For example, as the Republic of Rome expanded, they distributed their centers of authority and became the Roman Empire. As their empire expanded, Romans again distributed their centers of authority, to Constantinople, Iberia, and beyond. Again, Romans distributed their centers of authority to become city states and then nations we think of as Europe. Today, Europe, east and west, Russia, the Levant, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Oceania, Africa, and even MENA are the Roman Empire in distributed centers of authority.
Even China aspires to bolt onto her being fruits of centers of authority distributed by the Roman Empire. Japan took a path parallel to Rome’s in some respects and so appeared to St. Francis Xavier when he saw her mid-16th Century as the most European Asian nation he evangelized.
Rome did not Fall.
She distributed her centers of authority.
Rome lives quite handily today as many nations.
A successful nation state expands in number of elements and in size of internal and external interactions. An unsuccessful nation state expands in neither respect and instead contracts and withers away. A successful nation state may also expand in physical size by annexing or otherwise coming into administrative control of land formerly outside her jurisdiction. However she expands, however, a successful nation state distributes her centers of authority in furtherance of her vitality and longevity.
The notion of an earth, world, or globe without nations and nation states yet under technocratic elite expert governance I do not bother to dispute or oppose because it is self-evidently fantastic. Its provenance is the faculty lounge, which is at best one step this side of ringing rage.
A successful nation state continuously distributes her centers of authority. This is how she continues to succeed. Continuous distribution of her centers of authority is the natural way a successful nation state builds her vitality and promotes her longevity.
We observe this phenomenology even in the earliest and most essential elements of a successful nation state: her families. A family is a center of distributed authority. The spouses and each of their children is a distributed center of a family’s authority. Children of successful families join with children of other successful families, themselves distributed centers of authority, to bring forth fresh distributed centers of authority (spouses and children). And so on, a family expands, then many families together, and so then too the nation state they come to comprise and in fact are.
Underneath all of that is a constant: learning. The world, it is said, is a school. The world, it also is said, is a penitentiary. Both sayings are true. Penance is a river of learning. So, the world is a penitential school the earliest and most determinative embodiment of which is a family’s home. A school is a confluence of rivers of learning.
18th Century Scots Kant recognized as the most learned nation in the world. 18th Century American Colonists are recognized today as the most learned — and also skilled and wealthy — citizens of The British Empire of their day. The reason? Homeschools.
The homeschool is the base of the successful nation state.
This means, among other things, that the homeschool is the source of the authority that successful families and then nation states distribute in order to cultivate their vitality and reap their longevity. At the homeschool, the family learn to detach, to love, to discriminate between the eternal and the ephemeral, to pray, to venerate, to fight, to clean, to argue, to weep, to enjoy, to experiment, to laugh, to build, to save, to observe, and so forth. In their homeschool a family learn to earn, enjoy, understand, and deploy authority.
Authority — which is to say, love — is the desirable product of homeschooling.
If authority be not generated in the homeschool, it be not present in the family, which in consequence be not viable. Viability is present in her families or it be not present in a nation state, which is then nonviable. Successful nation states concatenate authority belonging to their families. Nation states have no inherent or self-made authority. A nation state, even a successful one, has not aseity.
Moreover, there is no shortcut to authority. A mound of money, a family tree or history, a tittle of title cannot confer authority. Authority is earned first in the homeschool and then in conduct of one’s duties through self-less love throughout one’s career.
So, an increase in homeschooling and concomitant return of mothers to their husbands’ and children’s homes is a good thing, an auspicious sign of restored veneration of familial and national vitality and longevity.
This understanding, quite without intention but quite emphatically, also outcasts women and mothers who do not return to their husbands’ and children’s homes. And it outcasts persons addicted to fantasies of post-nation state power sweeps.
What began in 1994 as The Homeschooling Homepage, the first WWW-based comprehensive (Quintivium I) subject area resource online, gratis, for homeschooling families, has become University Of The Professional Guilds, an expanded WWW-based comprehensive (Quintivium II) subject area resource online, gratis, for all families.
The most important aspect of these online subject area resources is their five-fold distribution. That organization or structure is their authority. It is meant to clean, restore, update, and improve the ancient academic curricula known as Trivium, Quadrivium, and Septivium.
Vium is Latin for river.
Principle I
Principle II
Principle III
The power of the divine name is unparalleled. People often take it lightly. That’s a mistake. One shouldn’t mistake a shining glass piece to be a diamond. The real diamond is altogether different. What is that diamond? ‘Die mind’. God’s name is the real diamond. Keep it safe and secure. Don’t ever be bothered by pain and suffering, losses and difficulties. They just come and go. That’s not your real nature. Your innate Self is strong, eternal and real (sat). You shouldn’t follow fleeting and unreal waves, forsaking your own true and eternal nature. Unfortunately, today people are following only unreal and passing waves. If you hold on to fleeting and unreal things, you’ll always be deceived. Once you seek refuge in the lotus feet of God, you should never give up. Wherever you go, Divine feet will protect you. If you install divine name firmly in your heart, your life will become sanctified. That is bhakti(devotion). That is your Shakti (power). That is mukti (liberation)!
