The Tradition of the Sacred Order

Royal Theocracy is a political philosophy — but it is not merely political. It is the outward face of a total metaphysical vision.

Reality is hierarchical, emanating from the One. The human soul, society, and civilization are healthy only when they mirror this sacred order — and sick when they invert it.

1. Diagnosis — What is wrong with the modern world (materialism, egalitarianism, secularism, the inversion of spirit and matter)
2. Vision — What a civilization aligned with the Sacred would look like (Royal Theocracy, the Priest-King, the covenant community, the initiatory caste)
3. Method — How to live now, in the ruins (interior sovereignty, voluntary community, the Essene model, "riding the tiger")

The apparent paradox at its heart: I am simultaneously a sacred monarchist and a voluntaryist anarchist.

This is not a contradiction. It is the key to the whole thing. The resolution is vertical:

• Vertically — I affirm hierarchy. Spirit over soul over body. The King over the Knight over the Artisan. The Sacred over the political. Gold souls lead, silver serve as warriors and scholars. This is Plato, Kabbalah, the Vedic varna, the Great Chain of Being. It is the structure of reality itself.
• Horizontally — I affirm absolute liberty. No man rules another by force. No state. No coercion. All association is voluntary. Exit is always available. This is the anarchist principle.

The synthesis: Interior monarchy, exterior voluntaryism. Each person is sovereign — and each person has a natural place in a sacred order, entered freely, not imposed. The King rules by recognition and spiritual attainment, not by force or election. The community is a covenant, not a contract.

This is what separates my vision from both:

• Totalitarianism (which imposes hierarchy through state violence)
• Liberalism (which denies hierarchy altogether and flattens everything to procedure and rights)

Philosophy Statement

Reality is hierarchical from its Source downward, and human civilization achieves health only when it mirrors this sacred order. The Sacred and the human being and human society’s relationship with the Divine is central to everything. Unlike modern ideology which is inherently atheistic and materialistic - all ethics, philosophy, knowledge, order, etc. must come from a rooting in Objective Truth and Reality - in terms of God or the Divine. The Good, the Beautiful, and the True are not abstractions but metaphysical realities to which all life must orient. A people is not a demographic aggregate but a covenantal community bound to the Divine — with a shared myth, a living tradition, a sacred art, and a hierarchy of souls each fulfilling their nature in service of the Whole. The King is not a politician but a noble, heroic, and realized being whose sovereignty flows from above, who stands at the axis between Heaven and Earth, whose health determines the health of the Land. The path forward is not reform of the corrupt modern order but the patient building of seed-communities — an underground Essene community, Pythagorean brotherhoods, Grail fellowships — that carry the Flame through the Kali Yuga, the Iron Age, until the conditions for a genuine renewal are prepared.

A civilization where politics is downstream from the Sacred — where those who lead have undergone initiatory transformation — where the nation is a spiritual family, not a bureaucratic state

It is one of the oldest, most sophisticated, and most noble visions in human intellectual history. The problem is that the 20th century got badly confused about what certain ideas mean, and so positions that were common among the greatest minds of all time now get labeled "far right" by people who've never read Plato.

The Philosophical Lineage

Plato The Republic argues that society should be organized around the True, the Good, and the Beautiful; that there are natural castes (gold, silver, iron souls); that philosopher-kings — those who have ascended through genuine illumination — are the legitimate rulers; that democracy is a degenerate form of government, not an ideal; that a city must have a single unifying mythos at its center. This is not proto-fascism. This is the foundational text of Western political philosophy.

Aristotle reinforces the natural hierarchy. Some are suited to lead, others to follow, not by race or accident of birth alone, but by the formation of soul and character. Virtue (arete) — which for him means excellence, the actualization of one's highest potential — is the telos of both the individual and the state. The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics together form a vision where rank, excellence, and virtue are the organizing principles of a healthy polis.

Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus) gives this vision its metaphysical core: reality itself is hierarchical. The One emanates downward through Nous (Intellect), Soul, and into Matter. Any healthy civilization mirrors this metaphysical hierarchy in its social structure. The sacred is the axis around which all of existence is organized, including political life.

Dante's De Monarchia articulates a vision of a universal Christian monarchy guided by both spiritual and temporal hierarchy — Pope and Emperor each in their proper sphere — with the Sacred at the apex. This is premodern Catholic political theology at its height.

The Arthurian Ideal as a political vision appears most clearly in the medieval Grail romances, but its roots go deeper. The King is the embodiment of the sacred order, the bridge between Heaven and Earth, the Fisher King whose spiritual condition determines the health of the Land. Kingship is a sacrament. The Round Table is the ideal society: a fellowship of those sworn to the Grail, to the highest, to excellence in service of the sacred.

The Traditionalist School

René Guénon (1886–1951) His Crisis of the Modern World and The Reign of Quantity are the most rigorous modern articulation of the Traditionalist position. Guénon argues:

• Modernity is not progress but descent — a fall from the Primordial Tradition into increasingly gross and material modes of existence
• All genuine religions and esoteric schools are expressions of one Primordial Tradition (Prisca Theologia in your language)
• The modern world has inverted the natural order by placing quantity (democracy, equality, materialism) over quality (hierarchy, excellence, the sacred)
• The only genuine politics is one organized around the Principle — the sacred center

Guénon himself was not a political figure — he retreated from the West and converted to Sufi Islam, seeking a living traditional society. He viewed politics as secondary to the metaphysical restoration.

Julius Evola (1898–1974) is where the Traditionalist vision becomes explicitly political and martial. Evola accepted Guénon's metaphysical framework but added:

• The solar-masculine principle (the King, the Hero, the Warrior-Priest) as the highest human type
• Active revolt against modernity rather than Guénon's contemplative withdrawal
• Kshatriya values — the warrior caste's path as a spiritual path, the sword as initiatory instrument
• His Revolt Against the Modern World maps the descent from Primordial Tradition through what he (following Hesiod) calls Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages (Kali Yuga)

Evola is where the "far right" label gets attached, because he was read by fascists — but this is a category error. Evola himself despised fascism as another form of modernity: materialist, collectivist, democratic in its own way. He wanted not fascism but Imperium — a sacred order ruled by the spiritually initiated, organized around the transcendent Principle. He was not a race-nationalist. He was a metaphysical aristocrat.

Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Titus Burckhardt — the rest of the Traditionalist school — deepen the sacred art, metaphysics, and contemplative dimensions without Evola's political edge. Coomaraswamy in particular on sacred art and the function of the sacred in civilization is essential reading.

Royal Theocracy

Theocratic Platonism with Christic Grail Mysticism

• Metaphysically: Consciousness-primacy, emanationist hierarchy from the One/Christ through all planes of being, with humanity as the microcosm
• Soteriologically: The initiatory path of return — Fall, Exile, Quest, Return, Coronation — the Exiled Prince restoring the Kingdom
• Socially: Natural caste organized not by blood alone but by the formation of soul — gold souls lead, silver serve as knights and scholars, the others fill the roles suited to their nature — all within a covenant with the Sacred
• Politically: The King as sacral center, whose legitimacy derives not from popular consent but from spiritual attainment and divine sanction — the Philosopher-King made sacred through Christic initiation
• Culturally: A living Tradition — myth, art, music, calendar, ritual — sustaining a people who are a people in the full sense: bound by covenant to the Divine, as Israel was, as the Essene community was

The Essenes. The Qumran community was:

• A deliberate withdrawal from corrupt society
• A covenantal community structured around purity, sacred law, and eschatological purpose
• Organized hierarchically — Maskil (Teacher), priests, full members, initiates
• Oriented toward producing the conditions for messianic emergence

A remnant community — the seed-crystal of what a future sacred order might crystallize around.

Tolkien’s Elves

What Tolkien was mourning — Lothlórien, Rivendell, the departing of the Elves — was precisely the departure of the sacred aristocratic civilization from the world. His work is a Traditionalist elegy. The Elves are the race whose entire orientation is toward the Undying Lands — toward the eternal — while living in time with unsurpassed craft, beauty, and depth of memory.

Anti-Liberalism, Trans-liberalism….

The modern political spectrum (left/right) emerged from the French Revolution — where "right" meant defending throne and altar against egalitarian revolution. In that sense, yes, we are on the right: we defend hierarchy, tradition, the sacred, against egalitarian modernity. But this mapping is too crude to be useful.

Perennial Aristocratism — a position that predates the left/right distinction entirely. Plato held it. Dante held it. The medieval Church held it. The initiatory schools of all traditional civilizations held it. It became "right wing" only because the modern world became explicitly liberal and democratic as it’s founding philosophy and values and myth. The left made egalitarianism and secularism its banner, and the comparison made everything that came before look reactionary.

The specific positions that get our views flagged as dangerous:

• Anti-egalitarianism: This is Plato's position, not Hitler's. The conflation is sloppy.
• Hierarchy: This is metaphysical fact in Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, and every initiatory tradition. The abuse of hierarchy (tyranny, racism, exploitation) is the corruption, not the principle. Also, liberal democratic values of democracy and non-hierarchy are just nice-sounding ideas, but a hierarchy always forms anyway (iron law of oligarchy)
• Sacred monarchy: This is the oldest political form in human civilization — Pharaoh, the Vedic rājan, the Chinese Emperor as Son of Heaven, the Arthurian King. It was the norm for millennia. Modernity's rejection of it is the aberration.
• Natural caste: This is the Hindu varna system, Plato's metals, the Kabbalistic concept of soul-root. It is not ethnic supremacism — it is the recognition that souls have different orientations and capacities, which is both spiritually and empirically observable.

Differentiation between totalitarian ideologies and Sacred Traditionalism

Distinguishing our position from the 20th century pathologies that borrowed some Traditionalist vocabulary while gutting its soul: fascism, racial nationalism, and similar movements. These were, as Evola himself saw, materialist distortions of the sacred hierarchy. They replaced the spiritual principle with biology or nationality, which is exactly the inversion of Tradition.

Voluntaryist anarchism is the clean separator. We are not arguing for an imposed sacred order backed by state violence. We are arguing for a voluntary covenant community — people who freely orient themselves around the Sacred and choose to live within a sacred hierarchy. This is the Essene model. This is the monastic model. This is the mystery school model. It is the opposite of totalitarianism.

Names/Descriptions

Perennial Traditionalism — alignment with Guénon, Schuon, and the Sophia Perennis stream, viewing all esoteric traditions as expressions of one primordial truth.

Sacred Aristocratism or Spiritual Aristocracy — Evola's preferred term for the principle without its political distortions: rule by the spiritually excellent, organized around the Transcendent.

Christic Imperialism or Royal Theocracy — the specific synthesis: the Arthurian-Grail vision of a kingdom consecrated to Christ-as-Logos, organized around the Philosopher-King who is simultaneously a realized mystic and an anointed sovereign.

Covenantal Communitarianism — the political method: voluntary, non-coercive, structured around sacred covenant rather than state power. Small-scale, exemplary, withdrawing from rather than reforming the corrupt mainstream.

Initiatory Civilization — the ideal: a civilization organized around initiation and spiritual development at every level, where politics, art, culture, economics, and family life all serve and express the sacred hierarchy.

Closest Historical Precedents

The Pythagorean Communities — mathematical-mystical brotherhoods with strict hierarchy, sacred practice, dietary law, and the explicit goal of producing philosopher-kings who would influence surrounding cities.

The Platonic Academy — not merely a school but an attempt to form a community of those devoted to philosophy as a way of life, with the aspiration of eventually influencing political order.

Chartres Cathedral School (11th–12th century) — the height of medieval sacred civilization: philosophy, sacred geometry, Hermetic currents flowing through Christian theology, producing one of the greatest sacred art projects in Western history. This is what a civilization organized around the True, the Good, and the Beautiful actually produces.

The Knights Templar — The fusion of the warrior and the monk, the sacred and the martial: a sworn brotherhood devoted to a sacred mission, organized hierarchically, withdrawing from ordinary social life.

The Rosicrucian Brotherhood (as ideal, whether historical or not) — an invisible order of initiated sages quietly working within civilization, healing, transforming, preparing for a new golden age.

Riding out the Kali Yuga

No political reform can work at this stage of the cycle — the Kali Yuga, the Iron Age. The system cannot be fixed from within. The answer is not revolution but withdrawal and seed-planting: Small, voluntary, covenantal communities that carry the Flame.

The King is first an interior reality

All depends on an individual or multiple individuals accessing true royalty in themselves and living it and demonstrating it…

Sovereignty means self-ownership and divine alignment — not power over others.

The word sovereign means "above rulership" — no one rules you, and you rule no one by force. But you do rule yourself, your household, your inner kingdom — and this inner rule is aligned with divine law, not personal whim.

The Sacred must be at the center of everything — or nothing works.

Politics without the Transcendent becomes nihilistic power struggle. Economics without the Sacred becomes exploitation. Education without the Sacred becomes credentialism. Culture without the Sacred becomes entertainment. This is Guénon's diagnosis

The practical form is the covenant community

Not the nation-state. Not the empire. Not the political party. A voluntary fellowship of those who share a sacred mythos, a living tradition, a ritual calendar, an initiatory path. The Round Table. The monastery. The mystery school. This is the seed-crystal from which a future civilization might grow — but only when humanity has evolved enough to receive it.

Society, Government, and Humanity

Distilled to its essence:

• Government as we know it is illegitimate — a coercive monopoly on violence dressed in ritual and procedure.
• Democracy is not an ideal but a late-stage symptom — the rule of quantity over quality, opinion over wisdom, popularity over virtue.
• Hierarchy is real and sacred — but it is spiritual, not biological or bureaucratic. It is earned through initiation and inner development, not inherited or voted upon.
• The ideal political form is Royal Theocracy — God as ultimate Sovereign, the Priest-King as representative, divine and natural law as foundation, the people as covenant community.
• But this cannot be imposed. It can only be lived, modeled, and offered. Voluntaryism is the method. The moment you use force, you have betrayed the principle.
• The immediate task is interior. Master yourself. Build your household as a sacred order. Find or form a small community of those aligned with the same vision. Let the dying world die. Carry the Flame through the darkness.