07 Jun New Parable: The Count and His Wisdom

A short story done in a type of monologue which examines a common political mistake: the attempt to build a coalition or unity by dialectic, deciding on allies based on opposition to some other party. The conservative dream seems to reflect a delusion that one can set the foundations of a lasting governing body by collecting a kind of “Island of Misfit Toys” and then requiring nothing of it besides that it secures power. As always, this has been the continual downfall of the monarchy since the days of Edmund Burke.

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The Parables of the Count and His Wisdom

A securely united body is founded upon a source for unity. This has been known since the time of Plato, who recognized one power and one principle as the basis for any existence. The body grows from one seed, with all its diversity in organs and appendages. Rivers coalesce from waters sourced by a spring or an elevated place. Even a tree with grafted branches requires a single trunk and a single root system. Never forget that the basis for anything actual can only subsist so long as its principle is firm. A unity is only ever as productive or strong as its underlying substance.

God sets forth unity by arranging, by His authority, the origin of that unity as beginning from one.

Saint Cyprian of Carthage, De unitate ecclesiae