Esoteric Agenda a Fundamentalist Rhetoric:
Mystery Religion: I was once asked a question, “Do you believe in Christ?” and I replied, “Yes,” but I don’t believe in the Catholic Church. His face appeared perplexed. He looked confused about my approach, and a question would probably instil him. How can anyone believe in Christ and not the Church? If one examines the propensity for truth in themselves, a thought might formulate in the mind that questions the current notion of the Church Institution.
That it’s more corporate than anything else we might associate it with. Would Christ himself be an advocate of a corrupt institution? Any religious historian knows the story from the King James Bible, “and Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.” The Catholic Church amasses billions of dollars, hoarding and not giving, the corrupt Priests and systematic abuse are so rampant it’s become inherent. At the same time, the Church goes out of its way to protect this behaviour. The Vatican only holds a hidden history and knowledge library for the initiated secret group. This knowledge is so profound that it could fix most of the problems that concern the world today. And this is not a manifesto to conspire against all Church institutions, just outlining its overt fallacy.
To understand why this is happening, you must first go beyond your programmed understanding and instead dive into esotericism, occult knowledge, and an understanding of the Mystery Cults. In the early settlements of America, Europeans called this country the New World but secretly called it the New Atlantis. This country was a formation of a plan backed by the Royals (Windsor), and this country, on the surface, was going to be a democratic liberal Country with biblical principles. Its true intention, however, is an advantageous social engineering plan – formed by a principle of the ideal man in the perfect utopia. These brave, devout pilgrims were known as Puritans (or “Separatists,” as they called themselves) and were little more than indentured servants to European corporate interests. That took place in a corporate colony – not a religious commune. Any so-called religious venture lurks behind a rich and powerful […] pulling the strings from the get-go. These ideas stem back to the Mystery Cults.
What were the Mystery Schools? (Just small disclaimers: do not take the information on the beginnings of Thoth Hermes as fact but as historical myth) Mystery Cult teachings are a pearl of esoteric spiritual wisdom and philosophy passed down by the initiates through generations. These mystery teachings were formed in the age of Atlantis, where they learned all things consciousness. An Atlantis Priest named Thoth went to Egypt, and through him and two Nacals, he helped introduce the first Pharaoh, Akhenaten; this Pharaoh was 15 feet tall and had an elongated skull. He abolished all previous beliefs of God, instilled a one-God belief, and used the sun-disk symbol to worship. Akhenaten then developed a new Mystery group, and after a while, the people revoked them and had him killed. During the end of the Egyptian Empire, Thoth outlined in the emerald tablets that he met a man from Greece named Pythagoras, to whom he taught sacred geometry. Thoth lived in Greece as Hermes Trismegistus. To understand Atlantis times, you must also understand dimensions, frequencies, vibrational grids, vortexes, alchemy, Fallen Angels and sacred geometry (etc.), which all stem from the Mystery Religion, and the average lifespan of an Atlantis being was 900 years.
Throughout the centuries, occult knowledge became prevalent. Then, they were forgotten with the rise of materialism and kept secret through secret societies. Their intentions were innocent at the time; they had more knowledge of the Mystery Religion [Cults] than the average person. It is believed that the Church infiltrated these societies and became a steward for that group. They intended to guard that knowledge and prevent it from leaking out. But instead, they demonised the original cult groups and those that would follow them. They have kept the name, but their true intentions are gone, replaced by a new Order (or Empire) to further push their agenda, NWO (Globalism), which is in place today.
Grace Knoche of the Theosophical Society outline in her document titled the ‘Mystery Schools,’ describing the origin and I quote: “Millions upon millions of years ago in the darkness of prehistory, humanity was an infant, a child of Mother Nature, un-awakened, dreamlike, and wrapped in the cloak of mental somnolence. Recognition of egoity slept; instinctual consciousness alone was active. Like a stream of brilliance across the horizon of time, divine beings Manasaputras, sons of mind, descended among the sleeping humans and, with the flame of intellectual solar fire, lighted the wick of latent mind, and lo! The thinker stirred. Self-consciousness wakened, and man became a dynamo of intellectual and emotional power: capable of love, hate, glory, or defeat. Having knowledge, he acquired power; acquiring power, he chose; choosing, he fashioned the fabric of his future; and the perception of this ran like wine through his veins.” (Grace Knoche, n.d)
Grace later explains the Atlantis connection, she says; “time marched on, and the race waxed lusty in power, as Lemuria gave birth to Atlantis, the third root-race to the fourth, the fiercest battle was waged: the war between the lords of light and truth and the lords of darkness and ignorance…Thus were established, some threatening to destroy themselves through spiritual iniquity, the first Mystery Schools. From these early centres sprang other Mystery Schools in all parts of the Atlantean world. By the time the Atlanteans were in their heyday of material splendour, these schools were working their hardest to stem the increasing tide of sorcery.” (Grace Knoche, n.d)
The Mystery School (or cults) was an establishment that presumed doctrines, creative knowledge, and intellect were given to man so man could achieve Godhood and become a divine being of who he was supposed to be. The doctrine is one of the same for the established elites – the exclusive knowledge to achieve immortality and become Gods without the help of the creator God – all while denying any accountability of sins in trying to achieve this goal. All this can be stretched back to Adam and Eve, when Satan said to Eve, “Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.” (Satan to Eve, Genesis 3:4-5,). Satan knew that by eating the fruit of life, humankind was subject to death, the line “ye shall not surely die” a lie hidden in words.
While a collective parallel agenda exists that can match biblical references in Genesis, it’s still a baseless assumption to believe that the New Age is subjected to the same representation. The notion that believing in reincarnation and spiritual evolution is another form of the apple does not seem to ring true. While Buddhists convey that reincarnation is something you must get out of the perpetual cycle, they imply that it’s another form of the apple when it’s just a mere parallel; by its logic, everything after the apple is a sin. It’s a conflict raised by fundamentalism that has some esoteric knowledge. This kind of thinking reinforces a false Esoteric Agenda; there is splitting and combining history with beliefs. The New Age is relatively new and amorphic. Still, before the New Age label, it was known to be various groups that knew occult and esoteric knowledge – in its early days, it was free from the established elite. Still, once infiltrated, it started to become more agenda-driven. Hence, this propensity for an Esoteric Agenda component that the conspiracy Christians loves to advocate – however, mutual exclusivity exists. Discerning truth and fiction should also be exercised; this was true for early occultists.
Far Right Religion: So here we have Christianity, which works through politics; Christianity is an offset of Egyptian Beliefs; with the understanding of the Mystery Cult teachings, they took over the occult groups, now called Mystery Religions. The Vatican has a vast knowledge of the ancient text, which is not part of Italy and is controlled by the Jesuits. The Catholic Church is responsible for the New Testament writings, changing explicit Genesis writing while not entirely dismissing the book of Enoch.
There is a contention where the Christian right tries to convey that the new age is part of the New Order to be the same. A particular aspect of this is true; since the founder of Esalen died and the re-interrogation of the Rockefellers as new management to the Esalen Institute – paved the way for the New Age to rise only to become an agenda-driven institute. However, that’s not to say purists or followers of the old New Age can’t exist. This gives the Christian’s notion as being one of the same as the New Order to be purely based on conjecture – because it would mean discerning many books. Since the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic texts appeared, Christians have not afforded the same contention within themselves. So, the spiritualist has to fight two fronts to manoeuvre around: the Christian right and the rational Atheist. The spiritualist has to explain why both are part of a deliberate dialectal polarity set in place for them to waste their time on. In a way, the spiritualist is the new Philosopher and stands outside these two polarizing beliefs, and here is why.
Christian Rights and Atheist institutions have offset followers, such as Christian Science, Agnostics and Humanist. They all have a common ideology, a lack of faith or blatant denial of God. While also having myopia to anyone wanting to reach enlightenment, be awakened, or reach Christ-consciousness, the Christian right will say “Christ” is the son of God, but no one else, just him. The New Age describes reaching Christ-consciousness as the same as reaching enlightenment or being aware or reaching Satori, while the Atheists disbelieve God outright until explained by science. The Christian right has moral ground to reduce the New Age group because it has no wall to stop any merging infiltration, so this gives the Christian right a way to box the New Age from being corrupted. And this is dangerous; it gives them a judge-like complex. So, you have an infiltrated Christian right, reducing the New Age to a conspiracy with which the Christian right is also associated. It’s a form of deflection while suggesting their truth is absolute.
Eckhart Tolle, in his book ‘A New Earth,’ in the sub-section ‘Truth: Relative or Absolute,’ subheading ‘I am right you are wrong: outlines that it’s dangerous in personal relationships as well as in interactions between nations, tribes, religions and so on. The history of Christianity is, of course, a prime example of how the belief that you are in sole possession of the truth, that is to say, right, can corrupt your actions and behaviour to the point of insanity. For centuries, torturing and burning people alive if their opinion diverged even in the slightest from the Church doctrine or narrow interpretations of the scripture (Truth) was considered right because the victims were “wrong” They were so wrong that they needed to be killed. The truth was considered more important than human life. And what was the truth? A story you had to believe in, which means a bundle of thoughts. (Eckhart Tolle, n.d)
Eckhart describes The Catholic and the churches as correct in identifying relativism that there is no absolute truth to guide human behaviour, one of our time’s evils. Then, “it won’t be found if you look for it in doctrines, ideologies, sets of rules, or stories, and all this is common to the notion of thought.” He says: “Thought can be at best point to the truth, but it is never the truth.” Buddhists say: “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.” He then interprets this through the ego; he explains that you can use them in the service of the ego, or you can use them in the service of Truth. Suppose you believe only your religion is the Truth. In that case, you are using it in the service of the ego in such a way that religion becomes ideology and creates an illusory sense of superiority and division and conflict between people. In the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with form. (Eckhart Tolle, n.d)
Eckhart further describes truth inwardly; he outlines that the truth is inseparable from who you are – yes, you are the truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. The very being that you are is truth. Jesus tried to convey that when he said, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” These words uttered by Jesus are the most powerful and direct pointers to the truth. If understood correctly, if misinterpreted, it can become a great obstacle. (Eckhart Tolle, n.d)
Kierkegaard, a polar opposite of Marxist thinking at the time, is a philosopher who explores Christianity subjectively. He is an existentialist and early Humanist. He, however, had no interest in external institutions like progress or consumer society, and that individualism was stifled. He says his views on religious belief: “What is this self of mine, it is the most abstract of all things, and yet at the same time, it’s the most concrete. Its freedom, the consciousness of being an individual, which is fundamental in man, is his consciousness of eternity. Christianity is not a doctrine; it is an existence communication, it can only be expounded, when being realized in Men’s Lives.” He later expands a more definitive verse; he says, “My task is so new that in Christianity’s 1800 years, there is literally not one from whom I can learn, on how it should be done? For all extraordinary men who hitherto live have aimed at spreading Christianity, my task is to put a Halt to the lying diffusion of Christianity to help shake off a massive number of nominal Christians. The worst danger for Christianity is not Hersey, heterodoxies, not free thinkers, nor pro-vein wordiness. Still, it’s the kind of orthodoxies, which is hearty twaddle, mediocrity with a dash of sugar, in every way that has come to this that what we all came to know as Christianity, is precisely what Christ came to Abolish.” (Kierkegaard n.d)
And this is no more apparent in contemporary America, especially in the Bible belt area, where they’re entrenched in this cul-de-sac that borders in cult-like status. Upon this, you will have people like Steve Quale (a fundamentalist Christian) preaching New Age ideologies (but more precisely, historical myth) that he adopted from the Mystery School teachings, then using that as a vehicle of fear to reinforce an Evangelical following. He makes people aware of this and then brainwashes them by saying that teaching the gospel is the only way. Unknowledgeable Christians fall prey to this, while the New Age only advocates enlightenment within; Quale and his group of followers will use it as a means of control through fear.
Alan Watt’s lecture on ‘Jesus and his religion’ outlines that Jesus was a human being like Buddha, Shera Krishna, Rana Hamachi, etc. Who in their life has had a colossal cosmic consciousness experience? This can happen to anyone. It’s like falling in love. And that you don’t have to be part of any religion to experience it; he says: “when it hits you, you know it; sometimes it comes from long practice of meditation and spiritual discipline. Sometimes it comes for no reason you can determine; we say it’s the grace of God. That there comes this overwhelming conviction that you have mistaken your identity, that what I thought was me was completely superficial, and I am an expression of X (God), the name that cannot be named, and the Taboo name amongst the Hebrews. There is no longer the separate you; it’s only this happening. And if you have the name in the background, this happening is God, or the will of God, or the Doing of God, or if you don’t have that word in your background – you will say it’s the flowing of the Tao, or it’s the Maya of Brahman, Maya meaning the creative illusion, the play.” This experience can make people feel genuine amongst others and be inspired to see the divine in people’s eyes. (Alan Watts, n.d)
Alan Watts further elaborates that Jesus’s Cosmic Experience was not a product of omniscience; Saint Paul makes it clear that Jesus renounced his divine powers to be man, he says: “Let this mind be a new, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, though not equality with God a thing to be hung to, but humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation and was fashioned as a man and became obedient to death.” Theologians call this Kenosis, self-emptying, so an omniscient man or omnipotent would not be a man, so an orthodox doctrine of the nature of Christ, that he was both true God and true man, you must say for true God to be united with a genuine man. True God has to make a voluntary renunciation of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. So therefore, if Jesus were to come out and say, I am the son of God, that’s like saying I am the boss’s son, or I am the boss.
Everyone will view this as blasphemy or subversion; it’s like trying to introduce democracy into the kingdom of heaven; no man has seen God. In Jesus’s esoteric teachings in the synoptic Gospel, he made it clear that he didn’t come out there and say he was the son of God. Instead, he identified himself with the messiah described in the second part of the prophet Isaiah. “The suffering serpent who was despised and rejected of men,” and this man is the non-political messiah; it was convenient to make that identification even though it would get him into trouble. However, to his elect disciple, as recorded in Saint John, he said, “Before Abraham was, I am, I am the way the Truth and the Life. I am the resurrection of Life; I am the living bread that comes down from heaven; I and the Father are one, and he who has seen me has seen the Father.” Upon the Jews found out, they put him to death for blasphemy. (Alan Watts, n.d)
This happens to any mystic who’s had this experience; it happened to a Sufi Mystic in Persia. With this in mind, Christ was pedestalized so his troublesome experience with cosmic consciousness would not come and cause a nuisance. Others who had this experience and expressed it at a time when the Church had power were persecuted. If you pedestalized Jesus, you strangle the Gospel at birth, and it’s been the tradition in the Catholic Church and Protestant to pass off an emasculated Gospel. Gospel means good news; what is the good news about the Gospel ordinarily handed down? “Because here is the revelation of God in Christ Jesus, and we were supposed to follow his life and example, without the unique advantage of being the boss’s son. Now both traditions of catholic and Protestant Churches represent Jesus to us as a freak. Born of a virgin, knowing he is the son of God, having the power of miracles, and knowing it’s impossible to kill him, he will rise again. And so we were asked to take up the cross and follow him – when we don’t know that about ourselves. So, what happened is this, we are delivered by an impossible Gospel.” However, upon this, Christianity institutionalized guilt. (Alan Watts, n.d)
This is the Christianity of most people; now, there is a subtler form of Christianity with the Theologians, the Mystics and the Philosophers. However, this is not what gets preached, “What would the real Gospel be”? The real good news is not simply that Jesus of Nazareth was the son of God but that he was a powerful son of God who came to open everybody’s eyes – to the fact that you are, too. This was said in the 10th chapter of Saint James, verse 30; he said, “I and the father are one; many good works I have shown you from the father. And from which of these do you stone me,” and they said; “for good work, we stone you not, but for Blasphemy for being man, make yourself God.” And he replied, “isn’t written in your law; I have said you are God if God called to whom he gave his word, you can’t deny scripture, how can you say I Blaspheme? Because I said, I am the son of God.” This isn’t peculiar to Jesus when he says, ‘I am the way, and no man comes to the father,’ but by me, this, I am, this me, is the divine in us. Which in Hebrew is called the Roich Adeni [possibly wrong spelling]; this is best outlined in the Esoteric Jews, the Cabalist and the Hasidic. The Roich is the breath that God breathed into the nostril of Adam, which is different from the soul. The Roich (psyche) is the divine in the creature by which sons of are, or the nature of God, manifestations of the divine. This discovery is the Gospel; that’s the good news, but it has been repressed throughout history in Western religion because all Western religions have taken the form of celestial monarchies – and, therefore, discouraged democracy in the kingdom of heaven. (Alan Watts, n.d)
Until the teachings of the German mystics in the 15th century – a movement began, such as the Anabaptists, The Brothers of The Free Spirit, Levellers, and the Quakers. This spiritual movement came to this country and founded a Republic. It is from the white racist Christians that we have the threat of fascism because they have a Militant religion. And this is not the religion of Jesus, which was the realization of divine son-ship, but the religion about Jesus, which pedestalized him and said only this man, is the divine, and you have better recognize it. Upon this realization, they proclaim themselves as the Church militant, onward Christian soldiers march us to war, utterly exclusive, convinced in advance that examining the doctrines of any other religion is the top religion. Not realizing what it teaches would be far more credible if it were truly Catholic, that is to say, re-stated the truth that has been known from time immemorial. Every religion should be self-critical. Otherwise, it will degenerate into self-righteous hypocrisy, and then we can see that Jesus speaks not from the situation of a historical Deus Machina, of a weird and extraordinary event, but he is a voice that joins with other voices that have said in every place and time, “wake up man, wake up.” (Alan Watts, n.d)
To conclude, You only have to go to YouTube, and you will see the number of videos depicting the number of Christians still thinking this way; instead of Christian soldiers marching us to war, as Alan Watts said, it’s Christian video propaganda spreading backwards ideals, for instance, the demonization of yoga, Zen, meditation practices, that’s just one of many other facets that they will drive to people.
- This Blog was really a reaction to bourgeoning New-Fundamentalist; comments on YouTube seem inefficient to get one’s point of view or analysis.
