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""[T]o the religious gnostic, reality is a delusion, a creation of false consciousness. The religious revolutionary believes humanity creates its own reality." Spirited: Excerpts from "Orwell's Big Brother: Gnostic Pagan Magician"

http://patriotsandliberty.com/lindas-latest/2013/11/22/orwells-big-brother-gnostic-pagan-magician

Thought crime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while...but sooner or later they were bound to get you." George Orwell, 1984

In the modern Gnostic-Hindu/pantheist worldview of Marxist Communism, it is not the personal Triune God who has created the world. No, it is each man-god who creates his own world and meaning in every living moment out of his own consciousness. In other words, since the divine substance of God is distributed throughout all of the cosmos (pantheism), including the consciousness of man, then by means of self-induced trance states, brain-altering drugs, transcendental meditation and other ways of attaining higher consciousness, man can become a little god who controls matter because he controls mind. The physical world then, is an illusion because reality is inside the divine mind.

This way of thinking is captured by Orwell in his book, “Nineteen Eighty-Four” in which negation of the physical world is an integral part of the social and political philosophy of Big Brother and his despotic Party. At one stage in the book, Winston stumbles upon the shocking realization that,

“…in the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later; the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy.” (Orwell, “The New Spirituality and its Hallmarks, Alan Morrison, SCP Journal, Vol. 30:4-31:1, 2007, p. 19)

When the Thought Police agent O’Brien tortures Winston for “wrong thought” he states,

“We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation---anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to….You must get rid of these nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.”

Big Brother is a modern Gnostic pagan magician in a long line of pagan magicians going back to Ham, Nimrod and the ancient Egyptian magus Hermes Trismegistus, the more recent Simon Magus, the Gnostic Valentinus, Eastern Tantric sages, Yogis, and god-men on through to Renaissance magicians such as Agrippa, and Paracelsus.

Like all nature systems, Big Brother holds to the oneness of existence. This means that bodies (physical matter) and elements are mutually transmutable. This was announced as the Grand Principle of Hermes Trismegistus and found expression in the teaching that,

…“everything that is high is equal to what is low, and everything low is equal to what is high.” (God and the Knowledge of Reality, Thomas Molnar, p. 82)

Hermes formula means there is an absolute although hidden unity, a Great Chain of Being, between the lower world of physical matter and the higher astral realm of the impersonal world soul, the key of which lends to the magician incalculable powers when learns how to acquire divine intellect.

-------------------break--------------- In the work of the magus physical matter is said to undergo passion, death, and resurrection, the final result of the transmutation resulting in its' spiritualization and divinization. The magus performs these acts as a means of reconciling what has been separated so as to achieve oneness: Lucifer with man (in the case of Theosophists and Masons), the human and the astral, man’s soul with the world-soul, darkness with light, natural with supernatural, male with female, good with evil, truth with lie.

Another objective of the magus is to rid himself of false consciousness (knowledge) and to attain ‘true knowledge’ (self-knowledge) by way of his unity with the world-soul.

The Gnostics for example, held that in its unredeemed state pneuma (spirit) is unconscious of itself, intoxicated by the poison and false consciousness of the material world. Its ignorance is cured as it awakens from the darkness of physical nature to the light of self-knowledge.

Eric Voegelin (1901-85), one of the most influential political philosophers of the last century argues that Marxist Communism, together with many other modern movements such as the ‘God is dead school,’ is a modern form of Gnostic paganism.

Marxist Communists, Luciferian Theosophists, New Age spiritual pantheists and the New Physics assert that matter is a form of energy or particles emanating off of the Void, a concept that is similar to some Buddhist and Hindu thinking holding that the physical world is an illusion, that people have no bona fide existence since they are aspects of human consciousness. In other words, as the Thought Police O’Brien, a Gnostic adept or magician put it,

“…nothing exists except through human consciousness...”

“…nothing exists except through human consciousness….”

There seems to be strange analogy to contemporary theoretical physics in the above excerpt from your last, dear sister in Christ. The New Physics does seem to assert “that matter is a form of energy or particles emanating off of the Void,” and this, as a concept, is similar to some Buddhist and Hindu thinking holding that “the physical world is an illusion.” Indeed, the great visionary quantum theorist Edwin Schrödinger tells of his own strong affinity with Advaita-Vedanta cosmology. My friend the astrophysicist is likewise so inclined. Many other professional scientists are as well, I gather.

The New Agers are thoroughly fixated on “physical energy,” because they have been taught to believe that they themselves are each reducible solely to the interactions of Seven Cosmic Rays, associated with seven bodily centers in the human being. So the first order of business for an initiate is to “figure out what your rays are.” For evidently, “you are only whatever they are.” Talk about the ultimate reduction of the human person! Talk about wiping out the human mind in one swell foop! The irony (genius?) is the appeal to “mind” — for help in wiping out mind….

[Ed. Note: I have a great deal of direct experience with the New Age “movement,” and it’s pretty well-reflected by now, after some 25+ years. I’d love to say more. But thinking most people reading this would find such matters boring, I’ll put a sock in it for now. ]

All of which is perfectly summarized by O’Brien — who is, dear spirited, definitely a “black magician” or sorcerer of the (ahem, relentlessly gnostic) Nietzschean, Marxian, Hegelian type — in his statement to the long-suffering Winston:

“…nothing exists except through human consciousness….”

The statement would be correct, if it could be restated as:

“…nothing exists except through divine consciousness….”

But O’Brien — a fictional epigone of the above-named magical miscreants — WOULD RATHER DIE THAN GIVE GLORY TO GOD. [What he thinks he “dies into” is beyond my comprehension.] He has closed his soul, his heart, his mind to God. The deep, dark “secret” is that he would be God himself [Hegel] — or at the very least, an Ubermensch [Nietzsche]. In consequence, for him, God is that which must be got rid of, in order for man to “be free.”

But free to be or do what?

Certainly Winston was not free of O’Briens’s desire to re-experience his torturous ecstasies from acts of libido dominandi on Winston's suffering person….

If we let the historical record speak to us, it will note that some absolutely horrific consequences have occurred in the human past that were set off by “mental cases” who managed to seize power and dominion; i.e., were not resisted timely by a more-or-less culturally unified, attentive populace devoted to the principles of Western civilizational success.

So, the O'Briens of this world don’t just have to “Kill God”; they also have to “End History.”

Plato noticed that the demos — the “people” — has a nasty habit of degenerating into the ochlos — the “MOB” — given enough time for the forces of cultural destruction to work on the protective institutions of civil liberty in the context of the well-being of society….

Thus man is left doubly defenseless: There is no divine order of Being, Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Justice upon which to rely, and human historical experience doesn’t count as “knowledge.”

What I wonder is: Where was “Winston” when his resistance against the total inversion of Reality by “mental cases” might have made a difference, so that the latter could not have made their insanity not only “politically effective,” but absolutely obligatory for the rest of us?

I’d better leave off for now – though I must tell you I really wanted to get into the New Physics aspect of our subject. Not to mention how Darwin’s theory fits into the picture of a psychological and intellectual revolt against Reality. But I think I’ve already taken up a lot of the reader’s time by now.

Dear spirited, my sister in Christ — thank you so very much for your (as ever) thought-provoking essay/post!