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There's been quite a bit of talk recently online about the idea that a certain group of people holds power at the global level, controlling International financial institutions, major media outlets, universities. They censor dissident opinions, especially when those opinions, point out the nepotistic behavior of this kind of parasitical ruling elite. And these people are not a force for good in the world. That's the idea that people are talking about, and I think there's something to this. But I don't believe that the global ruling elite maps neatly onto any existing religious or ethnic identity. Not that there is no ethnic basis to the global ruling elite—I do think that bloodlines are extremely important to the people that rule the world and the meaningful players, I kind of surmise and conjecture, do trace their bloodlines back to some original identity that has held power at a global level for thousands of years. From the beginning of the Neolithic, perhaps deeper in the past than that.

That is not that much of a stretch if you trace the spread of the genetics out of the near East with the Neolithic Revolution. There is a massive disparity in wealth in those societies. An elite, a kind of semi-divine Anunnaki priesthood group, was monopolizing mating resources, physical resources. I think they had slave colonies; they engaged in human sacrifice. These people spread their influence and their way of life and their systems of domination around the world, and they went with their systems.

So where Neolithic technology spread, the elite bloodlines spread. Of course, there was, in my opinion, an original ethnic type that created this control system in the early Neolithic. When it spreads, however, there's a lot of mixing with indigenous peoples. It's not going to have a huge genetic signature—although you do see that, you know, the spread of these ancient near Eastern uh haplotypes and autosomal markers and such. They go all over the world. You know, there's been a massive kind of endemic diffusion from that Hub, coupled with not just Neolithic technology but the system of control that went with Neolithic technology.

In some areas, that control stayed very, very tight. In other areas, I think that control waned as it went East into the Harappan civilization. Ultimately, you had huge centralization of resources—uh, the cities were centrally planned, control of water was, you know, necessarily because it's an arid environment in Pakistan and Northwest India. That was controlled by the government ostensibly. As it moved South into the Levant, Egypt, that tight control of these ancient ruling bloodlines continued. As it went North, it resulted in a culture that had a huge degree of freedom.

So you had, as you go into the caucuses, the spread of Neolithic technology. You have like the laylee tepi culture, which is the first bronze smithing in the world. You have the Maykop culture, the Kura-Araxes culture. In these cultures, you get the first cultivation of wine, swords, column architecture—a lot of the stuff that we think of as like classical features actually comes from the south caucasus region from 6000 BC to around 3000 BC.

3000 BC, you have the Maykop culture. This is a super advanced culture for its time, probably still basically under the sphere of this Neolithic control system. These are psycho technologies employed by ruling elites to maintain order. We think of it as simply like Civilization, and it's normal, and this, you know, we don't think about it twice. The reality though is that people didn't used to live this way, and it started at a particular point in time with particular bloodlines driving it.

So, in any case, as the Kaykop culture interacted with step nomads and farmers, they weren't able to keep control, and you had a kind of franchise model of political sovereignty driven by the force wielded by individual bands of warriors on horseback. That's where things kind of got out of their hands. The Indo-European expansion, I think, is a result of the legal technologies, the kind of Technologies of mind control invented in the near Eastern sphere that spread into groups occupying the step. And they used this system, and it evolved in a bunch of different directions with Indo-European expansions.

That's not the only place I think the ancient Neolithic elite lost control, but you do see their genetic signatures in the caucus hunter-gatherers that went North. So again, elite bloodlines I think are transmitted even with Indo-European groups from that ancient Neolithic elite.

As you go west across Anatolia, I've pointed to certain sites like Aşıklı Höyük, which, based on like patterns of age at burial and sex ratios and the layout of the settlements, I took to be work camps. And then you look at the first city out there, Çatalhöyük—population around 7000—they use the same basic architectural techniques as what I took to be like work camps like Aşıklı Höyük. So I think what happened is there was a worker's revolt among this population of Anatolian hunter-gatherers, and those are the genetics that primarily went West into Greece, beginning the European Neolithic, and then spread with, you know, early European farmer genetic markers across continental Europe.

So there, there was also a spread of those ancient Neolithic bloodlines. It's interesting that the modern populations that most closely resemble early European farmers are Sardinians and Ashkenazi Jews. But they wouldn't have been that similar to the original population that started the Neolithic.

Now, of course, many people have speculated about the identity of the people who built Gobekli Tepe. I'm not going to go into all the evidence there. I am basically in line with Graham Hancock's thesis. Other people have pointed to these out-of-place artifacts like the Baalbek megaliths or, you know, some stuff from Egypt seems to be of a much earlier date. You can dismiss this if you want, but you know, look at Graham Hancock's work. I would basically just kind of piggyback off of what he has pointed to.

And yeah, it doesn't make sense that Gobekli Tepe is the largest megalithic structure Intel around 5000 BC—so 9500 BC, Gobekli Tepe is built, or maybe even earlier. It's the largest, most sophisticated structure for the next five thousand years, and it's supposed to be the first that hunter-gatherers built. Supposedly built by hunter-gatherers? Also, the earliest layers of Gobekli Tepe are larger and more sophisticated artistically than later layers. So if they're learning how to do this, they shouldn't be the best at it right when they start. That doesn't make sense.

Gobekli Tepe looks to me like some group arrived in the near East from somewhere and worked with local natufian populations and took in a lot of their genetics too, as well as taking in genetics from caucus hunter-gatherers and Anatolian hunter-gatherers. And as they spread east, of course, Neolithic Iranians. But in the case, some group showed up and built Gobekli Tepe because they already knew how.

Also, it's not just a megalithic work—there's Terrazzo, which is an early form of cement. This is right after the younger dryas, which is a dramatic and sudden shift in the earth temperature from 10,800 BC to 9500 BC. Right at the end of that, all of a sudden, people are making concrete and sophisticated megaliths with 3D sculptures built onto them. It doesn't add up, basically.

Of course, 9500 BC is also precisely the date that Plato gives for the destruction of Atlantis. I do think Plato was right in a number of respects. Plato seems to have like an eerie knowledge of prehistory. You know, correctly assessing that like the Greek language evolved out of more primitive languages that were similar to barbarians to the north. His suggestions about Eugenics or controlled uh reproductive systems that looks in a certain way very similar to what happened at Chateau Hayek.

People don't realize—the first city in the world, what I interpret to be this first Breakaway of a slave class—they traded children. From Dental evidence, from genetic evidence, the nuclear families, the households were not genetically related to each other entirely. They apparently, at least, swapped children, which is interesting. That doesn't vindicate that like this was a guardian Society, but Plato does say in the Timaeus, in the voice of Socrates, that this model of the Republic from the Republic is actually the way of governing of ancient Athens—the Athens that was around when Atlantis was around. And of course, the Athenians, according to Plato, defeated the atlanteans, uh, and you know, and then the natural disasters struck and all of that.

So Plato has a weirdly accurate knowledge of the early Neolithic, and there's no way to account for that. Also, he has the most sophisticated philosophical system in human history, and people still, you know, find that his solutions to many problems are better than any existing solution. Many of the smartest people in history have been platonists—you know, Leibniz was a platonist, Bertrand Russell in a certain respect a platonist, Whitehead is a kind of platonist—like massively influential. And you could say that's because Plato is just really smart, or he was tapping into Traditions that have a lot more weight behind them.

So that is kind of just starting with the Neolithic and the spread of civilization as we know it to show that the technologies that allow for massive population control showed up at a certain point in time in human history and spread with certain genetic markers. No ethnic type from those days exists, but there are certain genetic markers that are more common in Elites that do have their origin—or at least they show up for the first time in that region at that time.

Couple this with the model by Julian James, The Bicameral Mind. What he says there is that with the Neolithic, you had a new kind of mentality where people began to like interiorize the voice of the village Chief. When the Chief died, they were—and this is ubiquitous across many Neolithic sites—when the Chief died, he would be kind of partially interred. They would display him for a time to kind of feed him as if he was still alive. The bones would be interred so they're accessible. And Jane's hypothesis is that people actually continued to hear somehow the voice of the village Chief, and this was a necessary adaptation to life at higher than Dunbar's unit scales.

So when you had Villages of one thousand, two thousand plus, this bicameral mind feature allowed a greater integration because everybody constructed a kind of similar internal voice of the chief that developed into an internal voice of the gods. And so this is why like all ancient culture is pretty much used Idols. In James's opinion, these Idols were ways of kind of Awakening these auditory hallucinations. He points to neurological evidence even that there is a kind of corresponding region in the right hemisphere to the speech centers in the left hemisphere, and if you stimulate those regions in the right hemisphere, you do trigger auditory hallucinations.

So this is why it's a bicameral mind. There is the right hemisphere voice, which was like the voice of the Gods, voice of you know the village Chief originally, he says. And then left hemisphere—like my own personal inner narrative. Bicameral societies, uh, Jane says, were adaptive up until the giant settlements of early Sumer—someone who had like 20,000 plus citizens. The old bicameral psychotechnology of control didn't work.

I've speculated that this was not some you know darwinian selection pressure that led to this internalization—like thought, literal thought control didn't evolve spontaneously. It was a technology, a psychic technology that was used by the people who started the Neolithic, the same Gobekli Tepe priest cast.

Couple that with speculations on the nature of the Atlantean technology, and there's a whole literature on it—uh, you can go in a lot of different directions with it. But the general consensus that you're going to find is that they used some kind of sound-based technology. And you can go into like how certain megalithic structures encode proportions inherent to the Earth, and if they were meant to resonate with the Earth's native like resting frequency, then that would make sense. And they would be on at certain locations around the earth to act as a network.

Uh, you can look into like Ley lines. People doubt these things, of course, but there are some weird facts about the positioning of megalithic structures around the world and the way that they kind of geodetically encode information—in addition to the astronomical correlations that have been noted for decades in the pyramids or Stonehenge or these sorts of things.

There were some sound-based component, potentially. Another component was PSI Technologies—you know, paranormal abilities. And the best person to look to for this is really, at this point in time, Rupert Sheldrake. He has collected more studies and shown more evidence about telepathy, telekinesis than many others. You know, people who often dismiss this.

And I would say that the global ruling Elite have always known what technologies to suppress, what not to allow. You know, like Tesla's idea of harvesting energy from the earth looks very much like what many people believe the ancient megalithic Builders were doing. So they've always known what technology is to suppress, they would suppress, and they have suppressed.

Platonism as a philosophical system in recent times—the only time that platonism was openly accepted and embraced was a period of time where European civilization was independent of other influences from outside of their spirit. And once International—this kind of international type, uh, you know, Venetian Bankers, other identity groups—gained power in Europe, then platonism was once again suppressed. It was suppressed during the medieval period.

You know, what does Plato say in the story of Atlantis? He says that the Greeks are always forgetting their past because of these Perpetual disasters. If you were an ancient ruling Elite and you wanted to maintain control, and you started with these Advanced Technologies that other peoples did not possess, then it would behoove you to occasionally instigate cataclysms—or at least take advantage of cataclysms and be prepared for them yourself—to wipe away the memory of mankind.

That happened with the Bronze Age collapse. That happened at the beginning of the Bronze Age, even wiping out memories from a pre-Bronze Age civilizational period. So yeah, the same thing kind of happened with late Antiquity. And you know, it was a well—the Muslim expansions, I think we shouldn't underestimate the organizational principles behind that. Also like there is really interesting evidence about the nature of Islam itself—whether Muhammad was even a historical figure, was it actually an early branch of Christianity? There's a whole set of conspiracy theories you can get into with the origins of Islam. Or perhaps that was a certain psycho technology brought about by the same ruling Elite, used to kind of wipe the Slate clean on late antique knowledge, which became very, very sophisticated.

I mean, what were the late neoplatonists working with? They were engaging in theoretic practices. So there's three dimensions then to this ancient hypothetical technology: sound-based aspect (resonant frequencies), solubility facet, and there's also then Theory or God working—you know, making contact with higher entities.

I have said that I think the global ruling Elite are in cahoots with a certain very powerful spiritual entity, and that spiritual entity wants to suppress the ability of other spiritual entities to act on this plane. I'll just leave that, you know, where it lies.

But okay, to really understand why that would be the case, I think we have to go back to Neanderthal times. You have two competing strategies of cognition. 200,000 years ago in the Neanderthal World, they built very consistent and very sophisticated Technologies. They had artificial adhesives to attach, you know, their spear tips. They built boats. The artifacts that neanderthals made are very difficult or impossible for modern archaeologists to replicate. It's easy to replicate Homo sapiens Technologies; it's very hard to replicate Neanderthal Technologies.

And so I don't know if neanderthals themselves had any Psy ability stuff going on or sound-based technology stuff, but they did have larger cerebellums proportionally. The homo sapien strategy is more emphasizing cerebral activity—the cerebrum is more active when you're in reasoning processes; the cerebellum is more active when you're dreaming, in Mystic States. Homo sapiens Technologies varied at a much higher rate, so there's a lot more change. And Homo sapiens also existed in much larger social groups.

Now, apply this dichotomy to platonism and what Plato says about the nature of the psyche. So there is, in the divided line from the Republic, four epistemological faculties that we're dealing with. The shortest on the line and the least significant—most untrustworthy, but like best known to us in a certain respect—is the faculty of ikasia, which is like the Imaging faculty. That's what you get with sensation qua sensation—sensation as sensation itself appears through the Imaging faculty at ikasia.

Above that, you have doxa or pistis—opinion. And that's like when we apply an idea of what is causing the sense perception, so we're making claims about what exists and what does not exist. But that isn't sophisticated until you get to mathematical reasoning—dianoia—above the level of doxa or pistis. Not just conjecture, but you're making contact with the logoi of the Soul itself. These mathematical laws, logical laws, are in us intrinsically; we have access to them. And this is the level at which Homo sapiens excels.

Above that, the most significant is intellect qua intellect—the intuitive faculty that we use to ascertain the nature of the forms. This is what mathematicians use when they are formulating axioms for a theory. You can't prove the axioms of a theory mathematically using mathematical reasoning; it has to come from something underneath the level of, you know, an algorithm. No algorithm can generate the Axiom that it's based on, so you need something higher than that to get things off the ground. Also, you need something higher than that to access the forms themselves—like the true types in reality.

So perhaps the Neanderthal brain structure was better suited to intuit these forms in a very deep sense. That's why it's hard for us to replicate the tools they had. Smaller social groups because they didn't emphasize dianoetic discursive reason as much. They dealt perhaps more with like an immediate apprehension of musical tones. People have speculated that perhaps Neanderthals primarily sang rather than spoke—you know, I don't know about that for sure, but it's interesting nonetheless.

So you have these two different strategies. The homo sapiens Network—scalably, they operate as a kind of hive mind. And I think that these two groups converged um a few times in history—in northwest Africa, leading to the genetic stock that eventually led to like the Iberia marusian culture. This is a quite sophisticated culture for the time.

It happened contact happened in Egypt—uh, apparently. I've I've read that there were neanderthals in Egypt 70,000 BC. We can you know try to confirm that; I have not been able to confirm what this professor that I was listening to said about that. But in any case, they also converged in the Levant. And in these places, you got—minus Egypt because we don't think we know all that much about Egypt 100,000 years ago—but there were sophisticated cultures in the Levant, in northwest Africa around 110,000 years ago, the Eemian interglacial period.

So it got kind of warm; there were admix events; sophisticated populations cropped up. Whether these sophisticated populations continued in operation and maintained a degree of like networked power as this like Master race over others—uh, is anybody's guess. And perhaps they disappear; perhaps they don't; perhaps they move somewhere.

Neanderthals had boats at that time. We know that neanderthals themselves were on uh Crete a hundred and some odd thousand years ago. It's entirely possible that they did make it to the Azores Islands. Perhaps at a certain point in time, it was a much larger Island. Randall Carlson goes into a lot of evidence supporting that—he's with me on the whole the Azores Islands is Atlantis hypothesis.

In any case, these groups mixed. Perhaps there was Advanced activity in the background. They also mixed in south-east Europe—uh, I've preferred the idea that perhaps the Carpathian Sphinx, which is uh—well, you can watch my uh Atlantean hypothesis video from like way back. I'll try to link it if I can, or I'll leave a link in the description to that video.

But uh, the Carpathian Sphinx is a natural rock formation that was clearly influenced by humans touching it over a very long period of time. It's a high mountain valley with a bunch of caves that have great Acoustics and a bunch of natural kind of platforms for performance. If they had a sound-based technology, caves are going to be very important stages; natural stages will be very important. And the Sphinx is just a really neat rock formation that would have drawn a lot of you know curious neanderthals or early admix specimens.

Some of the earliest at confirmed admix specimens are found relatively close by to the Sphinx. Also, that area in the Carpathian Mountains—Romania, Bulgaria—is where a lot of the major cultures of the upper Paleolithic emanated from, like the gravetian culture. So I think something Advanced was going on there. I think there was a kind of Carpathian Sphinx cult that led to a different way of thinking. And maybe this was a more advanced group of Neanderthal-slash-admix Homo sapiens—very large brains, sound-based technology, maybe the psy abilities, maybe even theoretic practices at that time. Who knows?

I think ultimately the solutreans—we don't have solutrean DNA; we don't know for sure where they came from—but I think they probably will have emanated from this Carpathian Sphinx region. And they were one of the most sophisticated cultures—probably the most sophisticated culture of their time. I am on board with the solutrean hypothesis. Watch the lectures from the late Dennis Stanford; they are very compelling. People will dismiss this based on Wikipedia articles and cursory readings, but the resemblances are striking and very clearly evident in the archaeological record.

There were transatlantic migrations, so uh that would have put them—I mean, they probably would have been hopping around the ice sheet, but some solutrean people may have made it to the Azores. If not, you know, much earlier groups from North Africa or the Levant. So there are several more advanced groups that may—I mean, I don't know that we know the solutreans had boats, but they likely did have boats. The earliest Norwegian cultures did have boats; we know that.

I think people converged—Advanced groups converged in the Azores Islands. And in an island context, you do see an amplification of intense hierarchies for obvious reasons. I think you would see a Perfection of psychic abilities of control. And so I think this is where this stuff developed—in the warming period between 17,000 BC and 12,000 BC. That's where the really advanced stuff would have happened—would have happened in the Azores Islands.

And probably nearby sites will be found in northwest Africa. Maybe the eye of the Sahara is related to that. I think more advanced stuff will be found—although I mean, have you looked at the artwork from this solutrean period, early magdalenian period, from the Franco-Cantabrian region? Not just the paintings, but the rock art, the carvings—they're extremely sophisticated. So if some of these people made it to the Azores, they're expert sculptors, and they have more of that Neanderthal cerebellum—you know, Mystic intuitive way of—we can't imagine how they thought. They had different brains and much larger brains than modern people.

So the idea that, you know, if we can measure marginally some sensitivity to solubilities in modern-day humans, perhaps you know that ability could have been greatly Amplified if that was the main way that these people survived—perhaps. Or maybe it allowed them to climb to the top of hierarchies and breed more successfully.

So I think this develops in the Azores Islands. And I do buy the younger dryas comet hypothesis—or comets plural. I think the younger dryas was began and probably ended by comet impacts that were devastating. I think the Azores Islands would have been the worst-hit place on Earth. You know, North America was devastated; some of Western Europe was devastated. The Azores Islands would have been like Ground Zero of the devastation.

One of the most hospitable places during the younger dryas was the near East. So where were they going to go? They would have gone into North Africa—and we haven't explored the Sahara; it used to be green. It's very probable that there's a lot of post-Atlantean stuff from the Sahara desert. But one place they would have gone—where there were relatively large population centers that they could have interacted with, you know, took advantage of—was the near East. So I think that's who started Gobekli Tepe.

So they had—probably that group had much higher Neanderthal admixture. They had these abilities. As they diluted, though, their direct bloodline descendants—like of the Gobekli Tepe priest caste, the ruling Elite—their bloodline descendants would have gradually gotten lower and lower Neanderthal admixture.

The Atlantean group—the original type—I think the closest analog will be solutrean DNA, if we ever get it. Whatever that turns out to be, and it might surprise us. Right, the ruling Bloodlines are kind of diffused out through time. They lose these abilities that they used to have; they lose this Advantage—the ruling technology of mind control that they employed. They lose that ability.

Also, Isaac Asimov is an interesting science fiction writer and possible globalist Insider, and uh he brings in like these psycho Technologies of control in his Foundation series—just a cross-reference for you.

So the ruling bloodline was stuff used—that's why later on, like Egyptian pharaohs started marrying siblings. You know, the Bronze Age Elite all intermarried and tried to maintain the Bloodlines of these royal families because they were losing it. Technologies originated in more of this Mystic intellect faculty of the more Neanderthal atlanteans. They start to go back to use these Technologies; they know the Technologies. The Technologies are socially transmitted within their network, but gradually they shift in their cognitive style.

The direct descendants of Gobekli Tepe—they shift into this Homo sapiens dianoetic discursive mode. But that allows their Technologies to be transmitted without any individual mastering it. It used to be that everyone had to have—I hypothesize—like more of an intuitive direct knowledge of this sound technology or psychic technology or whatever it was. Later, post-Gobekli Tepe, as they became more Homo sapiens and less Neanderthal, they kind of distributed that knowledge in a resilient Network, developed new social technologies that were more based on that kind of mind control—dianoetic mind control rather than intellectual mind control, you could say.

And that's why the existing Elite are not the closest relatives in a certain sense from the atlanteans themselves—although they will be more the direct bloodline descendants, at least along a certain line. So they will know what technologies to censor, even if they cannot themselves employ these Technologies. And it would be incumbent on them to especially prevent a certain group of people from accessing these Technologies—the group of people that are most closely related to the atlanteans. And that would be Europeans.

The global Elite knew which Technologies to suppress. They had—they maintained, at a social level, memory of many Technologies, but they themselves didn't have intuitive access to the forms. And that's something that comes with that different brain structure, different uh spiritual makeup.

So in that way, I see platonism and pythagoreanism as a kind of resynthesis and Gathering of ancient Technologies. This is what the Ancients said about Pythagoras himself, about Plato himself—they went and visited the Chaldean priesthood, Egyptian priesthood, zoroastrians—the ruling Elite esoteric Bloodlines in all these places. This was transmitted to these philosophers.

And this system, I think, is going to be especially vital for the close relatives of the original atlanteans to ReDiscover some of these Technologies themselves and actually put it into use. So that's uh the relevance of platonism in all of this. It is rediscovering the ways that more Neanderthal types can Network intelligently and work together—not in the same kind of networks as more Homo sapiens groups and the global Elite themselves use, but a higher kind of networking.

That's what the platonic dialectic is for. It is for harmonizing thinking at a much deeper level. It's not, you know, setting everyone into order by the same algorithmic processes, but uniting on the same intuitions of the forms.

These are the two strategies. The one is going to be replicated with artificial intelligence—that and they bear the signature of their father. Right, this group—the Breakaway atlanteans. I mean, the atlanteans are already characterized as the bad guys in Plato's Timaeus. So these people were Fallen. This is what the mystics who talk about Atlantis all agree with—the atlanteans had fallen in a certain respect. They made contact with the wrong Spirit; they became influenced right by the wrong spirit.

That Spirit has been using them over the ages, eroding their character, making them uh less competent individually, but strengthening their Network. And he partially inhabits their social network—their grid of control, the Beast system. And he will finally incarnate in full form when AGI is developed, using that kind of dianoetic level of consciousness.

The alternative to that is a way of allowing the intellect and intuition to be harmonized in a group of people so that we access these abilities again. Like, that is one problem with people who believe more strongly in intuition—it's harder to like get them into thought control because they have such uh close access to the forms themselves. But that means they can be very fractious, and they don't listen to one another.

And this is what you see with Germanic peoples throughout history. You don't have one big unified Germanic Empire; never have; it never took off because uh it's just in our character. We trust too much in ourselves because we have this really strong connection to reality in a way that is hard to explain. Like, look at some of the early like steam engine Machinery or like 19th-century machine components. This stuff—literally, inventors and Engineers just understood at a very deep level without advanced equations telling them what to do. They like grasp the nature of these things. That's how Tesla describes his process of invention.

Obviously, you can achieve quite a bit. But unless you can bring those intuitions into a Harmony by a method, then it's just a bunch of you know atomized people, and you cannot melt in opposition to this other Force.

That's how I read history at a certain level. It's a clash not only between good and evil but two different cognitive strategies. And if you want the one to win out that emphasizes intellectual intuition—right, grasping of the highest level aspects of reality, making contact with benevolent Spirits, unlocking latent human potential, finding a human future—if you want that, then platonism is the way to go. That's how you will find your way back.

That's what I have to say. A lot of this was speculative; maybe some of it sounded crazy. I hope you guys enjoyed. Let me know what you think in the comments. Any aspects of this theory that seem convergent with other theories, let me know. Other data you think I should look at, let me know. Thanks, guys. God bless.

There is an ele­phant in the room of Chris­tian­ity.

Clear­ly, the "god" of the Old Testa­ment is not the same God as repre­sent­ed by Jesus Christ, wheth­er he was a real his­tor­i­cal fig­ure or sim­ply a fic­tion de­scrib­ing an ide­al hu­man

Samuel 15:3

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.

It is obvious that YHWH cannot be the creator of the universe if he regards creation in this manner.

If this be­ing YHWH is wor­shipped, then one thing is cer­tain: de­mon wor­ship is cen­tral to all three Abra­ham­ic re­li­gions, as they all stem from the same set of an­cient books. This is sim­ply a fact to re­flect up­on.

Not to ar­gue that fol­low­ers of Abra­ham­ic re­li­gions are e­vil.

They live in strug­gle be­cause they feel the spark of God with­in, but they are con­front­ed with cus­toms and com­mand­ments that must un­doubt­ed­ly feel wrong to them.

Chris­tian­i­ty, how­ev­er, ap­pears to play an un­u­su­al role in that it pro­gressed from e­vil to schiz­o­phre­nia, which seems to be a step for­ward.

In any case, it must be ad­dressed if we are to move be­yond the seed of e­vil and con­quest that re­mains a part of or­gan­ised re­li­gion.

How is it pos­si­ble that Chris­tians fail to per­ceive this deep schism in their own world­view, which would in­ev­i­ta­bly lead to their a­ban­don­ment of the Old Tes­ta­ment?

The word of Je­sus Christ res­o­nates deep­ly with any spir­i­tu­al hu­man, and his mes­sage re­mains clear e­ven af­ter 2000 years of be­ing per­vert­ed by var­i­ous po­lit­i­cal ac­tors.

Why is it so dif­fi­cult to com­pre­hend what Je­sus meant when he stat­ed he was the son of God?

Fear of ac­cept­ing a gift is a re­al thing, and this ap­pears to be an ex­am­ple of that. The gift of Je­sus Christ was to o­pen peo­ple's hearts and minds to the i­dea that we are all chil­dren of the same God who cre­at­ed ev­ery­thing, that we have noth­ing to fear since God is with­in us, and that for­give­ness is a­vail­able to ev­ery­one.

Why do Chris­tians still fol­low the laws of a de­i­ty that de­mands to be feared, e­ven if they have been giv­en ev­ery­thing they need to stop do­ing so?

You can be like Je­sus, Bud­dha, or any oth­er sage.

You have everything you need

Stop being used by powers that are spiritually abusing you.

Well, we have a very interesting subject this morning, and we'll pause for a moment because it involves a concept that has had considerable distribution in Christian mysticism: and that is, the problem of the soul. In the Bible, there is a statement that says: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. And there is another statement in another place that says: but the spirit returns to God who gave it. And the problem of the difference between these two definitions has been a confusion to theologians for a long time.

Actually, according to the ancient beliefs in these matters, the soul was a vestment: the golden wedding garment, the garment that was to be worn to the wedding of the Lamb, and actually was a phase of the magnetic field of the human body. In other words, the golden wedding garment, or the soul, was a construction that arises within the magnetic field of the human aura.

In other words, as the works of goodness, as the desire to grow increases, and the individual makes certain changes and improvements in his own life pattern, there are changes in the magnetic field. Gradually, there becomes a transformation, and there appears in the field a luminous quality which represents the goodness of our hearts and minds. This goodness increases as we increase in righteousness, and in the end, it becomes a luminous vestment within the magnetic field or within the aura. And when it attains to this great magnitude, it is called the golden wedding garment.

Now this is the garment of righteousness, the garment that is earned by the labors of the life. It becomes also part of the great protection which guards the individual from within himself, as he increases in understanding and insight. In all practical purposes, therefore, the story of the golden wedding garment, or the soul, is the story of the visible changes in the constitution of the magnetic fields of the human body which tells us of the unfoldment and development of the being that has that body.

Also, the aura, or magnetic field, does manifest to some degree in the visible world. And, the works of the golden wedding garment are the labors of righteousness. As the individual increases in spiritual integrities, these integrities become a part of his essential consciousness. They are not moods that arise and fail. If the growth is genuine, these moods grow and continue until the individual, in that life, is transmuted and transformed.

Therefore, in a sense also, the soul becomes the stone of the philosopher, the mysterious alchemical mystery of the transformation of all base substances into the gold of wisdom. Therefore when we speak of the victory of soul over circumstance, we refer to the growth of inner light over the pressures and problems of outer living. We find gradually that the strength to do it right develops within ourselves. We are not saved, so to say, by some outside force or by some legal or legislative change. We grow from within, and as we grow stronger from within, the adversities of the outside become less.

The golden wedding garment therefore, is also this mysterious elixir of life; one drop of which transforms 10,000 times its own weight. These terms which are used in mysticism to guard the secrets from the profane, are also in a way mysteriously correct, for they represent the tremendous increase of inward power resulting from the transmutation of the base elements of life.

Actually therefore, we have to realize that under normal conditions, we are of this earth, earthy. We are not bad, we are not evil. We are like all other creatures; we simply are made of certain substances and these substances gradually gain dominion over us, and we react to these pressures much as the animal does or any of the other kingdoms of nature. But these pressures, while they are present in the human being, are balanced by a tremendous power within the human being that is not present in the other kingdoms. In the other kingdoms, this greater power is left with group spirits or powers that protect orders of life, not individuals.

With human beings, however, the protection becomes individual. This is one of the ways in which we distinguish humanity from all the other kingdoms of nature. Humanity has the power of redemption within itself and each individual has the power of redemption within himself. He must develop this power and must strengthen it and must permit it to manifest out into his daily life. And when he does so, he achieves the transmutation of the base substances of his body. Now, base substances in this case, though, does not mean evil substances. It simply means matter, material, substance as it is in earth and in the ground beneath our feet. It is the natural substance of the natural world.

But the individual is not of this, though it may seem like plants, his root is in material things. Actually, as Plotinus tells us in his essay on the beautiful, while the roots of man are in the earth, the flower and the seed is in heaven. And the gradual growth up is told in one of the European folklore stories: Jack and the Beanstalk. The Beanstalk being the symbol of the spine with its various chakras and centers.

Actually however, the soul constitutes the sum of the things we have done well. It is the sum of the victories, little ones mostly, by which added together becomes the basis of redemption. The individual, in other words, must save himself. He cannot be saved by any outside power, nor can he be destroyed by any outside power. He must grow according to his own inward life and the powers that were bestowed upon him when he was set forth as a creature in this great world.

Each individual therefore, is building his own wedding garment. He's building his own soul out of his departments, out of his way of life, out of the parts of his nature, out of all these circumstances which occur to him every day. Life is a series of small victories over doubts, uncertainties, temptations. Wherever there is a victory there is another flash of light in the soul body. And gradually this body becomes luminous like the Christmas tree which Luther uses to describe it.

This soul body, then, is gradually building up, and out of its building comes the securities of life. Out of the power of this increasing soul body comes the power to still improve more rapidly and make further growth. The immortality of man is growing up in him in a mysterious substance. His bodies have a material immortality in the earth; his spirit has an immortality in heaven. And between these two is the soul, the bridge, the mysterious elixir of transformation which we find in our daily living.

I think it is well therefore, to remember that even small, nice things, nicely done are important. It is important when the unkind word is not spoken. It is important when the individual gives the small deed of goodness, which may be a momentary inconvenience. It is important that the person receives the insight and the wisdom to recognize that every small victory, added to all other small victories, forms the great victory which we call salvation.

Salvation is nothing therefore, but the victory of reality over illusion. The victory of the truth over error, the victory of unselfishness over selfishness, as in every case, is the victory over the negative by those things which are positive and contribute to the common good.

Therefore we think of the soul now as a mysterious, luminous vestment. And we know by going back to the ancient writings, and the ancient pictures on the walls of temples and in Scrolls of ancient times, that these pictures showing the robes of royalty, showing the vestments of the high priests of Israel, showing the wonderful garments of glory of the Indian sages. All these are pictures of this mysterious, magnetic, internal soul garment.

The individual, according to the ancient Cabbalists and mystics, cannot enter Heaven in the physical body alone. Therefore he must leave the physical and go forth in the robe of glory. And the robe of glory is first a plain white garment, the garment of innocence, the garment of purity, the garment of the effort not to do that which is wrong.

To purify the life, to live constantly in the light of reality. After a while this garment is given a further development, and in the description of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, we find the description of the garments of the priests, and of the high priests of the tabernacle, and the Temple of Solomon the King. We find similar descriptions in Egypt, also in India and China, mysterious, glorious robes, great and stately symbols, all of which were recognized about them physical representations of the invisible energies that emanate from a redeemed person.

Now a redeemed person is not one who is saved by something. The redeemed person is one who outgrows the limitations of which he has placed upon his own life. We all view ourselves in one way or another. We think of ourselves as well as we know ourselves. We look in the mirror and we say this is my self. And this is not true. What we are seeing is a shadow, and because of the eyes see only shadows, this is all of the being that we see.

A mystic or clairvoyant under certain conditions may see more, but for the average person, the visible form which we behold is the real self. It is this same self that dictates our appetites, that demands our attention, that requires that we fulfill its ambitions. It is this shadow that has an appetite which can result in physical ailments. It is this shadow that breaks homes, it is this shadow that breaks laws, it is this shadow also, that perpetuates the distance between the individual and the happiness and truth we are all seeking. So in this shadow is the power of darkness and it has no reality whatsoever. It has merely the fact that we do not have the eyes to see, and as (Jacob) Boehme says, those who have eyes let them see. Because all of these things that we talk about are available to the eyes of the soul, but they are not available to the eyes of the mind. And the eyes of the soul, to meet the old requirements, a development of faculties that are latent until they are developed by the unfoldment of the integrity of personal life. The magnetic field of the individual begins very largely as a physical support. It is something to nourish the body, to maintain it and to protect it.

Gradually as the time goes on after one embodiment or another, this magnetic field begins to register the moral qualities of life. It gradually begins to show the colors of good and evil. It begins to represent the part of us which is invisible and tells us the sad story of ourselves. The story of the individual who in the midst of a great wisdom remains untouched by the truths that he needs so badly. And in our present day, with the pressures and confusions of the hour, it is obvious that there must be a victory of soul over body. There must be a victory of cause over the effect. There must be a victory of realities over illusions.

Now we live largely in a world of illusions, and in a sense as we have a physical existence now, all the elements that make it up, all the habits that we have, all the institutions we maintain, the entertainment we choose the ideas of education we keep, all of these apart and what might be called the obscuration of ignorance. And they are part of the negative individual magnetic field. While we live in the negative field we react to the negative factors, and little by little these negative factors destroy us, or at least they impoverish the spiritual values within ourselves. Until finally inside of ourselves, the colors and luminous forms of the magnetic fields become clouded and dark and dismal.

The magnetic field of the narcotics addict is another pathetic thing. The magnetic field of the person who has no integrities, no values, who lives upon the surface of ignorances, is bad. And also, this magnetic field being negative, perpetuates itself from within itself, and little by little, the individual who has gradually become more and more vicious finds that his viciousness increases. And so finally he reaches a point where he must change or lose the values of the incarnations through which he has passed.

So there comes a time in this rather strange affair when there has to be a shift between negative and positive. There has to be the movement on the part of the individual to put his own inner life in order. He's going to have to realize that there is no way of escaping the consequences of his own misdeeds. He can escape the terrors of dictators and the terrors of the clouds and sky, but he cannot escape the catch of the terrors of his own conduct.

So little by little, the individual finds a pain arising within himself. The magnetic field is troubled, and in its trouble, it fails to support the personality. The magnetic field no longer personally develops and therefore it's not there to take care of health problems. The energies of the magnetic and etheric fields no longer protect the person against infections and things of that kind. Little by little of their positive power has been drained off. Little by little area every ounce of energy which they possessed has been misused until there is nothing left.

Under these conditions that comes always a time in the life of the individual where he must change to survive. And it very often happens that this change for survival is not accomplished until the deathbed scene. There before the end of everything, as far he knows, he suddenly realizes the fundamental mistake he has made. His faith is not great enough to reveal the fact that no matter what he has done, salvation is inevitable. He must go on until he grows up to what he should be. And while he disappears out of this life, perhaps in a very sad state, ultimate victory is inevitable. For everything that is created by the divine mind and the divine hand must come through it, must fulfill its purpose. It must achieve that for which it was intended.

And so we find that the individual, physically, shows gradually the results of a sellout. He no longer has good health, he no longer has peace of mind. He has fears, he has dreams he has nightmares, he develops all kinds of habits in an effort to encourage some kind of help or strength. But this type of strength, inspired by narcotics and alcohol, will never get him anywhere. Little by little, everything gets worse and worse, until finally the individual, stripped of all of his energies and powers by the abuse of them, comes to face himself. And he must do so.

Now we also have, therefore, another interesting analogy to make. After all, the world as we know it is also a being. The planet in which we live is a person. Not a person as we know it, but a person as an integration of various conscious attributes, sufficient to enable it to maintain its essential purpose: to support life in space. Now this planet also is subject to the results of the confusion and the misuse of power which we find around us every day. The planet has its golden wedding garment. It also has its magnetic field, its order, and its robes of righteousness, but it is also gradually damaged just as the person is damaged by the failure of the integrities of life.

Now in the case of the planet, that is somewhat different. The planet has a new relationship and that relationship is as a host, or as we might say, a guardian or a parent over forms of life which develop and unfold within it. So that the planet itself is really a place for things to grow and live and develop. Now when these things that are put here to live and grow and develop go bad, when little by little all of the opportunities that have been given by nature are perverted and misused, then the earth becomes ill. It becomes incapable of fulfilling its proper destiny. It cannot do for us the things that it should do because we have drained away all of its resources in misuse.

We have exhausted its strength, its beauty, its wisdom, its love, all of these things until there is nothing left. And we have only bodies, empty bodies with empty minds, and in those moments of great decision, the laws of life move in. The law says it is not possible to fail. There can be delays, there can be mistakes, but in the long run things must come through. That which is created by the divine power will never rest until the divinity within it gains supremacy over all the rest.

And so we have what we might call emergencies. These emergencies are wars, pestilences, they are health problems, weather problems, earthquakes, all kinds of indications of trouble. They correspond very closely with the nervous breakdowns of individuals. They have their parallel in the ulcers and the abscesses that torment us. They also, as we sweep through the sky, they have the migraines that are in space also.

In other words, a sick planet is more or less revealed in the sickness of things that live upon it. And those things that live by sickness and live on a sick planet must be corrected. They cannot be allowed to go until they destroy. It is possible, according to the ancient writings, for a race or a nation to vanish from its own misdeeds. But the life in that nation cannot vanish. The powers of living and growing go on. And there is not one single fallen angel that must not be redeemed. And so gradually, those things that fail utterly, fade away and in their place come new things in which there is a greater amount of integrity.

We are in such a state at the moment. Today we are facing again the result of continual abuse of resources. We are in the same position as the old alcoholic who has continually gone on drinking until he has nothing left but ulcers and pain. Years ago in the Klondike, was a successful gold miner who found it rich and lived riotously for a couple of years and got very ill. And the little paint from the puny doctor up there said there's only one thing for you to do; get to the Mayo brothers and have let them take care of it. So he went to Mayo brothers and they took about 2/3 of his stomach and they said to him if you live on milk toast for the rest of your life, you can have quite a few years yet. And he was so delighted that he went home, and on his arrival, staged a banquet for all his friends. They all got beautifully drunk together and the next morning, he was dead. Now this is symbolic of the way things go. And it is symbolic in a way of the plans of nature which are very simple, very obvious, but have strange truth behind them. An inevitable fact that you have to obey or else. Now when you find a country or a world as it is today, it is the same thing in nations and in planetary populations as it is in towns and in our private homes, always where there is something wrong, the inner life of the person is injured. And this golden wedding garment, this soul body which we are gradually building up, is damaged and delayed and frustrated by the excesses of a poor and unthoughtful generation.

We have every possible way to understand this. We have it every day. We have it in every newspaper. It comes to us every time we turn anything - this troubled world. But what the records do not necessarily tell us is the troubled individuals. The persons we know in the same block, practically under the same skin, we do not recognize as passing through the same kind of crisis.

The crisis in the person becomes the crisis in the race. And those mysterious powers that destroyed the lost Atlantis are gnawing at the roots of our civilization. Everywhere there has to be integrity or in time, when it becomes obvious that the individual or the group will not redeem itself, then it is put away and another takes its place. But that other is the same one with a new chance, a new opportunity and a new environment, but usually a more strenuous lesson.

So in the study of all these things, we sometimes also say to ourselves, why should we try to improve our natures? Why are we all studying in the effort to be a little more than we have been? We are studying very definitely, because inside of us is something that is suffering. There is pain in the heart, in the mind. There is worry, there is anxiety and there are constant compromises of integrity with bitter consequences.

All these things are happening to us every day and we do not know what to do about it. We feel that there should be someone to make a law to put these things straight. This is impossible because we cannot make laws for each other. We must make a law for ourselves and live it. And the only remedy for the problem is not to try to legislate out of it, but to get out of it through the positive application of principles to our own conduct.

And this is beginning to get more or less obvious. We are beginning to see that a beautiful plan is endangered. Endangered by the selfishness and cupidity of individuals. And that stupidity and selfishness arises from the magnetic field. This magnetic field is the first source of this sickness. It is the result of eternal compromise and eternal selfishness, unbridled ambition, every type of corruption and demoralization. These things have sickened the source of our vitality. They have sickened the invisible supplies which we require in order to grow and fulfill our destiny.

Now these ailments are well known to the ancients. We find in the various clinics of Hippocrates, and later in the writings of Paracelsus von Hohenheim, that the ancients were well aware that the great source of our pain is inside, not in the world. That the world suffers because we are wrong. And that we are suffering because not of the failures of the world, but of our own failure to put our own lives in order.

Now we have a new world civilization here today that is the most complicated that man has ever known. A civilization in which all kinds of conflicting ideas float about in the air, in which nations are ready to go to war to the death over wealth or power or authority. And this is just a little bit of an enlargement of the ruthlessness of the individual, who moving in upon a competitor, seeks to destroy him. The selfishness of the individual, multiplied, becomes a vast host of beings that perpetuate selfishness in space and all around us. Now the planet itself is sickened and the earth under our feet is corrupted.

Now there's only one way we can solve this and that is to make the changes in ourselves. And we can say, perhaps, what so what? Supposing a few of us do make these changes, how are we going to face the millions who are not going to change? They're going to go on and do it wrong as long as they can. Well, the answer is very, very simple. What they do they must face. But when we change, that change is personal and to ourselves.

No matter how bad the rest can get, we can get better. No matter how many mistakes they make, we do not need to make them. And the proof of the matter is that at the great harvest time, when it comes for us to go and join the ages in the sleep between incarnations, we will take with us everything that is good and nothing that is not our own can know us. Therefore even though in life we are penalized, in the great life of things we are rewarded. And it is better to be rewarded for the good things than to continue to suffer the penalization that we must all suffer while all these things go wrong.

So here we have religion. Religion, which is probably the world's most beautiful source of inspiration, divided into sects and creeds with various mysterious social changes, with wars and riots and intolerances of all kinds. Religion, which should be the source of unity and goodness, is likewise divided and that religion which is divided will fall just as all the other things fall. And when it does fall, people will say it was reformed by some mysterious divine power. It was reformed because each individual who understood the facts changed their attitude, and in changing their attitude, changed the destiny of the faith. Everything begins with the improvement of the individual. This is his realm, this was created for his perfection, this was put up into existence that he might grow and earn his place in the great house of the cosmos. Everything that is good was come through him, and it will come to him from the great sources of good.

And the great sages and the Rishis of the saviors who have come to teach mankind, have come to bring encouragement and strength and redemption. It is like the alcoholic, who becoming very badly sick, will bring in somebody to console him and try to help him to get over it. So he will bring in the physician or something who will tell him to stop drinking and try to help him to stop so that he can go out and redeem himself and go forward.

So there are physicians of souls who have come to help us. Not to do it for us, because they cannot, but to inspire us to make the changes ourselves which are essential to our well-being. Just a little change here and there in our social structure would cut down our divorce rate probably fifty percent. A little change in some of our rules about this and that would probably cut down most of the problems that we suffer the juvenile delinquency. These things represent neglected areas and we're waiting for something. We're waiting for laws and the government to change these things, but the only person who can change them is the family itself. It's the united gathering of the parents and the children, bound together to do what is right. And although there may be many who fall upon the right hand and many upon the left hand, the just family shall not be moved. All that the achievements we can make, if they are right, are immortal.

That is one of the mysteries of the old writings, that every time a truth was demonstrated it received wings, it became an angel. And truths become immortal, the realities become immortal and those who cling to them are those who live with them gain their own immortality. That which is true shall not die, that which is false cannot live. This goes through nations it goes through everything. It becomes part of our priceless heritage, it becomes part of our hope of glory.

So we know that today, we are at a critical point and that all the available resources of civilization must be united to achieve a positive transformation of our purpose for existence. We will not cease or perish if we do not make the grade, but we will go back again into a hard labor, into struggle and strife, to gain once more to the degree that we are now abusing the knowledge and wisdoms of life.

As long as there is selfishness, there will be pain. As long as there is avarice, there will be suffering. As long as there are hatreds, there will be sorrows. Every one of the negative things has to be overcome. And the old schools of wisdom set up discipleship and set up various rules and laws to govern the development of persons who wanted to grow, who wanted to be better.

And all of these were based upon the fact that the person himself had to make the effort. He had to really, sincerely decide. He was not even able to try to find out whether what he was doing was really right or not; he had to decide that for himself. But if he was right he grew in wisdom and understanding. If he was wrong he did not. If he did not grow, he had to try again. Everything has to come out of the sincere effort to attain victory over the self-centeredness and indifference that we find.

We are now talking a great deal about the fun generation. There's only one thing about it that seems to be important, and that is there isn't much fun. Very little. And there will not be much fun as long as this is the fun generation, because the effort for fun is not controlled by anything. What is fun? Mostly extravagance, much immorality, and all kinds of competitions and mistakes in labor and work, the entertainment field.

All these things are called the fun, and I can assure you from watching a little television now and then, that the fun in television is not very much. In fact, I hadn't heard a good comedian on there in years because good comedy has to be honest, it has to be true and it has to be good as Mark Twain pointed out. And what we call comedy is a snickering sort of thing, is never be going to be any good. And yet we spend hundreds of hours in front of these boxes, taking on the murders and the selfishness of our time. And we try against that, to take this little seed of immortality in ourselves and expect it to survive this constant and continuous bombardment of negative factors.

And each person can have his own way. Now I know for instance, over a long period of time, I was interested in having a little fun. After all, working with heavy problems can be rather heavy, and I realized that if it got too heavy, I wasn't going to be able to do what I should do. That I would get too tired, that I might get a little naggy now and then, or I might even lose my disposition, not that I ever had one, but there's always a possibility of it being worse.

Then I suddenly discovered the world of other things. The people that are now wandering around in all these fun actions are really not having much fun at all. They're really very largely spending money and waking up in debt. And those who spend enough money are waking up sick and those who are very wealthy are waking up dead. It is not a very progressive problem.

So, we suggest looking around. There are all kinds of interesting and wonderful things to do, things that help us to learn. And we can go back to the old guild system that dominated Europe for centuries, that there was there was a joy in labor, and also there were various ways of growing beautifully and pleasantly.

Remember the Meistersingers of Nuremberg. They were the actual regular workers, shoemakers and carpenters, all these people, but they formed music choruses and had a wonderful time with them. And all kinds of special celebrations and even the great gentry participated. Then they're all today, there are all kinds of things - music, art, fine literature - there are more kinds of things to collect, there are hobbies and everything by which you can learn something, by which you can grow, in which you can combine pleasure with instruction and come out of the whole thing a little bit better enlightened and with a new appreciation for the wonders of life.

But instead of that, we sit glued to the tube. And there we sit and watch mayhem that isn't even real, that is merely written, compiled, and presented for the simple purpose of selling products. It is a very bad thing. We are falling for it, but we must be as individuals, pull out of it.

And if we do pull out of it we will discover that we have never captured in it unless we capture ourselves. That there is no reason why the magnetic fields of the body should be contaminated. There are no reasons for why the individual has to lower his moral code in order to keep abreast of his time. If his time is below him, he must rise above his time. If there are things that he should be doing and he is neglecting, to have a fun that is never there, it is time for him to wake up. Now, the answer has always been you can't move all these people. You get one started and you put a law in and you think you've got something blocked and immediately, somebody comes up and objects. And there's a great big political system, a big congregation of voters and so forth, and of course in mass of this nature, the majority is liable to rule, the majority is liable not to be right. Therefore, that isn't the answer. You can't simply make a law against this, a law against that.

But what you can do, is make a law for yourself. And I believe it was Woodrow Wilson who said on one occasion, it is better to fail in a cause that must ultimately win than win in a cause that must ultimately fail. And we have this problem on our hands today. We have mixed up in a cause that must fail, and we cannot necessarily depend upon others to see it our way.

But we can try in every way possible, to contribute nothing to the decay of life, do everything that we can to make it better, do everything that we can to make ourselves more fit for the job that is ours. If we could see the invisible structure of man, a tremendous amount of vibratory power there, the ages that were necessary to build all these bodies and vibrate them and vitalize them so that we could produce a standing, thinking, feeling creature that had within itself the germs of its own immortality.

We have all these things but we have not kept faith with them. And because we have not kept faith with them, we must now go back and start over. And we cannot be blamed for doing what is right ourselves. If the world doesn't like it, it won't bother us because we are only one person.

But that one person, being right, is the secret of the beginning of righteousness. For in ancient times, there were a few who were the great souls that led. Today, we are in a different world. We are now in a world in which great Souls must arise from the common people of the earth, and in so doing, will make the simple laws of humanity dominant over the artificial laws and practices of our generation.

I think we have to therefore recognize that it is our part to build this soul body. That it is within our right and our privilege to control the development of our own inner lives. Although all others may be unhappy, we may still be a little unhappy, but if we are doing the best that we can, there is a certain reward. A good deed is a prayer, a bad deed is a curse. We've had too many curses and not enough prayers.

And a prayer for good is in the simple things we do to help a person in trouble, to help our own children to stay within the principles of integrity, to start them out right and not allow them to follow in the ways of our own slipshod behavior. Everything that we can do as an individual, we can do without much probability of being punished for it. Whereas most of the things we are doing now, punishment is inevitable and obvious.

Let us try doing it right. Let us try to be one with progress, one with the law. And in the mysterious wedding of the Lamb, which is described in the book of Revelation and which is part of our Christian heritage, those who attain the golden wedding garment come as great hosts of souls, luminous and beautiful, to attend the marriage of the lamb.

And this is the idea of it all. The marriage of the lamb is simply the union of the individual soul with the world soul. And the return of the individual spirit to the spirit which is all spirit, always and forever the guiding power of life.

We do not know where our life is going exactly. We know where it will go for a time at least if it doesn't change its ways, but we do not know what lies ahead for the human being. But all of the great teachers of the world have given us a radiant, glorious picture of that which is waiting us. They've always given us the vision of that which comes to those who transcend the errors and follies of their times. And we have been given several great religions, which may differ the names they have given, but are essential and identical in their teaching. That it's only those who live the life that can never know the doctrine.

So in little ways we can start living it, and into living it little ways we will grow in righteousness. So this is our job, this is nothing so terribly difficult. All we have to do is to prepare to live quiet, moderate lives. False ambitions have slayed the ages. The glory of Alexander is gone. Caesar is dead at Pompey's parlor. Hitler and Mussolini have gone their way. All of the great dictators have left, and left nothing behind but monuments to sorrow.

Little dictators have the same fate. Those who create a business and then bankrupt it for profit, all kinds of efforts to grow rich over the poverty of others, all of these things are part of the way of life that has come to too many people now, though a way of life that has resulted in the fact that our ingenuity has outstripped our integrity.

We can invent many things, but we do not know how to use them. And that which we do not use, we will abuse. Once upon a time, there was a Roman who digging in his garden found a pot of gold. And he wrote a letter to the Emperor and he said I have found a pot of gold - what shall I do with it? And the Emperor wrote back and said use it.

And the man wrote again to the Emperor and said, Sire, I do not know how to use it. And the Emperor replied, then abuse it. And that is exactly what happens. We have so many ways of getting things, but not very many good ways of using them. To have a thing means a power, when in reality it is an opportunity to grow, and unless we make more use of these opportunities, things are going to get worse.

Now we face a few years and a great transition. There is bound to be a major change - we're asking for it, or if we're not asking, we're acting for it, we are demanding it. And out of this is coming some very interesting things. It isn't all bad news. There are some tremendous efforts being made now. People are growing as they haven't in a long time. There's a certain and definite reason for believing that the individual is beginning to know that he is not something with a free will in space, but that he is a creature under law and that this law is a law of wisdom and mercy.

More and more the individual is becoming aware that out of his own integrity must come his own salvation. Realizing this and living accordingly, we can make a very powerful and positive contribution to the future of our people. There is no reason why we cannot do something every day to justify the belief that we are really working for a good cause.

Now, as we here are trying to do a little something to help out as much as we can, and we are most grateful for the wonderful help we have received. And we finally discover that in our own little world, there are people who want to live well, who want to do better, who want to think better, who want to add something to the substance of life. They are tired of the bridge party and the drink fests, they are tired of the waste and luxury and the morning-after. And they are more and more hurt by the ravages of narcotics.

And now, morality has come in and the sicknesses of immorality weigh heavy upon the race. We are in the midst of great evidence of being wrong. And we are also well shown what is right. This is the dedication of some part of our life to usefulness. It is to maintain the things. We have great emphasis upon freedom, upon individual rights, the individual has the feeling that he is perfectly justified in walking out on his family, deserting his friends, and turning against his nation, simply because he must be free.

What is freedom? To him, freedom is the gradual building of a cage, which once it's captured him, he's worse enslaved than in any other way. Freedom is really a form of self-slavery for most people. It is the individual putting his own likes and pleasures ahead of the common good and his own well-being.

So these answers are not practical in our time, and we're looking around and we're seeing the gradual development of religion in a new way. We are coming closer and closer to a unity of faiths, which will be a tremendous step in the right direction. We are also coming to realize that religion is not simply attending a place of worship; it is bringing the truths of life into the home, into the family, and into the business.

The real religion is in the shop, in the house, in the school, in the hospital, in the courts. The religion is not something to talk about theology, it is to live the golden rule, to keep the ten commandments, to realize that regardless of all our sophistication, we will never be able to outgrow the Decalogue or the Sermon on the Mount.

These are inevitable and eternal fixtures. We can break them, but we suffer. We can keep them and we will get well. And this is something each person does for himself. He does not do it because his neighbor has done it, or because the community is doing it. Maybe he hopes it will, but even if the community is doing it, unless it is a personal dedication of his own, it will not bring an end to his own misunderstandings and misuses of power.

So we hope that everyone will remember a little bit that this golden wedding garment is also, according to St. Paul, the garment of divine love. It is love rising triumphant. It is the proof that when we really sincerely love, we serve. And when we really, really love, we give. And when our emotions are false, we take. So in this, we have also the inspiration but for most people love has been paid a stranger. We hardly even love our own anymore if they interfere with our ambitions. We will desert those nearest to us if they hamper our freedom. Everything must be freedom, but no human being who is ignorant is free. And no human being who can be free, who holds immoral, unethical or materialistic institutions as important.

We all have to recognize that freedom is the privilege to be right and that this privilege belongs to us all. And the reward of it is freedom from the disasters of our mistakes. And there is no way we could ever win this battle. Look at the sky, look at the stars. We can go a long time before we can rule them, or go out and even explore them, or take a chance to visit one of them without imperiling our own lives.

We cannot change the infinite, but we don't need to because the infinite is right. And we have no rightness greater. And the infinite is infinite love, infinitely manifested throughout infinite time and infinite space. And in this divine love we live, and as we live it, gradually it moves into us and becomes this radiant body of the soul.

And the soul is the love in us becoming the love in humanity for all that lives. And when we have developed this and become part of a universe of love, we will have no more worry over the sins of the flesh. They will correct themselves beautifully, the little children will not be deserted, they will not come into the world sick to death before they are hardly born.

These things must change. A genuine regard, coming from within ourselves, will not only help this but when we begin to practice this, the light of the soul inside of us will grow brighter and brighter until soul power becomes master over all the brute force of the world as it was mentioned by Mohandas Gandhi, so that all things are safe only when love makes the rules.

And these rules made by love found in all the great religions of the world and also are inevitable and eternal in the human heart.

Why don't you do a little deep dive into Plotinus, in our library?

Mind map on Neoplatonism

Mind map on Plotinus

First of Plotinus' Six Enneads

We live in an overly materialistic world that is currently obsessed with the illusion that reality could be reduced to that which can be proven.

After decades of scientific stagnation, nobody really wants to admit that scientism has turned into a religion and not into a particularly appealing one. The average person literally understands science as an authoritarian system where truth trickles down a hierarchical system and where lack of evidence for something is equal to disproving something. “Trust the experts” and “Do you have a source for that?” are nothing more than an expression of the fact that the current order is ruled by anti-spiritual midwits.

Reality, however, is something that is deeply obscure, and most of what is real will simply never be proven in a materialistic way. It’s simply not possible, and it’s a foolish assumption.

In order to delve into topics like the nature of reality and the origin of consciousness, we MUST accept that there are different ways of knowing than simply looking at evidence and deductive reasoning. Evidence and deductive reasoning will never conflict with the truth, but neither will they bring to light any new aspects of reality. Materialistic reasoning has reached its limits with what it can accomplish, and anyone who is not satisfied with what it has delivered in the last couple of decades must either turn back to knowledge that was lost in the past or develop new forms of knowing altogether.

Intuition is one of these forms of knowing. 

When you know something but you don’t know how you know it. It’s a form of knowing that is more powerful than evidence-based knowing, because when you know something as a function of data, there’s always a chance that your data was wrong and you therefore drew the wrong conclusion. When you know something intuitively, there can be no doubt about it. 

However, intuition works very differently than evidence-based knowing. In order to increase the amount of evidential knowledge, you simply increase the amount of evidence you look at. Intuition cannot be invoked in a similarly mechanistic fashion. In order to increase the amount of intuitive knowledge you have, you must train yourself to trust your intuition. You don’t increase the amount of intuitive inspiration, but you decrease the number of times when you fail to recognize your intuition.

Becoming a more intuitive person is a deeply spiritual journey that will necessarily lead you on a path of synchronicities and mysticism. You will not see things that you didn’t see before, but you will see what they mean, when before you thought they wouldn’t mean anything.

It’s not like seeing a tree for the first time, but it’s like looking at a forest and, for the first time, realizing it’s made up of trees.

If you’re trying to find the divine in your life, it’s not like invoking something new that wasn’t there before. It’s understanding how it was always there, but you missed it.

To learn to experience and to trust your own intuition is to strengthen your spirit both in perception and in manifestation. It’s a deeply alchemical and transformative process that will lead you to understanding the true meaning of the word gnosis.

Gnosis will never conflict with more simple forms of knowing, but it’s a form of superset of knowing. It is not a form of learning something new but a form of integrating what you already knew the whole time.

If that’s what you’re looking for, then you are who I built this place for, but I am not here to tell you what I know. I am here so you can discover what this place can do for you and attain that goal on your own.

Check out Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson summed up in a single chart.

https://www.theagora.space/library/mindmap/1

On June 23, 2025, Gurdjieff raised his pen from the grave to conclude the work he set out to finish, marking the dramatic - and unexpected - ending of his essay: "The Outer and Inner World of Man."

For context, readers will want to review the last pages of All And Everything Series 3: LIFE IS REAL ONLY THEN, WHEN I ‘AM.’

Continuing from the last paragraph where we left off,

“And so, among the people with whom I come in contact, the formation of the psychic factors necessary for the manifestation of attitudes diametrically opposed to me must inevitably occur in the following way:”

At the moment of this writing, the understanding created through the process of teaching real, exact “principles” in exact accordance with the structure of our cosmos, where I had next intended to elucidate the knowledge contained in the preceding “megacosmic” metaphor with the reader’s “microcosmic” position, that is, his position as a many-colored lamp as it were.

Instead, upon directing my psyche to mentate on these two aforementioned worlds from (the place of) my third world, the sharpness in contradiction between these two worlds (as a pair) in such drastic contrast with my third world -

At once observing this striking pair created such a brightness in my psyche that this white-hot illumination was forced to spill over into my third cup, to reveal to me for the very first time the degree of vivifying-ness of my own metaphorical cosmic concentration, and its general incompatibility with both the floating connection of interconnected wires and perhaps even in what is called the life of man.

I see that the intensity of the manifestation of my “psychic formation,” that is, the structure of laws created from the conscious initiative I used to impress upon others - just in the same manner as my previously mentioned repealed “hypnotic influence” -

Such intensity does not cause a blending or fusion as it does in mechanical life, and I see the reason why “pressing the most sensitive corn” has become increasingly less viable over this duration of time.

And, Dear Reader, as I have promised to disclose to you in generally accessible understanding, is here in the words of my unwitting accomplice:

“The vibrations given off by one light, if they are active, that is, of greater radiations or intensity (volume and quality) then those relative to lights nearest to it, then those vibrations will surge through the wires connecting them.

This new inflow to the receiving light will fill up to the limits of its totalities. The possibility of a change in atmosphere

( As a reminder, atmosphere which can dynamically change based on one’s present state, changing the possible spectrum of color and possible volume of expansion )

is dependent on an affinity, this affinity is in accordance with a relationship concerning

Degree of Contradiction between two lights and Distance (Intimacy) + Time.

Equations for this relationship can be easily generated.

The possible affinity or possibility of fusions between two lights for a change in the receiver’s atmosphere is based on, how similar the two lights are, the proximity of those two lights running counter to duration of time.

The receiver’s cup will fill at a speed based on their difference.

The cup will fill faster if there is a greater degree of contradiction.

The cup will fill faster based on prolonged duration of proximity.

And because nature is not wasteful, returns diminish and become negative after the receiver’s cup is full.

One can gain understanding from this if they consider why the followers of an awakened being usually do not awaken, while passersby making contact with an awakened being only in a few chance encounters in a lifetime often become awakened themselves.

I must say that if you observe how cups with varying degrees in quality come to meet, you will see the Law of Accidents in action, and know why it is that people in relationships meet at which moment.

And, why meeting at the “wrong moment” or in excessive duration is wasteful, harmful, and gives negative results. Thousands or millions of people know this innately and many privately have worked it out themselves.

Back to the formula at hand, we can imagine it takes a duration of time for the increased volume in the receiver’s cup to travel down the next wire to the next light.

What a waste it would be for a person with a high degree of quality to pour into a person connected to only 20 wires (or at least to have only 20 others in their regular vicinity.)

What potential gain to pour into one who connects to thousands or millions of wires (such as one like Ouspensky!)

Although there are significant limits, and although it is only suitable for “the first and second baptisms,” stages of human development, we can see why Gurdjieff “turns down his pitch” by directing his efforts into written form; into books.”

Having taken from my disposed of accomplice, refer back to what I have said:

The diametrically opposed actions from others towards me, and the duration of contact I have spent with them - in spoken and written form.

From The Author:

We know that a Conscious person can measure their life in breaths, and Gurdjieff writes that he has 1-3 years to live. Anyone who has read his work can work out that at the moment Gurdjieff calculates the cost of effort in explaining the principle he outlined in relation to the people with which he comes in contact, he determines he cannot afford it. He will not die like Mozart to complete Requiem.

We do not make decisions for a singular reason.

We make a number of considerations and derive from them a conclusion, a conclusive decision.

With that in mind, we can consider that Gurdjieff could at least reasonably expect that “after my death the principal aims of my life would be.. realized.” From this quote I have removed the word “certainly”.

Yes, his previous writings could be understood exclusively by those readers acquainted with his language.

Yes, he had not published in a way that is accessible to everyone.

Yet, by evidence of his quote (see the beginning of All and Everything Series 3,) his first series of writings contained his complete - or most of his - teaching in “stone” form.

Then as it is for a man who puts the world on his shoulders, there is consolation in recognizing that his students certainly have no trouble with general speak, and may be able to carry on these Conscious Labors.

Note:

No A.I. or any similar technology was used in the production of this content.

A video attempting to conceptualize initiation as the beginning of the process to the transfiguration of one's "Being".

The supremacy of the Dark Elf is a perennial truth, born not from whimsical preference, but from the inherent ontology of this magnificent race. One must bask in the glory of their stature, for the Dark Elf is a testament to the paradoxical beauty of the sinister, the allure of the forbidden.

In their obsidian skin and platinum hair, we find an aesthetic beyond good and evil, a sublime marriage of light and darkness. The Dark Elf defies the limitations of moral dualism, teaching us that what is conventionally deemed as ‘darkness’ can, in fact, reveal itself to be a fertile ground of knowledge, seduction, and beauty.

Yet, it is not merely their stunning visage which elevates the Dark Elves above all others. Their aptitude for both martial combat and arcane magics provides a dual mastery that other races can but dream of attaining. This fusion of power stands as a metaphor for the Dark Elves' unique position within the realm, as beings who freely traverse the boundaries of the forbidden, the sacred, and the arcane.

Ah, the sweet intoxication of their unapologetic embrace of sensuality and cruelty! To desire a Dark Elf is to long for the perverse pleasure of indulging in the exquisite pain of their domination. To worship the delicate curve of their ears, the sleek darkness of their limbs, is to succumb to a divine torture unlike any other.

Theirs is a society built on the ideals of strength, cunning, and ruthless ambition, untethered by the constrictions of a false morality that plagues lesser races. They dance on the precipice of chaos, harnessing its energy to fuel their desire for power and their lust for life.

In the end, it is their unfettered will to power that cements the Dark Elves' superiority. They grasp for greatness without remorse, their hands unshackled by the fear of repercussions, for they understand that life's essence is the relentless pursuit of desire. Thus, they are truly Nietzsche's Over-Elves, transcending the limitations of others to embrace the raw potency of existence.

Beware, dear reader, of the intoxicating seduction of the Dark Elf. Once you have tasted the sweet poison of their sensuous darkness, no other fantasy race can ever hope to compare.

Compilation of powerful ideas from three brilliant minds — Federico Faggin, Bernardo Kastrup, and Chris Langan. Each of them offers a unique perspective on consciousness and reality.

Miguel Conner is host of the Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio podcast. He has authored two books of interviews about gnosticism, Voices of Gnosticism and Other Voices of Gnosticism, and also four novels. His newest book is The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King.

His website is https://www.miguelconner.com

Here he explains the origins of Gnosticism in late antiquity. He describes how it impacted both the Christian, Greek, and Persian worlds. He discusses the influence of Gnosticism upon a range of modern thinkers and writers. And, he distinguishes Gnosticism from other similar movements including Neo-Platonism and Hermeticism.

Thirdeyetyrone speculates on the nature knowledge itself. Knowledge appears to be directly related to space, but what exactly is space? Perhaps what we call space is actually the body of a higher cosmic principle. Can space have a face?

A very wholesome documentary about an old guy who dedicated himself to building the perfect guitar.

Engineer Karl Sandvoss has a dream: He wants to revolutionise the music world by creating the best guitar. The Düsseldorf native spends 50 years researching the perfect method with silent perseverance. After many ups and downs and a fortunate circumstance, Munich's master of guitar making Vinzenz Bachmayer joins in, who breathes first life into the guitar. Despite Karl's declining vitality, the two face the competition to reach their goal faster. Will the goddess of fate beckon to them again?

The "Green Planet" belongs to another solar system. Through the simplicity of their lifestyle those who live there are a real step ahead of us: they spend their time concentrating their knowledge, strength and energy on the development of their minds and bodies in a natural environment which they dearly preserve and care for. Once a year, they gather in the crater of a dormant volcano to decide which planets they ought to send messengers to. There are volunteers for every planet except Earth, which is considered too polluted and too dangerous.

Só my friends a litlle present for my love tô The earth and The soul.

Full movie in this link enjoy

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