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3. THE DUTY OF THE
COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES IN FACE OF THE ABORNING FOURTH REVOLUTION
When
innumerable facts grouped in a reasonable way suggest hypotheses like this one
on the beginning of the Fourth Revolution, what can the counter-revolutionary
still do?
In
the light of Revolution and Counter-Revolution, it behooves him, first of all, to
emphasize the preponderant role that the Revolution in the tendencies93
has in the generative process of this Fourth Revolution and in the world
resulting from it. He should prepare to fight, not only alerting men against
this preponderance of the tendencies, which is becoming the rule today even
though fundamentally subversive of good human order, but also using all
legitimate and appropriate means in the tendential field to combat this same
revolution in the tendencies. The counter-revolutionaty should also observe,
analyze, and foresee the new steps of the process in order to erect as soon as
possible every obstacle against the supreme form of tendential revolution and
of revolutionary psychological warfare: the aborning Fourth Revolution.
If
the Fourth Revolution has time to develop before the Third Revolution attempts
its big adventure, the fight against it might call for another chapter of
Revolution and Counter-Revolution. Such a chapter, all by itself might take up
as much space as that devoted to the three previous revolutions. Why? Because
processes of decadence tend to complicate everything almost infinitely. This is
why each phase of the Revolution is more complex than the preceding one and
obliges the Counter-Revolution to make efforts that are likewise more detailed
and complex.
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With
these perspectives on the Revolution and the Counter-Revolution and on the
future of the work that must be done in face of both, we end these
considerations.
Uncertain, like everyone, about tomorrow, we prayerfully raise our eyes to the
lofty throne of Mary, Queen of the Universe, while addressing her in a
paraphrase of the Psalmist's words to Our Lord:
Ad te
levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in coelis. Ecce sicut oculi servorum in manibus
dominorum suorum, sicut oculi ancillae in manibus dominae suae; ita oculi
nostri ad Dominam Matrem nostram donec misereatur nostri. (Unto thee I lift up
my eyes, unto thee, who
dwellest in the heavens. See how the eyes of servants are fixed on the
hands of their masters, the eyes of a handmaid on the hand of her mistress! So
our eyes are fixed on Our Lady and Mother, waiting for her to have mercy on
us.) 94
Yes,
we turn our eyes to Our Lady of Fatima, requesting of her the contrition that
will obtain for us the great pardons, the strength to wage the great battles,
and the abnegation to be detached in the great victories that will bring the
establishing of her Reign. We desire these victories with our whole heart, even
if to reach them, the Church and the human race must undergo the apocalyptic –
but how just, regenerating, and merciful – chastisements she predicted in 1917
at the Cova da Iria.
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