The True Nature of Reality

"Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service."

"There exists in our world today a powerful and dangerous secret cult. This cult is patronized and protected by the highest level government officials in the world. Its membership is composed of those in the power centers of government, industry, commerce, finance, and labor. It manipulates individuals in areas of important public influence - including the academic world and the mass media. The Secret Cult is a global fraternity of a political aristocracy whose purpose is to further the political policies of persons or agencies unknown. It acts covertly and illegally."

"Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women).  . . . It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order.  . . .  A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment -- the ruling class -- is not supposed to be discussed.''


The progress of civilization has largely been the work of creative and conscientious men and women, forgotten by history and derided by power brokers and scholastics. Mankind's spiritual--and physical--evolution has been guided by seers such as Hermes, Plato, Jesus, Rumi, Francis of Assisi, and Shakespeare.
     The Enlightenment did not penetrate the Muslim world (except for small enclaves of Sufis), the East, and many parts of Europe. In those cultures, people continued to suffer from tyrannical governments and religious intolerance. The most deadening effect of their repressive dogmas and practices was in destroying its few great innovators and thinkers, either by silencing them, driving them out of their societies, or making it impossible for them to develop their talents. In any nation where this occurs decline is inevitable.

     Many of the Protestants and Jews persecuted by Spain and Portugal found refuge in England and the Netherlands, two countries which, despite their relatively small populations, achieved great innovations in thought and technology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Britain benefited most when Catholic tyrants in Europe persecuted enterprising Jews and Protestants, bringing these victims of suppression to what they considered the land of hope and glory.

      In Britain they made profound contributions in the development of the British economy, the arts, and enlightened thought in general. This is the chief cause of England's being able to establish itself as the world's leading power. In the eighteenth century, British Enlightenment leaders helped create a New World in America, providing the ideas and manpower to form a "more perfect union."

     Superiority in intelligence, creativity, and leadership does not in any way insure superiority in respect to morals or character, as we see clearly in the American experience. Persons such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams, who helped bring about American independence from Britain, were nonetheless willing to form a cabal to work against the interests of the common people. Even so, people such as Patrick Henry, George Mason, Luther Martin, John Francis Mercer, and Elbridge Gerry--clear products of the Enlightenment--helped America to achieve some degree of liberty and justice.

     History has seen repeated instances when repressive institutions, such as the Roman Catholic Church and European and Asian tyrannies, have destroyed the minds of their populations in an effort to create a more efficient and sure way to rule. Roger Bacon and Galileo were two of the great hopes of science. In condemning and imprisoning them, the Roman Catholic and civil authorities not only silenced these great scientific minds, but also suppressed whole generations of other potential geniuses who might have otherwise followed in Bacon's and Galileo's footsteps. Because of the ignorance of the so-called "men of God" and the pretended "great leaders of nations," these societies remained scientific and cultural wastelands for an additional two hundred years after the Enlightenment had transformed many parts of Europe and the New World. The scientific revolution remained the achievement of Protestants and other free thinkers.

"So history, namely change, has been mainly due to a small number of 'seers,' --really gropers and monkeyers--whose native curiosity outran that of their fellows and led them to escape here and there from the sanctified blindness of their time."

James Harvey Robinson , The Mind in the Making: the Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform, 1921 

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries we have seen a return to such mindless, destructive repression of the human mind. The current demonic cabal was able to create its power bases--such as the American Federal Reserve System--with the help of a select elite of thinkers--such as Walter Lippmann--who were in part the outgrowth of the Enlightenment. This is similar to the experience during the time of the American revolution when a beneficent aristocracy--as well as enlightened members of the general populace--brought about a new nation dedicated to the idea of government for the benefit of all citizens.

     The demonic cabal has so soundly destroyed the minds of the American population --including their own--that this is now beginning to catch up to them with a vengeance. We have only to compare the mind of a cabal mandarin such as Henry Kissinger or Paul Wolfowitz with an enlightened thinker such as Patrick Henry or Abraham Lincoln.

      The policies of the demonic cabal are literally insane and suicidal. The neanderthal, reactionary leaders of the neoconservative push for world dominance lack even the most basic kind of intelligence or morality. They are--as in the case of Karl Rove--diabolically crafty and Machiavellian, but they lack the elemental human qualities of compassion, justice, and benevolence. Such sub-humans cannot remain in power for an extended period, for their avarice and corruption eventually outrun their ability to understand reality.




Overcoming the Deadly Myth of Democracy
     From the beginning of human history, as we've seen, nations have been ruled by small groups. Unscrupulous persons discovered that one of the easiest ways to rule a country was to make the people think that they, the people, were ruling, when in fact a small cabal was controlling all poltical and economic events for their own interests.

      Few such rulers have been forthright enough to admit that they were using the myth of democracy (rule of the people for the people) to institute and perpetuate an elite form of government. One such ruler who spoke in straightforward terms was William Penn (1644-1718), the English religious leader and founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. In his book Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), he said that the way for an elite to rule was to:

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."



"Talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them 'You are supreme: exercise your power.' They say, 'That's right: tell us what to do'; and I tell them. I say 'Exercise your vote intelligently by voting for me.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place."

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Boanerges, in The Apple Cart, act 1

One of the reasons why ignorant and ill-intentioned thinkers have attacked Plato, is because he was forthright enough to reveal the reality of democracy--that it is in actuality the manipulation of the masses by an elite who fools the common people into thinking they are ruling when they aren't.

"These will be some of the features of democracy. . . it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored society, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not."

Plato, The Commonwealth
     Plato had seen this form of swindle practiced on the citizens of Athens, and had seen the deadly results of such a fraud when a pseudo-democratic group sentenced his teacher and friend Socrates to death on trumped-up charges.


"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

Henry Louis Mencken

     Plato understood that a society must have either of two basic forms of government:


Oligarchy: a government in which a small elite group rules for its own benefit

Plutocracy: rule of those with wealth

Tyranny: rule of a criminal cabal

Commonwealth: a government in which politcal and economic principles and practices accrue to the benefit of all members of society

This form of government is ruled by some type of aristocracy, those with some kind of special knowledge and skill.

Plato believed that a commonwealth should be ruled by those persons who were seekers of wisdom--philosophers.
      One of Plato's major works was entitled Politeia (πoλιτεια), the Greek word for Commonwealth. The title of this work has been mistranslated as The Republic when its actual title is The Commonwealth.

      Plato saw clearly that the swindle called democracy quickly degenerates into tyranny--as we have seen throughout American history. The current demonic cabal is simply the most recent embodiment of this swindle. You can see this most clearly both domestically and abroad:


within the United States the cabal has stolen the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections and has now set up permanent structures to make sure that fair elections are no longer possible

the Bush II puppet junta pretends that the client-state dictatorships it set up in Afghanistan and Iraq are democracies

Bush and other junta members use the word "democracy" as a shibboleth to fool the ignorant American masses, pretending that they are spreading this magic form of government to as many nations as possible. "Democracy" has now become the mask for tyranny and imperialism.

     As Howard Zinn has shown in A People's History of the United States,

"The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. How wise to turn the fear and anger of the majority toward a class of criminals bred - by economic inequity - faster than they can be put away, deflecting attention from the huge thefts of national resources carried out within the law by men in executive offices."

" The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."

Winston Churchill




The Saving Remnant

      We saw in an earlier essay that though ordinary humans are rapidly losing the ability to understand reality, a small contemporary group is accessing supernormal knowledge through portals into Higher Consciousness. These are the true representatives of Plato's vision of philosopher-leaders. They are making knowledge available about what is actually going on in the world--beyond what the demonic cabal media lies say is going on.

     And, of critical importance, they are preserving higher knowledge in books and Web sites which will be available when conditions have degenerated to the point where a rudely awakened mass of people will suddenly say: "How can we get out of this intolerable situation? What knowledge do we need to re-build a sane and progressive world?"

These supra-humans have undergone a spiritual transformation through initiation into a Higher Consciousness and are harbingers of the evolutionary Supra-Human. The foundation of this transformational knowledge lies with what is called the Perennial Tradition. These savants are now laying the foundation for a new culture which will follow the current Dark Ages brought on by the demonic cabal.

     After humankind had degenerated during the Dark Ages, Perennialist teachers made available to the West the teachings which spurred Renaissance literature and art, science, and the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment provided the impulse which brought about the American revolution and its transformative documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

      These and the additional embodiments of the Perennial tradition--the Hermetic, Platonic, and Esoteric Christian, among others--have inspired humankind ever since and today give proof to people worldwide that a New World is being realized in an invisible way and is overcoming the demonic cabal.


Return to the enlightenment:
http://www.hermes-press.com/index.html

duh.

WOOO!

HOOWADEEATEH!!!

Interesting, if a bit frothing at the mouth, at least until the "Higher Consciousness" bit.

"Higher Consciousness" is for tripped-out druggies, New-Age hippies, and artsy-fartsy types. What does that have to do with the rather Machiavellian world of political discourse?

Jesus christ what did they put in the water over there? I don't even think you know what you're talking about when it comes to "True nature"... This is nothing more than liberal banter seeking to criticize Bush or whoever the hell won't legalize marijuana where you live. Go read a book and stop writing posts that "appeal" to the standard morally depraved teen that reads these awful excuses for organized thought.

The True Nature of Reality wins!