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The Multi Social Contract:

A State could offer a selection of social contracts outlining the duties of the citizen and the responsibilities of the State. There could be an anarchist-friendly social contract whereby the State offers little and demands little; there could be a libertarian social contract where, again, the state adopts a minimal profile. In other cases, the State could offer a social contract based on basic income, or one that offers no such safety net, and so on.

Of course, there are all manner of practical difficulties regarding the implementation of the Multi Social Contract, but since it offers everyone what they want then it would be best possible political system if it could be engineered correctly.

The relative effectiveness of the different social contracts would become evident over time, and they might finally converge on just a couple of the most viable social contracts.

By offering a multi social contract theory of politics, we can appeal to everyone, even those with whom we have no sympathy. Let everyone go to hell in their own way! We would avoid looking like totalitarians. We would be able to emphasize freedom and choice, and catering for different lifestyles and belief-systems.

Wouldn’t everyone like to say: “This is who I am and this is the sort of society I want to live in.” And then actually get what they want! How many people right now get the system they desire? – virtually no one. The whole thing is a one-size-fits-all botched and bungled compromise that satisfies only one group – the privileged elite at the top.

The optimal state should be based on a choice of social contracts. Everyone should personally choose a social contract to sign up to. At the moment, we are tacitly bound by a set of rules and laws we never agreed to, hence we are all slaves. You can be free only when you freely choose the laws by which you live. You are never free if they have been imposed on you. Imagine finally being free of the Old World Order, the Abrahamists and the ultra-capitalists!

Meritocracy has to sell itself as the true vehicle of freedom and choice. It can offer multiple social contracts to the citizens, all based on the central idea that each social contract will be tailor-made for groups of like-minded citizens. Everyone gets the social contract they want. Why would anyone who values freedom and choice oppose that?

If people don’t want freedom and choice and prefer things to stay as they are then that’s their choice. It’s time to put up or shut up. Radical change is on the agenda, or the same old crap. There’s no other possibility.

The meritocratic movement therefore has two strands:

1) Putting multi social contracts on the political agenda – splitting up nations into states or city-states, each expressing a particular ideology, just like ancient Athens, Sparta, Thebes and Corinth.

2) Establishing suitable policies for those states or city-states that choose to define themselves with regard to meritocratic thinking rather than other ideologies, always bearing in mind that any disputes over policy such as the one involving basic income can be resolved by invoking separate social contracts.

We do not need to commit ourselves to anything other than fundamental meritocratic rules such as ensuring that no dynastic, privileged elites can ever emerge. All other policies are “thought experiments” in a sense, and if they are at serious odds with each other then they can be moved into alternative social contracts.

In other words, meritocracy can express itself via several social contracts with many similar points, but also with significant policy differences in the detail i.e. we can be mature and sensible enough to allow meritocracy to come in several flavours. There’s no need for disagreement. If you have a serious problem with one type of meritocratic social contract you simply find another one more agreeable to you.

Our whole approach should be based on the avoidance of any type of one-size-fits-all “totalitarian” thinking and, instead, the offer of bespoke social contracts which can yield people as much as, say, 90% of what they’re looking for (there will always be a need for minor compromises).

Freedom, choice and flexibility must be our watchwords. We can appeal to everyone, even to non-meritocrats, by offering them the chance to create states or city-states based on the values important to them. If Muslim fanatics want a Sharia Law city-state, that’s their choice. But if their system fails (as it surely would!) and they then want to join the hyper-successful meritocratic states and city-states, they must abandon all of their old values. They will have to sign the meritocratic social contract and be bound by its terms.

We don’t need to get into arguments with any of our enemies. We can actually say we will work with them to give them exactly what they want, and they will of course have to give us exactly what we want too.

It’s the final political Revolution, the end of the Freedom Dialectic. How could you be any freer than in a state or city-state that you chose yourself because it reflected your core values and identity?
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If Democracy is so good:

Hillary Clinton said, “History has shown that democracies tend to be more stable, more peaceful and more prosperous.”

If democracy is so good, why doesn’t it apply to the workplaces in which all of the supporters of democracy work? Why are the workers never allowed to elect the CEO or President of the company? Why are they never allowed to appoint the board members? Why are they never permitted a say in recruitment and promotion, or to sit on the remuneration board?

Companies are dictatorships: authoritarian, hierarchical structures where all decisions are taken at the top. It is through companies that we see the true face of what is happening in so-called democracies. The privileged elite at the apex of the companies take the decisions and the workers – the ordinary people – are never consulted, and their opinions are regarded as worthless.

If the elite actually believed in democracy, they would ensure that all aspects of society were democratic, wouldn’t they? In fact, they make sure democracy gets nowhere near the workplace, thus betraying their real contempt for democracy and the people.

We advocate meritocratic democracy in the workplace whereby all positions in a company are subjected to democratic votes regarding who is the most meritorious person to assume a position. The decision-making is thus taken away from the management elite and given to the workers.

Rather than allowing the big bosses to decide their own remuneration and bonuses, it should be up to the workers to decide. Wouldn’t that constitute a genuine revolution? It would change EVERYTHING at a stroke.
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Freedom and Choice:

We experience freedom when we are able to exercise meaningful choices. We have plenty of freedom when it comes to consumerism, and little or none anywhere else.

In elections, we are allowed to choose between those whose names have been placed on the ballot paper, but how many of us had any say in who got on the ballot paper in the first place? Overwhelmingly, we are alienated from politics.

We have no freedom and choice in the workplace. The dictators at the top of the pyramid issue the decrees that everyone must obey. Hence we are also alienated from our work.

We have no say over the banking system, hence the economy, and thus we are alienated from that too.

We are alienated from all aspects of our lives other than those that involve consumption (i.e. the activity that gives our money to the capitalist elite).
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One-Size-Fits-All:

In a sense, meritocracy is about a war on the one-size-fits-all mentality and ideology.

In the State education system, you get one type of education for everyone, the assumption being that all pupils and students are somehow identical.

We have advocated treating the human race as being composed of 16 different tribes based on Myers-Briggs types, hence there should be 16 different education systems, each tailor-made for each tribe.

The State should guarantee us not just any old education, but a bespoke education that will give us the best chance in life. Such an education has to recognise that the 16 different tribes have radically different ways of learning; something that is never acknowledged by the powers-that-be.

A corollary is that these 16 different tribes all have different responses to religion, politics, philosophy, science etc. – so a one-size-fits all solution satisfies no one.

Why are there so many different religions and political ideologies in the world? It’s because each religion or political system makes sense to one tribe, but not to a different tribe, so that different tribe has to find something knew. Look at the difference between Abrahamists and Gnostics, between Abrahamists and atheists. The Abrahamists are advocates of “faith”, while Gnostics and atheists are preoccupied with knowledge. Gnostics and atheists are “rationals” while Abrahamists are “guardians”. Neither group understands the other.

The reason this is so important is that it goes to the heart of meritocracy. Who decides who is most meritorious? If every tribe has a different idea of merit then the concept is reduced to a shambles. It becomes bogged down in disputes and the most numerous tribe is likely to get its way.

In capitalist countries, merit is decided by how much money you have – a disastrous criterion. In Abrahamist societies, the most “meritorious” are the most fanatical followers of Abrahamism – another disastrous criterion. In sensation seeking societies, the most meritorious are those who take the biggest risks – “dangerous sports” addicts, the fastest drivers, the best sportspeople etc. In societies based on emotion, those who emote the best are the highest regarded – the Mother Theresas of the world and the Oprah Winfreys.

Intuitives revere those with the best ideas, the ideas offering the most possibilities for future growth and development. Thinkers esteem the most logical step-by-step thinkers, with scientists at the top of the tree.

So, unless only your tribe gets to decide on matters important to you, you are likely to have to endure other people’s idea of merit.

We have a hopelessly jumbled and muddled world – a global Babel – where everyone is talking not just different languages but different psychological languages too. None of the tribes can agree on anything. Everything is reduced to ineffectual and irrational compromises. No wonder so much of life is shambolic.

Jung spoke of the need for individuation, one of the central aspects of which is the process of differentiation of the four psychological functions of thinking, feeling, intuition and sensing. Each psychic component has to be analysed separately in order to be properly understood; otherwise you get an undifferentiated chaos of mental impressions and ideas over which you can exert no control. Our world is the equivalent of an undifferentiated Mind that has no self-understanding. By emphasizing the 16 different Myers-Briggs tribes we are effectively taking the first step towards the healthy individuation of humanity.

Some people advocate a policy of simply ensuring that the different types are given more of an education about the other types in order to better understand and deal with them. This is indeed an important step, but it doesn’t go far enough. It’s easy for a rational person to understand why so many people flock to Islam; it’s a brilliant brainwashing system for targeting credulous, superstitious, badly educated people desiring some Mythos framework for their lives. However, that in no way makes it acceptable to a rational person, or any easier to deal with. Any rational person in an Islamic society is in big trouble. Full stop. Rationality is not welcome there because it invariably undermines the authority of the irrational Koran. So, the best that can be done is to ensure that all rational people are given an easy escape route from Islam.

Imagine a world in which you had a genuine choice between different education systems, political systems, economic systems, philosophical systems, psychological systems and religions. Isn’t that the freest world you could have? What could be freer?

Being forced to abide by the hostile rules of other tribes constitutes slavery not freedom. All of the tribes are held back by the other tribes. None of them get what they want, so they are all miserable.

We drag each other down by trying to live in these one-size-fits-all systems and societies. We will never be free until we realise the truth of the human condition – that we are incompatible “species” that are guaranteed to be hostile towards one another.

Philosopher Thomas Hobbes had a vision of nature consisting of perpetual, brutal war that could only be stopped by a huge power – the Leviathan – that enforced its Will on all the warring factions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau had a vision of human nature in which, left to their own devices, people would be cooperative and live in peace and harmony. It was “civilisation” itself, he maintained, that was the cause of conflict through introducing divisive ideas such as private property, status, hierarchies, political factions etc.

In fact, Hobbes and Rousseau are both right, and both wrong. Conflict is, as Hobbes recognised, inevitable. Why? Because there are 16 tribes, often with little in common and that quickly provoke and incur the enmity of their fellow tribes.

But Rousseau is also right because if people all belonged to the same tribe they would indeed cooperate and live in harmony because there would be little friction between them. They would all be on the same wavelength.

Isn’t it time we took the radical step necessary for final freedom and accepted that many of us will never get along because we are simply too different? Hence we should be separate. Race has traditionally been used to justify separating people – most notoriously in South Africa during the Apartheid regime – but that is a ridiculous criterion. How you perceive and conceptualise the world, how you think, feel, sense and intuit – these are the proper basis for separation. It’s not a question of anyone being morally better or worse than anyone else; it’s just a question of difference. We have to understand difference and know how best to deal with it to get the most out of everyone. We will never achieve that in the one-size-fits-all society where people dogmatically insist that all human beings are the same.

If you want a world in which you experience the maximum degree of freedom, you must be allowed to live in a society that is extremely well matched to your value system. You will never feel free if you are in continual conflict with others and continually forced to accept defeat or abide by hopeless compromises.

If we can freely choose between different consumer objects, why can’t we also freely choose between different education systems, religions, philosophies, economic systems and political systems – and get to live in exactly the type of society we dream of? With that manifesto, we can appeal to EVERYONE! Sure, there are all manner of complications and difficulties, but they can all be addressed in a smarter, happier, more efficient world.

If you’re in a political debate with non-meritocrats, you don’t have to argue against their crazy ideas. Instead, you can say that in a meritocracy they will get a city-state where they can live according to whatever laws they want.

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Summary.

Meritocracy is dependent upon being able to assess who is most meritorious, but different personality types have different ways of answering this question. If there are 16 different answers to the question then 16 types of meritocratic society are needed. Of course, those societies not based on reason and intuition may fail spectacularly because the types of merit they promote (such as being the best Abrahamist) are not conducive to creating a functioning, advanced society. Islam is proving how an irrational belief system can start dragging people back to the Dark Ages. The most “meritocratic” Muslims (i.e. the most zealous advocates of the Koran) are the opposite of those needed for a modern society.

In the long-term, one society will prove stunningly superior to all the others: the one based on reason and intuition. All others will have to succumb to that model in the end.

“NW” wrote to us to say: “I’d like to tell you that we need only one nation to become meritocratic. With your plan for the school system we will be cranking out experts. Even the lowliest man will be an expert in his class. Our production will surely skyrocket and our national wealth would be unfathomable. All the other countries must either replicate our education system or fall behind. Those who replicate it will soon find they have quite intelligent citizens who now want to rule themselves. The countries that don’t will quickly stagnate and become economically dead. Their people will look at their neighbors and say fuck this and revolution will follow. In a matter of 100 years, I can imagine a one world meritocratic utopia where man is better than ever before. We would be a true race of Gods.”

And NW is exactly right. We just need to get one perfect meritocratic society up and running, and it will soon be enormously more successful than all of its rivals.
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Einstein and Socialism:

“The situation prevailing in an economy based on the private ownership of capital is characterized by two main principles: first, means of production (capital) are privately owned and the owners dispose of them as they see fit; second, the labour contract is free. Of course, there is no such thing as a pure capitalist society in this sense. In particular it should be noted that the workers, through long and bitter political struggles, have succeeded in securing a somewhat improved form of the ‘free labour contract’ for certain categories of workers. But taken as a whole, the present day economy does not differ much from ‘pure’ capitalism.

“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an ‘army of unemployed’ always exists. The worker is always in fear of losing his job. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than easing the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor and to a crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. I am convinced that there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented towards social goals.” –Einstein

In fact, Einstein is wrong about competition. The ideal model of endeavour to emulate is Einstein’s own speciality – science – which is ferociously competitive. Everyone wants to be the genius who makes the huge breakthrough, the person who gets the Nobel Prize, and, above all, understands the Mind of God.

Science is remarkable in many ways. It is simultaneously highly collaborative and highly individualistic. Einstein achieved his brilliant insights only by building on the work of many geniuses who preceded him. Without them, he would have got nowhere. He had friends who were able to help him with the mathematics he needed for relativity theory. Yet he spent most of the time on his own, pondering.

Scientists have tremendous respect for each other, yet also want to win. That is what meritocracy is seeking to replicate. The ideal society is one in which collaboration, cooperation and competition co-exist, in which everyone respects and admires each other but also wants to grab the glory of great and unique achievements.

The greatest scientists have never been motivated by money. Contrast them with the greedy clowns of Wall Street who contribute nothing to society or the greater good of humanity but are obsessed with money.
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The Many Lives We Never Had:

The instant we are conceived by our parents, we are endowed with incredible potential. There is an enormous range of lives we are capable of leading. Yet as soon as we are born, almost all of that potential evaporates. Why? Because the particular environment we find ourselves in dictates the narrow, limited lives available to us. Our parents inflict a religion, not of our choosing, on us. We might find ourselves being genitally mutilated by circumcision then forced to wear certain clothes, to eat certain foods, to pray endlessly, to try to memorise a strange, ancient text, to avoid certain people because they are “infidels”, and so on. If we live in a crime-infested ghetto, that inevitably becomes the central preoccupation of our life. We are likely to end up in a gang. We will probably attend an under-achieving school that fails to give us a decent education.

The wealth of our parents has an overwhelming impact on us. If they are rich, they can place us on a golden path of freedom and privilege. If they are poor, we will have to struggle through life in the slow lane, as second-class citizens in a two-tier society. Astoundingly rapidly, our possibilities in life are blocked off. We are forced down grim, claustrophobic roads. Soon, there is no escape. We have deactualised our potential i.e. rather than becoming the best we can be, we frequently become the worst.

Why is life like this? Isn’t it time we did something about it? Meritocracy is all about delivering the society where our environment gives us the best possible chances in life rather than the worst.
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Flowers versus Weeds:

In a sense, we are all both flowers and weeds. In terms of our own tribe, we are flowers, and we help each other to bloom. But the members of other tribes are like weeds that deprive us of resources, crowd us out, ruin all of our delicate patterns.

Imagine a rational person in Pakistan, surrounded by Muslim weeds. Anyone who expresses any criticism of Islam in Pakistan is guilty of blasphemy, for which the penalty is death. If the State doesn’t carry out the sentence, a Muslim vigilante nutcase will do it instead, to the acclaim of his compatriots. How could any non-Muslim possibly bloom in such a nation? It’s impossible. The weeds kill all the flowers.

In terms of other tribes, we ourselves are weeds. None of us can flourish properly because we are all ruinously interfering with each other.

The meritocratic society is about designing a landscape garden, where there are no weeds, just flowers in the locations where they grow best and bloom most vividly and colourfully.

The one-size-fits-all garden is a complete mess, full of choking weeds, where no flower grows properly.

Nothing is more important than the realisation that humanity is not an undifferentiated, homogeneous mass. Human beings are different and need to be treated differently depending on how their brains are wired.

Just as a gardener knows what particular conditions are needed for the cultivation of each of the different types of flowers he grows, so the “Society Gardener” needs to know what every type of human being needs to make them flourish.

In ancient Greece, the word pharmakon (from which we derive “pharmacy”) meant drug, medicine – or poison. All medicines can be regarded as toxic (they should be toxic to your illness, after all): it’s the dose that controls whether they kill or cure you.

Each human being is a pharmakon too. We always think of ourselves as being benevolent and on the side of good, but many of us are extremely toxic to others. Muslims are frequently toxic to non-Muslims, especially in Pakistan. But these Muslim murderers believe they are good and doing the right thing; that they are performing God’s work, no less.

Most of us don’t need or want the medicine others are offering. In fact it would kill us. None of the 16 Myers-Briggs tribes has the right to dictate to any or all of the others. The task is to find the means of maximising harmony between the tribes, minimising the weeds and the toxic effects. If the simplest way forward is to physically separate the tribes then let’s get on with it.

Two thirds of the Illuminati belong to the INTJ and INTP tribes. The remaining third are those who can work effectively with INTJs and INTPs. In other words, we practise what we preach. We have designed our own secret society according to psychological distinctions.

How many people in this world want to create William Blake’s Golgonooza, the wondrous City of the Imagination? Zeitgeist’s Venus Project is akin to Golgonooza. Most people couldn’t care less about Golgonooza, but many rationals and idealists crave it. We will never have it if we remain in the grip of those who do not care for intuition and the imagination. Therefore we must separate ourselves. Isn’t that the only logical way forward? Otherwise, we would have to dominate the others using our intelligence, and we would become just a new set of dictators, imposing our will on others.

No one should be coerced, explicitly or implicitly, to buy into someone else’s vision. We despise Wall Street yet we are forced to dance to the Wall Street tune. So how do we escape?

Nor do we want to trap within our system people who don’t like our vision of the world. They would be miserable and of no use to us. So, isn’t it best for the tribes of the world to go their separate ways? We must learn from history and surely that has proved beyond any question that humans are prone to savage conflict. But what underlies the conflict? One of the answers is that we dislike and fear people who are on a radically different wavelength. They make us uncomfortable and anxious. We don’t know what to expect from them. We don’t know how to anticipate their moves. We have neither empathy nor sympathy with them.

People become hostile and intolerant when they are surrounded by people they dislike. It’s the most natural response in the world. It’s your fight or flight mechanism kicking in. We are designed to flee from those who make us feel bad and stressed, or fight them.

In our present one-size-fits-all societies, we are constantly in fight or flight mode because we are surrounded by people from whom we are psychologically alienated. How can anyone in their right mind think that’s healthy? We have to create a new society where our fight or flight buttons are never pressed and we can get on with being happy and creative instead. That can only happen in a psychologically designed society. We have to bring together those who can live in harmony and cooperation, and separate them from those who will provoke disharmony and conflict. What could be more logical? We can achieve this through psychological profiling. Everyone can have a society where they genuinely love their neighbours because their neighbours behave just as they do.

Christians like to say, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Well, we want to actually deliver a new world based on just this rule – and it can only be done when you understand your neighbours and are all on the same wavelength.

It’s a sad but unavoidable fact of life that there are those who will never be our friends. They are just too different from us. It’s not that they’re wrong and we’re right, that they’re bad and we’re good – there’s no morality involved – it’s just that we’re not simpatico.

If we can’t be together then we must be apart. And thus we’ll create happy societies. We can visit other city-states as tourists, not as enemies. And they can visit us and be treated with the utmost hospitality for the duration of their stay.

Isn’t that what “civilisation” is all about?
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One Generation:

Phantom wrote, “If we have ONE generation of children that is free from the brainwashing and putrefaction of the current state of society, the world will change utterly.”

That’s right. We’re just one generation from a new world, but getting the space to create that one golden generation is the biggest problem imaginable. The tragedy is that most parents believe it’s their sacred duty to indoctrinate their children with their own beliefs. They think they’re doing them a favour, doing the right thing. They couldn’t be more wrong, but how can you persuade them of their error when they in turn were brainwashed by their own parents?

People who are in the grip of superstition cannot be freed, unfortunately. They are superstitious because a) they have been the victims of brainwashing and b) they don’t have the sort of rational mind that allows them to free themselves from absurd beliefs.

If you say, “Fuck Jehovah, fuck Allah, fuck Jesus Christ!” – you are not placing your soul in any jeopardy. Frankly, the True God isn’t listening to what you are saying, and isn’t in the business of punishing anyone. The True God is a God of Knowledge, not of Crime and Punishment. What the True God offers us is the chance to gain the same knowledge he has.

Can any person seriously believe that God is watching every human being all the time, shaking his head in disapproval over any “transgressions” and getting ready to send someone to hell for eternity, or nodding in appreciation because some person has robotically obeyed every rule in an ancient book? What a sad, sad, sad vision of God these fools have.

Phantom wrote: “Today it hit me that Illumination is like an operating system custom-tailored to our own individual perception. It allows us to navigate the inner worlds with ease and incorporate art, science, mathematics and philosophy into its perspective – in fact, Illumination does it naturally, like a four-winged bird holding up its quintessential aspect, the spiritual, and vice versa the spiritual feeds into this quaternion. I have enjoyed my meditations the last few weeks; these inside worlds are beautiful beyond description but there is always more to see.”

Now, isn’t that a far superior vision to the one offered by Abrahamism? God is inside us, not outside. If we look deeply enough, we will all find God. Do you spend all of your time hoping and praying that your enemies will be punished forever in the most horrific ways for daring to oppose you? Haven’t you got better things to do with your time? By the same token, God has better things to do than contemplate the torture he will inflict on people for disobeying him. As above, so below.

If you are not a sick fuck who dreams of eternally punishing rule breakers then you can be sure God isn’t either. The sort of people who are obsessed with obeying rules and commandments are utterly alienated from God and have understood nothing of real religion. In truth, they are mentally ill, being guided by their unconscious shadow. They are full of hate, bitterness, rage and the desire for revenge. They project their own cruelty and bestiality onto the God they worship. They can’t imagine that he isn’t as obsessed with garbage and sadism as they are. They are pathetic, and they are the people to whom the label “evil” can be legitimately applied. Anyone who thinks God is a cosmic Torturer and Avenger, committed to inflicting endless pain on anyone who disobeys his books of petty rules about whether or not you should eat bacon sandwiches, turn on the light on a Saturday, or cut your hair in a certain way is MAD! There’s no other word for it.

As was said about Lord Byron, these people are: “Mad, bad and dangerous to know.”
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Laughter and Superstition:

Only one type of animal has a sense of humour – human beings. And only one type of animal is superstitious – human beings. Superstition is an extraordinary phenomenon. It is defined as an irrational belief founded on ignorance or fear and characterised by obsessive reverence for omens, charms, rules, commandments and rituals.

Consider the Jews, Christians and Muslims. Jews couldn’t care less about the superstitions of Christians and Muslims, but they will compulsively obey all Jewish rules out of terror of the imagined consequences of disobeying them.

Christians couldn’t care less about not being circumcised while Jewish and Muslim men think they will go to hell if they aren’t circumcised. Imagine being sentenced to eternal hell for not having your foreskin chopped off. That, apparently, will be the fate of all of us who haven’t had the unkindest cut. We’re shaking in our shoes!! Muslims not only don’t regard Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour and the only path to paradise, they think that anyone who says Jesus Christ is God is going to hell.

Jews regard the beliefs of Christians and Muslims as irrational and superstitious; Christians think it’s the Jews and Muslims who are crazy, and Muslims are certain all Jews and Christians are going to hell for rejecting Mohammed and the Koran.

Isn’t it amazing that people are able to see others’ beliefs and superstitions as ridiculous and irrational, yet can’t comprehend that their beliefs and superstitions are viewed exactly the same way by others? A Muslim has no fear of insulting Jesus Christ, yet believes he will jeopardise his immortal soul if he breathes a word against Mohammed. Christians believe that Mohammed is in hell – Dante even wrote about it in The Inferno – and have no fear at all about insulting him.

Why is one group seized by dread at the thought of insulting Mohammed while all other groups think that insulting Mohammed has no consequences at all for the afterlife?

Imagine a God who sends all non-Jews to hell, or all non-Christians or all non-Muslims.What kind of God is that? What rational person would want to have anything to do with such a God?

Why is that some of us who were raised as Abrahamists are able to break away from our childhood religion and not be remotely affected by superstition or fear, while many more are terrified and can’t escape? What is it that grips them so tightly? The answer of course is that those who reject their parents’ religion are invariably highly rational. Reason is the antidote to superstition. All Abrahamists who haven’t abandoned their religion are lacking in rationality, hence they are inherently extremely dangerous, as Muslims prove over and over again in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Superstition is fear that has been instilled in children in their earliest years, and continually reinforced ever since. Any child who does not have a rational mind is poisoned forever. Superstition relies on three things: irrationality, fear and submissiveness. If you think about it, all people who believe that some dominant person (Moses, Christ, Mohammed etc.) is the mouthpiece of God are submissives – slaves –waiting for their master to tell them what to do, and believing him to be infallible.

Submissives are those who can’t imagine that they themselves are, at core, God. Dominants have no such problem. Submissives are alienated from their inner godliness, and are extremely susceptible to instead projecting it onto someone else – any suitably dominant person. All prophets are dominants and all followers are submissives.

The Illuminati’s desired end-point – the Community of Gods; the Society of the Divine – is one in which there are no masters and slaves, no dominants and no submissives. Everyone has become God. Any healthy religion should be striving to release everyone’s inner God.

Look at the Muslims. Their religion is called “Submission” and they spend all of their time on their knees. Only submissives are attracted to Islam. It’s the essence of submissiveness. They believe that an illiterate tribesman, who was very friendly with Jews living in Arabia, went into a mountain cave and encountered the Angel Gabriel, who then proceeded to recite the Word of God – the Koran – to him. Now, to any dominant person, this is ludicrous beyond belief. But, to weak, pathetic submissives, searching for the guidance of a dominant, there is nothing odd about it. They WANT to believe. They want to be told in unambiguous black and white what to do. They want the master to tell them what’s halal (permitted) and what’s haram(forbidden). It all makes perfect sense to them. It’s emotionally satisfying.

And it’s not as if these morons could ever work out it for themselves. They need dictatorial “holy” books to fill the void in their brains. They have no initiative. They are robots waiting to be programmed. They have precious little free will. Anyone who wants to slavishly obey commandments in a book is barely human.

To any dominant person, Islam is a religion that makes them feel physically sick. It reeks of weakness, stupidity, irrationality and submissiveness. It is incomprehensible to any dominant person how anyone could take Islam seriously. It’s a joke religion, a bad imitation of Judaism, which is itself a pile of crap.

Why would any God worthy of the name send a person to hell, as Jews and Muslims believe, for not being circumcised (i.e. for remaining as nature intended!). In other words, God, the alleged designer of humanity, hates his own design and thinks that unless a male has his foreskin snipped off then he deserves eternal hellfire. So why didn’t he simply design males without foreskins and then he wouldn’t need to get upset about it? If God requires the removal of foreskins then he must have made a mistake to provide them in the first place. (By the way, did you realise that Jesus Christ’s divine foreskin may still exist, carefully preserved by his family? Will it have magic properties? Is it imbued with divinity? Will it be a stargate to heaven?)

The whole thing is actually laughable and yet it would cause WWIII if Jews and Muslims were prohibited by law from physically mutilating their male children.

Monarchists – such as the people of the UK – are another group of retarded submissives. What kind of person wants to be someone’s “subject”? – only a submissive. The UK has a nauseatingly submissive working class who revere their masters. The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the UK are amongst the most privileged people on earth: the living, breathing Old World Order. The people who voted for them and who support the unelected, unaccountable head of state – the Queen – have neither dignity, intelligence nor self-respect. Monarchy is Leviathan: a monstrous tyranny. The British people have a false consciousness. They have completely swallowed the masters’ ideology.

We don’t live in a rational world. The vast majority of people aren’t rational. So how can a group such as the Illuminati hope to resolve the world’s problems via rational arguments? We’re in Catch 22. Humanity’s problem isn’t that no one knows what to do, but rather that irrational people will resist all rational plans to reform the world. They are creatures of superstition.

The War of the World is the war between the rational and the superstitious. No task is of greater importance than dealing with superstition. The rational thing to do is make it illegal for any child to be subjected to any irrational teaching that provokes terror, or division between different groups. That, of course, means making Abrahamism and karmic teachings illegal – and billions of humans wouldn’t tolerate that for a moment. Why not? Because they are brainwashed and superstitious! Catch 22 again.

What needs to be done, for rational reasons, can unfortunately never be done because of the irrationality of so many. So, there’s only one way forward – to separate the rational from the irrational and build a big wall. The rational people can then create a new world free of superstition. The simple truth is that they will never be able to do this while they are tethered to Abrahamists and karmists.

Malcolm X advocated separating blacks and whites and creating an independent country for blacks within America until such time as all African Americans could return to Africa. In many ways, this was a supremely rational proposal that even racist whites should have welcomed. In the UK, the far-right white parties advocate giving money to non-whites in exchange for those people returning to their ancestral homes. They would be ecstatic if a contemporary Malcolm X agreed with them.

Of course, it’s not race that’s the problem. The white racists are irrational. THEY are the problem. And there are plenty of irrational blacks, Asians, Hispanics etc too.

Rational people couldn’t care less about race. The only way to move forward is for ALL the rational people in the world to get together and create a rational society. It will be infinitely more successful than the societies run by the irrationals and the latter will be forced, eventually, superstition or no superstition, to accept all of the rules of reason. Any of the irrationals who insist on clinging to superstition will end up in the caves, like the Taliban.

The rationals must lead by example, but they will only get that chance if they cut themselves off from the irrational. Ayn Rand’s notorious book Atlas Shrugged actually proposes something of this kind, except it’s about rich rather than rational people. In Rand’s book, the super rich go on strike because they’re fed up being dictated to by Commies. They create an idyllic community in a hidden valley in Colorado and cut themselves off from everyone else. The rest of the country starts to fall apart and the Commies have to come begging for salvation. The super rich agree to return only if they will now be in total charge, and the Commies are only too happy to agree. Hence why this book is so revered by wealthy Americans.

Meritocrats can keep the same plot, but with the heroes changed from the rich to the rational. The point is that only a policy of separation can ever truly reveal who is right and who is wrong. The rational can prove the superiority of reason only if they are allowed the space to build a rational society, and that can happen only if they can free themselves of the irrational.

We need Apartheid (!) – rational rather than racist – if we are to have any hope of changing the world. People should be free to choose the society they want to live in. If, like the Taliban, you want to live in a superstitious hellhole – go for it. If you want to live in a rational society then you will be signing up for a world ruled by reason, and all superstitions will be consigned to the dustbin.

So, what will it be?
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Academia Iluministă (50)

Academia Iluministă (49)

Introduction:

THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the religion, politics and philosophy of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day and the author is a member, working under the pseudonym of “Adam Weishaupt” – the name of the Illuminati’s most notorious Grand Master.

The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the “Demiurge”; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his “Chosen People”, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the “God of All” entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then despatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the “Original Sin” of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s “son”, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

Of course, the Chosen People of “God” have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

Remember that this same “God” ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical “believers”.

Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.
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Quotations:

“The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.” –Austin O’Malley

“Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.” –Albert Camus

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” –Charles de Gaulle
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Changing the Paradigm:

England, one of the great Protestant powers of history, was once a devout Catholic country. The Pope gave its king, Henry VIII, the title of Fidei Defensor (defender of the faith) because he had launched a ferocious written attack on Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism.

But Henry’s Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, failed to give him a male successor, so he sought a divorce to allow him to find a new wife to provide the boy he craved. Catholicism does not permit divorce and the Pope was unwilling to finesse a deal with Henry whereby the marriage would be annulled on some technicality.

Henry broke with Rome, appointed himself the head of the new “Church of England” and demanded from his bishops that they sanction his divorce. He was now a Protestant, just like Martin Luther, though he continued to follow many of the Catholic ways of old and hypocritically retained the Pope’s title of Fidei Defensor, used by the British Royal Family to this day even though they proved conclusively that not only would they not defend the Catholic faith, they would actively persecute it. Many English Catholics were appalled by Henry’s conduct and rose in righteous rebellion, but they were crushed one by one, and the leaders suffered the horrific fate of being hung, drawn and quartered for high treason.

The English people were good, loyal and faithful Catholics, and had been for a thousand years, until their king decided he wanted a divorce. Yet, within decades, England was virulently anti-Catholic. It introduced innumerable laws against Catholics, burned their priests at the stake and subjected them to relentless persecution and discrimination. The hostility can still be seen and felt to this day. The question is this – how can good Catholics be turned into Catholic persecutors within a couple of generations?

We mention this piece of history because there are many people who pour scorn on the Illuminati’s political system of meritocracy (designed to replace the existing system of representative democracy) and consider it unachievable, just as many 16th century English Catholics never imagined that their children would become fanatical Protestants. The critics of meritocracy particularly revile the 100% inheritance tax, which is the sine qua non of the meritocratic vision. This measure is expressly for the purpose of destroying dynastic wealth i.e. unless you prevent the possibility of family wealth being transferred from generation to generation, you will always be the victim of privileged family elites like the Rothschilds and Bushes. These elites, with their enormous prestige and influence, invariably form an unelected and unaccountable shadow global government – the Old World Order (OWO) – based on their private wealth and power with which they can buy and manipulate all of the governments of the world. In every way, the existence of a privileged elite is antithetical to meritocracy, and indeed to democracy. What’s the point of electing prime ministers and presidents if they are in fact pawn of people whose names were never on any ballot paper? Only a fool participates in a bogus election that does nothing but provide the front men for an unseen regime whose manifesto is never anything other than its own self-interest.

To a meritocrat, it is breathtaking that so many families, even those with no assets to pass on, are such fierce defenders of the rights of family inheritance. It is BECAUSE of this attitude that the OWO rule us. We can be free only when the elite’s money is taken from them and they can no longer use it as a weapon against us. The Old World Order are so successful precisely because they have the tacit support of most ordinary families. These families are clueless, submissive, irrational, credulous groups of morons, infected by “faith” in Abrahamism and the ludicrous rhetoric of “freedom and democracy” (which is more accurately (“freedumb and dumbocracy”). They have bought the OWO’s ideology hook, line and sinker. They have a false consciousness (constructed for them by the relentless media propaganda of the ruling elite) and they live in bad faith.

We would give up in the face of this resistance and cretinism of the masses if we did not already know that the ordinary families of today are as irrelevant as the ordinary Catholic families of 16th century England. The opinions of the anti-meritocrats count for nothing. All that matters is who has power. Who controls the agenda? Who dictates the consciousness of the people?

Henry VIII used a combination of terror, bribery and corruption and realpolitik to get the ruling elite fully onboard with his new Church of England. They then rapidly demonised Catholicism over the next few decades and, critically, brainwashed all of England’s schoolchildren.

In just one generation, the mentality of a nation can be irrevocably changed. It doesn’t matter a damn what the dinosaurs think and believe. It doesn’t matter what they say about 100% inheritance tax.

After just one generation of meritocratic government, the meritocratic principles will become second nature, and the people will be baffled that previous generations once lived differently and permitted privileged elites to flourish.

The brilliant scientist Max Planck wrote, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

That’s exactly the way the world works. We can’t ever persuade convinced Abrahamists, democrats and supporters of dynastic family power that they are wrong – they are beyond help in that regard. But if meritocracy becomes the ruling paradigm, the Abrahamists and the fans of privilege and the OWO will die out and their archaic belief system will become as extinct as the Flat Earth Society. The education of children is the key to a new world order. Once children are liberated from the beliefs of their parents and given a tailor-made, optimised education, the world will be transformed by that fact alone.

If you are a true meritocrat then you are a visionary and you are in tune with the dialectic of freedom. You see and understand things that the dumb, brainwashed sheeple will never grasp.

What is our great task? It is essentially this – to bring together all of the smartest, most active and creative people in the world who are not part of the ruling paradigm of the OWO. We don’t need any kind of majority of the sheeple. We’re not democrats, after all. We have said over and over again that the vast majority of people in this world are submissive sheep. They will go with the flow, whatever it is. That’s their nature: to follow the path of least resistance; to do whatever is required of them by the powers-that-be. That’s why Catholic England rapidly became Protestant England. No Catholic would have thought it possible, yet it happened with remarkable speed.

The movers and shakers dominate this world, not the hewers of wood and drawers of water. One active person has more effect than ten passive people. One leader is worth a thousand people. A “messiah” is worth half a world. Ergo, the game is to bring the whole active resistance to the Old World Order under a single banner. To be victorious, we need only about 5% of the population on our side, providing that the 5% consists of the smartest, most determined, most creative, most committed people in all the lands. In other words, we need the heroes. The hero monomyth is at the core of our project because only heroes can change the world. The highest heroes are world-historic figures. Any group that can assemble all of the heroes cannot lose. Where the heroes go, the rest of the world follows.

So, our task is not to appeal to the brainwashed masses, who are already irretrievably lost, but to attract those, like the Nietzschean Übermenschen, who will create the future.

The old gods are dead. The highest heroes are the new gods, and only through them will the rest of humanity attain divinity. Meritocracy is the platform for the greatest exemplars of the human race, those who will give birth to a new world, those who will reach up and pluck the bright stars from the heavens.

We don’t need to convince the sheeple of anything. We don’t need to persuade Abrahamists that they are fatally deceived. We don’t need to fight the OWO. We just need the heroes, the Supermen and Superwomen who can alter the destiny of worlds.

Are you such a person?
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Bank Robbers in Designer Suits:

Do you want to see the world created by the OWO in 3-D and full Technicolor? Watch the film-documentary Inside Job by Charles Ferguson. If you don’t crave a French-style Revolution by the time the closing credits roll, there’s something wrong with you.

Inside Job forensically dissects the astonishing gangster culture that governs our world. Yet virtually no one saw this movie even though it won an Oscar for best documentary. It suffered the usual fate of vital films – receiving a very limited release. Art house cinemas showed it, but most multiplexes wouldn’t touch that sort of thing with a bargepole. The dumbed-down masses couldn’t imagine anything worse and more boring than watching a documentary explaining exactly why our world is the way it is. Anyone who is not interested in this topic is beyond help. Inside Job is so important that it ought to be one of the most successful films of all time: everyone should be going to see it. It should be shown in every school. The fact that so few are interested in it illustrates how docile the sheeple are, and how brilliant is the brainwashing job done on them.

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson wrote, “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.”

That’s the world the OWO have crafted. They have created a population that would rather spend all of its time watching American Idol and Lady Gaga videos than scrutinizing how the elite came to be so rich and powerful. Such a population poses no threat at all to the OWO, which is exactly why they designed things that way.

Think of what has been done to the people in order to make them so hostile to learning the truth of the prison they are in. Think how brilliantly the OWO have performed their task. Even when their evil is fully exposed in painstaking detail, it doesn’t make the slightest difference. The members of the OWO could walk around dressed as Satan himself, in horns and hooves, and still they would be worshipped as God.

That’s why heroes alone can save the world – the few who have seen through all of the lies and are ready to act, to lead, to use their personal gifts to transform this world of ours. Achieving a democratic mandate is not our priority. The mandate we seek is that of the true heroes. Ours is the Hero Flag, and under that banner we shall inevitably triumph.

Here is the ruling ideology of the OWO that the heroes must smash:

1) The super rich are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else.

2) They deserve all of their wealth and power because of 1).

3) Wicked, Godless communism would result if you deprived them of their wealth and power. The world would be plunged into chaos.

4) It is your God-given duty to obey the super rich in every way because they are the ones who enjoy God’s favour i.e. they are God’s chosen appointees and any resistance to them is an attack on God himself. It is the “divine right” of the wealthy to rule.

5) If you work hard enough, you too could become super rich, so don’t complain.

6) The super rich are all about family and if you love your family you will emulate the super rich and their strong family values.

7) It would be theft and a crime against God for the State to remove the wealth of the super rich.

8) The super rich are being rewarded by God, and the poor punished by God. Your wealth is the surest sign of your closeness to God. You are evil if you are poor – why else has God given you nothing?

9) The poor are the damned and the rich the saved.

10) The rich are God’s elect.

11) The super rich are the only legitimate authority in the world. Everything they do is by definition legitimate. You have no legal grounds to challenge them.

12) They have the absolute right to impose their views on everyone else: to brainwash them, to control the education they receive, and to control the media that educates, informs and entertains them.

13) Wealth is proof of God’s favour ergo any attack on wealth is Satanic.

Of course, “Mammon” should replace the word “God” in this list, but the ordinary person no longer draws any distinction since all they dream about is becoming rich, about becoming a high priest of Mammon. Money, in our world, is freedom, power, status, prestige, desirability and delight all rolled into one. Money is the panacea the ancient alchemists sought. All of our problems would end if only we had enough money.

The Mammonites are everywhere. There has never been a more powerful religion in history. The OWO have proved that money can buy the world’s soul and control every feature of this planet. Cicero said, “There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it.” The OWO have taken every fortress in just this manner. “Resistance is futile,” they brag as they wave their bags of gold.

We have no truck with democracy. Why not? Because the people are completely debased, corrupted and retarded. They have accepted their own slavery and subjugation. They think it is fully justified. They are delighted to endlessly distract themselves with the junk the elite put in front of them. They are not a “people” at all: merely a bread and circuses mob of performing puppets and gawping spectators. They are not humans but rather human impersonators. It’s even questionable whether they have true souls.

The hero, the superman – the man or woman who would be God – is the antidote.

If you are a meritocrat you will have found yourself developing a kind of nausea when you contemplate the sheeple. How could humanity have fallen so low you will think? And how can such people help the dialectic of freedom when they have embraced slavery so eagerly? They refuse to take the actions necessary to save themselves. They put on their own manacles and sing, “Hallelujah! – give us heavier chains!”

The people must be saved, but they can’t save themselves. Only the free can change the world. Only heroes are free. They are self defining, self creating. They don’t wait on others.

Would any democrat dare to utter the immortal slogan of Nietzsche: “We, however, want to become those who we are – the new, the unique, the incomparable, those who impose on themselves their own law, those who create themselves!” Only such individuals have the strength to dream, to seize life, to transform themselves and others. What do the rest matter? Who needs their endorsement? They will never agree with us because they have sold their souls to the Devil.

Congratulations to Pho’, the visionary Hip Hop artist, and all those who assisted him in creating his H.E.R.O. Volume 1 Collection – an astoundingly innovative, inspirational and ambitious work, illustrating true grandeur of vision. It’s a mystery that Pho’ isn’t yet a global phenomenon, but his time will surely come. He makes smart music for smart people, music with something to say, music that seeks to change the world.
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The War of the N’s and S’s, T’s and F’s, I’s and E’s:

We are hard-wired for conflict. The reason for that is that large groups of us have nothing in common with other large groups with whom we are forced to share the planet. We humans, in our various different groups, perceive the world differently. We conceptualise it differently. We have totally different value systems. It’s quite possible that we could get on better with Martians than with some of our neighbours. No one could be more alien to us than those who have a radically different understanding of the world and way of interacting with it.

Are Abrahamists even human? Do people who vote for the Republican Party belong to the same species as everyone else? It’s actually more than a question of brainwashing. What these people believe is a reflection of how their brains are configured. A person who is sensing oriented with feeling as his auxiliary function, or feeling oriented with sensing as his auxiliary function, is not someone who is thinking his way through life, not someone who is intuiting the truth of things.

The sensers and feelers go through life cut off from the cerebral side of life. Is it any wonder they succumb to irrational belief systems, that they place faith over knowledge? They can’t do otherwise because they don’t actually have any firm idea of what reason is. They don’t interact with it on a daily basis. It’s something obscure and alien to them, whereas irrational nonsense is what they trade in day in and day out. These people have no contact with Logos (reason) – they are driven by the simple Mythos “logic” of stories and emotions, a style of logic which makes claims such as cowboys in white hats are good and those in black hats are evil (which was once the rule in all cowboy movies, just in case the retarded Abrahamist audience couldn’t work out good and evil conduct for themselves!).

If we analysed those who believe in the Abrahamic religions and those who don’t we would discover astounding psychological differences. In Myers-Briggs terms, Abrahamists would be over represented by S’s, F’s and E’s and non-Abrahamists by N’s, T’s and I’s. In other words, the conflicts of the world are about different types of brain wiring and psychological types.

It would be almost impossible for a Myers-Briggs INTJ personality type to persuade an ESFP of the truth of anything because the latter doesn’t care about the truth in any rational way. As we said, they are Mythos-based rather than Logos-centred. They subscribe to emotional stories rather than abstract logic. They are thrill seekers rather than contemplatives. They want to wallow in sensory information – their perceptions – and feelings rather than bring conceptual order to the world. The two groups have no common language. They can’t communicate. Their frameworks of reality are incommensurate.

The idea that you can have a rational debate with any person is a myth. Huge numbers of people have no idea what reason is. Literally. Their minds just don’t work that way. A rational person can barely understand the concept of “faith” because it demands that they abandon reason in order to believe something that has no rational basis. Why would they ever be attracted to such an idea? Yet a person who has very little grasp of reason will have no difficulty at all. If someone tells them an engaging, emotional story that they buy into and then says that they must believe this to be wholly true even though there is no evidence for it, these people will say, “Fine with me.” They are driven by emotions and sensations, not facts. If faith provides them with comfort and courage then they will eagerly embrace it. The truth content of their beliefs doesn’t come into it. It’s irrelevant.

The ancient Gnostics were the first religious thinkers to be repelled by the idea of faith and to take a resolute stance against it. They demanded knowledge. There can be little doubt that Gnostics are a different psychological type from believers. Atheists, skeptics and agnostics are also unable to accept faith.

The Pythagorean Illuminati sought to build everything on the most precise knowledge base possible: mathematics, the queen of the sciences. Not once did the Illuminati ever stray near the bizarre world of faith – the irrational world.

The more you contemplate “faith”, the more it seems indistinguishable from madness. When Luther described reason as the “Devil’s whore”, he was asserting that facts, logic, evidence and knowledge are no proper basis for understanding the world and instead non-facts, illogic, non-evidence and non-knowledge are the proper ways to approach life. WTF! The “revelation of God” in an ancient book of highly dubious provenance, and full of crazy assertions and rules, is how we should order and live our lives. Really?

It’s well known that the Christian gospels are merely a selection from many ancient manuscripts, others of which could have been chosen instead. The trouble was that all of these different potential gospels horrifically contradicted each other, even though they were all ostensibly about the infallible teachings of Christ. So “they” (the Church elders) chose the small set that were most consistent, but even within these there were many blatant contradictions. Why do so many people think these selected gospels are the revelation of God if they can’t agree on the basic facts of Jesus’ life? The identities of the authors of the four Christian gospels are shrouded in mystery and it’s not entirely clear that any of them actually knew Jesus and were eyewitnesses to any events in his life. All of them may be nothing but hearsay. Jesus’ apostles were mostly ill-educated fishermen unable to read or write, and Jesus Christ himself was probably illiterate given that he didn’t commit even one word to paper. You simply could not get a more dubious basis for a “revelation” on which to stake your life. No rational person is inclined to believe any of it.

What possible reason could anyone have for believing that a baby born of a “virgin” (the word “maiden”, meaning an unmarried girl, was actually mistranslated as “virgin”) 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem was none other than the God of the Universe rather than just another bastard Jew (literally)? Mary, the so-called Mother of God, unquestionably had premarital sex and attempted the most audacious and far-fetched cover-up in history, a lie so big and absurd that it has been eagerly embraced by billions of cretinous Christians ever since. They wouldn’t like to think of Christ’s mother as a delinquent teenager into casual sex and prepared to make up outrageous lies to try to save her bacon when she got pregnant – just like plenty of teens in the present day. Yet isn’t that far more credible than a “virgin” conception? Since when did claims that contradict science and all human experience become credible? If a teenage girl in the present day said she was pregnant through supernatural means she would be denounced as a liar or locked up as mad…so why is such a whopper believed because it’s two-thousand years old and made by a Jewess called Mary?

Let’s be charitable to Mary. Let’s say that what actually happened was that she met a con man passing himself as one of the Watchers – the angels that came to earth and seduced earthly women, thus giving rise to the race of Nephilim, the offspring of humans and angels. The Watcher seduced her then told her that he hadn’t genuinely had sex with her because he was an immaterial angel, hence she was entitled to claim she was still a virgin because she hadn’t had sex with a mortal man. She was more than happy to go along with the story, and even started to believe it herself.

The Illuminati actually decided to test this scenario, and sent out men pretending to be angels to see what effect it would have on women. The strategy was astoundingly successful – anyone who can convincingly tap into the “Angel Mythos” has the chance to be a Don Juan. Who can doubt that young Mary fell for just such a stratagem? All suggestible, submissive girls are prey for good-looking, unscrupulous men passing themselves off as angels. The Illuminati performed the ruse as an experiment; others do it as a way of life. Go out to a nightclub and try it for yourself, but make sure you actually know about angel lore!

Matthew 1:18 Whereas [Christ’s] mother was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost?! Yeah, right!

Luke 1 26-35: And in the sixth month [of the pregnancy of John the Baptist’s mother Elizabeth], the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women.” Who having heard, was troubled at his saying, and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said to her, “Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end.” And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be done, because I know not man?” And the angel answering said to her, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”

Of course, the Watchers were also called the sons of God! Is this the Gospel proof that Jesus Christ was an archon?!

One of the most notorious archons is called “Gabriel” – the “Angel” Gabriel, to be more precise! An archon is a human being with a higher, “angelic” soul which confers remarkable powers on him, and much-extended longevity (incidentally, have you ever wondered why many people in the Bible – such as Methuselah – were said to have lived for many centuries?). Gabriel it was who seduced Mary. She bore his son – Jesus Christ, the archon, a boy who also enjoyed out-of-the-ordinary powers. And Gabriel it was too who sought out Mohammed and recited the Koran to him. And thus the Arch Archon Gabriel has played one of the most significant roles in human history. There is no plot greater than the Gabriel conspiracy.

“Gabriel (i.e. man of God). One of the Archangels, sometimes referred to as the Angel of Death, the prince of fire and thunder, but more frequently as one of God’s chief messengers, and traditionally said to be the only angel that can speak Syriac and Chaldee. The Mohammedans call him the chief of the four favoured angels and the spirit of truth. Milton makes him the chief of the angelic guards placed over Paradise. In the Talmud, Gabriel appears as the destroyer of the hosts of Sennacherib, as the man who showed Joseph the way, and as one of the angels who buried Moses. According to the Koran, it was Gabriel who took Mohammed to heaven on Al Borak and revealed to him his ‘prophetic love’. In the Old Testament, Gabriel is said to have explained to Daniel certain visions; in the New Testament he announced to Zacharias the future birth of John the Baptist and appeared to Mary the mother of Jesus.” –Brewster’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Consider this: why did Gabriel meet Mary in private? Why did he not appear in front of Mary, Joseph and their parents, so that no one would get the wrong idea?

Consider this: why did Gabriel meet Mohammed in private? Why did he not announce the Koran himself to all the peoples of the world so that no one could doubt its veracity? Why are the greatest religious “revelations” always conducted in the utmost secrecy, making it impossible for them ever to be verified in any way?

The Illuminati conduct their affairs in secret to avoid the persecution of the followers of Gabriel and the OWO. But why should Gabriel – allegedly an angel of God Almighty, have to resort to secrecy rather than openness? Why does the God of “Revelation” not reveal himself? (Abraxas, the True God, is no God of Revelation – he is reached via reason, knowledge and gnosis i.e. he is the God of the enlightened, not of the endarkened.) It doesn’t make any sense, unless the purpose of the secrecy is to ensure that no one can rationally challenge the claims placed before them. They are designed to be matters of faith rather than reason, from which we can conclude that this “God” is not the True God of Reason, but rather the false God of psychological manipulation based on faith. He is the Demiurge, Satan.

Why did “God” learn carpentry of all things in Nazareth? Why was it not until he was 30 years of age that he suddenly started to perform “miracles”? Not the miracle of driving the Roman army of occupation out of the country, of course, since that would be too much like an actual, verifiable miracle that history would record.

So, “God” gets himself crucified by the Romans and then rises from the dead – taking care, as usual, to ensure that not a single person witnessed the event. Why didn’t he go straight to Pontius Pilate and Caiaphas, the High Priest of the Temple, and say, “Hey, guys, SURPRISE!” But of course that would make it a factual event rather than a faith-based event. Faith requires that there should never be a single objective witness and no evidence of any kind.

We can’t have facts getting in the way, can we? Why did Allah choose to send the Angel Gabriel to Mohammed in a cave to dictate the Koran to him? Why not do it in broad daylight in the middle of Mecca in front of thousands of people? Hey, way too many witnesses! Prophets are like serial killers – they always do things in the utmost secrecy without a single witness. If there were any witnesses, they probably killed them!

“God” is like some grand conspirator, sneaking around doing everything he can to avoid being seen. He’s the perfect criminal. He never leaves a trace. No CIS team could ever build a case against him. Strange, given that he allegedly created the world and us. Why does he hide himself from his creations? Why does he skulk around in the darkest shadows? As a matter of divine policy, he always acts through single individuals, and we just have to take their word for it that they’re telling the truth because they absolutely never provide any evidence.

But why should we believe them? Are we crazy? No rational person would take any of this nonsense seriously, but all rational people are compelled to live in a world where billions of irrational people treat this with literally deadly seriousness. They’ll kill you if you point out the myriad rational errors in their mad claims. In fact, they will call you mad! Or they will brand you as a heretic, infidel, apostate, demon, devil, tempter, corrupter, an evil influence, a servant of Satan, or whatever other demented label they can think up.

Consider the four “Temperaments” devised by David Keirsey: the Guardians, Artisans, Rationalists and Idealists. Which of these are the ones prone to faith?

The Guardians are defined by their desire for security. They are “Supervisors” (ESTJ in terms of Myers-Briggs personality types), “Inspectors” (ISTJ), “Providers” (ESFJ) and “Protectors” (ISFJ). None of these are intuitives, and the Providers and Protectors aren’t thinkers either. These latter ones are the most susceptible to prophets and preachers demanding absolute faith. They quite simply aren’t geared up for reasoning their way through the world.

As for the Artisans, they are sensation seeking. They are Promoters (ESTP), Crafters (ISTP), Performers (ESFP) and Composers (ISFP). As with the Providers and Protectors, the Performers and Composers are not skilled at thinking or intuition. Again, they are easy meat for the religions of faith.

As for the Supervisors, Inspectors, Promoters and Crafters, although they have a thinking capacity, it is not supported by intuition. In many ways, intuition is a kind of bullshit detector. An intuitive can “smell” lies.

Nietzsche, a genius of intuition, wrote, “I was the first to discover the truth, in that I was the first to sense – smell – the lie as lie…My genius is in my nostrils…”

Intuitives smell the biggest possible fish when it comes to faith. Non-intuitives don’t have that advantage.

“Faith” is a virus that spreads through the Guardian and Artisan classes, and unfortunately these make up 80% of the human population. The Guardians – the security seekers – are the bedrock of “family values”, “freedom and democracy” and Abrahamism. They will cut your throat to defend the self-interest and privileges of their families. They are the ones who would fight to the death to prevent 100% inheritance tax. They would perceive it as the ultimate attack on their family security. The Artisans – the sensation seekers – are the worshippers of celebrity. They are the primary capitalist consumers. They love to shop. They are obsessed with fashion, thrills, socializing, parties, vacations, fast cars, video games etc.

The Rationals – the knowledge seekers – are the Field Marshals (ENTJ), the Masterminds (INTJ), the Inventors (ENTP) and the Architects (INTP). All of these are highly rational and intuitive and the least likely to have anything to do with faith.

The Idealists are identity seekers and are Teachers (ENFJ), Counselors (INFJ), Champions (ENFP) and Healers (INFP). They have a certain susceptibility to credulity because they lack the thinking function, but their intuition can usually steer them away from danger.

Virtually everyone who reads our series of books will be a rational or an idealist. We would expect zero interest from guardians and for just a few curious artisans to come this way. This is a society for intuitives, and intuition has a profound relationship with gnosis. In fact gnosis is ultimate intuition.

We seek to bring together all of the rationals and idealists. Unfortunately, the extraverts amongst them often work for the Old World Order. Many senior members of the Old World Order are ENTJs and ENTPs. They are the brains of the OWO operation, and the ENFJs and ENFPs often act as their propagandists and are the ones who can so successfully make an emotional connection with the people.

All aspects of life can be analysed in terms of the introversion-extraversion, intuition-sensing and thinking-feeling dichotomies. The whole of history has been a battlefield between different mental ways of engaging with the environment. In a world of rationals, there would be no such phenomenon as faith. Abrahamism, quite simply, would not exist.

Rationals and idealists are outnumbered four to one, so we can see that they have tended to be the victims of the guardians and artisans.

They have been the heretics, the witches, the freethinkers, the atheists, skeptics, agnostics, Gnostics, rebels, revolutionaries, visionaries, dreamers and utopians. But if they acted as one, they would be unstoppable because they are so gifted. That’s why we want to bring as many as possible together under the meritocratic banner.

We, the intuitives, have a huge obstacle to overcome – the old world of the guardians and artisans, those mired in the past, in conservatism. They are driven by their senses and emotions, not by reason and future-possibilities. They are afraid of change, of new ideas. The concept of a New World Order terrifies them. They can’t think their way through problems. They are superstitious and intellectually primitive. Only such people could continue to revere ancient texts that have been disproved and discredited in every conceivable way. The reason they cling to old ways is that they gain emotional security from them and they can’t think their way beyond them. While intuitives always look to the future, the sensers never stop gazing at the past. They see the past as safe and understandable in their terms; the future as problematic. Intuitives love the future because that’s where their minds are most at home – imagining new possibilities.

Books, TV, films, music, religions, political parties – our tastes in these reflect our brain-wiring and psychological types. If you knew the psychological profiles of all the people who vote at the Oscars, you would have no difficulty in working out who would win the prizes.

Rationally, it might seem impossible for the intuitives to beat the sensing types given that there are so many more of the sensers, and the sensers’ belief systems are so deeply ingrained. But the intuitives have the advantage of being much smarter, and the numbers game is irrelevant because the vast majority of people are submissives and will do whatever they are told by dominants.

The Zeitgeist series of films is highly geared towards intuitives. Project Venus and Project Earth are the quintessence of visionary intuition. The strongest critics of Zeitgeist are, of course, the Old World Order and the conservative sensers.

One thing that must be clear from what we have said is that there will be no groundswell of public support for meritocracy leading to the resource and technology-based future society envisaged by Zeitgeist where money is no longer needed. We aren’t fools. We know that the sensers are far too entrenched in their traditional and conservative ways.

So, we can win only by being a) much smarter b) much more heroic c) much more dominant d) much more cohesive e) much more focused. We have to undermine the faith of the sensers in their leaders and system. We have to attack from every angle, sow endless seeds of doubt. We have to remove their will to resist. This is a psychological war, and those who are best able to use psychology will prove victorious.

Kierkegaard wrote about The Instant – the moment when eternity intersects with time, the moment of decision, the moment when you have to choose once and for all which side to fight on. Well, The Instant is here. You can no longer avoid it. This is the time for heroes. Will you be one of them? It’s your choice.
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Here are the central ideas and core tenants of Illuminism:

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The following are the essential points of Illuminism, the logical premises by which it stands or falls:

1) Q. What is the arche, the fundamental substance of existence?

A. It is “minded”, formless, striving, dimensionless energy – Pure Will. Since it is dimensionless, it does not experience the “mortal” dimensions of space and time, hence is immortal. It has always existed and it will always exist. It is existence itself. It can never not exist. It accords with the First law of Thermodynamics which declares that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It cannot be brought into existence and nor can it be removed from existence; it has simply always existed. But, crucially, it can be transformed. Its quality can be improved until it’s perfect.

2) Q. How does the formless arche attain form?

A. Through the only thing that can provide absolute order, organization, system, stability, pattern, logic – mathematics, the queen of the sciences, the sacred science. Nothing else exists that can accomplish what mathematics can. It is the ONLY candidate for providing cosmic form, law and organized behaviour.

3) Q. In that case, where does mathematics come from? How is the cosmos able to understand mathematics?

A. Mathematics is in fact the surest proof of cosmic mind and intelligence. It is absurd to propose as materialistic science does, that mindless matter is miraculously able to organize itself in a host of complex ways according to the “laws of physics”. No scientist has ever explained where the laws of physics come from and how they are possible. Why those laws and not others? Why any laws at all? Why not eternal randomness and chaos? Why should matter be subject to law at all? Why should matter have any connection with mathematics? In fact, the cosmos “learned” mathematics over many eons by nothing more sophisticated than trial and error, evolutionary natural selection and dialectical progression: the principles that have guided all existence since time immemorial. The cosmos in itself – dimensionless energy – continually “spilled” out of itself into dimensionality. It is the nature of Will never to be “contained”. It will always try to reach beyond itself. This was a haphazard process since dimensionality is mathematical and mathematics did not yet exist in any coherent way. Each time Will entered the domain of partial, incomplete dimensionality, it learned some new item of mathematical information. After countless “experiments”, the Will had learned to count and understand geometrical shapes. Not in any conscious sense – more like the ultimate autistic savant. Its grasp of mathematics was strictly intuitive.

Mathematics was the first language ever learned by the cosmos; it is thereby the fundamental language of existence. It is the basis of all order and thought, of logic and reason, of mind, of consciousness. It is the essential framework providing the categories of understanding. It is the sine qua non. Mathematics can be considered as the true version of the Platonic Forms: eternal, perfect, unchanging, existing in a permanent ideal state to which the whole cosmos has access. They were not given to the cosmos as perfect Forms; rather they dialectically evolved and when they reached their Omega Point they were subject to no further change; they had achieved perfection and completion. Plato’s domain of perfect Forms is the domain of mathematics and it is now hard-wired into the cosmos (we might say that this domain is stored in the core memory of the cosmic mind, the Read-Only memory, to use a computing term.) The Will learned through its endless experimentation that only “complete” mathematics is stable and provides a proper framework for organization and order: all of Plato’s mathematical Forms must be used, not an incomplete subset. And so came the miraculous moment when the r = 0 dimensionless cosmos of mind deliberately poured itself out into the r > 0 dimensional cosmos, according to a perfect intuitive understanding of complete mathematics as eternal Platonic Forms. Formlessness flowed through the domain of mathematical Forms and emerged in the myriad forms we observe in Nature. Plato’s mathematical Forms are the origins of the laws of physics that shape the world we observe around us. They dictated the creation of the material world. This supreme, defining event was none other than the Big Bang itself.

4) It is essential for the cosmos to externalise itself, to physicalize itself, to alienate itself, in order to dialectically overcome that alienation and reach self consciousness. The teleological purpose of the cosmos is precisely that: to attain self-consciousness, to actualise all of the latent powers, potential and possibilities of raw mind. No scientist has ever explained how mind originates in dead, mindless matter. The truth is that the arche is alive and minded and always has been. There is no dualism between life and death, between mind and non-mind, between consciousness and non-consciousness. Everything exists on a continuum of actualisation of life, mind and consciousness. Humans have more of it (more actualisation) than plants which have more of more of it than rocks which have more of it than interstellar dust. The cosmos is based on monism, not dualism. To be precise, it is a dialectical monism. All dualistic systems – those based on two radically different concepts such as mind/matter, death/life, consciousness/non-consciousness – all fail for exactly the same reason: two unlike substances cannot interact.

5) Mathematical dialectical monism based on complete mathematics provides the answer to Leibniz’s requirement that the best account of the world is the one that is “simplest in hypotheses and the richest in phenomena.” Complete mathematics achieves precisely this. Nothing else could accomplish this with the same simplicity, consistency, efficiency and elegance. In fact nothing else is even conceivable.

6) Complete mathematics also addresses Leibniz’s fundamental question of why there is something rather than nothing. “Nothing” – zero – is something. It is a mathematical number, one of the complete set; in fact it’s at the very origin of the complete set. Complete mathematics asserts that all numbers have equal “reality”, hence zero is as real, has as much existence, as any other number. Zero can be defined as 1/∞. So, already, we can see that it is something and not nothing. In fact, any finite number divided by infinity equals zero. Zero is the twin of infinity – the other side of the coin, the flip side, the inverse – and contains all numbers. The question why is there something rather than nothing is really an implicit acknowledgement of the stance of scientific materialism that dimensionless existence is impossible.

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The Mathematical Key.

Philosophy can usefully be reduced to three main positions:

1) Idealism: mind is primary. Matter is a mental construct, a creation of the mind.

2) Materialism: matter is primary. Mind is a material construct, a creation of matter.

3) Panpsychism – an intermediate position between idealism and materialism. Mind and matter both exist, but all matter is imbued with mind (i.e. mind is everywhere and in all things).

Panpsychism lies closer to idealism because it supports the primacy of mind and the possible existence of mind without matter but not the reverse position of matter existing without mind.

What is science? In fact, it is nothing but mathematical materialism i.e. the materialist philosophy expressed mathematically. Science has destroyed all opposition because nothing else matches the power of mathematics. Science only has one rival – a rival that has hitherto been secret – ILLUMINATION. And what is Illumination? – it is mathematical idealism, and can also be characterized as mathematical panpsychism. The key point is that it employs exactly the same decisive weapon as science – mathematics – except it does so much more thoroughly, to the extent that science is finally revealed as an incomplete subset of Illumination. All of the great mysteries are answered in that part of mathematics which deals with the key arena ignored by science – namely three numbers: zero, infinity and the “imaginary number”, i.

Illuminism, a position based on mathematical idealism/panpsychism, asserts that a) mind is primary and can exist without matter b) matter can never exist without mind c) Mind is everywhere and present in all things d) Mind and matter are entirely MATHEMATICAL.

Matter can be considered a mathematical function of mind. Matter is real, but only as a dimensional implementation of the functions of dimensionless mind. Mind is dimensionless matter and matter is dimensional mind. The two states are related by mathematical TRANSFORMS such as the Fourier Transform.

The concept of the Mathematical Transform is the key to mind-matter interaction. It is the SOLUTION to Cartesian mind-matter dualism. Mind and matter are simply transforms of each other.

A Fourier Transform can convert a frequency spectrum into a time/space representation, and an inverse Fourier Transform can do the opposite and convert a time/space function into a frequency spectrum. Likewise, mind and matter are connected by a mind transform to matter and an inverse matter transform to mind.

What is the brain-mind complex? It’s just a fantastically complex living computer that performs Fourier Transforms and their inverse, and this is what constitutes the mind-matter interaction and how they communicate with each other and make sense of each other. The mind is a dimensionless frequency domain and the brain is a dimensional time/space domain. Fourier Transforms can convert time-space functions into frequency representations, and inverse Fourier Transforms do the reverse.

Illuminism can also be characterised as mathematical monism. The universe comprises a single substance. We might call it “energy” but all that energy actually does is perform mathematical operations. Energy is indistinguishable from what it does and what it does is perform mathematics – nothing else. Energy is “living mathematics”, so to speak. Mind is dimensionless energy and matter is dimensional energy. Mind and matter DO MATHEMATICS and that’s all they do. The difference between the two is that mind is dimensionless mathematics in the frequency domain and matter is dimensional mathematics in the space-time domain. They communicate and interconvert via mathematical transforms. EVERTHING is a function of mathematics, and not a single thing exists outside mathematics. Everything that seems completely unmathematical – such as feelings and irrational decisions – is in fact mathematical when properly understood. What is an emotion? It’s information in the broadest sense. What is information? – mathematical signals. If there were no mathematical signals, there would be no information. If there was no information, there would be no emotions. Nothing can exist if it cannot be boiled down to mathematical signals and information. There is mathematics and nothing besides.

Everything to do with God, souls, the afterlife, consciousness, mind and how mind and matter interact is an expression of mathematics. A Grand Unified Theory of Everything is possible because ultimately everything is just one thing – mathematics. The universe is intelligible because it is ordered according to the laws of mathematics. Any universe not based on mathematics would be unintelligible and contain no order, organisation or information. Such a universe would be utterly meaningless. Such a universe cannot exist.

Mathematics is meaning. Mathematics is evolution. Why? Because mathematical functions have one crucial property – they can become more complex. The universe is nothing but an infinite mathematical function growing more and more complex, so complex eventually that it becomes conscious and can reflect on its own mathematical nature. Consciousness is self-aware mathematics. Human beings are MATHEMATICAL entities. We are functions, nodes of a cosmic mathematical equation that is in the process of solving itself. The answer to the cosmic equation is GOD! And we can all become God by becoming mathematically optimised.

Any system of thought or belief divorced from mathematics is pure BULLSHIT with zero truth content in any practical sense. The Torah, Bible and Koran do not contain a single mathematical equation hence are utter nonsense from beginning to end. These books say not a single truthful thing about the nature of the cosmos and existence.

Science is mathematical materialism, and it’s thanks to mathematics that it’s so successful. Science fails in the last resort because it does not define mind as an independent entity. Illuminism is the ultimate system of thought because mathematical idealism/panpsychism incorporates mathematical materialism i.e. science is a subset of Illuminism. Illuminism is that which answers all of the issues regarding what lies beyond science. In that sense, Illuminism is pure metaphysics but of a singular nature. All of the metaphysical assertions of Illuminism are actually statements of mathematics, just as all statements of science are. Mathematics unifies physics and metaphysics. Mathematics unifies and explains EVERYTHING.

This is the Gospel of the Illuminati.

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Illuminism is reducible to an incredibly small set of ten rational assertions, namely:

1) As Pythagoras said, “All things are numbers.” ALL numbers are included in this statement. None are excluded. All numbers have ontological reality. An ontological number is an energy wave; the number being the frequency of the wave. (The precise nature of the “zero wave” is one we will defer for now.)

2) The universe of numbers provides a self-solving, self-optimizing equation, proceeding by way of the dialectic outlined by Heraclitus and Hegel.

3) The universe, objectively, is based on mathematical Logos (reason).

4) The universe, subjectively, is based on will, feelings and desire: these are the inner, living experience of mathematical functions.

5) The arche, the fundamental substance of existence, is ontological zero, the monad, as described by Leibniz. There are infinite monads. Each monad contains infinite numbers (energy) that sum to zero. A monad is an unconscious mind capable of becoming a conscious soul and finally of becoming God.

6) All objective properties of the universe sum to zero and the universe is subject to absolute symmetry to ensure that all properties sum to zero.

7) The “material” universe is produced by the interaction of the energy of monads; the monads themselves provide a perfect Cartesian grid – an absolute reference frame – against which all events are measured and registered.

8) The material universe is contained within a mental Singularity – the Genesis Singularity. There is in fact no such thing as the material universe. It is actually a universe of objective mental mathematical relations. It is its objectivity – the fact that it exists independently of our wishes, thoughts and feelings – that makes people think it is a physical “thing” that endures whether we are present or not. What scientists call materialism is actually mathematical objectivity, which has exactly the same features as materialism, with the exception that it’s ultimately all contained in the mind of the universe. The whole of existence fits into ONE DIMENSIONLESS POINT – THE GENESIS SINGULARITY. That’s all there is: one point comprising infinite souls/minds/monads/ potential Gods. To achieve a full mental understanding of the Singularity is to become God. All you have to know is the mathematics of infinite monads of infinite energy, all located in a single existential point constituting a perfect existential plenum.

9) The universe is seeking to become perfect, to reach its omega point where it becomes Absolute.

10) Every monad starts as blank potential, as the simplest possible set of functions and with the barest information. When it reaches its omega point, each monad becomes completely actualised. It has been transformed from the simplest to the most complex set of functions, corresponding to optimal information. It has become God. When the universe has become fully divine, it has reached the end of a Cosmic Age, and must start again. This is the moment of Divine Suicide, which, by the symmetry of life, is also the moment of Divine Rebirth.

To accept these rational assertions is what it means to be an Illuminist. All Illuminists are working on the alchemical project to transmute themselves from base metal into gold – God – through the acquisition of ultimate knowledge. The Mind of God is the one that understands that matter is a manifestation of mind, hence can be mentally controlled. Such a mind attains an even greater degree of control over “reality” than that exhibited by Neo in the computer simulation depicted in the film The Matrix. At the end of the Matrix trilogy, Neo – God – commits divine suicide in order to allow the world to start again.

The Matrix is an almost perfect Mythos account of Logos reality. If you replace the computer simulation aspects of The Matrix with ontological mathematics, you have more or less arrived at the universe of the Illuminati. In The Matrix, Neo is the Chosen One becoming God. In Illuminism, everyone can be Neo. Everyone is chosen, yet most remained mired in blindness and ignorance, and actively helping the forces of darkness – all the dialectical forces that are preventing the attainment of the Omega Point (the Absolute, Perfection).

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Our own individual existence – the fact that we can say, as Descartes did, “I think therefore I am” – means that we can be certain of several things:

1) By virtue of our own existence, it is proved that non-existence is an impossible state and therefore that there is an infinity of existence. The universe of existence has no limits whatever. It stretches to … infinity. That’s an indisputable rational fact.

2) There is no further point contemplating non-existence. Had this state been true (and hence existence false), we wouldn’t be here to think about it. But it is false now, false in the past and false forever. We will later provide a logical mathematical argument to explain why existence is preferred over non-existence, but there was never any time when any “decision” had to be made. Existence has always been true and non-existence always false. Existence is an eternal and indissoluble fact. Existence is the way it is and it can’t be otherwise. Non-existence, as the mutually exclusive “partner” of existence, can be ruled out forever as a subject worthy of our consideration. (A Creator God making existence spring out of non-existence – creating something from nothing – is also logically and permanently refuted. There can be no Abrahamic
Creator God, and all Abrahamists are wrong and deluded. That’s a fact.)

3) The fundamental stuff of which we are made – the fundamental stuff of existence – is eternal. It is infinitely old and it will endure eternally. It cannot perish. It cannot be annihilated. There is no means to stop it from existing. That, of course, goes for us too – our immortal souls. The existence of immortal souls is just about the surest and most logical concept you can possibly have.

4) The fundamental stuff of existence is capable of producing mind, life and consciousness. We know this for the simple reason that we ourselves are living creatures with conscious minds.

5) There is an infinite amount of this fundamental stuff of existence that can give rise to mind, life and consciousness.

6) The universe of existence is infinite in extent. It does not co-exist with regions of non-existence that limit its scale. It is UNLIMITED in any definition of time and space that we choose to apply. It is everywhere and it is eternal.

7) Whatever this fundamental stuff of existence is, it is ultimately what defines us, our thoughts, our lives and the universe itself. We are the way we are because it is the way it is. Its properties make us. All of our properties are inherent in it.

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What are the fundamental axioms of existence? Here is an initial set, all of which are intimately connected, and flow one from the other and into each other:

Axiom 1: Non-existence is impossible.

Axiom 2: Existence cannot be created from non-existence and existence cannot disappear into non-existence.

Axiom 3: Existence is everywhere and forever.

Axiom 4: Anything that exists is eternal in terms of its constituents.

Axiom 5: There are no limits on existence, hence it is infinite.

Axiom 6: The universe is infinite.

Axiom 7: Nothing can be added to existence or subtracted from it, but existence can continually transform itself.

Axiom 8: Any transformation of existence must reflect the inherent properties of the fundamental units of existence since otherwise things previously non-existent things would be coming into existence in contradiction of Axiom 1, the fundamental basis of existence. In particular, there is no such thing as EMERGENCE where novel, previously non-existent phenomena are said to be appear as a result of mixing ingredients in certain special ways.

Axiom 9: A key corollary of Axiom 8 is that mind, life and consciousness must already be present in some form in the fundamental units of existence; otherwise, these would have to be treated as non-existents that suddenly came into existence through some miraculous emergence, in contradiction of Axiom 1.

Axiom10: The fundamental units of existence are therefore in some sense alive.

Axiom11: The fundamental units of existence are therefore in some sense imbued with mind, and consciousness is a potentiality of mind even if it may be difficult to express it (mind in its basic condition is unconscious; alternatively, we might say that consciousness is the highest expression of unconsciousness, or unconsciousness is the lowest expression – ground state – of consciousness).

Axiom 12: The fundamental units of existence are unconscious or pre-conscious, and consciousness is nothing but a more complex version of the mental processes involved in unconscious or pre-conscious minds i.e. unconsciousness and consciousness exist on a spectrum and are not wholly different states. Consciousness is more advanced, more complex,
unconsciousness. Since this is such a key point, we will give an example. A sleepwalking human being is not conscious and yet can walk, talk, and perform complex tasks. The difference between an unconscious and conscious human being is that the latter can reflect on what he is doing and remember it. The actual mental tasks performed may be identical in both cases and indeed there is a great deal of evidence that unconscious acts can be performed more expertly than conscious acts, as in the sporting arena where sportsmen and women often fail when they become overly conscious of what they are doing and leave the “zone” where they had previously been doing things effortlessly (and essentially unconsciously). Consciousness is different in quality from unconsciousness, but is not different in kind. It’s a more complex and sophisticated version of the same phenomenon. If you think about it, all human beings are continually acting according to unconscious factors as well as conscious ones, and these are seamlessly integrated to provide the appearance of 100% conscious control, when the truth is rather different. But what this means is that consciousness and unconsciousness are not two different “substances”, but the same substance expressed with higher or lower quality, with greater or lesser expression of its inherent potential.

Axiom 13: It follows from Axiom 12 that the universe is capable of performing minded, purposeful, intelligent acts, just like a sleepwalking human being. The universe can be conceived as an unconscious, sleepwalking, living intelligence. It is not stupid, lifeless, mindless robotic, mechanistic and purposeless, as scientific materialism asserts.

Axiom 14: It follows from Axioms 12 and 13 that the universe is inherently teleological: it has purposes that it seeks to fulfil, and above all, it seeks to become conscious as the best means of enacting its purposes.

Axiom 15: It follows from the previous Axioms that the universe is an evolving, purposeful organism or mind – not a lifeless, clockwork mechanism obeying implacable machine laws, as is so often characterised by scientific materialists.

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Understanding Illuminism Comments:

“I’d like to make sure that I interpret Illumination correctly. Here are 18 statements that describe what I’ve understood form it. As a critical person, I’ll try to deconstruct them in another letter. I think it will be interesting to you what a former very staunch atheist has made of what you said and what weak points he finds:

1) Everything is in its fundamental form is the arche – which can be both material and non-material.

2) Arche is ever-changing, ever becoming. Change is what unifies existence with non-existence, something with nothing. Nothing is Something due to be (a potential), Something is Nothing that was (an actualization).

3) The arche, in its most rudimentary form has discrete nature and consists of an infinite number of massless and formless particles, outside of space and time, called monads.

4) These monads are not only objective entities, they can subjectively experience events, i.e. they’re alive.

5) The immaterial aspect of the universe is mind. It is eternal, spaceless and timeless, although mental time and space occur there. Mind has infinite potential, infinite ideas, that need to be actualized.

6) In the beginning of the Universe all monads exist unseparated, forming a great Oneness.

7) So that the monads can experience separation and individuation and gain self-knowledge, the material world is created (by them).

8) Through a large number of lives and deaths souls gain more and more experience of the material world with the final goal to achieve complete knowledge of themselves, their purpose and all the mysteries of existence. Life and death are in fact different aspects of the existence of the soul. Life represents the soul existence in both material and immaterial domains, while death – only in the immaterial. The soul is eternal. It moves from body to body via reincarnation. It is the bearer of individuality.

9) Consciousness gradually develops through many lifetimes. The degree of consciousness separates non-living from living entities, humans from animals etc. Humans are between the stages of narrating sentience and meta-consciousness, i.e. consciousness reflecting on itself.

10) Evil comes from separation, both spacetime and separation between different consciousness. A third layer of separation is also suggested – between the soul and the ego. Good comes from the desire for unification and regaining of the oneness.

11) The nature of the universe is dialectical – it is a battle of opposites – good vs. evil, separation vs. oneness, matter vs. mind, entropy vs. negentropy. This opposition, however, doesn’t lead to an eternal standstill rather it produces new conditions and states of existence, where all contradictions are resolved. The synthesis then becomes thesis on its own account and produces an antithesis, because the Universe always strives for balance. From the new contradiction, a new synthesis arises and so the story goes on until the final synthesis of mind and matter – the Universal Synthesis. Then the end of history, the Omega point, occurs when no events of significance happen. A divine suicide takes place. The Universe begins a new cycle.

12) The Universe can actually be described as a computer performing the mathematical operations of differentiation and integration. Existence is cyclical, but no cycle looks like the previous one. Existence itself is an end and not a means. Big Bangs and Big Crunches alternate. Mind and matter separation and re-unification occur in an endless cycle. It is best described by an ever unfolding spiral. One of the weak points of Illuminism is that it (as far as I know) doesn’t answer the question when the first cycle of this succession of cycles took place and what was there before it. Because in a succession, even if infinite, there always has to be a first member. Of course one can say that between two cycles there is no physical time, so they cannot be determined in such a manner, but succession of cycles means that one precedes the other regardless of whether time flows or not.

13) Humans are potential Gods.

14) Understanding of the secrets of Nature can be achieved by inner experience, through Gnosis. The Holy Grail is an object that can accelerate the process.

15) Humans use their dominant left brain, which is responsible for details, material reality, the things that happen now and here. It is egoistic, concerned with the I and its immediate survival. In their right brain resides a second personality, their eternal self, their soul. The right brain is holistic, mathematical, philosophical, and represents the connection humans have with the eternal mental domain. It is concerned with the global picture and is more altruistic. Gnosis is achieved by establishing contact with this second personality, with our unconscious. The process is described best by Jung and his Individuation Program, the God Program.

16) Humans can choose to perpetuate the existence of their ego, by trying to achieve a physical immortality, or to establish contact with their immortal self. (Well it is my conclusion – it is based on the dialectical logic – if immortality of the consciousness can be achieved by becoming our higher self, then the antithesis of it will be immortality, based on avoiding contact with the eternal self and perpetuating the ego instead.)

17) I also draw a conclusion, from all I’ve read during the past year, that the current State of Man is not natural. In the past, we had a connection to the right brain and no fear of death, could use telepathy, build giant monuments. But because of the intervention of an egoistic power (the Demiurge) we lost this connection and our perspective of the world shifted – we were more separated than ever, now even separated from ourselves. We entered the world of Good and Evil, of existential fear the world of the ego, of the left brain.”

Response:

There is certainly no leap of faith involved in Illumination. What it does involve is absolute confidence in reason, particularly as regards mathematics. Illuminism is based on the numbers zero and infinity – which are, by definition, beyond the reach of scientific materialism. Scientific materialism, the basis of atheism, is the faith-based position that the numbers zero and infinity do not have ontological reality, although it has no means of disproving their existence and, in mathematical terms, it’s irrational to deny their existence.

Illumination, on the contrary, is the position that existence is “living mathematics” and that all numbers have ontological reality, including zero, infinity, negative numbers and imaginary numbers. Illumination then becomes a “simple” exercise of explaining what all the different numbers mean. Imaginary numbers are time, real numbers are space and the spacetime continuum is therefore an arena of complex numbers. Negative real numbers represent “antispace” (antimatter) and negative imaginary numbers are anti-time. Zero is the number of immaterial existence (the mind/”soul”/life), and infinity (infinite mathematical energy) can be
contained within zero as long as positive infinity is cancelled by negative infinity, and positive imaginary infinity is cancelled by negative imaginary infinity, leaving a resultant of zero.

Illumination is based on the absolute, immutable, eternal truths of mathematics, not the provisional truths of science (which can be overturned at any time by new experimental data inconsistent with prevailing scientific paradigms). Science is inherently not a subject that can deliver absolute truth. Atheism, which derives its justification from science, can therefore never be anything but a provisional position – waiting to be falsified/refuted.

Mathematics is not provisional. It provides unarguable knowledge. If everything is mathematical then there is an absolute, unarguable answer to existence. Illumination is based on the Monadology of Leibniz, the inventor of calculus and the greatest genius in human history. Leibniz was the supreme logician and rationalist.

You’re absolutely right that Illumination and atheism are the only credible shows in town. We reduce these two positions to how consistent they are with mathematics, and calculus in particular. Our approach is extremely technical, and that’s the level at which we wish to have any fruitful discussion. In this series, we will demonstrate the numerous logical fallacies – blatant contradictions of mathematics – that lie at the heart of scientific materialism.

Science and atheism both fail because they are insufficiently mathematical.

Illumination is the religion, philosophy and science of MATHEMATICS. We assert that absolutely everything can be explained mathematically, and that only our system offers the eternal, immutable certainties that people seek. Whether people like the answers is quite another matter. The truth has no obligation to be nice and comfortable. As it turns out, mathematics offers everything that any religious person could ever want, but that’s because of the extraordinary properties of numbers, not because of any preposterous “Creator”.

Most of us were atheists too before we found Illumination. We’ve all tried putting dents in it, but we have all failed. If you can find a flaw, we’ll be delighted to hear from you – but you will need to express your findings in mathematics before we can engage with them.

Our website and books are about giving people a feel for what we’re talking about without laying
heavy-duty mathematics on them – but the real position of Illumination can only be understood via highly technical mathematical considerations.

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Consider these principles Pythagoras taught to the Mathematikoi.

(1) Reality is mathematical at its deepest level.

(2) The cosmos exhibits order because it obeys mathematical laws.

(3) If the cosmos were not mathematical it would be permanently chaotic and random. No form of organization would ever have emerged. No life could have arisen.

(4) Mathematics is the first language of the cosmos. Mathematics underlies reason, order, organization, pattern, logic, and form.

(5) God is mathematics come to life.

(6) God is mathematical perfection.

(7) The thinking mind, both human and divine, is born of mathematics.

(8) The mathematics of humanity can evolve to the mathematics of divinity: the latter is simply an inferior version of the latter.

(9) Through the understanding of mathematics, humans can comprehend the Mind of God.

(10) The human soul reflects the mathematics of eternity.

(11) Mathematics and philosophy can purify the soul spiritually.

(12) The human soul can rise to union with the divine.

(13) Certain symbols have a mystical significance via which the secrets of God are revealed.

(14) God has filled the cosmos with mathematical messages (codes) to the human race to provide the answers to all of our questions. We need only read the codes, but to do so we must learn to see through God’s eyes.

(15) Good and evil have their origins in mathematics. Good is associated with those who wish to live in harmony with others; evil is the result of the desire to destroy harmony by treating others in a lesser way than one would expect to be treated oneself. Good people seek harmony; evil people seek discord. Good people seek cooperation, evil people seek to put others down in order to raise themselves up.

(16) God wants all good people to join him. He rejects all evil people.

(17) Emotion is based on music, and music on mathematics. All of our emotions are reflected in music. Music can make us happy, sad, tearful, and ecstatic. It can rouse us to dance. It can plunge us into despair. It can deliver serenity. It can make us restless. It can inspire us, or crush us. It can allow us to enter into communion with others. It can raise our minds to the level of the divine. Through perfect music, we can glimpse the perfect mind of God.

(18) All things have a profound inner grasp of mathematics. Even when they do not know it, all things are carried along in the eternal flow of mathematics, the river of enlightenment.

(19) Those who do not understand mathematics are those who have not had what is buried within them brought into the light of reason.

(20) Light and sound are mathematical. In the afterlife, we hear the Music of the Spheres and see the infinitely dazzling light patterns of eternity.

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Found in Gödel’s papers after his death was a fourteen-point outline of his philosophical beliefs, centered on hyperrationalism. The fourteen points, all of which are extremely Leibnizian, are:

1) The world is rational.

2) Human reason can, in principle, be developed more highly (through certain techniques).

3) There are systematic methods for the solution of all problems (also art, etc.).

4) There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind.

5) The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived.

6) There is incomparably more knowable a priori than is currently known.

7) The development of human thought since the Renaissance is thoroughly intelligible.

8) Reason in mankind will be developed in every direction.

9) Formal rights comprise a real science.

10) Materialism is false.

11) The higher beings are connected to the others by analogy, not by composition.

12) Concepts have an objective existence.

13) There is a scientific (exact) philosophy and theology, which deals with concepts of the highest abstractness; and this is also most highly fruitful for science.

14) Religions are, for the most part, bad – but religion is not.

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Putting It All Together.

Illuminism has no connection whatsoever with faith. We don’t expect anyone to “believe” a single word of what we have said. Our religion has no time for those who cling to Holy Scripture and the words of dead prophets. All faith-based religious statements are intrinsically absurd and quintessentially UNBELIEVABLE. That’s the supreme irony of the Abrahamic religions. They are all about belief, yet no one with a brain and power of rational thought could ever believe them.

We have presented Illuminism as a set of philosophical, religious, mathematical and scientific statements. Slowly but surely we have constructed the edifice that everyone can now see for themselves. We have quoted no holy books of Illuminism that you must accept without question; we have quoted no prophets of Illuminism whom you must believe utterly or suffer eternal hellfire.

Every statement we have made is capable of being analysed and challenged. If you think you can improve Illuminism, go for it! Illuminism is a dialectical religion; it is perfecting itself, just as the cosmos itself is. That is the fundamental nature of the dialectic.
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