The question of free will is one of the classic philosophical dilemmas. Do we have any choice over over our own behaviour? Or are we fated to perform certain actions because of our genes and conditioning? Traditional philosophy has explored a variety of approaches to this question, but Elementalism provides a new one.
The questions above are the basis of what is known as the free will vs. determinism debate.
The free will argument contends that people can do whatever they want to. People have a choice between good and evil, between selfless acts and selfish ones, and if a person’s true will is good they will do good. As such, people who do good can be treated as if their will is good, and vice-versa.
The determinist argument contends that a person’s future actions are restricted to a range determined by, among other things, a person’s genes and their conditioning. People don’t really have a choice about what they do, because they can only motivate themselves to act if the wiring of their brain creates an impulse to action.
This is an important philosophical question because, as alluded to above, the resolution of it determines how certain miscreants are to be treated. If free will exists, then criminals can be punished harshly. If not, then they have to be guided into making the right decisions by behaviour modification.
The Elementalist perspective, as is often the case, is that mainstream philosophy has missed the point entirely.
Elementalists believe that all of us are, fundamentally, individuated consciousness, and that these individual consciousnesses traverse the Great Fractal by way of matching frequencies. To the Elementalist, there is no material world – every individuated consciousness is aware of a set of perceptions, and each set of perceptions exists somewhere in the Great Fractal.
These sets of perceptions change as the frequency of one’s individual consciousness changes. Therefore, to change the world to that which one desires, it’s only necessary to change the frequency of one’s consciousness. This can be done through repeated exertions of pure will.
Because there is no hard material world, there is nothing forcing a human being to behave in any pre-determined manner. There aren’t really any neurotransmitters, or any limbic system, or any instinctual response brain circuitry or anything else involved in decision-making. There is just consciousness and the contents of consciousness. Life is but a dream, through which consciousness passes, forever.
Elementalists believe that anyone can get anything they wish for, whether in this life or in one to come, by matching the frequency of one’s consciousness with the frequency of the part of the Great Fractal in which that thing exists or is happening. In fact, Elementalists go as far as to believe that one inevitably lives a life that matches the frequency of one’s consciousness, whether this is wanted or not.
Accordingly, a person has to be careful about what their true will is – because they will get it.
If a person’s true will is to assert themselves violently over others, they will gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal where the order of reality is the violent assertion of power over others. Sometimes they will benefit from that, and sometimes they won’t – that’s how it goes when you wish for such things.
If a person’s true will is order, then they will get order. They will end up in a part of the Great Fractal where chaos is minimised. A person who ends up in such a place might not like it on account of that they find the order suffocating. In such a case, this will be reflected by their true will, leading to a change in the frequency of that person’s consciousness, in turn leading them to another part of the Great Fractal.
If a person’s true will is peace, their frequency will come to reflect this as it comes to reflect the sum total of that person’s actions in their life. This will cause them to gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal populated by peaceful beings. An individuated consciousness might experience this as bliss – or hellishly boring.
In summary, Elementalists believe implicitly in free will, so implicitly that they strive to perfect their mastery over it. Mastery over one’s true will is mastery over how one navigates the Great Fractal – either one drifts ignorantly through existence or one dances skillfully through.
The Elementalist conception of reality teaches that we are individual fragments of consciousness experiencing the Great Fractal, which we are free to explore in perpetuity. As such, there is no reason to assume any kind of determinism beyond the Seventh Hermetic Principle, or the Law of Cause and Effect.
What that means, in practice, is that one can only move through the Great Fractal at a pace and manner determined by one’s previous actions. The more heavily one’s karma weighs, the more restricted one will be to certain pathways, and the less nimbly one will be able to change direction. One’s karma is, of course, a reflection of one’s previously expressed true will.
Such arguments were no doubt understood by the monk in the image at the top of this page. Although he was a Buddhist, and not an Elementalist, he would have been aware that the material world is illusory and therefore that all sensations are transitory. As such, he would have possessed a great deal of the wisdom that Elementalists aspire to.
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say; when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.” – C. G. Jung, Aion (Collected Works 9ii)
As humanity enters a new decade, the sum of our collective fear, superstitions and ignorance has manifested into the smallest of nature’s creatures. A simple virus, just a fraction of a micrometre in length, a small chain of biochemical coding, has triggered the near-collapse of the most complex political, moral and economic system man has ever constructed.
The continuing effects of Corona-chan on our fragile world have been most enlightening. The sheer amount of fear this virus has sparked is sure to leave a deep and lasting impression on humanity. The consciousness of man, his whole paradigm of existence, is eternally changed.
Where could this lead? Let us explore some of the aspects of this transformative event with the aid of the hermit’s lamp.
A virus is a genuine oddity in nature; it exists in the twilight zone, somewhere between the concepts of alive and dead. A virus is incapable of self-replication and does not feed or produce its own metabolic energy. Even though it lacks impetus, within its complex chains of chemical information lies hidden structure and function.
Consider that a virus functions on the principles of attraction. Receptors on the virus’ outer membrane act as a key which fits into the corresponding lock of a target cell’s outer membrane. Once the key finds a lock that matches its specific pattern, the virus enters the cell by chemical subterfuge. Once inside the cell, the information hidden within the virus structure goes about certain practical functions through chemical processes most profound.
This sophisticated chemical program runs within set parameters; it first seizes specific operational components within the cell and then proceeds to replicate itself all while deploying an elaborate chemical camouflage to hide its activities. This process continues until a particular chemical trigger is released.
Now multiplied thousands of times, the virus violently explodes out of the cell and in the process destroys it. The process repeats in this way until the host dies or its native functions find a way to destroy all the infected cells. Once the organism has “learnt” how to identify and kill infected cells, re-infection of the host by the same virus does not typically reoccur.
Now, let us cast these observations into the mirror and reflect on how analogous a virus is to a meme. As with a virus, a meme encapsulates information within a structure that serves a particular function. Furthermore, as with a virus, a meme spreads by way of unlocking the consciousness through mimicry. Inside the mind, it goes about copying itself and then once it reaches a critical mass, explodes out of the host and into the memetic environment.
A most profound revelation can now be found when considering that this methodology, by which a virus or meme propagates, can also be its cause. Using the hermit’s lamp, we see the macrocosm reflected in the microcosm. As such, we can see how the forces which birthed Corona-chan are the very same spiritual forces representing humanity’s pent up anxieties.
Keeping these concepts in mind, let us consider the effects of fear on destiny, and what part ignorance and superstition play in the obfuscation of our destiny.
When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear – Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Some of the ruling elites – best exemplified by Bill Gates, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg – seek to subdue humanity to a twisted vision of a technocratic and totalitarian future. For the sake of us all, they urge, we need to expand the cages of our captivity and become even more connected in the never-ending pursuit of building a globe-spanning, human-machine.
In their dreams, the individual will become subjugated to the hive mind through technology. The ruling class of technocrats will direct the masses from their lofty heights for the common good. Transhumanism becomes the ultimate goal of humanity, especially the elites, in an attempt to alleviate our collective fear. Look to movies such as The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell or Transcendence as metaphysical critiques of this idea.
Some politicians eagerly support such an outcome and use the Corona-chan induced fear as a trigger to activate mass enforcement of such a memeplex. It is a forgone conclusion, they tell the masses. We will become progressively more integrated, progressively more “unified” as time progresses, it is only a matter of time, resisting this movement is counterproductive and short-sighted. They use fear to herd humanity into this consensus, but our divine soul reacts against this by producing a strong force of repulsion. This repulsion creates a feedback loop, empowering Corona-chan further.
The creeping technocracy illustrates one possible aspect of fear and how our spiritual subjugation to its memes can lead to an undesirable future. There are, however, an infinite number of these memeplexes fighting for dominance. They are all, by necessity, going nowhere – they are all primarily based on fear.
Let us now consider superstition. The MSM is today’s church, our moral leaders, the ones who tell us right from wrong and instruct as in all things ethical. Confronted with the Corona-chan meme, the MSM went into a fear porn inspired gala of superstitious claptrap of the “we are all going to die” variety. It is cringeworthy, to be honest.
For the first few weeks, when the virus was spreading around China, everything was all fine and dandy. Their sermons continued along the usual lines of “checking that racism”, “hugging your local Asian” or “go to Chinatown to eat stir fry, bigot.”
Their usual admonishments of globalist utopianism were not to last once it became clear that the virus indeed posed a real threat to the system on which they feed. The editors faltered a bit but managed to realign their moral compass in short order. They quickly directed their underlings to spew out sermon after sermon of tabloid grade fear porn. Superstition mixed with fear is to be the new drug with which they will subjugate the masses.
Now, yes, the ruling elites and high priests of the MSM are not the only ones to blame. In a world where materialism has become all-encompassing, humanity as a whole has become ignorant of their real purpose. Lost in Maya, the phenomenal world, and dragged down into ignorance by the fears and superstitions of their lower nature, the human race has become lost.
This existential crisis is probably the underlying anxiety from which the Corona-chan meme manifested.
The origins of Corona-chan may be a mystery to some, but others firmly believe that it is the manifestation of these three forces that birthed her into this world. It is now up to us, ordinary people, to decide which way this will go. Will fear, superstition and ignorance overpower humanity completely? Or is there another way forward?
If, as there is ample reason to suspect, the modern Freemasonic Order was profoundly influenced by, if it is not an actual outgrowth of, Francis Bacon’s secret society, its symbolism is undoubtedly permeated with Bacon’s two great ideas: universal education and universal democracy. The deadly enemies of universal education are ignorance, superstition, and fear, by which the human soul is held in bondage to the lowest part of its own constitution. The arrant enemies of universal democracy have ever been the crown, the tiara, and the torch. – Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
This short passage regarding Francis Bacon’s desire is most illuminating in the context of the discussion above. The uninitiated often ask, “What is our purpose?”, but to the initiated, it seems so obvious. The initiate, through Gnosis, knows that which alleviates all fears, sets aside all superstitions and vanquishes all ignorance. It is through this middle path, this hidden path and centrist philosophy that we can balance the spheres and remain focused on the great work.
Now more than ever, humanity needs to band together against those that want to subjugate our Spirit. We need to stand firm – there is another way, and it is yearning to be manifested.
Camus wrote that humanity is constantly challenged by the ever-present prospect of suicide. To many people, it isn’t obvious why one should keep going in a world with as much suffering in it as this one. Elementalism exhorts people not to kill themselves, a position that is outlined in this essay.
The approach of many other ideologies is to say that committing suicide will cause you to go to Hell. There’s some truth to this, but it’s a crude and superstitious explanation, and as such is not convincing to most adults. Elementalism offers a much more persuasive admonition: to commit suicide is to cause oneself to be reincarnated in a world where people commit suicide.
At this point, a distinction needs to be drawn between tragic suicides and understandable suicides.
A tragic suicide is usually one where the suicide leaves behind people that cared for them. That is to say, the suicide increases the net amount of suffering in the world. The vast majority of suicides of young people are tragic ones, on account of that young people usually have a number of family and friends who care for them and who would be upset by their death.
An understandable suicide is one that does not increase the net amount of suffering in the world. An example might be when a person is so old that their remaining life is no longer worth living, but to continue is to suck up resources that could be used on someone else. If a person has outlived all their friends, their brothers and sisters, and their wife or husband, they might not be causing more suffering by ending their life.
Elementalists believe in the Law of Assortative Reincarnation. This is the belief that the consciousness of individuals and the consciousness of worlds are matched by a process of metaphysical assortment that occurs after the death of the physical body. A corollary of this is the belief that people incarnated into this world because they deserved to.
Fundamentally, it doesn’t really matter if a suicide is tragic or understandable, because one is not assorted into the next world based on categorical variables (such as suicide or natural death, believer or non-believer) but based on a continuous variable, namely one’s frequency of consciousness. Therefore, the assortment is much more precise than what most people think it is.
As stated above, a person reincarnates into the next world because the frequency of that person’s consciousness matches the frequency of that world. Thus, it can be stated that the actions of the beings in the next world will be reflective of your actions here in this one. If your actions here are violent, reckless and indifferent to human suffering, then the actions of the beings in the next world will reflect that.
So a suicide might well find that they reincarnate in the next world, and start to live a life in the hope and expectation that they can wring some joy out of it, only to have (for example) a child of theirs kill themselves at a vulnerable moment. Or perhaps they reincarnate in the next world and are left orphaned by a parent’s suicide. The extremely callous and violent nature of a tragic suicide means that being confronted with such things in the next life is all but inevitable.
Note that the above examples are only examples. It is not possible to say that simply because you do something in this world that it will get done to you in the next, therefore it’s not as simple as saying that suicide leads to suicide. But if you live a life on a frequency of murderous self-hatred that leads to suicide, you will manifest in the company of similar beings, and you might not like it.
More to the point, perhaps, someone who struggles with depression or despair and overcomes it will also find that their frequency of consciousness comes to reflect that. Therefore, the sort of people they will attract, both in this life and the next, will be the sort of person who suffers and then overcomes it. In other words, men and women of gold.
Gold is made by transmutation of energies. If a person can suffer and yet transmute that energy into something positive – so that the initial suffering eventually led to a net reduction of suffering – then they have successfully practised gold magic. The ability to transmute suffering into its opposite is the highest of all arts, and commensurately, the transmutation of suicidal suffering into its opposite is among the greatest of all achievements.
An Elementalist who properly understands these doctrines will be extremely disinclined to kill themselves, for these reasons. It would be much better to not kill oneself, and instead to take the opportunity presented by life in this place to raise one’s frequency of consciousness by transmuting suffering into joy. This is the true path of liberation.
Understanding the Law of Assortative Reincarnation is to understand that, in the next world, we will be enveloped in the very same energy that we expressed in this life. Therefore, the greatest imperative is to act to transmute suffering into its opposite, and the least imperative is to act to bring further suffering into the world.
The argument for political globalisation is the argument for a one-world government. Whether or not the nature of such a global government is totalitarian or democratic has never been put up for public debate. We all assume that it would have to be democratic, but it is only the gullible among us that honestly believe that to be the case. The more cynical, or rather, sensible, just assume that some posse of faceless elites have decided that they are inherently superior to the rest of us and therefore have the right to rule over us.
It does seem reasonable that the only viable global state is undoubtedly going to be one based on dictatorial practices. The major obstacle is the inherent differences between racial totems which will see internal conflicts multiply as there are only so many resources to share between a global citizenry of nearly eight billion souls. A genuinely global governance system would need massive suppression of the populace to ensure resources are shared equitably.
It would also create a small and very well-paid ecosystem of crony enforcers and overlords and leave the masses without any legal recourse. The most optimistic outlook would be that any system implemented to suppress eight billion people would tire itself out very quickly.
We should not forget that this whole utopian vision is one created by western elites immersed in Abrahamic sympathies. The Chinese, the Indians, the Africans and funnily enough most of the European populations do not share this supremacist dream.
What is the connection between the Abrahamites and global imperialism? Well, the Bible details the Abrahamic dream of global supremacy thoroughly. The covenants made with Abraham and all his spiritual successors follow the same basic mantra, Psalms 2:7-9, illustrates this well:
I will proclaim the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son; today I became your father. Ask of me, and I will make the goyim your inheritance; the whole wide world will be your possession. You will break them with an iron rod, shatter them like a clay pot.”
Further Abrahamic texts in the so-called “New” Testament and plenty of Koranic text also make for excellent reference material. The bottom line is that global supremacy has been a pipe dream of the Abrahamites since time immemorial, it underpins the very premise of their faith.
All Abrahamic ideology is based on a tribalistic wet dream of supremacism. “I” over “thee”. Moreover, an adherent has all the moral and ethical certainties which go hand in hand with a personal deity, such as Theism postulates. A deity which elevates his followers over all others, and blesses them with an abundance of women and other material resources.
It is silver magic at its best. Luckily for the non-believers, this dystopian attempt to create a new Babylon is failing miserably. Simple viruses and occultic meme magic have proven significant adversaries to these worshippers of Moloch. They will continue to falter against the approaching dawn.
The world order which these Western elites are building is deteriorating faster than what they can rebuild. The USA, the best example of regional governance ever implemented, is fractured, unlike ever before. The frictions that led to the 1861 civil war do not even come close to the massive ethnic Balkanisation that happened across the USA since the introduction of the civil rights act of 1964 and the subsequent immigration changes. The federated United States is exponentially accelerating towards its own destruction.
In the old world, the European Union is the most successful attempt at a regional government since the USA. For a time it looked like a peaceful Europe may exist. However, the EU has continued to morph into an authoritarian and imperialistic bureaucracy, filled to the brim with unelected and unaccountable tyrants. Large parts of the European population are extremely disgruntled, and events such as Brexit are merely a taste of things to come.
There is also the damage done by the enforcement of globalist ideologies such as forced cultural and racial diversity to consider. The Multikulti tyranny is gradually erasing any form of natural diversity and replacing it with a cheap “one size fits all” cultural substitute. The backlash will be mind-blowing, grab some popcorn and strap in because some real “Day of the Rope” action is bound to happen in this part of the world.
Various other attempts at regional governance are flaccid in all aspects. The African Union is incapable of affecting even the most basic consensus on policy decisions. The reality is that on most days, it is just an excuse for corrupt dictators to squander the tax money of their hard-working citizens in Addis Ababa’s whorehouses.
The globalised economy is supposedly steered by superregional organisations such as the World Bank, IMF and World Trade Organisation. However, interest groups, most notably the Abrahamic money lending cartels and their corporate spawn in Europe and the US misuse these organisations for global hegemony.
The discriminatory voting system in the UN is still based on a western and imperialist ecosystem. Attempts to reform it has only led to the UN diminishing in stature year after year. It’s an expensive joke for the most part. One country (or ethnic group) legitimately raises an issue (Palestinians or Kurds for example), interest groups align, nothing happens.
Now for the good news. Rival ideological options are starting to emerge globally. Many are not clearly defined yet, but these reactionary ideologies are leading the daily assault on the status quo. Millions of lay and educated individuals on the historic left and right are going through a transformative phase which has seen the emergence of new and disruptive ideologies across the world.
Revolution is again in the air. Some argue that the best outcome of these reactionary ideologies would be a world in which we see a multi-polar world order as opposed to a centralised dictatorship.
It is only sensible that such poles would naturally centre around racial totems. The thick black lines would reappear on the map and power would be given back to the local populations to change them as they feel inclined.
There will be a reversal of globalist Multikulti policies and unfettered economic dominance of a small cabal. The concentration of political and economic power will be dispersed and localised. Natural order would again prevail over supremacist ideologies. Human harmony would be the primary aim of everyday endeavours.
Through the establishment of a genuinely democratic system, people would seek to restore ownership, agency and identity in a secure environment. A complete renaissance in the aspects of group and individual rights must follow. This renewed Magna Carta will require the establishment of a new form of political theory to rival the basic tenants of globalism. It should be fundamentally altruistic, rejecting any avarice and supremacism. Human spiritual fulfillment should be at its core.
As occultists, we believe in the natural order, in dharma. We understand the need to “uphold the world” as part of our esoteric practices. We must, therefore, advocate for sensible change in the exoteric traditions of the societies into which we manifest. If we are to see society change for the better, we need to instruct people according to the primary nature of their spirits.
Racial totems are a somewhat obscure topic rarely discussed among occultists. An understanding of racial totems is necessary to complete a more holistic view of reality and our goal of a stable and natural order (dharma).
Let us first consider a moral argument against the empirical science of race. Scientific racism in all its forms remains a repulsive child of modernism and the epistemological belief in empiricism. The measuring of noses and the classification of peoples based only on their natural expressions lead to unnecessary suffering, all in the service of greed and selfishness.
This moral argument against the scientific classification of humanity should, however, not interfere with our ability to perceive the natural temperamental and spiritual expressions as found within humanity.
Simply spend some time to observe the differences in temperaments of different human populations. A good example is to look at non-integrated immigrant communities with widely different racial totems. These immigrant communities seldom adopt the culture of their new hosts wholeheartedly. Wherever smaller groups do this out of necessity, it quickly disappears when the group achieves a certain percentage of the overall population. The immigrant community then reverts to a culture based on their inherent temperaments and friction between the totem powers escalates.
This process is a fundamental law of Spirit that needs to be understood; the Great Fractal splits into various components, each having an overriding or dominant characteristic. All resultant expressions of the fractal along that line will then follow the same characteristic pattern.
Human populations which share common human ancestors would naturally live more harmoniously within an environment where these characteristics form the status quo. It comes down to the occultic laws of attraction and repulsion.
God truly does express himself differently in different groups. Individuals in one group cannot easily perceive God through the optics of another. This principle is a biological function as much as a sublime mystery. Any form of dharma or social order should seek to minimise this effect as far as possible by preventing it entirely.
A new political dispensation is, therefore, what is needed to overcome this ever approaching tyranny. The specifics of which will be an ongoing discussion, however, laying down a fundamental esoteric law would be a good starting point for some productive discussion.
Let us consider that reality is ultimately a form of two entangled natures. The first nature is one of awakened consciousness or Spirit and the other, the reflection, but more correctly, the reverse, which we simply call un-consciousness or matter-energy.
These two elements fuse to join and manifest reality in an infinite amount of variations but always in a state of balance-seeking. All matter is animated by Spirit, and all Spirit finds expression in matter. Alternatively, as an old maxim states “Quod est inferius, est sicut quod est superius.” This ancient maxim is a key to understanding the Great Fractal and all manifested reality.
If we are to see a stable political system, we must endeavour to model it as near to this principle as possible. Any stability-seeking system will allow for the transmutation of energy from the one extreme to the other and vice versa in a predictable and orderly manner. Both extremes should be able to influence the other freely.
A firm top-down system seems to be the most practical way in which societies in more stable and cultured eras found expression. The simple reason why this worked for so long is that the magi had tremendous influence over those societies.
Kings under heredity monarchical systems may have ruled by decree; however, it was God that allowed them that power, the magi that revealed that power and the people who were the receptacle of that power.
Once a ruler forsook natural order, destiny would step in and relieve the said monarch of his power in short order. This lack of duty towards his subjects would lead to the magi forsaking him, and God forsaking him. He was then left vulnerable and without a mandate. His enemies, or even his close subordinates, would then capitalise on this state and relieve him of his rule.
Any elective system seems to be a superior option, especially if a robust bottom-top / top-bottom mechanism is put in place. A genuinely responsive system of democratic rule has thus far been elusive since there no technology to build it on. In today’s world, where even the poorest of citizens have a smartphone, an interactive democracy or elective monarchy could quickly become a possibility.
The rise of a global patchwork of localised states, based on a tiered elective and super responsive system of governance, would dramatically increase competition. It would remove the burden of superfluous trade and production, and increase the absolute quality of the human experience all while upholding the values of our racial totems against Abrahamic supremicism.
