Chapter 4: Nibiru
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey (The Journey Home, 1977)
Thomas Hobbes, who wrote Leviathan in 1651, believed that government was necessary to bring order. He thought that a State of nature without government would lead to conflict and war. In fact he thought that any government was better than no government. But what if Hobbes was wrong? What if humans in a state of nature are capable of building a stable society? What if we do not need big brother controlling us? What if the government was causing the conflicts that it was supposed to solve?
The fourth concept is called Jupiter, which is blue, the element water and the God of the West. He has two different personalities. The first is a God of passion, Dionysus, who is the seasonal God. His name, Evo, means spring, summer and fall. He reincarnates each year. Some cults believe you can be spiritually saved by living like Dionysus, which means you live as part of the cycles of life. They believe that when you die, Dionysus will judge where you will go in your next life, which means that, when you die, you are what you were in life, and this will determine where you will go in the next life. Like a seed, you wait in the underworld for a little while. The life you're born into is what your soul chooses. You had better live naturally, so your soul will choose a natural life. If you worship something other than Nature, you might put yourself in an unnatural life. I like cults that make life the objective of their religion.
Some cults make Dionysus a death God. They hate life and think Dionysus will save them from life. They pervert the concept of Dionysus as a salvation God. They do not wish to reincarnate, but simply want it all to stop and be saved from life. They believe in a Dionysus who hates passions. I prefer the Dionysus of life and passion. To me, Dionysus is a party God. Unfortunately, modern Christian churches make Christ a death Dionysus, a savior from life. I prefer to believe that Christ is the life-giving Dionysus. I believe the most sacred thing is to be part of Nature. Salvation is only gained by being part of Nature, not by separating from it. Those who separate from nature are putting themselves into their own sterile Hell.
The true Dionysus is a union of matter and spirit, his mother and father. Several symbols can be used on banners and hung in the temple. A symbol for the banner of the West is a six-pointed star, made from uniting a triangle pointing up, representing spirit, with a triangle pointing down, representing matter. A "T" in the middle represents the tree of life. The "T" should be red to represent the life-giving east wind. The star should be yellow; representing the solar, life-giving Dionysus. The symbol looks best on a blue banner.
The other personality of Jupiter is that of destroyer and purifier, called "Jove." His name is the letters of the seasons backwards. In our clockwise calendar, these letters would appear counterclockwise. Jove is the counterclockwise Thunder God of destruction. He is the west wind of fall, a necessary and important part of Nature. A person on a vision quest can gain wisdom by understanding the destructor.
In the early twentieth century progressive forest managers thought they could increase the number of deer by eliminating predators. The deer population increases and ate too much of certain kinds of vegetation. The environment became unsuitable for deers. Deer began to disappear from large areas in the eastern United States. Ecologist realized that they needed the predators. Creatures in nature adapt to ecological conditions. This creates a fragile balance that can be easily disturbed by bad management. This is one example of how progress makes changes that cause more problems.
The swastika represents the purifier. The number 4 represents one of the branches of the swastika. The number 8 is the union of two fours, representing two branches of the swastika, the west wind and the direction west. The number of the priest is eight. The middle of the number eight is the Door between the known and unknown. The two halves of the figure eight represent spring and fall, birth and death. The oak tree is a symbol of both four and eight. The blue door is four, the number of the destructor. Like the blue points of the Morning Star, it can represent either destruction of the self, to become Nirvana, or destruction of Nirvana to become the self.
Almost all primitive cultures understand a Thunder Being, a sort of disciplinarian who kills monsters and strikes down sinful people. He sustains the tribal laws. Stories of a Thunder God who fights a giant snake-like water spirit are common all over the world, and the struggle has different meanings. Sometimes the struggle can be the conflict of the civilized and the uncivilized. Jove fights Tiamat.
The Native Americans knew a Thunderbird and also knew Earth and Nature. Their religion was well-balanced. Not all religions are so well-balanced. Civilized people have forgotten Earth and Nature, but still have a God who likes to control. He is the God of Civilization. He is Zeus. Not everyone who believes the world is evil wishes to end their life. There are those who would like to change the world. These people believe in progress and wish to make the world what they believe it should be; but that does not mean that they are always good. In Greek mythology Zeus overthrew his father, Saturn, and started civilization. We became civilized and lost Nature. Some people think civilization started with agriculture. Primitive forms of agriculture are not exactly as bad as civilization, but they do begin the process that led to civilization. Saturn, the God of agriculture, planted the seeds of his own destruction.
I have heard people say that agriculture freed humanity from starvation. I sometimes ask them how they knew starvation existed before agriculture. They say that a primitive hunter could come home empty-handed and so, his family would starve. I ask them how they knew that a primitive hunter ever came home empty-handed. They just assume he occasionally did. Perhaps a primitive hunter-gatherer knows his environment so well that he almost never comes home empty-handed. Most places on Earth are full of things to eat.
Agriculture did not end starvation. On the contrary, agriculture made starvation more common. People became dependent on their crops, which occasionally failed. Agriculture creates temporary periods of plenty that allow many people to settle in one place. These settlements often pollute and overuse the nearby land. People can no longer live off the land as hunter-gatherers. When the crops fail, they starve. Starvation is common in agricultural societies. Hunter-gatherers tend to move around, never settling in one place for very long. They never overuse the land, but live as part of Nature's balance. Farmers lost the balance with Nature and they eventually needed more land to support their system. They developed methods to take over more land and spread their system. Hunter-gatherers were unprepared to fight the new insanity. Agriculture spread like a disease all over the world.
Agriculture was an early artificial technology. All forms of technological advance change the world and make the world more unnatural. The older way is replaced by the new. Once the balance of Nature is upset, things will go wrong. To solve these problems, people add more technology. They upset the balance further, even though they are often kind people who just want to help mankind by fixing problems.
People in civilization feel uncomfortable with the way things are and want to make things better. Humans can only be comfortable in their natural environment, the one he is biologically designed to fit, where all his natural desires are satisfied. Progress has changed the human's environment; therefore, he cannot feel comfortable. A civilized human will feel unnatural stress that he is not naturally made to deal with. He sees people around him suffering in ways that Nature would never make them suffer. He does not realize that this suffering is caused by progress. Instead, he wishes to add more progress. He adopts progressive goals and ideals and thinks he is doing good.
A civilized system becomes such a massive machine that it quickly uses up its supplies. This system is not a natural part of the balance of Nature; all that it gives back to the environment is toxic waste. The environment cannot reprocess this waste into healthier material. Things go wrong and civilization changes more things to keep itself running. It just uses and uses. Eventually, civilization must conquer other lands to support the insane system. They also develop new methods to spread this system, so it spreads, and Zeus rapes more and more of the world. Progressive civilization has become what Daniel Quinn called "the taker culture."
The takers will destroy whole races of people who get in its way. Those who are taken in by civilization become part of it and help it spread. Civilization had conquered them, controlled them, and destroyed the natural environment they once had. Unnatural technology replaced a natural way of life. A few people who may have tried to go back to the old ways were unable to do so, because the land they once lived in has been damaged. Eventually, people forgot how to live without civilization. As time went on they forgot the ways of Nature completely. Civilization is like an addictive drug; it makes people dependent on it.
I live in an age of advancing technology. The computer that I am using to write this book is already outdated. It was considered a great technological marvel a few years ago, but it can't do half the things the new computers can do. I cannot find parts or software for it anymore and will have to replace it soon. As technology advanced, we lost more of our contact with Nature. People were also faced with more new, unnatural conditions. People developed unnatural world views, which included new progressive idealism. Newer civilized methods replace old ones. Civilization becomes more powerful by adopting more advanced methods. More powerful civilizations wiped out weaker civilizations. Only the most civilized ruled and spread, giving birth to new civilizations. Humans became more insane.
If you show a civilized person errors in other civilizations, he will say that his civilization is better, but in reality his is probably just the same. All civilizations are pretty much alike. All civilizations turn people into machines and program them to do what the system wants. I use the swastika to represent all civilization. Progress has spread like a disease all over the world. It is a parasite on the world ecosystem that kills Nature and makes the world sterile. If progress continues, it will kill the entire world and leave a poisoned planet. I believe we must stop progress before it is too late. Progress is a disease from which we must gain immunity.
In Greek mythology Zeus is free to rape anything he wants; but the age of Saturn will return and we will someday return to Nature. Once the balance of Nature is upset, things will go wrong, but Nature can come back. The balance will eventually re-establish itself. It may take a thousand years or more, and civilization may destroy most of the world, but Nature will come back. If we do not return to Nature, we will destroy ourselves and Nature will return without us. Hopefully one day mankind will learn that civilization is wrong and reject it.
Baptism
The Story of a great flood appears in many cultures. The waters of death purify the world. The old ways are washed away and something else will grow in its place. The story of the flood and baptism is understood by many agricultural societies. Such people pride themselves on having risen above their hunting-gathering ancestors. Advanced agricultural societies have full-blown civilization, with elaborate baptism rituals and a culture with rigid, strict and regulated behavior. You must be domesticated to fit their ways. They have left the old world of the primitive savage and entered the new world of civilization. The baptism is a door. We are living in the age of this flood, as civilization surrounds us and wants to domesticate us by killing our natural selves. The older hunters had so much more independence and freedom. Personal dreams and visions are important parts of the hunter-gatherers' religions. The agricultural religion emphasizes conformity to the system.
The system spreads and grows. Most people are not conscious of what is happening. Too many people blindly support progress, without realizing the results of their actions. Zeus is the Satan who tricked us out of Eden. The progressive person makes progress a goal and dedicates themselves to it. Following progress is a form of asceticism. Rather than directly destroying themselves, they destroy the environment, but, by doing that, they are also destroying themselves, because humans are part of the environment.
Civilization does not only attack the world outside us, but also attacks the nature inside us. New methods of domestication us are developed, to make us ever more part of the system. Civilization's greatest, most utilized technology is domesticated people. People will remain the most utilized component of civilization, until progress finds a way to replace them. When civilization no longer needs people it will eliminate us.
A person can also go through a baptism. The old self is washed away and the person is reborn as a new person. This is the ritual of life, death and rebirth. Some people think you must be born again. Usually they want you to end the old you, go through a rebirth cycle and pass through the mystical door into a new you. They sometimes believe that they are achieving a greater wholeness, better development, or something. These people are committing self-progress. They may be training themselves to fit civilization, or they may be trying to rid themselves of the nature in them that does not fit civilization. Whatever is causing them to take these steps is probably unnatural. A human in Nature is able to live as himself; he is born right the first time. In unnatural societies, conditions force people to change themselves. They destroy a part of themselves. The part they kill could have helped them to live a natural and full life.
Civilized people do not realize that self-sterilization is wrong, because they believe in their system. They condemn people who do not develop as they do. They might call people who do not progress immature, but actually the progressive people are immature because they are addicted to civilization and cannot live like normal, natural adults. They mistake domestication for maturity. Civilization will turn people into social rejects if they do not fit the system. They put pressure on people to progress and die like them, so they can be reborn as part of the system. They are insane, and hope to force their insanity on everyone. They may seem to be trying to help, because they seem to make the domesticated person's life less troubled, but the trouble is caused by the system that claims to offer relief.
Beat a wild animal enough and it will deny its natural will and become domesticated. Once domesticated, you can reward him when it obeys. The civilization has taken freedom away from the animal. Civilization turns peoples' minds away from Nature and towards the false reward of civilization.
Civilization makes promises, and believers strive to achieve these rewards. Some civilizations are set up so that people who strive to achieve these rewards are helping the system. Some civilizations are set up so that people who try to achieve these rewards are putting themselves deeper and deeper into the system. Civilization does give some rewards to those who fit it, but these rewards are not as good as a free, natural life. Natural desires are not satisfied in civilization, but civilization will tell you that those desires are evil and must be rejected. Civilization may tell you that you must be uncomfortable, so you can get some better comfort.
Progressives think that Nature is the problem and create a religion, which thinks Nature is evil. They think that their unnatural environment is natural and blame Nature for their problems. Or perhaps they know their environment is not natural and want something they call Nature that is not natural. They do not know what Nature is and do not realize that we belong in Nature. Some even think that they can help less-civilized people by making them more civilized.
Sometime civilized domestication techniques use psychology to clear peoples' minds of conflict. These conflicts are unnatural and are caused by civilization; in its natural state the mind would not have them. Those cults will tell you that the conflicts are natural and that civilization will solve the conflict. Perhaps they think they are fighting the Id, which is a psychological term for instinct. They are just fighting their own mind and perverting it, so that it fits a perverted system. They might call free people perverted.
Perhaps the pain of denying the system is too great; people trapped in it see no other choice. They have been taught to hate Nature and do not know how to do anything but be part of the system. They become believers in the civilized cult and believe they have become better than Nature. They are merely sterile and inhuman. They might call themselves "the perfect," or "the chosen," or something similar. Civilized people believe the domestication process is good, and even try to think of new ways of doing it. They give their kids over to be domesticated by Jove and think of ways to put other people into their system. They believe the rewards of civilization are better, think they are improving the world and making it a better place. They might think they are doing it for their kids, but they do not realize the Hell they are actually putting the kids into. People in the future will look back at the Progressives of the past and say; "They did it to us."
All forms of civilization are Jove cults. They believe Nature is wrong and wish to change Nature. Civilized religions such as Christian Fundamentalism make salvation the primary goal at the expense of other values. A baptized Christian has had the old world purified out of him and now lives in a new world. They go as far as claiming claim that Nature Gods are evil. I think Jehovah, the Protestant God, is evil. Communists make progress a religion and follow it like a God. I consider both Jehovah and communist ideals to be a form of Zeus. People who follow both of these cults are dedicated to an unnatural progress.
In some form or another, all civilized people are detached from Nature and hate Nature. They all wish to change Nature. Sometimes they claim to love Nature, but do not know what Nature is. You cannot love Nature, unless you make yourself a part of it. Fighting your nature is self-hatred. It works out this way because we are part of Nature. The door and the rebirth should be life into life into life, the same each rebirth and should never progress permanent destruction. We can learn from changes in life but don’t let these changes become self domestication.
Baphomet
Progressives are never satisfied with going up one level. They actually think you must climb up many levels. Sometimes, they think we were created to constantly progress forever. There are many different stairways in progress. An example of this stairway might have one level of learning about progress; a higher one might be spreading progress; an even higher one might be becoming progress itself. They think that at the top of this stairway is some really great thing, usually an ideal, like God, some great mind, pure spirit, or some progressive wisdom of which they want to be part. These levels are called spiritual levels, as if progress was something spiritual; I prefer to think it is something else. They might think that spirit should rule over matter, as if there was some great mind that wants progress.
Some Progressives think that there is no great mind yet. They think that progress will make the great mind happen. They might say progress is the mystic law. The idol of the mystic law has a name. It is Baphomet. I prefer a different kind of mystic law. I do not like any God who wants the kind of progress civilization has given to the world. I prefer to think that the great mind does not want us to progress to him. He might just want us to live normally without progress. Perhaps progress is simply man-made; no God involved. Whatever the case, it seems like it is up to us to decide if we want progress or not. We should look at the physical evidence of what progress does and not assume it is a metaphysical law.
Progressive people have an image of an idealistic world, which they think their progress will create. It is a view of a Heaven on Earth they call Utopia. They also think that they must become the bearers of this ideal. The ideal is an idol, which Progressives might worship and strive to be like, while they try to accomplish progress. They could be lone ascetics, trying to progress themselves or they could be trying to progress the world. Basically, anyone who thinks he must achieve some higher level is a Progressive. His higher reality is probably higher insanity. He thinks it is a stairway to Heaven, but it is actually a stairway to Hell. I use the word "Hell" to mean many different things. In this case, I mean something bad, something that could kill the Earth. People who think they want some higher ethics or some higher good do not realize the evil they are contemplating.
The symbol of Jupiter is a hammer. It can be used to break or build, but actually whenever you build anything, you destroy something. You should check to see what you are destroying. Some people think we are getting wiser because we can solve problems that our ancestors could not. A Progressive might equate this learning with progress and think that it is a reason to support progress. He might not realize that these lessons were learned from experience of solving the disasters that progress created. He might think that the problems were natural and not caused by progress. Progressives are sometimes most impressed at how progress can eliminate social problems such as slavery, not knowing that slavery was the product of progress to begin with. Perhaps this ability to learn how to solve any problem is a natural part of humanity. Perhaps someday we will get wise enough to eliminate progress.
It takes courage to escape civilization. Natural humans might seem to be weaker than Jove, but I believe we can fight him and win, even though civilization has infected the whole world. A few people have the courage to fight civilization. These people might be the hope that will save us. Perhaps if more people understood Nature and realized that civilization is wrong, we could stop the destruction of the world.
We should keep scientific knowledge, since knowledge could keep us from making the same mistakes again. Today, civilization uses applied science to invent technology and destroy Nature and move us farther from Nature. We should stop applying it and use science for research only. We can travel the stars, but we should also remember to protect the Sacred Grove. We have the power to change the world. Perhaps what we need is the wisdom not to use that power.
It is possible that the seeds of progress started before the age of Saturn. Perhaps they started when humans began using signs. Archaeologist have found that Homo sapiens used more symbols than earlier people. The behavior of the modern Homo sapiens must have seemed crazy to other humans. The craziness let us create illusions that we could follow. It is the door that made progress possible. It started over 40 thousand years ago. The modern humans wiped out all other forms of humans. I wonder what the first Thunder Dreamer was like. Did he see the Circle, the Tree, the Door and the Power?
Progressive thinkers
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3207
Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path. Published by St. Martin's Press, 1981. http://www.bfi.org
Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising. Published by Falcon Publications, 1983. http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml