“Towards Truth"

Christian de MolayTampa Bay, Tampa,

Florida. U.S.A.21st. December 2015.

Thechristianhermeticsovereign@gmail.com

“The symbol of the Unicorn: The physical world is an allegory of spiritual truth."

Joining The DotsOver specialization is an error in this post-industrial world.

In thought and in spirit we have become atomized.

This fracturing of the individual is resulting in the disintegration of personal morality and social cohesion.

Faulty understanding brings with it erroneous analysis. This leads to wrong conclusions and frustrated endeavour.

We need to start "joining the dots" and thinking for ourselves. We need to stop being naive inour thoughts and actions.

I recommend that you read comprehensively and transcend the "SUB-SET MODEL" you havebeen brainwashed to.

Herein I have listed some books (with quotes and summaries where possible) that have helpedme to start to think for myself and pass through the veil that is contemporary "conditioning". Ihope it motivates to commence your own journey of self-realization.

Reference thread:

1.AlfredLord Tennyson“Poem”

2. Lord Macaulay“England under William and Mary 1695”.

3.Fr. Seraphim Rose “His Life and Works."By Hieromonk Damascene

4.Claude Marks

."Pilgrims, Heretics and Lovers"

5.Neil Postman“Amusing Ourselves to Death”

6.Nicholas Shaxon“Treasure Islands:Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World”

7.Edwin Bernay“Propaganda”

8.John Taylor Gatto“Weapons of Mass Instruction”

9. Samuel BeckettA Samuel Beckett Reader:"Dante... Bruno.. Vico. Joyce"

10.E. C. Riegel“Flight from Inflation”

11.Prof. Carroll Quigley“The Oscar Iden Lectures”

12.William Freidrich Hegel“The Phenomenology of Spirit”

13.Major Clifford Douglas“Social Credit”

14.Carl Gustav Jung

“Jung on Active Imagination” “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

15.Buckminster Fuller“Critical Path”

16.Charlott Thomson Iserbyt“The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America”

17. James Joyce“ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”

18.Patrick Kavanagh“Collected Poems”

19.William Butler Yeats“Collected Poems”

20.Arthur Schopenhauer“William Durant: The Story of Philosophy”

21. Luke XIII. 35The King James Bible”

22.T. S. ElliotSelected Poems”

23.Helen Palmer“ The Enneagram”

24.Rodney Shrewsbury“Surviving the Sharktank”

25.John Bishop“Joyce’s Book of the Dark:Finnegans Wake”

26. Jean Paul SartreWalter Kaufman: “Existentialism…”

27. Friedrich NietzscheWalter Kaufman: “Existentialism…”

28. Soren Kierkegaard.Walter Kaufman: “Existentialism….”

29. Wally Klink Social Credit Archivist

30.Carl Gustav Jung“Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

31.J.V. Luce“An Introduction to Greek Philosophy”

32. Oswald Spengler

“Decline of the West”

33. Yehuda Berg“The Power of the Kaballah”

34.Karl Jaspers“Existenzphilosophie”

35.Thomas Jefferson“Collected Papers”

36.Thorstein Veblen“The Theory of the Leisure Class”

37. Rudger Sifranski“A Philosophical Biography”

38. Fr. Denis Fahey“Money Manipulation and Social Order”

39.Dr. Rudolf Stein“Selected Essays 1899”

40.G, M, Trevelyan“A Shortened History of England”

41. Henri Bergson“Will Durant: The Story of Philosophy”

42. William James“William Durant: The Story of Philosophy”

43.Heraclitus“Collected Works”

44.John Steinbeck“The Grapes of Wrath”

45.Freidrich List“The National System of Political Economy”

46. Maly P. Hall"The Secret Teachings of All Ages"

(Original Title: An Encyclopaedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic And Rosicrucian Symbolic Philosophy. Being Of The Secret Teachings Concealed Within The Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries Of All The Ages").

47.Martin Kriele“Meditations on the Tarot:A Journey into Christian Hermeticism”

48.E. F. Schumacher“Small Is Beautiful”

49. Christian de Molay

“The Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order”

1. Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Though much is taken, much abides: and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are,One equal temper of heroic heartsMade weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."

2. Lord MacaulayEngland under William and Mary 1695.

Destruction of the currency through debasement.

"The evil proceeded with constantly accelerating velocity. At length in the autumn of 1695 it could hardly be said that the country possessed, for practical purposes, any measure of the value of commodities. It was a mere chance whether what was called a shilling was really ten pence, sixpence, ora groat. The results of some experiments which were tried at that time deserve to be mentioned......Three eminent London goldsmiths were invited to send a hundred pounds (sterling) each in current silver to be tried by the balance. Three hundred pounds ought to have weighed about twelve hundred ounces. The actual weight proved to be six hundred and twenty four ounces. The same test was applied in various parts of the kingdom. It was found that a hundred pounds (sterling), which should have weighed about four hundred ounces, did actually weigh at Bristol two hundred and forty ounces, at Cambridge two hundred and three, At Exeter one hundred and eighty, and at Oxford only one hundred and sixteen. There were, indeed, some northern districts into which the clipped money had only begun to find its way. An honest Quaker, who lived in one of these districts, recorded, in some notes which are still extant, the amazement with which, when he travelled southward, shop-keepers and innkeepers stared at the broad and heavy half-crowns with which he paid his way. They asked whence he came, and where such money was to be found. The guinea which he purchased for twenty two shillings at Lancasterbore a different value at every stage of his journey. When he reached London it was worth thirty shillings, and indeed would have been worth more had not the government fixed that rate at the highestat which gold should be received in the payment of taxes.

The evils produced by this state of the currency were not such as have generally been thought worthy to occupy a prominent place in history. Yet it may well be doubted whether all the misery which have been inflicted on the English nation in a quarter by bad Kings, bad Ministers, bad Parliaments, and bad Judges,was equal to the misery caused in a single year by bad crowns and bad shillings..... The misgovernment of Charles and James, gross as it had been, had not prevented the common business of life from going steadily and prosperously on...... When the great instrument of exchange became thoroughly deranged, all trade, all industry, were smitten as with palsy.... Nothing could be purchased without a dispute....The simple and the careless were pillaged without mercy by extortioners whose demands grew even more rapidly than the money shrank.

In the midst of the public distress one class of people prospered greatly, the bankers; and among the bankers none could in skill or in luck bear a comparison with Charles Duncombe. He had been, not manyyears before, a goldsmith of very moderate wealth. He had probably, after the fashion of his craft, plied

for customers under the arcades of the Royal Exchange, had saluted merchants with profound bows, and had begged to be allowed the honour of keeping their cash. But so dexterously did he now avail himself of the opportunities of profit which the general confusion of prices gave to a money-changerthat, at the moment when the trade of the kingdom was depressed to the lowest point, he had laid down near ninety thousand pounds for the estate of Helmsley in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Within the walls of the Parliament the debates continued during several anxious days.... It was resolved that the money of the kingdom should be re-coined according to the old standard both of weight and fineness; that all the new pieces should be milled; that the loss of the clipped pieces should be borne bythe public; that a time should be fixed after which no clipped money should pass ....... It was impossible to estimate with precision the charge of making good the deficiencies of the clipped money. But it was certain that at least twelve hundred thousand pounds would be required. Twelve hundred thousand pounds the Bank of England undertook to advance on good security........ Such was the origin of the window tax, a tax which, though doubtless a great evil, must be considered as a blessing, when compared with the curse from which it was the means of rescuing the nation.

The Bank of England was formed in 1694 ...... In the reign of William old men were still living who could remember the days when there was not a single banking house in the city of London. So late as the time of the Restoration every trader had his own strong box in his own house, and, when an acceptance was presented to him, down the crowns and Caroluses on his own counter. Before the end of the reign of Charles the second, a new mode of paying and receiving money had come into fashion among the merchants of the capital. A class of agents arose, whose office was to keep the cash of the commercial houses. This new branch of business naturally fell into the hands of the goldsmiths, who were accustomed to traffic largely in the precious metals, and who had vaults in which great masses of bullioncould lie secure from fire and from robbers. It was at the shops of the goldsmiths of Lombard Street that all the payments in coin were made. Other traders gave and received nothing but paper. Old fashioned merchants complained bitterly that a class of men, who thirty years before, had confined themselves to their proper functions, and had made a fair profit by embossing silver bowls ....... were fast becoming the masters of the whole City....... The new system, it was said, saved both labour and money. Two clerks, it was said, seated in one counting house, did what, under the old system, must have been done by twenty clerks in twenty different establishments. A goldsmith's note might be transferred ten times inthe morning; thus a hundred guineas, locked in his safe close to the Exchange, did what would formerly have required a thousand guineas, dispersed through many tills,

Gradually even those who had been loudest in murmuring against the innovation gave way, and conformed to the prevailing usage. The last person who held out, strange to say, was Sir Dudly North. When, in 1680, after residing many years abroad, he returned to London, nothing astonished or displeased him more than the practice of making payments by drawing bills on bankers...... With difficulty he was induced to put his money into the hands of one of the Lombard Street men, as they were called. Unhappily, the Lombard Street man broke; and some of his customers suffered severely. Dudley North lost only fifty pounds: but this loss confirmed him in his dislike of the whole "mystery" of banking. It was in vain, however, that he exhorted his fellow citizens to return to the good old practice, and not to expose themselves to utter ruin in order to spare themselves a little trouble. He stood alone against the whole community.

No sooner had banking become a separate and important trade, than men began to discuss with earnestness the question whether it would be expedient to erect a national bank... (Along the line of theBank of Saint George of Genoa which had started business circa 1390).

(Note: HistoryThe pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use.

Anglo-SaxonA pound = 20 shillings = 240 silver pennies (formerly)

The pound was a unit of account in Anglo-Saxon England, equal to 240 silver pennies and equivalent toone pound weight of silver. It evolved into the modern British currency, the pound sterling.

The accounting system of 4 farthings = 1 penny, 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound was adoptedfrom that introduced by Charlemagne to the Frankish Empire.

The origins of sterling lie in the reign of King Offa of Mercia (757–96) who introduced the silver penny. It copied the denarius of the new currency system of Charlemagne's Frankish Empire. As in the Carolingiansystem, 240 pennies weighed 1 pound (corresponding to Charlemagne's libra), with the shilling corresponding to Charlemagne's solidus and equal to 12d. At the time of the penny's introduction, it weighed 22.5 troy grains of fine silver (32 tower grains; about 1.5 g), indicating that the Mercian pound weighed 5,400 troy grains (the Mercian pound became the basis of the tower pound, which weighed 5,400 troy grains, equivalent to 7,680 tower grains). At this time, the name sterling had yet to be acquired. The penny swiftly spread throughout the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and became the standard coin of what was to become England).

Thus in 750 AD a "pound" sterling was a true 16 ounces of silver. We can see that from the above that in the time of William and Mary that a "pound sterling" only weighed 4 ounces of silver. Thus in just less than a Millenium the currency had been debased by approximately 400%).

3. Seraphim Rose

Despite the intellectual elitism of his youth, Eugene was the first to admit that everything he had everlearned with his mind meant nothing beside true wisdom. What he called the "vision of the nature of things." "The nature of things is non-intellectible in essence, can never be known by the intellect ," hesaid, "it was Rene Guenon who taught me to seek and love the Truth above all else, and to be unsatisfied with anything else."

Guenon believed that intellectual elite was needed to restore meta-physical knowledge to the West. In his writings Eugene found things he had always felt without being able to understand, having never had a clear perspective on them. He had always felt that there was something wrong with the modern world; but since that was the only world he had known, he had had nothing by which to judge the matter; and had thus been inclined to think that there was something wrong with himself. Guenon taught him that it was in fact not him, but the modern world that was abnormal....... In essence, Guenonconvinced him that the upholding of ancient tradition was valid, and not just a sign of becoming unenlightened, as the modernists would claim. Whereas the modern mentality viewed all things in

terms of historical progress, Guenon viewed them in terms of historical disintegration....... Without a traditional worldview to bring all into a coherent whole, modern life becomes fragmented, disordered, confused, and accordingly the modern world heads towards a catastrophe.

In his book "The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times," Guenon explained how the elimination oftraditional spiritual principles had led to a drastic degeneration of humanity. He showed how modern science, with its tendency to reduce everything to an exclusively quantitative level, has corrupted man's conception of true knowledge and confined his vision to what is temporal and material. In his journal Eugene wrote: "our age has been taught to believe in nothing higher than the human mind, and in the ideas of the mind; that is why the conflicts of our day are "ideological" and why TRUTH is not in them for truth is only in living communion with Christ; apart from him there is no life, no TRUTH."

In his writing, Eugene wanted to do more than confirm his new-found faith. His conversion (to Orthodoxy) was not only a finding of the truth, but also an emerging out of untruth. He came from a society built upon apostasy, the historical "stepping away" from the revelation of Christ the God-man. As a result of this apostasy, he saw everywhere signs of the deterioration of culture; of humanity reverting to a kind of "sub-humanity," of noble values being replaced by crude materialistic ones....

Eugene, then, did not deny the truth contained in non-Christian religions; he only indicated its incompleteness. He took a similar approach when comparing Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism: "the Catholic Church, however much it has capitulated - and continues to capitulate - to the modernist mentality, has remained in contact with the Truth.... But what has been transmitted with imperfect understanding in the Catholic Church has been transmitted in full by the Orthodox East, which has even to the present day preserved intact that whole truth from the fullness of which the Catholic West departed in schism nearly a millennium ago..... Orthodoxy has preserved the authentic mystical Christiantradition.... Modernism, indeed, was no sudden arbitrary movement, but had roots that reach far into the character of Western European man. It is in the Orthodox Christian East alone then, that is to be found the whole standard wherewith to measure the denial of Christian truth that is modernism."

In the political sphere one wonders whether the collapse of the iron curtain and communist power in Russia and Eastern Europe correspond to the "withering away of the nihilistic State" described by Eugene, after which there is to be a "world-order" unique in human history. Communism has done its job: it has effectively destroyed the OLD ORDER. Now there can be an "opening up" to make way for thenext stage of the nihilistic program, directed by the international forces. As Eugene wrote. "the final epoch will not, after all, be characterized by national disputes and the communist stifling of man's spiritual needs, but by a superficial unity and a fulfilling of these needs by means of clever (untrue) substitutes."

Precisely three decades before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eugene wrote the following words, sobering in their prophetic import: "violence and negation are, to be sure, a preliminary work; but their operation is only part of a much larger plan whose end promises to be not something better, but something incomparably worse than the age of nihilism. If in our own times there are signs that the era of violence and negation is passing, this is by no means because nihilism is being "overcome" or "outgrown," but because its work is all but completed and its usefulness is at an end. The REVOLUTION, perhaps, begins to move out of its more violent phase and into a more "benevolent" one. Not because ithas changed its will or direction, but rather because it is nearing the attainment of its ultimate goal which it has never ceased to pursue. fat with its success it can prepare to relax in the enjoyment of its goal."

In 1989, during the era of glasnost and perestroika, immediately preceding the fall of the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the communist party Mikhail Gorbachev mad a revelatory statement that chillinglyechoed Eugene's predictions from the early 1960's: "having embarked upon the road of radical reform,"Gorbachev said. "the Socialist countries are crossing the line beyond which there is no return to the past. Nevertheless, it is wrong to insist, as many in the West do, that this is the collapse of Socialism. Onthe contrary, it means that the Socialist process in the world will pursue its further development in a multiplicity of forms." (CMQ Note: Be it the European Union, The United Nations, The World Court, The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, The European Central Bank, The World Bank, The Federal Reserve and NATO).

4. Claude MarksThe Cathars in Languedoc (1200's)

Ever since the beginning of the Church of Rome heresy had been a problem in many parts of the Christian world. The lands south of the Loire (Provence) came to be regarded by the Popes as breeding grounds for dangerous ideas and doctrines. The Visigoths, who ruled in Poitou, Aquitane and Languedoc for three centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire, and founded the original kingdom of Toulouse, had adopted Christianity, but in the form of Arianism.

Arians were strict Monotheists. They believed that Jesus Christ was neither equal nor eternal with God the Father, but rather was a perfect being, not quite human and not quite divine. Arius,its founder, had taught in Alexandria in the 4th. Century. In addition to the refusal to identify Chris with God, the Arians rejected the cult of saints, whose number the Catholic Church was steadily multiplying.

Like the disciples of Mahatma Gandhi in modern times, the Cathars renounced all violence. Homicide, war and secular justice were rejected, along with any form of lying or evasion of thetruth. They repudiated not only the outward symbols of Catholicism but the entire hierarchy of the Church with the Pope as head. To the Cathars, the official Catholic Church, in assuming themantle of Imperial Rome, had abandoned the pure simplicity of the gospels.

Innocent III, Pope from 1198 - 1216 declared "Holy War" on Catharism, through his instrumentSimon De Montfort. This was the first "Crusade". Over 100 years southern France (Provence) was systematically destroyed as lamented in this sonnet of the time:

"Seizing lands by violence,Causing pride to mount on high,Kindling evil, quenching good,

Killing women, slaughtering babes,If for all this one can indeed,

Win a reward from Jesus Christ,If that is so, yes I agree,

Simon De Montfort wears a crown, And sits in glory in the sky.

Song should express the poet's joy,

But sorrow weighs upon my heart,I came into the World too late."

Cathars according to the cultural norm called Paratage:

The concept:Paratge is a word that combines:

a)medieval chivalrous ideas of honor, gentility, courtesy, with an additional obligation,b)a duty to do what is right.

A duty to a natural order and balance moral code - "Paratge". That is more than a religious precept - dothis because a deity says so, says someone. It is a universal. Paratge stood for what ought to be done tofoster the natural order, balance. A noble subject, such as a Duke, could even remind a Pope of the dutyto paratge. The duty to paratge makes sense as a duty to an ethos.

5. Neil Postman

What Huxley teaches us is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than fromone whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate.

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined asa perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public a business,a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; cultural death is a clearpossibility.

Here is ideology pure if not serene. Here is ideology without words, and all themore powerful for their absence. All that is required to make it stick is a population that devoutly believes in the inevitability of progress. And in this sense, all Americans are Marxists, for we believe nothing if not that history is moving us toward some preordained paradise and that technology is the force behind that movement.

Education without spiritual content or without a myth or narrative to sustain and motivate, is education without a purpose.

When Marshall McLuhan said “the medium is the message” by medium he meant:“the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.”

6. Nicholas ShaxonThe time has come to claim back our culture.

Wealthy individuals hold over 10 trillion dollars offshore….However, the IMF estimates in 2010 that the balance sheets of small island financial centres alone

added up to 18 trillion dollars, a sum equivalent to about a third of the world’s

GDP. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2008 that 83 of the USA’s biggest 100 corporations had subsidiaries in tax havens…….I will offer a loose definition of a tax haven, as a “place that seeks to attract business by offering politically stable facilities to help people or entities get around the rules,laws and regulations of jurisdictions elsewhere”.

The quarter century that followed from 1949, in which Keynes’ ideas were widelyimplemented, is now known as the golden age of capitalism. ……From 1950 to1973 annual growth rates amid widespread capital controls averaged 4 per cent in

America and 4.6 per cent in Europe. …. In the 1980’s, as capital controls were progressively relaxed around the world and as tax rates fell and the offshore system really began to flower, growth rates fell sharply. “Financial globalization hasnot generated increased investment or higher growth in emerging markets,” top ranking economists Arvind Subramanian and Dani Rodrik explained in 2008.The stateless “Euromarkets” linked all the (Tax Haven) zones with each other andwith onshore economies, helping to free banks from reserve requirements and other restraints on their behaviour.

The biggest “offshore” tax zones are the City of London and the State of

Delaware. In this offshore space multinational and personal tax evasion mixes with spying, bribery, criminal money laundering, insider stock market dealing, quant-trading market manipulation, political corruption and IMF/EU “special purpose vehicle scamming.

7. Edwin Bernay(Relative of Sigmund Freud and the inventor of modern “public relations”).

Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the country……. It remains a fact in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business or in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by this relatively small number of persons……. As civilization has become more complex and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated the technological means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.

8. John Taylor Gatto

This is a free market only in fantasy, it seems free because ceaseless behind-the-sceneefforts maintain the illusion, but its reality is much different.Prodigies of psychological and political insight and wisdom gathered painfullyover the centuries are refined into principles taught in elite colleges, and consecrated in the service of this colossal tour-de-force of appearances.Worst of all are those who yearn for productive, independent livelihoods like the Amish have, and nearly all free Americans once had. If that vision spreads, a consumer society is sunk. For all these and other reasons, the form of schooling we get is largely a kind of consumer and employee training. This isn't just incidentally

true. Common sense should tell you it is necessary so that the economy is to survive in any recognizable form.

Every principal institution in our culture is a partner with the particular form of corporatism which began to dominate America at the end of WWII. …..UnlikePlato's guardians whom they otherwise resemble, this meritorious elite is not poorbut is guaranteed prosperity and status in exchange for its over-sight. An essentialfeature of this kind of central management is that the population remainsmystified, specialized, dependent and childish……..

We have evolved a subtly architected, delicately balanced command economy andclass based society upon which huge efforts are lavished to make it appear like something else. The illusion has been wearing thin for years; that's a principal reason why so many people don't bother to vote…..

9. Samuel Beckett

Understanding Finnegan’s Wake.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Samuel Beckett Reader:Beckett’s Excerpt: "Dante... Bruno.. Vico. Joyce"

It is first necessary to condense the thesis of Vico, the scientific historian. In the beginning was the thunder: the thunder brought “awe” which led to “awe-thority”. The thunder set free Religion, in its most objective and unphilosophical form - idolatrous animism: Religion produced Society, and the first social men were cave-dwellers, taking refuge from a passionate Nature. This primitive “religious”family life receives its first impulse towards development from the arrival of terrified vagabonds: admitted, they are the first slaves: growing stronger, they exact agrarian concessions, and a despotism has evolved into a primitive feudalism: the cave becomes a city, and the feudal system a democracy: then an anarchy: this is corrected by a monarchy: the last stage is a tendency towards inter-destruction:the nations are dispersed, and the Phoenix of Society arises out of their ashes.

To this six-termed social progression corresponds a six-termed progression of human motives: necessity, utility, convenience, pleasure, luxury, abuse of luxury: and their incarnate manifestations:Polyphemus, Achilles, Caesar and Alexander, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero.

His (Vico's) treatment of the origin of language proceeds along similar lines. Here again he rejected thematerialistic and transcendental views: the one declaring that language was nothing but a polite andconventional symbolism; the other, in desperation, describing it as a gift from the Gods.

As before, Vico is the rationalist, aware of the natural and inevitable growth of language. It its first dumb form, language was a gesture. If a man wanted to say "sea," he pointed to the sea. With the spread of animism this gesture was replaced by the word: "Neptune." He directs our attention to the factthat every need of life; natural, moral and economic, has its verbal expression in one or other of the 30,000 Greek divinities. This is Homer's "language of the Gods." Its evolution through poetry to a highly civilized vehicle, rich in abstract and technical terms, was as little fortuitous as the evolution of society itself.

Words have their progressions as well as social phases. "Forrest-cave-cabin-village-city-academy" is one rough progression. Another: "mountain-plain-riverbank." And every word expands with

psychological inevitability. Take the Latin word: "Lex."

1. Lex = Crop of acorns

2. Ilex = Tree that produces acorns.

3. Legere = To gather.4. Aquilex = He that gathers water.5. Lex = Gathering together of peoples, public assembly.6. Lex = Law.

7. Legere = To gather together letters into a word, to read.

(According to Vico the root of any word whatsoever can be traced back to some pre-lingualsymbol). (In "Finnegan's Wake) Mr. Joyce has desophisticated language. And it is worth remarkingthat no language is as sophisticated as English. It is abstracted to death. (Vico and Mr. Joyce) both saw how worn out and threadbare was the conventional language of cunning literary artificers;both rejected an approximation to a universal language.

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(CMQ):This is my summary understanding of what Beckett was trying to say regarding Joyce's "Finnegans Wake”.

The Wake is a very difficult book to read if you do not realise what it is all about but once you have the “key”, it all falls into place.

For me this key is Giovanni Battista Vico’s “New Science” which deals with constructivist epistemology. (The history of knowledge traced through the development of language: i.e. every word has a history).What Joyce, Vico and Beckett tried to do in their lifetimes was revolutionary in its objective and scope.

They tried to make people understand what language was. For them language was the basis ofreason, logic, religion, culture, society and civilization itself. The development of language is the development of man. However “language” is a double-edged sword. As well as bringing“rationality” and “reason” it can also bring “conditioning” and “brain-washing”. This is why, in the old days, those who could not read thought that people who were reading were “spell-bound” and under a “spell” i.e. tranced into a conditioned space and no longer “natural”.

Joyce believed that modern man was under such a spell through the use of the English language: “the most artificial language in the world”, according to him. By writing “Finnegan’s Wake” Joyce sought to help modernity understand what language was and thereby break the “Spell” which modern man was under. He sought to end the conditionality of contemporary society and so revitalize mankind so that it could “escape the night-mare cycle of history” which can be encapsulated in the word formula: “poet-priest-emperor-politician-general-thug”. Contemporary society is now entering the “thug” latter stage of this cycle as national economies around the world degenerate under the pressure of corporate globalization. This globalized process is leading to the unwinding of the social contract promoted by the French Revolution and the American founding fathers and will eventually lead to anarchy and dispersion as foretold by Vico (take Detroit at the moment as an example). According to Joyce the only way to combat this spiritual, social and culturaldisintegration is to break the “conditioning” of language and

become an engagingly conscious and passionate individual. This is the purpose of “Finnegan’sWake, the most important piece of Western literature of the 20th. Century.

10. E.C. Riegel

It is a fallacy to think that a government can issue money. Money can be issued only by a buyer for himself, and he must in turn be a competitive seller to recapture it and thus complete the cycle. This competitive co-operation for goods and services creating value in the market is actually what makes money work. Thiscompetitive situation, in which the trader redeems his original monetary issue, through the sale of his own goods and services, assumes that the community's money will maintain its stability. All enigma as to what causes money to circulate and maintain its power is thus dissolved by comprehending this natural law of money issue. THIS LAW STATES THAT THE LEGITIMATE ISSUE OFMONEY IS CONFINED TO PERSONAL ENTERPRISERS IN THE MARKETPLACE, SINCE, THEY ALONE, BY THE LOGIC OF THEIR SITUATION, ARE ABLE ISSUERS OF VALUE. Thus, in essence: money is issued by a purchaser, but it must be issued by a purchaser who can, and is, prepared toissue value; it is a tradesman's agreement to carry on split barter among themselves.

11. Prof. Carroll QuigleyThe Oscar Idem Lectures: “The State of Individuals : Lecture Three”:

This is the most difficult of the three lectures I'm giving on the history of the thousand years of the growth of public authority. What happened in the last two hundred years is fairly clear to me, but it is not easy to convey it to you, even those of you who have had courses with me and are familiar with the framework ofmuch of my thinking. One reason for this difficulty, of course, is the complexity of the subject itself, but after all, the preceding eight hundred years were quite as complex as the last two hundred years we will deal with this evening. A much morefundamental reason for the difficulty is this: The reality of the last two hundred years of the history of the history of Western Civilization, including the history of our own country, is not reflected in the general brainwashing you have received, inthe political mythology you have been hearing, or in the historiography of the period as it exists today….

Now I come to my last statement. I regret ending on what is, I suppose, such a pessimistic note-- I'm not personally pessimistic. The final result will be that the American people will ultimately prefer communities. They will cop out or opt out of the system. Today everything is a bureaucratic structure, and brainwashed people who are not personalities are trained to fit into this bureaucratic structure and say it is a great life--although I would assume that many on their death beds must feel otherwise. The process of coping out will take a long time, but notice: weare already coping out of military service on a wholesale basis; we are already copping out of voting on a large scale basis. I heard an estimate tonight that the President will probably be chosen by forty percent of the people eligible to vote for the fourth time in sixteen years. People are also copping out by refusing to pay anyattention to newspapers or to what's going on in the world, and by increasing emphasis on the growth of localism, what is happening in their own neighborhoods.

In this pathetic election, I am simply amazed that neither of the candidates has thought about any of the important issues, such as localism, the rights of areas to make their own decisions about those things affecting them. Now I realize that if there's a sulphur mine or a sulphur factory a few miles away, localism isn't much help. But I think you will find one extraordinary thing in this election: a considerable number of people will go to the polls and vote for the local candidates, but will not vote for the President. That is a reverse of the situation fifty years ago.

Now I want to say good night. Do not be pessimistic. Life goes on; life is fun. Andif a civilization crashes, it deserves to. When Rome fell, the Christian answerwas, "Create our own communities.

12. Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The meaning of dialectic:"........For dialectical understanding is nothing other than the historical or temporalunderstanding of the real. Dialectic reveals the trinitary structure of being. In otherwords, in and by its dialectic the real reveals itself...as a present situated betweenthe past and the future, THAT IS, AS A CREATIVE MOMENT, OR ELSE,AGAIN AS A RESULT WHICH IS A PROJECT AND A PROJECT WHICH ISA RESULT-A RESULT WHICH IS BORN OF A PROJECT AND A PROJECTENGENDERED BY A RESULT, IN A WORD, THE REAL REVEALS ITSELFIN ITS DIALECTICAL TRUTH AS A SYNTHESIS.......

THEREFORE BY REALIZING ITSELF, THE TIME IN WHICH THE FUTURETAKES PRIMACY ENGENDERS HISTORY."

13. Major Clifford Douglas

Solving the crisis in modern economics by providing purchasing power withoutdebt:

The essential objective of Social Credit is to achieve an increase in purchasing power available to the common citizenry so that the resources in a society are more fully distributed in general rather than being controlled by a ruling banking elite which operates through a monopoly of credit.

What we appear to have forgotten is that the money system exercised the most perfect control by the individual over institutions which has ever been devised. It was a voting system besides which political franchises are the crude devices of a barbaric savagery. By allowing the essential nature of the money system to be perverted and distorted by coupons and licenses to buy and so forth, we are throwing away the perfect mechanism of our salvation. All these facts are clearly known to our plotters and planners; that is why they are in so great a hurry to supplant rather than to perfect the money system by administrative control. There is a sound military maxim that if you can find out with certainty what your enemy doesn’t want you to do, it is worth taking big risks to do it.

Fix your objective in relation to your resources.

This is rather more than to say concentrate on a narrow front. It means narrowing your front until you must break through.

14. Carl Gustav JungSelf-Knowledge:Expressed in the language of Hermetic philosophy, the ego-personality’s coming toterms with its own background, the shadow, corresponds to the union of spirit and soul in the Unio Mentalis, which is the first stage of the coniunctio. What I call coming to terms with the unconscious the alchemists called “meditation.” TheUnio Mentalis, then, in psychological as well as in alchemical language, means knowledge of oneself. In contradistinction to the modern prejudice that selfknowledgeis nothing but a knowledge of the ego, the alchemists regarded theself as a substance incommensurable with the ego, hidden in the body, andidentical with the image of God.

What the alchemists sought, then, to help him out of his dilemma was a chemicaloperation which we would today describe as a symbol. …………

Historical and scientific criteria do not lend themselves to recognition of mythological truth; it can be grasped only by the intuitions of faith or by psychology, and in the latter case although there may be insight it remainsineffective unless it is backed by experience.

Thus the modern man cannot even bring about the Unio Mantalis unless he learns to actually accept the fact of his dreams and fantasies and begins to engage with them. This is where insight, the Unio Mentalis, begins to become real. What you are now creating is the beginning of Individuation, whose immediate goal is the experience and production of the symbol of totality.

The Individuation process subordinates the many to the one. But the One is God, and that which corresponds to him in us is the Imagio Dei, the God image. The God-image expresses itself in the mandala.

The political and social isms of our day preach every conceivable ideal, but, under this mask, they pursue the goal of lowering the level of our culture by restricting or altogether inhibiting the possibilities of individual development.They do this partly by creating a chaos controlled by terrorism, a primitive state of affairs that affords only the barest necessities of life and surpasses in horror the worst times of the so-called Dark” Ages. It remains to be seen whether this experience of degradation and slavery will once more raise a cry for greater spiritual freedom. The problem cannot be solved collectively, because the massesare not changed unless the individual changes. At the same time, even the bestlookingsolution cannot be forced upon him, since it is a good solution only whenit is combined with a natural process of development. The bettering of a general ill

begins with the individual, and only when he makes himself and not others responsible.

Individuation helps this process towards authenticity by balancing the unconscious and the conscious through the medium of the Self rather than the Ego.This involves allowing the matter of the unconscious to be absorbed by the Ego. This matter can be dreams, or fantasy or moods. Through this focusing on the unconscious the center of the personality shifts from an Ego basis to a Self basis. This allows for greater unity, balance, creativity, freedom, energy, courage and synergy.

Thoughts On Good And Evil: (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)Light is followed by shadow, the other side of the creator. This development reached its peak in the twentieth century. The Christian world is now truly confronted by the principle of evil, by naked injustice, tyranny, lies, slavery, and coercion of conscience. Evil has become a determinant reality. It can no longer bedismissed from the world by a circumlocution. We must learn how to handle it, since it is here to stay. How we can live with it without terrible consequences cannot for the present be conceived.In any case, we stand in need of a reorientation, a metanoia.

Therefore, the individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as itis posed to-day, has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge, that is, the utmostpossible knowledge of his own wholeness.

Our (Christian) myth has become mute, and gives no answers. The fault lies not init as it is set down in the Scriptures, but solely in us, who have not developed it further, who, rather, have suppressed any such attempts.

The unavoidable internal contradictions in the image of a Creator-god can be reconciled in the unity and wholeness of a self as the coniunctio oppositorium of the alchemists or as a unio mystica. In the experience of the self it is no longer the opposites “God” and “man” that are reconciled, as it was before, but rather theopposite with-in the God-image itself. That is the meaning of divine service, or theservice which man can render to God, that light may emerge from the darkness, that the Creator may become conscious of His creation, and man conscious of himself.

By virtue of his reflective faculties, man is raised out of the animal world, and by his mind he demonstrates that nature has put a high premium precisely upon the development of consciousness. Through consciousness he takes possession of nature by recognising the existence of the world and thus, as it were, confirming the Creator.

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable – perhaps everything.

15. BuckminsterFuller Precession:The big question remained: how do you obtain the money to live with and to acquire the materials and tools with which to work? Since nature was clearly intenton making humans successful in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe, it seemed clear to me that if I undertook ever more humanly favourable physical-environment-producing artefact developments, that did in fact improve the chances of all humanity's successful development, it was quite possible that nature would support my efforts, provided I was choosing the successively most efficient technical means of doing so. Nature was clearly supporting all her intercomplementary ecological regenerative tasks-ergo; I must so commit myself and must depend upon nature providing the physical means of realization of my invented environment-advantaging artefacts. I noted that nature did not require hydrogen to "earn a living" before allowing hydrogen to behave in the unique manner in which it does. Nature does not require that any if its intercomplementingmembers earn a living. Because I could see that this precessional principle of self-employment was areasonably realistic probability, I resolved to adopt such a course formally. I assumed that nature would "evaluate" my work as I went along. If I was doingwhat nature wanted done, and if I was doing it in promising ways, permitted bynature's principles, I would find my work being economically sustained and viceversa.

16. Charlott Thomson Iserbyt

Real education is not about remembering but about learning how to learn which is all about learning to reason and think for yourself.

17. James Joyce

History is a nightmare from which I seek to escape……..I sought to make my life an experiment….To rediscover in the smithy of my soul the uncreated consciousness of my race.

Your mistakes are the portals to your growth.

18. Patrick Kavanagh

“Advent”:

We have tested and tasted too much, lover-Througha chink too wide there comes in no wonder. But here in the Advent-darkened roomWhere the dry black bread and the sugarless teaOf penance will charm back the luxuryOf a child's soul, we'll return to DoomThe knowledge we stole but could not use. Andthe newness that was in every stale thing

When we looked at it as children: the spirit-shocking Wonder in a black slanting Ulster hillOr the prophetic astonishment in the tedious talking Of an old fool will awake for us and bringYou and me to the yard gate to watch the whins

And the bog-holes, cart-tracks, old stables where Time begins.O after Christmas we'll have no need to go searchingFor the difference that sets an old phrase burning-We'll hear it in the whispered argument of a churning Or in the streets where the village boys arelurching. And we'll hear it among decent men tooWho barrow dung in gardens under trees, Wherever life pours ordinary plenty. Won't we be rich, my love and I, andGod we shall not ask for reason's payment,

The why of heart-breaking strangeness in dreeping hedgesNor analyse God's breath in common statement.We have thrown into the dust-bin the clay-minted wagesOf pleasure, knowledge and the conscious hour-And Christ comes with a January flower.

19. William Butler Yeats"The Second Coming”

Turning and turning in the widening gyre;The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.

“From Blood and the Moon”

Blessed be this place

More blessed still this tower;A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering it, mastering it,Rose like the walls from these

Storm beaten cottages –

In mockery I have setA powerful emblem up,And sing it rhyme upon rhymeIn mockery of a timeHalf dead at the top.

20. Arthur Schopenhauer

The world is my idea:- this is a truth which holds for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflection and abstract consciousness. If he really does this, he has attained to philosophical wisdom. It then becomes clear and certain to him that what he knows is not a sun and an earth but only an eye thatsees a sun, a hand that feels an earth; that the world that surrounds him is there only as idea, i.e., only in relation to something else, the consciousness, which is himself.

The making of money by philosophy was regarded by the ancients as the characteristic of the sophists…..nothing is to be had for gold but mediocrity.

Truth will always be paucorum hominum (of few men). Life is short, but truthworks far and lives long; let us speak the truth.

How can we explain mind as matter, when we know matter only through the mind. No: it is impossible to solve the metaphysical puzzle, to discover the secret essenceof reality, by explaining matter first, and then proceeding to examine thought: we must begin with that which we know directly and intimately – ourselves. We can never arrive at the real nature of things from without. However much we investigate,we can never reach anything but images and names.

Under the conscious intellect is the conscious or unconscious will, a striving, persistent vital force, a spontaneous activity, a will of imperious desire. We do notwant a thing because we have found reasons for it, we find reasons for it because we it.

The will is the only permanent and unchangeable element in the mind. The intellect tires, the will never. Will then is the essence of man. The will, of course, isa will to live, and a will to maximum life.

In reality there is only the species, only life, only will. The motto of history shouldrun: Eadem, sed aliter ( The same things, but in different ways).Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free,……But a posteriori,

through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity.

But if the world is will, it must be suffering……because will itself indicates want, and its grasp is always greater than its reach. For every wish that is satisfied there

remains ten that is denied……fulfillment never satisfies.

Life is evil because as soon as want and suffering permit rest, ennui (boredom) isat once so near, that we necessarily require diversion, i.e., more suffering. The more successful we become the more we are bored.

Life is evil because the higher the organism the greater the suffering. He thatincreaseth knowledge, therefore, increaseth sorrow.

Finally life is evil because life is war. Everywhere in nature we strive; there is everywhere competition, conflict, and a suicidal alternation of victory and defeat.Every species fights for the matter, space, and time of the others…. A happy lifedepends on our not knowing it too well.

Consider…..the absurdity of the desire for material goods. Fools believe that if they can only achieve wealth, their wills can be completely gratified………..Nevertheless, a life devoted to the acquisition of wealth is useless unless we knowhow to turn it into joy; and this is an art that requires culture and wisdom.Not wealth but wisdom is the way. …This power of the intellect over the will

permits deliberate development; desire can be moderated or quieted by knowledge. So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study….The constant streaming in of thoughts of others must confine and suppress our own; and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of thought.

Within these limitations, the pursuit of culture, even through books, is valuable, because our happiness depends on what we have in our heads rather than on what we have in our pockets.

Even fame is folly; other people’s heads are a wretched place to be the home of aman’s true happiness.

The way out of the evil of endless willing is the intelligent contemplation of life. Most men never rise above viewing things as objects of desire – hence their misery; but to see things purely as objects of understanding is to rise to freedom. Genius is the highest form of will-less knowledge……it is simply the completest objectivity.

The deliverance of knowledge from servitude to the will, this forgetting of the individual self and its material interest, this elevation of the mind to the will-lesscontemplation of truth, is the function of art.

The object of science is the universal that contains many particulars; the object of art is the particular that contains a universal.

It dawned upon Schopenhauer’s maturity that his theory of art – as the withdrawal

of the will, and the contemplation of the eternal and the universal – was also atheory of religion.

The ultimate wisdom, then, is Nirvana: to reduce one’s self to a minimum of desire and will.

Buddhism is profounder than Christianity, because it makes the

destruction of the will the entirety of religion, and preaches Nirvana as the goal of all personal development. The Hindus were deeper than the thinkers of Europe, because their interpretation of the world was internal and intuitive, not external and intellectual; the intellect divides everything, intuition unites everything. TheHindus saw that the “I” is a delusion; that the individual is merely phenomenal, and that the only reality is the Infinite One – “That art thou.” Whoever is able to say this to himself, with regard to every being with whom he comes in contact, - whoever is clear-eyed and clear-souled enough to see that we are all members ofone organism, all of us little currents in an ocean of will, - he is certain of all virtueand blessedness, and is on the direct road to salvation.

21. Luke xiii, 35

Bededictus qui venet in nomine Domini.

(Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord).

22. T.S. Eliot“The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”

In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo.To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”…………..Do I dare ….Disturb the universe? ………For I have known them all already, known them all –Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

I know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room.So how should I presume ……………

And I have known the eyes already. Known them all –The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on a wall, Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my day sand ways?And how should I presume? ………

I am no prophet – and here’s no great matter;

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid…………

23. Helen Palmer

The Enneagram is an ancient Sufi teaching that describes nine different personality types and their interrelationships.

It is part of a teaching tradition that views personality preoccupations as teachers, or indicators of latent abilities that unfold during the development of higher consciousness.

The power of the system lies in the fact that ordinary patterns of personality, thosevery habits of heart and mind that we tend to dismiss as merely neurotic, are seenas potential access points into higher states of awareness.

24. Rodney Shrewsbury

Yod He Vau He (Yahweh:The true unpronounceable name of God) means: (Yod): origin/inspiration/light,(He): reflective and receptive understanding, (Vau): knowledgeable action/affinity//creation,(He): transition towards effecting the “new creation”, the new “original”.Yod/He/Vau/He: in essence means TRUTH is a quaternity).

Dare to sense there is truth. Dare to seek truth. Dare to find truth. Dare to act in thistruth, for if you do not live for something you will die for nothing.

In an integrated complex system the strongest major is utterly dependent on theweakest minor.

Circumstance and necessity, in the main, dictate reality.

All is temporary so don’t believe the hype.

There may be no answer but being human demands that we

question for it is in this searching that closed oppressive systems are opened. The psychological fight in life is the fight for a developing consciousness that appeals, succeeds and grows. We need to constantly re-relate the true inner self to the evershifting outer reality. A depressed feeling is very often an indication that something in ones' life needs focused reflection and personal change. Bring iron into the soul through memories of past pains transcended. When you take your life seriously, Life will take you seriously. When you have a deep pain in your heart do not run from it, engage it, for the main source of mental trauma is denial of your pain and

your suffering this requires humility. The seed corn of growth is self acceptance.

Philosophy, understanding and wisdom lends wings to knowledge.

Divinity looks out from within and stares in from elemental nature. Ideals have force when associated with the power of your action. Serendipity or luck is one of the most important attributes of success; it's a fact, so just get on with it as this truth cannot be changed and cannot be controlled. To be resilient you must learn to be resourceful thismeans you must learn to Learn and know to Know, for yourself. Strive to discover and nurture your own unique true self. The most important stateto be in is in the state of present whereby you are aware of all your senses and yourthinking is balanced by "silencio". This silent acceptance will banish the“consensus trance” induced by modular education, media, fashion, peer fads, desire, fear, loss, anxiety, rejection, worry and future expectation. Creativity is a learned psyche-state. Authenticity is about learning patterns of thought and behaviour which balance the spiritual with material demands. The mind very often operates like a garbage can collecting all kinds of flotsam and jetsam to think about: thinking does not make anything real; per-se. Maturity requires a disciplined willpower that can focus on the issues that are important and relevant. Thus the keyingredient is judgement and good judgement requires practice and very often courage. Achievement does not come in a linear fashion; it behaves exponentially like a wave. When you get it right it's "all" right, and not until then: be patient. Material advancement is never the jewel in the crown, happiness is. The lived process is always more profound than the goal achieved. Never be over concernedwhat others think of you. Be most concerned of how you feel of yourself. A life's success emanates through a thousand small victories. Genuine faith based on authentic experience brings a certainty with regard to soul which rational thought can never match. The antidote to mechanical atomization is meaning and purpose. Voluntary self-sacrifice and self-restraint can raise one above the prison of all encompassing desire. Talking is not doing. The secret of psychology is the discovery that the outer is a map of the inner. People can and do change. Your money should be as a journey not a destination. Experience distilled by reflection will become your wisdom when graced by intelligence and intuition. Failure is a successful experience when it engenders modified action and growth. Live slowly on good decisions and act quickly on bad ones. One of the better cures for anxiety is action, ideally compassionate action. There is nothing secure about life as change is its essence. Words are consciousness symbols. Strive for excellence rather than ideal perfection. The mechanistic should never be allowed to drive out your wonder. The knowing is in the doing. Being grateful for your life is akin to being graceful and this gratefulness consecrates.

25. John Bishop

Particularly because “The New Science” (by Giambattista Vico) explores theevolution of “reason” as a human institution…..The network of relationships implicit in the etymology of the “real” reinforces those implicit in the history of “legibility,” then, to suggest how the evolution of Vico’s gentile “reality” is implicated in the slow formation of institutions and lawswhose learning contractually holds together the Daily World.

With the passage of generations and the accumulation of more wealth, the concept of freedom in turn generates a concept of the word for “nobility” (liberalitas), and the word familia comes to mean a blood-related group of people wealthy enough to be free because they have large holdings of property and famuli(slaves) to work for them. By this point in gentile history, man has stumbled up out of the obscurity of the world’s beginning, and the conditions under which isolated patriarchal families would generate tribal feudalisms and a slavery sanctioned by tradition have become solidly established as forces internally driving a history made by man, but now way beyond his immediate control.

Joyce finally found in “The New Science” an intricate sense of human evolution that refused to reduce history to a process in which discrete individuals in discrete generations act separately at moments discretely isolated in time. In Vico, the whole of gentile history determines the consciousness, language, society, and material circumstances in which anyone finds himself in the present; so that no one, consequently, would have the life and mind that he does were it not for an infinitude of people in the past: Vico’s first men, whose bodies determined the structure of all subsequent reality and whose hardly imaginable outcries made all subsequent language possible; the nomadic men of patriarchal Israel who made possible the coming of Christ and the millennia during which the image of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection shaped the perceptions of the whole of the Western world; the Greek thinkers who made possible the ongoing enterprises of philosophy, natural science, and mathematics; and billions of men more. A book that treats with studious intensity “all matters that fall under the ban of our infrarational senses”, Finnegans Wake absorbs Vico’s vision of history to make its readers conscious on every page of the universe of people who have generated thepossibility of his individual existence.

26. J. P. Sartre

Man will only attain existence when he is what he purposes to be.

27. F. Nietzsche

(Men) they hide behind customs and opinions……At bottom every human being knows very well that he is in this world just once as something unique……But what is it that compels the individual human to fear his neighbors, to think and act herd fashion, and not be glad of himself? ….Artists hate this slovenly life in borrowed manners ……On account of this men have the appearance of factory products and seem indifferent and unworthy of companionship or instruction.

28. S. Kierkegaard

Only the one attains the goal….the communicator of the truth can only be thesingle individual…….for a crowd is untruth.

29. Wally Klinck

The Banker (Anonymous)

------------------------------------Hello, my name is Montague William 3rdAnd what I will tell you may well sound absurdBut the less who believe it the better for meFor you see I’m in Banking and big industry

For many a year we have controlled your lives While you all just struggle and suffer in strifeWe created the things that you don’t really need Your sports cars and Fashions and Plasma TV’sI remember it clearly how all this begun Family secrets from Father to Son Inheritedknowledge that gives me the edgeWhile you peasants, people lie sleeping at night in your bedsWe control the money that controls your livesWhilst you worship false idols and wouldn’t think twiceOf selling your souls for a place in the sunThese things that won’t matter when your time is done But as long as they’re there to control the massesI just sit back and consider my assets Safe in the knowledge that I have it allWhile you common people are losing your jobs You see I just hold you in utter contemptBut the smile on my face well it makes me exempt For I have the weapon of global TVWhich gives us connection and invites empathyYou would really believe that we look out for youWhile we Bankers and Brokers are only a fewBut if you saw that then you’d take back the powerHence daily terrors to make you all cowerThe Panics the crashes the wars and the illness That keep you from finding your Spiritual Wholeness We rig the game and we buy out both sidesTo keep you enslaved in your pitiful livesSo go out and work as your body clock fadesAnd when it’s all over a few years from the grave You’ll look back on all this and just then you’ll seeThat your life was nothing, a mere fantasyThere are very few things that we don’t now controlTo have Lawyers and Police Force was always a goal

Doing our bidding as you march on the street

But they never realize they’re only just sheepFor real power resides in the hands of a fewYou voted for parties what more could you doBut what you don’t know is they’re one and the sameOld Gordon has passed good old David the reignsAnd you’ll follow the leader who was put there by youBut your blood it runs red while our blood runs blueBut you simply don’t see its all part of the gameAnother distraction like money and fameGet ready for wars in the name of the freeVaccinations for illness that will never beThe assault on your children’s impressionable mindsAnd a micro chipped world, you’ll put up no fightInformation suppression will keep you in toeDepopulation of peasants was always our goalBut eugenics was not what we hoped it would beOh yes it was us that funded Nazis!But as long as we own all the media tooWhat’s really happening does not concern youSo just go on watching your plasma TVAnd the world will be run by the ones you can’t see

Comments on the poem “The Banker”:The poem has resonance with

circumstances and conveys a number of valid points. The one point that stands out as unsound is the one about people losing their jobs inasmuch as we should logically and ethically be eliminating the need for paid employment as rapidly as possible. While mankind is dependent upon incomes derived from paid labour the man or woman without this income is obviously traumatized. But the real problem is that the price-system has no present mechanism to allow them all dynamic and immediate access to available consumer goods and services without resort to debtor further "production." The problem is not a lack of "work" but one of effective purchasing-power. As Clifford Douglas pointed out (In Social Credit) the present system is quite effective in creating work--increasingly less rewarding because of monetary inflation. Unfortunately the work is increasingly superfluous, wasteful anddestructive culminating in more or less continuous warfare. As the British Social Credit strategist John Hargrave declared, "He who calls for full-employment calls for War." War provides lots of "work" for all. War is considered patrioticand meritorious whereas the originators of our Puritan-based false moral imperative (i.e., "Salvation through Works) and those who benefit from a system ofwage-slavery consider Leisure as an instrument of the Devil who will create evil

through freedom granted to "idle" hands. Better that we should incinerate the world in a frenetic orgy of "work" of whatever kind than allow humans who, in the

perverse minds of those who are firmly convinced are innately and irredeemably evil, a measure of free time! Unfortunately Labour has struggled under this delusion as much as the Establishment. They have continued to value their labour above their Inheritance--which latter they do not know or suspect even exists. As Douglas said, society is hypnotized and only a drastic de-hypnotization can save it.

Understanding Social Credit:

Social Credit does not regard money as a commodity. Nor can money create anything. Only energy applied to material can transform the latter into useful or desired forms. Money is a mere abstraction in the sense that in its ideal form it is merely a means of accountancy. Nor does Social Credit regard money in the modern industrial world as primarily a means of "exchange" which definition applied essentially to the primitive economy of hand-to-hand production. In the modernizing capital (i.e., "tool") intensive economy "money" should be recognized as essentially and increasingly a means, or mechanism, of distribution as technology replaces human energy as a factor of production. It is merely a claim "ticket" for wealth pouring out of production facilities employing ever fewer workers. This is all a matter of accountancy adjustments in an economy based upon financial credit properly reflecting real credit, i.e,. the ability to deliver goods and services as, when and where required or desired. Nor does Social Credit regard "money" as a "store of value." Material wealth spoils, rusts, corrodes, deteriorates, wears, depreciates and obsolesces over time. If one saves his/her money the use of the wealth by which it was distributed is forgone to fade away asdoes an image in ripples when a pebble is cast upon the water. Money is accountancy, i.e., information transfer. People cannot live on an abstraction. Humans should have immediate access to the outflow of actual consumer goods from the production line. For humans there is only one moment of time, i.e., the present instant. That is the nature and meaning of Life. Consumer income not spent represents goods unclaimed and production costs unliquidated. Any saving of income directed to production of new wealth creates additional new financial costs aggravating the inherent accountancy flaw that leaves unliquidated industrialfinancial costs. The real (physical) costs of production are fully met as production takes places and completed goods are fully paid for at that time in the physical sense. Douglas was quite specific in saying that all new production must be financed by new credit and he provided the mechanism by which the inflationary effect of such credit expansion would be nullified. In a Social Credit dispensation "money" would be issued at the rate of production and cancelled at the rate of consumption. This is all mere accountancy, an area in which Douglas obviously had much expertise.-- which he was exercising when called by the Royal Aircraft Works to sort out the accounting muddle into which that plant had fallen.

That the present unworkable financial system would become exploited and distorted by various fraudulent "Ponzi" schemes, etc. is entirely to be expected. When financial costs cannot be liquidated and the problem accelerates with every advance in production efficiency all manner of dishonest and unsound activities arealmost certainly to arise. People have an natural survival instinct and when

threatened with insecurity it sometimes takes extreme forms. This all has nothing whatsoever to do with a functioning Social Credit economy and one must guard against allowing oneself to be confused by such schemes and manipulations. We should not become preoccupied with looking out into this distorted and injured world but rather to looking back to visualize the properly functioning financial economy that Social Credit offers and perfecting our understanding of Douglas's analysis and proposals. We need clarity of vision, not corruption and confusion of our thought processes. The existing system is in my opinion the dispensation of the Anti-Christ. Why would we want to wallow around in it. Sufficient unto the dayis the evil thereof. Surely we should get our priorities right.

The central problem is a clearly discernible fatal error in financial cost accountancywhich causes an increasing shortage of cost-liquidating consumer income--which shortage is countered only by increasing obligations against the future, i.e., financial debt. We can admit that less than admirable motives are extant in our world. But Douglas was not convinced by a simple ascribing of evil to "original sin."He warned against transferring blame from the financial systemitself to the mores of the people. This is the ruse of the Puritan and ensures that no solution is ever attainable for a problem--a thoroughly satisfactory situation for those who have a vested interest in the existing financial order. If people exhibit negative forms of behaviour because they are increasingly harassed and annoyed, Douglas said that surely this should be good reason for stopping the annoyance. Social Credit does not seek to change human nature (which we did not create) but to provide to it an environment wherein the best traits rather than the worst are allowed to emerge and flourish. What is the incentive to super-acquisitiveness of either wealth or power when one is provided absolute economicsecurity --which Douglas said was the basis of the new civilization that Social Credit would engender, the exact evolution of which we cannot predict with certainty but only wait to visualize as it unfolds.

30. Carl Gustav Jung

In these times the omni-present crushing power of Rome, embodied in the Divine Caesar, had created a World where countless individuals, indeed whole peoples were robbed of their cultural independence and of their spiritual autonomy. To-dayindividuals and culture are faced with a similar threat, namely of being swallowed up in the mass……

Our psyche is set up to accord with the structure of the universe; and what happensin the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reachesof the psyche. For that reason the God-image is always a projection of the inner experience…..

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that we become a particle in the mass ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

31. J.V. Luce

Intellectual excellence is an even more important component of the good life than moral excellence. Aristotle holds that we need prudence or practical wisdom to assess correctly the factors in any given situation where moral action is required. It is the virtue which enables us to select right means to achieve our desired goals. Assuch it deals with concrete situations and problems which calls for deliberation and operates in the sphere of contingent fact. Like the moral virtues, it is a dispositionto make good choices and it can be improved and strengthened with practice.

32. O. Spengler

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly any one can attain to the inner detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operates under a pure democratic disguise, has accomplished its task so well that the objects sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most through-going enslavement that has ever existed. What is the truth? For the multitude that which it continually reads and hears…..What the press wills is true. Its commanders evoke, transform, interchange truths.Three weeks of press work and the “truth” is acknowledged by everybody.

33. Yehuda Berg

In its simplest terms, the mission of the vessel is to transform itself from being areactive force into being a pro-active force…….

34. Karl Jaspers

The knowledge of the many always leads to distraction. One runs into the infinite unless one sets a limit by some unquestioned purpose or arbitrarily contingent interest.

Man, however, is not a self-sufficient separate entity, but is constituted by the things he makes his own. …Only through his absorption in the world of Being, in the immeasurable space of objects, in ideas, in Transcendence, does he becomereal to himself.

Hence the question “What is man?” must be complemented by the essential question whether and what Transcendence (Deity) is. The thesis becomes possible:Transcendence alone is the real being. That the Deity IS suffices. TO BECERTAIN OF THIS IS ALL THAT MATTERS. Everything else follows from that. Man is not worth considering. In the Deity alone there is reality, truth, and the immutability of being itself. In the Deity there is peace, as well as the origin and aim of man who, by himself, is nothing, and what he is, is only in relation to the Deity. But time and again it is seen: for us the Deity, if it exists, is only as itappears to us in the world, as it speaks to us in the language of man and the world.It exists for us only in the way in which it assumes concrete shape, which by human measure and thought always serves to hide it at the same time. Only in

ways that man can grasp does the Deity exist.

35. Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of laborthe bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

36. Thorstein Veblen

The institution of leisure is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture.

Prowess and exploit may still remain the basis of award of the highest possible esteem, although the possession of wealth has become the basis of common placerespectability and of a blameless social standing.

The predatory instinct and the consequent approbation of predatory efficiency are deeply ingrained in the habits and the thoughts of those peoples who have passed under the discipline of a protracted predatory culture. According to popularaward, the highest honours within human reach may, even yet, be those gained by an unfolding of extraordinary predatory efficiency in war, or by a quasi-predatory efficiency in statecraft.

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence; for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

The leisure class lives by the industrial community rather than in it. Admission to the class is gained by the exercise of the pecuniary attitude – aptitudes for acquisition rather than for serviceability. There is, therefore, a continued selective shifting of the human material that makes up the leisure class, and this selection proceeds on the basis of fitness for pecuniary pursuit. But the scheme of life of the class is in large part a heritage from the past, and embodies much of the habits andideas of the barbarian period.

37. Rudger Sifranski

Nietzsche criticized the high esteem accorded to consciousness, particularly the consciousness of Socrates' disastrous idea that "everything must be conscious to be good". First, this idea destroys the essence of tragedy, and then it proceeds to diminish and impede the creative unconscious as a whole. Socrates ruptured the power of music and replaced it with dialects. He was a disaster who ushered in a rationalism that wanted nothing further to do with dept of being. In the domain of tragedy, the pathos of fate was displaced by INTRIGUES and CALCULATION.The representation of life forces became the staging of cleverly devised machinations. The mechanism of cause and effect dislodged the link between guiltand expiation. On the stage, discussion took the place of song. The action onstageforfeited its mystery, and the protagonists suffered because of banal miscalculations. "We get the feeling," Nietzsche concluded, "that all these

characters met their end as a result not of tragedy but of errors in logic".

38. Fr. Denis Fahey

Inflation is the web.Deflation is the mastication.

39. Dr. Rudolf Steiner

You are spirit:WHEN I look back upon my life, the first three decades appeal to me as a chapter complete in itself. At the close of this period I removed to Weimar, to work for almost seven years at the Goethe and Schiller Institute. The time that I spent in Vienna between the first journey to Germany, which I have described, and my later settling down in the city of Goethe I look upon as the period which brought to a certain conclusion within me that toward which the mind had been striving. This conclusion found expression in the preparation for my book The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. An essential part of the general ideas in which I then expressed my views consisted in the fact that the sense-world did not pass with me as true reality. In my writings and lectures at that time I always expressed myself in such a way as to make the human mind appear as a true reality in the creation of a thought, which it does not form out of the sense world but unfolds in an activity above the region of sense perception. This sense-free thinking I conceived asthat which places the soul within the spiritual being of the world. But I also emphasized strongly the fact that, while man lives within this sense-free thinking, he really finds himself consciously in the spiritual foundations of existence. All talk about limits of knowledge had for me no meaning. Knowing meant to me the rediscovery within the perceptual world of the spiritual content experienced in the soul. When anyone spoke of limits of knowledge, I saw therein the admission that he did not experience spiritually within himself the true reality, and for this reason could not rediscover this in the perceptual world.

The first consideration with me in advancing my own insight was the problem of refuting the conception of the limitation of knowledge. I wished to turn away from that road to knowledge which looked toward the sense-world, and which would then break through from the sense-world into true reality. I desired to make clear that true reality is to be sought, not by such a breaking through from without, but by sinking down into the inner life of man. Whoever seeks to break through from without and then discovers that this is impossible – such a person speaks of the limitation of knowledge. But this impossibility does not consist in a limitation of man's capacity for knowledge, but in the fact that one is seeking for something of which one cannot speak in true self-comprehension. While pressing on farther into the sense-world, one is there seeking in a certain sense a continuation of the sensible behind the perceptual. It is as if one living in illusions should seek in further illusions the causes of his illusions.

The sense of my conception at that time was as follows: While man is evolving from birth onward he stands consciously facing the world. He attains first to physical perception.

But this is at first an outpost of knowledge. In this perception there is not at once revealed all that is in the world. The world is real, but man does not at first attain to this reality. It remains at first closed to him. While he has not yet set his own being over against the world, he fashions for himself a world-conception which is void of being. This conception of the world is really an illusion. In sense-perception man faces a world of illusion. But when from within man sense-free thought comes forth to meet the sense-perception, then illusion ispermeated with reality and ceases to be illusion.

Then the human spirit, living its own life within, meets the spirit of the world which is now no longer concealed from man behind the sense-world, but weaves and breathes within the sense-world.

I now saw that the finding of the spirit within the sense-world is not a question of logical inferences or of projection of sense perception, but something whichcomes to pass when man continues his evolution from perception to the experience of sense-free thinking.

40. G. M. Trevelyan

It will therefore be seen that when England was invaded in 1066 (By William the Conqueror of Normandy), she was being attacked not merely by a band of cosmopolitan adventurers enlisted for the nonce under a single war chief – thoughthat was one element of the affair; England was being attacked by the mosthighly organized continental state of the day, which possessed peculiar institutionscapable of rapid development in the free field of a vast and inchoate conquered territory. And even more important to England than the institutions of the Norman State were the habits of mind and action which the Norman Duke and his subjectsbrought over with them.

Last but not least, the church in Normandy was in league with the Ducal power. The later Dukes, zealous converts from Danish Woden to the French Christ, had restoredand re-endowed the Abbeys and Bishoprics overthrown by their heathen ancestors. The leaders of the Church were therefore servants of the Ducal policy. The (indigenous) men of Wessex, of the Severn valley, and of Danelaw might each and all dislike the Normans, but they knew not one another and had no common loyalty. The appeal to unite in defense of England as a whole was nevermade to them in the Eleventh Century, because it would not have been understood.

If it had been understood, a few thousand armoured cavalry would not have been able to conquer and share up England after Hastings.

41. Henri Bergson

We naturally incline to materialism, Bergson argues, because we tend to think in terms of space; we are geometricians all. But time is as fundamental as space; andit is time, no doubt, that holds the essence of life, and perhaps of all reality. What we have to understand is that time is an accumulation, a growth, a duration.Bergson’s critique of Darwinism issues naturally from his vitalism. He carries on the French tradition established by Lamark, and sees impulse and desire as activeforces in evolution; his spirited temper rejects the Spencerian conception of an evolution engineered entirely by the mechanical integration of matter and dissipation of motion; life is a positive power, an effort that builds its organs through the very persistence of its desires. We must admire the thoroughness ofBergson’s biological preparation, his familiarity with the literature, even with the periodicals in which current science hides itself for a decade of probation. He offers erudition modestly, never with the elephantine dignity that weighs down thepages of Spencer. All in all, his criticism of Darwin has proved effective; the specifically Darwinian features of the evolution theory are now generally abandoned.

42. William James

Now the persistence of the belief in God is the best proof of its universal vital and moral value. James was amazed and attracted by the endless varieties of religious experience and belief; he described them with an artist’s sympathy, even where he most disagreed with them. He saw some truth in every one of them, and demanded an open mind toward every new hope. He did not hesitate to affiliate himself with the Society for Psychical Research; why should not such phenomena, as well as others, be the object of patient examination? In the end, James was convinced of the reality of another – a spiritual – world.

43. Heraclitus

All life is a flux. (Everything flows). (“Panta Rhei”).

No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river andhe’s never the same man.

44. John Steinbeck

It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness andgenerosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

45. Freidrich ListFree trade is a nonsence.

The causes of wealth are something totally different from

wealth itself. A person may possess wealth i.e. exchangeable value; if, however, hedoes not possess the power of producing objects of more value than he consumes,

he will become poorer. A person may be poor, if he however possesses the power

of producing a larger amount of valuable articles than he consumes, he becomes rich. The power of producing wealth is therefore infinitely more important than wealth itself; it insures not only the possession and the increase of what has beengained, but also the replacement of what has been lost. This is still more the casewith entire nations (who cannot live out of mere rentals) than with private individuals.

46. Manly P. Hall

Philosophy bestows life in that it reveals the dignity and purpose of living. Materiality bestows death in that it benumbs or clouds those faculties of the human soul which should be responsive to the enlivening impulses of creative thought of ennobling virtue. How inferior to these standards of remote days are the laws by which men live in the twentieth century! Today man, a sublime creature with infinite capacity for self-improvement, in an effort to be true to false standards, turns from his birthright of understanding - without realizing the consequences - and plunges into the maelstrom of material illusion. The precious span of his earthly years he devotes to the pathetically futile effort to establish himself/herself as an enduring power in a realm of unenduring things. Gradually the memory of his life as a spiritual being vanishes from his objective mind and he focuses all his partly awakened faculties upon the seething beehive of industry which he has come to consider the sole actuality. From the lofty heights of his Selfhood he slowly sinks into the gloomy depths of ephemerality. He falls to the level of the beast, and in brutish fashion mumbles the problems arising from his all too insufficient knowledge of the Divine Plan. Here in the lurid turmoil of a great industrial, political, commercial inferno, men writhe in self-inflicted agony and, reaching out into swirling mists, strive to clutch and hold the grotesque phantoms of success and power.

Ignorant of the cause of life, ignorant of the purpose of life, ignorant of what lies beyond the mystery of death, yet possessing within himself the answer to it all, man is willing to sacrifice the beautiful, the true, the good within and without upon the blood stained alter of worldly ambition. The world of philosophy - that beautiful garden of thought wherein the sages dwell in the bond of fraternity - fades from view. In its place rises an empire of stone, steel, smoke and hate - a world on which millions of creatures potentially scurry to and fro in the desperate effort to exist and at the same time maintain the vast institution which they have erected and which, like some mighty Juggernaut, is rumbling inevitably towards some unknown end. In this physical empire, which man erects in the vain belief that he can outshine the kingdom of the celestials, everything is changed to stone. Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

In this commercial age science is concerned solely with the classification of physical knowledgeand investigation of the temporal and illusionary parts of Nature. Its so-called practical discoveries bind man but more tightly with the bonds of physical limitation. Religion, too, has become materialistic: the beauty and dignity of faith is measured by huge piles of masonry, by tracts of real estate, or by the balance sheet. Philosophy which connects heaven and earth like a mighty ladder, up the rungs of which illumined of all ages have climbed into the living presenceof Reality - even philosophy has become a prosaic and heterogeneous mass of conflicting notions. Its beauty, its dignity, its transcendency are no more. Like other branches of human

thought, it has been made materialistic - "practical" - and its activities so directionalized that theymay also contribute to the erection of this modern world of steel and stone.....

What do the lofty concepts of the world's illumined saviours and sages have in common with these stunted, distorted products of the "realism" of this century? All over the world men and women ground down by the soulless cultural systems of today are crying out for the return of thebanished age of beauty and enlightenment - for something practical in the highest sense of the word. A few are beginning to realise that so-called civilization in its present form is at the vanishing point; that coldness, heartlessness, commercialism, and material efficiency are impractical, and only that which offers opportunity for the expression of love and ideality is trulyworth while. All the world is seeking happiness, but knows not in what direction to search. Men must learn that happiness crowns the soul's quest for understanding. Only through the realizationof infinite goodness and infinite accomplishment can the peace of the inner Self be assured. In spite of man's geocentricism, there is something in the human mind that is reaching out to philosophy - not to this or that philosophic code, but simply to philosophy in the broadest and fullest sense.

The great philosophic institutions of the past must rise again, for these alone can rend the veil which divides the world of causes from that of effects. Only the Mysteries - those sacred Colleges of Wisdom - can reveal to struggling humanity that greater and more glorious universe which is the true home of the spiritual being called man. Modern philosophy has failed in that it has come to regard thinking as simply an intellectual process. Materialistic thought is as hopelessa code of life as commercialism itself. The power to think true is the saviour of humanity.

Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature. This supreme source of power, this attainment of knowledge, this unfolding of the godwithin, is concealed under the epigrammatic statement of the philosophic life. This was the key to the Great Work, the mystery of the philosopher's Stone, for it meant that alchemical transmutation had been accomplished. Thus ancient philosophy was primarily the living of a life;secondly, an intellectual method. He alone can become a philosopher in the highest sense who lives the philosophic life. What man lives he comes to know. Consequently, a great philosopher is one whose threefold life - physical, mental and spiritual - is wholly devoted and completely permeated by his rationality.....

In a civilization primarily concerned with the accomplishment of the extremes of temporal activity, the philosopher represents an equilibrating intellect capable of estimating and guidingthe cultural growth ......

The one hope of the world is philosophy, for all the sorrows of modern life result from the lackof a proper philosophic code. Those who sense in part the dignity of life cannot but realize theshallowness apparent in the activities of this age....

War - the irrefutable evidence of irrationality - still smoulders in the hearts of men; it cannot dieuntil human selfishness is overcome ....

Philosophy reveals to man his kinship with the All. It shows him that he is a brother to the suns which dot the firmament; it lifts him from a taxpayer on a whirling atom to a citizen of Cosmos.It teaches him that while physically bound to earth, there is nevertheless within him a spiritual power, a diviner Self, through which he is one with the symphony of the Whole.....

If the Infinite had not desired man to become wise, He would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. If He had not intended man to become virtuous, He would not have sown within the human heart the seed of virtue. If he had predestined man to be limited to his narrow physical life, He would not have equipped him with perceptions and sensibilities capable of grasping, in part at least, the immensity of the outer universe. The criers of philosophy call all men to a comradeship of the spirit: to a fraternity of thought: to a convocation of the Selves. Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and thedespair of worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism.....

When once the rational consciousness of man rolls away the stone and comes forth from its sepulchre, it dies no more; for to this second or philosophic birth there is no dissolution. By thisshould not be inferred physical immortality, but rather that the philosopher has learned that his physical body is no more his true Self than the physical earth is his true world. IN THE REALIZATION THAT HE AND HIS BODY ARE DISSIMILAR- THAT THOUGH THE FORM MUST PERISH THE LIFE WILL NOT FAIL - HE ACHIEVES CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY. (CMQ Note: this is the objective of initiation into the mysteries).

Man is not the insignificant creature that he appears to be; his physical body is not the true measure of his real self. The invisible nature of man is as vast as his comprehension and as measureless as his thoughts. The fingers of his mind reach out and grasp the stars; his spirit mingles with the throbbing life of Cosmos itself. He who has attained to the state of understanding thereby has so increased his capacity to know that he gradually incorporates within himself the various elements of the universe. The unknown is merely that which is yet to be included within the consciousness of the seeker. Philosophy assists man to develop the sense of appreciation ; for as it reveals the glory and the sufficiency of knowledge; it also unfolds thoselatent powers and faculties whereby man is enabled to master the secrets of the seven spheres......Thus godhead is born within the one who sees, and from the concerns of men he rises to theconcerns of the gods.....

The criers of the Mysteries speak out again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. Thegreat institution of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by man has turned, and like the monster Frankenstein, is destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the illumined reason can carry the understanding part of man upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach man to be born well, to live well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band of the elect - those who have chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue and utility - the philosophers of the ages invite YOU.

47. Martin Kriele

To perceive, and to know, to try and to be able, are all different things.

Simplicity protects. Merit necessitates (noblesse oblige).

It is this immutable reality of spiritual experience which is the foundation andessence of Hermeticism i.e. of knowledge founded on first-hand experience ofspiritual reality across the ages.

He who finds silence in the solitude of concentration without effort, is neveralone. For silence is the sign of real contact with the spiritual world.

48. E. F. Schumacher

This brief essay is a summary of the idea "Meta-Economics" as introduced myE.F Schumacher in his classic book; "Small is Beautiful."

Economic: "Sufficient to give a good return for the money or resources expended."

Meta: "To transcend or go beyond."

The neglect, indeed the rejection, of wisdom has gone so far that most of our intellectuals have not even the faintest idea what the term could mean. But where can wisdom be found? It can only be found inside oneself. To find it onemust become liberated. Through such liberation one can become relevant. Wisdom enables us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactorinessof a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the total neglect ofthe spiritual and the sustainable.

The influence of economics upon the management of government has grown exponentially since the seventies. However, it is now being realised that the judgment of economics is a most fragmentary one. Classic economic theory deals with demand and supply but all contemporary demand and supply is exchanged through the medium of money; fiat money. Due to the importance of stable money supply to the correct stewardship of any economy no government should unduly tamper with its smooth operation. To do so invites mayhem. As a result of catastrophic error, sub-prime crises, derivative explosion, credit balloons, defunct regularity oversight, debt monetization, and private credit exploitation the money supply has become so corrupted it isalmost impossible for anybody to make correct economic decisions. The historic" medium of exchange" model has been broken. Fidelity with the integrity and the sacrifices of our forefathers has been compromised by a shallow elite.

To get out of this "economic crisis" governments must now start thinking in

Meta-Economic modalities. Thus we must acknowledge that to sort out the messwe must go beyond "classic" quantative economic thought. In the new paradigm, wisdom must prevail. The fatal flaw of lack of adequate purchasing power, under the current "credit" model, must be acknowledged. Without this conceptual breakthrough the crisis will never be adequately solved.Simply put; goods cannot be purchased on minimum wage jobs. “Global Efficiency” contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction and no one in“official economics” will own up to the problem. Thus we are caught up in a continuous cycle of needless “booms” and “busts” and “depressions”.In addition current economic conditioning only touches the surface of thingsand takes for granted so much that should be accounted for; i.e. clean air, fresh water, moral integrity of the majority, faith in authority, civil honour, etc. etc. In a sense this quantative model promotes total institutional selfishness and gross irresponsibility. This is all very well as long as the problem is small but, unfortunately it is now global and systemic.

Gross irresponsibility and selfishness has taken the sacredness out of life. The macro crisis is not simply an academic one. It is becoming very personal in the form of corporate and personal bankruptcy, depression, loneliness, isolation, meaninglessness, exhaustion, marriage break-up, atomization, pharmamedicinal dependence, addiction and suicide. To bring about change in thiszeitgeist quality must be brought back into the quantative social model. We must strive to bring LIFE back to the process of living. The formula for this is to reintegrate simplicity, integrity and constraint into the functioning of our institutions, enterprises, thought processes and behaviour. Patterns of actionmust be championed that honour human satisfaction on all levels not just financially.

To comprehend this "meta" concept, some examples of Meta-Economic mindsetprinciples V's those of Quantative Economics one are set out below:

Meta-Economic: Quantative Economic:Timely FastNeed WantSustainable ProfitableCommunity IndividualCo-operation CompetitionHuman MechanicResource Factor of ProductionPractical Whole Conceptual Sub-SetShared Purchasing Power Monopoly CreditMedium of Exchange Fiat MoneyLocal Trans-NationalArt DesignEducation Training

Process Result

Authority PowerMeans EndsOrder ControlTradition LawCommon Sense Central OrdinanceRational Intuitive

For economics to become valuable and relevant again to sustainable society its practitioners must realise the truth that economics is a social science and as such it deals with human beings, not atomised ciphers. Rationality must reconstitute itself with morality, ethics and philosophy. If national and international economists continue to lose these classical thought centres, social disintegration will spiral out, uncontrollably. Governments and economists must begin to see the whole picture again. We have foolishly and recklessly abandoned our great Western-Christian heritage. The task now is oneof metaphysical regeneration. Economics must stop being taught where awareness of human nature is lacking. We are suffering from a metaphysical disease and therefore the cure is meta-physical: meta-economical. It is timefor economics and accounting to grow up and transcend there historical roots.

49. Christian de MolayThe Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order.

“The Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order is a spiritual order. Its aim is to initiate members on the path to spiritual enlightenment and conscious growth. This goal is achieved through ritual and prayer. Ritual prayer unites the individual with the Godhead and allows the true seeker expand in consciousness and power. This powergrows through intuitive experience. Once you have had the epiphany of true religious experience in life one is changed forever. What is this experience? It is an integration of the particular with the universal. It is the grantingof divine purpose and meaning. It is the beginning of true freedom and true harmony. It is the individualization of grace. When one follows this path unexpected things happen, as if by “magic”. This “magic” the spiritual teacherEmmet Fox referred to as “demonstration”. These demonstrations are an indication that one is on the correct path for your life, guided by divine intelligence which you have actively sought. As the Lord said: “seek and thou shalt find. Knock and the door shall be opened.” Join us”.

Christian de Molay,Grand Master Hierophant.

In Hermeticism, the ultimate reality is referred to variously as God, the All, or the One. God in Hermeticism is

unitary and transcendent. Hermeticism is therefore profoundly monotheistic. Its philosophy teaches that there is

a transcendent God, or Absolute, in which we and the entire universe participate. It believes that the Godhead, the

creator, the Architect of the universe, is also immanent, that is ever present if only we raise our consciousness and

thus grow in humility, virtue, goodness, wisdom and love. This goal of this raising of consciousness is the creation

of a new brotherhood and sisterhood of humankind united in fraternity. It seeks co-operation not competition.

A Hermetic lives for truth. This truth is not found in reason alone but in living. Thus their mantra is: Act:

Experience: Reflect: Learn: Remember: Apply. The Hermetic believes that God has been acting in human affairs

since the beginning of time and this has been manifested through individual wisdom and experience. This wisdom

and experience is available to those human beings who actively seek it. The Christian Hermetic is one who

believes the greatest expression of this incarnate wisdom to date is Christ. However knowing this the Christian

Hermetic does not forget or revile the truth that came before Christ. Truth is a process for the human being not a

destination. The Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order does is not structured on a hierarchy but believes that

through prayerful ritual the Godhead spirit guides members to spiritual and conscious growth and spiritual and

conscious union. Therefore the individual may stand alone with God and thus, he/she is sovereign in the eyes of

GOD and man. To Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order members this is the mystery that has guided human

affaires since the beginning of time, and through self-initiation, members seek to actively participate in this

mystery.

To become a member of the order one must decide to strive to develop one’s life to the goals of ritual prayer,

constant conscious growth and to the unity, the brotherhood and sisterhood, of humankind. Entry into the Christian

Hermetic Sovereign Order occurs through self-initiation through the following process and daily ritual:

1. Reflection & Decision.If you seek to become a member of the Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order you must take a spiritual sabbatical.This should last 77 days. During this period you must quietly reflect each day on why you wish to join us and sobecome a Christian Hermetic. Seek wisdom from the spirit within. If after this time you still desire to live a life ofsovereign virtue seeking to grow in consciousness and to bind the world in brotherhood, then perform thefollowing ritual of higher consciousness and self-initiation.

2. The Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order’s Ritual of Prayer and Self-Initiation.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The ritual thus begins:1. Choose a quiet space for your spiritual work. Become present. Stand upright with your hands spread out andupwards at waist level.

2. With a real or an imaginary dagger from left to right draw out a sacred square around you and again from left toright draw out a sacred circular space within the sacred square. You should now be placed in the centre of thesquared circle.

3. Invoke the Holy Spirit with the following sacred Latin formula, 3 times.

“Veni Creator Spiritus, Veni” (Come Oh Holy Spirit, Come).

“Benedictus Que Venit In Nomine Domini”. (Blessed is He Who Comes In The Name Of The Lord).

4. Imagine the 4 Arch-Angels standing with you. Front Left Corner: Michael, Front Right Corner: Gabriel,Reverse Right Corner: Ariel, Left Reverse Corner: Raphael.

5. Using the sign of the cross bless individually your front (North), your right (East), your reverse (South) and left(West). See these crosses of light standing before you on all four sides during the duration of the ritual.

6. With your hands at waist level again invoke the Holy Spirit to enter upon you, filling you with spiritual light. See this divine light gathering at the crown of your head, then moving to your mind’s eye, then your throat, then

your heart, then your solar plexus, then your spleen and finally your root. (The 7 main chakras). Sense this light now emanating outward filling, informing, expanding and enriching each and every pore and cell of the body. Imagine yourself growing in spiritual and physical stature. See yourself and your Arch-Angels growing upward to enable you to see yourself from above, then your building, then your town, then your city, then your country, then the Earth and finally the whole Universe.

Maintain this expanded conscious position for the duration of the prayer ritual.

7. Pray for the whole of humankind that they may grow in consciousness and brotherhood/sisterhood. Pray for allyour brothers and sisters seeking Christian Hermetic truth. Unite with them in spirit and wisdom now. With this vision in your mind’s eye say 3 sacred prayers of your respectful choosing, 5 times, using the fingers of your right hand as a counter. (For example: 5 “Acts of Contrition”, 5 “Ave Marias” and 5 “Our Fathers”).

8. When you are finished praying meditate for a number of minutes, maintaining the highest level of consciousness you can attain.

* When doing this ritual for the first time now choose a new, brotherhood/sisterhood name.

Bow your head and repeat the following:

“In the spirit of sacred Christian Hermeticism I (repeat your brotherhood/sisterhood name) ask the DivineSpirit to initiate me here and now within this sacred squared circle into the Christian Hermetic SovereignOrder.”

Repeat 3 times: “Veni Creator Spiritus Veni. Benedictus Que Venit in Nomine Domini.”

Stand upright to your renewed initiated self.

(Your new Christian Hermetic spiritual name can be repeated at any time forthwith as a mantra to empower you,as needed, during your future life to immediately bring you to your higher ritual consciousness. This name shouldbe used with any communication with the Order.)

9. When you have concluded your spiritual prayers and meditations bring your consciousness back to personal level. Return the light back up through your body to its heavenly source in the following order: root, solar plexus, spleen, heart, throat, mind’s eye and crown.

See the Arch-Angels retire to their celestial source.

See the Crosses fade back to their divine beginning.

10. Repeat the initial invocation 3 times:

“Veni Creator Spiritus, Veni” (Come Oh Holy Spirit, Come).

Benedictus Que Venit In Nomine Domini”. (Blessed is He Who Comes In The Name Of The Lord).

12. Close the sacred circle and sacred square by moving your imaginary or real dagger this time working from theleft direction to right to the initial point of commencement.

The ritual is thus ended.

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Repeat this ritual every day of your life, whenever possible, and you will see a transformation in your soul, body,mind and being. In so doing you will thus be enjoined to the mystical order.

Should any member so desire they may become registered with the Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order (thoughsuch registration is not necessary) by emailing their details to: Thechristianhermeticsovereign@gmail.com.

If any member seeks spiritual guidance on any matter in their sacred path he or she may contact the Order’ssecretary, Hierophant Rodney Shrewsbury, at: Rodneyshrewsbury@gmail.com. These questions will berespectfully and duly responded to by the Grand Master Hierophant at the earliest convenience.

Christian de Molay,Grand Master Heirophant,The Christian Hermetic Sovereign Order (Numero Uno),Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida., U.S.A.21st. December 2015

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reference 1:A hierophant (Ancient Greek: ἱεροφάντης) is a person who brings religious congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from Ancient Greece, where it was constructed from the combination of tahiera, "the holy," and phainein, "to show."

Reference 2:Martin Kriele“Meditations on the Tarot:A Journey into Christian Hermeticism”

“It is this immutable reality of spiritual experience which is the foundation and essence of Hermeticism i.e. of knowledge founded on first-hand experience of spiritual reality across the ages.

He, who finds silence in the solitude of concentration without effort, is never alone. For silence is the sign of real contact with the spiritual world.

To dare to know to believe and to do.”

Reference 3:Manly P. Hall"The Secret Teachings of All Ages"

(Original Title: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolic Philosophy. Being Of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All theAges").

Philosophy bestows life in that it reveals the dignity and purpose of living. Materiality bestows death in that it benumbs or clouds those faculties of the human soul which should be responsive to the enlivening impulses of creative thought of ennobling virtue. How inferior to these standards of remote days are the laws by which men live in the twentieth century! Today man, a sublime creature with infinite capacity for self-improvement, in an effort to be true to false standards, turns from his birthright of understanding - without realizing the consequences - and plunges into the maelstrom of material illusion. The precious span of his earthly years he devotes to the pathetically futile effort to establish himself/herself as an enduring power in a realm of unenduring things. Gradually the memory of his life as a spiritual being vanishes from his objective mind and he focuses all his partlyawakened faculties upon the seething beehive of industry which he has come to consider the sole actuality. From

the lofty heights of his Selfhood he slowly sinks into the gloomy depths of ephemerality. He falls to the level of the beast, and in brutish fashion mumbles the problems arising from his all too insufficient knowledge of the Divine Plan. Here in the lurid turmoil of a great industrial, political, commercial inferno, men writhe in self-inflicted agony and, reaching out into swirling mists, strive to clutch and hold the grotesque phantoms of success and power.

Ignorant of the cause of life, ignorant of the purpose of life, ignorant of what lies beyond the mystery of death, yet possessing within himself the answer to it all, man is willing to sacrifice the beautiful, the true, the good within and without upon the blood stained alter of worldly ambition. The world of philosophy - that beautiful garden of thought wherein the sages dwell in the bond of fraternity - fades from view. In its place rises an empire of stone, steel, smoke and hate - a world on which millions of creatures potentially scurry to and fro in the desperate effort to exist and at the same time maintain the vast institution which they have erected and which, like some mighty Juggernaut, is rumbling inevitably towards some unknown end. In this physical empire, which man erects in the vain belief that he can outshine the kingdom of the celestials, everything is changed to stone. Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

In this commercial age science is concerned solely with the classification of physical knowledge and investigation of the temporal and illusionary parts of Nature. Its so-called practical discoveries bind man but more tightly with the bonds of physical limitation. Religion, too, has become materialistic: the beauty and dignityof faith is measured by huge piles of masonry, by tracts of real estate, or by the balance sheet. Philosophy which connects heaven and earth like a mighty ladder, up the rungs of which illumined of all ages have climbed into the living presence of Reality - even philosophy has become a prosaic and heterogeneous mass of conflicting notions.Its beauty, its dignity, its transcendency are no more. Like other branches of human thought, it has been made materialistic - "practical" - and its activities so directionalized that they may also contribute to the erection of this modern world of steel and stone.....

What do the lofty concepts of the world's illumined saviours and sages have in common with these stunted, distorted products of the "realism" of this century? All over the world men and women ground down by the soulless cultural systems of today are crying out for the return of the banished age of beauty and enlightenment - for something practical in the highest sense of the word. A few are beginning to realise that so-called civilization in its present form is at the vanishing point; that coldness, heartlessness, commercialism, and material efficiency are impractical, and only that which offers opportunity for the expression of love and ideality is truly worthwhile. All the world is seeking happiness, but knows not in what direction to search. Men must learn that happiness crowns the soul's quest for understanding. Only through the realization of infinite goodness and infinite accomplishment can the peace of the inner Self be assured. In spite of man's geocentricism, there is something in the human mind that is reaching out to philosophy - not to this or that philosophic code, but simply to philosophy in the broadest and fullest sense.

The great philosophic institutions of the past must rise again, for these alone can rend the veil which divides the world of causes from that of effects. Only the Mysteries - those sacred Colleges of Wisdom - can reveal to struggling humanity that greater and more glorious universe which is the true home of the spiritual being called man. Modern philosophy has failed in that it has come to regard thinking as simply an intellectual process. Materialistic thought is as hopeless a code of life as commercialism itself. The power to think true is the saviour ofhumanity.

Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature. This supreme source of power, this attainment of knowledge, this unfolding of the God within, is concealed under the epigrammatic statement of the philosophic life. This was the key to the Great Work, the mystery of the philosopher's Stone, for itmeant that alchemical transmutation had been accomplished. Thus ancient philosophy was primarily the living of a life; secondly, an intellectual method. He alone can become a philosopher in the highest sense who lives the philosophic life. What man lives he comes to know. Consequently, a great philosopher is one whose threefold life -physical, mental and spiritual - is wholly devoted and completely permeated by his rationality.

In a civilization primarily concerned with the accomplishment of the extremes of temporal activity, the

philosopher represents an equilibrating intellect capable of estimating and guiding the cultural growth ......

The one hope of the world is philosophy, for all the sorrows of modern life result from the lack of a properphilosophic code. Those who sense in part the dignity of life cannot but realize the shallowness apparent in theactivities of this age.

War - the irrefutable evidence of irrationality - still smolders in the hearts of men; it cannot die until human selfishness is overcome.

Philosophy reveals to man his kinship with the All. It shows him that he is a brother and sister to the suns which dot the firmament; it lifts him from a taxpayer on a whirling atom to a citizen of Cosmos. It teaches him that while physically bound to earth, there is nevertheless within him a spiritual power, a diviner Self, through which he is one with the symphony of the Whole.

If the Infinite had not desired man to become wise, He would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. If He had not intended man to become virtuous, He would not have sown within the human heart the seed of virtue. If he had predestined man to be limited to his narrow physical life, He would not have equipped him with perceptions and sensibilities capable of grasping, in part at least, the immensity of the outer universe. The criers of philosophy call all men to a comradeship of the spirit: to a fraternity of thought: to a convocation of the Selves. Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism.

When once the rational consciousness of man rolls away the stone and comes forth from its sepulcher, it dies no more; for to this second or philosophic birth there is no dissolution. By this should not be inferred physical immortality, but rather that the philosopher has learned that his physical body is no more his true Self than the physical earth is his true world. IN THE REALIZATION THAT HE AND HIS BODY ARE DISSIMILAR- THAT THOUGH THE FORM MUST PERISH THE LIFE WILL NOT FAIL - HE ACHIEVES CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY.

Man is not the insignificant creature that he appears to be; his physical body is not the true measure of his real self.The invisible nature of man is as vast as his comprehension and as measureless as his thoughts. The fingers of his mind reach out and grasp the stars; his spirit mingles with the throbbing life of Cosmos itself. He who has attained to the state of understanding thereby has so increased his capacity to know that he gradually incorporates within himself the various elements of the universe. The unknown is merely that which is yet to be included within the consciousness of the seeker. Philosophy assists man to develop the sense of appreciation; for as it reveals the gloryand the sufficiency of knowledge; it also unfolds those latent powers and faculties whereby man is enabled to master the secrets of the seven spheres.

Thus Godhead is born within the one who sees, and from the concerns of men he rises to the concerns of thegods.

The criers of the Mysteries speak out again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by man has turned, and like the monster Frankenstein, is destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the illumined reason can carry the understanding part of man upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach man to be born well, to live well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band of the elect - those whohave chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue and utility - the philosophers of the ages invite YOU.

© Published by Rodney Shrewsbury 28th. December 2015.

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