As the World Slips Away

With each passing day it seems my thoughts will one day become my undoing; decisive and calloused remarks that will either open the eyes of a few, or doom me to a lonely existence within my own world. No progress was ever made by pandering to the narrow perceptions of others, stroking another's ego, or avoiding conflict to escape inevitable persecution of your convictions. I'm growing tired and impatient as I watch the world crumble around me, and it's time I air my thoughts out. The world is quickly slipping from the grasp of the wise and valiant, and very quickly as many stand helplessly against tyranny that is growing day by day. Intermingled viewpoints, lack of knowledge, fear, justified faiths, personal convictions, independent agendas,cultural beliefs, and social behaviors intersect upon trillions of points of interaction among humans every second of the day; all of which continue upon infinite points of thought, emotions, and action. This mingling of endless energetic action among the people of the world results in a number of things; friction between opposing views, the attraction of similar or like minded views, positive or negative actions based on perceptions, and the ensuing thoughts derived from all of the former factors which become the ingredients comprising that spiritual landfill just beyond our perceptions; the astral plane. Here upon this plane, we scatter our mental “junk” about without ever knowing or understanding what we have done. Much like a saint sends up a prayer to be answered in days or even hours, so the hateful cynic or unbelieving skeptic casts their baneful ire into the aether only to be reflected back from the universe to the individual in the form of karma, a blessing, an answered prayer, or a completely horrible turn of events. Mix a sprinkle of doubt into a prayer of the faithful, and a bit of justified conviction on the part of the evil infidel, and we can see how even saint will never see a prayer answered and the most rotten people in the world seem to have a day full of blessings. It is through this simple understanding of universal laws of attraction and disharmony, the positive and negative, that many will often rationalize prayer and thought by saying “God answers prayer according to His will and in his own time”; we never once stop to think it was our own misguided will and thoughts that result in our own outcomes. We never stop to claim the fact that we ARE created in the image of the universal mind, or GOD. We ARE eternal, we CAN create our destinies, we CAN destroy our enemies, and we CAN define our futures through the power of a single, common thought with focused will. We may change our lives in this manner, and with enough people, linked in thought and conviction, the world would change over night. This is true magick, and the secret of the ancients. I often go on and on about where I had come from as a Christian, waving my banner of triumph proudly in the air like the child who jumped the fence in curiosity and made it to the other side safely, or the adventurous soul who crawled through a cave, and out the back side of the mountain having found treasures untold and an entirely undiscovered world. “I'm OK!” I've shouted over and over again. Yet, I hear the thoughts of many when they say “The devil has led you astray; I hope you find your way home again”. Some would call a prison home, it simply depends on one's perspective. Those social rejects and criminals who have spent life times in prison are said to become “institutionalized” over time, unable to leave the safety, structure, and confinement of a world they have grown accustomed to. Many will be released from their safe haven, only to purposely commit crimes in order to be returned to safety. The analogy to me is much like many who are warned against seeking greener pastures of knowledge, leaving the safety of the cross, or striking out on one's own in a seemingly humanistic endeavor against the “will of God”. An unfamiliar course is unveiled and for the first time your ship is left without the phantom you once perceived as the captain. You are now faced with a choice; to continue to let the illusion steer the helm, or grab it yourself and learn how to navigate the waters of the “abyss”. It never occurs to many who are content to stay within the confines of safe harbors that vast uncharted worlds lay just beyond the pass. Those worlds are the treasures of knowledge sought by the most ancient of sages, and shut up behind walls of lies and fear by those who seek to hoard such wisdom in lieu of control or profit. The world was once thought to be flat, and any other assumptions to the contrary I'm sure was met with penalties of heresy. The same goes for theories regarding the earth as the center of the solar system and that everything revolved around it, that matter could never change form, that man would never travel to space or to the depths of the sea, and that nothing beyond the sciences or philosophies of the 18th and 19th centuries could be discovered or proven; the lists are endless. And so, Christ will most assuredly return as presumed. Yet, Mithra, Osiris, Mohamed, Krishna, Baal, and countless others identical messiahs have yet to return, with many of their ancient cults and followers passing into oblivion; their forgotten stories becoming the religious fodder of the next new kingdom or empire. As a child I would willingly go against the wisdom of my parents to fulfill a selfish desire, for I thought I knew best. Upon reaping the consequences of my actions, my father would be quick to say “you should have known better”. In an attempt to expound upon such an analogy, I would say the same goes for much of Christianity. While many know their faith and dogma cannot possibly, rationally, or without exception account for the numerous mysteries confronting it, the faithful will heave themselves over cliffs and bridges to maintain the assurance that their soul will not be left behind when the roll is called “up yonder”, ignoring every conceivable possibility that there may lie just one answer to that one quandary outside of the Living Word. Finding a rational explanation to a question would certainly open the flood gates of doubt upon the seeker, and unleash torrents of the dark lord's demons into one's life. Shame on you. You have shackled yourself to the moorings of an empty faith, the pillars of doubt, and walls of complacency never to look upon the shores of mystery or knowledge. You can no longer fathom the idea that your own faith and religion bears the marks of ancient pagan lore; the Romans simply dressed it up a bit and gave Mithra a face lift. So for many I would say, “you should have known better.” Tea Partiers, gun hoarders, hillbillies, Republicans, wars on terror, rampant consumerism, capitalism, and the subduing of all Mother Nature's resources (because Christ will return before that last drop of oil is used), may all be traced back to the narrow minded, backward, anti “think for your self” propaganda of the American mainstream evangelical mindset. It is without a doubt, a cancerous disease that has led to the deception of the American people. Now, your civil liberties have been stripped, the homeless are growing in numbers, education is no longer a priority, and our society is being programmed to serve, obey, consume, and never utter a word of resistance. Its a trait derived straight from the patriarchal, monotheistic mindset of Christianity; never question, never doubt, never disobey, and never stray. You have become you own undoing, painting yourself into a corner. Do you wait for the rapture? Or engage the world as the creators you were endowed to be and seek the change you will and desire? I apologize. I should not direct my sarcasm at Christians in the way I do. My sarcasm is directed at the narrow minded views many hold, the dogmas of the faith, and the religious zealots who lack reason or intelligence; not at Christ. Christ, in every sense, was nearly comparable to a left handed, antinomian, rebellious mystic. He abhorred money, he disliked authority, he was against government, against the defilement of the temple, he fed the poor and chastised the rich, did without so others could have, admonished others to live simple lives, healed, and forgave the shortcomings of the lowly. These same things, most Christians will ignore, are often practiced by so called “witches” and heathens. Ive said it numerous times before; if your devil resembles everything else to you in this world outside of your dogmatic faith, then there is love, charity, hope, and kindness to be found in the adversary, for the evil world in which you reside is filled with evil people showing acts of love toward one another. Is not your God the epitome and essence of love? Then how is the adversary able to allow acts of love and kindness upon his domain of the earth? A Question you'll ponder for a while I'm sure. For the same reason you'll wonder how the adversary could also instigate war, hate, jealousy, and all other manner of sin if he could be capable of love too? Which leaves only one answer; our perceptions of what is good and what is evil have been misled, as well as out perceptions of God. Mankind is at the root of the evil in the world, for the same cause other humans are responsible for the good. It is a matter of control, understanding, wisdom, and peace within the mind, or the lack thereof. It is not a selfish act to think of one's self as independent, or capable of a thought contrary to biblical teaching. It is not even a humanistic characteristic, but a thought of becoming, growth, and ascension. Only when we question the established norms, and why those “norms” are placed about us do we begin to see the world of illusion crumble before our eyes, revealing a world we would otherwise remained ignorant of. You don't need the fears of committing a sin to keep you on the narrow path, only a moral compass. Even the heathen yogis and mystics of old walked a chaste and narrow path to higher awareness. Yours was never the first path to recognize the body as the temple, or that ethics and morals play heavily into ones decisions in life. Moral codes can be traced back to the first civilization and the Sumerian's, long before Christianity. It is perfectly conceivable to admonish a way of love and compassion as Christ did, without the interpolated stipulations and conditions of modern Christianity. Such conditions and dogmatic blinds were placed there so that you would only peer through them in curiosity, and do nothing more than ask forgiveness. Ripping the blinds from the window, opening it, and crawling through it is another matter entirely. There is no justifiable way to cling to such antiquated thinking,and embrace a broader view of the universe, or to begin to understand it, or even yourself in a way you would never have imagined; you're missing the greatest moment in time right now. While millions will interpret the awakening consciousness of humankind as the work of the devil to lead mankind astray, the mysteries of the universe will have slipped past you under the guise of evil. Cloaked in mystery and hidden well among the countless allegories of ancient wisdom, your rapture could very well amount to an alien abduction with people simply shifting vibrations at once and slipping into another universe, or the new kingdom on earth the result of a rebellious and fed up society against global corporate tyranny. The answers to your questions lie all about you; one must simply cast their fears aside and commit to a new course. The illusory captain has disappeared from the helm; will you grab the wheel and set a new heading?