The True Source of Authority

It is becoming increasingly obvious that our culture has a crisis of authority. The response to Covid-19 by the regime demonstrated this. So, where does authority come from?

31. The True Source of Authority

Prayer “possesses a conductive power.” Without prayer, “our freedom of will and powers of resistance diminish; the appeal of demonic powers become more compelling, and its imperatives more terrible.” Ernst Jünger ¹

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." Acts 2:17

Some insights take a long time to come together fully. You have all the pieces within you, some of which you have used and worked with often over the years. Then you come across a writer, a book, or an article that is the final key to a complex puzzle, the one insight that brings everything together, showing you the full import of all these other seemingly tangential bits and how they fit together into a cohesive whole. The author in this case is Augusto del Noce, and he has shown me the political import of ideas that heretofore were “merely” religious and theological, perhaps a little philosoph…