The Irish Origins of Civilization

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INTRODUCTION

A “Wild-Child” discovered living among beasts in the forests may be removed from his environment and, in a relatively short time, be tamed, tutored, and made into a veritable gentleman. From the jungle to the ballroom, it has been done.

There are striking examples of this radical process of conversion and acculturation. Anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists have closely observed Wild-Child’s development with marked approbation, while Darwinists enthusiastically likened the adaptation (however hastened) of the once primitive specimen to the evolutionary ascent of the species. Regardless of the edification of scientists we can glean one simple point - a man, even a very primitive man - can have his behavior and personality shaped and changed. His essential character can be altered by the persistent and deliberate application of conditioning techniques. It matters little whether these impositions are natural or unnatural or whether they are moral or not. What matters is that a man is changed. Once-upon-a-time he was one thing and then, after interference, he becomes something else.

Naturally, psychologists are all too aware of the myriad factors that operate to acculturate men and women of the world. They perpetually study and index them. It is quite the subject matter of many discussions as to how humans have been conditioned and shaped, not only by nature but by the artificial environments of their own manufacture. We are conditioned and we are conditioners. What is slightly less a matter for the conventional staff-room and laboratory is the question of how larger units of society might likewise suffer being controlled and manipulated by external interference. For some reason this question, which is asked by few, has rarely been the topic of open analysis. If we were advocates of the theory of mass control we might point to this relative hesitation as significant proof for the manipulation we suspect does indeed occur.

When the subjects of mass control and social engineering are broached, we encounter various responses. When it is proven to exist, Communists and Totalitarians, and those of their ilk, are wont to excuse it saying that it is inevitable. They stress that man, once left to his own devices, inevitably behaves as a debauched and reckless miscreant and that social controls are most definitely required to restrain his anti-social drives and to maintain structure and order. There are many such rebuttals and arguments that get pitted against those who question the problematic topic of human freedom. Perhaps, some will say, man can and should be free in certain areas and not so free in others. Others will muse that man is moving toward some wondrous utopian pinnacle and that his development toward that place of sublime all-knowingness and all-goodness must be caretaken. Social midwifery is necessary, they will cry, since leaving man to his own devices could delay and even prevent the great noetic transcendence. Whatever the case may be, and whatever arguments for or against social engineering, it is perhaps a needed step forward to entertain the idea that it does occur and that it is an ongoing phenomenon.

Although there is some healthy acknowledgement of social control, and some erudite researches concerning it, we appear to live in societies that are predisposed to reject and deny conjectures, theories, or revelations concerning the deliberate, artificial, and perhaps malicious manipulation of groups and societies. This denial is the accepted prerogative of the closed-minded person who prefers to inhabit a “one-season” world and to imagine that he or she is the principle architect of their life-path. It is a comfortable notion to be sure and one that will not be contradicted. For most people it cannot be contradicted regardless of evidence presented. It is almost impossible for a hypnotized, mind-controlled, illogical, desensitized, or psychopathic person to be aware of their own error or dementia. And even those normally adjusted people are hesitant to see what is in plain view because of the depth of their embedded programming and because they were so young when the conditioning began. It is not conditioning at all to them. It is natural and needed adjustment and no other possible mode of life is any more normal to them. Other kinds of lifestyle within the world-as-is may be desired, and all sorts of modifications are permitted in order to make the mentally and psychically incarcerated feel accommodated within the false reality. But to condemn the whole rotten edifice that prevents men from true maturation, is to encounter marked agitation and resistance from those who believe they have so much to lose should their ideas of reality be challenged.

To offer critiques concerning the five-senses reality is to come up against every one of the innumerable defenses that define the anatomy of the human ego. As the Freudians know, the human ego is little more than a mass of defenses. The Ego-Ideal and Super-Ego (complexes within consciousness) defend against content threatening to ego autonomy. The ego’s defense apparatus operates in this way even at the cost of higher forms of expression and awareness. The defenses operate to secure the image that one has of oneself, even if the image has been largely implanted by external authorities. Indeed, the Super-Ego has been regarded as the psychic representative of external authority. And interestingly, its nature is binary. There are permissive defenses and prohibitive ones and, like most biotic functions, they operate unconsciously. These various ego-settings came into existence due to the titanic forces that beset our ego-consciousness from within and without, from the unconscious and from the world. Sanity is a balancing act and, as we say, there is a thin line between genius and madness. This thin line exists also between independence and conformity and between freedom and enslavement. If the human ego senses that the inner and outer threats are intensifying, it tightens and, like a shellfish, retracts from reality. This process is known to psychologists as regression. The egos’ behavior is then more conservative and irrational. The regressive tendencies, together with many others (denial, repression, identification, sublimation, sado-masochism, aggression, self-destruction, perversity, insanity, etc) are manipulated by autocrats who seek to control the mass of mankind in the same manner as Wild-Child is controlled by an individual master who, like any animal-tamer, expertly displays his two faces - his permissive and prohibitive tendencies.

Wild-Child is soon trapped in a web from which he can never free himself. He becomes enmeshed in a net tighter yet more tensile than those prepared and laid for his erstwhile forest cousins. Instead of the sun and moon to look down upon him he has the All-Seeing Eye of his imperious master watching his every flex and twitch and peering deeply into the miasma of his mind. The smile he sees greeting him every morning becomes infinitely more sinister and troubling to him than any painful prod or incomprehensible laboratory test. Wild-Child despises the punitive aspects of master but is gratified and appeased when his “correctness” impresses his austere father. Wild-Child develops a “love versus hate” relationship with the master. He is attracted and repulsed at the same time. He detests the power his master has over him but covets that kind of power himself. He is subconsciously attracted to it and bides his time, waiting until he can gratuitously exercise control over creatures meeker than himself. Eventually, Wild-Child learns how the power structure works hierarchically and how even his own master is himself a servant of some other agency. He learns that there is pain in store for his tendency to malinger and that there are punishments in store for even questioning his lot. In the end he accepts his servitude and grows accustomed to his own place in the great invisible hierarchy. The experiment to change his essential nature occurred early and, despite resistance and recalcitrant urges, Wild-Child eventually becomes Tame-Child. He learns to adjust and to even be rather shameful of his previous form of existence that was more natural and free. He learns to disapprove of those who exist as he once did. His identification with the object of his own hatred turns him into an oppressor and a dominator.

In his ambivalent and schizoid state Tame-Child brings havoc to the world but his ego-censors prevent him from apprehending himself as the cause. The world’s problems are mysterious in origin and have nothing to do with him. He may sensually deplore what he sees and he may try to topically remedy some of the blatant injustices and affronts he encounters, but looking deeply into causes and motives is certainly not his forte. Endeavors of that kind leave him feeling ineffectual and frustrated and he prefers to leave that kind of thing to others. His hours and days of sensual experimentation with the phenomena of the world must not be halted by thoughts concerning meaning. Life is life. It does not have meaning. Such becomes the credo of the Tame-Child. If and when his personal ideas of reality come under attack from external adversity he can escape into drugs and sexual gratification. He can eat, drink, party, get smashed, and put his blues behind him. The world is just a place he is in. It is outside and is rather threatening. It is full of foreign things he often has to pretend he likes. It does not belong to him and he is not its caretaker. That too is someone else’s job. Freedom makes him uneasy and bored. He does not know what to do with it and prefers not to have it. He invents cunning arguments to cover the fact that what he really desires is freedom from freedom. He feigns lamentation about the absence of freedom, valor, and independence, but secretly he despises these things and is envious of those who appear to possess them. Above all, Tame-Child does not wish to think too deeply or revitalize his own ideas of reality. He finds that he can exist without being so bothered, and this knowledge brings him great satisfaction. He discovers that society will reward him for his avoidance and lack of attention to the questions that matter. Tame-Child does not need to think because someone will always be there to tell him what to do and how to do it. The routines, uniforms, repetitiveness, and conformity are very comforting. Doing what everyone else does and thinking as everyone else thinks is psychically elating. It is Tame-Child’s satori.

Inwardly of course, beneath the censors of the ego, a titanic war rages. Repressed emotions seethe and boil like lava. Although Tame-Child occasionally feels this conflict he has been trained to ignore it. The training he has received from others has been embodied and now he expertly trains and disciplines himself. He is far removed from any inner authentic voice and he lives on the periphery of true selfhood. He is guided by the “hand rails” of society and not by his own dark inner voice that he believes is a dangerous source of anxiety and conflict. He hides in the light and gets busy with the phantasmagoric world of appearance. He is making friends and being active and productive. He becomes a relentless over-achiever and his many physical successes prove his virility and value. He has been given his small patch of territory in the world of colors and light and it all comes to mean a great deal to him. He too must be vigilant and see to it that nothing enters to threaten the function of the machines upon which he has grown dependent. Nothing short of death will make him relinquish his place and he will arm himself against all trespassers whether they are people or new ideas. His identification with the power of his masters is perpetually weighed against his need for their approval and against his fear of destruction at their hands. He decides to obey and conform, and to be in the company of those people who do likewise. As long as he himself does not think of his conformity as conformity, and as long as his identification and allegiance is complete and inviolate, his life can proceed relatively untroubled.

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The Apocalypse

Clearly, it appears that we are relatively unaware of the pervasiveness and subtlety of the mechanisms of mass control. Even though there have been many clear examples of it before our eyes during the last 200 years, it remains a very peripheral study and not one that is commonly broached. Despite this reticence, and the preoccupation with more palatable subjects, there is a growing interest in the ways human beings are controlled. The reason for this slow awakening has to do with mankind’s so-called “darker side.” It is our awareness of the catalog of crime and injustice that often succeeds in prompting us to investigate human nature more closely. Astrologically, this need to see beneath the surface of things is “ruled” by the planet-archetype Pluto. The energy represented by this planet-archetype (that of deconstruction, ending, and revelation) will be increasing in intensity during the early part of the new millennium. This increase will be experienced as very uncomfortable by people who have lived their entire lives under “consensus trance” and who have not developed the mental equipment to objectively critique their lifestyles or environment.

The challenge that “Plutonic” energy augurs is necessary for the return of hygiene to the now very toxic collective and personal psyche. Many of the tribulations that we will see socially, politically, ideologically, and psychologically, will be occurring as a result of this intensification of “Plutonic” light. Indeed, as competent astrologers know, one long Precessional Age (that of Pisces) is coming to its close. Another Age (the Aquarian) is set to begin in a relatively short time from now and we are presently in the middle of the transitional or “cusp” phase. The Maya priests, the celestial time-keepers of South America, referred to this period of transition as the “Age of Revealing.” The author of the Book of Revelation referred to it as a time of “Apocalypse.” This word connotes the removal of a leather cover and is a reference to the human persona or mask rather than to any other binding or cover.

Jesus said: When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into existence before you, which neither die nor are made manifest, how much will you bear? - (Gospel of Thomas)

What you do not bring forth from within you, will destroy you Jesus said, "Whoever knows the all but fails to know himself lacks everything - (Gospel of Thomas)

The Age of Revealing (or of Apocalypse) is a time when the masks of the false are removed, and when man gets his chance to see who and what he is without filter or censor. Works such as this one, which delve into hidden origins, are symptomatic of this phase-shift into the time when men get the rare chance to find out what has been kept from them, and to have the answers concerning their true origins and destiny. Primarily, the presence of Plutonic (and also Uranian) energy hearkens in a Spirit of Rebellion. This spirit comes to assist in the process of revelation. It also compels us to resist conformity. As a result of its presence the autocratic forces in the world, that contrive to maintain group-think and who benefit from mankind’s unquestioning obedience, become even more tyrannous and aggressive. They manufacture more ingenious devices to ensure that people do not go AWOL. Pluto signals major revisions in the social order, and large scale maneuvers from the power-brokers within governments.

The harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire - (Matt 13)

In extreme cases the presence of this Spirit of Rebellion can make for radical changes affecting every facet of our lives. It can bring events to a head and demand a phase of total deconstruction in which all the accepted customs and idioms that we take for granted, on all fronts, are abolished. As said, this particular eventuality will greatly threaten and compromise the masses of people in the world who will feel stripped naked and bereft of security or purpose.

The initial challenges regarding the integration of “Plutonic” energy and the countdown to the end of the Age of Pisces involve the realization that, like Wild-Child, societies also have their “temperaments” molded and fashioned. They too are like clay upon the wheel of the potter. Wild-Child, however, knows his master. Society’s units are not so informed.

The brain, the world, and the elements of civilization, operate synergistically. As the philosophers (Ken Wilber, Arthur Koestler, and others) have pointed out, the Universal Order operates as a holarchy and not a hierarchy. The same thing goes for human minds that once had a deep rapport with the Universal Order. It is time, therefore, to reconnect the little cog with the larger, and to reconnect the umbilical threads that join each of us to the everlasting matrix that provides all that is needed. We must obey the Law of Reciprocity and realize that what we sow is most definitely what we reap. We must abandon the dysfunctional tendencies that bring ruin to our relationships, our selves, and our world. Like children we have sought to prepare a dish and have exchanged sugar for salt because, in our innocence, we believed because they look alike they must taste alike. So it is with our error over the likeness of love and power. Therefore, it is hardly a surprise that we are not enjoying the dish we have prepared. The dish is civilization as it now exists. We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it. We have been poor house guests and should not, therefore, be amazed or resentful when the host penalizes us for our egregious neglect and property damage. This is where humility and true contrition are required. We forgive ourselves since we understand that we acted from ignorance and that this ignorance has its roots in the ancient past and in sinister crimes of biological invasion that caused deep and permanent trauma to our being. Because of that violation and trauma, we reluctantly accepted the kind of unsustainable anti-natural lifestyles provided by our imperious masters, the makers of history and the manipulators of mankind’s destiny.

The winding down of the Age of Pisces can hearken in a phase of cleansing and judgment for those most polluted and spiritless. It challenges all men to realize that true social and political freedom can never be made a reality unless the thinking human mind is free, and unless the heart and emotions are moral and hygienic. The acorn crushed by the hand that plants it will not become an oak and, likewise, a world order created by human devils will not become Utopia. The ending of the Age can mean the end of the machinations of warlords and aristocratic tyrants. It can hearken in a time of enhanced freedom for those who sorely deserve it. As a result, it may be challenging for men of the future to cope with this new found freedom and with the Spirit of Rebellion that ushers it forth. The real thing is not the same as the relative liberty or sham that we presently experience. It is not the state of being senior prefect in a prison. It is something far more rare, exceptional, and fragrant. Most men’s souls cry out for that long lost fragrance. It is returning once more and will again take root in the world after the rank weeds of cruelty and injustice are uprooted and incinerated.

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The True Origins of the Secret Societies

Benjamin Disraeli, the first Jewish Prime Minister of Victorian Britain, wrote in his novel Coningsby: "The world is run by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." Disraeli was aware that the world is controlled by powerful secret societies and fraternal orders whose agendas and schemes have little to do with the best interests of humankind. Although these particular orders do not necessarily conceal their identities, they do endeavor to conceal whatever goes on behind the doors of their various occult lodges and establishments. Naturally, exclusive orders do not wish their strange practices, rites, and agendas to be openly disclosed, and they excel in the manufacture of many a guileful strategy and device designed to ensure secrecy. As one Freemasonic member and author reveals:

Freemasonry is labyrinthine. It is full of puzzles, conundrums, misspellings, corruptions, cryptic clues, and simple salutes, childish codes, contrivances, circular paths, roads that sometimes lead nowhere, walls appearing to be ten feet thick yet giving way easily to the lightest touch in the right spot, riddles to be solved, numerous passwords, an allegorical, highly symbolical, double-entendre storyline worthy of the best latter-day spy writers, protected by secret signs and symbols and a myriad of enigmas to be confronted…In the labyrinth that is Freemasonry there is a center where rests its holy grail. Many have tried to find it only to reach dead ends - Leon Davin (The Ritual: The Greatest Story Never Told)

One of most important themes of our work will be to expose the true origins and agendas of the world’s most powerful secret societies and the religions they have given birth to. This work endeavors to demonstrate how they have used religion and politics to further their nefarious anti-human schemes. Our primary intention is to inform the ordinary citizen of certain occult facts that are not even known to those members within the hierarchies of the various secret societies of the planet. The true origins of the Masonic Order, Knights Templars, Rosicrucians, and Illuminati, etc, have been carefully guarded secrets and are largely unknown even to those serving within these societies.

The Blue Degrees are but the outer court…of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretation. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them…The true explanation is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry (those of the 32nd and 33rd degrees) - Albert Pike (Grand Master of American Scottish Rite Freemasonry and Head of the Illuminati)

These good folk swell our numbers and fill our money-box. Set yourselves to work; these gentlemen must be made to nibble at the bait…But this sort of people must always be made to believe that the grade they have reached is the last - Adam Weishaupt (Founder of the Bavarian Illuminati)

Behind the division of humanity stand those Enlightened Ones whose right and privilege it is to watch over human evolution and to guide the destinies of men…This they do through the implanting of ideas in the minds of the world thinkers, so that these ideas in due time receive recognition and eventually become controlling factors in human life. They train the members of the New Group of World Servers in the task of changing these ideas into ideals. These in turn become the desired objectives of the thinkers and are then taught to the powerful middle class and worked up into world forms of governments or religion, thus forming the basis of the new world order - Alice A. Bailey (Fabian, Occultist, Author. Head of the Lucis Trust)

Naturally the power-elites, and their minions who apparently believe the world to be their personal play-pen, have a great deal to lose should the “Under-Classes,” or ordinary men and women of the world, learn about the subtle nature of the psychic and social control that operates all around them and which is hidden in plain sight. However, the task of revealers is made considerably more difficult due to "consensus trance" and the knee-jerk fear reactions that automatically inhibit a mutilated and conditioned mind. The Servants of Truth know from experience how few friends are won, if and when they should endeavor to expose the dirty little secrets of religion’s upper echelons. Nevertheless, a Servant of Truth is not permanently daunted by the discomfort caused by the presence and proximity of truth. The Servant of Truth is aware that it is easier to cut oneself with a blunt knife rather than with a sharp one, and that the price of ignorance is ultimately far greater than the price paid for knowledge. The Servant of Truth knows that freedom is never free and that silence is most definitely consent. He comes to realize that, on the great board game of life, if he fatally chooses to not occupy the white squares of knowledge, he will be manipulated by those who will.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance - Socrates

The task of exposing the secrets of secret societies is somewhat complicated since it also inevitably involves the exposure of the secrets of religion. And, since religion is intimately connected to politics, the task cannot but include an exposure of the secrets of politics. Although it is vain to expect a single book to investigate all the dark highways and byways of these politics and religion we can, at least, make a zealous start and wait to see where the river of ink leads. Therefore, it is not one torch that we must light, and not one shadowy labyrinth that we must explore, but three. Like a newly initiated masonic neophyte we too must negotiate three steps on our ascent toward truth and empowerment. May our destination be the same as that decreed by masons. May our three lonely roads lead us to the one altar - the altar, the shrine of Truth.

Truly, it is not hyperbole to say that we are, during the years of this new millennium, going to experience the greatest of revelations concerning the most important and complex human mysteries. We can expect many a layer of deception to be peeled away and jettisoned. Some of us may be glad and grateful for the coming of the light of revelation. Others among us may be startled by the proximity of such knowledge and many will be deeply threatened by its presence. Many will not wish to see in themselves the dirt that this light will surely reveal. For these types there are always the churches and the priests. There will always be those confessors in black to hide behind and who, with their words and incense, can appease the profound inner angst of egos that are fast approaching the end of their cycle of existence.

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The Spirit of Rebellion

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

Fortunately, the celestial clock is with us and with the Spirit of Revelation. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “wild bells” are already beginning to ring out the old, the vile, and the degenerate. In this age of “Solution-Think” we will be given the chance to dispel the ideological lies and fallacies by which we have been mentally and spiritually infected and enslaved. As the Maya prophecies inform us, we have been, since the year 1999, in the so-called “Age of Revealing.” This is a time of literal “Apocalypse” when the masks of the false begin to come down. This period of catabolic action and collective catharsis will be deeply threatening to those morally unhygienic souls who have long profited from the ruin of their fellows, and to those consummate narcissists who have advanced at the expense of others around them. The approaching end game is especially threatening to those connoisseurs of power whose insatiable penchant for destruction and deception has contaminated the world. The voices of their innumerable victims cry out from the deep places but will soon be quieted and appeased by Lady Justice.

It is not difficult for us to acknowledge the wisdom in George Orwell's warning of how telling the truth can often be an act of rebellion. Indeed, this work is meant to be controversial and revisionist. It is a testament to, and for, freedom. It is composed in the Spirit of Rebellion - rebellion against ancient tyranny. Its contents are controversial, seditious, iconoclastic, and even treasonous. It is, however, more than a play on words to declare that there is no such thing as treason against the treasonous! Need it be stressed that there is no such thing as freedom in a “Bastille of Lies,” the dark shadow of which overlooks a landscape of existential misery and moral pestilence. The purpose of our work is to counter the Orwellian boot that has been stamping upon the face of all humanity for millennia. It is our intention to counter this violence with a form of intellectual violence of our own. It is our intention to sweep away the cobwebs that enshroud the mind, and to remove the thorns of delusion that enswathe the human heart. What may come after our efforts is not a primary concern. We are not interested in building new world systems but confine our energies to the destruction of old ones that must be rivaled and logically toppled at this time. Therefore, we do not distract ourselves from envisioning the splendor or fragrance of the rare and precious flowers that will take root in tomorrow’s exquisite gardens of freedom. The toil of uprooting weeds consumes every waking moment. We find our purpose and reward in this deconstruction and revision and do not see, feel, or lament the blood that falls from our hands that tear the weeds of evil from the ground of humanity. Indeed, though the sky may for a while be blackened with the smoke of our weed-fires we find a certain rare fragrance in such effusion. Although it may not be the aroma of roses the perfume from the burning pyres of evil and ignorance is not wholly intolerable, and is not without its own aesthetic quality. From the embers of such pyres we can even be afforded a clairvoyant intimation of the future world to arise. It is the world that once was long ago, that existed once-upon-a-time - pure, effulgent, realized, and magnificent - one not of devils, demons, gods, kings, saints, or sinners, but of men, free inwardly and outwardly, able and willing to holistically and reverently explore the mystery of themselves and of the planet that has housed them throughout the troubled ages and that has long preserved the secret of their salvation. The enemy we face, that has haunted our world for millennia, will not concede of its own will. It will not yield or even give ground. It is in fear but has combined its fear with occult knowledge and this combination makes it lethal in the extreme. It seeks to humiliate the good, the pure, and the virtuous. It is the enemy of truth and of freedom. It cannot triumph since the force it vainly opposes is eternal and self-sustaining. The problem of evil is, however, not solved with a clenched fist but with an open, receptive, and mutable mind. These characteristics are represented by the Archangel Michael and his mighty sword, by Arthur’s Excalibur, by Robin’s flaming arrows, and by Merlin’s serpentine wand. We overcome the direst enemies with knowledge and not might. We seek revelation to prevent revolution, to overcome evil with the force of our example not by the example of our force, but by psychological weaponry, and by total conviction in our cause and sovereign power. As said above, we understand lucidly that freedom is never free, and that silence is most definitely consent. Regardless of whether we are joined by others, or not, we proceed on our quest with conviction. There is the fairest of damsels to be saved and a Serpent’s blood to redden our shields - that is all!

The value from exposing the corruption and intrigue of the cruel inhuman leviathans of religion and politics cannot be understated or under-estimated. However, given today's apathy we might question what good will ultimately be derived from our efforts. Tragically, it appears that the human race has managed to arrive at a place where it is so jaded and sense-infatuated that it really could not care whether Jesus ever existed or not. We can go so far as to say that it is not Jesus and his history or authenticity that interests most church-going Christians. It is what Jesus can do for them emotionally and physically that matters most. The average "believer" is not truly concerned with god’s nature or with god’s mysteries. He is merely concerned with what god can do for him and how god might make his sad mediocre life less insipid. The average believer is not concerned about the emotions his Christ may have felt when he was betrayed with a kiss by a man for whom he was ready to give up his own life. No, the average believer wants Jesus to do something for him. He wants Jesus to act on his behalf and to provide various physical, emotional, and spiritual comforts and securities. Yes, what a great pleasure a mentally and emotionally destitute (“meek”) man finds knowing that for the nominal fee of blind obedience his jealous god will fulfill his needs and also dispense hell and damnation to his enemies. Who could pass up such a platinum deal? The day that Jesus and god fail to cut it, the guru gimmick-merchant on the block will do just as well. Christian moralists may reflect upon the manner in which their own grandiloquent religious espousals have fostered the same pernicious disaffection in society that they vehemently attribute to atheism and materialism.

Show me a force which binds today's humanity together with half the power it possessed in those centuries...And don't try to browbeat me with your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine and the speed of communications! The riches are greater but the force is less; there is no more a binding principle; everything has grown soft, everything and everyone grown flabby! - Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)

Yes, religion is little more than a narcissist’s materialism.

The singer and songwriter John Lennon once predicted that his band - the Beatles - would become "more famous" than Jesus. Given that his iconoclastic forecast included other candidates within the entertainment business, as well as his own band, his strange prediction has actually turned out to have been quite accurate. Although we may resist accepting it, the youth could care less about Jesus and God. The young ones who appear to care are often forced to do so as a consequence of the inevitable indoctrination process of punitive parents and guardians. Left to their own devices they prefer to choose Marilyn Manson and Snoop Doggy Dog as mentors, models, and way-showers. And perhaps they could care less about the Sacred Heart for good reason. After all, what does it really matter if a special man of god did walk the Earth thousands of years ago? What does it matter that he had enemies and that he sacrificed his life for what he believed? What does it matter that he had despots and betrayers on his trail? What does it matter if he had magical powers to heal and reveal, or that he rose into heaven after his torture and death? Actually, to a rational mind, none of this matters at all. It works excellently as a great tale, a ripping yarn, a Hollywood super-drama, and that is about all. Only the emotionally disturbed, psychologically infirm, or intentionally malign, have taken it to mean more than this. We do not need to recount the repulsive biographies or histories of so-called saints, kings, popes, and evangelists, or recount the splendidly erudite theories of Freud, Jung, Reich, and other psychoanalysts to reinforce this truism. No, few care or have ever cared about the factuality of the bible’s convoluted stories. Inwardly, subconsciously, most people know the improbability of such tales. It is apathy and conformity that motivate men to accept such fictions. The story of Jesus the god, or of Jesus the man, is interesting to fewer rational people, and there is nothing amiss with that. A ruined mansion can always do with renovation, and so can the human mind.

The story of truth, of god, and of the divine within man should not be fixed in the special past but in the special present - in the moment that is. Moreover, when we do our historical homework we find out that the story of Jesus is no more dramatic and miraculous, no more pathetic and majestic than the story of other masters of knowledge and Servants of Truth. Who dares to declare the story of Jesus Christ to be any more captivating or inspiring than that of Imhotep, Apollonius of Tyana, Siddhartha, Milerepa, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Ramana Maharishi, Sarmad, Lao Tzu, or of Jiddu Krishnamurti? And, dare we ask how many people in today’s manic world care a jot for these bright lights of past times? For every Christ and Muhammad there are a thousand other god-men, born of virgins, imbued with the deepest wisdom, and enamored with a divine mission. India is filled with such men and women today. So let it be known that there is nothing truly unique about the life of Jesus Christ. The only thing unique about Christ is the lengths to which the Cult, that has adopted his name, has gone to suppress the truth and to foist their unsustainable sectarian beliefs upon the world. The Christian zeal for brutal oppression and its violent conversion of non-believers, its penchant for false promises, its expertise with deception, and its ability to spawn the vilest of human-monsters, make it unique in the world.

It is our mission to assist in the removal of the insinuated theological viruses that infect the minds and hearts of men and that prevent human beings from realizing their own perfection and from tapping into their own divinity. Our sharp tool for accomplishing this psychological surgery is deconstruction. Our endeavor is a catabolic one and, therefore, it flies in the face of those desirous of remaining moribund within the emotional and mental comfort zones. Our deconstructive model and approach reveals the means and mechanics of how the authority of man’s intrinsic Selfhood has been molested by the connoisseurs of deception with a great deal to lose should the subjects under their hypnotic power awaken and become ignited by the Spirit of Rebellion that lies dormant within them. It is this spirit, after all, that is exemplified by the great saviors of the world. All of them, from Tonatiuh to Odin, from Apollonius and Socrates to Christ, were rebels, iconoclasts, and outcasts. And yet, each was sent to the world by the higher power to execute the will of the so-called “Holy Spirit.” Rebellion, the hallmark of all Servants of Truth is, therefore, a true service to the Holy Spirit. Rebellion against those authorities, systems, or ideas that attempt to molest, impede or confound our sacred individuality, sovereignty, and true voice, constitutes service to the Holy Spirit. Rebelliousness is the hallmark of the Holy Spirit. Little wonder then that the Christians personified this Spirit of Rebellion as Lucifer the fallen angel. Little wonder that they obscured the actual significance of the Holy “Ghost.”

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The Holy Spirit and the Age of Revealing

Do you deny me the entrance to heaven, I who have at last learned the mystery of myself - Egyptian Mystery School legend

Although most Christians will be loath to accept what we say, it is in accordance with true Christian precepts to identify this so-called “Holy Spirit” (the third spiritual essence and principle within the Trinity) as our own selfhood. The Holy Spirit was referred to as "Wisdom" (Sophia), and was equated with transcendent knowledge. This knowledge may extend to the son of god, and then to god himself, but it must first begin with self- knowledge. This is literally what Sophia of the Trinity is - knowledge of the self. The conspiring forces that sought to make this self-knowledge taboo, and who distorted and complicated our understanding and veneration of the true Holy Spirit, were attempting to blot out the self from the Holy Trinity and from the spiritual canon. To imagine the Holy Spirit to be some vague presence, or some indefinable aspect of the Virgin Mary, a white ethereal dove, an abstract metaphysical principle, or an inexplicable mystery, suited the desires of the Christian priestarchy but denied their flock their most valuable key to the gates of salvation. What we were not told is that without the key of knowledge of the self, the other keys, should they even come into our possession, are worthless.

It is this journey of self discovery that true mystics embark upon and that sincere philosophers aspire to. But this safari, this trek into the jungles of the Self was regarded as a reprehensible and even lethal enterprise to those plotting the charts of official religion. And so, it was decided that the first and highest priority lay in instilling the wholly false notion that man receives enlightenment from without, after penance and after the performance of certain fixed rites overseen by the priests that he must unquestionably revere, serve, and sustain. The "Holy Ghost" of the ensconced priestarchs is something that "descends" upon a man from outside. It is not something that awakens within his being. It is this false theological premise that has sent men out of their own being and into the hands of deceivers. In truth, there is no enlightenment to be found outside oneself. There is nothing worth having or attaining that does not originate within one's own being. If there is such a thing as enlightenment it cannot be found in the company of gurus, priests, or experts. Only its antithesis can be found in such company. As it was written at Delphi, it is only when a man has ended his own inner division and come to rational clarity over the mystery of himself that he can inherit true wisdom. Only then will that which is worth having make itself known. So pervasive was this inviolable knowledge that we still can find hints and veiled references to it in the tomes of official religions. Such entries were probably either remnants of the heavily plagiarized Gnostic canon or clues left by higher minded clerics silently traveling upon their own personal "Siddhartha Roads."

Without father, without mother, without human descent; His life has neither beginning nor end; but, as the Son of God, abides as a Holy Priest continually - (Hebrews 7:3)

Many stand outside at the door, but it is only the solitaries who will enter into the bridal chamber - Jesus Christ (Gospel of Thomas)

The knowledge of god, or even of the son of god, is worthless to the one who does not deeply know him or herself. The chaos and debauch in our world is the result of this lack of self-knowledge. The casualties from drugs and from false spiritual paths and teachers also stand as testimony to our assertion and thesis.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings - Arno Gruen (The Betrayal of the Self: The Fear of Autonomy in Men and Women)

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos, is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego - Alan Watts (The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself - Fredrick Nietzsche

Alas, I can see that you do not know what it means to be alone. Wherever there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, or public opinions - in short, wherever there was any kind of tyranny, it has hated the lonely philosopher; for philosophy opens up a refuge for man where no tyranny can reach: the cave of inwardness, the labyrinth of the breast; and that annoys all tyrants - Fredrick Nietzsche (Schopenhauer as Teacher)

Yes, to jump over the bridge of selfhood hoping to land on the ship leaving for paradise, is to fall and drown for sure in the cold, swirling, demon-infested depths of perplexity and insanity. “Self-Realization is necessary before God-Realization” was the motto of the Vedanta masters and Brahmanic sages. “Know Thyself” were the words at the Delphic Oracle in Greece. The temple of the living god is “within” announced the Christian Christ. The cardinal misconception that we can receive our satori and our bliss from someone or something other than the self has perpetuated the “master-slave” dichotomy. This pernicious theology is the antithesis of that taught by the Druid Elders of the ancient world.

We understand that a rational man cannot say, like Christ is meant to have done, that: "I and my Father are One," unless we are each first one within ourselves to begin with. The "Father" is complete and if we are ourselves not complete then how can we possibly be one with him or with anyone? The Christian who imagines that being one with the Father implies the abnegation of selfhood is a sadist to his own being. He commits a cardinal sin with just this kind of illogical thinking. How can a mere nothing, a human zero, merge with god? After all, who is it that comprehends this state of oneness? Logically, it is only a self that can merge or bond with god's self. Anything else is fantasy.

When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty - (Gospel of Thomas)

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars - Origen (Church Father, 3rd Century AD)

You are the temple of God. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are - (1 Corinthians 3:16)

The abnegation of selfhood is tantamount to self-murder. Thanks to orthodox religion and its anti-human dogmas this sadism to the self is rampant throughout the world. We can find it in the East and in the West. Religion, government, and corporations, exist to rape men of their inherent sovereignty and to crush the Spirit of Rebellion. These forces are obscene contradictions to the true Holy Spirit. The church, in particular, is not the agent of the Holy Spirit but its greatest enemy. A careful reading of the bible reveals how many passages are given over to the question of slavery and how endorsed it is by god and his terrestrial agents.

The man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest…even that man shall die – (Deuteronomy 17:12)

Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. For it is commendable if a man bears up under pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God…But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God - (Peter 2:18-21)

The same thing applies to the works of both Martin Luther and John Calvin. These two mentally deranged religious fanatics lived to see their irrational theological ideas infect entire nations. To their minds man was an absolute nothing. Men were sinful worms and were divided into those who would be saved and those who would be damned. There was nothing man could do to change his fate because God had decided on a man's fate before his birth. Therefore, total submission to God was man's sole function.

For God wants to save us not by our own but by extraneous justice and wisdom, by a justice that does not come from ourselves and does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from somewhere else...that comes exclusively from the outside and is entirely alien to ourselves - Martin Luther (Vorlesung uber den Romerbrief)

Nor can you find any other remedy than do deny yourself and discard all selfish considerations, and to devote your whole attention to the pursuit of those things which the Lord requires of you - John Calvin (Institutes of the Christian Religion)

Once the abnegation of the Self is accepted, and once man is so humbled, he becomes weak and submissive. He does not exist for his own sake. He exists for God and for the Church that acts in God’s name. He also becomes putty in the hands earthly demigods. Interestingly, the same men who cajoled men to relinquish all sense of personal individuality and independence also compelled men to obey their earthly demigods without question. The sick contradictory attitudes of Martin Luther, toward power, independence and freedom, are apparent from his own words:

Nothing is more poisonous, harmful or devilish than a man in rebellion

...even if those in authority are evil or without faith, nevertheless the authority and its power is good and from God...therefore wherever there is power and where it flourishes, there it is and there it remains because God has ordained it - (Vorlesung uber den Romerbrief)

His scintillating logic regarding the evils of monarchy is revealed in the following passage:

God would prefer to suffer the government to exist no matter how evil, rather than to allow the rabble to riot, no matter how justified they are in doing so...A prince should remain a prince no matter how tyrannical he may be. He beheads necessarily only a few since he must have subjects in order to be a ruler - (Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants)

From these passages, we can see why the abnegation of Selfhood is subtly but deliberately enforced throughout the so-called "civilized" societies of the world. We can also see the consequences that arise from the eradication of a man's sense of Selfhood. We can see what kind of citizen is created and what kind of person. Indeed, it is the subjugation of Selfhood that has driven us perilously near to the gates of oblivion. Perhaps we can now understand why it is that a man cannot be “forgiven” for sins committed against the “Holy Spirit,” that is, against his own Higher Self. And perhaps we can understand why it was so vitally important for early Judeo-Christian mythmongers to obscure the identity of this feminine third party in the Blessed Trinity, symbolized by the dove.

And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven - (Matt 12:31)

Jesus said: “He who blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and he who blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven” - (Gospel of Thomas)

Yes, remove the Self from the Trinity, and from the ontology, and your demonic schemes of domination will succeed beyond your wildest expectations. Crush the Self and your end is assured. Revive the Self and man gets his chance to follow the bright dove homeward to his refuge of truth and understanding. Symbolically speaking, we find it more than suggestive that the dove was chosen to represent the third party of the Blessed Trinity since it is not a Christian emblem. It is a very ancient pagan symbol. The origin of the mystical symbolism of the dove comes from astrology and from the gnosis of the ancient stellar cults. The dove is, in fact, the symbol for the sign of Scorpio, which is one of the two signs of the zodiac connected to the Spirit of Rebellion. So, we find it more than significant that the symbol chosen to represent the higher self - the true Holy Spirit - should relate directly and undeniably to the spirit and act of Rebellion, and to the Spirit of Contradiction. We find it to be more than significant that the bible should proclaim it to be the direst and most irredeemable of sins to contradict or violate the will of this Holy Spirit. Since we have been committing this "sin" nonstop, age after age, it follows that we should indeed find ourselves struggling and choking in the webs of our own making. It stands to reason that humans are to be found floundering in a squalid swamp of non-issues, existing as prisoners in their own palaces, lacking the intelligence to know the danger they face. Therefore, we make it our task to draw attention to the significance of this sin against the self. From the ending of this most mortal of sins comes a new rapport with that true comforter, that eternal daemon (guardian) that has long worked for our awakening and arrival. Now that this is understood, we are in a good position to finally see the battlefield and the rival factions. Because of our new understanding we grow proficient in determining who the real misleaders are. They are those men who would condemn, stifle, and even obliterate this supernal Spirit of Rebellion. They are those who would fashion for us oppressive political leviathans, inhuman psychopathic corporations, and repressive religions, to ensure that the spirit that is essential to our existence is driven forth into the wilderness never to return. With that great spirit gone, lying in its unmarked grave, humans fall cringing at the mercy of the terror-wolves, the daylight vampires, and phantoms of death who crave our ruin.

Thankfully, the one thing that never dies in this world, at any time or in any place, is the Spirit of Rebellion. It endures forever in someone or other, in some hermit, or poet, musician, playwright, or filmmaker. It has been beaten and crushed many a time but it is going nowhere. We can be thankful for that. We can, therefore, look to and rely upon this great spirit for our salvation. We can learn to rely upon the Spirit of Rebellion physically and socially and we can also learn to rely upon it mentally. We need to become accustomed to the Spirit of Rebellion because it is already moving in the world and will soon make itself vividly apparent. When the dove descends into our world it will, however, don a quite different garb than the one we may be familiar with. The dove is merely a metaphor for the deconstructive energy that is astrologically symbolized by the sign of Scorpio and its ruling planet Pluto. In psychological terms, Pluto is the “Shadow.” Symbolically speaking, it is nature’s psychic surgeon or hygienist that arrives to cleanse the soul of its toxicity and repressed debris so that it may be chastened and virginal enough to perhaps receive the clear elixir of truth. That Plutonic Shadow, the emissary of the Holy Spirit, has already been manifesting in the world and it will continue to do so for a decade or more. Its presence is the harbinger of truth and above all - freedom. Therefore, only those imprisoners of human minds and souls have something to fear from the coming "Age of Revealing." As the Scorpionic thirteenth card of the Tarot shows (Rider-Waite Deck) it is only the popes and kings, and their lieutenants, who will be leveled before Pluto’s great steed. It is only the emotionally, morally, and spiritually toxic amongst us who have something to fear from the approach of Pluto's silver scythe. The rest can benefit from, and even enjoy, the healing that comes after the pestilence, the plague, and the offending virus has been eradicated. All we have to remember is that everything in our world is cleaned - our bodies, our cars, and our carpets. Only our emotions and psyche remain perpetually neglected and unhygienic. This is what the energy represented by Pluto comes in to confront and clear.

There is a reason why the word sanity is etymologically related to the word sanitary. The sanitary mind is sane, and the unsanitary mind is, by definition unsane, and even insane.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche - Carl Gustav Jung (German psychologist)

Most people do not see, understand, or care very much about this catastrophe of the planet because they are overwhelmingly preoccupied with grave psychological problems. The environmental crisis is rooted in the psychological crisis of the modern individual. This makes the search for an eco-psychology crucial; we must understand better what terrible thing is happening to the modern human mind, why it is happening, and what can be done about it - Glenn Parton (The Machine in our Heads)

Till now man has been up against Nature. From now he will be up against his own nature - Dennis Gabor

Thou shalt know; self-chosen are the woes that fall on men - how wretched, for they see not good so near, nor hearken to its voice - few only know the pathway of deliverance from ill – Pythagoras (Grecian philosopher, 6th century BC)

In short, the men and women who have done their spiritual homework, and who are psychologically and morally hygienic, have nothing to fear from the times ahead. What many paranoiacs, fear-mongers, and doomsday merchants imagine to be the countdown to extinction is actually the countdown to freedom. What many falsely imagine to be the instigation of a tyrannical “New World Order” is, in fact, going to be the removal of all such draconian order from the world, forever. The saber-rattling and war-mania of the world’s power-elites is but a subconscious fear-reaction to the inevitable approach of change, a desperate and futile attempt to offset the coming Plutonic storms that will demolish all that is infirm and toxic from the soul and from the world. With the world in turmoil, with fear oozing from every mind, and with terror radiating from every brain, the bestial world-leaders can feel more comfortable. We all prefer to be in an ambience that reflects our inner state. Well, a world of chaos and upheaval, murder, mayhem, injustice, and brutality does reflect the inner psychological and emotional state of those we have set upon the thrones of the world. After all, one does not commonly find carrion crows or vultures seeking repast in a Japanese tea garden.

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Shiva, Pluto & the Age of Aquarius

Astrologically, the signs of rebellion are Scorpio and Aquarius. Scorpio is the eighth house of the twelve houses of the zodiac, and Aquarius is the eleventh house. There are many fascinating mathematical and numerological relationships between the numbers eight and eleven and there are, likewise, many interesting correspondences between Scorpio and Aquarius. One of the fundamental correspondences involves the planet of rebellion, Uranus. Uranus is the planetary “ruler” of the sign of Aquarius and is “exalted” (of greatest power) in Scorpio. “New Age” philosophy expounds the idea that we are gradually approaching the so-called “Age of Aquarius.” However, this is not the place to explicate the details of astrological prophecy or expound on the sundry notions regarding this future age. I merely wish to highlight the rebellious traits symbolized by the sign of Aquarius and the planet-archetype Uranus. It is this Spirit of Rebellion, and what may come of its manifestation, that is of primary interest to us.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil - Arno Gruen (Betrayal of the Self)

Presently, as we write, the planet Uranus (ruler of Aquarius) is moving through (transiting) the last sign of the zodiac called Pisces. Like all signs of the zodiac, Pisces has both positive and negative traits associated with it. This conjunction of Uranus in Pisces provides the insightful and intuitive with a peek into the forthcoming Age of Aquarius. Those who have adroit “Pattern-Recognition” skills, and who are “Symbolically Literate,” will perceive in today’s world subtle forecasts of what is to come in the future age.

If thou wilt know the invisible, open wide thine eyes on the visible - Kabalistic Adage

Aquarius and Uranus rule the spirit of youth that is akin to the Spirit of Rebellion. The coming of Uranus can be compared to a meeting between an extremely caffeinated and ticked-off Bruce Lee meeting an extremely hyper and histrionic Jackie Chan. As we can imagine, there won’t be much left of the furniture after they get through talking over their problems. Uranus is the planetary ruler of the famous Fool card in the Tarot. The Fool represents the innocent, sensitive, vital mind that is ever receptive, unconditioned, mutable, and free. He is the androgynous one who travels without a load of attachments and who allows neither fear nor memory to interfere with his mutable, omnidirectional journey of experience. He perfectly embodies the Taoist's Wei Wu Wei (accomplishment without action). To him, the world always appears new, fresh, interesting and magical. This does not mean that the Fool does not also see the injustice and perversity that exists around him. He sees all the suffering and sorrow and he laments it deeply. His spirit is, after all, Plutonic and Uranian. His spirit is free and also deeply human, but his solutions to problems are of a grass-roots variety. He despises complexity, and prefers solutions that are ingenious yet simple and comprehensible. The Plutonic-Uranian mind does not require debates, pie charts, graphs, boardroom decisions, or ten-year plans to cut through “Gordian Knots,” and move proverbial mountains. The Uranian does not need to take a poll of the opinions of others to know what he should believe, or when and how to act. Independence and individualism are not merely catchphrases to him. He is suspicious when such terms are used to enslave rather than to liberate, when they proffer false security instead of true grounded integral sovereignty. Essentially, the Uranian “Fool” is a proverbial fifth columnist or agent provocateur working to bring down the “dark satanic mills” that incarcerate the spirit of man. He is a true servant of the Holy Spirit, even if he does not look like one.

The Spirit of Rebellion and the return to Selfhood will be humankind’s salvation in the dark times that are approaching. We have already been feeling, seeing, and experiencing the subtle and not so subtle effects of Uranus and Pluto for some time now. The “Hippy” era of the 1960s was a perfect expression of the lower and more chaotic Aquarian-Uranian archetypes. The “Punk” era of the 1970s was a good example of lower frequency Scorpionic-Plutonic archetypes, and the sexual promiscuity of the ‘80s and ‘90s was also a patently lower-octave symptom. We are still, however, to experience the higher, purer manifestation of these archetypes although we will not have long to wait.

Let it be understood, however, that the power-brokers of the world order will not just sit by and allow the Spirit of Rebellion work its magic. As in the days of old they have many a counter-plan devised to maintain their hegemony. The rise of evangelism, oppressive laws, and conservative governments are evidence of this reaction to the liberating energies of Pluto and Uranus.

The nature of Pluto is similar to that of the Hindu god Shiva…Pluto usually begins by breaking down a structure, then creates a new one in its place. The entire cycle of death, destruction and renovation is accompanied by tremendous powers, for Pluto is not a mild or even very subtle planetary influence. It brings decay at one level or another…It also rules the death and regeneration of the self, as old aspects of your life pass away…Pluto does not represent death in the literal sense, instead it refers to a metaphorical death, something that ceases to be - Robert Hand (Planets in Transit)

In the intermediate years we will do well to educate ourselves as to how the architects of ruin, within the religious and political hierarchies, are likely to react to this influx of liberating energy. These well-established bastions of repression and oppression are, after all, not in the habit of just rolling out of the way and giving up the ghost. We can expect them to willfully react in concert to overcome the new paradigm and new modality of expression that seeks to breach their walls and invade their territory, so to speak. As we can see from an astromantic study of the 1960s and ‘70s, the Saturnian forces of law, order, and oppression, do not hesitate to retaliate and quell the Spirit of Rebellion. The agents of Saturnian, Solar, and Martian energy (the governments, educational edifices, and official religions, etc) do know, however, that there are many long-term benefits to be gained from permitting short-term “angst-release” from the “Under-Classes” they manipulate and control. This is why there have been, in the past, certain high-profile bouts of rebellion and fleeting chaotic flickers of anarchy from the disenchanted and malcontented within society. As ex-rebels James Simon Kunen (Columbia University activist) and Jerry Kirk (Black Panthers) have already informed us, there are two main forms of rebellion - the soft and the hard. There is the “designer” or “chic” version that serves, in the long run, to reinforce the established status quo, and there is the authentic and radical form that attempts, and occasionally succeeds, in countering and demolishing the rotten status quo. The masses of discontented and inwardly discomfited who consider themselves as being “against the system” (and this includes the majority of pseudo-Communists, pseudo-Anarchists, and so on) are usually of the first variety and are, therefore, easily duped and led. More often than not these soft-rebels are also highly duplicitous, narcissistic and devious. They desire only to seize the reigns of power for themselves. After all, how many Stalins, Castros, Maos, and Mugabes of the world begin as zealous “opponents” of the status quo only to later become the most zealous of oppressors? As William Blake wrote: "...the fist that crushes the tyrants head becomes a tyrant in the tyrant’s stead." So, although the masters of the game may occasionally permit this soft designer-rebelliousness, they are ever vigilant against the true hard form should it ever threaten to appear.

They are dangerous because there are so many of them. It is one thing to have a few nuts or dissidents. They can be dealt with, justly or otherwise, so that they do not pose a danger to the system. It is quite another situation when you have a true movement - millions of citizens believing something, particularly when the movement is made up of society’s average, successful citizens - William Colby (Late Director of CIA)

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government the majority, if united, have always an opportunity. The only remedy is to enlarge the sphere" (that is, unite all the States under a federal government) "and thereby divide the community into so great a number of interests and parties that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate from that of the whole, or of the minority; and, in the second place, that, in case they should have such an interest, they may not be so apt to unite in the pursuit of it - President James Madison (Elliot's Debates, Vol. 5)

That spirit of constructive resistance and rebellion was present in Mikhail Bakunin, William Blake, William Wallace, and Che Guevara, and in the modern comedians Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce. It was found in Giordano Bruno and Soren Kierkegaard, in Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, Wilhelm Reich and Jiddu Krishnamurti. It is the holy daemon about to possess many people in the world, many of whom would not at this moment consider themselves rebels with any cause. There are many sleeping heretics in the world and they are soon to be awakened. However, there are certain rules that come with the package and certain laws that the rational rebel must acknowledge and master. Authentic rebels know, for instance, that it is pointless and hypocritical to strive against external tyranny unless one has first combated their own inner repressive instincts and drives. The true rebel is not merely a rager against the machine or a campus malcontent. He is a student of oppression, repression, and slavery. He allows the forces he despises and opposes to be his best tutors and he observes these forces closely, in order to become minutely aware of their nature and behavior. He extrapolates and examines the anatomy of tyranny and comes to know cruelty, sadism, violence, injustice, and destruction intimately. The rebels who are going to matter, and who will possess the rational power to effect proactive change, are those who become “walking encyclopedias” of evil.  There is not a nuance of it that eludes them.

Having walked through Hades, to emerge again, the Servant of Truth is supremely qualified to heal and revive the lost and ignorant people of the world. His power lies in his healthy attitude to the challenges of life, in his Spirit of Rebellion and Contradiction. His authority is a result of his psychological and attitudinal freedom, for it is this inner condition that exalts a man - even one whose body is bound in chains.