It’s interesting that I end up disagreeing with you so much. We have the same subject matter that we interpret differently. In the Latin West there was only one book of Plato and that was the Timaeus. It included the musical ratios as part of the understanding of how harmony was formed from chaos, comparable to Genesis when the spirit moved over the waters, etc. So in the Latins, Platonism goes back to Calcidius commentaries in the 4th century, who translated the Greek into Latin. Boethius is also very engaged in mathematical speculations. All of this ended up in the scientific revolution, which really came from neoplatonism. The Aleister Crowley thing largely came out of Polish based Jacob Frank—a kind of metaphysical nihilsim that emphasized the descent rather than the ascent. Nearly all contemplative Neoplatonism emphasized the ascent through a method of assertions and negations, a method that goes back to Pseudo-dionysius, a 5th century Assyrian. Not to Dionysius the god of drunkenness.
I guess I'd first start by asking what you think the intention of people like Gaga (or let's be honest, the people behind her) is?
As far as Neoplatonism, there are plenty of people who take interest in it and are fine people. But I'd say that it's really like a lot of things related to the mystery schools: there's an exoteric reading and an esoteric reading.
Most of the well-meaning folks are usually keying off the exoteric reading. But I've personally seen people who were intellectually very accomplished, and then they got sucked into the Neoplatonic mysticism, and they were never the same. What used to be potent ideas turned into gobbledygook. And the problem is they were under the impression that they had ascended. That's actually how their minds were subverted. They were made to think they had spiritually transcended their earlier selves and now they had attained a new-found, higher wisdom.
In reality, there were whisperers all around who were very deliberately leading them into a maze that had no exist. Once they're in, they never usually get out. This was ultimately what Aldous Huxley envisioned with his final novel, Island. The inhabitants were under the spell of the ultimate illusion: that they had shed all their allusions and had finally transcended.
"For the radical and permanent transformation of personality only one effective method has been discovered — that of the mystics. "
I at First was going to erase this piece but thought better of it. As Sun Tzu believed, to paraphrase, one must know one’s enemy to ever be able to defeat them. It is sad to me, that we as a people, have succumbed to being perpetually led into the weeded field on a merry , fruitless chase after glowing and shiny things that are only a trap of illusions to part us from ever truly understanding GOD and ourselves in HIS world.
We Have to Remain ever Vigilant against the powers of Darkness that rule mortal existence. To my mind, they are as waiting, hungry vultures who wish to literally Consume the entirety of this world.
Pray for wisdom and good judgement in the face of those who wish us all harm.
This presentation provides essential information for mankind to wake up and see through the global deception. All said and done this is all about Actual Intelligence (Real AI) v every thing artificial
Lissa Johnson, Transhumanism and Covid-19: Military Operations in Civilian Disguise?
Lady Gaga and know satanic spirit eater witch Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be says The New York Times (Published 2020). So there that. Lol. Nothing to see here, move on plebs.
Lady Gaga has been ultra woke since day one pushing trannies and perversion. Her ties to the the occult are not hidden, just being pushed to the main stream.
Get wise to the Great Replacement if you have not been paying attention to it in my podcast here:
Sorry, maybe you were just looking to plug your stuff. The piece has nothing to do with what you’re talking about… Not sure if you read it all.
The purpose of my piece was to disabuse people from some of the common misconceptions animating a lot of pop-culture criticism. One of the main problems is people have relied on a lot of these fanciful caricatures of Satanism ie the countless varieties of some dude with plastic devil horns. This obscures a lot of the more subtle aspects of today’s spiritual warfare.
None of the plastic devil horn stuff is helpful, nor is a lot of the bible thumping where some well-meaning and some just crazy folks think combatting Satanism means banging people over the head with doctrine and dogma. They’re some of the more useful tools, in terms of making the opposition to the Luciferian varieties look like unhinged fanaticism.
The Satanists understand that the way to get to people is through play. A lot of the pop music and entertainment is playful, it’s not asking people to take it too seriously, and it’s inviting them to have a good time. But that’s not crazy. Education happens through play. Everyone knows this. If you want children to truly learn, you have to make learning fun.
And leisure time is the spare time people have to cultivate themselves. That’s the time when people have their guard down, are looking to be entertained and are ultimately open to new experiences, and therefore new ideas.
When you have classical art forms and culture that invites people to genuine play on the same visceral artistic level, but with elevated content, then you actually have something to contend with. Right now, there’s a dearth of that. And I don’t think all the blame can be placed at the door of the Satanists…
As Jesus reminds us, the first people we should point the finger at is ourselves. I think the more we do that, the more clarity may emerge.
The Western populations are being replaced by non-Christians. The locals are being pushed away from Christianity because of the woke Churches. The Neo-Feudal world order requires people to not believe in individualism and freedom as a birthright, which is a gift from God. Get God out of the way and people worship the government.
Collectivism is a cult.
Left is collectivist and they do not want you to see them clearly, so they can manipulate you and your ignorance.
The real political spectrum is this:
Left is total government control;
right is no government control.
The spectrum is degrees between those two points.
The communists have distorted the language to indicate a narrow band of possible reality, the left is a communist government and the right is a fascist government ( both are big government control of the individual). By using this scale, you always pre-posed their government's bureaucratic control. University has become a communist indoctrination mill, churning out leftist cult members who go into government, banking and media et al.. The communists themselves called this the long march through the institutions. They claim Nazis were on the right, but they were socialists, which is next to communism in the actual spectrum.
See the trick.
They need God gone for this to work better. Hense the Great Replacement.
Lady Gaga means nothing to me. Pop music, as far as I'm concerned, begins and ends with the Beatles. They were not just good at what they did they were also genuinely nice people. George Martin first signed them up not because they were better than other groups but because, in his own words, they were more fun to be with!
The thing that distinguishes the best Christians is a quality of relaxedness and ease. They laugh easily. I think here particularly of Jonathan Pageau and Paul Vanderclay. That to me is what Christianity is all about. All these other people - these atheists and agnostics and humanists and rationalists and secularists - are so tensed up. That's presumably why so often they need to take drugs.
The Beatles' own guru, Maharishi, was one of the most relaxed people I've ever come across. Which is why in the end I chose him for my own teacher. He almost never stopped giggling.
Incidentally, the more relaxed you are the more creatively inspired you will become; as Keats pointed out in his 'Ode To Indolence', where one-by-one he bade goodbye to all his earlier idols. It was only after this that he was in a position to produce his greatest work: the work by which he is now remembered.
Unbridled capitalism, which is what rules absolutely in the US, could nonetheless use some reining in. Undiluted Mammon worship inflicts substantial hardship on everyone except the very few, i.e. the richest, who dictate the labor camp's program, which is nothing but hard labor throughout, culminating in pauperization and extinction, thus double ruination in the end. Personally I'd prefer conscientious types in charge, people of good character. Lycurgus forcing kings to eat with beggars and the same food too, kept the population from polarizing. It's different now though, with so many worshipping the wealthy--a consequence of much conditioning by all the powers that be, from parents up through every level of the command hierarchy. The catechism currently learned by all, declares Mammon to be the answer to Who Is God? I personally can see nothing to worship but good character and good judgment. An absolute plutocracy, which Is the current form of gov't in Amerique, strives after one thing alone: selfish profit--at everyone else's immense expense. It's a system callous to the core. When the catechism is rewritten. and says God is understanding, and that society must look after it own members; and when lucre is converted to heavy iron coins, useless for foreign exchange, the way Spartan money was, and land is distributed equally among all, cupidity will be deprived of rewards and of its drive to heap up treasure. Nobody left to show off to.
But I disapprove of killing the runts of the litter, and keeping only those judged fit for work. Hive life leaves everything to be desired, unless you're wired for dronework, and creating new sustenance is your natural vocation. "It would be better if there were nothing," to quote Einstein's favorite philosopher, so scrap all the above and set your sights on achieving only that, indeed the worthiest of all goals.
It’s interesting that I end up disagreeing with you so much. We have the same subject matter that we interpret differently. In the Latin West there was only one book of Plato and that was the Timaeus. It included the musical ratios as part of the understanding of how harmony was formed from chaos, comparable to Genesis when the spirit moved over the waters, etc. So in the Latins, Platonism goes back to Calcidius commentaries in the 4th century, who translated the Greek into Latin. Boethius is also very engaged in mathematical speculations. All of this ended up in the scientific revolution, which really came from neoplatonism. The Aleister Crowley thing largely came out of Polish based Jacob Frank—a kind of metaphysical nihilsim that emphasized the descent rather than the ascent. Nearly all contemplative Neoplatonism emphasized the ascent through a method of assertions and negations, a method that goes back to Pseudo-dionysius, a 5th century Assyrian. Not to Dionysius the god of drunkenness.
I guess I'd first start by asking what you think the intention of people like Gaga (or let's be honest, the people behind her) is?
As far as Neoplatonism, there are plenty of people who take interest in it and are fine people. But I'd say that it's really like a lot of things related to the mystery schools: there's an exoteric reading and an esoteric reading.
Most of the well-meaning folks are usually keying off the exoteric reading. But I've personally seen people who were intellectually very accomplished, and then they got sucked into the Neoplatonic mysticism, and they were never the same. What used to be potent ideas turned into gobbledygook. And the problem is they were under the impression that they had ascended. That's actually how their minds were subverted. They were made to think they had spiritually transcended their earlier selves and now they had attained a new-found, higher wisdom.
In reality, there were whisperers all around who were very deliberately leading them into a maze that had no exist. Once they're in, they never usually get out. This was ultimately what Aldous Huxley envisioned with his final novel, Island. The inhabitants were under the spell of the ultimate illusion: that they had shed all their allusions and had finally transcended.
"For the radical and permanent transformation of personality only one effective method has been discovered — that of the mystics. "
—Aldous Huxley
More on the subject here:
https://ageofmuses.substack.com/p/meet-the-artists-behind-the-artists
https://ageofmuses.substack.com/p/slaying-mithra-self-help-human-potential
See my reply to Sober Christian Gentleman which has inadvertently been posted in that thread when my intentions were quite otherwise.
Oh.
I at First was going to erase this piece but thought better of it. As Sun Tzu believed, to paraphrase, one must know one’s enemy to ever be able to defeat them. It is sad to me, that we as a people, have succumbed to being perpetually led into the weeded field on a merry , fruitless chase after glowing and shiny things that are only a trap of illusions to part us from ever truly understanding GOD and ourselves in HIS world.
We Have to Remain ever Vigilant against the powers of Darkness that rule mortal existence. To my mind, they are as waiting, hungry vultures who wish to literally Consume the entirety of this world.
Pray for wisdom and good judgement in the face of those who wish us all harm.
This presentation provides essential information for mankind to wake up and see through the global deception. All said and done this is all about Actual Intelligence (Real AI) v every thing artificial
Lissa Johnson, Transhumanism and Covid-19: Military Operations in Civilian Disguise?
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/lissa-johnson-transhumanism-and-covid?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319&triedRedirect=true
Well, that will bring the devil in faster than one can blink. What an invitation. Seek the Lord while you still can
Lady Gaga and know satanic spirit eater witch Marina Abramovic Just Wants Conspiracy Theorists to Let Her Be says The New York Times (Published 2020). So there that. Lol. Nothing to see here, move on plebs.
Lady Gaga has been ultra woke since day one pushing trannies and perversion. Her ties to the the occult are not hidden, just being pushed to the main stream.
Get wise to the Great Replacement if you have not been paying attention to it in my podcast here:
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/p/s2-ep-7-the-great-replacement-strategy
Sorry, maybe you were just looking to plug your stuff. The piece has nothing to do with what you’re talking about… Not sure if you read it all.
The purpose of my piece was to disabuse people from some of the common misconceptions animating a lot of pop-culture criticism. One of the main problems is people have relied on a lot of these fanciful caricatures of Satanism ie the countless varieties of some dude with plastic devil horns. This obscures a lot of the more subtle aspects of today’s spiritual warfare.
None of the plastic devil horn stuff is helpful, nor is a lot of the bible thumping where some well-meaning and some just crazy folks think combatting Satanism means banging people over the head with doctrine and dogma. They’re some of the more useful tools, in terms of making the opposition to the Luciferian varieties look like unhinged fanaticism.
The Satanists understand that the way to get to people is through play. A lot of the pop music and entertainment is playful, it’s not asking people to take it too seriously, and it’s inviting them to have a good time. But that’s not crazy. Education happens through play. Everyone knows this. If you want children to truly learn, you have to make learning fun.
And leisure time is the spare time people have to cultivate themselves. That’s the time when people have their guard down, are looking to be entertained and are ultimately open to new experiences, and therefore new ideas.
When you have classical art forms and culture that invites people to genuine play on the same visceral artistic level, but with elevated content, then you actually have something to contend with. Right now, there’s a dearth of that. And I don’t think all the blame can be placed at the door of the Satanists…
As Jesus reminds us, the first people we should point the finger at is ourselves. I think the more we do that, the more clarity may emerge.
God bless.
Lady Gaga was pushing Transgenderism. I explain how this is a transhuman death cult for people who are unaware in my podcast here:
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/148987736?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished%3Fsearch%3DOccult
The Western populations are being replaced by non-Christians. The locals are being pushed away from Christianity because of the woke Churches. The Neo-Feudal world order requires people to not believe in individualism and freedom as a birthright, which is a gift from God. Get God out of the way and people worship the government.
Collectivism is a cult.
Left is collectivist and they do not want you to see them clearly, so they can manipulate you and your ignorance.
The real political spectrum is this:
Left is total government control;
right is no government control.
The spectrum is degrees between those two points.
The communists have distorted the language to indicate a narrow band of possible reality, the left is a communist government and the right is a fascist government ( both are big government control of the individual). By using this scale, you always pre-posed their government's bureaucratic control. University has become a communist indoctrination mill, churning out leftist cult members who go into government, banking and media et al.. The communists themselves called this the long march through the institutions. They claim Nazis were on the right, but they were socialists, which is next to communism in the actual spectrum.
See the trick.
They need God gone for this to work better. Hense the Great Replacement.
Lady Gaga means nothing to me. Pop music, as far as I'm concerned, begins and ends with the Beatles. They were not just good at what they did they were also genuinely nice people. George Martin first signed them up not because they were better than other groups but because, in his own words, they were more fun to be with!
The thing that distinguishes the best Christians is a quality of relaxedness and ease. They laugh easily. I think here particularly of Jonathan Pageau and Paul Vanderclay. That to me is what Christianity is all about. All these other people - these atheists and agnostics and humanists and rationalists and secularists - are so tensed up. That's presumably why so often they need to take drugs.
The Beatles' own guru, Maharishi, was one of the most relaxed people I've ever come across. Which is why in the end I chose him for my own teacher. He almost never stopped giggling.
Incidentally, the more relaxed you are the more creatively inspired you will become; as Keats pointed out in his 'Ode To Indolence', where one-by-one he bade goodbye to all his earlier idols. It was only after this that he was in a position to produce his greatest work: the work by which he is now remembered.
Unbridled capitalism, which is what rules absolutely in the US, could nonetheless use some reining in. Undiluted Mammon worship inflicts substantial hardship on everyone except the very few, i.e. the richest, who dictate the labor camp's program, which is nothing but hard labor throughout, culminating in pauperization and extinction, thus double ruination in the end. Personally I'd prefer conscientious types in charge, people of good character. Lycurgus forcing kings to eat with beggars and the same food too, kept the population from polarizing. It's different now though, with so many worshipping the wealthy--a consequence of much conditioning by all the powers that be, from parents up through every level of the command hierarchy. The catechism currently learned by all, declares Mammon to be the answer to Who Is God? I personally can see nothing to worship but good character and good judgment. An absolute plutocracy, which Is the current form of gov't in Amerique, strives after one thing alone: selfish profit--at everyone else's immense expense. It's a system callous to the core. When the catechism is rewritten. and says God is understanding, and that society must look after it own members; and when lucre is converted to heavy iron coins, useless for foreign exchange, the way Spartan money was, and land is distributed equally among all, cupidity will be deprived of rewards and of its drive to heap up treasure. Nobody left to show off to.
But I disapprove of killing the runts of the litter, and keeping only those judged fit for work. Hive life leaves everything to be desired, unless you're wired for dronework, and creating new sustenance is your natural vocation. "It would be better if there were nothing," to quote Einstein's favorite philosopher, so scrap all the above and set your sights on achieving only that, indeed the worthiest of all goals.