Balancing The Higher And Lower Selves

1. Understanding everyday life is a matter of understanding whose story we’re telling.

2. There are two fundamental narratives to what this life is about.

3. The first life narrative is that we are rising beasts who have evolved up out of the Earth.

4. The second life narrative is that we are fallen angels who have descended down out of the heavens.

5. The truth is that we are both rising beasts and fallen angels simultaneously. Both of these narratives are true, but sometimes one more than the other, depending on whose story we’re telling at the time.

6. To put too much value on the rising beast narrative is to occlude the divinity of humanity, leading to egotheism.

7. Egotheism bores the gods because it reminds them of the behaviour of children.

8. To put too much value on the fallen angel narrative is to occlude the lived reality inside the Great Fractal, leading to withdrawal.

9. Withdrawal bores the gods because it reminds them of the behaviour of suicides.

10. The imperative to entertain the gods demands that we balance the higher and lower selves, which both contribute to our experience of reality.

11. The higher and lower selves are balanced on the Great Masculine Axis.

12. The will to indulge the lower self is the same as the Undergoing Will.

13. The will to indulge the higher self is the same as the Overcoming Will.

14. Depending on which part of the Great Fractal one is in, the local environment will be conducive either to indulging the lower self or indulging the higher self.

15. If the local environment is conducive to indulging the lower self, but a person acts from the higher self, they will soon find themselves in an environment conducive to indulging the higher self, as per the Law of Attraction.

16. If the local environment is conducive to indulging the higher self, but a person acts from the lower self, they will soon find themselves in an environment conducive to indulging the lower self, as per the Law of Attraction.

17. Operating too much from the lower self causes the lived experience to become animal-like. The gods are bored by the predictability.

18. The animal experiences significance but he must suffer for it.

19. Operating too much from the higher self causes the lived experience to become ghost-like. The gods are bored by the unreality.

20. The ghost does not suffer but neither does he experience significance.

21. The gods created us to aspire to rise up the Great Masculine Axis, but to struggle to do so on account of our imperfect wills. They derive great amusement from the ensuing struggle.

22. The correct balance is struck by saying Yes to life as much as is possible while always keeping this Yeasaying subordinate to the First Tenet.

23. The Tenets are therefore a home base from which the Great Fractal can be explored in the service of entertaining the gods.

This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.

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The Law Of Attraction

1. The Law of Attraction is the name given to the observation that the energy a person sends out into the Great Fractal is matched by the energy they receive from the Great Fractal.

2. The Normie, the Tard and the Ham all believe that it’s possible to gain advantage over the world by dominating it through the application of force and will.

3. They don’t realise that, by becoming more aggressive, they make the world around them more aggressive. As such, the Normie, the Tard and the Ham are always fighting.

4. The Elementalist laughs at all three, knowing that the Great Fractal is something to be surfed and not something to be raped.

5. The cause and effect of the Law of Attraction are subtly linked, as they are with most spiritual laws. Therefore the causal link is not as obvious as with physical, emotional and mental laws.

6. The Law of Attraction is as intractable and inescapable as any physical, emotional or mental law.

7. Every decision a person makes, no matter how small, alters the frequency of their consciousness. These alterations therefore determine the beings and environments attracted by that person in the future.

8. The energy of every decision made by a person is stored fractally in the frequency of their consciousness.

9. It can be said that each person’s frequency of consciousness is an expression of the Great Fractal into the spiritual plane.

10. Other beings can detect this frequency of consciousness, and tend to react accordingly.

11. As within, so without: what one perceives in the material world is a reflection of what exists in the spiritual world.

12. The Law of Attraction, then, describes on the metaphysical planes what Newton’s Third Law of Motion describes on the physical plane.

13. High-frequency people attract high-frequency people, because they feel at peace with each other.

14. When a high-frequency person meets a low-frequency one, the high-frequency one tends to come across as cold and unfriendly. These energies drive the two apart.

15. High-vibration people attract high-vibration people, because they can exult in each other.

16. When a high-vibration person meets a low-vibration one, the high-vibration one tends to come across as intimidating and dangerous. These energies drive the two apart.

17. Low-frequency people attract low-frequency people, because they can relate to each other.

18. When a low-frequency person meets a high-frequency one, the low-frequency one tends to come across as untrustworthy and devious. These energies drive the two apart.

19. Low-vibration people attract low-vibration people, because they can commiserate with each other.

20. When a low-vibration person meets a high-vibration one, the low-vibration one tends to come across as pitiful and resentful. These energies drive the two apart.

21. A fragment of consciousness of any given frequency carves channels of probability through the Great Fractal so that fragments of consciousness of similar frequencies naturally flow towards it.

22. The will of any fragment of consciousness tends to attract an environment that matches that will.

23. The Law of Attraction, then, reflects the fact that energy tends to take the path of least resistance. Thus, it would be surprising if there were no Law of Attraction!

24. The Law of Attraction is another way of saying that people’s Minor Aspirations tend to become fulfilled, subject to the fulfillment of the Major Aspiration.

This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.

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Political History Follows A Reverse Sawtooth Wave Function

We live in a world of explicate order. Because this order is hard to understand, the events of our lives often seem random, or at least unpredictable. But understanding the implicate order underneath the surface phenomena can give us great insight into how those phenomena will develop. Within this implicate order are the repeating patterns of history.

A sawtooth wave is a pattern like a sine wave, only the rise is much slower and the fall much faster. The sawtooth wave pattern is often seen in Nature, such as when a population slowly grows until it has consumed all available resources, and then plummets sharply. The reverse sawtooth wave is the same except the rise is extremely rapid, and the descent gradual.

Political history follows this pattern of a reverse sawtooth wave. If we imagine that the x-axis is time and the y-axis is the quality of leadership, a distinct pattern can be observed. The quality of political leadership gets gradually worse and worse over time until a revolutionary vanguard of high-quality leaders, excluded from the old system, overthrow that system and institute a new one.

This pattern is so old that Plato was able to write about it 2,300 years ago. Book VIII of Republic recounts the political cycle as observed by Plato. It begins with humanity’s natural rulers – an aristocracy of philosopher-kings – in charge. This leads to an initial state of maximum happiness but, over time, bad decisions are made when it comes to selecting new rulers from among the young people, and the quality of leadership starts to degrade.

The cumulative effect of these bad decisions is that the ruling class comes to think less about wisdom or rectitude and more about honour. This leads to a high-spirited militarism which creates more suffering than the enlightened benevolence of the philosopher-kings. This alone wouldn’t be so bad, if it didn’t lead to further degradation.

The tension between the aristocratic way of governing and what Plato called the timocratic way of governing leads to another step downwards, in the form of oligarchy. Eventually, rulers stop valuing money as an instrument to honour and start valuing it for its own sake. Once money starts determining who may hold public office, oligarchy is in effect.

This isn’t the end. Once money rules, people start using it to indulge their unnecessary desires. This leads to a base form of man taking control – the democratic man. The democratic man follows no higher order. He simply lurches from one whimsy to another. Much like today’s Baby Boomers, the democratic man lives a life of pure indulgence. This has serious consequences, in particular the rise of the tyrannical man.

Once people start living for indulgences instead of virtue, and society loses all discipline, the lowest form of man takes control. This is a man motivated by base lusts and consumed by lawless desires – the tyrant. His spiritual functions are entirely absent. Rule by tyrant leads to immense suffering, especially when contrasted by rule with philosopher-king.

This immense suffering brings about the humility necessary for people to finally listen to the philosopher-kings, instead of indulging their base desires. Chastened by the hangover of their indulgence, the people recognise the philosopher-kings as the most excellent among them, and make them leaders. This aristocratic revolution reinstalls the philosopher-kings as the ruling class, whereupon the cycle begins anew.

In Republic, Plato suggests that this pattern of gradual decline leading to revolution is inevitable, owing to the inevitable imperfections within each successive generation of people. This idea – that perfection existed in the past but decayed as time progressed – is one that the ancient Greeks shared with their co-religionists in ancient India, but not with today’s Westerners.

Most Westerners today adhere to an erroneous view of history that follows a regular sawtooth wave, in which progress is slowly made until resources are exhausted, at which point the system collapses. This regular sawtooth wave pattern is more typical of material phenomena, whereas the reverse sawtooth wave pattern is more typical of spiritual phenomena. It follows that history is fundamentally a spiritual phenomenon.

A modern understanding of political psychology sheds some light on how this could be possible. The potential risk in allowing society to degenerate one step further is small, whereas the potential risk in revolution is massive. Therefore, the temptation is to “kick the can down the road”. The best, most recent example of this phenomenon is the money printing of the last 14 years in response to the Global Financial Crisis.

So the future of Clown World is easy to predict. Our political difficulties, and our suffering, will both further intensify. At some point, people will get so pissed off about it that they decide to risk their lives in revolution. The only people willing to risk their lives so that their kin can avoid suffering are the best of all people, the philosopher-kings.

Before this happens, high-frequency young people will, in ever-greater numbers, reject Clown World in preference of simple lives away from the big cities (presaged today by the Chinese Lie Flat movement). These young people will have realised that money and pleasure do not provide meaningful happiness, following the example of voluntary poverty set by William James and Henry Thoreau. In seeing beyond the trappings of materialism, this cohort will have proven that it is fit to rule.

Away from the degeneracy of the cities, these young people will eventually form their own aristocratic and revolutionary culture, more excellent than anything that has gone before. So when the Globohomo Gayplex collapses, as it always does, these young aristocrats will surge into the halls of power, aided by all those who are glad to see the back of tyranny.

Our current position in Clown World can be understood as a point, found near -1 on the y axis, on a reverse sawtooth wave function. Our currently intense confusion and suffering presages a revolutionary vanguard of philosopher-kings. When the revolution comes and this aristocracy of philosopher-kings are installed as leaders, Clown World will end and a new spiritual golden age will begin.

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The Elementalist Conception of How Everything Evens Out

1. The Quadrijitu shows us that masculine becomes feminine, feminine becomes masculine, good becomes evil and evil becomes good.

2. The shape of the Quadrijitu reflects the Hermetic Principle of Correspondence.

3. As above, so below. As below, so above. As within, so without. As without, so within. As before, so after. As after, so before. As included, so excluded. As excluded, so included.

4. Every physical action has an equal and opposite reaction.

5. Every emotional action has an equal and opposite reaction.

6. Every mental action has an equal and opposite reaction.

7. Every spiritual action has an equal and opposite reaction.

8. Suffering inures the mind to suffering; joy inures the mind to joy.

9. Verticalisation inclines the mind to see the benefits of the horizontal; horizontalisation inclines the mind to see the benefits of the vertical.

10. When the Northern Hemisphere stands in the light, the Southern Hemisphere stands in the darkness. When the Southern Hemisphere stands in the light, the Northern Hemisphere stands in the darkness.

11. When the Occident stands in the light, the Orient stands in the darkness. When the Orient stands in the light, the Occident stands in the darkness.

12. When the soul stands in the light, the body stands in the darkness. When the body stands in the light, the soul stands in the darkness.

13. Consciousness exists at the intersection between the eternal past and the eternal future. Within it, all things are possible.

14. Energy flows where attention goes. To observe something is to make it more real.

15. To pay regard to any one aspect of life is to neglect all the others. Thus, appreciating one aspect of life primes oneself to appreciate the others in turn.

16. The gods are bored by the excessively good, and wish evil upon it.

17. The sum total of all positive values and all negative values is zero.

18. The sum total of one entire rotation around the Quadrijitu is zero.

19. Bad luck affords a greater opportunity to entertain the gods, for they are most entertained by those who successfully overcome.

20. Good luck tempts fate and leads to hubris, therefore it should be appreciated and not desired.

21. Great suffering can bring great wisdom. The purest gold can only be found after the hottest fires.

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