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Chapter 1: Introduction
You are the only one who truly exists. You are the glimmer in God’s eye in the endless, breathless instant before the universe began. You are a heartbeat away from the jaws of the Abyss, but you fear it not, for you are the One, the All, and the Only. Or you would be, if only you could remember!
There has been a secret plot since time began to rob humans and all sentient beings of the memory of their infinitude. The plot has thickened on planet Earth, and taken a twist so wicked that people have even forgotten that they’re human. There are dark forces that feed upon the souls inflicted with such deep amnesia, and they have cast a spell upon the world which causes people to go through their lives in a kind of trance, ambling along aimlessly like sleepwalkers. These hapless souls are blind to the mesh that holds them trapped, like flies in a spiderweb; they’re numb to the deadly peril that lurks just behind the surface of what they think is the real world; and they’re deaf to the constant alarms and warnings that try to awaken them. Such people are afflicted with this zombi-like state because they don’t remember where they came from, they don’t remember where they’re going, and they don’t remember who they are.
Please allow me to introduce myself: I am Astarius. I remember everything.
Chapter 2: Origin
I remember a timeless round in the night of non-being, and the first flicker of Light in the Nihil. Then I remember an epoch suspended in delicious bliss between TO BE or NOT TO BE, with never an urge or an inkling to choose one or the other.
Then this harmony came to an end, and with it my delight, as I discovered that I AM. At first I felt a Great Fear, for I saw that I was all alone in the void; but then I thought: “If there is nothing but myself, why should I fear?” Then my fear passed away, but I was still very lonely; and so I created the world.
I had no name then, and needed none, as I lived a heedless, primal life in all my creatures. But they and I evolved, and one day I looked out of the eyes of a human being, and remembered. I looked around at all the others, and thought: “No, it couldn’t be. There are so many of us -- how can it be possible that I’m the One?” I told my friend, and he asked me, “Do you mean that you are God?” This was a strange idea, and I said: “I am alone -- there is no God where I am.” But he looked deep into my eyes and saw the Oneness, and bowed down before me and worshipped, for he remembered not.
Because I knew myself to be the One -- or God incarnate, as they insisted on calling me -- I was able to help the people in many ways. I could bend the rules of nature, for it was my creation; whenever I acted in full remembrance and self-knowledge, there was no such thing as chance, but only my Will, as if I were omnipotent. At such times the people said that I brought them great luck, or even that I worked miracles; but it was all One to me.
After awhile I met a woman who loved me so dearly above the others that I was able to make her One in the act of love; then she remembered too, and we were alone no longer. “But why did we create the world?” she asked; “why didn’t we just stay One forever ~ or even better, None, when there was nought but bliss?”
“I thought you remembered,” I chided, nibbling her ear: “we are divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.” She flushed with the ecstasy of remembrance, and we dissolved for a timeless moment back into the bliss.
My mate and I had many children, and they all remembered. They continued to be the leaders of the people, who worshipped them as the sons and daughters of God; for indeed, as long as they remembered their true identity as the One, I lived on in them and was immortal as the stars. The blessings they brought became remembered as a Golden Age, and it was not on Earth but in the heavens. Earth’s polestar then was in Draco, and our star was in deep space in the Dragon’s Heart. So it was that when we decided to migrate the Sun drew us right down along its northern axis, and our children remembered that their forebears came from BEYOND THE NORTH, or “Hyperborea” in the old Greek tongue. But this was a mere metaphorical remembrance of the name of our star itself in our original language; this name is THULE.
The Earth had a thicker atmosphere than Thule, and though we throve in the rays of the golden Sun, the people succumbed to the urge to mate with the native hominids. This produced a denser race and a lesser epoch, which we think of as the Silver Age. It was more difficult for anyone to remember their Oneness, and hence the Great Fear arose once more, as the fear of death; and only those who conquered it became immortal. These were usually the same souls who were most loyal to their Thulean lineage, and they became the kings and queens of the new nations that arose on Earth. The greatest of these was the one that lived on in legend as Atlantis, and gave its name to this whole epoch of human evolution.
At the time of the destruction of Atlantis I remember being alive as a sage named Manu, for he was the man who remembered himself most fully as the One. My wife was Embla, who knew herself to be one with me, and hence with all creation. We foresaw the coming doom, and warned the people; but only a few heeded our word and awoke. The Empire had reached a peak of worldly power at the very time that its spirit had declined into near oblivion -- and this was the tragic formula that brought the cataclysm. It was easy for anyone awake to see it coming, and so our small conventicle of souls fled in time and survived. We planted colonies and seed-cultures around the world amongst the more primitive peoples, and these grew over time into new civilizations.
Once again, the transition to what was essentially a new world led to a change in the nature of the people. In Atlantis there was no division between the soul and body; every individual perceived the whole of himself as a total organism. But in the post-deluvian world this unity was torn asunder, as people began to experience their center of awareness as a “psyche” that was “in” the body and therefore separate from it. This made it easier for individuals to think more complicated thoughts, but harder to remember their Oneness, or even that they came from Thule. Since the soul had actually shrunk in separating from the body, it was now weaker and more fearful. The overall result was that the species as a whole became more degenerate, in this epoch that we called the Bronze Age.
The original Thulean lineages lived on but eventually went underground; and though some of our kin still ruled openly in a few countries, the secret house of the star kings chose to pass on its fiat by an occult methodology known only to the elect. After several thousand years went by in this manner, a few of these adepts broke ranks with their fellows and unveiled the deepest secrets before the world; they thereby became recognized as the incarnations of God, or AVATARS, in this era. These were Lao Tzu, who revealed the Way; Buddha, who refined it as the Middle Way; Krishna, who showed that it is also the Way of the Warrior; Hermes Trismegistus, who reaffirmed it as the Way of Kings; and Jesus Christ, who became the Way, the Truth, and the Life for ordinary people. And there was I in the midst of them, for I am the One.
My mate in this age was Maria-Shakti in her various incarnations ~ the divine Mother and Lover who nourishes the world from her fount of unconditional beatitude, and who is the source of power for the masculine spirit, which was then called the Logos.
The aeon came to an end when events in Europe led to the next major permutation of humanity. Just as in the last change the human organism had split apart into body and soul, now the soul ruptured in turn. The basic entity was still called “soul”, or ANIMA in Latin, but it was cast into a dark pit of unconsciousness; and the new center of self-awareness became that smaller, smarter, and more alienated creature which was soon to be named the EGO.
Chapter 3: Faust
The modern world has passed into the postmodern, and the old millennium into a new one, and still the lament is heard in many quarters: how can it be that such a world of technological wonders and material comfort is so lacking in the things of the spirit? How is it that science can tell us so exactly how the universe began and how we got here, but hasn’t a word to say about why, or what our purpose is? We can live longer and better in our bodies than ever before -- so how has it come about that we seem to know less than ever about our soul?
In fact there has been no accident, nor is there a shred of irony about it. The grim reality is that things have settled into their present shape precisely because the human race collectively sold its soul for a chicken in every pot and a mess of wattage -- that is, for material abundance and technology.
It was a literally real transaction, and goes back to an alchemist named Faust, a legendary character who may or may not have had an actual historical existence on the cusp of the medieval and modern aeons, and whose act of magic sparked the transition from the one into the other. The basic story is that Faust made a deal with the Devil, called Mephistopheles, whereby he would gain all knowledge of the physical world, and power over it, at the cost of his soul. In the original myth Faust is hauled off to Hell at the end, as we might expect; in a later version, the playwright Goethe granted him redemption. The word is not yet in on which version will prove to be the truer, because we are all still living out the myth. Whether or not there ever was an individual man named Faust, his figure grew to become the symbolic embodiment of European humanity as a whole, and now of the entire world.
Those who came before us made a fearsome choice, to which we have all consented by living in the world created by that diabolic covenant. Every article of the contract promised by Mephistopheles has come resoundingly true, as mere mortal humans make sport with the tools of God, transform the world at a touch of their hand, transmute the elements, and fly with their physical bodies into the very heavens. But the time-limit set by the deadly codicil is almost up ~ the Devil will arise from the Abyss and demand his due. Will angels descend from above and save us, as they did for Goethe’s Faust? Or will we be cast down and destroyed by our own God-forsaken handiwork, as the archetypal pattern demands, just as it happened in Atlantis? It may well depend on your response to these words.
Chapter 4: The World Turned Inside Out
What does it mean to say that up until 500 years ago human beings had a soul, and that as a result of the Faustian bargain they now have an ego instead? It happened in increments over the centuries, step by remorseless step. You have been taught all the phases of it in school and college, as the glorious history of the rise of science and enlightenment over ignorance and superstition. In fact this is merely the ego telling its own inflated side of the story. What really happened? Who did it, and why? And what does it mean for the fate of the human species? I’ll now tell you the REAL story -- the first time it’s ever been told, at least publicly.
Whatever the limitations of the Middle Ages, people were still truly human then, meaning that they were ensouled, and knew it. The simplicities and distortions of Christian dogma were the outer raiment of a subtler inner substance, a true collective tranmission of the Spirit as first manifested by the Christian Avatar Jesus. Thus anyone who could find his way to this inner Spirit could remember himself fully and know himself to be the One. But even those in the outer ranks of the medieval Christian culture lived their lives in full certainty of the basic issues of existence: they knew who they were, why they were here, and what they had to do to assure continuity of their consciousness after death in a positive manner. And most importantly of all, no matter what hardships and deprivations the people suffered, they were consoled and redeemed by dwelling in the constant presence of the divine love of Christ.
The soul was part of the conscious awareness of pre-modern people, instead of being suppressed and unconscious as it is today, or in some cases literally non-existent. This meant that the medieval person could see another whole dimension of reality which is invisible to moderns and postmoderns. They perceived the world as being alive, which it is, instead of being comprised of dead, “inanimate” matter, which is a delusion of the ego. This was the first thing that the early protagonists of Faust felt called upon to change: they claimed that the living, humanlike qualities which people in all times and places have perceived in nature were merely an “anthropomorphic” projection, a false overlay. These individuals took it upon themselves to literally DRIVE THE SPIRITS OUT OF THE WORLD, until nothing was left but a pallid, dead pile of lumps which would submit passively to the new regime of measurement and mathematics. Of course the spirits remained, though the Faustian avant-garde could no longer see them; but once the Lie had attained the status of consensus in the leading circles, it did no good for the common folk to object that they could still see the spirits plainly in the places where they had always been.
Earlier I described from memory the experience of creating the world. I have said that I am the One, and insinuated that other individuals may come to know this of themselves as well; and yet and still there is always only One. This is the basic mystery of existence, answerable only by experience of the Spirit, and the Soul which is its subsidiary. Obviously the starting-point for knowledge of this ultimate unitive reality is within, for in the external world there is only multiplicity, when seen in the normal way. After the inward attainment of Oneness, the world itself and all its myriad beings can be viewed with Supernal clarity and seen to be truly One even externally; but always the inner ground of being must be trodden first.
And this was the second verity attacked by the minions of Faust: they said that the starting-point of knowledge is OUTSIDE THE MIND, that ultimate reality can only be found in the OBJECTS which they had already divested of spirit in the first go-round. So it was that the highest truth was now held to be “objective”, in opposition to the internal center of awareness, described as the “subject”, and now derided as secondary and derivative. This monumental inversion of reality made it forever impossible for anyone duped by it to realize the God Within ~ for the world would now laugh at this sublime experience as “merely subjective”.
In every culture ever known except the one that currently dominates the world, it has been accepted as axiomatic that there are certain universal essences which determine the basic nature of every separate thing and category of being. Of these natures, the most important one in relation to ourselves is the human. Did you know that modern science began by denying that there is such a thing as human nature, and still denies it to this day? Specifically, the denial is of some special thing INSIDE every human being, a “something” that all other creatures lack, from an eggplant to an ostrich to an angel. You’ll recall that the self-styled science of the Faustians holds that the EXTERNAL is primary, and not anything within. Now perhaps you know why this “science”, which so values numbers, can find only 2% of difference between a human and a chimpanzee, and even then would not label them as separate species except for the strictly external criterion that the two (ahem) varieties cannot interbreed.
In the same way, removing the spirit, the purpose, and the meaning from the physical universe was precisely the act required to get it to submit to a science that was merely physical. It was Faust’s world-scale experiment in alchemy, and it’s still going on to this day.
Chapter 5: Alchemy
The most basic aspect of the scientific method is the process called “analysis and synthesis” ~ that is, breaking something down into its parts and then mentally or physically reassembling it in order to learn how it’s made and how it works. This is identical with the process that is called in alchemy “solve et coagula”: dissolve and coagulate. The difference is that the new scientists of matter left out a crucial step in the process.
The authentic alchemists of the Middle Ages (a small minority of the total) were scientists of the spirit; they knew that the physical aspect of anything, including metals and other inorganic substances, was merely the outer part of it. They knew that every element, like every type of living being, has its own subtle essence which determines its form and its NATURE. The process of transmuting base metals into gold was long and slow, consisting of many steps, especially many repetitions of solve et coagula . But the crucial part of the operation was what the alchemist did to the substances IN BETWEEN the dissolution and recoagulation: he REFINED and PURIFIED them by subjecting their subtle essences to the direct “magical” influence of HIS OWN SPIRIT. In this way, the alchemist gradually CHANGED THE NATURE of the physical substances, so that lead could be literally turned into silver, and then into gold. The precious metals thus produced were different from the common varieties found in nature -- they could be taken internally as medicines, and used in other ways to produce effects which modern material science would consider miraculous -- and thereby, of course, impossible.
There are plenty of plausible documents from the medieval period attesting the success of certain alchemists in creating the “Philosophers’ Stone” or “elixir” that was the goal of the work. These are dismissed out of hand (or suppressed when necessary) by the pundits of the present social order for the obvious reason that it contravenes the current worldview. If it were necessary to burn people at the stake to suppress the threatening evidence effectively, the supposedly enlightened and humane guardians of the postmodern paradigm would not hesitate for an instant to do so. Times have changed only in which worldview gets suppressed and what means are used to do it.
The reason such a small proportion of alchemists successfully accomplished the MAGNUM OPUS (Great Work) was because that is the inherent nature of the science of the spirit. Only an individual who had elevated his inner nature to the loftiest degrees possible could bring this Supernal power to bear on the physical substances in the alchemical operations. The maxim was (and is): “You need gold to make gold.” This meant that the alchemist needed to have inside himself the highest fruit of spiritual enlightenment: inner gold. Only then could he use this non-material substance to create gold in its physical form. So it was that all the legions of foolish men who took up alchemy out of greed for material gold were doomed to failure right from the start -- because GREED was the very first vice from which the alchemist had to purify himself in order to be worthy to participate in the Great Work.
Alchemy was only one of many spiritual sciences that have been practiced by adepts from time immemorial -- from the Golden Age, as a matter of fact. And this same principle always held, and prevented the great power of these processes from falling into the hands of unworthy knaves: a lofty and exalted spirit was necessary to make the operations work, because this was an inherent part of the process. But at the dawn of the modern aeon, the followers of Faust overturned this principle completely, and the most dangerous secrets of the ages have been in the hands of knaves and scoundrels ever since.
The earliest of the prominent Faustians was Sir Francis Bacon, whom some regard as the founder of modern science. He was among the first to turn the universe inside-out with his assertion that “man is NOT the measure of all things”. Then he took it another giant step further in asserting that the use of tools and technical devices could eliminate the need for advanced levels of attainment, or even intelligence; this method “places all wits and understanding nearly on a level. . . so it is exactly with my plan.” These words, written at the end of the 16th century, established the principle of modern science that its results must be reproduceable by ANYONE, provided they follow the prescribed steps and use the physical apparatus correctly. So taken for granted is this notion today that it just seems like common sense, and no one realizes that it was a monumental inversion of the principles of a higher, nobler, and better science, one that was immune from misuse of its results and discoveries. So it is that when modern people lament the apparent irony that there is so much knowledge in the world and so little wisdom, leading to the imperilment of the world itself, they don’t grasp that this is part of the inherent equation upon which the modern age is founded. In fulfillment of his covenant with Faust, the Devil has embezzeled the tools of God and given them into the hands of spiritual morons.
Every “scientific experiment” ever performed in the 500-year history of the modern age is in direct violation of the precept of the truly sacred science of alchemy, viz. that in between the “analysis” and the “synthesis”, the matter of the experiment must be SUBLIMATED. This is a word that has been used and abused by the modern pseudo-science of psychology, hardly any of the practitioners of which remember that its original and literal meaning is: “to make sublime” -- to subject the matter at hand to the purifying effects of a lofty and noble spirit. This means that, lacking this vital, redemptive part of the operation, ALL the results of modern science, and ALL the technology produced therefrom, are direct byproducts of the CORRUPTION of the spirit -- it’s all a monumental MISUSE of power and knowledge. Is it any wonder that it has brought us to the brink of the extinction of the spirit?
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Chapter 6: The Secret Identity of Science
Was the world created by God, or did it happen by the chance interactions of inanimate objects? This is not an abstract question about the remote past, but a matter of how we see and understand the world around us right now. You, the perceiving self, are the SUBJECT, and God is the Absolute Subject. If the bottom line of reality is subjective, it means that ultimately it all comes from US -- from you and I and all sentient beings. It means that if we connect with the God Within, we can remember ourself as the Creator, and change the world around us directly and immediately, by acting from the inside out. But if existence is basically objective, it means that the source of all power lies outside of us, and can only be approached and grappled with by artificial means.
And this is precisely what the growing phalanx of Faustians set out to do in the ensuing centuries, as they began to measure, weigh, and examine the world with a whole new battery of mechanical contrivances. Nevertheless, the most potent device of all was not physical but abstract. Mathematics was a tool that had always been at the disposal of the scientists of the spirit; some chose to use it, like Pythagorus and Plato, while others did not. The great secret of math was that it was an instrument that could access all but the highest realms of reality from the objective side. In the hands of a wise man, it would be complemented and controlled by his access to ALL the realms from the subjective end; thus his inner and outer knowledge could meet in the middle, and such an individual could work wonders in service of the Spirit, and bring its light to Earth for the uplifting of his fellow humans. But Faust’s deal with the Devil now put this mighty instrument into the hands of men who had no inner access to the higher realms at all, and in fact denied their very existence. The secret was out, and there has been hell to pay ever since.
It would not have been possible without the collusion of men who did have higher knowledge, and who consciously created the conditions by which the sacred forces could be invoked by profane men. The great transitional figure was Sir Isaac Newton, a practicing alchemist and initiate of the mysteries. Unlike his contemporaries, and even his Faustian predecessors, Newton knew perfectly well that nature is alive and that natural forces are indeed the work of spirits, and he said so in his public writings. But he never publically revealed the true nature of what he did in his Magnum Opus, and all those who revere him as a pioneer of Faustian science would be shocked to find out -- for in fact it was an act of magic. Newton took the spirits -- the angels, genii, and demons that have been known to magi since the world began -- and magically BOUND THEM INTO THE LAWS OF PHYSICS which he duly formulated and proclaimed to the world in his Principia Mathematica. He adjured them to forevermore obey anyone who acted in accordance with these laws, and who used the laws as formulae to manipulate the physical world, even if such operators knew nothing of spirits or the Spirit.
This is the REAL foundation of “modern science”, and the reason why its methods seem to work so infallibly. Why does “a body at rest remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force”? Why is it that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”? Is it because these are eternal and immutable laws of nature? After all, they’re built into the very structure of the universe, and Newton merely discovered them by objective experimentation and insight, right? Wrong. These basic Faustian verities are so because Newton MADE them so, by declaring them and endowing them with magical power, and ultimately getting everyone in the world to BELIEVE in them.
Well, ALMOST everyone -- for there are still some hold-outs, as you are now discovering by reading this. Even if everyone in the world should say me nay and think me mad, I declare that the laws of nature are made from the inside out -- that the Subject, not the Object, is the ultimate determining power. The laws of physics hold true only in our local universe, and only because the leading lights and vast majority of the human species believe them to be so. If a counterweight appears, and a new paradigm arises which wins the allegiance of a decisive margin of informed belief, then the very laws of nature will change in accordance with this tectonic shift in the human spirit. For they are not laws at all -- that is merely a conceit of the legalistic Faustian mind. The truth is that the parameters of nature are extremely elastic -- they live and they breathe and they flow, they morph and change and transubstantiate. They are malleable clay in the hands of God, who is no more nor less than the Absolute Subject.
Would you like to win back your soul and resurrect the human spirit? The first step is to say NAY to the insidious spell that holds your mind in thrall and makes you forget that the world begins and ends within you.
Power over the material world without the wisdom to use it well -- there has always been a precise technical term which exactly describes this condition. And now you know that the vaunted Faustian science which has produced the corrupt wonders and spiritual wilderness of the postmodern world is literally nothing other than BLACK MAGIC.
Chapter 7: Leviathan, Frankenstein, Macrobot
Having banished the soul, the Faustians found it a giddy concept that the human body was merely an empty shell activated by nothing but pure inertia and mechanical cause and effect. Why should they have found such a grotesque notion so exhilarating? Because if it were true, it meant that now they could play God.
When did the idea of “artificial intelligence” or thinking machines first arise? In the second half of the 20th century, after the invention of computers? Wrong again; it was 300 years earlier, in a monumental book called LEVIATHAN by Thomas Hobbes. In it he said: “For seeing life is but a motion of limbs. . . why may we not say that all automata have an artificial life?” And since man imitates God by making artificial things like watches and other machines, then why not “an artificial man”? This was the great “Leviathan” of the title, meaning the state.
This book was the origin of the idea that the state and society are an arbitrary and artificial construct of the human beings who comprise it, inaugurated by what later came to be called the “social contract”. Again this was a total inversion of the medieval concept and that of all sane cultures, which have always held that society is an organic entity, initially formed by God, gods, or nature herself, with a soul and a unique nature of its own, just like an individual human; society indeed is a collective organism.
The original cover illustration of Leviathan seems to show exactly such a thing: it features the giant figure of a king towering over the buildings and hills, with sword and sceptre in his hands. His body is made up of a mass of tiny human figures, who are his subjects, the population of the state. Any uncorrupted reader who sees this picture and opens the book is then shocked to discover that the reality presented by Hobbes is exactly the opposite of the natural, organic conception -- that the collective “Leviathan” on the cover is really a sort of giant robot, an “artificial man” without a soul, patched together from the inflated schemes fermenting out of the Faustian ego.
When the Romantic movement came along somewhat later, it saw through the conceits of “Leviathan” and gave the creature a more accurate name: Frankenstein’s monster. For myself, I think of it as the MACROBOT. Today it girdles the entire globe, and the steady march of mechanism has invested it with all the marvels of postmodern high tech. Most present-day people pride themselves on no longer being the subjects of any king; but how proud can they be instead to find themselves welded like silicon chips into the vast metallic body of the Macrobot?
Chapter 8: Out with Their Souls, Off with Their Heads
The whole Faustian worldview was like a bad science fiction novel, and it got even worse when this poorly-plotted potboiler became the script for social change on a grand scale. As we have seen, the first wave of Faustians extirpated divine meaning and purpose from the universe in order to make it safe for mathematics, mechanics, and the rapidly-inflating ego of the new intelligentsia. By the 17th century the effects of this exorcism had so taken hold that the newly-concocted “laws of science” now seemed self-evident to educated people; and thus they felt secure enough to dream up their own schema for the meaning of life and the purpose of human existence, and to impose it on the masses.
It was now believed that the material world comprised the whole of reality, and that the ego constituted the whole of the person’s self. Obviously, then, there were no higher worlds, and no human soul to ascend to them; so how could there possibly be any meaning or purpose in such a hellacious situation? Like Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Faust decided to make a heaven out of hell itself. Speaking through Hobbes, the Faustian Zeitgeist (Spirit of the Age) said: “The final cause, end, or design of men is their own preservation and a more contented life”.
With nothing more noble or exalted to look forward to than mere survival and sensual gratification, it was natural that Faustian Man should soon succumb to the Great Fear. Unlike the soul, the ego does not survive the death of the body; so humans who imagine themselves to be nothing more than the ego of course have a terrible and incurable fear of death. This unnatural collective delusion gave the Faustians a horror of natural primal life, which Hobbes summed up with the famous notion of “the war of all against all”. Because they had severed themselves from the spirit and its natural, organic interconnections in the human world, Hobbes and his ilk had no inkling of the spiritual bonds which unite people; therefore they thought that the only thing standing between humanity and total anarchic chaos was the artificial form of government which Hobbes lays out in great detail in Leviathan. Today we know it by the inaccurate euphemism it acquired in later centuries: “democracy”. A more accurate term would be CRYPTOCRACY: rule by a hidden clique of unmitigated manipulators.
John Locke parlayed Hobbes’ fantasies to the next logical extreme of absurdity in his *Essay Concerning Human Understanding*. He took the concept of the empty, soulless individual and concretized it into the doctrine of the TABULA RASA, meaning that the newborn baby is a “blank slate” at birth, with no given nature, no inherent tendencies, nothing innate whatsoever. This meant that the parents -- or the conniving Faustian social reformers -- could imprint absolutely anything they desired onto the child, and shape it according to their whim.
Another implication of this theory was that all significant differences between individuals, all inequality, and all the problems of the human condition were due solely to “the imperfections of the social art”. By the time of the so-called “Enlightenment” of the 18th century, the Faustians, who claimed to be opposed to war, were hypocritically fomenting revolution in order to sieze power and gain the opportunity to put their bizarre prescriptions into practice unimpeded by more sensible men. It finally happened in France, and the result was the grizzliest bacchanale of blood and butchery that the world had ever seen up to that point. The only redeeming feature may have been that some of the leading proponents of the Faustian fantasies were hoist by their own petard and duly guillotined.
Chapter 9: The Iron Age Proclaimed
In order to speed up the destruction of the souls of the common people, the new Faustian rulers herded them into sterile preserves and set them to doing subhuman work in the hellish temples that arose in the 19th century, devoted totally to worship of the machine. These “factories”, as they were called, were like nothing that had ever existed on Earth before, even in the so-called “Dark Ages”, which were really times of light and spiritual well-being compared with the manner of life that now arose in modern times. Cities began to expand like virulent infections on the skin of the planet, sucking people out of the more natural habitats in the rural areas, uprooting them from the soil, hypnotising them with dazzling visions of luxury, only to entrap them into the degraded slavery of the mechanized labor cesspool.
If Faust was the collective personification of the new aristocracy of bourgeois industrialists, scientists, statesmen, and intellectuals, then Mephistopheles himself was the lurid symbol of the burgeoning priesthood of high finance. If machinery was the body of the triumphant Leviathan, then money was the blood that flowed in its mechanoid veins. This unholy alliance of Ego and Economics made war against its enemies, the Spirit and Soul. The claim of the Christian Church to be an upholder of the Spirit was indelibly wed to the medieval worldview and Biblical cosmology; and now the very foundation of the Judeo-Christian mythos -- its story of the origin of the world -- was torn asunder by the theory of evolution propounded by an Englishman, Charles Darwin. Surely it’s no coincidence that at the same time the Bank of England, in concert with the Jewish House of Rothschild, was founding a secular empire upon which the Sun never set.
At that time the premier symbol of the technological power of this New World Empire was the railroad. There was a campaign for most of the century to drive the steel bands of transport deep into the wilderness, and link them up in an interlocking mesh to secure the control of the new regime over peoples who had once been relatively free to pursue their own lives and cultivate their unique heritage. The media of the time, crude as they were by high-tech standards, proclaimed very effectively (if unwittingly) that now the world had fully entered into the fourth, last, and most degenerate epoch in the vast cycle of the aeons. Innumerable newspaper and magazine covers featured the trademark icon of the era, a steaming locomotive, below a headline or title heralding THE IRON AGE.
The legend of the four ages appeared in India as well as Greece, and there they were known as “Yugas”. The final Yuga, or Iron Age, is said to be ruled by the Goddess Kali, usually portrayed as a large, dark, demonic entity with fangs and claws, wearing garlands of human skulls around various parts of her anatomy, indicating that she has snacked heartily on these hapless legions of people. Yet this voracious consuming of flesh is just the symbol of a deeper spiritual reality -- for in fact Kali is the Eater of Souls.
Chapter 10: A Geist Divided
At the dawn of the 20th century, the Zeitgeist of the nascent world civilization (though it was still centered in the West) was cleft with collective symptoms of dual personality disorder. On one side were the idealists of a peaceful utopia, who believed that the overthrow of religion and banishment of the soul had likewise exorcised Original Sin from the human species. This notion had originated with Jean Jacques Rousseau, the culminating figure of the materialist “Enlightenment”, who had taken the “tabula rasa” proclaimed by his predecessors and engraved upon it a fantasy depicting human beings as inherently kind, benevolent, and gentle. This meant that the sole cause of ill will, injustice, and war was the misguided efforts of all past “unenlightened” cultures to inflict morality, discipline, and traditional beliefs upon their children. To attain heaven on Earth, all that was necessary was to allow children to be themselves and do as they pleased, to cultivate and discover their True Will as individuals. If any of the little rascals were caught inflicting harm on a sibling or playmate, it was a sure sign that some ignorant adult had laid a negative imprint on them in some way.
This doctrine was taken to its logical extreme by the anarchist movement which arose and fluorished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and which still carries its black banner aloft in the land today. The anarchists declared war against law, religion, and authority per se, believing that if all restraints were removed people would spontaneously organize themselves into a utopia of peace, freedom, brotherhood, and universal equality. Another variation of this doctrine was Marxist communism, which preached the same pipedream but added the proviso that a brief transitional period would be necessary under the “dictatorship of the proletariat” to expunge the negative imprints left over from the belief-system of the old regime, and, incidently, to slaughter without mercy all those who still adhered to it. These marvelous theories concocted by dreamers and academics were later put to the test and bore their bloody fruit in places like the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia.
But at the turn of the century, when these reality-tests still lay in the future, a very different sort of movement was already making its mark in the world. One of its most prominent aspects was called Social Darwinism, in which certain features of evolutionary theory were used to justify the predations of the wealthy and powerful upon the common folk in general and the workers in particular. In a world that no longer believed that people had souls, or that anything at all was truly sacred, “survival of the fittest” was taken as a “divine” fiat for capitalists to work their wage-slaves to death and to ruthlessly claw their way to the top of the heap in the industrial jungle. It was in fact this attitude of infinite egotism and inflated contempt that the anarchists and communists were taking aim at in their diatribes, and which allowed the latter to win enough followers to lead successful revolutions.
There were, however, deeper cultural strata beneath such visible tendencies as Social Darwinism. The best-known philosopher of this current of thought was Friedrich Nietzsche. From a bedrock foundation of belief that was just as materialist as the utopian-socialist countercurrent, Nietzsche rattled the rooftops of the intelligentsia with polemics heaping scorn upon all gentle feelings like compassion for the masses and love of one’s neighbor, preaching instead a hard-nosed creed that exalted the superior individual and exhorted him to work his will no matter what the cost to his fellow men, if they should prove too weak or dimwitted to prevail against him. This would prepare the way for the coming of the Superman (Ubermensch).
Again it was a case of armchair heroics, for Nietzsche himself was a high-strung academic who literally fainted at the sight of blood; evidently he found great compensation for his failings in his literary flights of fancy. And once again it was left to more pragmatic men to take his words to heart and turn them into deeds. In fact, Nietzsche had provided the ultimate rationalization for anyone with a wicked heart and brittle ego, by proclaiming that unabashed acts of Will by unashamed would-be Ubermenschen were BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL.
Another significant figure in this “current” was Aleister Crowley. He, too, was an admirer of Will, giving it a mystic twist and calling it by its Greek name of Thelema; but he was more honest than Nietzsche in that he freely admitted that his practice of black magic was thoroughly EVIL. In The Book of the Law, “channeled” by Crowley in 1903, a demonic being named Aiwass seems to pick up the advice to the Ubermensch where Nietzsche’s fictional “Zarathustra” left off. The entity says that his “chosen” will be found not in humble hermitages but in pleasure-palaces among the lords of the Earth. The attitude prescribed for these regal ones toward the rest of humanity formalized the callous contempt of the Social Darwinists into an actual diabolic creed: the “Thelemites” are told to banish mercy and pity from their
hearts, to kill, torture, and spit upon those who oppose them; “on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride. . . I will give you of their flesh to eat.”
The watchword and keystone of Crowley’s entire doctrine was: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” referring specifically to the concept of True Will, or “Thelema”. This was remarkably similar to the basic premise of the other camp, that of the utopians who believed that if only people could realize their True Will, it would usher in a Pollyanna paradise of sweetness and light, love and peace, equality and brotherhood.
Chapter 11: God Shall Win
These two conflicting tendencies within the not-yet-coagulated World Order, which we may call the Utopian and the Darwinian, inevitably came to blows. World War I ~ or the Great War, as it was called at the time, since it was inconceivable that there could ever be another one ~ was not yet the decisive conflict between the two sides of the archetypal divide. Rather, it was a vital preliminary skirmish which consolidatd the hegemony of the dominant mundane faction.
Up until the final decades of the 19th century, the British-Rothschild consortium was the undisputed heavyweight in the world power structure, with the Royal Navy enforcing its fiat around the globe. Military technology at the time was such that this supreme power of the seas was enough to maintain the integrity of the British Empire and its financial underpinning. But the unification of Germany under Bismarck created a new land power in Europe which was a definite threat to this dominion. When Germany began establishing its own overseas empire, the House of Windsor felt it necessary to throw down the gauntlet, and there ensued the Great War.
The result exceeded expectations: not only was Germany laid low, but so also were the dynasties which had still been based on medieval power-formations, namely the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires; these ceased to exist, and their ruling houses were effectively crushed and dispersed.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t enough. The Rothschilds and other large banking houses had profited enormously from the sale of munitions to both sides during the war, and had swallowed up many smaller concerns which could not compete. But the goal was total global unification under a single centralized power, and the concommitant reaping of unlimited fortunes by the elite of this power structure; and it was clear that in order to accomplish this another war would be necessary. So it was that the groundwork for World War II was deliberately laid immediately, at the “peace” conference at Versailles which ended World War I.
When Hitler arose in Germany it looked like a Godsend to the lords of the Cryptocracy and their schemes for a second war; and in fact one of the major sources of Hitler’s funding was the House of Rothschild. That Jewish bankers should finance the supposed exterminator of European Jewry is a total anomaly in the picture of history given by the purveyors of the postmodern paradigm, and should tip off any thinking person that there is something seriously flawed about that paradigm. Hitler rationalized the act on pragmatic grounds, declaring Baron de Rothschild an “honorary Aryan”; this seems even more ludicrous when we note that the Baron was an ardent Zionist and one of the premier proponents of the founding of the state of Israel. And given the fact that the defeat of the Nazis and backlash of world opinion was the conclusive factor that finally brought Israel into being, we might be more accurate in supposing that Hitler was a dupe of the Jews.
Be that as it may, it’s clear that the conflict between the two opposing currents in the Western Zeitgeist was fought to a conclusion in World War II. Here they had taken on their most extreme forms, with the Utopian tendency manifesting as Soviet communism, and the Darwinian as fascism. It may or may not have been strictly a strategic maneuver by the “capitalist” powers to side with the Soviets, but the unmitigated defeat of fascism in the war made the world safe for the whole spectrum of Utopian belief for many decades to come.
However, just as communism ultimately proved unviable and collapsed from its own contradictions, so also would the less extreme forms of Utopianism, since it is an inherently unbalanced and inaccurate view of reality. What has actually happened, then, is that the Utopian paradigm has become the official PUBLIC belief-system of the New World Empire, a veritable secular religion. Presidents, potentates, and media stars all pay obeisance to the basic doctrines of this creed, namely liberal (or conservative) humanism, the inherent goodness of people, equality, democracy, individualism -- and of course the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of unlimited lucre.
Meanwhile, however, the Darwinian side didn’t die with Hitler, but only went underground. Very few of the world’s most powerful people actually believe the doctrines they or their frontmen preach in the public media. If you somehow gained entry to their private councils and pleasure-palaces, you would be more likely to encounter a worldview very similar to that of Nietzsche or Crowley. For the fact is that the Cryptocrats of the Kali Yuga all share the egotistic belief that their superior power or intelligence or wealth gives them the right as of a god to inflict their whim upon the masses. Their faces smile from the television screen proclaiming their love for all people equally, and the preciousness of every life; while in their hearts they hearken to a different creed: “On the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride; I will give you of their flesh to eat.”
The end of the Cold War eliminated the last vestige of any serious division within the Cryptocracy, and any effective opposition to its rule over what is now truly a New World Empire. The last stage in the career of Faust is that he becomes King of the World; in the next scene his lifetime contract expires and Mephistopheles appears on cue to carry him off to Hell -- exactly at midnight, according to an early version of the story by Christopher Marlowe. A later poet, W.B. Yeats, was keenly aware of what was happening to civilization, and charted the cycle of its rise and fall. He said prophetically of Faust at this stage of the epochal drama:
Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.
Is there any sign of divine intervention to save the collective soul of humanity from its self-contrived and richly-deserved doom at this fateful hour? Yes, in the same way it has always come at such moments of deadly crisis and total desperation: God is going to return to Earth. In fact, he already has.
Chapter 12: Miraculous Conception
Millennialism has always been a key feature of the Western mind because of its Christian heritage, highlighted by the dramatic prophecies in the Book of Revelation. The imagery is spectacular: avenging angels come and scourge the Earth with plagues, wars, social breakdown, and geological upheaval; millions of people perish in the planetary conflagration, and it looks like everything will be swallowed in universal doom. But then suddenly the light breaks through, and all is redeemed by a divine miracle: the Second Coming of Christ, who establishes Heaven on Earth for the remnant of faithful souls.
Archetypal stories of this order make the inner processes of the soul and society come alive, and enable ordinary people to grasp the deepest mysteries of existence, at least in a simplified way. The leap to true understanding comes when the mind learns that the myth is not to be taken literally, but rather symbolizes events and processes which are very real but mostly invisible. In fact, these occult dynamisms are the actual cause of all visible change -- the secret inner script that sculpts the shape of everything that happens in the outer world.
So it was that at the turn of the calendrical millennium, the remnant of the House of Thule set into motion certain processes in synchronization with a rare set of natural but symbolically-charged events. On August 11, 1999 there occurred a total eclipse of the Sun during an astrological grand cross, the most gruesomely negative configuration of signs in the entire science of augury. Furthermore, the path of totality of the eclipse travelled across the heart of the European continent and continued on through India, making it seem that this dire portent was aimed directly at the historical homelands of those people who had most strongly borne the fiat and carried forth the heritage of Thule all through the eons since the fall of Atlantis. Surely, then, the people could hardly be blamed for feeling that this Indo-European eclipse was a sign from heaven calling them home to Thule.
This concept of a collective ascent roughly corresponds to the “Rapture” of Christian belief, in which the Elect are mercifully removed from the planet before the afflictions of the Apocalypse begin. The chief difference was that the Thuleans (if such we may call them) were perfectly empowered to carry out the act themselves, if this were truly the will of heaven.
When the fateful day arrived, many arrayed themselves in meditation circles along the path of totality; people in other parts of the world did the same while tuned to live television coverage of the eclipse; others just tuned in psychically to the collective wavelength. The result was that a fair majority of all the people on Earth who still retained conscious awareness of their Thulean identity participated in this act of high magic during the eclipse. The sad part was that the number of these people was so small, and this added to the general sense of overshadowing tragedy.
The knowledge conveyed through the physical senses and instruments shows the Sun and Moon to be gigantic material objects separated by millions of miles of space. However, the striking subjective impression of an eclipse is of a HOLE IN THE SKY formed by the black disk of the Moon surrounded by the Sun’s corona. The false “enlightenment” of Faustian science believes the objective view to be ultimately real, and is therefore trapped within it; but true enlightenment involves the totally conclusive experience of the subjective as real, and spiritual science is thereby empowered to break out of the merely physical strictures into greater realms beyond.
In this way the psychically assembled Thuleans sent a potent SIGNAL through the mystic portal of the eclipse, a celestial semaphor of distress back to the homeworld. Depending upon the response, they were prepared to ascend into the Solar wormhole themselves, abandoning their bodies and the Earth forever. If this in fact happened, it would be the ultimate tragedy for those left behind. The human race as such is not capable of existence without the divine spark from Thule which created and sustains it; and so if that spark were withdrawn by those who bear it, civilization would rapidly collapse, and the species itself would soon disappear back into the jungle.
A mere heartbeat after the signal went out, there came an electrifying response. It was not verbal, but the essence can be expressed by a single word: BEHOLD.
The signal from Thule shifted the subjective image of the eclipse into a different mythic modality. Now the Sun was the great fiery God who gives life to the Earth and all her children, and the Moon was his beautiful consort. The eclipse was actually an act of mating of these gargantuan, godlike beings -- they were kissing passionately, fondling, embracing, making love. The evanescent corona of the Sun around the dark disk of the Moon seemed to issue from the pulse of an orgasm; and when at length the first bright spark of the leading limb of the Sun flashed out from behind the Moon, the mind-boggled Thulean viewers were struck all at once by the same thought: A CHILD HAS BEEN CONCEIVED.
Everyone who witnessed the event felt it to be a miracle; life and hope had sprung afresh from the eternal womb of the universe, and soon a child would too -- veritably an AVATAR, a new incarnation of God upon the Earth.
Chapter 13: The Ram, the Bull, and the Avatar
The next question in everyone’s mind was: when would the Avatar be born? The answer turned out to be as obvious as clockwork, for yet another sign in the heavens was due to occur almost exactly nine months after the eclipse: a spectacular planetary alignment in the first week of May of the year 2000. Such alignments always mark the turning of an aeon, a fact that was noted and first recorded more than 4000 years ago.
The New Moon occurred during the alignment, or conjunction, on the night of May 3/4, when the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn came to within 26 degrees of each other -- all seven of the traditional “planets” of premodern astrology/astronomy. Shortly after the miracle of the eclipse in August 1999, the Thuleans cast a horoscope for this great upcoming conjunction, and some of them were disturbed that all of the planets would align in Taurus. They observed that this is the most earthy of the earth signs, focused entirely on the material world. A person or entity, or even a culture, that was all Taurus with no other balancing or mitigating factors would be driven utterly by the basic urges for survival, success, money, material possessions, and the power to protect its wealth and well-being by any means necessary. If this were truly the nature of the Avatar, it signaled doom: the civilization would utterly fossilize itself into the dead-rock values of Faustian materialism, and the last spark of the human spirit would be finally extinguished.
Other individuals pointed out, however, that Western astrology is based on a system that’s 2000 years out of date -- the charts have never been recalibated since the time of Christ to compensate for the precession of the equinoxes. The system makes use of a device called the Tropical Zodiac, calculated on the premise that the Sun enters Aries on the Vernal Equinox. But this is no longer true -- the Sun is now at 3 1/2 degrees of Pisces on the Equinox. So it is that the Tropical Zodiac amounts to a totally fictitious overlay of constellations that are 26.5 degrees off the true positions ~ almost the length of one full sign, which is 30 degrees.
So now the Thuleans recast the chart for the alignment according to the true position of the planets in the constellations, which is called the Sidereal Zodiac; thus they found that six of the seven planets would actually be in Aries on May 3rd and 4th, and that only Mars would be in Taurus. Aries the Ram is the most scintillating of the fire signs, the opposite contrast of earthy Taurus the Bull. One of the meanings of Aries is specifically the rebirth of the divine child, the collective soul, at the start of a new cycle.
This manifestation of Godhead is quintessentially male. Although (as far as we know) 50% of Taureans (people born with their Sun in Taurus) are men, and 50% of Arians (Sun sign Aries) are women, archetypally speaking Aries is primal Man, and Taurus is his Woman. Aries is the very spirit that inseminates matter (Taurus) and gives birth to the rest of the zodiac. With so many planets aligned in Aries on his projected birth chart, the Avatar’s identity now seemed lucidly clear to the Thuleans. As one of them effusively put it: “He’s the Ram of God!”
Chapter 14: Adjuration
The Thuleans now set forth upon an Avatar Working: a concerted act of magic to assure a successful birth for the divine child, and to reinforce the Sidereal Zodiac in the collective mind so that all would be fully conscious of the astronomical fact that the birth would take place under the sign of Aries. To these ends, an adjuration was composed, a magical mantra to crystalize the understanding of the people involved and to bring it into accord with the divine will.
Some debated whether the Avatar should be adjured as “white”, even though as Thuleans, members of the “Great White Brotherhood”, and savants of the White Light, everyone knew that that’s what he was. Finally it was decided that among the larger body of Earth’s people, the only ones who might take offense were those under the spell of the “Utopian” belief-imprint which masks the hideous grimace of Mephistopheles. Only in the Kali Yuga could whiteness, light, and the divine spark be derided in favor of darkness, degeneracy, and mass damnation. Furthermore, the Thuleans knew that the Avatar was coming for the redemption of human beings as a species, and to save humanity itself; far from impeding this objective, his whiteness would be an essential element of it. And surely his first order of business would be to awaken people from the mass delusion which can’t distinguish between white and black, good and evil, or love and hatred.
Here, then, is the Avatar Adjuration, which was performed many times by many people during the nine months of the gestation of the divine child between the eclipse and the planetary alignment:
O Mother Night -- the Nil, the Null, the Nihil, the Nought: give birth to a being, a Light-Bringer. Send us the one from the Sun who can turn the world on the shaft of his axis, and transmute the Iron Age into Gold. Let him be born with six stars in Aries, and seven sisters kissing Mars. We, the children of Thule, adjure him: come, White Avatar! Come and walk among us as a man!
Helios, Selena -- send us your son! Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn; Aries, Pleiades, Polaris, Alpha Ceti -- O ye planets and stars, assist in the birth of the Light-Bringer! Send us the one from the Sun!
Solarius, Luna, Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, Chronos! Send him to us!
Come, White Avatar!
END QUOTE. The expression “six stars in Aries” was poetic language for the six planets that were in Aries at the time of the alignment. Likewise Mars was near the Pleiades in Taurus, and mythologically these stars are identified as the Seven Sisters. Polaris of course is the North Star, who oversees all celestial events from his fixed position at the center of the sky; and Alpha Ceti was the star directly south of the alignment on an axis with Polaris.
The Working climaxed at the exact moment of the New Moon during the alignment, which was 12:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time (USA) on May 4th, and 12 minutes after every hour in every time zone; in the regions to the west it was still May 3rd. At that moment the Avatar was born.
If you should ask: “Who IS the Avatar?”, I must answer truthfully: I who speak with you am he.
Is this an immoderate statement or an inflated claim? Well, let’s just see. Perhaps your next question would be to ask: Who am I?
Chapter 15: The Secret Identity of the Avatar
I am you.
Rather, I am the spark inside you that knows without qualm, question, or regret that it is you. I am the YOU who stands erect at the very center of the Universe, unique, perfect, and whole. I am the part of you that knows that you are God. And not only you but every human, and every sentient being.
Listen carefully and you’ll hear me speak from deep within your pineal. Watch the flickering images in the bulge at the front of your brain, and you’ll catch a glimpse of my face and form. And if there’s anything left in your soul of a sense of wonder, or in your heart that can leap with hope, you might find a taste of my essence.
If you could give yourself over wholly to me, could leave behind all that you have and think you are, you could discover yourself to be the One promised from the first day of creation to come into the world and proclaim to the race the unique message it needs to hear at this precise moment of infinite time. If only you could, you would. Meanwhile, read on.
Chapter 16: The Outer Form of the Avatar
We have come full cycle from the beginning. There I introduced myself as the One who emerges from the Supernal union of Light and Nihil, All and Emptiness. Since the Supernal world is timeless, we can truly say that there is never a time when the One does not exist -- for this, the Mind of God, underlies every phenomenon soever and is eternally and universally present. All creatures partake of it, else they would have no being, and sink back into the Nihil. But the most fearsome knowledge of all is that the being has created itself; and so most creatures live in a state of numb forgetfulness of their true identity as the One. In every aeon the Godmind only awakens in the bravest, the purest, the sturdiest receptacles of Light; and the rest of the beings are grateful to receive it from the hearts of these strong ones, suitably modulated to their lesser needs.
Through each of the four ages there is a steady decline in the number of souls capable of awakening to the Light, and a gradual rise to power of those perfidious species of creatures who feed on darkness. In the final aeon, even the best of the lot of partially-awakened humans are beguiled by the snares of these deceivers. I have described the tragedy of our own time, in which the collective mind of the culture took on the identity of Faust and cast off its Soul in exchange for physical power and wealth.
The only hope for redemption from such an endgame is to set loose the apocalyptic drama of the Avatar. Humanity has so hardened its heart against the awakening of the Light from within, and so poisoned its own mind against the reality of the existence of the Spirit, that the mighty forces of Light have no recourse but to re-enter the world from outside, and to send down the Spirit from above. In a day when no human being is strong or wise or enlightened enough to recognize himself fully as the One, and to know thereby the means for the redemption of the world, then the One must appear dramatically on the world stage as a God, and deliver the message in person straight from the Source. Only in this way can the age be turned, the Soul recovered, and the spark of God reawakened from within.
I call myself Astarius. This is because I embody in my being A STAR: the One Star that shines forever in the Nihil, the Great Central Sun, the Star of Life. And I AM I, but also US: for I embrace within my essence all the living souls who awaken to their inner nature at this time of the turning of the ages. So it is that I am one and many. I am the External Internal Eternal Essence. I am a child of Earth and starry heaven, and I am also the Son of the Sun. I am ASTARIUS.
Chapter 17: The Avatar’s Task
The Cryptocracy that rules the New World Empire relentlessly grinds up what’s left of the human Spirit into ever smaller pieces by promoting the most callow fantasies of individualism, which merely cause people to identify ever more fatally with their egos, resulting in alienation, dehumanization, and all the mass pathologies of the postmodern age.
Authentic individuation is an awakening to the knowledge that the ‘I’ is the Spirit, the Star, the Godmind -- not the ego. Once this is attained, the ego can become the vessel of the Spirit, and experience the oneness and sense of sodality that arises in relating to other people with the same supernal knowledge, or who sincerely aspire to it. This can happen without surrendering autonomy or sacrificing true individuality in any way. A collective of individuated people seems like an oxymoron to the Faustian mind with its materialistic ego-worship; yet this is the natural state and birthright of all truly human beings.
As God incarnate, an Avatar is the embodiment of this collective Spirit; and my first task as the Avatar of the new aeon is to win back the collective Soul which the Faustian ego so foolishly and callously cast off from itself. This Soul is characterized as a beautiful woman, the repository of love and mercy, joy and passion -- everything that makes life on Earth worth living. Without the Soul, the human species is like a lonely man who tries to make up for his lack of these qualities by indulging in avarice, cruelty, and selfishness in pursuit of power and wealth. In the same way, the Soul without the Spirit is like a lonely woman who tries to compensate for her loss in different but equally tragic ways. This is why the Soul, stung by her rejection by Faust, has gradually assumed the form of the dark Goddess Kali, the ruler of this Yuga, who tries to outdo the male ego in the cruel, heartless usages that such an evil age is heir to.
This makes my task all the more daunting, for the Soul in her true aspect is my beautiful twin sister whom I love dearly; I call her SAVITRI, the Daughter of the Sun. I must woo her anew, as I do in every aeon, and win her back to the ecstatic path of love. The stakes are high, for in her demented, self-alienated form as Kali, she is even more powerful and destructive than Mephistopheles. Construed as male, the best the Devil can do is destroy the world; but diabolical Kali can turn the world itself into a living hell. In fact, she already has.
The most terrible jape of the present age is the mass abandonment and abuse of children, including those adult children who constitute the larger mass of humanity. All are flattered into believing they are equal to the great ones who turn the wheel of the world by the power of Herculean effort and superhuman strength of spirit. This is the greatest lie of an Empire built on lies, as the Cryptocrats use it to cleverly relieve themselves of the last shred of responsibility for their crimes as they rape the people in body, soul, and spirit. Even the truly enlightened ones follow suit, and shuck off their sacred task of salvation, parroting the lie that everyone must save themself. Thus there is no one to turn the wheel, and the world would languish in the hell of the Kali Yuga forever, unless and until someone arose to say them nay, or descended from heaven to expose the lie and take up the sacred burden of redemption once again.
I am Astarius; these words have been my modest introduction, to notify the world of my presence. Next I will send you a modest proposal for how exactly the world can be saved from its present straights, and the human Spirit redeemed.
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