Vox Populi Vox Dei Quotes

Vox populi vox Dei

The modern mind has fallen into the heresy of democracy—that is, the ruinous error vox populi vox dei, that an abstract People are divine, and that truth issues from the ballot-box.

We hear the expression, Vox populi, vox Dei, that is, the voice of the people is the voice of God. There are a lot of people in America who believe that. They consider public opinion as the authority. However, the mass of people is a fickle crowd that will follow one TV personality after another. It will elect a man to office if he has charisma even though he may be the biggest fool in the world and utterly corrupt in his life. The voice of the people is the very worst basis for authority. I thank God that He is not going to let the world vote the Lord Jesus into office! If God were to put it up to a public vote, Jesus Christ would never enter into His kingdom. I rejoice that God will send the Lord Jesus to this earth to put down rebellion.

The difference between a monarch and a dictator is that the monarchical succession is defined by law and the dictatorial succession is defined by power. The effect in the latter is that the fish rots from the head down — lawlessness permeates the state, as in a mafia family, because contending leaders must build informal coalitions. Since another name for a monarchist is a legitimist, we can contrast the legitimist and demotist theories of government. […] Perhaps unsurprisingly, I see legitimism as a sort of proto-formalism. The royal family is a perpetual corporation, the kingdom is the property of this corporation, and the whole thing is a sort of real-estate venture on a grand scale. Why does the family own the corporation and the corporation own the kingdom? Because it does. Property is historically arbitrary. The best way for the monarchies of Old Europe to modernize, in my book, would have been to transition the corporation from family ownership to shareholder ownership, eliminating the hereditary principle which caused so many problems for so many monarchies. However, the trouble with corporate monarchism is that it presents no obvious political formula. “Because it does” cuts no ice with a mob of pitchfork-wielding peasants. […] So the legitimist system went down another path, which led eventually to its destruction: the path of divine-right monarchy. When everyone believes in God, “because God says so” is a much more impressive formula. Perhaps the best way to look at demotism is to see it as the Protestant version of rule by divine right — based on the theory of vox populi, vox dei. If you add divine-right monarchy to a religious system that is shifting from the worship of God to the worship of Man, demotism is pretty much what you’d expect to precipitate in the beaker.

Vox populi, vox dei. The voice of the people is the voice of god.

Toutefois, cette participation du peuple, c'est-à-dire d'hommes représentant la moyenne de la collectivité, à la spiritualité de l'élite ne s'explique pas uniquement par des raisons d'opportunité, mais aussi, et surtout, par la loi de polarité ou de compensation suivant laquelle « les extrêmes se touchent. », et c'est pour cela que « la voix du peuple est la Voix de Dieu » (Vox populi, Vox Dei) ; nous voulons dire que le peuple est, en tant que porteur passif et inconscient des symboles, comme la périphérie ou le reflet passif ou féminin de l'élite qui, elle, possède et transmet les symboles en mode actif et conscient. C'est là ce qui explique aussi l'affinité curieuse et apparemment paradoxale qui existe entre le peuple et l'élite ; par exemple, le Taoïsme est ésotérique et populaire à la fois, tandis que le Confucianisme est exotérique et plus ou moins aristocratique et lettré ; ou bien, pour prendre un autre exemple, les confréries soufiques ont toujours eu, à coté de leur aspect d'élite, un aspect populaire en quelque sorte corrélatif ; cela parce que le peuple n'a pas seulement un aspect périphérique, mais aussi un aspect de totalité, et celle-ci correspond analogiquement au centre. On peut dire que les fonctions intellectuelles du peuple sont l'artisanat et le folklore, le premier représentant la méthode ou la réalisation et le second la doctrine ; le peuple reflète ainsi passivement et collectivement la fonction essentielle de l'élite, à savoir la transmission de l'aspect proprement intellectuel de la tradition, aspect dont le vêtement sera le symbolisme sous toutes ses formes.

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Don’t trust anyone over thirty,” the 1960s radicals cried. “Don’t trust anyone under three hundred,” came Thomas Oden’s wise reply. “Vox temporis” (the voice of the times) is no more trustworthy than “vox populi” (the voice of the people) when set against “vox dei” (the voice of God).

When the poll closed the next day, more than 15 million users had voted. The tally was close: 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent in favor of reinstating Trump. “The people have spoken,” Musk declared. “Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.” I asked him right afterward whether he had a sense in advance of how the poll would turn out. No, he said. And if it had gone the other way, would he have kept Trump banned? Yes. “I’m not Trump’s fan. He’s disruptive. He’s the world’s champion of bullshit.