Fragment 43

I am going to continue the discussion of the last "Fragment". I said in the last "Fragment" that I was going to divide the material into two parts, but I have found that I have too much material. The signs of the deterioration of the social fabric of our society are so overwhelming, that it is hard to know what to admit and what to omit. So I am going to take as many "Fragments" as it takes to get my points across. I do not think I made my method clear in the last "Fragment". So let me revisit it here. What I am doing is showing how the dominance of compartmentalized thinking is destroying the social fabric of society. My method is to use the two types of thinking to analyze what is happening in society. I want to show how Compartmentalized thinking has usurped the place of Magickal thinking, and even though Compartmentalized thinking denies the existence of Magickal thinking it is still there at a deeper level having its effects. Effects that we do not realize, or even want to acknowledge exist. So what I am doing is to mythologize compartmentalized thinking to show how it translates into Magickal thinking. Magickal thinking is the deeper strata of thought, it is the unconscious. It is the realm of the gods and demons that haunt our society, that we do not want to acknowledge exists. One of the problems of Compartmentalized thinking is that it is overly optimistic. McGilchrist has pointed this out in his book "The Mater and his Emissary". That some split brain patients who have a paralyzed, numb side will deny that the numb hand belongs to them. They make up all kinds of absurd excuses, like the hand belongs to someone else, that it is not their hand. They actually believe these absurd statements. This should sound familiar if you listen to progressive figures. like inflation is good for your or all the absurd excuses they make for the failure of progressive policies. That it in never the fault of the policies, but someone else's fault. Let me begin with the Gnostic myth of there being two gods, it is less myth than one realizes. Many of the Gnostics asserted that the Creator god was not the true god. That there was an unknown god above him. A god that the Creator god (Demiurge) did not know existed. The two gods represent the two types of thinking. The Creator god is compartmentalized thinking, and the True god is Magickal thinking. The Creator god usually referred to as Ialdaboath is a usurper god. The interesting thing is the usurper god does not realize he is a usurper because he is ignorant to the True god. Much like compartmentalized thinking denies that Magickal thinking exists. Those that have read my "Fragments" should recognize the Creator god is Aten (the law of non-contradiction). The age of the Gnostics was of course the time that consciousness changed from Magickal thinking or Mythological thinking to Compartmentalized thinking. The two gods represent the shift in paradigms. Aten is the Creator god of our world (thinking). It is interesting to note that in many myths of the Demiurge that he did not create out of nothing but created out of the existing chaos. To translate it means that the Aten created out of the existing thinking to give order to the chaos of the Mythological paradigm. The objective world is created by the law of non-contradiction. In simpler terms it creates the objective world out of subjective thinking, by using the law of non-contradiction. This might give us the clue to another ancient myth, that if one could correctly pronounce the unknown name of god that the world would end. The true name of the Creator god is not some weird pronunciation of Yahweh, but is Aten. The way it brings about the end of the world is that one realizes that the Creator god is a usurper, and the world he created is artifice. That the objective world is created from the subjective world. That the subjective world is not a misunderstanding of the objective world, but the substratum of the objective world. The subjective world is prior to the objective world both historically and logically. The objective world is an abstraction from the subjective world. This was not rediscovered until Kant. There is much more to say about Gnosticism, but it shall have to wait until a future "Fragment". I now want to move to my tribute to Bishop David Smith, the most remarkable man I ever met. We were fellow seekers on the path even though we took different trails to the divine. We were both committed in our search for the miraculous. (to borrow a phrase from Ouspensky) I met David when we were both 11 years old in middle school. We shared a class, I do not remember what the class was, but do remember the day I met David. The class was meeting in the school library. I was wandering around looking at books and what my fellow classmates were reading. I noticed a student with an open encyclopedia in front of him reading about the Orthodox churches, it was David. I struck up a conversation and a lifelong friendship began. I was already interested in religion, history, and occultism, it would be several years until I added philosophy to my interests. We shared ideas, and started a series of discussions that would last for more than 40 years. I know that I shall never have conversations of such depth again. One of the first writers on occultism I discovered was the strange priest Montague Summers. Montague Summers became David's intellectual hero. David became a Bishop of the Old Catholic Church, He also consecrated me as a Bishop in the Old Catholic Church, even though I never did much with my Holy Orders. The office of Bishop of the Old Catholic Church is something David and I share with Aleister Crowley. David was active in the Church and finally settled down to head a congregation in Arkansas, where he became a much beloved figure. I did not find out what a wonderful counselor he was until a few years before his death, when he counseled me on some personal problems. David had many hidden talents (at least to me) that I would not find out about until after his death when I spoke to some members of his congregation. He was an expert on Demonology. I remember watching horror movies with him and whenever a demon was mentioned he could tell when the demon was first referred to and its subsequent history. David had a quick and deep mind, with the best memory of anyone I have ever met. Bishop David Smith died on January 14, 2021 of the covid plague. I miss him every day. Recent events have forcefully brought back memories of our conversations on certain topics. I am of course, referring to the abortion debate and the reawakening of the ancient god, Moloch. Being a Christian clergyman of the old school he was of course opposed to abortion. I want to say I am presenting David's views and not my own, My views on abortion are much more confused than David's. So in tribute I shall examine his views, in light of recent events. David's arguments against abortion were orginal and compelling, he also made some prophecies on what was to come. In the 1980s when the abortion debate was still reltively new, David mande the following arguments and predictions. He told me that me that the generation that grew up with legalized abortion would look around and wonder where are my missing brothers and sisters? And they would realize they were aborted. (both David and I are only children) It would lead to a diminished respect for human life, and respect for their parents. He also told me there would be some that would fight legalized abortion. That it would be the generations born after the legalization of abortion that would lead the fight against abortion. He also alerted me to the reawakening of the ancient god Moloch. Like I have said before we need a new Demonology or a new book on the supernatural entities (Egregores) active today. So let me recount the events that happened before David's death and events after his death that brought back the memories of our conversations. In 2020 Michelle Williams gave a giddy pro-abortion speech at a awards ceremony. David had told me sometime back that Moloch would not be content with "safe, legal, and rare" but would want abortion of demand up to and including infantcide. That abortion would become an empowering experience instead of a tragic one. Part of the worship of Moloch is sacrificing one's children for material advantage or power. That human sacrifice gives one access to powerful, if unpredictable energies. Another incident he alerted me about was when Lena Dunham saying she had not had an abortion, but wished she had. Abortion became an initatory experience for many leftist women. It is no longer regarded as a vice, but a virtue. Now to events after his death. In an appearance on M.S.N.B.C. the comic Laurie Kilmartin told how she wanted to have sex with the Supreme Court leaker, and if it was a Repulican that she would "jofully abort" her words, and everyone laughed. In a recent campaign for political office the California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in one of his adds that abortion is a sacred right. This points to how abortion went from a medical procedure to a spiritual rite (right). (I will get to the Temple of Satan soon) David told me all this would happen decades before it happened. When I watched the pro-abortion protests on television after the Supreme Court decision I was struck by the protestorsthat came covered in blood, and acted out symbolic abortions with dolls, while chanting about "killing babies" and chanting "Satan' (they should have been chanting Moloch). And the Democratic party wonders why they are losing hispanic voters! Many of these dramatic protests happened in front of Churches. More evidence that this is a religious issue for both sides. I found it ironic that these same people were so upset at the Uvalde school shooting, since the main theme of their protests were about diminishing respect for human life. Another example of Compartmentalized thinking. Historians and occultists should study these protests for clues and insight about the ancient worship of Moloch and other cults that practiced human sacrifice. This is a good transition to the Temple of Satan. I usually despise the T.o.S., but I find myself applauding their honesty on the abortion issue. The T.o.S. defends abortion on the grounds of religious freedom. That one should have the right to sacrifice one's unborn children (maybe infanticide also) for material gain or power. They should change the name of their cult to the "Temple of Moloch".This would add force to their arguments, by giving it a lot more historical force. Moloch is a god that goes back to the Bronze age. I shall end with the warning David gave me about human sacrifice. He told me even though human sacrifice gives one access to powerful energies that these energies in the end shall destroy the cult and its legacy. Just look at the Carthaginians, the Aztecs, and the Thuggee cult. Next "Fragment" I shall continue with the discussion of the two types of thinking, and if I have room for a symbolic look at Aleister Crowley's life and a practical tip