Q. Please tell me more about the Theocrats and how they operate. For
example, who were they when they lived on Earth?
A. 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. Power
corrupts, and the prospect of achieving immortality corrupts even
more. Many people with highly developed souls whose earthly lives
were lived quite ethically chose to become Theocrats after death.
This has been especially true of people who were religiously devout,
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 and fought Theocracy; but
others became Theocrats themselves. The temptation is very strong,
because the Theocrats as a class have ruled both the Earth and its
astral plane throughout most of human history. For example, most of
the medieval Popes and other religious leaders notorious for being
cynical and power-hungry are now Theocrats.
So are many famous
occult leaders, from Cagliostro down to
Aliester Crowley.
Q. I’ve learned a lot from Crowley’s writings and from members of
occult organizations he founded or influenced, but I’ve always also
felt a deep emotional revulsion for him.
A. While he was alive, Crowley was very similar to a double agent in
espionage. Sometimes he helped us in our battles against the
Theocrats, but at other times he worked for them. Of course, we were
always aware that no matter which side he said he was on, his only
real loyalties were to himself. This kind of egotism is a typical
Theocratic personality-type, and proves that Crowley had been a
Theocratic spirit between lives many times before.
Right now, he’s
working with various Theocrats of an occultist persuasion, trying to
turn some of the occult groups he founded into cults based on his
worship. He talked frequently about doing this during his life, and
now he’s in a position to put it into practice.
Q. This makes the War in Heaven sound more like the Allies against
the Nazis than the forces of good against the forces of evil.
A. It’s all just politics. Both sides are working in their own
interests. The important thing is that the self-interest of the
Invisible College and of living people is the same. We acknowledge
that we are part of the same human race as you. The Theocrats are
trying to become literally superhuman.
Q. Are you implying, then, that the time-honored goal of so many
occultists – that of becoming or merging with a god-like being – is
evil? That trying to do this turns people into Theocratic spirits
who literally eat souls?
A. This question doesn’t have a yes-or-no answer, and before we can
answer it all, we’ll have to give you a lot more background
information. The question isn’t really a matter of morality so much
as one of dealing realistically with natural law. For example, it is
a serious violation of natural law for a disembodied astral soul to
take on large amounts of energy by draining it from another spirit,
because there is no template for determining how the energy is
assimilated, as there is when the astral soul is attached to a body.
In the latter case, the somatic soul acts as such a template. When
the somatic soul transmits energy through the silver cord to nourish
the astral soul, the pulses of energy are arranged in patterns that
keep the growth of astral tissues in proper balance.
By contrast, when Theocrats absorb energy from other spirits, there
is no such template, so the growth-pattern is random and may put the
functioning of the astral soul out of balance. Because imbalances in
the astral nervous system can cause irrational thinking and
behavior, most of the Theocrats are insane. And the bigger and older
they are, very often the crazier they are.
Many Theocrats do
irrational and self-destructive things, and most of them eventually
become so insane that other Theocrats destroy them.
Q. This means the Theocrats aren’t really immortal?
A. Most of them aren’t. They have the potential to be, but only by
properly controlling the energies they assimilate, and few of them
have the knowledge to do this. There are some very large, old, and
stable Theocrats on the astral plane who do seem to have this
knowledge, but they don’t cause much trouble. They feed themselves
by stealing spirits from other Theocrats and don’t work directly
with living people, so we don’t worry about them much.
It’s the
younger Theocrats that cause the most trouble, both for the
Invisible College and for living people.
Q. Why do the Theocrats maintain bands of spirit followers, and what
are these bands like?
A. The Theocrats enslave other spirits to provide psychic energy, as
slaves or employees on Earth provide physical labor. Individual
Theocratic bands can contain from a couple of dozen spirits to
several thousand, with the average in the low hundreds. The
paintings and poems that describe a Heaven containing millions of
souls are inaccurate.
The daily activities of a Fundamentalist
Theocratic band organized as Heaven are similar to a church service
as such sects hold them 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 same sect do on Earth,
and the congregation joins in singing the same hymns.
Dead Fundamentalists in Heaven find out they even still have to
confess their sins and receive divine forgiveness, because they are
still capable of thinking “rebellious and impure thoughts.” Of
course, since they are in constant, direct telepathic contact with
their God, the process is simple and automatic. Christians in Heaven
are kept in a perpetual state of religious ecstasy, which activates
their psychic powers under the control of their God.
The Theocratic
leaders of the band then channel this collective psychic energy to
perform whatever functions they consider necessary.
Most of the activities have to do with the survival of the band, and
especially of the Theocratic dictator posing as God. The band
recruits new members from among the recently deceased, steals souls
from other bands, fights to keep spirits like us from liberating
members of the band, and so on.
Q. I still don’t have a clear picture of how the Theocratic bands on
the astral plane relate to living people.
A. Each Theocratic band has to have a working relationship with a
group of living people, often a religious congregation. Occult and
political groups are also used; and now more and more Theocratic
bands are controlling groups of people whose common interest is
popular music, sports, or something else centered around the
electronic media.
Traditionally, the majority of Theocrats hung
around places of worship, but now you can find them almost any place
that crowds gather.
Q. Please clarify this. You talk about spirits being on the astral
plane as if it’s a place, but you also say, “hang around places of
worship.” Just where is the astral plane? Is it on Earth, in another
dimension, or what?
A. The
astral plane is a condition, not a place. A spirit, meaning
an astral soul, on the astral plane is in the condition of not being
bound to physical matter through the silver cord. The Earth plane is
the surface of the planet Earth as you perceive it with your
physical senses. The astral plane is that same place as we perceive
it with our psychic senses.
We and the Theocrats and all spirits
live on the same world you do. Spirits are present around you all
the time, and if you enter the correct state of consciousness to put
your psychic senses under conscious control, you can perceive them
directly.
Q. This makes more sense than anything else I’ve ever heard about
the astral plane. However, you and practically every other
disembodied spirit I’ve communicated with telepathically or seen
quoted in the literature still use the term “astral plane” as if it
were a place. You make statements like “When the soul separates from
the body and arrives on the astral plane…” Why do you do this?
A. It’s just a verbal convention, but we continue to use it to keep
our communications with living people consistent with those of other
spirits. You do the sane thing when you use illogical idioms and
other grammatical structures simply to conform to common usage.
Q. You’re right. To get back to the Theocrats, then, every religious
congregation has its own individual god?
A. Yes, though there are also hierarchies of Theocrats on the astral
plane that work very much like political hierarchies on Earth.
Q. Does this mean that each Christian congregation has a Theocrat
who claims to be an Angel or a Saint or something in charge of it,
with some Theocrat equivalent of the Pope out there somewhere
claiming to be the Lord God Jehovah Himself?
A. This is roughly correct, but the reality isn’t this simple. There
are many such Jehovahs, thousands of them. The Theocrats who
communicate telepathically to individual Christians when they pray
also call themselves God or Christ or the Holy Spirit because
that’s
what the believers expect, but they also claim to be angels or
saints or devils when that seems appropriate.
Q. How are the Christian Theocrats organized – according to sect, or
geographically, or what?
A. Both. The structure is very complex and constantly changing as
Theocrats fight among themselves. The intellectual content of
Christian dogma among the living believers is a factor in this, as
is the personality-structure of use religious mind control to
program the minds of living believers, and the way they are
organized as a political structure on the astral plane. However, the
structure of the Theocratic bands on the astral plane is even more
important.
There are many different kinds of spirits that you could lump under
the rough heading of Theocrats. High-level Theocrats are rulers who
claim to be gods or important servants of gods, angels and the like,
and these all have bands of subordinates or servants working under
them.
They control these subordinate spirits by direct psychic
means, something like hypnotism, or by persuasion or intimidation.
Q. This sounds very much like certain kinds of political structure
on Earth, both in governments and in churches. I take it the
Theocrats within each band have an ascending power structure, with a
sort of “dictator playing god” at the top, and other classes of
Theocrats under them with different degrees of power and privilege.
And the lowest class at the bottom is like cattle, eaten by the
rest. Correct?
A. It is a very complicated structure, and it varies a great deal
from band to band. For instance, there are dead Christians who think
they are in Heaven, sitting around the throne of Jehovah “eternally
singing his praises,” when they’re really just his slaves and
possibly his dinner as well.
Now you understand the real
significance of “Holy Communion.” As practiced in Heaven, there’s
nothing more unholy.
Q. I have always been revolted by the symbolic cannibalism in the
Eucharist ritual, and I’ve heard a lot of other people say the same
thing. There’s a terrible irony to the Christians eating the body of
their god during life, and then having the process reversed after
death. Only it’s not funny, because in Heaven, the cannibalism is no
longer symbolic. It’s real.
A. Yes. And it’s not just the high-level Theocrats who participate.
All members of a Theocratic band are offered the Host, who is a
rebellious or degenerating member. Not all souls who enter Heaven
can survive even through the obscene practice of feeding on other
spirits.
Many souls simply aren’t developed sufficiently to survive
very long even when nurtured within a Theocratic band, though they
would survive if they reincarnated.
Q. Are there also Theocratic bands organized into a version of the
Christian Hell, with the boss Theocrat claiming to be Satan and
various subordinates claiming to be demons?
A. Yes. Some people who deliberately become Satanists on Earth hold
positions of power in “Hell” after they die, and the lower classes
are composed of Christians who believed the basic mythology but had
too little self-confidence to believe themselves “saved.” One major
irony about Christian Hells is that individual believers usually
don’t have much power over whether they go to Heaven or Hell.
That
is determined more by which particular band of Theocrats gets to
them as they’re in the process of dying. All except the most devout
believers have enough self-doubts about the strength of their faith
and the certainty of their salvation that Satanist Theocrats can get
control of them as they’re dying and lead them off to Hell.
However, a Theocratic band organized as Heaven is more stable and
easier to control than one organized as Hell, so Heavens are more
common. There is no other significant difference between the two
anyway: they are both just political institutions run to serve the
interests of the Theocrats.
The Moslem, Hindu, and Buddhist
mythologies also describe a variety of afterlife states resembling
the Christian Heaven or Hell;
they too are Theocratic institutions
designed to imprison the souls of believers after death.
As fanatical belief in organized religion declines in the modern
era, the Theocrats have even devised ways to persuade atheists and
agnostics to join Theocratic bands after death. The most common is
simply to invite them to join what appears to be a community of
spirits that includes some of their previously deceased relatives or
friends, or some famous person they greatly admire.
Q. Does this mean there’s a “Rock’n’Roll Heaven” presided over by
Theocrats who claim to be the shades of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix,
Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, etc.?
A. There isn’t just one, but many of them, and the number grows
every year. There are also “Heavens” whose “gods” claim to be
politicians, movie stars, writers, and scientists, or even fictional
characters. However, we’d like to delay a detailed discussion of
this until later. It’s easier to describe the nature of Theocracy
using the religious infrastructure that’s been traditional through
most of human history.
Once we’ve done that, we will describe how
the Theocrats have changed their methods because of modern
technology and other factors, and what they intend to do in the
future.
For now, we will continue describing the traditional political
structure of the Theocratic bands on the astral plane, especially
those organized to resemble the Christian Heaven. Most of the
lower-level spirits in these bands have no idea of what’s actually
going on, but genuinely believe that the afterlife is exactly what
their earthly faith taught them it would be.
Q. People who have had point-of-death experiences have often
reported being met by Jesus, angels, or other religious figures who
invited them into Heaven; but meeting spirits who claim to be
previously deceased relatives or friends is even more common. Is
this part of the recruiting process?
A. Yes. Point-of-death experiences represent a major mistake by the
Theocrats: trying to recruit people who are close to death but not
really dying. The silver cord is stretched out very long but not
broken, and the mind is in a state of consciousness very similar to
that occurring during the actual death process. The Theocrats
perceive this and try to recruit the person into their band, but
nothing happens because the silver cord is still intact, and
disembodied spirits lack the psychic power to break it. Eventually,
the person returns to normal consciousness and remembers a
point-of-death experience.
We call this a major mistake by the Theocrats because many
point-of-death experiences reveal information about the afterlife
that the Theocrats would like to conceal. Sometimes, members of the
Invisible College show up during the encounter and warn the person
that the Theocrats are impostors who enslave and destroy souls.
Only
a few remember this warning consciously and talk about it
afterwards, but many more are affected by it enough to become
hostile to the Theocratic aspects of religion.
Q. I remember reading passages in accounts of point-of-death
experiences that support both of your statements. Especially, many
people who have had such experiences tend to avoid church attendance
and involvement with any sort of traditional religious dogma from
then on. I’ve always been somewhat mystified by this, because it
would seem logical for such an experience to strengthen faith in
religion, not weaken it.
A. The greatest enemy of Theocracy is
the truth. The more that
people find out about the true nature of the afterlife and other
aspects of spiritual reality, the harder it is for the Theocrats to
delude and enslave them. This is why so many Theocratic religious
sects forbid deliberate mediumistic contact with the spirit world.
But point-of-death experiences are accidents, and there isn’t much
that the Theocrats can do to prevent them.
Q. When people see the spirits of dead relatives waiting to greet
then during point-of-death experiences, are these fakes like the
Theocrats pretending to be Jesus, or are the other spirits really
their relatives?
A. Quite often, they really are. Theocratic bands often contain many
members of one family. There are several reasons for this.
Frequently, whole families belong to the same church congregation
and are recruited, after death, into the Theocratic band that
controls it. Even if not, ties of family affection are also used to
recruit spirits after death. One of the most important activities of
every Theocratic band is obtaining new members to replace the souls
the band devours.
Maintaining a relationship with an organized group of living people
also allows the Theocrats to maintain a social and political system
here on Earth working in their interest. Theocratic bands maintain
their relationships with the living by using
religious mind control,
which should be described in a separate chapter.
Let us end this
chapter by pointing out that every single one of the ideas at the
core of traditional deistic doctrine is a lie.
“Only God (under various specific names in different sects) is good:
people are basically evil and are incapable of improving themselves
morally by their own efforts.” This is a lie.
“Only God is naturally immortal, but people can gain immortality by
doing proper service for the Deity.” This is a lie.
“Human beings can receive forgiveness for their sins, and divine
strength to prop up their various weaknesses, by ‘Letting God into
their hearts’ i.e., by creating a powerful psychic bond between
themselves and the deity.” This is also a lie.
Q. From what I’ve learned so far, the biggest lie of all is that the
“gods” worshiped by organized religions are “archetypes of virtue.”
We humans are bad enough, but the Theocrats are obviously many times
worse than the worst of us. And it’s not Satan who’s the real
“Father of Lies.” It’s God.
A. Exactly.
However, 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, as we
shall describe next.