Ruler of Nations, Cycles and the Struggle of Life – Questions on Political Theology and Collective Delusion

This reproduces a section from my article Life’s Greatest Mystery: Victorian Theosophist Anna Kingsford’s Vision Teachings on Satan that explains the misquote used in Christian conspiracy tactics against Theosophy and H.P. Blavatsky by deliberately misquoting, misattributing and parsing Anna Kingsford’s Hermetic interpretation of Satan. Kingsford’s work turns out to be a very interesting study into Occult Philosophy on matter as the preponderant, immeasurable substance in which all strife or tension, separation and opposition occur in a world of dynamic change.

RULER OF NATIONS, CYCLES AND THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE

Let us consider WISDOM under two categories, Holy WISDOM and the Lower (“terrestrial, psychic, devilish”) WISDOM. Blavatsky states in the very book she has been accused of Satanism on the Pentagram:

“The esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga [the Dark Age] is the five-pointed star reversed, thus — the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenward, a position every Occultist will recognise as one of the “left-hand,” and used in ceremonial magic. It is hoped that during the perusal of this work the erroneous ideas of the public in general with regard to Pantheism will be modified” (Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1., pg. 5).

The highest knowledge H.P.B. and the adepts are concerned with is the knowledge of the Real, not focusing on desires to communicate with the dead, or asking the universe for money. The former is Wisdom, and the latter are traps, distractions and illusions. In prior times, when Occultism and Alternative Spirituality were seen as a fad, more gravitated to, or were pre-occupied with the latter, than with the former.

In the view of Anna Kingsford expressed in her visions and by H.P. Blavatsky, the rulers of nations, as is given in the Appendix of Kingsford’s work cited, engage in all things contrary to the WISDOM, because engaged in the struggle for life (maya). 

From the view of Physics, Biology and Chemistry, we live in a world pervaded by MATTER, in which that interminable and cyclical struggle of birth, death and transition occurs between all living things.

“The “dynasties of the kings” who all regard themselves as the “anointed,” reigning “by the Grace of God,” whereas in truth, they reign by the grace of matter, the great Illusion, the Deceiver.”

HELENA P. BLAVATSKY, THE SECRET DOCTRINE, VOL. 2., FN. PG. 233

While American and worldly politicians say, “God Bless our country,” in the name of Christianity, Hinduism or Islam, they war against one another in the next breath. They cannot escape this conundrum. In the early Jewish conceptions of Satan, this god is employed by their chief God as an attorney to test humanity. Humans are rather good at failing the tests, therefore the chain of causality (karma, providence, nemesis, etc) — the fates of nations, and dynasties of royals, etc., are not in the good graces of God, but in the graces of matter (the illusion, or illusory world). It is through this, that our divisiveness is born from our thought, which we stir and war against or for (God-concept as an idol) cyclically and repeatedly, each in the name of the jealous gods created by us. This as you will find also explains the other misquoted line from Blavatsky, that Lucifer (our egotism) lives in us, in our mind, which is also represented as dual (higher and lower manas).

The attributes SATAN is referred to or believed to be within cultures and theology is conceived as being the inverse nature of the Deity, hence being known as the adversary, i.e., the deceiver, which is the “illusion.” It is God inversed and manifested in the World.

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QUESTIONS

Some observations based on the recent conflicts between U.S.-Israel against Iran and Lebanon; hands for prayer being laid on Trump at the Oval Office before and after he orders attacks in Iran killing innocent people (Iran recently reported at UN Assembly 165 schoolgirls at school were murdered and U.S. using same excuses Israel used to flatten Gaza); and the ways Zionism and American Evangelicalism work together in the U.S. In the United States, the majority of its political leaders invoke the Christian God and believe that their god blesses them and their people over the people of another nation, because the leader’s nation is believed to be under the protection and guidance of “the true” supreme monarch of the universe. Political leaders engage in collective prayer to war against another nation whom they believe are dominated by a “misguided religion” as Speaker Mike Johnson stated recently.

From theosophical perspective, isn’t this highly normalized action practiced on a mass public scale “black magic,” “left-hand,” goety (magic of the lower nature)? The understanding of what Occultism is in the public for centuries has been used as a weapon of Religion against so many groups to prevent inquiry and challenge to established power. This view in popular culture spread widely through media, film and entertainment is an inversion. Occultism is therefore understood from its lowest point, or i.e., in relation to lower, psychical and human trappings, human failings (inner darkness), fears, distractions and illusions. In my view, our civilization has never attained to or was allowed to attain a mature understanding of what Occult Philosophy truly entails in the way Theosophy explains, remaining in a place of ridicule, or when engaged in — perceived solely through practices of ritualism (blood letting and sacrifices), summoning, ceremonialism, pleasures (e.g. sex tantra) and commercialization for profit which have shielded and served abusive institutions of power in a number of ways.

Anti-esoteric/anti-occult discourse and attitudes have caused religious understanding itself to deteriorate.

I need us to really think and reflect on these questions and answer them.

1. From these fundamental principles of Occult Philosophy as explained, how does this challenge the civic theology of the United States, that “God blesses nations” and what have you learned about the historical origins of the conventional theism that contributes to this belief?
2. Is this dangerous? Why and what can Americans do to change, or oppose this kind of thinking on our behalf to other countries, particularly towards Islamic, or Muslim-majority countries?
3. What does your philosophy or view think about engaging in collective prayer, collectively willing or imagining harm on others?
4. Can atonement, from the perspective of Occult Philosophy fix unerring law, particularly in the participatory generation of more suffering in the great cycle of strife and opposition?
5. Does this understanding of Occult Philosophy show that Christian use of conspiracies against “occultism” ignores their own projections and actions that perpetuate the evil (or harmful) causes that are instigated against others considered heathen, pagan, disbelievers, demonic and Luciferian?

I would like to see some good comments on this from people with theosophical perspective, religious views or non-religious views critical of the use of religion in the public political sphere on such mass scale and in our global affairs.