Spiritual Religions And Political Religions

Enormous confusion surrounds the discussion of religion. The term ‘religion’ seems to encompass some extremely different, even contradictory, attitudes and ideas. This essay argues that a major conceptual division needs to be made: between spiritual religions and political religions.

A spiritual religion is a doctrine that, if followed, will alleviate spiritual suffering. The alleviation of suffering is as close as this world gets to a universal moral good. As such, spiritual religions are seen as something holy. So both spiritual religions and political religions claim to be spiritual religions.

But in the same way that visiting a prostitute and having sex is not really making love, even though it appears similar, political religions are not really spiritual.

A genuine spiritual tradition is not concerned with the will for temporal and material power. A doctrine such as Buddhism teaches its adherents that gratifying such desires will not lead to happiness. And it is correct – once a person has met their basic physical needs, further happiness comes not from physical excess but from meeting social, intellectual and spiritual needs.

A political religion is a doctrine that is primarily concerned with temporal and material power. The authorities of a political religion are not concerned with alleviating suffering – they want power, money, fame, prestige. For them, suffering is a good thing, because it gives them a chance to portray their political enemies as the ones responsible, and themselves as the saviours.

The difference between a political religion and a political non-religion (such as Communism) is that the non-religion doesn’t attempt to cloak itself in the shroud of divine morality. Communism was happy enough teaching that consciousness is extinguished upon the death of the physical body. Political religions, by contrast, admit that consciousness survives the death of the physical body – but there’s a catch.

The catch is always this: your consciousness will reincarnate in a place of suffering in the next world unless you obey the political religion in this world. So the political religions demand that you give them money, time, labour and devotion in this world on the threat of suffering in the next.

The foremost examples of political religions are the Abrahamic cults, in particular Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Each of these has aped the spiritual wisdom of their age to create an ideological monster. Each of these teach that only by submitting to the priesthood can one achieve the cessation of suffering. The priesthood speaks for the divine – a power granted only to them. Therefore, obey or suffer.

The characteristic sign of a political religion is that they cause suffering in order to gain power. Relentless, grinding misery causes people to look to higher authorities for solace, which is why Abrahamism is doing so well in Africa and the Middle East. To this end, political religions usually support the persecution of women, homosexuals, prostitutes and drug users.

Also characteristic of political religions is that they drive out other authorities from cultural space, a kind of memetic brood parasitism.

All political religions decree that no other religion may co-exist with them. The Hebrew Bible states that “He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed” (Exodus 22:20), and the Koran commands follows to destroy non-believers at numerous points (2:191-193), (3:56), (4:74), (4:89), (5:33), (8:12), (8:39), (9:5), (9:73), (9:123), (47:3-4), (47:35), (48:29), (66:9).

Following this imperative, political religions do everything they can to destroy spiritual religions in any territory they control. In much the same way that criminal gangs of narcoterrorists don’t allow outsiders to operate on their turf, neither do criminal gangs of spiritual terrorists. True spiritual religions don’t need to aggress against other religions, because they know that the falsehoods of other doctrines will reveal themselves.

All spiritual religions understand that accumulating earthly power and wealth, gratifying as it may be to the ego, doesn’t provide spiritual solace. As such, true spiritual religions never have a “prosperity gospel” in which it is taught that material wealth is granted by God as a reward for righteousness. Neither do they hearken back to past times of military dominance as golden ages.

Buddhism, for example, doesn’t care if people don’t follow it. Anyone is free to reject the Buddha’s doctrine and indulge in sensory pleasures. But when a person tires of such indulgence, and they feel that it’s time to strike a balance between indulgence and abstinence, then the Buddhists are there to explain their methodology.

Islam, by contrast, cares a lot. Thirteen countries impose the death penalty for apostasy, all of them Muslim ones. This means that children are considered to be Muslim when they are born, and if they don’t like it as adults, they are killed. At the time of writing this essay, almost 1,000 people had been killed in the past 30 days in Islamic terror attacks. All of the killers were following the admonition of their religion to expand its political influence.

The irony, of course, is that all this makes spiritual religions look spiritual, and political religions look material, and this pushes all genuinely spiritual people towards the former, and all genuinely base people towards the latter. This explains why hedonistic self-aggrandisers, when they discover religion in adulthood, tend to discover political ones.

The clash between spiritual and political religions has defined much of the world’s history, and may define much of its future. There are many signs that suggest the Abrahamic cults are slowly uniting under one banner, and, when they do, they will inevitably try to conquer the world or be destroyed in the attempt.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, Abraham was probably the world’s first true psychopath. The cult he started developed into the greatest collective evil the world has ever known. This evil reflects Abraham’s sadistic desire for total control and dominance, something shared with all his followers. Indeed, Abraham could be said to be the father of political religion.

On the Mithraic ladder, Abrahamism is equivalent to the lead, the basest possible frequency. The spiritual religions, on the other hand, are equivalent to the gold. They are akin to divine radiance beaming down on us. Thus, although political and spiritual religions may appear very similar on the surface, it’s necessary to draw a sharp distinction between them. Ultimately, they reveal their true interests by their actions.

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The Quadrijitu

1. The Quadrijitu is the perfect map of the Great Fractal, at the lowest possible resolution.

2. The Quadrijitu is the holy emblem of Elementalism. Everywhere it is seen, the truth of Elementalism lives.

3. The Quadrijitu depicts the fundamental cycle of existence: how the masculine leads to order, and how order leads to the feminine, and how the feminine leads to chaos, and how chaos leads to the masculine.

4. The white dot in the red quadrant depicts how within the masculine is the seed of the orderly. This reflects the understanding that the essence of the masculine is that which imposes order upon chaos.

5. The blue dot in the white quadrant depicts how within the orderly is the seed of the feminine. This reflects the understanding that the effect of order is to attract the feminine.

6. The black dot in the blue quadrant depicts how within the feminine is the seed of the chaotic. This reflects the understanding that the essence of the feminine is that which imposes chaos upon order.

7. The red dot in the black quadrant depicts how within the chaotic is the seed of the masculine. This reflects the understanding that the effect of chaos is to attract the masculine.

8. Within the masculine is the seed of order, the seed of chaos and the seed of the feminine.

9. Within order is the seed of the feminine, the seed of the masculine and the seed of chaos.

10. Within the feminine is the seed of chaos, the seed of order and the seed of the masculine.

11. Within chaos is the seed of the masculine, the seed of the feminine and the seed of order.

12. Within all things are the seeds of all other things.

13. The black and white dots form the Great Feminine Axis. They represent the war between good and evil that exists in the physical world.

14. The blue and red dots form the Great Masculine Axis. They represent the dance between the masculine and the feminine that exists in the metaphysical world.

15. Together these dots represent the red of rage, the white of hope, the blue of joy and the black of despair.

16. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of the seasons, with red as spring, white as summer, blue as autumn and black as winter.

17. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of the day and night, with red as sunrise, white as noon, blue as sunset and black as night.

18. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of the rain, with red as evaporation, white as clouds, blue as precipitation and black as the ocean.

19. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of life, with red as youth, white as maturity, blue as old age and black as death.

20. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of wealth, with red as industriousness, white as wealth, blue as laziness and black as poverty.

21. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of learning, with red as knowledge, white as bliss, blue as ignorance and black as suffering.

22. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of breathing, with red as inhalation, white as fullness, red as exhalation and black as emptiness.

23. The Quadrijitu represents the cycle of existence, with red as integration, white as being, blue as disintegration and black as non-being.

24. The energy of the Quadrijitu propels consciousness through the Great Fractal. This likens a corkscrew motion, as the Earth moves through space. Its turning is the march of time, the speed of its turning the intensity of one’s existence.

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The Third Tenet Of Elementalism

1. The Great Fractal is the eternal and infinite interplay of the dance between masculine and feminine and the war between good and evil.

2. This is the Third and Expansive Tenet of Elementalism.

3. The Great Fractal is eternal because it is more fundamental than time.

4. Time is the illusion created by the movement of a fragment of consciousness through The Great Fractal.

5. The Great Fractal is infinite because it contains all of the possible contents of consciousness. Every perception, every emotion, every thought and every frequency are all contained therein.

6. The Great Fractal is an interplay, because its purpose is to entertain the gods throughout eternity. As such, its primary purpose is to offer somewhere for the gods to play.

7. The masculine and the feminine principles are engaged in an eternal dance. This dance sees one side take control, then the other, in a consensual exchange.

8. The good and evil principles are engaged in an eternal war. This war sees one side take control, then the other, in a non-consensual exchange.

9. The experience of the Great Fractal is one of consensual and non-consensual exchange of energies.

10. Everything that it is possible to perceive, to sense or to think is somewhere in the Great Fractal. Anyone wishing to perceive, sense or think that thing need only travel to the part of the Great Fractal where it is perceived, sensed or thought.

11. The life each of us is currently experiencing is merely a streak of consciousness through the Great Fractal, as a shooting star is a streak of light through the constellations.

12. The Great Fractal offers all to all.

13. The Great Fractal contains everything that any conscious being could desire to experience.

14. The Great Fractal contains everything that any conscious being could desire not to experience.

15. Each subfractal of the Great Fractal has its own unique frequency. This means that every perception, every sensation and every thought has its own unique frequency.

16. Each subfractal of the Great Fractal is populated by beings of a similar frequency.

17. The Great Fractal is eternally and infinitely alive, as every part of it is experienced, in every moment, by some fragment of consciousness.

18. Everything that can be known is known by at least one fragment of consciousness. Thus, consciousness is omniscient.

19. All subfractals of the Great Fractal are interdependent with all other subfractals. This is true of both worlds and dimensions.

20. The Great Fractal is formed by consciousness forgetting itself, which it does according to a pattern. This pattern is repeated across all planes: material, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.

21. Consciousness forgetting itself creates the distinction between yang and yin, and thereby creates masculine and feminine and good and evil, and thereby creates earth and water and air and fire and clay and iron and silver and gold.

22. The proportions of these elements in any subfractal of the Great Fractal determines the frequency of that subfractal.

23. Earth is a subfractal of the Great Fractal, as is the Solar System, as is the Milky Way Galaxy, as is the Observable Universe.

24. Understanding the Third Tenet leads naturally to the Fourth Tenet.

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The Second Tenet Of Elementalism

1. The Conceivable Universe is divided into consciousness and the Great Fractal.

2. This is the Second and Divisional Tenet of Elementalism.

3. The First Tenet of Elementalism is that consciousness is the prima materia. The Second Tenet relates to the Division of the One, which is the division of consciousness into consciousness and the Great Fractal.

4. In the beginning, consciousness is only conscious of itself. But by willingly choosing to forget parts of itself, it can cause itself to become conscious of other things.

5. All of these other things, whether physical or metaphysical, make up the Great Fractal, which itself is everything that it is possible for consciousness to perceive or to conceive.

6. The Conceivable Universe, then, is this twofold division between consciousness and the contents of consciousness.

7. Existence is nothing more than consciousness exploring the Great Fractal. This is understood by contemplating the Second Tenet.

8. Except for when consciousness is in a pure form, existence cannot be anything else. All lives, in all realms and dimensions, are experienced as a fragment of consciousness exploring the Great Fractal.

9. Everything that is conceivable falls into either the category of consciousness or the category of the contents of consciousness.

10. In contrast to consciousness, the contents of consciousness are ever-changing. Also in contrast to consciousness, the contents of consciousness are multifarious.

11. The Conceivable Universe, then, has a static component akin to the Sun, and a dynamic component akin to the Moon. The Sun-like component is consciousness, which radiates like the Sun, and the Moon-like component is the Great Fractal, which reflects all of the moods of the divine.

12. The individual conscious being experiences the Conceivable Universe as an ever-changing set of perceptions that pass through their consciousness. This is always true, no matter which dimension they’re in. It’s true before life, it’s true during life, it’s true after death.

13. Every individual being experiences reality this way: as a fragment of the divine consciousness exploring the Great Fractal, in eternity, through countless lives and countless deaths.

14. The intensity with which consciousness explores the Great Fractal is experienced as time. A low intensity will be experienced as time passing slowly. A high intensity will be experienced as time passing rapidly.

15. The higher the intensity with which consciousness explores the Great Fractal, the greater the emotional pressure. If this emotional pressure becomes too great, it is experienced as trauma.

16. The higher the frequency of a consciousness, the more rapidly it can explore the Great Fractal without incurring emotional damage. Dramatic changes in the contents of consciousness can cause suffering to lower-frequency minds.

17. Understanding the Second Tenet leads naturally to the Third Tenet.

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