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Utopia:“Nowhere”— Now Here
by Solange Hertz
1993
Veritas Press, P.O. Box 1704, Santa Monica CA 90406
The Remnant Bookstore, 336 - 280th Street, Osceola WI 54020
Reviewed by Paula Haigh
This is not just another conspiracy-exposing book about one-world governmental religion. Far from it. Mrs. Hertz sees the entire picture from Creation to the present. Moreover, with her, as with Mary her main source, we see everything from God’s point of view.
Aristotle claimed that the best prose must have the qualities of clarity and verve (Greek energia).. Add the brilliance of poetic wit in the ever apt word and image, let all be illumined by the strong supernatural light of Catholic Faith, and we have a fair assessment of Mrs. Hertz’s inimitable style. Reading her is a never fading delight, an intellectual feast that never jades or satiates. There is always a new insight with a new Scriptural or historical detail to illustrate it. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that she shines the light and truth of divine Faith upon the historical facts of both Scripture and so-called secular history. She shows us, in a word, how “time is the incarnation of eternity”. (pp. 109 and 195)
Utopiais a Collection of essays whose central theme is, as the sub-title indicates, the confrontation between the Universal Republic of Judaic-Masonic brotherhood of Man and the Reign of Christ the King. The striving for brotherhood and community on earth, whether in the truth of Christ’s Kingship or in the perverted form of Jewish naturalism, is rooted in the creation of man to God’s image and likeness.
The book makes abundantly clear the deep heresy of the futurist-modernist-conciliar church as that church continually fails to proclaim the social-political Kingship of Christ, as it neglects to assert our Lord’s absolute sovereignty over all nations, peoples and individuals with the inherent obligation of all men to acknowledge the Rights of God as Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. The modernist church refuses to tell men that no one has a right to offend God in any way, whether by idolatry of false gods, by immoral life styles, or by imitating Cain who rests.” (pp. 17 and 94)
The first essay presents the main idea as “conspiracy” in its original meaning of a “breathing together” of spirits with a common agenda. As God proclaimed in Genesis 3, there began with the Fall of Adam, an external war between Satan and the Woman with Her Child. To try to explain history by any other principle than this one is to flounder in confusion and error, for “history is the record of the apocalyptic struggle between those two primordial kingdoms – that of God and that of the devil.” (p.5) Thus “Theology is the light of history” (p.5) as it is of all true knowledge and science.
One of my favorite essays in the book is “Cain’s Pain”. In these days, the modernists like to make much of Scripture as being for us today. But not one of these modernists, blinded as they are by their errors, can give us the kind of supernatural insights into the inspired text as we find in Mrs. Hertz’s writings.
Cain is the first builder of the secular city “…a social unit with no reference to anything beyond itself. .It was born of angst, alienation, and a desire for self-sufficiency. It was an alternative to utter despair.” (p. 17)
Every social evil was loosed upon the world by Cain’s city. Biblical prototype of all the utopias man would invent on his own without God’s help, Cain’s city was the consequence of that most antisocial of sins, the murder of a brother deemed “undesirable.” Murder and utopia have maintained close relations ever since, and today, whether in the form of abortion, contraception, euthanasia, concentration camps or the sterilization or elimination of the unfit, murder is merging ever more and more openly as a tool of choice in forging the utopian society of the future. (pp. 17-18)
Modern democracy is “The Sin of Utopia” because it allows “the People” to replace God.
Cataloguing the evils unleashed by democracy would be tedious. One deserves special mention, however, for it reinforces all the others: it is compulsory education. a tyranny predicated on the delusion that if a man is literate he will know how to vote. This flies in the face of the fact that politics is a practical art, and that some of the world’s greatest rulers have not known how to read or write. … p32
And here again, where everyone must be educated, no one is educated, because if the illusion of equality is to be maintained, the level of education must drop constantly to the lowest common denominator of taste and intelligence in order to accommodate everyone. Those capable of education cannot find it in egalitarian schools, because education by definition is a conforming of the intelligence to a progressive unveiling of reality. Being systematically deprived of truth and contact with reality, they cannot be educated... instruction is not education. (pp. 32-33)
Nor is information storage an intellectual virtue.
That we are created in the Trinitarian image of God and that this image is best reflected in the human sphere by the family, the basic unit of society, is a thematic thread running through all the essays. When the image of God in man is not helped by a good society to move in an orderly way toward its supernatural destiny, frustration leads to the perversities of utopia. Unless he is rescued from on high, he can only sink deeper into misery, barbarism and frustration. As Origen said in Contra Celsum, “Nothing can be changed for the better in social matters without divine help.” Left to his own fallen nature, man is incapable of reforming any human institution, because he cannot reform himself.” (p. 39)
Saint Joan of Arc is a prophetic type of our own eventual rescue by God and our Lady.
The enemies of Christ the King tremble at the thought of the resurrection of Catholic France, principal defender of the Church and prime target of the enemy’s occult forces. ...
… the editors of a radical periodical call The Revolution stated the issue clearly: “The modern world is caught between the completion of the French Revolution and a return pure and simple to the Christianity of the Middle Ages!” No one knows better than Christ’s enemies that there are no other options. (p. 57)
If you thought the U.S. Constitution was an original creation of American political genius, learn the truth in “The Beast from the Sea.” “The Usurpers” highlights the fact that all authority comes down from God and is not vested naturally or otherwise in the voting People. Furthermore, God favors monarchy as a form of government because He instituted and constituted His Church, the one and only perfect society on earth, as a hierarchical monarchy with the Pope as Head and Vicar of Christ, the clergy next in order and the laity as subject in a harmony of subsidiarity.
“The Utopian Magisterium” is a chilling reminder that the rejection of God and His sovereign rights over His creatures is inherent in the U.S. Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. To accept as normal this displacement of the Rights of God by the Rights of Man is a very dangerous state of mind and soul. Yet how prevalent it is, even amongst Catholics!
“The American Way” is the way of revolution, NOT of restoration.
In these latter days humanity has been confronted with a choice between two political systems which are irreconcilable: the sovereignty of the people. or the sovereignty of God. Obviously, both can’t be sovereign. (p. 101)
But Americanism teaches that “the two views of political reality are actually perfectly compatible. ..." Thus “The Usan Catholic” finds himself born and bred into a heresy he never knew to be such. However, “his blindness is not inculpable, but it is understandable.” (p.83) May it not bring us to offer incense to “the People” as the early Christians were urged to burn incense to the Emperor. (p. 99)
Perhaps the most important essay for us to ponder today is “The Voice of the Dragon.” This voice is eminently seductive, for it appears to appeal to what is the most necessary of all the virtues — charity. “In the evening of life, “ said Saint John of the Cross, “we will be judged on love.” What could be more pressing, then, than to open ourselves completely to this love for all humanity and all its religions however corrupt. But it is a love rooted in natural sentiment rather than in supernatural truth. For as facts prove, it can lead to deep betrayal of our Lord and His Church. Thomas Merton addressed the Buddhist monks as his “brothers” and assured them “we are already one, but we imagine we are not. What we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we already are!” This was perhaps what the Buddhist monks wished to hear, but how can we believe it was what our Lord wanted to hear? Mother Teresa urges natural family planning on the poor of all nations and boasts of having prevented the births of 61, 273 Calcutta babies in six years. (p. 128-130) The foundational evil and betrayal of charity is the refusal to claim these souls for Christ and His Church. Mother Teresa does not try to convert anyone to the Faith. Her Missionaries of Charity are therefore seriously mis-named. for how can one divorce supernatural charity from truth about the reality of Creation, Fall and Redemption? Again, it is the sin against the 4th Commandment, for what missionaries ever before dreamed of doing anything but winning souls for Jesus Christ, their only Lord and Redeemer?
Key concepts are natural and supernatural. The Church honors both realities but teaches that nature must be redeemed, made submissive to divine Grace and eventually transformed by the supernatural life given by God in the Sacraments.
Judaism, on the other hand, rejects this very supernatural life of Grace that comes only from our Lord, Jesus Christ, and through His Church.
These two lives, of nature and of Grace, like Church and State, are intended by God to grow in a relationship of hierarchical order. And they did in fact so exit and grow in such a happy marriage (p.11) for the millennium of the Middle Ages. But just as today an evil feminism that despises the Glories of Mary exerts its power over men and renders them scandalously effeminate, so too the dream of Pharisaic Judaism, given expression by Karl Marx, is enjoying its brief hour of success. “Jews have emancipated themselves to the degree that Christians have become Jews.” So said Karl Marx. (p. 141)
These two world religions can no more co-exist than a body can exist and function with two heads. One must dominate — for a time — and one forever. Judaism is Cainite-Masonic world brotherhood’s governmental religion, Cain’s City of Man; but the other is the Holy Catholic Church, the Kingdom of God on earth where Jesus Christ is Sovereign, the one true Israel.
Read all about this confrontation and its progress from Creation to the present in “Judaism Confronts Israel.”
The crowning centerpiece of this marvelously rich and detailed mosaic of prose pieces is “The Political Dimension of Sacred Heart Devotion” followed by the concluding historical illustration of King Louis XVI: “Protomartyr of Utopia.”
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus tells us what we really mean when we pray in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Kingdom come!” The magnitude of the disaster facing us is not only the measure but the harbinger of the final triumph. The message delivered at Paray-le-Monial is not mere private revelation which may be bypassed without danger to salvation. It relates directly to the deposit of faith and can be found throughout Scripture. …
…we still have our Lord’s promise to St. Margaret Mary that “I will reign in spite of Satan and all opposition!”
Sooner or later, Christ the king will deal with Utopia. (pp. 170-71)
Most of the articles inUtopiahave appeared in The Remnant, whose readers will therefore welcome these invaluable pieces in book form and urge the publishers to consider yet more collections of Mrs. Hertz’ writings.
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1993