1. The Good News of Elementalism can be understood by considering the implications of the First and Fourth Tenets.
2. If consciousness is the prima materia, and if its natural state is bliss, then all suffering is necessarily temporary, and we all have eternal life.
3. The Good News of Elementalism is that the good guys win in the end.
4. Not only does every fragment of consciousness eventually overcome all suffering, whether in this life or a future one, but that consciousness lives forever.
5. Here a distinction must be made between the various kinds of suffering.
6. Physical suffering is when the physical body loses its homeostasis. Hunger, thirst, tiredness and loss of bodily integrity all cause suffering.
7. Emotional suffering is when the emotional body loses its peace. Fear, envy and rage cause suffering.
8. Mental suffering is when the mental body loses its understanding. Confusion and ignorance cause suffering.
9. Spiritual suffering is when the spiritual body loses the will to say Yes to life. Overcoming this suffering is the purpose of this book and is the purpose of Elementalism.
10. When a person desires something and does not get it, they suffer, but most forms of suffering can be ameliorated simply by letting go of the desire. In this category are emotional, mental and spiritual suffering.
11. Physical suffering is in a different category. Hunger, thirst and bleeding wounds have to be attended to, otherwise a person will die.
12. Therefore, ataraxia depends on learning to tell the difference between physical suffering on the one hand, and emotional, mental and spiritual suffering on the other.
13. With a distinction thus made, physical suffering can be dealt with by correct action, while emotional, mental and spiritual suffering can be dealt with by meditation.
14. The Good News of Elementalism reminds us that all suffering is temporary. Even if no action is taken, or if the suffering is overwhelming, the most extreme possible outcome is death, and thereby exfiltration from the material world and a return to God.
15. All fragments of consciousness have a path back to ataraxia. Whether we travel that path quickly or slowly does not change this.
16. The most important thing is not to strive for an end to suffering, for both suffering and its cessation are guaranteed, one way or another. The most important thing is that the gods are entertained by one’s efforts to strive for an end to suffering.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
1. Elementalism provides the answers to all philosophical questions. As such, it provides the answer to the question of who you were in previous lives, and where your consciousness was before you were born.
2. Ignorant people ask themselves where they were before they were born as if they were their bodies and not their consciousness.
3. This leads to great confusion, as one’s physical form in this life is an expression of one’s genes, and those genes are unique to this life.
4. Therefore, what did I like look in my previous life? What social role did I fill? And where was this society located?
5. Knowing consciousness to be the prima materia, the Elementalist knows that these are deceptive questions.
6. A person is not their body, therefore who they were in previous lives was whoever their consciousness incarnated as.
7. This incarnation would have been a function of the frequency of that person’s consciousness.
8. This incarnation could have been anything, depending on that person’s frequency of consicousness.
9. The physical world is not the prima materia, and, as such, all fragments of consciousness are not located anywhere physical, but are rather perceiving some subset of the Great Fractal.
10. You have always been the fragment of consciousness that you are, ever since it separated from the divine in the intial act of creation.
11. This fragment of consciousness is eternal until it is recalled by the divine. The perceptions that pass through this fragment of consciousness are not of primary importance.
12. Thus, you could have been anyone in a previous life.
13. The frequency of the world in which you incarnated in this life is a function of the frequency that you ended your previous life with.
14. The frequency of the world into which you incarnated in your previous life was a function of the frequency of your consciousness in the life before that.
15. The frequency of anywhere you found yourself in the past will be a function of the frequency of your consciousness at the time.
16. The further back you go through the reincarnations, the more different your frequency becomes and so the more different your lives become.
17. You were still yourself in all of your previous lives, and you were wherever you deserved to be based on the frequency of your consciousness at the time.
18. You have been Cleopatra, and Napoleon, and Ghengis Khan, in previous lives. The only question is how many incarnations ago. The more similar your frequency of consciousness is to those people, the more recently.
19. It’s possible to rise above the life you’re living now, and to see several of the lives you have lived previously, stretching away through the Great Fractal in an illusion of time.
20. Your future self will ask themselves who they were in previous lives, and, if they are psychically gifted, they might develop the ability to look back and see you live this life now.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
Part III is titled ‘The Social Basis of The Third Universal Theory’. This is divided into eleven chapters.
In the first, ‘The Social Basis of The Third Universal Theory’, Gaddafi declares that the social bond is the basis for the movement of history. Each group has common social needs which must be collectively satisfied. The national struggle is the basis of history. “…just as community is the basis for survival of all groups within the animal kingdom, so nationalism is the basis for the survival of nations”.
“Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.” The destruction of nations leads to minorities. National unity is the basis of survival – Gaddafi compares it to gravity. Gaddafi channels Edward O Wilson at one point, stating that the social bond works automatically towards the goal of national survival. Nationalism is the secret of group survival and it’s harmful to go against this. He observes that marriage within a group strengthens its unity.
In the second, ‘The Family’, Gaddafi compares the family to a plant, both being an expression of Nature. Any “dispersion, decline or loss of the family” is unnatural and could be compared to the destruction of a plant. Gaddafi compares society to a garden. The ideal form is one in which the individual can flourish within the family and the family within society. A society in which individuals lived without their families would be artificial.
In the third, ‘The Tribe’, Gaddafi notes that a tribe is just an extended family, and a nation is just an extended tribe. This same point was noted in Aristotle’s Politics. “The relationship which binds the family also binds the tribe, the nation, and the world.” Feelings of kinship decrease the larger the kinship group is. Gaddafi ridicules those who think otherwise.
In the fourth, ‘The Merits Of The Tribe’, Gaddafi describes the tribe as a secondary family. It raises and educates those within it. It also allows more freedom than the family, which supervises closely. Blood is the prime factor in its formation, but a person or family can be part of the tribe by affiliation and then later part of the tribe by blood.
In the fifth, ‘The Nation’, Gaddafi notes that loyalty to any one of family, tribe, nation and humanity weakens loyalty to the other three. Selfishness is harmful to the wider group, but self-respect is beneficial to it. A shared destiny is essential to nationhood. “The national state is the only political form which is consistent with the natural social structure.” The nation-state will naturally endure unless attacked from the outside or unless it collapses into tribal mentality.
All states composed of multiple nations will eventually destroy themselves, because the social factor of national bonds will inevitably triumph over the political factor. The tribe develops individuals at the post-family stage, and the nation develops individuals at the post-tribe stage.
In the sixth, ‘Woman’, Gaddafi opens by declaring it self-evident that men and women are equal as human beings. However, the fact that both exist and not just one shows that they occupy different roles. Men and women cannot replace each other in those natural roles. Nurseries are unnatural and should not exist, save for the case of orphans, where nurseries are better than foster homes.
“In need, freedom is latent.” Therefore, women should not be forced to work to provide the necessities of life. Belief in gender equality deprives women of their freedom. Gaddafi notes, with disapproval, that societies everywhere seek to turn women into men. “Men and women must be creative within their respective roles.” Women should not be forced to carry out men’s duties to gain equality with men.
In the seventh, ‘Minorities’, Gaddafi outlines two kinds of minorities. One belongs to the nation, which provides its social framework, whereas the other must form its own social framework. He suggests that the problems of minorities have to be solved at the national level, in a society controlled by the masses. Minorities should not be seen as substrata.
In the eighth, ‘Black People Will Prevail In The World’, Gaddafi claims that black people are motivated to vengeance by slavery. Much as Asians and white people had eras of dominance over history, so too will the blacks. He notes that the backwardness of blacks has led directly to their numerical superiority. The populations of other races are declining because of their obsession with work, but this hasn’t affected the blacks.
In the ninth, ‘Education’, Gaddafi speaks against rote learning. He notes that the style of education that is typical in the world goes against human freedom. Forcing a human to learn according to a curriculum is dictatorship. State-controlled and standardised education stultifies the masses. Education of all kinds of subjects should be available. “Knowledge is a natural right of every human being.”
In the tenth, ‘Music And Art’, Gaddafi laments that there is no common human language. He makes the startling claim that the stylistic sentiments of earlier generations are passed down to later ones in the genes. “People are only harmonious with their own arts and heritage”. Eventually, Gaddafi claims, all people will speak one language, or society will collapse.
In the eleventh, ‘Sport, Horsemanship And The Stage’, Gaddafi equates spectator sport with watching someone pray or eat at a restaurant. Much of this chapter has no real Western context, as our participatory sports are organised in a different way. He agrees with the general Western sentiment that sports should be for the masses. But he makes some odd claims, such as that the grandstand was invented to deny popular access to the sporting field.
In summary, Gaddafi’s The Green Book is a wide-ranging summary of his political and social beliefs. It is penetratingly insightful at places, and bafflingly vague at others. His criticisms of democracy, as it is practiced, are brilliant, but the book is light on practical detail regarding the alternative. Far from coming across as a dictator, Gaddafi seems intelligent and reasonable in this book. There is no focus on destroying his enemies, but rather on how a great country could be built on nationalist and socialist principles.
1. The Prime Illusion is to believe that the physical world is the prima materia.
2. The Prime Delusion is to believe that one’s own consciousness is separate and distinct from all other consciousnesses.
3. The Prime Illusion belongs in the same category as other illusions such as that the Sun rotates around the Earth or that the Earth is flat.
4. Just because the physical world looks real doesn’t mean that it’s the prima materia. This status is reserved for consciousness.
5. The Elementalist laughs at people who believe the physical world is the prima materia, especially if this belief causes them to fear death.
6. Such people are as laughable as those afraid to travel in a boat lest they fall of the edge of the Earth.
7. The Prime Illusion is capable of causing horrific suffering to oneself.
8. The Prime Delusion belongs in the same category as other delusions such as that the existence of the divine cannot be proven or demonstrated.
9. Just because other consciousnesses cannot be proven to exist by empirical means doesn’t mean that their existence is less certain.
10. The Elementalist doesn’t laugh at people who believe that their consciousness is separate and distinct from all other consciousnesses. Such people are extremely dangerous.
11. The Prime Delusion is capable of causing horrific suffering to others.
12. A person is anxious if they suffer from the Prime Illusion to a minor extent. They are insane if they suffer from the Prime Illusion to a major extent.
13. A person is narcissistic if they suffer from the Prime Delusion to a minor extent. They are psychopathic if they suffer from the Prime Delusion to a major extent.
14. The purpose of spiritual practice is to overcome such illusions and delusions.
15. A person suffering from either the Prime Illusion or the Prime Delusion can be said to be unenlightened.
16. The less enlightened a time, a place, or a group of people, the more prevalent the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion will be.
17. The Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion have so much power because they cannot be disproven by appeal to empirical data.
18. The Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion have to be transcended on a spiritual level. This is achieved by raising one’s frequency high enough to be immune to illusions and delusions.
19. Full belief in either the Prime Illusion or the Prime Delusion will prevent a consciousness from advancing more than halfway up the Great Masculine Axis.
20. Partial belief in either the Prime Illusion or the Prime Delusion will prevent a consciousness from reaching the Summer Pole.
21. Compassion, when exercised on a spiritual level, is mostly a matter of helping people overcome the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.
22. Elementalism, in that it provides the cure to the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion, is a path away from suffering.
23. Identifying with the body intensifies both the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.
24. Identifying with the consciousness weakens both the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
