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The Invisible College (1)
As explained in Open SETI, on the
Soul Technology page, there is a
type of matter having the same atomic and molecular structure as
physical matter, but whose particles are much less dense, and whose
gravitation does not interact with physical matter. This is called
astral matter in WiH.
Every human has a somatic soul, closely resembling the physical body
but made of astral matter, and an astral soul, also made of astral
matter, which comprises the more permanent self. Astral souls may or
may not equate to higher selves as discussed in
A Synthetic Myth.
Spirits are simply astral souls operating without somatic souls and
physical bodies.
The Invisible College that is mentioned in occult literature does
indeed exist as a political organization of spirits.
Hundreds of thousands of spirits from worlds with advanced
technological civilizations have been sent to Earth by their
governments to work with the Invisible College to assist humans in
fighting a war to liberate ourselves from the oppression and
exploitation of Theocracy. This seems to be an
important form of interplanetary contact, which is why it is
discussed in the context of Open SETI.
Disembodied spirits are forced to incarnate after a few years. When
they do, they lose most of the memories they brought with them,
especially after repeated reincarnations. However, they, as well as
many native Earth people, can learn to communicate with the
discarnate Invisible College on a completely conscious level. This
requires "proper psychic training".
Any human being can receive telepathic messages from the
Invisible
College subconsciously.
Invisible College members consider themselves ordinary people like
ourselves. Their previous bodies, on their home worlds, may or may
not have resembled ours, but they are based on the same basic
genetic code.
The home worlds possess what we would call advanced knowledge in
many scientific and humanistic fields. Of particular importance is
their capability with psychic energy that can produce changes in
astral matter. That technology was used to send them here, but they
were not able to bring their equipment with them.
Although there must have been other interventions over a long period
of time, the intervention of the Invisible College took place in the
late Middle Ages.
The Invisible College has been manipulating the
development of human civilization on Earth ever since.
Their motives are both
altruistic and selfish. Had they not
intervened, the human race would have evolved in directions that
posed a serious threat to their own worlds and space colonies. So
they are fighting a "preventive war" on their own behalf, but they
also feel the overwhelming majority of Earth people will support
their cause once they are able to explain the situation fully.
They operate mostly by influencing the subconscious minds of Earth
people. Although we might want to call this unethical, they maintain
that they taught us many of our philosophical concepts. They come
from civilizations that actually practice "human dignity and
rights," "individual sovereignty," "social justice," "consent of the
governed," and "equality of opportunity".
Anyway, they say, "We are
at war here, and we are fighting on your behalf as well as our own."
They must practice these social values, because they possess
technology that would totally eliminate individuality if they did
not have sufficient social, political, and ethical knowledge to keep
the technology under control.
Their societies live with this threat, and we will eventually have
to live with it too. But the greatest danger we face in the next few
decades (written in January 1987), is that Theocracy and our
exploding population will cause a spiritual cataclysm that will
destroy the human race as it now exists and threaten their
civilizations too if it goes unchecked. They will probably be able to avert catastrophe and guide these
upheavals in constructive directions, but the fate of many Earth
people will still depend on their own actions.
Therefore the
information in WiH is provided to help us prepare ourselves.
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Theocratic Bands
The concept of a Theocrat as a human who chooses to exert power over
and ultimately to consume other humans, rather than to undergo
reincarnation, was introduced on the
Open SETI Soul Technology page.
Griffith's Invisible College contact states that many notorious
tyrants, conquerors, evil religious leaders, black magicians, and
criminals have become Theocrats after death, but so have some people
whom history calls saints or benign geniuses. This is due to the
well-known tendency of power to corrupt, not to mention the prospect
of achieving immortality (though most are eventually destroyed by
other Theocrats).
This has been especially true of people who were religiously devout,
and then found out the horrible truth about their Gods after death.
If they were too powerful for the Theocrats to enslave and devour,
some became members of the Invisible College to fight Theocracy, but
others became Theocrats themselves.
Theocrats as a class have ruled both the Earth and its astral plane
throughout most of human history. This includes most of the medieval
Popes and other religious leaders notorious for being cynical and
power-hungry. It also includes many famous occult leaders, from
Cagliostro down to
Aleister Crowley.
The Theocrats' method of absorbing energy from other spirits affects
their growth patterns, causing their astral soul to go out of
balance, and eventually driving them into irrational, insane, and
self-destructive behavior.
Theocrats acquire bands of enslaved spirits, containing from a
couple of dozen to several thousand, with the average in the low
hundreds.
The daily activities of a Fundamentalist Theocratic band organized
as Heaven are similar to a church service on Earth, except that they
go on perpetually. The Theocrat in charge poses as the Lord God
Jehovah, and
subordinate
Theocrats pose as Christ, various Angels
and Apostles, and so forth. God quotes the same Biblical passages
and preaches the same sermons as preachers in the corresponding sect
do on Earth, and the congregation joins in singing the same hymns.
Dead Fundamentalists in Heaven still have to confess their sins and
receive divine forgiveness. Christians in Heaven are kept in a
perpetual state of religious ecstasy which activates their psychic
powers under the control of their Gods. This collective energy is
then channeled to perform necessary functions.
Most of the activities have to do with the survival of the band and
especially its dictator, recruiting new members from among the
recently deceased, stealing souls from other bands, fighting to keep
the Invisible College from liberating members of the band, etc.
There is "Holy Communion", but as practiced in Heaven, there is
nothing more unholy. All members of a Theocratic band are offered
the Host, who is a rebellious or degenerating member.
Each Theocratic band works with a corresponding group of living
people, whether religious, occult, political, or of other common
interests: popular music, sports, or centered on other media.
Theocrats can be found hanging around almost any place where crowds
gather. (Remember that the astral plane is not a "place". It is
right here, but of a different density.)
Theocrats communicating telepathically to individual Christians when
they pray may call themselves God or Christ or the Holy Spirit...
what ever they believers expect. They also may claim to be angels or
saints or devils as appropriate.
Some people who deliberately become Satanists on Earth hold
positions of power in "Hell" after they die. The lower classes of
Hell are composed of Christians who believed the basic mythology but
had too little self-confidence to believe themselves "saved." Who
goes to Heaven or Hell is mostly determined by which particular band
of Theocrats gets to them as they're in the process of dying.
The Moslem, Hindu, and Buddhist mythologies are also Theocratic
institutions designed to imprison souls of believers in their own
forms of Heaven or Hell.
With the decline in fanatical belief in organized religion,
Theocrats have devised ways to persuade atheists and agnostics to
join bands organized as any type of community of spirits, such as
previously-deceased relatives or friends, or some famous person they
greatly admire, rock stars, politicians, movie stars, writers and
scientists, even fictional characters.
"Point-of-death" experiences in which the person's silver cord is
not actually broken represent a major mistake by the Theocrats
because they reveal information about the afterlife that the
Theocrats would like to conceal. Sometimes, members of the Invisible
College show up during the encounter to warn the person that the
Theocrats are imposters who enslave and destroy souls. Although most
will not remember the experience consciously, many are affected by
it enough to become hostile to the Theocratic aspects of religion.
Theocratic religious sects often forbid deliberate mediumistic
contact with the spirit world precisely because of this need to
protect knowledge of the true nature of the afterlife.
Every single one of the ideas at the core of traditional deistic
doctrine is a lie:
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Only God (under whatever name) is good; people are basically evil
and are incapable of improving themselves morally by their own
efforts.
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Only God is naturally immortal, but people can gain immortality
through proper service to the Deity.
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Human beings can receive forgiveness for their
sins, and divine
strength to prop up their various weaknesses, by 'Letting God into
their hearts'... that is, by creating a powerful psychic bond
between themselves and the deity.
The important thing to realize about this whole body of lies is that
it makes people weaker and more evil than they already are, and
increases their dependency on the Theocrats.
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Religious Mind Control
The methodology of religious mind control is what is known to modern
psychologists as "operant conditioning": altering behavior and
mental programming by positive and negative reinforcement on the
physical and sensory level. But Theocrats strengthen this
conditioning by transmitting ideas and emotions directly into
people's subconscious minds by telepathy. And they use people's own
psychic powers to control other members of the congregation.
The key to the technique is putting people into a state of
consciousness best called the "religious trance" -- a mild hypnotic
trance in which the conscious will is awake but passive. People in
this condition are completely aware of what is going on around them,
and are recording these events in their memories exactly as they
would in a normal waking state. They are also capable of thinking
and acting voluntarily, but can do so only within certain very
definite limits without breaking out of the religious trance and
assuming normal consciousness.
People enter a very similar state when they read, listen to music,
watch television or a movie, listen intently to a lecture or radio
broadcast, etc. The passive state of the will is often called
"identification with the sensory intake," which means accepting the
sensory intake uncreatively and uncritically on both the
intellectual and emotional levels. It also means agreeing with the
ideas being presented and feeling the same emotions being described
in the song, story, play, etc.
This is a rather light trance. If the material being presented
begins to contradict the person's existing opinions or knowledge,
identification breaks down. He or she assumes full normal
consciousness and thinks, "I don't agree with this," or "I don't
understand this," or "This is wrong." But identification with
sensory input can make people accept things they would reject if
they were fully conscious, as long as the input isn't controversial
or unfamiliar enough to break their concentration.
But this is just the first step in entering the religious trance
state. Once the conscious will becomes passive, electrical energy
within the nervous system changes slightly in character, assuming a
level closer to that during sleep than that during normal
wakefulness. In a person fully trained to enter the religious
trance, electrical activity stabilizes at exactly the right level to
allow an equal flow of energy into and out of the astral soul. This
allows the "astral will" to awaken partially, and creates a direct,
two-way link between the physical mind and the astral mind.
(Griffith's guide had explained that during incarnated life, a
human's physical and astral mind normally alternate in being
conscious, the former when "awake", and the latter when "asleep.")
This allows information to pass reasonably freely between the
physical mind and the astral mind and vice versa. Also, the physical
mind can receive impressions from the psychic senses of the astral
soul more or less directly. This type of trance is controlled by
outside sensory input into both the physical and astral minds. It is
a passive state used to control and brainwash people.
When religious believers say they "feel the presence of God" at
church services, they are referring to telepathic communication.
Most of this intake comes from other members of the congregation;
this is usually a more powerful influence than anything sent by
spirits.
So there is a sort of "psychic chain reaction" that occurs, as every
member of the congregation influences the emotions and thinking of
every other member, like a box of matches catching fire or an atomic
chain reaction. This process creates a "religious group mind."
This state of religious ecstasy generates large amounts of psychic
energy. Part of that energy may be directly absorbed by any
Theocratic spirits present, but most of it is diverted back into the
physical mind of the members of the congregation to indoctrinate them
with whatever the Theocrats want them to believe or feel or do. This
is the essence of religious mind control.
In other words, a Theocratic spirit sends a telepathic message into
the minds of people in such a state of religious ecstasy, and they
generate powerful surges of telepathically-transmitted emotion that
program them to believe and act on the messages they receive. For
example, the idea "Abortion is murder" might generate powerful
feelings of hate, whereas "All Christians shall be as brethren"
might generate feelings of familial love among all the members of
the congregation.
People being controlled by this method enjoy it more than anything
else in life. It is highly addictive. Theocrats make the religious
mind-control process as addictive as possible to enslave believers.
The whole vicious circle of sin, guilt, and forgiveness was
deliberately designed to create a cycle of addiction that is almost
impossible to break.
The last thing Theocrats want is for religious believers to stop
sinning. That is why they made sexual pleasure a sin. Sexual desire
originates on the biochemical level and cannot be extinguished by
manipulating the programming of the mind. (In this context, "mind"
is defined as "The information stored in the brain, plus the
software for retrieving and processing that information.")
Theocrats do not confine their activities to religion and occultism,
but corrupt and control human beings through all activities that
produce certain states of altered consciousness. Examples include
using electronic media for passive recreational purposes --
listening to popular music over the radio or on recordings, watching
televised sports events and game shows, and playing the simpler
computer games.
The Theocrats know a lot more about psychology than people do. In a
crude analogy with computers, it is as though people can handle data
input and output, and some have enough professional skills to modify
some programs slightly, but the Theocrats not only know the software
far more completely, but also have much easier access to the special
"command mode" used to modify it. This command mode is the
telepathic chain reaction used in religious mind control.
Of course, trained human psychics also have access to it, and so do
spirits in the Invisible College, but it is still extremely
difficult to free people from Theocratic control. The mind of the
average person is run by software designed by the Theocrats to keep
people from consciously finding out they exist. they simply can't
understand or believe it, because the very mental programs they use
for understanding and believing things, and drawing rational
conclusions from certain kinds of information, were designed by the
Theocrats.
In their explanation of the Theocrats' programming techniques,
Griffith's guides note that memory storage and retrieval in the
human mind is a cumulative rather than an absolute process. Data has
to be received repeatedly, if details are to be recorded, and should
be periodically retrieved. Otherwise it will be automatically
forgotten.
An organism's behavioral response to stimuli depends on the quantity
and quality of reinforcement that it receives for performing that
response. What was described as the "religious trance state" occurs
in many different places besides religious services, enabling
Theocrats to practice mind control on crowds attending sporting
events, in gambling casinos, at political rallies, during
musical
concerts of many types, and in a number of other places.
The Invisible College used the rock concerts, peace demonstrations,
"love-ins," and similar events of the Sixties for exactly the same
purposes. Before that, Griffith's guides state, they used meetings
of fraternal organizations, a variety of progressive political
meetings, and even the circuses and carnivals that used to visit
every American village and town, as the Theocrats used, and still
use, touring revival meetings. Both groups practice religious mind
control to reprogram people whenever they get the opportunity.
I personally was involved with an "esoteric group" which at the time
of the Apollo lunar landing in 1969 was asked to inject a certain
concept into the mass mind of the human race while it was distracted
or in a light trance state watching the landing on television. The
concept had nothing whatever to do with the landing event.
It was
expressed as follows:
"Individual responsibility interacting social
responsibility."
The peculiar syntax was emphatically confirmed and
the reason for this is anything but obvious; no explanation was
given. This was the kind of mind control we are discussing here, and
I was participating as a sort of junior or apprentice controller!
This experience confirms that such activities do take place. I
believe it came from the Invisible College, not Theocrats.
Griffith's guides state that even though most of the individual
facts that make up the model of spiritual reality presented in this
book are already available to the public, very few people are
capable of assembling them into a coherent theory. This is because
the mental programs they use to draw conclusions from information on
spiritual subjects were deliberately designed by the Theocrats to be
illogical and irrational.
Seventeen years after the book was published, I have scanned the
Internet looking for any signs that the book had made an impact or
is even remembered today. I found only two or three references on
the Web, and to me they seemed to be from people who were completely
demented. This caused me momentarily to question my own sanity!
But
I decided to go with the model that the book is not that bad, and
that I am probably sane.
As part of the discussion being summarized here, the book goes into
a long description of how principles of positive and negative
reinforcement are used to maintain people's beliefs. Rituals, for
example, are of great value when they remain relatively stable. This
is one of the principal reasons why Theocratic religion is socially
and politically conservative or reactionary.
According to basic behaviorist theory, the book states, human
personality, including the mental programs that people use to
evaluate data and decide what is true and false, is conditioned into
them by their physical environment. Even if you leave direct
telepathic programming during religious mind control out of the
picture, people still receive their programming from both their
physical and social environments. Programming from the physical
environment usually favors empirical thinking, which the Invisible
College strongly encourages, but that from the social environment
favors acceptance of doctrine on faith.
A large part of the customs and beliefs and instinctive emotional
reactions that make up this social environment were created by
Theocratic religion. The further back you go into human history, the
greater the percentage of people who were devout believers in
Theocratic religion and were subjected to religious mind control to
a significant degree throughout their lives.
In the Roman and Greek civilizations, the vast majority of the
populations were devout believers in Pagan religions that practiced
effective religious mind control. However, there were periodic
weakening of religious belief among certain elements of the
population, which allowed important occult, philosophical,
political, and scientific works to be written, works based on some
degree of empirical thinking. But the Greek and Roman philosophers
were just a tiny elitist group of intellectuals. The majority
viewpoint then was not that of Socrates, but that of the people who
condemned him to death.
The hold of Theocratic religion on most of Earth's living population
did not begin to weaken until the modern era, from about the 1300s
down to the present. And even today, the greater part of the
population is still subject to religious mind control.
Modern
civilization does program people with personality structures that
resist religious mind control, but the Theocrats have been able to
counter by resorting to electronic mind control.
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Electronic Mind Control
In 1988, the year War in Heaven was published, Internet
communications protocols included remote logins, electronic mail,
bulletin board systems, newsgroups, and file transfers. These were
available to a limited community of mostly professional users. The
World Wide Web as an infrastructure of universal information sharing
was still several years into the future. Undoubtedly if the book
were to be updated, it would take up a discussion of the role of
the Web in supporting a sort of mass mind of humanity.
Griffith's guides begin the discussion of
electronic mind control by
noting that the technology works on two different levels, just as
religious mind control does. Recall that religious mind control
works by putting people into an altered state of consciousness
similar to a light hypnotic trance and how the thinking and behavior
of people in such a religious trance can be influenced by what they
experience through the physical senses during the service. In other
words, the preacher's words can have the same effect as
post-hypnotic suggestions during regular hypnosis.
Electronic mind control does exactly the same thing, and often to an
even greater degree. It is also even more addictive than religious
mind control. Like religious mind control, electronic mind control
works on two different levels, one physical and one psychic.
The physical level can be directly observed with the physical senses
and analyzed with the conscious intellect. Many researchers have
described the uses of subliminals in media and how to spot them.
The psychic component of electronic or media mind control employs
completely different mechanisms and one needs to be careful not to
confuse them.
It is also important to distinguish between the psychic phenomena of
religious mind control, which function most efficiently when the
people or spirits involved are spatially close to another, as though
the effect were broadcast and subject to inverse-square-law energy
radiation, and a second, non-broadcast system for transmitting and
receiving energies between human souls.
Reminiscent of the old Greek
myth about the "Threads of Destiny" woven by the Goddesses called
the
Fates, threads actually exist, but they aren't woven by superhuman
beings. They are "transmission lines" of astral matter connecting
one soul to another, and they allow telepathic communications over
greater distances and with greater power than can be accomplished by
ordinary "broadcast" telepathy.
These threads are created spontaneously when astral souls come into
contact with one another while generating large amounts of psychic
energy. Whenever the astral mind is in the correct state of
consciousness, generating these threads is as natural and automatic
as the process that spiders use to leave a silk strand behind them
when they travel. Added to the material about religious mind control
given in the previous section, this additional theoretical
information explains how television evangelists can exert a direct
psychic influence over their congregations from a distance.
The process has two possible starting points. First, people who
regularly attend Christian church services dominated by the
Theocrats are urged to watch certain television evangelists and to
listen to designated religious radio broadcasts. Over the years, an
elaborate network of astral transmission lines has been built up to
link the religious broadcasters to the clergy of Theocratic
congregations all over the country, and through them, to the masses
of ordinary members.
These psychic threads are put in place when
radio and TV preachers
are invited to hold services at church conventions, or when a group
of churches hosts a large local revival meeting with a media
evangelist, or someone working for one, as a guest. This method is
used primarily to link the churches to the hundreds of second-rank
broadcast evangelists with regional or local media followings. The
superstar evangelists who already have national followings reverse
this procedure: they invite the ministers and elders of selected
churches all over the country to visit their studios and become part
of the in-house congregation during their broadcasts. In either
case, psychic linkages are established between the media evangelist
and the local churches.
Some of the more ambitious TV evangelists have also directly linked
large numbers of ordinary members of Theocratic congregations - and
hundreds of thousands of new converts as well - into their
electronic mind control networks by periodically holding huge, live
revival meetings. (They are often held in major sports stadiums,
which, as will be shown shortly, is especially appropriate.) This is
why several of the major evangelists have started colleges, and why
one TV ministry even built its own imitation of Disneyland.
But the media networks used by the TV evangelists are not the most
important electronic mind control networks in the United States
right now. The Theocrats have another mind control network that
enslaves large numbers of people who have little or no interest in
organized religion. It's centered around major spectator sports,
organized gambling, and the communications media that service both,
and it controls more people than all the Fundamentalist churches and
TV evangelists combined. It doesn't program people's surface
thinking and behavior as thoroughly as Theocratic religion does,
because there's less verbal-intellectual content, but it's just as
effective at programming their subconscious minds into forming
instinctive opinions favorable to the goals of the Theocrats.
People don't have to be watching a sermon or listening to a hymn to
receive subconscious telepathic messages from the very same spirits
who control Fundamentalist religion; they only have to be in the
correct state of altered consciousness (which TV and radio produces
automatically in all members of the audience who haven't learned
specific techniques for preventing it), and they have to have the
transmission lines of astral matter implanted in the right part of
their soul, linking them into the network.
(This idea of connecting
lines to the right part of the soul reminds one of
Carlos
Castañeda's mention of "shifting the assemblage point," a location
on the "luminous cocoon" of awareness where all the fibers of the
universe are focused into our perception of the universe.)
So live sports events and casino gambling serve the same function in
this network as church services and revival meetings do in the
electronic religious mind control networks. Compulsive gambling,
especially on sports events through an enormous electronic
bookmaking network, plays the same role as does the cycle of
sin/guilt/forgiveness in Theocratic religion.
And the Theocrats are now actively expanding this form of mind
control. Many states have legalized various forms of gambling that
plug people into the networks just described: state lotteries, horse
racing (including off-track betting), bingo, card parlors, etc. It's
no accident that gambling expands on both the in-person and media
levels as the Fundamentalist churches and TV evangelism decline. The
Theocrats are shifting their attention to activities more natural to
the average opinions and lifestyles of present-day Americans.
Casino gambling in Nevada is one of the most important battlefields
in the war between the Theocrats and the Invisible College. Once
Theocratic spirits get their control threads on people gambling in
the casinos, they continue to send telepathic messages into the
minds of these people whenever they watch certain television
programs, especially sports events and game shows.
The Invisible College also uses the Nevada casinos but they will not
give a description of what they do there. But they do mention that
(as of 1988 at least) the electronic mental reprogramming networks
of the Theocrats and the Invisible College have their American
Headquarters in Las Vegas:
the Theocrats are mostly on the Strip and
the Invisible College is mostly Downtown.
At this point they suggest that Griffith put in some advice for
people who enjoy recreational gambling. Griffith responds with the
advice that people who want to gamble do it in private games with
friends, or at local bingo or card clubs if such are legal where
they live. These forms of gambling can still plug people into an
electronic mind-control network, but they're less dangerous than the
Nevada casinos. Going to Reno or Vegas or Atlantic City to gamble
for fun would be like going “out on the town” in Saigon during the
late Sixties.
There's a war on, and the innocent can get caught up
in it as easily as the combatants.
People who disregard this advice and go to Nevada to gamble anyway
can minimize the danger if they are careful to remain in a normal
state of consciousness. This means: don't sample the free drinks,
and above all, don't gamble for more than an hour at a time. If you
get at all intoxicated or spaced out from fatigue, the Theocrats can
put you into the same type of trance that people go into at
religious services, and start brainwashing you.
They can also make you lose more money than you intended to risk.
This now happens to the majority of people who go to the Nevada
casinos just to have a good time. Electronic interstate banking,
allowing cash advances on almost any credit card right in the
casinos, is partly responsible for this, but the major reason is
simply that the War in Heaven is hotter than ever before, and both
sides are generating a lot more psychic force.
Gambling is just as addictive as alcohol or heroin.
The Theocrats
love to turn people into compulsive gamblers. That suits their
purposes just as well as turning them into Jesus-addicts needing
their weekly fix of “divine forgiveness of sins.”
The Invisible College does even more electronic mind control than
the Theocrats (1988), working mostly through popular music and pop
culture in general. Once people have been to a certain number of
live rock concerts, whether huge ones in sports stadiums or small
ones in clubs, then they are permanently linked into a media mind
control network run by the Invisible College, and they receive
subconscious telepathic messages every time they listen to the right
kind of music on the radio or on their own stereo systems.
The song
lyrics perform the same function in this process as sermons do in
religious media mind control.
It's hard to hear the channeled messages in song lyrics. Most of
them are subliminal unless you go to special efforts to pick them
out word by word, and when you do extract them, they're written in
an elaborate jargon and code. People who are part of the mind
control network learn a deep instinctive understanding of this code,
but few can paraphrase the content of the messages into plain
English.
The Invisible College does use sports and gambling for reprogramming
when they can seize control of part of the network, while the
Theocrats have a large and powerful following in the popular music
world.
The Invisible College has a word of advice to conscious psychics and
magicians who may be hostile to all forms of involuntary mental
reprogramming: they can help people learn to defend themselves
consciously against it by, for example, employing “clearing”
rituals, which should be widely and publicly performed.
Of course, this will also knock out “beneficial mind-control
linkages” so they recommend people be prepared to create new
beneficial linkages of their own. But even if this is not done, it
is still more important to break the Theocratic linkages. The
Invisible College would rather see people completely free of control
linkages than enslaved to the Theocrats.
At this point, the discussion touched on sex and drug magic.
Millions of Americans now practice relatively advanced forms of sex
and drug magic without bothering to learn the intellectual knowledge
traditionally associated with such practices in both the East and
the West. Many such experimenters have been hurt trying this, but a
large number have gotten to the point where they can channel down
instructions directly from spirits.
However, because they have never
bothered to learn the associated spiritual, cosmological,
philosophical, and ethical systems, they are almost totally ignorant
of how to identify the political faction a particular spirit belongs
to on the astral plane, so their channeled information is usually a
mishmash from many different sources.
The History of Theocracy
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The Stages of Theocracy
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First Tribal Shamanism
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Second Mass human sacrifice
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Third God-Kings
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Fourth Major modern religions
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Fifth To be discussed later
First Stage.
The chief characteristic of first-stage Theocratic
religions is tribal shamanism of the type that produced the
Alta
Mira cave paintings thousands of years ago. First stage theocratic
religions have never entirely died out, and still exist among
certain tribes of North American Indians, Africans, and Australian
Aborigines. But most have been evolving into more advanced types or
have been replaced with outside religions since these peoples came
into contact with foreigners over the past few hundred years.
The terms "primitive" and "advanced" are from the viewpoint of the
Theocrats, who judge a religious system by how well it allows them
to control every phase of human thinking and behavior, especially
the conscious use of the psychic powers.
(This reminds us of the
term "Advanced Beings" (AB) employed by Paul Von Ward to designate
beings who have the power to control the relationship with ordinary
Earth humans. See the
Open SETI Forum on
Gods, Genes, and
Consciousness.)
Actually most first-stage Theocratic religions teach
extremely sophisticated and effective psychic-development systems.
This is what makes them primitive - in the sense of "crude and
inefficient" - from the viewpoint of the Theocrats.
The shamans who serve as clergy are conscious psychics, and their
religious services are usually conducted with the entire
congregation in a psychic trance. For this reason, the majority of
people in these societies who learned significant psychic skills in a
previous lifetime have an opportunity to develop them consciously
during the present lifetime. This is in direct contrast to the more
advanced forms of Theocratic religion, which discourage conscious,
independent psychic activity, and employ the religious trance rather
than the psychic trance.
A religious elite composed of shamans is much harder for the
Theocrats to control than one composed of clerical or secular rulers
who submit to religious mind control. A shaman is much more likely to
put his or her own psychic development above the telepathic commands
of the Theocrats. Also, shamanistic mythologies often contain major
elements of the truth about Theocracy, and so teach people an
instinctive aversion for mind control and enslavement by spirits.
Most shamanistic religions teach that some spirits eat souls.
However, the information is usually encoded in such a way that the
believers, including the shamans, do not realize that the "Eaters of
Souls" are their own Gods. Instead, the Eaters of Souls are said to
be the Gods of enemy tribes, or spirits that are very different from
human beings (such as the Windigos of various Amerind tribes), or
the ghosts of human criminals and outcasts. The shamantic religions
usually teach that the tribe's own Gods protect people from the
Eaters of Souls.
Also, the powers of the Eaters of Souls are exaggerated. Most of the
legends say they can steal the souls of living people, except those
of the most powerful shamans. And this idea hasn't died out at all.
It's present in the writings of
H.P. Lovecraft, in the modern
Fundamentalist propaganda about demonic possession, and in the
extant first-stage religions themselves. For example, the
present-day Navajos still have powerful instinctive fears of witches
and shape-changers, and much of their traditional religious practice
is intended as a defense against these evil beings.
At this point, Griffith states that he himself feels a deep
instinctive fear that maybe the Theocrats can in fact forcibly take
over the minds of living people or somehow damage their souls. His
guides respond by saying that he learned this from a psychic and
social environment that is dominated to some extent by the Theocrats
and their propaganda. But they are liars. Their control over people
is indirect, exercised mostly by programming the subconscious mind.
They can't overwhelm the conscious will of any normal person, only
the wills of people with seriously damaged physical or astral minds;
and they can't directly harm or enslave the soul when it is
incarnated.
At a certain point in the future, the Theocrats will probably become
more powerful. This subject will be treated in a later part of the
book. But the Invisible College states that it is nothing to be
unduly alarmed about, because they are prepared to deal with it.
At any rate, first-stage Theocratic religion is far less efficient
than the more advanced stages of Theocratic religion in providing
nourishment for the Theocrats, because it doesn't provide much
opportunity for them to enslave and devour the souls of believers
after death. The souls of shamans don't allow the Theocrats to
control them on the astral plane. Either they reincarnate, or they
set themselves up as independent Theocrats in their own right.
The whole religious system encourages people to practice conscious
psychic development techniques and to become shamans themselves if
they have the necessary talent. Since the shamans enjoy political
power and social prestige, there is strong motivation for psychic
development, even though the training methods such primitive
societies employ are usually laborious, painful, and dangerous.
As to the non-shamans in those societies, they usually can't be
enslaved by the Theocrats either, because their fears of the Eaters
of Souls keep them from approaching their Gods after death. They
expect to become fearful wanderers after death, and that's exactly
what happens. Sometimes the Theocrats manage to catch them and
persuade them to put themselves under direct telepathic hypnosis,
but that's the exception rather than the rule. So the Theocrats of a
primitive shamanistic religion are usually quite short-lived. Often,
deceased shamans try being Theocrats for a while.
Then they have to
reincarnate to keep from literally starving to death.
Second Stage.
The second stage of Theocratic religion involves mass
human sacrifice and usually cannibalism on a large scale as well.
The Aztecs practiced it until about five hundred years ago, and some
of the ancient Middle Eastern people did also, starting about five
thousand years ago.
Such practices were also part of many primitive shamanistic
religions. The difference is in the scale of the sacrifices and
cannibalism. The second-stage Theocratic religions became possible
only when human societies started to become densely populated and
highly organized. Such societies built cities and had reasonably
sophisticated farming techniques. They also had large, powerful
governments and highly organized armies that fought major wars.
Second-stage theocratic societies, then, were large, densely
populated, totalitarian, and practiced human sacrifice on a large
scale. The most important factor is deism: belief in Gods that are
omnipotent or at least significantly superhuman. This separates the
higher levels of Theocratic religion from primitive shamanism, which
considers the Gods rather similar to earthly shamans, except that
they are disembodied spirits.
Often they are simply called "the
Spirits of Our Ancestors" or "The Shamans in the Spirit World."
Cannibalism was practiced only by those second-stage Theocratic
societies that were short of red meat in their diet -- the Aztecs
and the ancient Polynesians, for example, who didn't have many
domesticated food animals.
The reason that second-stage Theocratic religion practiced mass
human sacrifice was to supply the Theocrats with a constant food
supply. When the victims were killed as part of a large public
religious ceremony, the telepathic chain reaction generated by a
congregation in the religious trance was sufficient to put the
victims' astral souls into a hypnotic trance before death. When they
were suddenly and violently killed, the Theocrats were usually able
to get control of the souls before they had a chance to flee. This
is one of the few examples in the history of Theocracy where the
Theocrats were able to seize souls by force, and they could do it
only with the help of large numbers of living people.
Today's Theocrats, all of them, like to see cultists do terrible
things such as performing human sacrifice, even though they don't
usually get control of the soul of the sacrificial victim (because
there aren't enough people present at such ceremonies to generate
sufficient psychic power). They support any practice that gives
occultists and others outside Theocratic religion a bad name.
Griffith asked why so much less is known about second-stage
Theocratic societies and their religions than about either primitive
shamanism or more advanced societies. It seemed to him that the
ancient Egyptians and Hebrews were not societies with second-stage
Theocratic religions.
The guides replied that both were in the third stage when they first
appeared in written historical records, and archaeological evidence
shows that they probably went directly from the first stage to the
third, as did the Greeks and the rest of the Western Aryan peoples.
The second stage of Theocratic religion was a failed experiment from
the Theocratic point of view. And from the human point of view, such
societies were so repugnant that few people want to learn much about
them. This is why historians have written so little about them.
And this is the reason why the Romans so utterly obliterated
Carthage. The Carthaginians practiced human sacrifice. Now, the
Romans did also, through most of their history: gladiatorial fights
to the death and throwing people to the lions are definitely in that
category. But the Roman religion was third-stage, not second-stage.
Human sacrifices were only a small, atavistic detail in Roman
paganism, not the main focal point of the whole religious system
that they were to the Carthaginians.
The main reason that second-stage Theocratic religion has been quite
rare in history is simply that it's so cruel and violent. Societies
like that had to fight endless wars against their neighbors or else
enslave and sacrifice a significant portion of their own population.
Either way, they tended to become unstable because of the mass
violence, or to be conquered by their enemies.
However, the real
reason such religions were short-lived is that they couldn't compete
with third- or fourth-stage Theocratic religions when they came in
contact with them.
Third Stage.
The third stage of Theocratic religion involves mass
animal sacrifices. Although they prefer human souls, Theocratic
spirits can nourish themselves off the astral souls of lower animals
to some extent. And these souls are easier to paralyze and control
with religious rituals than human souls are. However, the astral
tissues of animal souls aren't very compatible with the astral souls
of the Theocrats, so they are not a good food source. The main
reason the third stage is considered higher than the second is
simply that societies with such a religion can remain stable for
long periods of time.
Third-stage Theocrats tend to be short-lived, except that they also
receive some nourishment from the psychic energy generated by their
worshippers, which is better for them than the animal souls alone.
Even more important, most of the major third-stage religions have
had some fourth-stage components as well. This was especially true
of the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, Hindus, and Western Aryan Pagans.
Judaism and Vedanta eventually evolved into fully-developed
fourth-stage religions. The others survived for a long time with a
mixture of the two.
One of the chief characteristics of all third-stage Theocratic
religions was that their practices were not much concerned with the
condition of life after death. Greek and Roman mythology, for
example, gave an extremely accurate description of what the
afterlife was actually like for believers in those religions. Most
people simply wandered aimlessly in Hades - the astral plane - for
a few years and then sank into "forgetfulness." The concept of
reincarnation was known, but it was stressed only by a few elite
groups comparable to modern occultists - such as the Greek and
Egyptian Mystery Cults.
Religious practice in third-stage religions was concerned almost
entirely with gaining the favor of the Gods during earthly life, not
with life after death. The Theocrats running such religions
didn't
know how to enslave souls on the astral plane, so they ignored them.
Instead, they programmed living people to send them the souls of
sacrificed animals, and to broadcast psychic energy during orgiastic
rituals.
Fourth Stage.
The fourth stage of Theocratic religion is the one
represented by all the major modern religions. Its most important
characteristic is that the Theocrats use religious mind control to
delude souls into deliberately putting themselves under Theocratic
control after death, thinking they are entering "eternal bliss in
Heaven" or "union with the Godhead."
The nature of fourth-stage Theocratic religions has already been
adequately discussed.
Gods, Genes, and Consciousness
by Paul Von Ward
Hampton Roads, 2004
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Stages of Theocracy vs. Stages of Religion
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Stage War in Heaven
Gods, Genes, and Consciousness
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First Tribal Shamanism Naturalistic
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Second Mass human sacrifice ABs
appear
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Magical explanations
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Third God-Kings ABs
empower kings and priests
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ABs depart
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Kings and priests
claim divine rights
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Fourth Major modern religions Supernatural religions
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Fifth To be discussed later
I cannot leave this topic without drawing a comparison with the
stages of religion as outlined by Paul Von Ward in
Gods, Genes, and
Consciousness.
Note that "religion" does not equate with "Theocracy"
as defined in War in Heaven.
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The Theocracy is a particular group of
beings and a power structure. It is largely non-physical.
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Religion
is a social activity, seemingly organized by humans in response to a
sensed divinity (in the case of modern religions), but putatively
fostered and controlled by the Theocracy.
Von Ward's information is derived from a liberal analysis of
historical and archaeological data. From his sources, he constructs
a model of intervention into a preexisting naturalistic human
culture. The model of Griffith's presentation is derived from
non-physical players who can view the Theocrats on their level of
being and action. The stages described by Griffith are as they are
seen from the inside, as it were, and in terms of the needs and aims
of the Theocracy, for whom the Gods of religions are fictionalized
stand-ins.
A crucial difference between the two scenarios is in the nature of
the ABs (Advanced Beings). Griffith's Theocrats would definitely qualify as belonging
to the class of Von Ward's ABs, but they did not come swooping down
onto a humanity in its naturalistic state, as Von Ward suggests.
Rather, in the War in Heaven scenario, they were already present at
that stage. How the Theocracy arrived or originated is not explained
at this point in the book; it is very clearly dealt with in later
chapters.
There is a second apparent difference suggested by the table above:
the nature of the second stage. Actually this is somewhat spurious.
Von Ward would probably not equate the practice of human sacrifice
and cannibalism with the magical stage of religion, though he would
likely agree that it did take place.
Index
The Invisible College (2)
Note: The dialogs between
Kyle Griffith and his guides from the
Invisible College, as quoted or characterized in this section of the
notes and throughout the book, may give the impression that English
is the common language used between astral entities. Of course this
cannot be true, and even the status of language as we know it would
be dubious.
Indeed, Griffith clarifies this issue in a private communication:
"...neither the mind contained in the embodied astral soul nor the
astral minds of disembodied spirits use English or any other human
language. Instead, they use entirely different “pre-verbal” symbols
to encode information. The speech center in the physical mind then
translates these into ordinary human language."
The name “Invisible College” is just a collective term in common use
on the astral plane to describe all disembodied spirits who are not
members of Theocratic bands and are not merely lost souls wandering
around helpless because they can't function effectively in the
spirit world. A synonym in wide use is “free spirits,” which
contains a play on words because “free” is used in two senses at
once. It means “free of Theocratic control” simultaneously with
“free to move around the astral plane at will and communicate
telepathically with other spirits.”
There are three main groups of spirits in the Invisible College:
enlightened ones, magicians, and space people.
Enlightened Ones.
Most of these spirits were highly advanced in
spiritual knowledge and the use of their psychic powers during life,
but they were also devout believers in some sect of the Eastern
religious system that includes Vedanta and Buddhism. They were wise
enough to refuse to join the Theocratic bands associated with their
particular sect after death, because they could psychically perceive
the enslavement and exploitation going on in the various Heavens.
(Few of the Western occultists who have called themselves
“Illuminati” or some other synonym of “enlightened ones” join this
group after physical death; most become magicians or Theocrats.)
The enlightened ones could be very useful to the cause of the
Invisible College, but few of them are willing to stay on the astral
plane and help actively fight Theocracy. They believe that the
Theocratic perversions of Heaven they observe there, are illusions,
and that perceiving such illusions proves that they are not yet
advanced enough to liberate themselves from the cycle of rebirth. So
they go back and live another earthly life, always hoping that the
next time they die they will be worthy to enter the true Heaven.
They consider the War in Heaven an illusion and run away from it,
back into earthly existence, which they also consider illusory.
The idea that much of the universe is “maya” or illusion is just
Theocratic propaganda, and the refusal of the enlightened ones to
help in the war against Theocracy is a perfect example of how
effective it is. Physical life on Earth is no illusion, nor is
existence as a disembodied spirit on the astral plane. What's
illusory is the claim of the Theocrats to be the Gods of various
religions, and the lie that their Heavens offer the human soul
eternal life.
What happens to saints in the Judeo-Christian religions after death?
Most become Theocrats if they are devout members of Theocratic
churches during life. However, some people who claimed to work
miracles through faith in religious doctrine have become magician
spirits after death. They were really occultists whose faith was
merely a sham to allow them to work within the religious
establishment.
However, even some believers in the Western religious systems whose
psychic powers are highly developed are still quite vulnerable to
being enslaved by the Theocrats after death, whereas similar people
in the East often remain free of Theocratic control and go on
incarnating. This is because the Eastern religions teach belief in
reincarnation as part of their official doctrine.
The political structure of
Judeo-Christian Theocracy on the astral
plane is complex. The Theocrats in charge of bands force many
advanced souls within these religions to reincarnate, because such
spirits don't make very good subordinate Theocrats but are too
valuable to the religion as a whole to kill.
The average Theocratic spirit that has been described so far
realizes that religious doctrine and mythology are lies and is
cynically seeking immortality and political power. The enlightened
ones, although they possess a high degree of spiritual knowledge and
psychic development, still actually believe in the doctrine.
Therefore, if they joined a Theocratic band and observed first-hand
how it operates, they might rebel. Because of this, the leaders of
Theocratic bands usually persuade such spirits to return to Earth to
further the interests of the religion.
The Christian Bible contains references to this: the passages in
which various people ask Jesus if he is Elias or some other Hebrew
prophet returned to Earth. Liberal Christians often use passages of
this type as Scriptural authority to support reincarnation, which,
of course, they are.
Although Jesus denied that he was the reincarnation of any of the
Hebrew prophets, this was just a simple “No” to the specific
questions. He had a perfect opportunity to make a definitive
statement denying the existence of reincarnation, and he didn't take
it. This suggests that the author of the passage was an enemy of
Theocracy and knew elements of “the Great Secret” - that is,
everything this book is saying.
Getting back to the point, the Theocrats persuade many of the saints
in western fourth-stage Theocratic religion to reincarnate. Often
they become charismatic preachers who win large numbers of new
converts, or religious leaders who increase the power of churches
over the whole of society. In the process, they may become so
corrupted by earthly power that they eventually become Theocrats.
Magicians.
This is the second major group in the Invisible College.
The term “magician” is used very loosely to refer to people who made
effective conscious use of their psychic powers while alive, and did
not voluntarily join a Theocratic band after death. It is a very
diverse group, and the spirits that compose it belonged to many
different cultures and social classes during life.
Many magician spirits belonged to the
Spiritualists, Theosophists, Rosicrucians, or other well-known Western occult groups during life.
Others belonged to occult groups that are usually labeled as Pagan
religions, such as Witchcraft, Voodoo, Santeria, etc. Still others
had been commercial fortune-tellers or psychic healers.
(Many of the
magicians in this last category considered themselves Christians and
performed their psychic activities “in the name of Christ.” However,
the Theocratic churches were afraid of their conscious psychic
activities and banned them from membership, so they kept their
freedom after death.)
In the East, many martial-arts experts, Yogis, Tantrists, Zen
Masters, Sufis, etc., become magician spirits after death, as do
people who make their living doing divination or practicing psychic
healing. The shamans of the surviving first-stage religions also
often join the magician spirits when they die.
These spirits all had wide practical experience with the operational
use of their psychic powers when they were alive. (This includes
some people who had possessed highly-developed psychic powers during
life but were never consciously aware of them.) The average magician
had definite religious beliefs during life, but these were not
strong enough to compel joining a Theocratic band after death.
Magicians, living or disembodied, tend to be practical people, not
mystics or “true believers.”
Most of the spirit guides who assist occultists all over the world
in obtaining spiritual knowledge and in learning conscious control
of their psychic powers are magicians. The Theocrats are seriously
frightened of the work these spirits do, which explains why
Fundamentalist propaganda contains such stern warnings against
contacting them.
This accounts for the propaganda against Ouija boards and other aids
that help people achieve independent, consciously-controlled contact
with disembodied spirits. The warnings about demonic possession
through engaging in mediumistic workings are especially ironic, as
the spirit-contact that Fundamentalists achieve at services using
religious mind control are much closer to the descriptions of
“possession” than what happens to occultists when they hold
mediumistic conversations with spirits.
But passing information to people with conscious mediumistic powers
is one of the less important things magicians, do, because there
aren't very many conscious spirit mediums. However, the magician
spirits can communicate telepathically with a much larger segment of
the living population on a strictly subconscious level, and do so
very frequently. Such spirits are responsible for many experiences
that people call prophetic dreams, flashes of insight, hunches,
intuition, instinctive knowledge, etc. However, some of the
experiences assigned these names are entirely the product of the
person's own subconscious imagination or psychic powers. There's
usually no way to tell the difference.
Griffith brings up a point that worries him and he believes may
worry some readers: he doesn't like the idea that a spirit or
another person can plant in his mind an idea that he will consider
the product of his own memory or creative powers. This, he says, is
an invasion of his privacy and of his right to make decisions for
himself. It is a matter of ethics.
The response:
“Would you rather be drafted into the army to fight
against beings as evil as Hitler, or to fight on their side?”
Most
Earth people simply don't have the psychic strength of spiritual
knowledge to remain neutral in the war between the Theocrats and the
Invisible College. If the Invisible College doesn't manipulate them
subconsciously, then the Theocrats will do so anyway. Their own code
of ethics applies the principle of “greatest good.” An individual
manipulated by both sides is better off than if he or she were
influenced by the Theocrats alone.
As to “informed consent,” this book and hundreds of similar attempts
to communicate the same information are intended to provide the
general public with the information they need to make a choice. They
call this “making a personal breakthrough in spiritual
consciousness.” They want people to learn enough about how mind
control operates to avoid situations that expose them to it.
Even now, when very few people are consciously aware of the nature
of Theocracy and the forces opposing it, the Invisible College
thinks their methods are still more ethical than those of the
Theocrats and their religions. Brainwashing people with religious
mind control is the Theocrats' strategy of first choice, whereas the
Invisible College employs such methods very sparingly.
When they work with people who are consciously learning occultism,
they try to inform them about exactly what is going on as well as
they can. The more spiritual information people learn and the
stronger their conscious psychic powers become, the more they are
able to avoid subconscious telepathic mind control by either side in
the War in Heaven. For example, Griffith himself seems to be quite
capable of questioning them on ethical matters and making his own
value judgments about what he receives in the process of writing
this book.
Getting back to the description of what the magician spirits in the
Invisible College do: Placing information about Theocracy in the
minds of living people is only their second most important job. The
principal service they perform for the human race is assisting other
souls in reincarnating.
It's an old Spiritualist tradition that mediums and their spirit
guides offer help to the souls of the recently deceased who seem in
distress. Unfortunately, the traditional Spiritualists and those of
their spirit guides who held similar beliefs during life do harm as
often as good when they attempt to aid lost souls, because most of
them lack even the most rudimentary knowledge about Theocracy.
Instead of attempting to help such spirits reincarnate, they talk
about such lost souls being “Earthbound”, and they try to assist the
distressed spirits to enter the “higher astral.”
But the whole astral plane is in direct contact with the Earth, and
the only parts of it that give the illusion of not being closely
linked to Earth are those under the control of the Theocrats. All
too often, when Spiritualists and similar occultists assist souls in
“entering the higher astral,” they are actually sending them
straight into the control of some band of Theocrats, to be enslaved
and devoured. That is because the majority of Spiritualists and the
magician spirits that serve as their spirit guides are too friendly
to deistic religion and too ignorant of the realities of life on the
astral plane. This is beginning to change now, but it's still a
major problem.
In many cases, people who had read a lot of occult literature during
life put up more resistance to understanding the true nature of
Theocracy than atheists, agnostics, and even some believers in
orthodox religion. It's actually easier to show religious people
that their Gods are impostors than it is to show occultists that
there are no “planes higher than the astral.” The beliefs of the
former are easier to refute because they are simple and clear-cut.
The delusions of occultists are more complex and sophisticated.
Many
of them tell us,
“OK, so some Heavens are really Hells of psychic
vampirism. I'm going to keep looking until I find one that's not.”
Unfortunately, there are Theocratic bands specifically designed to
entrap spirits like this, bands run by Theocrats who were occultists
themselves during life.
Griffith observes that the Invisible College faces the same problems
in dealing with people on the astral plane as he has in getting
people on Earth to accept the information described in this book.
There are thousands of years of false knowledge to overcome, and
virtually every body of available spiritual information is heavily
corrupted with Theocratic propaganda. It strikes him as miraculous
that the Invisible College was able to start teaching such knowledge
widely, both on the astral plane and on Earth.
He asks how this was
done.
Space People
Griffith's guides state that about seven hundred years
ago, scientists from their world established two-way contact with
spirits on Earth's astral plane. Accidents in interstellar
transportation had already marooned quite a few extraterrestrial
spirits on Earth, but they were not capable of communicating with
the societies they'd come from. (Ironically, psychic machines
capable of establishing such communication existed on Earth's astral
plane, but none of the spirits who came here by accident possessed
the specialized skills for using them.)
Of course, such spirits were forced to reincarnate periodically, and
every time they did so, they lost a portion of their original
memories. This meant that Earth people remained ignorant of the
basic facts about spiritual reality, including the true nature of
the Theocratic spirits who claim to be Gods. There were always a few
spirits around who knew the truth, but they were seldom able to
communicate more than hints of it to others before they lost the
memory of who they were and where they came from.
The two-way contact roughly coincided with the beginnings of modern
Western civilization. There are numerous passages in occult
literature from the late Middle Ages on about telepathic
conversations between mediums and spirit entities who resemble
modern UFO-contactee descriptions of space people much more than
they do the traditional angels, demons, or spirits of deceased Earth
people. Several of these accounts include what appears to be
advanced information about physics, astronomy, and other sciences –
and is exactly that. The accounts that have survived are just a
small part of the whole.
As soon as this contact was established, spirits from advanced
civilizations started coming to Earth deliberately to attempt to
build an advanced civilization here. The fight against Theocracy is
a necessary negative step that has to be taken before the real goal
is accomplished, which is to make the Earth a fit place for human
beings to live.
The guides acknowledge that both traditional occult literature and
modern UFO-contactee stories lack sufficient detail to make them
credible. Usually, they're just full of truisms and banalities. They
say that it's taken centuries to prepare people even to think about
what life in a truly advanced society would be like. The process has
to be done gradually, over a long period of time, and most of it has
been done on the level of action, not that of intellectual theory.
As to why the spirits from advanced civilizations couldn't take some
kind of direct action against the Theocrats right at the beginning,
it simply wasn't possible. The space people don't come here
physically, but as naked spirits transmitted across vast distances.
We come with a certain amount of knowledge, a small part of which we
can communicate directly to Earth people, and with psychic powers
that are highly trained but not especially powerful in terms of
force. The average Theocratic spirit is actually “stronger” than one
of us in terms of sheer ability to radiate psychic energy as a
disembodied spirit.
The reason is that a normal spirit can transmit only limited amounts
of astral energy through the psychic powers – less than that which
can be radiated by the psychic powers of a similar spirit incarnated
in a physical body. But Theocratic spirits are not bound by this
limitation, because they don't keep their astral soul in a normal
condition. Instead, they absorb energy from other spirits and grow
as much as they can. Abnormal growth gives them access to more
internal astral energy and hence stronger psychic powers than a
normal spirit possesses.
So they have been forced to use finesse rather than brute strength
in fighting the Theocrats, and also have been forced to enlist the
aid of living people in many different ways.
But couldn't they have used those psychic machines that were here?
Not until the present because the process requires large amounts of
astral energy. One of the reasons for assisting us in building a
physical technology is so that they could tap some of the psychic
energy raised by the electronic mind-control networks and use it to
repair and run psychic machines constructed of astral matter. They
could have done it previously only by using the methods employed by
second-stage Theocratic religion: mass human sacrifices and mass
destruction of human souls.
This is far beyond the limits to which
they will stretch their ethics.
It is a means that no end will
justify.
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Satan and Buddha
Satan
The whole mythology of Satan and the
Rebellion of the Angels
was the creation of spirits fighting Theocracy long ago, and the
original teachings of the Buddha contain similar elements.
Does using terms like “Satan” invite accusations of being
“devil-worshippers?”
They respond that they have good reason to use
terms that encourage people to take a closer look at the Biblical
myths about Satan.
But the Invisible College rejects "worship" as
the term is usually defined:
"Absolute, unquestioning belief in and
obedience to a spiritual being or a body of doctrine."
Individual sovereignty is the most fundamental postulate of the
philosophy of the Invisible College. Each person must assume full
responsibility for making value judgments on ethical and political
matters. The Invisible College never advocates absolute obedience to
ANY authority, even their own. They urge people to resist orders
from leaders if they disagree with them, and to use laws, customs,
and ideologies only as guides for making their own decisions on
specific issues. Assuming personal responsibility for running their
own lives makes people wiser and stronger.
Unquestioning obedience
to orders or fixed doctrine only makes them increasingly dependent
and powerless.
The concepts that Satan is a "God of Evil" who demands the same kind
of worship as
Jehovah or other Theocratic conceptions of deity, and
that he tempts people to do exactly the reverse of all the
individual ethical principles in the Judeo-Christian moral code, are
both Theocratic propaganda incorporated into religious doctrine to
keep people from understanding the Invisible College's original and
constructive purpose in creating the myth about Satan and getting it
incorporated into the Bible.
Satan has a much more favorable image in literature and folk
tradition in all the Judeo-Christian cultures than you'd expect him
to have if he was really the archetype of reversed Biblical morality
that religious doctrine claims he is.
Look at all the folk tales in which the Devil simply opposes the
puritanical, "blue-nose" aspects of Christian morality that say that
sex and other sensual pleasures are intrinsically evil. The
Invisible College has already pointed out the role these puritanical
doctrines play in the religious mind-control process.
The Theocrats want religious believers to feel
guilty every time
they feel sexual desire or enjoy any "pleasures of the flesh." The
guilt literally addicts them to attending church services that
subject them to religious mind control. When the Devil of folk
tradition says that sensual pleasure is not immoral in itself, then
he is actually advocating an ethical code superior to the
Judeo-Christian one.
In ancient Hebrew, the word satan simply meant “adversary” or
“enemy.” The Invisible College communicated the myth about the
temptation of Adam and Eve by the serpent to some of the prophets
who wrote the Old Testament just to ensure that people who read
Judeo-Christian scripture would realize that Jehovah has enemies.
They also claim responsibility for other elements of that myth: that
disobeying Jehovah by eating the forbidden fruit enabled human
beings to discern good from evil, and that there was another secret,
that of the Tree of Life that would give people eternal life without
involvement with Jehovah or other Theocrats.
The material in the
Book of Genesis, even though it pertains to the
Creation and the earliest history of the Hebrews and the Jewish
religion, was mostly dictated to Jewish prophets after the Exodus.
Judaism started to adopt important elements of fourth-stage
Theocratic religion during the Egyptian Captivity, not long after
Akhenaton tried to change Egyptian Paganism into a fourth-stage
religion and failed. Fourth-stage Theocratic religions all have a
creation myth that includes the concept of Original Sin.
Even though first-century Judaism practiced animal sacrifices at the
Temple in Jerusalem, Judaism was almost entirely into the fourth
stage when Christianity broke away from it. It started becoming a
fourth-stage religion at the time of Moses, though the process was
gradual rather than sudden. Survival of limited amounts of animal
sacrifice was just an atavism. The core of Jewish doctrine from the
time of Moses down to the present has been that Jehovah is both an
angry, judgmental deity who condemns people for Original Sin, and a
loving God who forgives their sins after various acts of faith and
ritual atonement.
All the Christians did was assign separate names
to these two different aspects of the one deity:
Jehovah, or God the
Father, to the judgmental aspect, and Jesus, or God the Son, to the
forgiving aspect.
As to the origin of the concepts of Satan and the
War in Heaven...
First of all, a fourth-stage Theocratic religion has no need for a
God of evil to tempt people into sin: the concept of Original Sin
itself makes any sort of Devil superfluous. However, if such a
concept survives as an atavism from an earlier stage of the
religion's development, it does no harm, any more than did the token
sacrifices of doves by the Jews at Jerusalem, as described in the
New Testament.
Judaism had originally been a polytheistic religion. Most of the
angels with names ending “iel” had originally been “God of ..."; for
example, "Barakiel - God of Lightning." Therefore Judaism already
had a concept of "Satan" similar to the "adversary" or "trickster"
Gods in other third-stage religions. It was quite natural to
incorporate Satan into the creation myth to tempt people into
Original Sin.
Griffith asks,
“Was the Hebrew Pagan deity Satan originally a
God in
serpentine form like Damballa and some of the other African
trickster deities?”
Possibly. We really don't know.
What we're telling you here is
mostly derived from our knowledge of modern religious and occult
works, supplemented to some extent by rumors that have circulated on
the astral plane for thousands of years. We have no exact historical
details on any of this, just educated guesses. However, the choice
of a serpent image for the deity that tempted people into disobeying
Jehovah is obvious if you realize that it was enemies of Theocracy
who dictated the myth in the form in which we know it.
The serpent was intended as a symbol of reincarnation, because
snakes shed their skins, leaving behind a casting that resembles a
dead snake to a casual glance, while the animal crawls on about its
business with a shiny, new, young-looking skin.
The Theocrats who
called themselves "Jehovah" did not want people to believe in
reincarnation, even though the fourth-stage religious concept of
"dwelling in the House of the Lord forever" was probably not known
to the Jews at the time the creation myth was first dictated.
Griffith asks if the concept of reincarnation was known to the Jews
at that time.
As we said before, we have no exact historical knowledge of the
time, just age-old rumor and inference from literature on Earth.
However, our best guess is that every human culture throughout
history and back into prehistory has had at least rudimentary
knowledge of reincarnation. There are references to it in literature
from every culture we know about, including those in the ancient
Near East contemporary with the people who wrote Genesis, so we
assume the concept was known to them. More important, a small number
of people in every culture have always possessed enough conscious
past-life memories to re-establish rumors about reincarnation even
if a Theocratic religion has managed to suppress them.
Here Griffith asks who was opposing Theocracy at the time of Moses,
or whenever the myth concerning Adam and Eve and the serpent was
written, if the Invisible College has been in existence for only a
few centuries.
Exact names for the forces opposing Theocracy are actually arbitrary
and unimportant. We prefer to reserve the term "Invisible College"
to refer to the highly organized opposition to Theocracy that
started when large numbers of spirits from advanced extraterrestrial
civilizations started coming to Earth voluntarily about six or seven
hundred years ago. However, small numbers of such spirits have been
accidentally transported to Earth's astral plane throughout history
and far back into prehistoric times, and many of them have tried to
fight Theocracy as best they could. One spirit with advanced
knowledge could have been responsible for the creation myth we're
describing here.
The process by which the Theocrats dictate "holy writ" to religious
believers is, like that used for this book, some form of automatic
writing or other mediumistic reception of data from spirits on the
astral plane. The only difference is that the spirits involved are
Theocrats instead of members of the Invisible College.
Since it is extremely difficult for the mediums themselves to tell
exactly who in the spirit world is dictating to them at a given
time, Griffith's guides always review everything he receives from
them several times and leave him to be the final judge as to whether
what he has received is really from them or is Theocratic deception.
Griffith realizes that he has to be responsible for that, to ensure
that what he receives is internally consistent and agrees with his
own rational judgment based on the evidence available in his memory.
The Invisible College finds it easier to send anti-Theocratic
messages to the prophets of Theocratic religions, who don't normally
question divine revelations, than it is for Theocrats to deceive
conscious “Spiritual Revolutionaries” (a term Griffith and the
Invisible College were promoting when this book was published).
This is exactly what happened with the myth about the serpent and
the Fall. A spirit hostile to Theocracy managed to dictate the story
to one of the Hebrew prophets, and somehow it survived long enough
in folk tradition to be written into the Old Testament. And the
Invisible College is glad it did, because it reveals some important
spiritual truths to anyone capable of understanding them.
One is that
Jehovah has an enemy who communicates with people and
urges them to rebel. Another is that these messages of rebellion are
involved with ethics and morality.
Jehovah says,
"Right and wrong
are only what I tell you they are, and they are absolute values that
never vary."
Satan, on the other hand, says,
"Use your intellect to
determine what is right and wrong in a given situation, because such
value judgments are highly dependent on the environment you're in at
a given time."
Since the latter statement is rational and the former
irrational, people are put into conflict with Theocratic religious
doctrine every time they use their intellect to make rational value
judgments.
The doctrines of organized religions have to be accepted on
faith
because they are not rational. This religious myth is one of the
reasons why. The Theocrats don't want people to become consciously
aware of the basically illogical nature of absolute moral doctrine,
but there is nothing they can do about it. The more highly developed
a person's rational intellect, the less likely he or she is to
accept religious doctrine on "blind faith."
The serpent myth is only a minor detail in Judeo-Christian
mythology, but it has been very important over the centuries in the
fight against Theocracy. And it's also obvious why the
Judeo-Christian Theocrats countered it with further mythology about
Satan as the Father of Lies who goes around telling people it's good
to kill and steal and otherwise do the opposite of the religious
moral code.
The Theocrats tried to obscure the information about using the
intellect to make ethical decisions on a rational basis. They added
many extraneous details to the mythology about Satan. For example,
they included the idea that telepathy, mediumship, and other
human
psychic powers are either "works of God" or "works of the Devil."
This allows them to forbid religious believers to communicate with
spirits hostile to Theocracy without revealing various facts about
spiritual reality that the Theocrats wish to conceal.
And then there's all the propaganda about
demonic possession. As was
discussed earlier, the irony of the whole concept of "possession" is
that the Theocrats themselves practice something rather similar to
it when they program people into becoming willing slaves through
religious mind control.
The important thing to remember whenever possession is mentioned is
simply this: no spirit, Theocrat or otherwise, can actually force
living people to do things contrary to their conscious will and
their customary ideas of right and wrong. Even religious mind
control can only reprogram a person's opinions and beliefs one small
step at a time: it's a slow, gradual process, not a sudden, dramatic
takeover.
It's very important for the reader to realize this.
However, even gradual reprogramming can produce some extremely evil
and violent people if it continues over a whole lifetime. There are
plenty of people in this country right now who are emotionally and
morally capable of "killing a Commie for Christ" or acting on the
literal meaning of the Biblical passage, "Thou shalt not suffer a
witch to live." However, this has nothing to do with the sudden,
violent "possession by evil spirits" that Fundamentalist propaganda
spreads around so freely, and that many serious occultists also
accept.
That, fortunately, is a myth.
The Tree of Life
As the serpent myth represents the concept that
people have the right to determine good and evil for themselves
through the free exercise of the conscious intellect, the Tree of
Life represents certain essential details of the breakthrough
information - the concepts that people can only achieve immortality
through reincarnation and that the "eternal life in heaven" offered
by deities is a delusion.
However, you must remember that the
Tree
of Life is mentioned only so the Theocrats can gloat that they
prevented people from gaining this knowledge. The secret referred to in this passage is not just immortality, but
the complete knowledge that Theocratic spirits have about the nature
of the soul, reincarnation, psychic powers, etc.
Apparently the
spirit who dictated these passages tried to communicate the whole
breakthrough and failed.
Buddha
The beginning of Buddhism is a similar case in which enemies
of Theocracy tried to help people make the breakthrough but didn't
quite succeed. After the Buddha achieved enlightenment, he made some
statements that seemed self-contradictory, at least on the surface.
He attributed his spiritual progress to his own efforts, not to a
"gift" from omnipotent deities. He also stated in so many words that
ordinary people could achieve enlightenment through practicing the
proper psychic development techniques.
But at the same time, his
statements about reincarnation appeared par
