> But of course... Every satanist knows that it's time to Immanentize The Eschaton
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>...In 1971, as a high school sophomore in Jackson, Mississippi, I
wrote columns for the school newspaper taking the "liberal" side of
current issues, such as school busing and the war in Vietnam. My
"conservative" counterpart was David Bufkin, who idolized William F.
Buckley, the founder of the magazine National Review, and occasionally
wrote Buckley letters. One day David came to class proudly bearing not
only a touching, respectful letter that Buckley had written him in
response, and not only a copy of Buckley's latest book, which Buckley
had enclosed, but also large button which had been included in the
package from New York. The button read: "Don't immanentize the
eschaton." I had no idea what it meant, and I don't think Bufkin did,
either.
Cut to almost 30 years later. I see the phrase again, for the first time since Callaway High School, this time in the New York Times, complete with a reference to its source: Eric Voegelin's 1952 book, The New Science of Politics. Still ignorant, but curious about what the phrase actually means, I buy the book and read it. It turns out that the phrase is a distillation of the book's main theme.
-- Michael Pugliese