The Awakening:
Magic is Real – Luna-Lunatic Age – Protect me from the Forces of Darkness: In Ptolemy’s era, Astrology was widely accepted among the courts and academics; however, by the fourth century [A.D], the Church’s forefathers strongly disliked it. They labelled the practice divinatory, and such practices would open portals for demonic powers. This would be a drive for the Church to erase old practices – the kind of practices that had endured throughout the ancient world (even Rome’s first Christian emperor, Constantine, personally combined Christianity with sun worship) – bishops branded pantheist and nature worshippers, astrologers, and cosmologists, cultist and soothsayers in ways that such believers had never conceived of themselves.
After the fall of Rome, Europe experienced a significant decline in its esoteric and pre-Christian belief systems, as ancient books and ideas were scattered during the Dark Ages. However, monasteries and hidden libraries preserved these traditions, preventing their destruction. As a result, Greco-Egyptian texts and philosophies resurfaced during the medieval and Renaissance periods. This revival led to the emergence of astrology and other divinatory methods, which became known collectively as “occultism.”
Occultism relates to traditions and religions that had/have an intellectual, literary existence throughout Western history. The term occult comes from the Latin occultus, meaning “hidden” or “secret” – the word occult entered modern use through the work of Renaissance scholar Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, who used it to describe magical practice and veiled spiritual philosophies in his three-volume study, De-occulta philosphia, in 1533. The word would be cited in the English dictionary 12 years later.
Christian fundamentalism’s understanding of Occultism is less educational but rather a need to praise a conflated look on conspiracy theory – while giving reverence to a demagogue because that person can speak their language. They are deluded into thinking they are validated – that a figure in politics speaks for them. Their delusion is lunacy from the word Luna, meaning moon. It’s a pervasive thought in popular culture that full moons insight a little extra crazy in everybody. Maybe more so for the Bible Belt populace who exercise the knowledge in scripture that the moon will turn into blood before the coming of the Lord. The alchemical Rubedo, the red or blood they seek, is inherent to their history and their blood lust past. Their psychotic need to forget such a toxic inherency is depicted in their southern hospitality while a white supremacy suit sits fittingly hidden in their closet.
Fundamentalist [white] Christians have innate idealism that stems from a dogmatic need to set the criteria normally fixated on scripture. The Dark Ages wanted to bury the esoteric past, which meant demonizing the term occult, and fundamentalist Protestant Christians of America were only happy to continue with the demonization. When it became part of the driving force for politics, history would undoubtedly repeat itself as another theocratic impulse. How does this successful impulse from the past become a problem now – considering Evangelicals have the same tangent ideal, especially regarding occultism, magic, and divination? The problem stems from the inability to be flexible enough to coincide with modernity, meaning it’s unable to be updated. You’re most negative nationalists [racists] stem from cluster cult [Christian] groups starting from the East-South of America that starts from the spine of the Appalachian line.
Pastors hide under the cover of preaching the Bible when they are preaching extremist rants. They will then deliver people from evil [(coughs … prosperity)], alongside taking donations. They are calling the enemy other fellow Americans [the left] evil and demonically possessed and putting in the context of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil. It’s a kind of language that is used to incite violence against their opposition. It’s a type of charismatic evangelicalism, one that revives a Pentecostal history. They seek prayer to be freed from demons.
Their Christian instrumental reason [is not Christian is just reason] when rightly focused on its essential irrationality of the Pure or Instrumental, you will see they don’t exist. To protect us from the forces of darkness has always been part of human memory, for 500 years of being threatened by the either/or scenario. It’s either ‘reasons’ at any cost or sink into anarchy – you are confronted with your soul being split between the rational and irrational. However, it’s neither because the soul is far more complex.
The CFCT and QAnon/4chan energised the term spiritual war, a term consistent with fundamentalism, but back on earth, the term is tunnelled through culture war and among the ordinary people, it is a code-civil war about ideologies. However, these far-right nut jobs tend to take up arms to protect their perceived threat. They’re burring catholic rosaries and Harry Potter books as an event moment on Halloween night as they are objects of witchcraft and sorcery.
Burning books and rosaries are reminiscent of the Dark Ages, except this is the modern protestant version; at least Constantine was consolidating the gods to a monotheistic framework and dismantling an esoteric past. The Protestants are yet to consolidate their 300-plus Christian denominations. Get your house in order before casting spurs. You have Pentecostal Christians speaking in tongues [a magical working]; Jehovah’s Witness rejects the Trinity and has no Church; and Mormonism mythologising a fake prophet. The Protestant Dilemma is a dead end of absurdity, and when you examine the Reformation and its consequences, it points to the truth of Catholicism. Catholicism solves the Protestant’s dilemma with Socratic reasoning by the witness of Scripture, Christian history, and the authority with Christ himself undeniably vested his Church.
These perceived threats are not by top-down hierarchal culprits but through left and right political positions; to them, the left is the enemy. However, conspiracy theory does not censor itself; the highest culprit is its subject, and these pastors know it, which means they’re ignoring these aspects purposefully for their personal political and grifting agenda. Coupled with the position of playing ally to a nationalist group whose very ideology is about hate, the same happens on the federal [Republican] level where there is Evangelical backing.
At the same time, new-Atheism (or technocratic elites) orient their money and power towards the West. The West being a Christian nation is inconsequential to them as it’s about stamping out the remaining empathetic teachings of Christianity – to make the branding of Western power or capitalism less religious in nature. All while still donating to a neo-fascist cause led by a demoralised Republican party – whose major base of electoral power is the Evangelical base who, ironically, wants to take away fundamental freedoms.
When one grows up under the guise of purity culture and its ethics, one is made to believe the God before the world was created and predetermined [or determinism] who would go to heaven or hell. Evangelical is predetermined because of their type of Christianity, and others who do not have a choice. The white evangelical expression has lost its faith tradition when authoritarianism is motivated by the populace with a misguided take on conspiracy theory, which drives the office of politics [the propaganda aspect]. Trump’s failed assassin invoked public mythology with his fist pumped in the air was his moment of heroic martyrdom – an act that may have secured his place in history and in the imaginations of millions. Although martyrdom requires death, the failure in death allowed for the existential purity of a man facing only himself as he cofounded the tidal wave of his own ethical bridge. However, he fails to do so as he is a man without any morals and fails to exercise ethics that benefit the people, but only himself.
There is division among right-wing Christians now because of it – the fundamentalist type is in favour of it because they can’t go beyond the dogmatic criteria set in place, which means going backwards in sensibilities. Other conservative Christian pastors are waking up to it and profoundly challenging these neo/proto-fascist ideas, challenging the theoretical conspiracy claim that the Church and State were never separate [this is the driving force to inject the Ten Commandments in every school]. It is a notion where right-wing Christians envision the Bible with the Bill of Rights and the Constitution as the same. Pastors only remind them it is Blasphemous and a ploy because the Gospel is not American because it’s the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thomas Aquinas set out “…a permanent peace treaty between faith and reason,” a well-intentioned, optimistic idea.
Republican conservatives endeavour to squeeze reality or individualism inside reason, won’t work or function. There is no good way to market racist hate; you cannot pin a badge of saint that is hellish to the core. And there is no such thing as black conservatives [Candice Owens, can play the role of internalising racism … the Aunt Jemima type], but is not one of them. Conspiracy theory and reason invoke the idea of predestination; it imprisons our imagination and intuition. It makes us feel we live inside a closed prison of inevitabilities, makes us think we don’t have responsibility, and invokes the ruling class as godlike when it’s further from the truth. They are just narcissistic older men who won’t give up their power.
Also, we must not be delusional into believing economic rationality that somehow it’s an inevitable balanced force [they print money out of thin air] – is to give excuses for irresponsible and anti-social behaviour. Both left and right parties are capitalists at the core. They serve it above all else because they are owned and funded by mega-corporations, which makes both of them conservative political ideologies. They are both right-wing. What makes a leftist different is really the socialism aspect, which they don’t understand. They don’t understand that it’s okay to be socialist and yet not be a Marxist. Socialism is an element that the disenfranchised and marginalized right-wing is all happy to receive, but criticize them on a political level.
Their contradiction towards pro-family values comes to light when they think affordable health care is socialism. They won’t expand or subsidise childcare. They don’t care about mandating liveable wages from corporations that suck out billions of dollars of profit from the working class. They think it’s lazy to have paid family leave, so when it comes down to it, their reality base is anti-life as opposed to pro-life. They want an imagined 1950s family value – and they can’t have that without changing policies and the only side changing policies are the Democrats, and the demoralised Christians can’t vote Democrat.
The doctrines of cultism in Evangelical/nationalist Christianity dismantled the good nature of Jesus and its Gospel but still used him as a symbol to impose a negative nationalist or neo-fascist way of civil order – which is a real threat to democracy. It is gestated on the ideology of dominionism, an idea set in place by R.J Rushdoony. He developed a dominion theology that imparted taking over American law and instituting Biblical law – and Evangelical groups responded to this idea. Alongside the conspiracy theory, white men are slowly being replaced by something other than their whiteness. The term has been updated to the seven-mounted mandate, then developed in the nineties and early 2000s together with republican think tanks, they fruited a document called Project 2025.
The conservatism of the past is not what it is today. At least back then, they favoured a kind of Christian nationalism that favoured loving your neighbour, taking care of the sick and poor, affordable housing and health care or welcoming immigrants. Today, it’s about stoning gay people to death, punishing women for adultery by putting them in prison; if she has an abortion, the doctor and women should be punished – and rolling back the civil rights back to prejudice idiocy. Jesus teaches us to bear a cross for our enemies, and Christian nationalism wants to build a cross to crucify theirs. At the same time, your old state cults will guise themselves as woke. Many gay and transsexual communities often point out that these woke groups do not speak for them and that they don’t represent who they are. And you can tell they’re cultist agents playing the role of radicalism under the guise of a minority.
What Evangelical-white-nationalists are pushing is incongruent with other Christians that are built by the same old esoteric thread. Different Christian denominations like Mormonism have a strange appeal towards Freemasonry. The founder, Smith, was fascinated by the religious-civic brotherhood. Early American Freemasons held the romantic idea of breaking the Old World past, where the overarching authority regulated the exchange of religious ideas and sought to position itself as an intermediary between the individual and the spiritual. Both American and European Freemasons professed ecumenism and religious toleration. In doing so, It took a cue from the so-called Rosicrucian manuscripts that had aroused the imagination of radical Protestant reformers. These Rosicrucian manuscripts laced with symbolism and parables gave powerful expression to the principles of ecumenism, which influenced religious pluralism espoused by Freemasonry as it took shape in the seventeenth century of America.
Occultism back then was religious at the core but had no natural base to be descriptive enough to be transfixed in its meaning. Renaissance occultists were particularly enamoured of Jewish Kabala, Christian Gnosticism, Egypto-Hellenic astrology, Egyptian-Arab alchemy, and prophetic or divinatory rituals found deep within all the historic faiths, especially within the mystery religions of Hellenic and Egyptian civilisations. They revered the subject of Hermetica, a collection of late-ancient writings attributed to the mythical Greco-Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus. Hermes Trismegistus, also known as Thoth, is thrice-great and symbolised in the alchemical symbol for mercury. The Hermetica was the last reflection of the magicoreligious sensibilities of Alexandria and formed a critical link between ancient Egypt and the modern occult.
Magic is Real – The Unfinished Pyramid & the All Seeing Eye: These Rosicrucian manuscripts laced with symbolism and parables as an expression would give rise to ecumenism, and later in the modern world would become pluralism. Freemasonry echoes these Rosicrucian influences; it drew upon arcane imagery as codes for personal and ethical development. Fraternity’s achievements are marked by their accomplishments and are marked on ceremonial badges and aprons by rising suns, luminous eyeballs, pentagrams, and pyramids. This would mark a famous symbol in Masonry: the all-seeing eye and incomplete Pyramid of the Great Seal of the United States, familiar today from the back of the dollar bill. The Latin maxim surrounding the unfinished Pyramid translates: “God Smiles on Our New Order of the Ages.” In its Masonic philosophy, the Pyramid represents worldly achievement, and its incompleteness imparts a need or a blessing of Providence. The symbol and its idea would mark Masonry with the plights of man, his polity, and God as a breakaway from the old sectarianism of the Old World – and a renewed search for universal truth as it existed in all great civilizations.
That was then, but today, such romantic idealism has fallen short as portions of the populace have become reactionary. That is unable to parse or understand empire building that has an occult history that is intertwined with the populace’s idea of civilisation – with conspiracy theories and misleading assumptions.
All graphic designers know all too well that the unfinished pyramid is geometrically of centre, and why they chose this design flaw for the finished product seems odd. Until we come to understand Star symbology and Star magic is also at the heart of this [once secret] symbolic expression. The Eagle in the great seal symbolises the constellation Lyra. The Eagle has a Harp connected to Orpheus, and it’s drawn as a heraldic shield on the seal. [Also read Post 37]
The far left corner base of the unfinished pyramid points to Vega. Theta Lyra and Vega are connected. Sulafat and Sheilak are connected. A plane is drawn connecting Sheliak and Zeta Lyra, terminating at the plane connecting Theta Lyra and Vega. Sulfate points to the right corner of the eye in the triangle representing the Ring Nebula, and Lyra as a whole symbol. . – secretsun.blogspot.com
The far left corner base of the unfinished pyramid and the left corner base match the perspective that points to Sheliak, which answers why it’s geometrically centre. In other words, Lyra and perspective bases transpose into the unfinished pyramid. Sheliak marks the top of the pyramid, and Sulafat marks the position of the All-Seeing Eye.
The Sorcery view is that the all-seeing eye has always been clearly distinguished from the eye of providence, deeply rooted in Masonic traditions. The eye of providence depicts an eye placed centrally inside a triangle, sometimes enhanced by beams of light to show its ‘illumination’. The eye represents a satanic point of view or half-maker itself [and to get there, you must travel through the cosmological highway, towards the Ring Nebula].
The triangle is upright, but some versions are inverted; this symbolizes a descension from heaven unto creation. The inversion of the triangle and the omnipresence of Satan are discussed further in the 1962 book Symbols of Sacred Science by Rene Guenon: “The upright triangle relates properly to the Principle; but when it is inverted by reflection in manifestation, the gaze of the eye contained therein appears in a way to be directed ‘downward’, that is, from the Principle toward manifestation itself, and besides its general sense of ‘omnipresence’ it takes on more clearly the special sense of ‘Providence”.
The Rosicrucians have also delved into the symbolism of the triangle inside the circle. They refer to this symbol in their teachings as the ‘Symbol of Creation’. The only difference is that the circle is represented as a serpent swallowing its tail, adding a unique layer of symbolism to this ancient symbol.
The magical truth: The all-seeing eye was first transcribed in the Rig Veda, a Sanskrit text thought to have been written over 3,000 years ago. It references nature, like the sun, to reference other deities as being an eye in heaven, as an eye that reveals creation. The symbolic meaning defines the awakened consciousness that advanced spiritual beings have that ordinary people can attain. The third eye is depicted in the brow known as the eyes of Shiva, possessor of all knowledge, which, when opened, will destroy anything it sees. Thus, it is a symbol of knowledge that destroys evil and ignorance.
In Buddhism, Buddha is referred to as the Eye of the World. In Nepal, the “Eyes of Buddha” are displayed in temples. The eye is also known as the eye of wisdom and compassion.
In ancient times, the Eye of Osiris or Horus was also known as the Eye of Ra. It is depicted as the Wadjet and is associated with protection, healing, and restoration. The left eye represents the moon, and the right represents the sun. The drawing of the eye matches the cross-section of the midbrain, where the thalamus, pineal gland, and pituitary glands are situated.
In the Middle East, the eyes are known in the form of a hand-eye symbol called Hamsa, Khamsa, or Hamesh. It is known as the symbol of protection against the evil eye (jealousy), also known as Fatima in Islam and the hand of Miriam in Judaism. In Indiana, it’s called Humsa Hand.
In Greece and Turkey, there is something similar to the Hamsa, which they call a “Nazar.” It is just an eye without the hand, but it is used in the same way and has the same meaning as the Hamsa, that is, to ward off the evil eye in the form of amulets or hanging ornaments, usually made from blue glass.
In native America, another hand-eye symbol was uncovered by a farmer in Moundville Alanama in the 1800s; the hand-eye image was known as “The Rattlesnake Disc.”
Magic is Real – Olcott’s Occult America: Hermes and the Hermetic principals were the last reflections of magic and religion of the old Alexandria world while inspiring ancient Egyptian sensibilities. This position would define modern occultism; however, Colonel Olcott would pass the Baton of modern occultism to the new world, bringing it to the New Age together with Blavatsky.
The faces of Mount Rushmore venerates past American influencers in politics. In regards to occultism and if they had an occult version of that, undoubtedly, Henry Steel Olcott [the colonel] would be one of the faces. By 1857, his early life to midlife, he went from being an ex-collegiate in Ohio to a farm boy who dabbled in séances to a wunderkind of scientific agriculture, his advice sought by state legislatures and even foreign governments.
During the Civil War, he was the signals officer and was in charge of a team of auditors and detectives investigating fraud and forgery among military contractors. He was promoted to colonel to lend weight to his investigations. By exposing corruption, he saved the Union a lot of money. His reputation grew, and because of that acclaim, he volunteered as an investigator surrounding the Lincoln assassination in 1865.
Having contacts and connections with the government, Olcott became a lawyer and opened a legal practice in New York. Not satisfied with the law, he became restless. He became a critic for cultural reviews in large New York dailies. His interest in Spiritualism began to re-emerge, primarily upon reading press reports of strange happenings at a Vermont homestead. He made several trips to a gloomy farmhouse in Chittenden, Vermont, where he would write about a spirit medium named William Eddy. Along with his brother Horatio, they entertained witnesses and guests at a nightly parade of ghostly beings, from American Indians to figures draped in costume and couture from faraway lands and eras. These encounters with the “ghost farm” impacted Olcott, sending chills down his spine, which he shared the details of with the New York Daily Graphic.
In a strange scene where Olcott is smoking on his porch, he meets a strange visitor, a woman heavyset in her appearance, a Russian woman with whom he grew enchanted. Captivated by travel stories to exotic lands, she hinted at far deeper truths about the nature spirit world. An intense plutonic friendship ensued between the two, and together, they set up base in Manhattan’s West of 47th Street and Eighth Avenue. It was a place that would house events and guests ranging from Thomas Edison to Major-General Abner Doubleday, all discussing arcane ideas and magic. Blavatsky and Olcott transformed their base of fellow seekers into a developing organisation dedicated to the rediscovery of theosophic, or “divine wisdom”, called the Theosophical Society.
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