Plato to St. Germain and VRIL

Platos Four Manias:

The rise of Nazism through Aryan conceptions of an ancient occult Reich can be traced to a person named Edward Bulwer-Lytton whose self-proclaimed adepthood is not nearly as great as other occult people like St. Germain who set up the schools he was influenced by through Masonry. The Vril research is of most interest to understand even if it takes the reader a long time to wade through. St. Germains books are still part of Masonic course material and they are excellent insights into the science of things like Palmistry. Here is a little from the article, Atumpan Drummers and Marsyas Flute: Exploring Parallels Between African and Greek Conceptions of State (1995):

In the Phaedrus we read the following ironic words from the Western worlds first great rational philosopher: Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness [mania which indeed is a divine gift (Phaedrus, 244a). It is here that we also learn of four kinds of mania for which the telestic variety denotes ritualistic madness (attributable to Dionysus). The remaining three kinds of mania include the poetic, the erotic and the prophetic (mantic). Later, in the Laws, we learn that the telestic rites that Plato had in mind were characterized by rites of initiation, sacrifices, dance and music (Laws, 791a). While it is difficult at times to discern Platos true opinion on specific matters, even from the most scholarly reading of his dialogues, the fact that Plato perceived of a general and useful social end through mania, poetry and music should become clear from the Phaedrus and other dialogues that support this contention. It is clear from a continued reading of the Phaedrus (244d-e) that the telestic kind of mania, which we shall take to be essentially a form of trance-possession, consists of both good and bad kinds. The crisis kind of mania is associated with human disease, attributed to a weakness of the soul, for which Plato saw the need to purge from his state by various means. By Platos account, the diseased individual can be delivered from their ordeal by those accomplished in achieving divinatory trances (here he is speaking of the mantic variety consisting essentially of a kind of prophetic diagnosis) followed by a recovery through purifications and rites (i.e., the act of telestic mania). In brief, the diviner determines the nature of the disease by divining the deity responsible so that appropriate rituals may be performed to appease the deity. The critical matter for Plato was to ascertain the manner in which one becomes correctly entranced and possessed. [emphasis added. The answer that he came to adopt was that the good aspect of trance is the kind brought on by ritual that has been passed down through the generations. (3)

To what extent Jiddu Krishnamurti understood the special trance possession gift of Hitler and Steiner is a matter of some conjecture but I feel confident that his warning against the pursuit of siddhis is due to these things. His friend Joseph Campbell addresses the Nazi scholarship very well in his writings but he does not cover the occult workings of it as well as I would like to have seen.

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Author:: Robert Baird
Keywords:: St. Germain, Plato, Bulwer-Lytton, Theosophy, Krishnamurti
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Should We Enlighten the Ignorant Hoardes?

Many say that many a population has surrendered their minds to the Television Set and for the most part it is an unfortunate truth indeed. Should the enlightened teach those who do not wish to be taught and closed their minds? Many believe those who understand should be out in force to assisting the oppressed masses, however those who have often find themselves targets of the same.

How can this be? Simple really as those hoards are dangerous and often are too easily incited to throw stones or kill those who show them what is really flickering on their wall and thus perhaps one who does so, does so to no avail, except personal sacrifice or martyrdom. Yet again for what reason, if you are to be called a liar, made and example of our even shot at? Those society labels as the oppressed masses and ignorant hoards are a problem for the ongoing forward progression of the species. Take the recent Looters in New Orleans for instance during Hurricane Katrina. Then those who stayed behind and planned to loot in Houston during the chaos of Super Hurricane Rita; are we quite certain they wish to be enlightened, trying to do so could potentially get you shot.

If you truly feel it is your calling to go out and preach enlightenment to the masses, then be forewarned of the potentially fatal consequences. Your quest is noble indeed, but your efforts maybe futile. You would be better off, writing a Rap Song, sneaking in some positive lyrics and getting yourself on the boob tube. Think about it.

Lance Winslow

Author:: Lance Winslow
Keywords:: mass enlightenment, Television, ignorant hoardes, Looters
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Musings of the Pseudo Intellectual

Every one of us has a success storyor so it is saidor rather thats how its is wed like to believe. If we take a look around ourselves, everyone seems to have that one special quality that sets them apart from the others. Their own identity in a crowd. The real good ones (relative terminology) have more than one accomplishment to their credit, of which they deserve to boast about, but often, they are modest about it. Most of the times its not because they get embarrassed talking about it, but because they do not admit to themselves they are actually capable of the best. It is funny how no one ever expects anything of sheer brilliance to exist inside of them. People like these are an enigma to me. Wonder how they carry on, conquering everything in their quiet unassuming manner.

Shall I ever be the same? is a question I find asking myself more often than not. Cant really say. Have never been in a situation where I attained the ultimate best for myself. But then again, u ltimate best is just a matter of personal perception.about the standards you set for yourself. At the same time, standards have to be set keeping in mind your own capabilities and limitations. The latter we can acknowledge only when we give things we consider worthwhile a fair shot. Wonder why so manyo heck talking about myself... are so afraid to materialize all we think about. What is the hitch that holds us back? The fear of failure? Or is it the fear that I may prove to myself Im not as good as I think I am? Hollow words are no good unless put into action and practiced. If not, you just end up a whining bell that doesnt stop tinkling long after the hour is up. According to Ayn Rand, as she puts it in atlas shrugged, there is no room for contradictions between your thinking and your actions. If a contradiction exists, you ought to check your premises and youll realize that there are no two divergent ways of looking at a situation in your mindor rather, if there are only o ne is right. It is when we learn to choose that one path, we can say weve attained the maturity and wisdom to be a wholesome wise human being.

Trouble brews when our actions and thoughts do not have a synergistic interplay. That is how ordinarily wed describe hypocrisy. It is not necessary that hypocrisy is confined to belying your principles to cause harm to another. It can just be a simple lack of co-ordination between the mind and the bodys drive to achieve a goal. But yes, coming back to the detrimental aspect of hypocrisy, the kind that I mentioned is nothing but what brings pain to ones own mind.the kind that makes us lose our sanity(not in the medical sense though!!). so, for complete peace of mind, the best thing to do would be to realize our potentialsset out on a journey of self discovery to see the beautiful world that exists inside of us (Im hoping mine is beautiful too!). Unlock your potentials, shed those inhibitions, and devote time to what you love to d o.it releases the pressure. None of it would be time wasted, but rather time spent on knowing your inner self.who incidentally is your best friend!

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From Experience: Is It the Circle of Life?

All of it in one way or another a part of my Lifetime and not an analytical study of the way that business has changed but a comparison that is not at all hard to follow or see. What happened to our country now seems to be subtle changes that occurred as the years passed by.

Always a reason behind a wage difference always because of the area of the country or because of the actual company I was Working for.

Basically it has all boiled down to the ultimate understanding that it was just the standard of living country wide had taken a turn for the worse and no one, definitely not mewanted to admit it or look at it.

Yes, beyond my capability to actually crunch numbers and really see what was happening somehow the American way of Life has changed and it is harder than ever to do what needs to be done financially.

Beyond my want to know at all of what has really happened, and understand it. Because the country that I grew up in, the country that was so fair to all was slowly changing. So much that it wasnt really noticeable immediately and if you were too busy trying to make ends meet possibly you didnt even think about it or find it unusual or sad. It really is sad, but real.

Unions cant make it anymore. Why? Because we as Americans will not pay the price of labor unions and dont have to because unions no longer make a difference. Our government says that we can unionize and yet it will allow the companies that have had unions for many years to bail out on pensions that were part of union agreements and contracts. What good is unionizing when it means nothing?

What once was not the norm is now. Women have Worked for decades at destroying the American family as it once was and now just as men did before us we compete with one another and with them too.

We for the most part took the original American Dream and turned it into a self serving egotistical attitude and had no real idea of when we had it all.

We as women went past the wife and mother aspect of being female and ran to the far side of the businesses and corporate offices out of some depraved kind of jealousy and why I have no idea.

I know that at this point we are far beyond being able to turn around and go back. I know that many would without a second thought throw me to the dogs for even mentioning it.

Still there was a better time and place for all of us and it isnt going to be easy to find a place like that in the future. Families that always relied on each other for emotional support now rely on each other to make ends meet.

Families that had a bond o f love that nurtured our young people to great achievements and discoveries have turned into families that have a bond that is produced by basic needs.

The college graduate of today is now in a situation many times of having to look back at a generation that seriously lived beyond its means. At the same time there are those who for one reason or another found a place in society that allowed them to enter a comfort zone that is now turning into a place of uncertainty and the worry of yesterday coming back to haunt the future is real.

Generations that lived through the Great Depression knew how to live without. Our government for how many years now has told us that there is no Recession, no depression and that our country is on a firm footing.

In my Lifetime I remember someonesaying that we would retire in our fifties, that we would have more time to spend at homea four day Work week. Is it my imagination or part of a novel I read in my school days?

It did not happen and no one seems to know why.

A time when there was a bread winner in a family and one person could financially support a family.

Did we use it all up? Did we somehow over do it? What went wrong with the country and where did all of the dreams of retirement, educational superiority of our country and the research and discovery so important to our country and our tomorrows die?

The comfort zone is fading away and now the political arena challenges anyone who listens to find a side and take the walk to the extremes that are a regular part of the country that I grew up in.

If not for the belief that something bigger than all of us is out there I would say that there is no hope that it will get better.

Doom and gloom is a terrible thing especially for the privileged who have no idea of what it is to do without.

Has our generation primed our children to believe that there will never be a time when we will live through another time in this country where more will be living in poverty than during the Great Depression?

I remember someoneway back saying that the United States was on the top.

Have we thought seriously of how it would be if history were to repeat itself and another depression fell upon us?

Life has been good for many. Life has been hard at times and rewarding at other times. Many of my generation grew to be far wealthier than their parents could have imagined and yet is that wealth a temporary haven that will dissolve and turn into nothing more than a memory of what was?

Is it our government, our society, our morals or the cycle of Life that will return us to where we came from?

Julie Pierce has Worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has Worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career.

She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Some of her Work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some Work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida.

Author:: Julie Pierce
Keywords:: Economy, Wages, Great Depression, Recession, Life, United States, Work,
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Stranded Notions: Time And Philosophy Of The Individual

As I look back now, a long Time seems to span itself behind me, opening up a trench of thoughts that I carry on my back. There is yet another spanning Time, a future, actually it is a degree of Time where the past is firmer and unmoving, anticipant even. And the present is where the past is producing, recreating, giving itself the chance of a perpetual birth, the perpetual acceleration of a cosmic motion and moreover, perpetually snatching away the suspenseful, concealed children of a continuum. Were constantly living a history, or involved in its process, for if a thing must already exist, it cannot be born; without harnessing it in theoretical ideas and perception, and giving it the impersonal neutrality that every other dominant living creature deMands, we can comprehend Time as less an entity, one that is of the Present. This theory concludes that at one point of Time and the nearest possibility of the next point of Time that the primary influences, the infinitesimal d ifference that exists between them, though perfectly dissolved in existence, only and only in theory or any apparent flaw of what part we know of it, is actually a jump and not continuity. Conclusively, we can denote that there is no Present; a huMan body is unremittingly registering itself to a change between what has been and what must be its consequence. This is suggestive of a stellar rationality where the Present and all its virtues are the irrational.

Thus the Individual always lives within a tension and not an equilibrium. The Individual then becomes a component of a varying world, instead of a moving one. To c onfer that a thing is pacing is de facto different from the suggestion that a thing is changing.

Hence, there exists no actual reality, just one back and one forth, compounded by that change in motion that crops between them at a loss of centre. Were subsisting in that change, in that loss, within a sequence that flanks us. The reality is at the sides; we, the Individual, occupy everything else.

To breathe, to feel, to inhabit a living body that further inhabits a living world is not being real. To exist in a moment as a moment, to not be a stretch, to not extend from so to so on, and to not extend at all, but instead simply to be seconds and minutes and days, where these are not elaborate components of Time but where Time is an elaborate component of the self is to understand absolutel y that any and all reality is unconditionally perfect and being so, it is finite.

By the conventions, death is real and so is life. Does reality really encompass every aspect, even their differences or conflicts? Not if its finite, it doesnt. Then, how does one become real? Theory cannot answer that and neither can I. Both of us are here to criticize and rebuke and point and laugh. However, we can guess and estimate, and pray we assume correctly.

The answer lies in minimizing oneself. I do not talk of altruism or renunciation of the self, but the most of what that dangerous term suggests literally. Immortality.

To exist is an alternate to not exist at all; the other and only alternate is to exist forever. If there is no such thing as Time, then it shall matter least that a distance be covered either walking or running, if we secure a neutral objective. The goal of all Time is to unalterably extend, and the goal of the Individual is to readily exist. If we observe, it is agreeable that neither of them can exchange their natural roles Time does not readily exist, and the Individual does not unalterably extend (Man, and not the Individual, as a collective function, does extend, but precariously).

This role of Man is not a provision, it is a predicament. If we cannot expand beyond our limits, we must expand within them. A limit that cannot to be stretched, must be first adjusted to, and then, over emphasized. We cannot forge the definite; rather it is safer to forge ourselves. One also cannot amend the unalterable, one must amend instead the arrant idea of ones relation to it. A willing servitude is more convenient than a reluctant one. We cannot overcome Time, hence we must submit to it more absolutely than our physical selves.

A second is needlessly a second. We need to minimize ourselves to that needlessness; we need to inflexibly subsist in that second. Hence, were immortal to the subsequence. We exist better than the last and certain than the next. In the framework of all limitations, if we comply properly, we do preserve an unnoticeable freedom. For the framework of Time, this unnoticeable freedom is reality.

Only inhuMan is more than huMan. It is a law: we cannot be something were not partly already. Immortality is not a myth, but like so Many things, it is theoretical, not vulnerable to practice. The beauty of existing minimally is that it is not n ecessary that the Individual must only live his age. SomeTimes were so much older than what years could occupy or foretell. But that is a different tale, for a different Time I guess.

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Author:: Tushar Jain
Keywords:: Philosophy, Time, Literature, Man, Individual
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Plato to Bushco

The NeoPlatonic Hierarchy:

The twentieth century has seen a lot of mega-corporate and bureaucratic growth. The old top-down or Platonic hierarchy form of control has been exposed to the extent that Harvard Business Journal has recommended corporate paranoia and detailed the Nut Island Effect wherein Empires of inefficiency abound. There are alternative forms of organizational design which have also shown promise and keeping the decision-making near to where the results are expected seems to be necessary and often will include employee ownership (Lincoln Electric was an early example) or bottom-up participation as well as Quality Circles. I will address the international and larger picture recommendations of futurists like Alvin Toffler towards the end of this book. For now we might simply try to understand why the top-down approach was necessitated.

There were situations where elites tried to keep all their clan up to speed and involved in the governance of the ir enterprises as recently as Carthage. Aristotle was surprised to witness this in his book Politics. The Keltic Dirfines and Incan or Mayan sharing systems were also superior to the kind of thing Plato formalized as society in the Mediterranean moved away from the meritocracies that had existed in places like Egypt. I can understand why Platos ancestor Solon wisely did a lot of what he did. The average person was enamoured with power wherever they could get it. Sex with younger males or mentoring systems like Pederasty is part of what was happening. Women were seen as chattel since Hammurabi had made them the property of men in a nearby culture administered by the same elite family that Solon belonged to. I cant absolutely prove the lineage of Solon is the same as the Ptolemaic and their De Danaan roots but I can be sure that most noble Greeks were related to these gifted people who go by many names including Danaus or Homers DNN. Solon made a last stab at protecting proper ty rights for women.

In 2350 BCE the main leader of this area was Sargon the Great. Unfortunately the myth of the basket and the bulrushes that was part of his life later became enacted with another of his extended family. Yes, Moses (whoever and how many people he might be) was just telling another old myth in the same fashion that Plato was immaculately conceived before Yeshua. We have a lot of archaeological evidences to show this Hyksos period saw the development of the hierarchy that now rules us. I have covered in great detail these facts in at least ten other books and new facts in support of my theories come in every month if not more often. I cannot recall any evidence that does not fit my history and thus prove the Empire journalists were lying to us. The Shardana architecture is one of the better evidences but linguistics and the Tarim Basin red heads have helped a lot. Lice, Hobbits, Chaos Science (String Theory) and DNA as well as the Peruvian Cocaine all join the list. Nevertheless you still have people fighting to affirm lies and frauds that our nations, history, racism and treatment of our fellow lifeforms on earth are organized under.

Plato got one thing very right. He said that the advent of writing (The Phoenicians gave them a script that could be used for writing about a millennium earlier.) had diminished the ability of average people. The discipline of Brotherhood and thinking or the Joy of story-telling had kept a modicum of egalitarianism alive. Today you have a majority of people on earth who think the likes of Fox News and their teachers are capable and disciplined tellers of truth. The ethics that allowed the people of the United States to accept the assassination of JFK, Lincoln, Garfield and the other leaders I am addressing in this book is proof of Platos contentions. I still hope that the Spin surrounding such things as Watergate and Iran/Contra might get corrected. I hope it becomes attached to the pe ople who still appear to run the show just as the courts are starting to hear evidence against George Bush from survivors of slave camps like Auschwitz and the likes of IBM who tracked all Jews for Hitler. I dont hold my breath as I wait and see if people telling the truth about the Patriot Act being a furtherance of the Gestapo are actually listened to. But I am heartened to see Gore Vidal has not stopped looking and Chomskys books are selling.

Of course the whole story is seldom addressed by any one author due to the extent of the lies. I think I have pretty much done the job now. In every area of social governance and science I have made a strong case in some fifty books. Most people dont read that many books in their adult life. I dont include romance novels and the like when I say that.

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com

Author:: Robert Baird
Keywords:: Platonic, Hierachy, Nut Island Effect
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Einstein and Eirugena

ALBERT EINSTEIN: - I am satisfied with the Mysteries of life.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties -- this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.

Einstein saw there were people who sought to say he was religious in sense of being what they personally thought was God and he had to set them straight. Unfortunately many people have their memories tarnished by people succeeding in this propaganda that co-opts good people. He was a great man and fought most of his life for an end to standing armies. Despite the advances since his death he still makes sense in many areas of thinking including that for which he became most famous. I think this last simple quote by him says a lot.

Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.

Einstein died in 1955. He is best known for the theory of rel ativity, which states that time, mass and length all change according to velocity. Space and time are a unified continuum, which curves in the presence of mass.

The last three decades of his life were devoted to the search for a field theory which would unify gravitation and electro-magnetism.

Einstein always said that he was a deeply religious man, and his religion informed his science. He rejected the conventional image of God as a personal being, concerned about our individual lives, judging us when we die, intervening in the laws he himself had created to cause miracles, answer prayers and so on. Einstein did not believe in a soul separate from the body, nor in an afterlife of any kind.

But he was certainly a pantheist. He did regard the ordered cosmos with the same kind of feeling that believers have for their God. To some extent this was a simple awe at the impenetrable mystery of sheer being. Einstein also had an urge to lose individuality and to exp erience the universe as a whole.

But he was also struck by the radiant beauty, the harmony, the structure of the universe as it was accessible to reason and science. In describing these factors he sometimes uses the word God, and sometimes refers to a divine reason, spirit or intelligence. He never suggests that this reason or spirit transcends the world - so in that sense he is a clear pantheist and not a panentheist. However, this reason is to some extent anthropomorphic, and to some extent involves Einstein in a contradiction.

His religious thinking was not systematic, so he never ironed out this discrepancy. But it seems likely that he believed in a God who was identical to the universe - similar to the God of Spinoza. A God whose rational nature was expressed in the universe, or a God who was identified with the universe and its laws taken together. His own scientific search for the laws of this universe was a deeply religious quest.

Einstein's attachm ent to what he once called `the grandeur of reason incarnate' led him into the longest battle and the greatest failure of his life. He was implacably opposed to Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum physics. Bohr believed that matter was fundamentally indeterminate, and our knowledge of it limited to probabilities.

Einstein's comment, God does not play dice, became notorious. The phrase uses the present tense, not the past. This suggests that Einstein was probably not referring to the fact that a creator God would not in the beginning have created a universe in which chance reigned supreme. Rather he may have meant that as God or reason incarnate, the universe could not be governed by chance alone. (1)

EIRUGENA: - John Scotius Eirugena (means Irish born) was a great philosopher in the late first millennium AD. Bertrand Russell seems not to know much about Irish culture when he expresses surprise to have to admit he is the greatest of minds in a very Dark Age. In fact he was just rephrasing Pelagius who was maintaining some of the remnants of Druidic thought as I see it. It annoys me to spend a day looking for a biography on a great man like this and find some fools have hundreds of links whereas he had nary a one.

Author of Diverse Druids

Columnist for The ES Press Magazine

Guest 'expert' at World-Mysteries.com

Author:: Robert Baird
Keywords:: Eirugena, Pelagius,
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