In this transition from the Age of Authority to the Age of Experience, from Dependence to Independence, we face a struggle to disentangle ourselves from a parasitic system. This is a toxic system that destroys ecosystems, corrupts governments and legislators, weakens us to a state of craven dependency and fills our minds with paralysing visions of terror and fearful delusions. To this soulless system we are a means to an end and in this an end not of our own choosing. We are a resource to be used, managed and – above all – controlled; we are a number on a ledger, a unit of work, we feed it with our very lives - we are its food. We must stop supporting these toxic, corrupt, and corrupting systems, and start supporting better ones, or they will destroy every last one of us.
The Age of In-dependence [dependence upon the resources within] must be preceded by the discovery of the riches of ‘The Kingdom Within’: those riches born of the ever inspiring divine kingdom that exists within every single one of us. Those inspiring spiritual riches that will be illuminated by the spiritual truth that we are the temporal children of the Eternal God and the kingdom of possibilities within ourselves as communities, the spiritual family of God knowing Man serving divinely endowed and spiritually motivated beings. We are free to employ ‘external’ systems but we should not become dependent upon them. We should, indeed, share with our fellows from the abundance we acquire from ‘within’ [within ourselves as individuals and ourselves as groups] but we should always remain mindful that ‘it is more blessed to give than to receive,’ that when we receive we are – far too often – left obligated, a tactic employed by Big Pharma when giving gifts/inducements to universities, health systems, and governments.
Presently, corporations are the dominant species, the dinosaurs, of the current age. They are like the Hydra of legend: they have many heads, one in Tokyo, Paris, New York, London and Hong Kong, and many crushing feet in the developing nations: Africa, South China, India, Bangladesh, South America. Their tentacles envelop the globe, reaching into every home. Every medicine chest, every piece of fibre you wear and every tool you use, has been touched by them.
At present our social systems foster dependence. Over time our dependency has grown to such an extent that we are the cultural equivalent of a depraved, chronic addict. A chronic addict thinks nothing of violence, thievery, deception and untold other shameless and nameless acts in order to feed their habit. If an addict would think nothing of robbing loved ones, Big Oil and Pharma think nothing of intimidating nations and plundering their resources, destroying communities, environments, toppling governments, corrupting legislators and are generally ready to do anything in order to acquire profit. Indeed, the CEO that fails to maximise profit can be ejected from their position.
In the midst of all this are the citizenry, like the children of chronic addicts. Their parents are utterly selfish and care not one whit for them. If the children do not act to protect themselves against the unbridled lusts of their caregivers they will be destroyed. Indeed, the whole house will be burned down over their heads.
It’s a story as old as time itself, over time the nurturing father loses his way and falls into corruption and hell and the child must save him. The children, the citizens, of a Nation do not hate her. She may be a corrupt mother but she is still their mother. Her sons burn to free her from those who would keep her in bondage, force her and her children into prostitution, violence, and degeneracy.
There is a lesson to be learned from these stories, a guiding moral, that our civilisations have failed to weave into the fabric of their culture. When those with power put self interest ahead of the welfare of the group, when the parent puts the gratification of personal desires ahead of the moral claims of fostering the wellbeing of the whole family, when those with power fail to appreciate the importance of dignity and self-respect and so drag the community down into degeneracy and shame, when the weak, degenerate, and venal are allowed to squander the resources of the family then are the children of that nation or that family forced to live in squalor and filth.
A society that fails to ensure that only its wisest and most noble are allowed near the reins of power will, over time, guarantee the progressive disenfranchisement of its people. A society that fails to consciously promote and exalt the acquisition of wisdom as the first duty of every citizen, is then – by omission – covertly exalting foolishness and folly and is sure to reap the harvest of sorrow and heartache that ever follows in the wake of these evils. A society that fails to consciously glorify the ideals of service to ones fellows – of so living as to enhance the world, is unconsciously promoting selfishness and self aggrandizement and with it storing up for future generations unimaginable tragedy and suffering.
Such a state of affairs can only continue so long as the children see themselves as dependant upon their corrupt caretakers. The truly sick minded sincerely endeavour to keep their children enslaved through an evil concoction of lies, terror, and cruelty. However, once the children wake up, once they see through the lies and recognise the truth, once they become numb to the terror and fear loses its grip of their imagination, once the limits of pain have been found then their caregivers lose their power over them. Then they, like Dorothy in Oz, discover that they had the power they needed to achieve personal happiness all along and that no one ever had the ability to take it from them without their consent. Once they realise that they are the ones with the power, that it is their corrupt parents who are utterly dependent on them then it is they that can seize control and get their house in order.
The ideals of one generation determine the direction of following generations. To lose sight of one’s ideals is to descend into spiritual darkness. As a disoriented man becomes quickly lost, so too do men’s lives quickly unravel when they’ve lost sight of their ideals, this is as true for the nation as it is for the individual – even for an entire planet.
The prophet Yuri Bezmenov forewarned the west of the danger of the ‘demoralisation of a generation’. The moral of a story is the jewel of wisdom, the guiding principle, that can be derived from it. The spiritual storehouse of nations and of men are their religions and the philosophies, destroy these and you blind men and nations and such is the momentum of history that without these civilisations will, very quickly, unravel.
In these days of profound spiritual darkness, as civilisation seems to be coming apart at the seams, we need the illumination of spiritual ideals, the guidance afforded by moral principles, and consolations of sound cosmic philosophy as probably never before in human history. The Master promised, ‘Seek and you will find’, you just need faith. The only caveat that I would add to that is: be careful what you seek, not everything the heart desires adds value.
Therefore, in the words of the prophets of old:
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding... Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her…Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her; those who hold her fast will be blessed.
