Mandate of Heaven . . . . (it's all the same)

 

天下 Mandate of Heaven

This is the mandate, that beautiful notion, the perfection of that which is in the historical. What is the difference between mandate of heaven and manifest destiny or divine providence?  It is that which comes about through no metaphysical being, but rather is the resultant in history.  The Zhou were the first to reference 天下 as that which is meant to be when a ruler won a battle. It was, to put it in a way that we can understand the sense, ordained. There was no personage in heaven or willful nature which ordained the result. This is a very difficult concept to portray in Western ideas or language. Just as the heart of perfect wisdom sutra states, “form is emptiness, emptiness is form,” so too the mandate of heaven is a concept of unusual meaning, for the Westerner.  Bottom line, there may be no equivalent in English, but it seems like that it indicates the winner gets to define history. Sound familiar?

It is no wonder that, in a world where brute force wins the day, each winner gets the honor the privilege to be the king of the hill and the definer of everyone else’s reality. These ideas revolve around one thing, POWER!  This can be duly noted without the help of dialectic. Each understanding of why things are the way they are is inferior to the process that gets us there.

Providence, manifest destiny, mandate of heaven are all the same, men’s justification for making history what at it is . . . .     

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