RS 21: Who Knew? It’s the Clash of the Titans!
Temple of Apollo, Delphi (c) JAT 2001
A: I’ve been mulling over what you said in “The Peace Sequence” post about Paul’s wealthy, powerful backers. What exactly was their “One True Religion”? Are Paul’s teachings a form of this “One True Religion”?
J: “The One True Religion” is an ancient mystery cult that had its origins in Egypt beginning about 5,000 years ago. And yes, Paul’s Christ Movement is a clear expression of this ancient cult’s beliefs.
A: What were the core beliefs of this group?
J: They believed they needed to unlock the secrets of science so they could control the mysterious powers of Creation. They believed in the infinite powers of the human mind and they despised all forms of emotion or love or compassion. For them, Love was the great enemy, the great destroyer of purity, order, and Truth. They worshipped only logic and reason. They believed that purity, order, logic, reason, and Truth were visible in the corrupt world around them through the trained observation of Divine Law. These Laws could be observed, then harnessed, then used to acquire almost infinite power. The Pyramids of Giza were an early physical expression of this group’s beliefs.
A: Ooooh. Sounds like a Dan Brown novel.
J: “The One True Religion” never exactly disappeared. It keeps popping up in one form or another, century after century. So writers keep writing about it.
A: Why does it keep coming back? Is this constant “rebirth” proof of its truth? Its genuine truth about the nature of Creation?
J: It’s proof of only one thing: the thinking patterns of a psychopath. “The One True Religion” is the perfect religion for psychopaths. It’s all about logic, power, and eradication of compassion.
A: It’s about “doing what needs to be done” without guilt or remorse.
J: Yes. For this group, the end has always justified the means. This is how they’ve justified the use of tens of thousands of slaves at a time to build countless alchemical projects such as the Pyramids of Giza. They have a secret cache of myths about the origins of Creation that helps them explain and justify their own unconscionable actions. They take their religious myths very seriously. Their religious myths are the “glue sticks” that are literally holding their biological brains together.
A: You mean that without their religious myths to cling to they’d fall apart?
J: Yes. The Darwinian Circuitry of the brain, which a psychopath relies on exclusively, has to be fed a constant diet of status and short-term logic in order to keep functioning in a reasonably stable way. Status and short-term logic are the psychopath’s “fuel.” But raw fuel alone isn’t enough to create “order” in a psychopath’s messed-up life. Successful psychopaths — and there are many — must have a rigid ideology, a rigid external framework, to lean on. Followers of the “One True Religion” have built for themselves an “ideal” ideology, a mythological Utopia that soothes and calms the troubled mind of a psychopath with its perfect blend of monism, dualism, and hierarchy. Whenever they feel their actions and choices are being “unfairly” attacked, they retreat into their inner Utopia. There they repeat to themselves their ancient mantras about being Divine Warriors sent to Earth to find and restore all the broken bits of “The One” that fell out of the Heavens and have to be valiantly carried back into the highest realms of Creation by the tiny band of Chosen Messengers who, alone among all other souls in the universe, have the purity and knowledge and strength to carry out this perilous task.
A: Oh, come on. This is sounding like really bad sci fi! Like the film “Clash of the Titans.” The original and the remake!
J: Inside a psychopath’s head, it is a clash of the Titans. On the one side, you have yer Evil Galactic Overlords who are trying to take over all Creation, and on the other side you have yer Warriors of Light who are called upon to lead all the weaker souls to victory by whatever means are necessary, even if it means forcing them to build the Pyramids, because in the long run they’ll be grateful to you that you were wise enough and knowledgeable enough to know what steps to take to save them (with or without their permission). It’s even okay to lie to them in the short term because eventually they’ll realize that your lies were justified. Blind faith — fideism — is therefore a necessary means to an end. Obedience is a necessary means. And guilt is a necessary means.
You’d be surprised how many successful psychopaths in politics, business, and religion believe this shit. And I don’t mean they believe in this a little. I mean they believe this myth with their whole mind — well, the parts of the mind that are still working.
A: And they really, really believe that Love is the enemy? The cause of Creation’s brokenness? Now that I think of it, though, Plato had some pretty weird beliefs about love . . .
J: Yes. So you can see why Paul believed I was broken. In his view, my task as THE human being assigned to carry the “imprint” of Divine Logos was to highlight this problem and fix it, not make it worse by telling people how to love God and trust God with all their hearts. Where was the logic and loftiness in that?
A: So poor Paul, what could he do except throw himself on his sword to correct your mistakes, your sins against Spirit?
J: Well, you know, it’s a perilous world, this place called Earth, and every time a true piece of “The One” tries to incarnate here, what with all the evil forces an’ all, there’s always a grave risk that the divine piece will once again become contaminated by the forces of chaos (i.e. the forces of Love and All Things Feminine) and then — poor brave Warriors that they are! — these Messengers of Light will have to start over again in their brave and noble attempts to prepare the Way for the incoming Spirit of Truth! And it takes a lot of helpers — a lot of slaves — to carry out this brave and noble endeavour, and it takes a lot of sacred rituals repeated over and over and over, so there’s no time like the present to enlist all those unwitting (and unworthy) human beings to help you with the cleansing prayer work that needs to be done before THAT DAY can take place.
A: Go on! You’re joshing me.
J: Nope. This is what they’re actually thinking. This is what “The One True Religion” is all about. It’s about a small group of psychopaths who are sitting on top of a great metaphysical pyramid, as close to the heavens as they can get, and waiting for the precise moment when there’s a big enough “pool” of prayer energy available to them to open up those great cosmic gates of power in the sky. You know, thunderstorms, lightning, rainbows, sacred water, all that stuff they think they can one day control.
A: Sighhhhhhhh . . .
