Different times, different mores…

For several years now—amid tense politics and a strained social climate—geopolitics has been promoted by countless self-styled experts on the new Internet media to the lofty rank of a knowledge capable of sounding universal principles, a panacea supposedly able to remedy even the collapse of values at work in the standardized, hyper-modern Western civilisation that now spans the globe.

In truth—yesterday, today and tomorrow, always, because their foundation is timeless—only the universal paths of spiritual realisation, endowed with the transmission of metaphysical teaching and spiritual influence, can lay claim to knowledge par excellence: metaphysical, supramundane, transcendent knowledge that is one with the Realisation of Absolute Truth.

As for geopolitics—reaching neither cosmology nor metaphysics—how could its practitioners gain access to the principles required to truly understand the present state of the cosmos: to read those more-or-less clear reflections of the heavens that living cultures and spiritual traditions still offer, down to that most turbid shadow which is the desacralised, hyper-modern, standardised global Western civilisation?

In this West, stripped to the extreme of spirituality, the quasi-hypnotic state of suggestion—a waking dream—in which populations are immersed is quite extraordinary!

Within this peculiar civilisation, the primordial, unavoidable questions relating to the spiritual foundations of every society are never even raised, as though spontaneously… laying bare the deleterious effects of the assault on genuine—i.e., spiritual—intelligence, waged by every most subtle means (with the Internet as its spearhead) at the hands of those neo-animists, the “northern-tinged devotees of the puissant power underlying a total empire over nature.” The initiators and directors of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are at present its most clamorous zealots—exemplary representatives of the social-internationalist movement.

Yet some intellectuals, though manifestly enamoured of geopolitics, ground their thinking in conceptions deeper than those inherent to that discipline: religious, initiatic, metaphysical conceptions.