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...realms, each corresponding to a person of the Trinity. The Third Realm, said Joachim, was about to begin with the appearance of Dux e Babylone. (In terms of modern Gnosticism, the leader from Babylon would be called Superman or Der Führer, or "the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of the democratic centralism of the Party.") The Third Realm was to be characterized by wisdom, and after the Third Realm's beginning (set by Joachim for the year 1260), men would soon be so perfect that they would not need any Dux or government or discipline...
...Joachim's Third Realm corrupted the Christian idea by promising perfection on earth; it also transgressed the limits Plato had set upon the state and upon men's tendency to alter the higher truths of philosophy and religion to fit political or material ends. Militarily, Mongol absolutism entered the West through Hungary; philosophically, political absolutism re-entered the West through Joachim. Joachim's invasion was more devastating because the anti-Christian attempt to embrace salvation on earth went beyond Genghis and other primitive societies, and was to produce despotisms and perversions of truth worse than primitive society...
...Hans-Joachim Arndt, on a fellowship from Germany, adds, "Actually, the fascist party is laughed at in Germany. The American press has exaggerated its importance simply because of its existence...
Died. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, 67, Adolf Hitler's last Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Lenzkirch, Germany. Distantly related by marriage to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, chunky, affable, Roman Catholic Dieckhoff was required, as his first public act in the U.S., to chide Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago for referring to Hitler as "that Austrian paper hanger." After 18 months in the U.S., Diplomat Dieckhoff was recalled by the Führer in 1938 and never came back...
When the Allies allowed Bonn to have foreign affairs, Professor Hallstein, dressed in a worn tweed jacket and odd slacks, became the postwar successor to arrogant Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was no pro, but that fact was reassuring to Germany's unforgiving neighbors. To ease French fears that Germany might dominate the Schuman Plan, he quietly pointed out that the Ruhr will contribute more than half of the coal and one-third of the steel, but will have only two members on the nine-man high authority...