The assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and members of his family.
Sunnism and the West, who love the crowd and disorder, will disappear along with Shiism when the true Sacred Order arrives, because only the vertical order matters.
Sunnism embodies the masses, democracy, and revolt against hierarchy. The Shia religion, in contrast, is sacred and aspires to a vertical order. Sunnism is Luciferian, for it seeks the order of quantity.
The West therefore funds and promotes Sunnism. Both will disappear, for there is only one order: the Sacred Order.
The West does not support “moderate” Islam out of naivety. It supports the version of Islam that corresponds to its own nature: Democracy, horizontality, quantity, the crowd. The “world of the mass.” Luciferian because it seeks order in numbers, not in legitimacy.
Sunnism: The Islam of the community, without clergy, without mediation, without messianic expectation. Horizontal Islam. This is why the West funds and promotes it—it recognizes its own reflection.
Shiism: The Islam of waiting, of vertical legitimacy, of sacred hierarchy. The hidden Imam structures the present time as an interregnum—he is merely a guardian in the meantime.
Sunnism and the West (its twin) will collapse together, for they are based on the same lie: that the multitude can found order. But all will disappear in the end, because there is only one order: the Hierarchical Order.
The true Principle of the world is vertical. Legitimate order can only proceed from a sacred summit, from a unique source of transcendent legitimacy.
The West and Sunnism are evil twins. They are two faces of the same fundamental heresy: the belief that legitimacy can arise from the base, from the crowd, from numbers. The West has its democracy, its “government of the people.”
Sunnism has its ummah (community) without clergy, its consensus, its revolt against established order (the original Kharijism).
Both are “Luciferian.”
Twelver Shiism is the broken but true figure of Order. It embodies the waiting for vertical legitimacy. The hidden Imam structures the present time as a void, an interregnum, where the powers that be are merely guardians awaiting the Return. This is why it is “Sacred”—it carries within it the memory of the true order.
Historical Shiism, too, is destined to disappear as a form—because every historical form is imperfect. But what will disappear with it is its evil double: the infernal West-Sunnism couple.
In the end, when the “true Sacred Order arrives,” only the vertical Principle will remain, stripped of its caricatures.
The Empire as a “Form” versus The Nation as a “Force”.
Nation-state is based on ethnicity, language, or popular sentiment. That is sentimentalism.
A sacred, universal “Empire” is based on shared spiritual principles and hierarchy. The first appeals to the masses, the second to the aristocracy.
There is nothing transcendent, universal, or hierarchical about nationalism. It is the debased, mob-driven version of the aristocratic ideal. A nation is not an empire.
The nation-state is built on sentiment—a horizontal bond between people who feel they are the same. This is a deeply modern and “bourgeois” concept.
A true Empire is not merely a big nation that has conquered others. It is a political structure that is the temporal arm of a transcendent principle.
In such a structure, authority flows from above. The aristocracy is not just a class of wealthy landowners, but a spiritual elite—the “men who are different”. The various peoples within such an empire are united not because they share the same blood, but because they recognize and serve the same transcendent idea (for example, the universal claims of the Holy Roman Empire or the Roman Pax Deorum).
This structure is inherently hierarchical. Hierarchy, Not Equality. It doesn't matter if you are a Gaul, a Syrian, or a Roman in the Empire; your place is determined by your proximity to the spiritual center.
True aristocracy is an inner condition. It is comprised of the “men who are different”—individuals who, through spiritual realization and adherence to Tradition, have actualized a higher state of being. They are closer to the divine, to the principle of pure being.
They are the law, because they embody the transcendent principle.
A nation is not an empire. The nation as a horizontal, egalitarian bond of sentiment versus the Empire as a vertical, hierarchical structure rooted in a transcendent principle.
Matter versus Spirit. Nationalism's basis in the physical and psychological (blood, language, sentiment). Empire is based on the metaphysical and spiritual.
Quantity versus Quality: The nation as a mass phenomenon versus the Empire as the domain of the “men who follow in the steps of Ulysses.” Nationalism is a modern, sentimental, and materialistic counterfeit of the ancient, spiritual, and hierarchical reality of a true Empire.