In a recent interview, Naomi Wolf was asked by Tucker Carlson why in 2021 she didn’t go along with the demonization of the unvaccinated when all her leftist friends did, who were, by definition, against unjust discrimination. She didn’t go along with it because she could see that it was unjust, and one simply doesn’t do or go along with injustice. Her friends, by doing and going along with injustice, revealed that they had never really been against injustice but only pretended to be so as to gain something from the world. Naomi lost these friends, who at this point saw her as an enemy, and since then she has been writing and speaking about the hypocrisy of the left as well as her awakening to the spiritual world, especially the reality of deep, supernatural evil. Her decision whether to stand against injustice, knowing it would mean the loss of her reputation, was a trial and judgment, and she passed it. Many of us went through a trial like hers, and many failed it. The plandemic was a judgment on the world, and it was allowed by God to be a preparation and foreshadowing of another and more momentous judgment that looks to be soon upon us.
Authentic prophecy, private revelation, the testimony of mystics, and Sacred Scripture and Tradition all point to a future event where every human being alive on earth at the same moment will experience a judgment of and on their soul. This event has been called The Warning and The Illumination of all Consciences. It will be a day in which God will supernaturally illuminate the conscience of every man, woman, and child on earth. Each person would momentarily see the state of his soul through God’s eyes and realize the truth of His existence. At this moment, there will only be authority, pure authority, authority alone, with no admixture of power, no coercion, no incentive, no reward or punishment, no social pressure, nothing but authority. And only one choice will be possible, either to obey or disobey this authority, with only two possible moral objects, either absolute good or absolute evil, and with only two possible intentions, to obey authority because it is authority, or to disobey authority because it is authority. It will be as if taken back in time to the foot of the cross to behold Jesus crucified, Authority in the flesh. Do you recognize it? Here is Truth Incarnate. The Truth. How do you respond? You will not now be able to consider consequences or benefits or reasons. No one is watching you. No power is talking to you. Here is just pure authority. The authority of truth on a cross as the authority of the truth about your soul. What will you do?
This moment will be just a supernatural focusing and heightening and intensification of what each moment of our lives truly is, though we tend not to see it. We are always in the presence of one authority or another, although there is really only just one, for authority is the justification and basis for our every thought, word, and action, for all of our exertions and displays of power, whether we recognize it or not. My fingers are typing right now and are empowered to do so by an authority, the authority of my will. My will is empowering my fingers to type as commanded by the authority of my mind. And my mind and will are mutually empowered to command and act by the authority of the Good, or, at least, what my mind through its concepts and my will through its rational desires judges to be the Good, and, at the very moment of decision, what I judge to be the good action here and now in light of the ultimate Good that transcends the here and now, God.
The problem is that, unlike at the future moment of Illumination where we will be alone and faced with True Authority—and nothing else—we are presently always confronted with competing authorities, or rather, one real authority beckoning our recognition and obedience, and a myriad of unreal seductive or menacing counterfeits. Neither of these can compel our recognition and obedience, for regardless of the coercion employed to manipulate us or the prospects of power promised to seduce us, we are always free to choose which authority we recognize and obey. But how is true authority to be recognized and how are the counterfeits to be unmasked and resisted?
I wish I could give a simple answer to this. Ultimately, answering this question correctly and acting upon it at every moment is one’s salvation, so everyone really needs to answer this question for themselves. But if you are not quite able to figure it out in time for the Warning, God will answer it for you then, for this is what the Warning really is, and this is why it is the culmination of God’s unfathomable mercy. But in the meantime, let us try to answer it, at least in general terms, and we will use the plandemic to help us, for it was a dress rehearsal for the Warning. But first, read this amazing passage by the 20th-century theologian Karl Rahner:
There is an individual who discovers that he can forgive though he receives no reward for it, and silent forgiveness from the other side is taken as self-evident. There is one who tries to love God although no response of love seems to come from God’s silent incomprehensibility, although no wave of emotive wonder any longer supports him, although he can no longer confuse himself and his life-force with God, although he thinks he will die from such a love, because it seems like death and absolute denial, because with such a love one appears to call into the void and the completely unheard of, because this love seems like a ghastly leap into groundless space, because everything seems untenable and apparently meaningless. There is the person who does his duty where it can apparently only be done, with the terrible feeling that he is denying himself and doing something ludicrous for which no one will thank him. There is a person who is really good to another person from whom no echo of understanding and thankfulness is heard in return, whose goodness is not even repaid by the feeling of having been selfless, noble, and so on. There is one who is silent although he could defend himself, although he unjustly treated, who keeps silence without feeling that his silence is his sovereign unimpeachability. There is someone who obeys not because he must and would otherwise find it inconvenient to disobey, but purely on account of that mysterious, silent, and incomprehensible thing that we call God and the will of God. There is someone renounces something without thanks or recognition, and even without a feeling of inner satisfaction. There is a person who is absolutely lonely, who finds all the bright elements of life pale shadows, for whom all trustworthy handholds take him into the infinite distance, and who does not run away from this loneliness but treats it with ultimate hope. There is someone who discovers that his most acute concepts and most intellectually refined operations of the mind do not fit; that the unity of consciousness and that of which one is conscious in the destruction of all systems is now to found only in pain; that he cannot resolve the immeasurable multitude of questions, and yet cannot keep to the clearly known content of individual experience and to the sciences. There is one who suddenly notices how the tiny trickle of his life wanders through the wilderness of the banality of existence, apparently without aim and with the heartfelt fear of complete exhaustion. And yet he hopes, he knows not how, that this trickle will find the infinite expanse of the ocean, even though it may still be covered by the grey sands which seem to extend forever before him. There is God and his liberating grace. There we find what we Christians call the Spirit of God.
What do these grace-filled words from Rhaner tell us about authority?
Jesus told Luisa Picarretta:
When Pilate asked Me whether I was King, and I answered: ‘My Kingdom is not of this world, for if It were of this world, millions of legions of Angels would defend Me’. And Pilate, on seeing Me so poor, humiliated, despised, was surprised, and said with greater emphasis: ‘What? You are a King?’ And I, with firmness, answered him and all those who are in his position: ‘I am King, and I have come into the world to teach the truth. And the truth is that it is not positions, nor kingdoms, nor dignities, nor the right of command that make man reign, that ennoble him, that raise him above all. On the contrary, these things are slaveries, miseries, which make him serve vile passions and unjust men, making him also commit many unjust acts which disennoble him, cast him into mud, and draw the hatred of his subordinates upon him. So, riches are slaveries, positions are swords, by which many are killed or wounded. True reigning is virtue, to be stripped of everything, to sacrifice oneself for all, to submit oneself to all. This is true reigning, which binds all, and makes one loved by all. Therefore, my Kingdom will have no end, while yours is near to perishing.’ And, in my Will, I made these words reach the ear of all those who are in positions of authority, to let them know the great danger they are in, and to put on guard those who aspire to positions, to dignities, to command.”
Meditate on these passages. In Part III we will discuss them.