Old Order
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The Old Order consists of the organic and natural growth of institutions, culture, values and religion in Western European Civilization and Western culture before the American and French Revolution. The Old Order is "Throne and Altar" where Church and State worked in tandem in governing a society. It also consists in a caste system which was the general nature of European societies. Those caste system consisted of royalty and aristocracies. The sentiment of the Old Order was "Order and Authority". The Roman Catholic Church was the central and intrinsic feature of this order. It taught the morals and values of the societies.
The Old Order is a natural expression of the natural order.
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Origins
The old European social order was a mixture of the natural societies of the Vandals, the Goths, and the Roman Empire and its values, institutions and laws. Romanitas had much to do with the formation of the Old Order. The Roman society was based on res divina and res publica which grew up into "Throne and Altar". This duality inherent in Roman civilization became the background and foundation for the Old Order that became "Throne and Altar"; the 'Throne' being the res public and the 'Altar' was the expression of the res divina. In all the ancient societies, religion played a large part in state function.
Deconstruction of the Old Order
Fr. Seraphim Rose writes that the program of Nihilism is the destruction of the Old Order.[1]
The American and French Revolutions were about ending the Old Order. Thomas Paine wrote the impetus for the revolution on his part was to "To begin the world over again".[2]
The very progressive Bolshevist and National Socialist movements were integral in destroying the Old Order. [3] Both of these movements, by clearing out the old, made way for the building of the new.
Miscellania
- On the American dollar bill is the Masonic symbol with the saying "Novus Ordo Secularum". The American regime was to be a complete break with the past.
See also
References
- ^ Nihilism, pg 75
- ^ "The War of Independence was a harsh and bitter war, part of the long struggle to supplant monarchy and aristocracy with republicanism, "To begin the world over again", as Thomas Paine famously wrote in Common Sense. Ferling, John, American History magazine October 2007.
- ^ Nihilism, pg 76
External links and further reading
- Claude Manceron, Twilight of the Old Order: Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Four Thru Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Eight, Smithmark Publishing (1977-1978), ISBN 0394-48902-0 ISBN 978-0394-48902-5
- Jerome Blum, The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe, Princeton University Press (1978), ISBN 0691052662 ISBN 9780691052663 ISBN 0691100675 ISBN 9780691100678
- Fr Seraphim Rose, Nihilism, The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, Fr. Seraphim Rose Foundation (1994), ISBN 0-938635-15-8
