. However, the waves of compression occur in oppressing and breaking down humans, due to inappropriate ideologies, such as Nazism, fascism, communism, [neo-] liberalism, Islamism, and ethnicity. This breeds diverse tensions, including the Cold War, Sept. 11 2001 attacks, Iraq war, anti-globalization contestations, the Congo Wars, and other civil wars in Africa. Therefore, Noosphere in compression needs a \u2018Sun\u2019, a nucleus or a personal principle of synthesis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Secondly,<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Jesus Christ achieves Noosphere into Pleroma. <\/em><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>Jesus Christ is the spiritual Sun of the thinking humanity\u2019s political system<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. As a spiritual mass-energy or stress-energy, he is to curve spacetime, physically and spiritually alike, in his vicinity (the heavenly places are his seat), so that everyone move <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">freely<\/em> in her own pathway shaped by the spiritual Sun. From this event shall arise a new world, the Pleroma<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The Pleroma consists of four layers: (1) the divine (christic) layer; (2) the human layer; (3) the cosmic layer; and (4) the angelic layer. The divine layer is the Christosphere, i.e. the sphere of Christ, the revealed Logos of God and the centre of the universe. Christ, though the image of the Transcendent God, is immanent, that is, marries the human and the cosmic layer to make them partakers of Godhead. The human layer is the Noosphere (see explanation above) whose each individual\u2014having her own autonomy or centre made of a thought, a passion, and a sensibility\u2014is linked to Christ personally, i.e. to receive from him a godly spark that makes her attain her fulfilment, and corporally, that is, in union of love-energy with others, all together becoming Church, his Bride; so God will be \u2018all in all\u2019.<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> The cosmic layer (the Biosphere) consists of the rest of species that are attached to Humanity and become the dwelling of God with the latter. The angelic layer (which I coin pneumatikosphere) comprises all spirits, including the good ones, which are busy in the service of God and His people, and the evil ones, which are opposed to the rise of Christ Jesus and His Church to the total dominion over the universe, and which rule over the nations of the world through ungodly ideologies, such as the abovementioned communism, fascism, liberalism, imperialism, animism, and the like. Their fate, in thePleromist world, is complete neutralization and passing away, by way of the sole peaceful confrontation of political visions and of living testimonies between the ruling Christocrats and the opposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Thirdly,<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">human attains Liberty in Christocracy<\/em>. There are two Greek words in the term <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Christocracy<\/em>: <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">kristos<\/em> (Christ, the anointed One) and <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">kratos<\/em> (power, government); so, it means the power of Christ. Technically, I define it as <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">the government of Jesus Christ, theWord of God, over the nations through his saints<\/em>. It organizes nations with the juridical system that stems from Pleromism, the weltanschauung of the new world. The pleromist juridical system, indeed, is trichotomic, that is, it consists of three kinds of law which run as follows: the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">divine law<\/em> that is revealed in the Holy Scripture, evolving round the teachings and deeds of the Lord Jesus Christ, enacted by the power of the Holy Spirit, and summarized in the following commandment: <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">\u201cyou shall love Yahweh your God with your whole heart, and with whole soul, and with your whole mind; andyou shall love your neighbour as yourself\u201d<\/em> (The Gospel of Luke X: 27). To this law are referred, and outside it cannot subsist, the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">positive law<\/em>, which emanates from rational deliberation of people or their representatives on unprecedented national and international issues into frameworks such as the Parliament, and the <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">natural law<\/em>, which is innate and dictated by conscience in every human being, and organizes the physical universe as discovered by Einstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Thus, human attains liberty in Christocracy because, instead of being a <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Homo oeconomicus<\/em>(the consumer) set up by liberalism or a <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Homo faber<\/em> (the worker) defended by communism, the divine law makes him a <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Homo religiosus<\/em> (the worshipper). The possibility of becoming free in being worshipper is maximal for two reasons. On the one side, one surely distinguishes the good from the evil insofar as values are clearly and distinctly set up by the word of God. And one of the goals of the Christocratic state is the promotion of godly values and the eradication of vices, in order to put mankind and cosmos into the total submission to God. There is no longer confusion like in liberalism that lacks moral consensus. On the other hand, in communicating with God through faith in Jesus Christ as the Lord and the personal Saviour, the worshipper lays down all his humanity (sensibility, possession, intelligence, reasoning, and will) to Him, and is freed from the gravity of evildoing against himself and others. \u201cGreater love has no one than this, than to lay down one\u2019s life for his friends\u201d, says Jesus (The Gospel of John XV: 13). God, in turn, by grace, gives to the worshipper eternal life and a spark of His godhead, which grants him the power of remaining righteous (obedient to the law) and of accomplishing wonders beyond his natural capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The laying down of one\u2019s humanity to the Most High is a natural law included in Einstein\u2019s general relativity, and makes Christianity the appropriate faith wherewith to emancipate the world from the current chaos. As mentioned above, in curving spacetime, the Sun has shaped geodesic lines (a trajectory) wherein the Earth is moving about it. Another point is that this trajectory is not straight, but characterized by a series of curvatures that our Earth is undergoing. The latter also invests its energy, and is constantly losing it conformably to the law of entropy, to the living of the species that inhabit it.<span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"mso-special-character: footnote;\"><span class=\"MsoEndnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Henceforth, our \u201cmother\u201d Earth has displayed as a model the law that only Christianity follows: the quiet and cordially accepted self-sacrifice for the sake of others\u2019 lives. Saint Paul writes: \u201c<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">And being found in appearance as a man, Jesus humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name<\/em>\u2026\u201d (Epistle to Philippians II: 8-9). The same spirit of obedience to God and self-sacrifice for others is stressed by Jesus when he says this to the future leader of his Church: \u201c<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Most assuredly, I say to you [Peter], when you were younger, you girded yourself and walked where you wished; but when you are old, you will stretch your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish<\/em>\u201d (The Gospel of John XXI: 18). Only in and by this spirit liberty and globalization equilibrium shall be attained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\" lang=\"EN-ZA\"><span style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\">5.<span style=\"font: 7.0pt \"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-ZA\">CONCLUSION<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">The Seventh Trumpet Christocratic Army, the commission launched by the Lord Jesus since last month, is driven towards leading the Christian Church to the overthrowing of Satan\u2019s rule over the nations and the organising of the latter with the Christocratic project in way of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. To reach this goal, the project shall be undertaken, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">inter alia<\/em>, by the development of a set of bible-based ideas, including:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">1) In the social arena: the primacy of God\u2019s grace over the law and the market as the foundational principle of society. In other words, Christocracy is the state of grace, and law and market are at the service of grace until they disappear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">2) In the political arena: the fullness of democracy in Christocracy, i.e. the fulfilment of the values dreamt of and conquered by democracy but which the latter cannot perfectly achieve: human rights, civil liberties, equality under the law, good governance, etc., in the framework of the Church-Nation-State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">3) In economics: the gradual disappearance of economy by the application of the principles below: -the pleromisation of the means of production and exchange; -the sublimation of the driving motor of capitalist economy: profit and competition; -the sanctification of the macroeconomic circuit, from plan through the technical management of labour, the production, the repartition of the fructus, and the commercialization to the consumption; -the deconcentration of the capital by continuously investing and redistributing the surplus, i.e. the avoiding of speculation; and<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">4) In international relations: the creation of the Confederation of the Christocratic states, which will achieve the following noble objectives: end of imperialism, fraternity between peoples, eradication of international frontiers, and implementation of geopolitical equilibrium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">In summary, liberty and equality are two values exalted yet not achieved respectively by liberal democracy and totalitarianism. This failure is the core cause of the present-time tensions at individual, familial, national and international levels. And they are fulfilled in fraternity brought about by Christocracy; and this is the sine qua non to put mankind and cosmos in the right pathway of globalisation and to experience the genuine peace and justice on earth. Certainly, given that the enduring political ideologies are moribund, having reached the peak of irreparable contradictions and tensions, and having failed to build a better world for all, the advent of Christocracy is irreversible and can be foreseen in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Lecture delivered on Saturday 8<sup>th<\/sup> of November 2013, at the Seventh Trumpet Christocratic Army Headquarters, Johannesburg, RSA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">MARSHALL NOAH BEN ADAM<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Founder of the Seventh Trumpet Christocratic Army<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Genitor of the idea of Christocracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globalisation is an irreversible trend of the present-day world. 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