Q. When you refer to the Age of Reason, are you describing what went
on in the old Masonic and Rosicrucian lodges several hundred years
ago, when these organizations had so much influence over the
development of modern civilization?
A. Yes. We wanted initiates on the lower levels to be reprogrammed
to accept what’s now called the “Philosophy of the Age of
Enlightenment. This included the form of political liberalism
sketched out in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights,
support of capitalism and industrial technology, a progressive
attitude towards innovation in science and the arts, reliance on
rational pragmatic decision-making over dependence on tradition, and
a general attitude toward life that was constructive, optimistic,
and tolerant.
We realized it wasn’t possible to turn most of these
people into high-level psychics or magicians or to teach them much
about the true nature of Theocracy; we just wanted to turn them into
“good average citizens” as that term is defined in the United States
today.
You’ve already figured out some of the things we did to accomplish
this, and we will now explain the whole subject more clearly.
Two
types of consciousness-raising programs were used within the lodges:
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one trained initiates in the lower degrees to become rational
atheists and political liberals
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the other, more advanced, program,
taught high-level occult knowledge and conscious control over the
psychic powers
The first of these programs always had many more members than the
second. Initiates who learned to accept the
Masonic philosophy often
became immune to falling into a religious trance during the rituals.
This is an example of the difference between the way we reprogram
people’s minds and the way the Theocrats do.
We keep planting
information in the subconscious that says,
“Think for yourself.
Don’t accept anything without evidence. Do what you feel is best
under the circumstances rather then just accepting what someone
tells you. You can become a better person if you only learn how to
do so. Judge yourself realistically: you are neither a
self-righteous saint nor a miserable sinner, but simply an ordinary
human being with free will and control over your own destiny.”
Q. This is almost the opposite of what the Theocrats program in
during Fundamentalist Christian services. They want worshippers to
say “Thy will be done,” and submit completely to the telepathic
influences they receive, as well as to obey religious doctrine to
the letter.
It’s easy to see how your method tends eventually to
liberate initiates from the influence of religious mind control: the
more that people are affected by the reprogramming process, the less
motivation they have to enter the religious trance, which involves
voluntarily allowing the conscious will to lose control.
A. This is correct. The more people become accustomed to making
decisions rationally and forming an accurate appraisal of their
self-worth, the less likely they are to fall into a religious trance
during rituals.
When individuals in one of the old lodges reached
this stage of being in a normal state of consciousness during the
rituals most of the time, they automatically progressed to one of
the “higher” degrees and assumed one of the numerous positions of
subordinate leadership. Initiates on this level were expected to
study the lodge’s traditions, mythology, and doctrine intensely on a
strictly intellectual level. This wasn’t done at rituals that
employed the religious trance, but through ordinary reading and
tutorial study, exactly as if the initiates were learning history or
mathematics.
This is the level that tried to replace Christian faith with
“worship of the Goddess of Reason,” and then went into a philosophy
that would be called “scientific materialism” and “rational
humanism” today.
This middle level of initiation was intended to
produce a personality-type similar to one very common in American
society today – the millions of people who are not very interested
in spiritual matters of any kind, but are chiefly concerned with
their personal survival and happiness here on Earth.
Some of them
call themselves atheists or agnostics, but just as many profess
nominal belief in Christianity or some other religious or occult
system. However, regardless of what they say they believe,
spirituality has very little emotional impact on their daily life.
People like this are still either a slight majority or a very large
minority in American society.
When we started this process several centuries ago, the influence of
Theocratic religion was still so strong that it was easier to turn
people into atheists or agnostics than to teach them directly about
spiritual reality. We taught people to relate positively to the
material world, and to the advanced civilization that was beginning
to develop around them, as more than just “a vale of tears to pass
through on the way to Heaven.” We wanted the relationship between
people and their earthly environment to become more important than
their relationship with “God” and religion.
We had to proceed step
by step and use the methods of behavioral psychology, which are
based on knowledge of how the human mind is actually programmed.
States of consciousness and environmental reinforcement are the most
important factors to consider here.
Q. Can you clarify this? When you say “states of consciousness,” are
you talking about the religious trance?
A. Yes. We had to proceed step by step. First, we took people who
had been raised within Theocratic religion and had been entering the
religious trance during church services all their lives, and we
manipulated them into attending the rituals of the Masonic and
Rosicrucian lodges. These rituals also employed the religious trance
and, on the lower levels of initiation, taught a doctrine that was
not so alien to the average lodge member’s existing Christian
beliefs that it broke the trance.
During these rituals, members were gradually reprogrammed to become
more rational in their thinking and more materialistic in their
emotional goals for their lives. The social environment of the lodge
increased their self-esteem, so they no longer thought of themselves
as “miserable sinners in need of salvation” but as “free men under
God,” and eventually as “free members of a brotherhood of equals.
Lodge members received positive reinforcement through religious mind
control during lodge rituals. This made the members feel good while
they learned various philosophical principles quite different from
those at the core of Fundamentalist Christianity even though phrased
in many of the same terms. One very important thing to realize here
is that the basic ethical philosophy of the eighteenth-century
Freemasons was very, very similar to the moral codes of the various
Theocratic Christian sects of the day.
At least ninety-five percent
of the individual precepts were the same.
Q. That’s hard to accept.
A. Nevertheless, if you think about it without bias, you’ll realize
it’s true. In fact, there is only one fundamental difference between
the two codes of conduct, which affects a small number of separate
ethical precepts.
Christian doctrine says,
"Your first duty is to obey the will of God
as you perceive it during church services and in private prayer and
meditation; your second is to obey religious doctrine and tradition
as you learn it on the intellectual level; and your third is to
follow the dictates of your conscience and intellectual will.”
By
contrast, the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment says,
“Your
first duty is to follow the dictates of reason as applied to the
knowledge you learn from your environment; your second is to work
for your own survival and happiness as long as you don’t harm other
individuals or society in general by so doing; and your third is to
work for ‘the greatest good for the greatest number,’ which
sometimes involves greater or lesser degrees of self-sacrifice.”
These statements are diametrically opposed in theory, but in the
routine circumstances of life in a reasonably stable society, they
produce behavior that is almost identical.
In other words, both the
Christian and the Freemason valued a work ethic, tried to avoid
harmful excesses of all kinds, etc. The difference is not in what
people did in the way of detailed, routine ethical behavior, but in
the long-term effects that the two radically different philosophical
codes had on total personality development.
The Christian code took people deeper into bondage to the Theocrats;
the Masonic code liberated them from that bondage without
substituting any other master for “God.” What’s most important here
is that the Masonic initiates were taught to receive increasing
amounts of positive reinforcement from their material and social
environment, and decreasing amounts from religious mind control.
Now you can understand what we mean by “states of consciousness” and
“environmental reinforcement” in this context. We were using the
significant increase in the quality of individual life resulting
from technological advances to extinguish the influence of religious
mind control over people’s emotional life and personality
development.
Eventually, a great many members of the lodges became immune to
religious mind control and remained in a normal state of waking
consciousness during the rituals. More important, they taught these
same principles to their children of both genders, so the all-male
lodges eventually changed the average personality structure of the
whole society.
Q. Is this one of the reasons why Fundamentalist propaganda claims
that, “Secular Humanism is a religion”?
A. Yes. From the Theocrats’ point of view, religion is just a tool
for programming the minds of living people. By this same definition,
all humanistic institutions are technically religions, because they
also program the human mind – whether they do it directly through
religious mind control, or indirectly through operant conditioning
from the social and physical environment. Over the last five
centuries, we have improved the quality of earthly life for so many
people that the “vale of tears” concept has lost much of its appeal.
The idea that people can significantly improve the quality of life
on Earth by their own efforts is one of the most important
strategies that the Invisible College uses in fighting Theocracy.
Its strongest point is that we don’t need to use subconscious
emotional manipulation or intellectual persuasion to get people to
accept it. Just living and working within a modern technological
society proves the basic validity of a humanistic philosophy by
direct environmental conditioning.
On the conscious level, people
may think about the problems modern society has not yet solved and
yearn for “the good old days”; but on a deeper level, they know they
are as well off, on the average, as human beings on this planet have
ever been. Theocratic propaganda and religious mind control have
great difficulty extinguishing this intuitive feeling, because its
cause is environmental conditioning rooted in physical reality.
Q. I speculated in Part One that the lodges you’re talking about
were controlled by a small, secret conspiracy of advanced occultists
who had at least a rough conscious idea of what they were doing. Is
this true?
A. Not really. We actually had to do most of the work ourselves. In
fact, the chain of cause-and-effect was almost exactly the opposite
of what you speculated about in Part One. We, meaning disembodied
spirits in the Invisible College, telepathically manipulated the
subconscious minds of leaders in the Masonic and Rosicrucian lodges
to design their rituals and doctrines in certain ways. Many of the
individual elements of these rituals and doctrines were drawn from
the writings and practices of previous occult groups, including some
that you would consider quite advanced in both spiritual knowledge
and psychic training techniques.
However, the vast majority of the men who actually incorporated
these elements into Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had only a vague idea of what
they were doing. They read various occult works, talked to members
of many different occult organizations, and incorporated those ideas
that “felt right” into the lodges they were founding or
re-organizing. Of course, it was our subconscious telepathic
influence that guided this process.
Q. Are you saying that the pre-existing knowledge gathered by
advanced occultists over many centuries was useful to you in
founding lodges and manipulating them into the form you desired, but
that there was no conscious human conspiracy involved?
A. This is not true either.
There were many different conscious
conspiracies of advanced occultists, in the seventeenth century and
later, which realized that various lodges of the Freemason and Rosicrucians were beginning to have a major influence on the
progress of Western society and tried to manipulate their activities
in ways that would produce what we now call “Modern Western
Civilization.”
Practically every advanced occultist in Europe joined one or more of
these lodges at this time. And once they’d joined, they tried to
teach their particular school of knowledge to their lodge-brothers
and to influence the development of the lodge’s doctrines and
rituals to conform to their particular preconceptions. These
occultists included Cabalists, Gnostics, Alchemists, Hermetics; and
influences from all these spiritual systems are still visible today
in the Masonic and Rosicrucian doctrines.
There are spiritual knowledge and psychic-training techniques
brought from China and India by the Islamic Sufi sect and taught to
the medieval Knights Templar. There’s knowledge inherited from the
ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and Babylonians, taught to the Masons
and Rosicrucians by Cabalists, Gnostics, and Astrologers.
One very
important source of psychic training techniques came from the
ancient Greeks by way of the medieval Alchemists: a system of
homosexual sex magic. This is one reason why so many high-level
occult lodges were exclusively male for so long – they knew
homosexual sex magic techniques but not heterosexual ones. There has
always been some heterosexual sex magic in the Western occult
tradition as well, from both Middle Eastern and European Pagan
sources; but it’s only been in the last century or so, after direct
contact was established with the Orient, that the two began to
become equally common.
The important thing to remember about all this is that the
individual elements of advanced occult knowledge and the people who
brought them into the Masonic and Rosicrucian lodges of the Age of
Enlightenment were not the “secret, conscious, guiding conspiracy”
that you speculated they were in Part One.
Q. This is obvious now. You were the conscious guiding force, and
the advanced occultists were actually being subconsciously
manipulated along with the rest of the people involved.
A. Well, many of the occultists had some conscious knowledge of what
we were doing, and were actively co-operating. Unfortunately, some
of them actively opposed us by trying to turn their lodge into a
Theocratic Cult. Possessing advanced occult knowledge doesn’t
automatically make a person morally virtuous. Even today, some of
the advanced occult lodges derived from the Masonic-Rosicrucian
tradition are “Black Lodges” (lodges under the control of the
Theocrats).
It’s extremely important for your readers to realize that Theocratic
enslavement and psychic vampirism are not things that happen only to
disembodied spirits after death. Living people can do virtually the
same things to other living people. Black magicians can’t literally
devour other people’s souls the way the disembodied Theocrats do to
other spirits, but they can still deprive people of all free will
and self-esteem, and eventually drive them into insanity or suicide.
This can be done in a Christian context, as
Jim Jones did with the
People’s Temple, or in the context of almost any other religious or
occult group. Many of the modern cults are also examples of this
Theocracy on Earth like
the Moonies, the
Rajneesh Cult, etc.
However,
such groups aren’t always openly identified as religious or occult
organizations. The
Symbionese Liberation Army was such a group, and
so was the Manson Family. So are many terrorist groups, especially
those in the service of Islamic Fundamentalists.
A number of present-day rock groups are actually
bands of living
Theocrats, enslaving their fans and draining energy from them at
concerts. This last type of living Theocrat is especially dangerous
right now, because such people can influence a large number of
people who listen to their music on records or over the radio, using
electronic mind control techniques that we will describe later.
One
of the worst things about this movement is that some of these people
have made the breakthrough. They know what they are doing, and they
still do it.
Q. In other words, a person can find out the truth about Theocracy
and say,
“Fine. I’m going to found a cult based on religious mind
control while I’m alive; then, after I die, I’m going to control it
from the astral plane and become a Theocrat.”
A. Yes, and this attitude is becoming more and more common as more
people make the breakthrough and become consciously aware of the
existence of Theocracy. This is another main reason why we are
having you write this book: to warn potential victims of this new
type of mind control and teach them how to avoid it. We’ll tell more
about this fifth stage of Theocracy later.
It is important to remember that people have been making the
breakthrough for centuries, in the sense of realizing that the
”gods” behind many religious groups are simply the spirits of
ordinary deceased human beings playing politics and trying to remain
in positions of power on the astral plane for long periods of time.
However, this knowledge, in itself, doesn’t automatically make
people hostile to Theocracy.
Where so many advanced occultists have made a fatal error is in not
realizing that Theocracy is what you might call a disease or
abnormal state. Remaining on the astral plane for long periods of
time and absorbing vital energy from other spirits is not a natural
or healthy condition for a human spirit. All Theocrats eventually
become degenerate and insane. Now, we’ve always told this to anyone
capable of holding conscious telepathic conversations with us, but
we haven’t always been believed. The illusion of achieving
immortality for the ego is a very powerful corrupting influence. You
can see why many occultists wouldn’t want to listen.
The quality and completeness of a person’s breakthrough knowledge
are very important. Until very recently, communicating many of the
individual details that constitute the breakthrough has been
extremely difficult. Notice that when you write about it, you employ
many terms and concepts from recent scientific discoveries: computer
science, behavioral psychology, modern physics, etc.
Think how much
harder it would be to understand Theocracy without this background.
Q. I understand. Please amplify what you said about the Masonic and
Rosicrucian lodges being a cause more than an effect of advanced
occult conspiracies during the last three or four centuries.
A. It’s very simple, really. The
presence of the lodges in Western
society increased the number of advanced occultists enormously,
because they served as a visible training ground for people who
otherwise might never have had access to psychic training and
spiritual knowledge outside organized religion. The rituals and
jargon of the lodges were secret, but everyone knew approximately
what went on inside them – or at least, anyone with the potential to
become an advanced occultist could guess.
This meant that fewer
people who had possessed occult training in a past life would spend
a “wasted” incarnation in which they had no access to formal
training.
Q. This makes sense, and also seems relevant to the basic theme of
this whole book, the War in Heaven. You’re describing what the
struggle between the Theocrats and the Invisible College is really
like. It resembles an ordinary political conflict on Earth: fights
to recruit new members, to build institutions that serve the
ideological cause, etc.
A. Correct. It’s not a war between “God and Satan” at all, in the
sense of a conflict between absolutes of good and evil. It is
completely a matter of politics, and neither side is completely good
or bad. Of course, we are convinced that the side of the Invisible
College is better than the side of the Theocrats by any reasonable
ethical standard.
To sum up what we’ve said in this chapter, the Age of Reason was a
major step in the progress of Western civilization and a significant
victory for the Invisible College over the Theocrats in the War in
Heaven. During the period from about 1700 to the 1960’s, there was
just as much improvement in the average level of individual human
consciousness as there was in physical technology, scientific
knowledge, and the design of social and political institutions.
Our
goal was to break the hold of religious mind-control over the
majority of people in the First World, and we accomplished it
reasonably well. Large numbers of people are still enslaved to
Theocratic religion, of course, but such belief-systems no longer
dominate the collective consciousness of the society to the extent
they once did.
Today, even the majority of people in the advanced Western countries
who consider themselves devout religious believers actually put
reason above faith, and humanistic concerns before blind obedience
to traditional doctrine. Do you see why we used the quasi-religious
rituals of the Masonic and Rosicrucian lodges to accomplish this?
Q. Well, it looks as if you used a form of religious mind control to
raise the consciousness of the majority of people you worked with,
because they had started out as religious believers and were used to
such techniques. However, you taught more advanced psychic training
techniques such as sex magic to the minority who were ready for it.
A. The important thing to recognize here is that even the most
advanced magical lodges based on the Masonic/Rosicrucian tradition
still train their members with rituals that employ the religious
trance.
Q. I’ve noticed that most advanced traditional occult organizations
still practice such rituals: for example, they teach people to enter
a true psychic trance by first entering a religious trance. Now that
I’ve made the breakthrough, I realize that is why I’ve also felt
uncomfortable trying to participate in the magical workings of such
lodges: I know how to assume a psychic trance directly, and feel an
instinctive revulsion during rituals that attempt to put me into a
religious trance.
A. This is correct, and it’s the main reason why we’ve been
spreading the word telepathically that the Age of Reason is ending
and a new age is beginning.
Its starting point is another major
revolution in consciousness, as we will discuss in the next chapter.