Posted on 01/05/2014 7:19:21 AM PST by markomalley
Much of the political history of the extended twentieth century is that of massive extinctions of citizenries by their dictatorial governments. Take the engineered mass starvations, torture chambers, firing squads, and gulags of Lenin and Stalin; Nazi gas chambers; Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge killing fields; the genocides of Mao's "Great Leap Forward"; and the tyrannical North Korean Sung dynasty, and one will find that over one hundred million people have been slaughtered.
Systematically murdering millions to create an imagined earthly Eden is clearly irrational. In this sense, leftist ideology has the look of a religious inquisition.
In his introduction to Eric Voegelin's The New Science of Politics (1), Dante Germino neatly captured Voegelin's thesis of the left as an atheistic "religion":
[M[odern Gnosticism has been dedicated to the hubristic attempt to overcome the anxieties and uncertainties of human life by building a terrestrial paradise. However well-intentioned, even the 'moderate proponents of the 'progressive' program bear a heavy responsibility for the disasters of humanity.
Others have alluded to this secular religious characterization of leftist ideology:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What are the consequences if you're wrong?
What are the consequences if you’re wrong?
Ah!... then the multi-Millions of dead produced by the effects of political Darwinian variations.. will be rolling in their graves...
not to speak of the multi-Billions made miserable by them.. for at least a hundred years..
and no worse off than the laughable silliness of socialism..
or the lie of democracy which just a protection scam.. of a mafia.
Isn’t hyperbole fun?
Using hyperbole to describe a hyperbolic situation is efficient
although usually not close to being accurate..
The situation is usually WORSE..
TEOTUAWKI
No big deal.... The end of the world as we know it... happens every single day..
Not the world, the universe.
which one?
Spirited: Orwell's speculation may very well have been aimed at fall-out expected from popular success of Hegel. However, the fall-out from widespread acceptance of William James William (1842-1910) reductionist theory of “religious experience” has been every bit as bad if not worse.
Referred to as the father of American psychology, James reduced religious experience--which includes visions, unseen voices, demonic encounters, possession, etc.-- to manifestations of the “subconscious,” the means by which man communicates with God “within.”
The theories of James are examples of unconscious Satanism as Rene Guenon (1886-1951), the great French traditionalist metaphysician explains in, “The Spiritist Fallacy,” a detailed expose of the Theosophy, Buddhism and Spiritism overtaking the minds of modernist priests and intellectuals during Guenon’s lifetime.
Guenon describes sophisticated enlightened theologians and like-minded individuals such as James as those who cannot speak of the devil,
“….without a smile of disdain, or an even more contemptuous shrug of the shoulders.” (p. 252)
Their contempt is due to the fact that enlightened priests and intellectuals bought into the lie that Lucifer is not the devil but rather the “light-bearer.” They even go so far as to call him ‘the Great Creative Intelligence.’ Thus they invoke Lucifer and perform his cult, but in fact these people,
“…though in fact Satanists, are only unconsciously so, for they are mistaken as to the nature of the entity to whom they address their worship….It goes without saying that these ‘enlightened’ priests are all plainly modernists and that the spirit animating them is strangely similar to that affirmed in these lines.” (p. 254)
Guenon defines ‘unconscious Satanism’ as every “modern” conception that notably disfigures the living God, and in this sense, all theories of a limited God and of a God who evolves must be placed in the front rank.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen provides us with an example of one of the devil’s “modern” conceptions:
“Modern philosophy has seen the birth of a new nation of God…It is God in evolution. God ‘is’ not. He ‘becomes.’ In the beginning was not the Lord, but in the beginning was ‘Movement.’ From this movement God is born by successive creations. As the world progresses, He progresses; as the world acquires perfection, He acquires perfection. (Moreover) man is a necessary step in the evolution of God. Just as man came from the beast, God will come from man…” (Great Catholic Books Newsletter; Volume II, Number 2, Fulton J. Sheen Issue)
Guenon notes that Satanism, even when unconscious, is always characterized by a reversal of the normal order,
“….it is the exact opposite of orthodox doctrine, and intentionally inverts certain symbols or formulas.” (p. 259)
In this sense, evolutionary conceptions are Satanic because they persuade people to believe that everything in nature is the fruit of a gradual upward progression from either pre-existing or self-generated matter rather than the fallen but nevertheless good creation of the living God Who spoke.
Because infernal evolutionary conceptions reverse the normal order, their sweeping acceptance means that it is now difficult if not impossible for Americans and Westerners to conceive of the Genesis account creation ex nihilo as traditional Christianity taught, because if “God” has evolved from man who has evolved from beasts then perfection obviously lies somewhere in the future rather than in the past from which mankind fell. In this infernally inverted 'theology' the “way” to perfection proposed by the devil obviously lies with the occult science of Hermetic magic and psycho-technologies whereby man’s salvation is achieved by becoming “one” with the Divine Substance, Omega Point, Brahman, Void, Quantum Void, or Singularity.
It is here that Guenon turns his attention to the theories of William James, which he classifies as unconscious Satanism for two reasons. First, James theory of “religious experience” as a manifestation of the “subconscious” by which man communicates with the Divine “within” is only one step away from “condoning the practices of spiritism” (contact with spirits) with the further consequence of conferring on evil spirits an “eminently religious character.”
This has come to pass. As just one example out of literally hundreds, there is apostate evangelical, now New Age theologian David Spangler speaking of Lucifer as an ‘eminently religious character,’ a savior-spirit he correlates with Christ:
“The true light of this great being can only be recognized when one's own eyes can see with the light of the Christ, the light of the inner sun. Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness, and as we move into the New Age, which is the age of man's wholeness, each of us is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic Initiation, the particular doorway through which the individual must pass if he is to come fully into the presence of his light and his wholeness.”
“Lucifer comes to give us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it, then he is free and we are free, that is the Luciferic Initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation into the New Age.” (David Spangler, Reflections on the Christ, Findhorn Lecture Series, 3rd ed., 1981; p. 45)
With respect to all of this, Big Brother was an unconscious Satanist. He performed the cult of Satan. And this is why he had power over matter, could levitate, etc. But these powers were not his but the fallen angels or demons under whose control he had fallen. More than likely BB was transitioning toward total possession.
Truly a monumental piffle of grave inconsequence.
With a new bible with stand-ins for Moses, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Peter, Paul, Matthew, Mark, and John... and others..
With so many versions of it they are past counting..
It would have it's Buddhas, Mohammad's, and Kristina's as well..
Making governments... GOD... would become an occupation and "calling".. or even an obsession..
The ultimate Cargo Cult... with it's own "Bible(s)".. with it's own Satan(s).. "Demon's".. evil's and good's..
Whew... OK I'll go and say it..
Party's become Denominations.. schism's... division's.. orthodox.. protestant..
A true Bizarro World of God seeking...
Which leaves me with a question: Are you republican or democrat, libertarian?..
We've talked here of Second Reality's.. but there could indeed be "Third Reality"... available..
Reality Sooo Bizarre Second Reality would be a step "UP"...
Truly a monumental piffle of grave in-consequence.
You’re speaking in piffle’s again...
SLAPP SLAPP.. Wake up!!... Anybody in there?...
HaSatan is not a "fallen angel" either. He is one of G-d's angels performing his assigned tasks, primarily as our accuser in the Heavenly Court but also as the angel of death, the "evil inclination," and the national angel of 'Edom. There is no independent kingdom of evil under its own evil counterpart of G-d. G-d has no counterpart of any kind.
The world has never been under the control of anyone other than G-d, and it is unfolding according to His Divine Providence.
This notion of an "evil gxd" who opposes the "good god" is one of the primary errors of chrstianity.
Click, BOOM! Don't slap. Sorry about the hole in your chest.
Jeepers, dear sister in Christ, I don't know how one can read William James' magisterial "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902) and come away from it concluding that James was an "unconscious Satanist." Guenon must not have realized what James was actually doing in this work, which was to try to scientifically classify and analyze the religious experiences of mankind — to make an attempt at a "science" of religious experience.
As for James' own "hypothesis" with regard to religious experience — and as he himself notes, "Who says 'hypothesis' renounces his ambition to be coercive in his arguments" — the following excerpt might shed some light:
...[C]onfining ourselves to what is common and generic [in religious belief], we have in the fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self through which saving experiences come, a positive content of religious experience which, it seems to me, is literally and objectively true as far as it goes. [On this point, in a footnote James quotes W. C. Brownell: "The influence of the Holy Spirit, exquisitely called the Comforter, is a matter of actual experience, as solid a reality as that of electro-magnetism."] If I now proceed to state my own hypothesis about the farther limits of this extension of our personality....IMHO, James is one of the greatest psychologists of all time. He is, moreover, a brilliant philosopher, of Empiricist and Pragmatist leaning (he regards John Stuart Mill as a major influence on his own thought). There is not a smudge of "Gnosticism" that I can detect in "Varieties of Religious Experience." (Nor did I see any Satan worship going on.) Though I do believe he has properly drawn a bead on Hegel as a gnostic thinker, he's very delicate about nailing down that point....
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely 'understandable' world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. Yet the unseen region in question is not merely ideal, for it produces effects in this world. When we commune with it, work is actually done upon our finite personality, for we are turned into new men, and consequences in the way of conduct follow in the the natural world upon our regenerative change. But that which produces effects within another reality must be termed a reality itself, so I feel as if we had no philosophic excuse for calling the mystical or unseen world unreal.
God is the natural appellation, for us Christians at least, for the supreme reality, so I will call this higher part of the universe by the name of God. We and God have business with each other; and in opening ourselves to his influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled. The universe, at those parts of it which our personal being constitutes, takes a turn genuinely for the worse or for the better in proportion as each one of us fulfills or evades God's demands.... God is real because he produces real effects. [all bolds added; itals in the original]
To close, let me just mention another thing I admire about James: His rejection of "progressivism," or evolutionary change, as being able to modify the world of human experience, of the human condition, "for the better" by human effort alone within this world. He simply does not regard Man as "a progressive animal"; nor does he think the world at large to be amenable to alteration by means of the "progressive" kind of human "planning." Rhetoric never trumps reality with William James.
It's possible, dear spirited, that your source on James — Guenon — is clueless about James' work. Please do not be misled: Go straight to James himself.
Thank you ever so much, dear sister in Christ, for writing!
Will read more closely, but it appears the author left out of the history that the Tyrants used Social Justice as their judicial, if any, “system”. Social Justice is now the preferred system and of course taught in all major law schools...real justice is hard to find.....
LoL....
I don't think so. The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but that doesn't cover treason.
You know what they say about picking a fight with an old man...
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