Davidic Covenant

ince it emanated from the Absolute II, the first Mosaic Decalogue was of
Christian inspiration and, in spite of evetything, it was never completely
eclipsed in the consciousness of the chosen people by the Second Decalogue.
The Second was of pagan inspiration, in the sense that it emanated from the
Absolute III. In the consciousness of the spiritual elite of the Jewish people, the
monotheism relative to Jehovah never managed to replace the true monotheism
of the consubstantial and indivisible Holy Trinity that was openly proclaimed in
historical Christian history.

This esoteric tradition was revealed from the time of Moses through the line
of the prophets, and found its highest possible expression in the Old Testament
period in the person of the prophet-king David. It is true that, as a man, King
David was not unblemished—the Bathsheba-Uriah affair is a flagrant proof of
this—but the nobility of his soul and the greatness of his work brought him not
only absolution but the sublime promise that the Messiah would be born of his
line.7 Psalm CXVIII, which summarizes the esoteric doctrine, designates him as
a prophet, and the creation of the unified State of Israel crowns his work as a
king.

Boethius & Pythagoras

Another guest post for Friday.

Amerika

"The essential problem is that Americans have been lying to themselves for so many years now that they are completely incapable of telling the difference between the rather frightening truth and their mythological view of America. The roots of the problem go back to the 1930's, but the real problems began right after the Second World War, when the American government came under the control of the group of thugs who still run the country. There has been a carefully planned program of complete domination of all sources of information through total media control, the creation of the 'think tank' system to manufacture policy, the establishment of entrepreneurial right wing religion as a method of political control, the use of political contributions to buy politicians, and, if all else fails, simple violence. It is now a country where anyone who could do good is marginalized or assassinated, and changes in government are at least as likely to occur by coup d'etat than by the operation of democracy. There is no longer even the necessity to hide the fact that the country is run entirely for the benefit of certain large pools of capital. The essential lies that Americans tell themselves, which mainly have to do with class structure and, even at this late date, race, infect every major political issue in the country - crime and the incarceration industry, health care, the 'war on drugs', education, immigration including the racist response to 9-11, the environment, poverty and the extraordinary creation of what is really a new caste system consisting of a permanent underclass (something that has happened, unnoticed, only in the last few years), and even American foreign policy. Each year since around the time of Sinclair's broadcast [Gordon Sinclair's famous broadcast from radio station CFRB in Toronto in 1973] the situation has gotten worse, but lately the rate of deterioration appears to be increasing rapidly. Things have gotten so bad that the government is now fronted by a retarded (and I use that word in a technical sense) clown, who everyone treats as if he were a real President (the worst lie to yourself is when you have to pretend that the obvious idiot who leads you is entitled to do so). The lies are so deeply ingrained into American thought that the vast majority of the population apparently is incapable of seeing that there is anything wrong, meaning that there is no possibility of change." 4

Waking Up?

"Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit.

Peter Russell, "Dehypnosis - Breaking the Trance"

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The Rising Heart and the Soaring Mind

Then keep thy heart, though yet but ill-resigned—
Clarel, thy heart, the issues there but mind;
That like the crocus budding through the snow--
That like a swimmer rising from the deep--
That like a burning secret which doth go
Even from the bosom that would hoard and keep;
Emerge thou mayst from the last whelming sea,
And prove that death but routs life into victory. - Melville

Exteriorizing the Faith

Is it any coincidence that the Inquisition makes its arrival shortly after the de-Platonizing of Christianity and the birth of scholasticism?

Boethius

"Since men become happy by acquiring happiness, and since happiness is divinity itself, it follows that men become happy by acquiring divinity. For as men become just by acquiring integrity, and wise by acquiring wisdom, so they must in a similar way become gods by acquiring divinity. Thus everyone who is happy is a god and, although it is true that God is one by nature, still there may be many gods by participation."

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