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unsoiled glory: Only the head <strong>of</strong> State has the right <strong>of</strong> life and death over<br />
the citizens <strong>of</strong> a nation, and only the executioner enforces it. He leaves the<br />
sovereign the prestigious part and takes charge <strong>of</strong> the part that is infamous<br />
[la part maudite]. The blood staining his hands does not sully the court that<br />
produces sentence. The executioner takes on himself all <strong>of</strong> the horror <strong>of</strong> the<br />
execution." (Denis Hollier, {The College <strong>of</strong> Sociology}, University <strong>of</strong><br />
Minnesota, 1988, p. 244) Thus, again, a variation on the same Martinist<br />
authority principle whereby the Head <strong>of</strong> State has power <strong>of</strong> life and death<br />
over the people. This is the meaning <strong>of</strong> executive power, in Cheney's mind.<br />
This is a straight internalization <strong>of</strong> Joseph de Maitre's role <strong>of</strong> the<br />
executioner, his justification <strong>of</strong> sovereignty by abjection. This is the point at<br />
which the extreme right and the extreme left meet, or as the synarchists<br />
would put it, in which the extremes must proceed to the great spiritual<br />
cleansing <strong>of</strong> society. In his own Martinist way, Bradley confirmed this as the<br />
politics <strong>of</strong> extremes: "Maistre and the College <strong>of</strong> Sociology could be called<br />
partners in extremity: at the heart <strong>of</strong> both <strong>of</strong> their works is a theory <strong>of</strong><br />
transgression in which politics is understood as the interplay <strong>of</strong> limits and<br />
extremes, but where Maistre generally defends limits, the College affirms<br />
extremes." (Bradley, Op. Cit., p.82)<br />
6.2 THE ACEPHALE SECRET SOCIETY<br />
The {Sacred Conspiracy} as it was called began <strong>of</strong>ficially in 1936<br />
with the creation <strong>of</strong> a secret society appended to the College <strong>of</strong> Sociology,<br />
and which was called Acephale. Although there is very little known about<br />
the {Secret Society <strong>of</strong> Acephale}, American and British Intelligence may<br />
have known all about it because one <strong>of</strong> its prominent members, Patrick<br />
Waldberg, was an <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>of</strong> the Office <strong>of</strong> War Information. In his written<br />
invitation to recruit Waldberg into Acephale, Bataille wrote to him that "The<br />
constitution <strong>of</strong> the secret society involved a ceremony <strong>of</strong> initiation, rites, and<br />
the acceptance <strong>of</strong> a changed way <strong>of</strong> life destined to separate adepts, although<br />
nothing would be externally visible, from a world that would be henceforth<br />
considered as pr<strong>of</strong>ane." (Isabelle and Patrick Waldberg, {Un Amour<br />
Acephale, Correspondance 1940-1949}, Eds. De la Difference, 1992, p.8)<br />
The secret society published only four issues <strong>of</strong> their magazine called<br />
also {Acephale}, which appeared from 1936 until September 1939, when the<br />
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