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There Are Different Forms Of Anarchy And Different Currents In It. I Must, First Say Very Simply What Anarchy I Have In View. By Anarchy I Mean First An Absolute Rejection Of Violence.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).

It Is Not True That The Perfection Of Police Power Is The Result Of The State's Machiavellianism Or Of Some Transitory Influence. The Whole Structure Of Society Implies It, Of Necessity. The More We Mobilize The Forces Of Nature, The More Must We Mobilize Men And The More Do We Require Order.

If The Ruler Wants To Play The Game By Himself And Follow Secret Policies, He Must Present A Decoy To The Masses. He Cannot Escape The Mass; But He Can Draw Between Himself And That Mass An Invisible Curtain, A Screen, On Which The Mass Will See Projected The Mirage Of Some Politics, While The Real Politics Are Being Made Behind It.

Faith Lived In The Incognito Is One Which Is Located Outside The Criticism Coming From Society , From Politics , From History , For The Very Reason That It Has Itself The Vocation To Be A Source Of Criticism. It Is Faith (lived In The Incognito) Which Triggers The Issues For The Others, Which Causes Everything Seemingly Established To Be Placed In Doubt , Which Drives A Wedge Into The World Of False Assurances.