The subtitle of my first Substack essay, “A Primer for the Propagandized” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized) is “Fear Is the Mind-Killer” from “Dune.” I figured the series contains valuable lessons for the present scenario but haven’t read it since high school and don’t remember it well enough to draw comparisons, so thank you for refreshing my memory a bit and highlighting this relevant storyline (“instant death by way of a poison needle” turned out to be especially prescient).
Did you coin “Military Occult Banking Syndicate (MOBS),” Mathew? That’s brilliant. I’m adding it to my running glossary of neologisms and acronyms with credit to you (unless it comes from another source).
I was fascinated when I read about the Bene Gesserit and the effort put into social engineering. Looks like our despotic overlords have decent taste in Sci-fi. Actually I think Tucker Carlson and Neil Oliver decided it was more Logan's Run this week, watch those crystals turn black.
Living in a rural area where people have set traps on our family property, our dogs and 1 cat have been snared in various types of traps. None have died. Each time, the animal has patiently waited. And someone has always arrived to rescue them. My sister's cay was once snared around the middle. The trap was on a golf course belonging to the government ( a trapper set a snare there "off season" when the property was no longer occupied). The cat waited in the snow, under a tree, for at least 2 days. My sister is a very lucky person, and was somehow able to find her cat around 10 pm, after looking frantically. Our dogs have fortunately been located before 24 hours.
I know a trapper who told me that they have never discovered a domestic animal who left behind a leg, but did find the legs of wild animals. Gross, I know. It is wierd that there is such a disparity between ferel and domestic animals.
Having spent much time on the problem of controlled opposition and trustworthiness, I have concluded that anyone who is trustworthy and has nothing to hide, should embrace
Mathew 's criticisms. Why act offended and victimized? People who are accused of controlled opposition should say, "Yes, you should question everything I say and do. There are too many liars and corrupt people in authority to think that anyone is acting in good faith."
Wow - so glad you are back to writing. My (much older) 68 year old brother laments over what he sees as the transformation of his generation into fearful, evil, selfish tyrants. His recollection of the '60s is a generation of youngsters who truly wanted peace, were highly skeptical of (opposed to?) 'the man,' and freedom for all. I look forward to your article about Theosophy and the 60s. It will spark interesting dinner conversations.
All the worlds cultures are decaying fast not just the west. the downfall of western culture began in the 1600's with the enlightenment or even earlier. the world is becoming one homogenous blob
Excellent piece of work. Love the narrative tie-in with the Bene Geserit/Jesuit angle who were also renowned for intensive visionalizing (see: self induced hypnotic inductions) to live out brutal torture in Hell in preparation for the highly likely chance of being skinned alive when target cultures you are assigned to manipulate (and shape new sacred myths for) get pissed and push back. The Theosophists really need to be exposed as a driving force behind much of the worst shit to happen to humanity during the past 140 years. The fact that so much of all world cultures are so influenced by this cult, and that so many modern sci fi myths are potentially the sacred stories of the future pagan religion is more than a little worrisome to say the least
There are 'coaching' cults based in Ojai. One is the seemingly innocuous "Getting Things Done". Looks like a productivity tool, but its founder is all tangled up with metaphysical groups. Decent tool but a VERY weird organization.
Glad you're back. I suspect you may be familiar with the Maccregor & Docherty books on the Milner group et al. and Quigley's (of Tragedy and Hope fame) Anglo- American Establishment. I went back and checked. No theosophy comments indexed. Maybe means it was too important to note. Or hidden in plain site.
You may have been born to investigate Cults, as no one else can. Take care of yourself and all the best.
Theosophy committed one very important crime that nobody ever observes: it gutted, altered, 're-defined' and assimilated (like the Borg) something we used to call 'folklore.' As William Butler Yeats pointed out before he became a politician and member of secret societies: there is what used to be called Peasant Lore, and then there is 'occultism.' Occultism is for and from aristocrats, the city dwelling upper class. Folklore is for the rest of us commoners, and it has no pope, prophet or guru. Theosophy is nothing less than some weird composite of upper class freemasonry, occultism, new agery, eugenics, and has very little connection to what the 'peasant' experiences or has a connection to. Rural folk who lived off the land didn't have seances and try to talk to ghosts, but they did see Bigfoot and weird lights in the woods and had a vast vocabulary for it all for generations upon generations, and they didn't need fraternities and degrees and initiations.
Worth noting that Rasputin was connected to Theosophy (and may well have been a theosophist himself) through his key lieutenant and posthumous son-in-law Boris Soloviev. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rasputin
"Rasputin had persuaded Maria to marry Boris Soloviev, the charismatic son of Nikolai Soloviev, the Treasurer of the Holy Synod, and one of her father's admirers.[24] Boris Soloviev, a graduate of a school of mysticism, quickly emerged as Rasputin's successor after the murder. Boris, who had studied Madame Blavatsky's theosophy,[25] and hypnotism, attended meetings at which Rasputin's followers attempted to communicate with the dead through prayer meetings and séances.[26] Maria also attended the meetings, but later wrote in her diary that she could not understand why her father kept telling her to "love Boris" when the group spoke to him at the séances. She said she did not like Boris at all.[27] Boris was no more enthusiastic about Maria. In his own diary, he wrote that his wife was not even useful for sexual relations, because there were so many women who had bodies he found more attractive than hers.[28] In September 1917, Boris received jewels from the Tsarina to help arrange for their escape,[29] but according to Radzinsky, he kept the funds for himself. Nonetheless, she married Boris on October 5, 1917, in the chapel of the Tauride Palace. After the fall of the Russian Provisional Government the situation got worse. In spring 1918, the couple fled to her mother.[30] They lived in Pokrovskoye,[27] Tyumen, and Tobolsk.
"Boris and her brother Dmitry turned in the officers who had come to Ekaterinburg to plan the escape of the Romanovs. Boris lost the money he had obtained from the jewels during the Russian Civil War that followed.[31] Boris defrauded prominent Russian families by asking for money for a Romanov impostor to escape to China. Boris also found young women willing to masquerade as one of the grand duchesses for the benefit of the families he had defrauded.[32] (For more information on the betrayal and jewels see the account of Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden.) "
My theory is that it stemmed from the original gnostics, and they stole heavily from the Kabbalah. I see Theosophy as a branch of the Gnostics. Something that is now the modern day control arm.
It seems to be the body that people are willing to follow, so long as the lighting is kept low. In that sense, Theosophy is like the narcissistic Ivy Leaguer running the Church of Kumbaya Globalism.
I would point out that gnosticism, ie hardcore neoplatonists Christians, have been the main victims of authoritian control structures and strongly persecuted by dogmatics. Why? Well, because its very hard to control people who have no fear of death, personal connection with the divine and who are trained to act in accordance with God's universal love.
And theosophy is not like gnosticism, as the latter is egalitarian (all are brothers and sisters in christ), but instead hierarchical, and built around the idea of an elect group of ascended beings with secret knowledge (gnosticism is not based around secrets, but mysteries), see orthodox Christian theology for the a close relative).
What they do have in common, is a set of psycho-techniques. Ie methods of changing consciousness, but one is based on connection (go into yourself), the other on disconnection (hence sexual abuse, trauma etc).
Yes - huge overlap between Gnosticism and Kabbalah. I tend to ascribe the origin to Kabbalah since it (supposedly at least) came first - but they are definitely interlinked.
The selection of a "guru" / "ascended master" is very common in Hindu religion. The believe is that the master reincarnates into a new body and can be a saint again. Some other religion branches have a similar ideas.. I think that Theosophy tried to merge all religions together. They also added a lot of ideas from shamanism (including communication with spirits).
The idea that one group stands above all others is also common in religion groups. Like Zionism. In the west we have "Nobility" who were supported by the church. The idea is already present in ancient times. People are judged on their family line instead of their capabilities and character. Women are often not regarded as equal, and abused like slaves (or worse) in several cultures.
From Epstein's victims we can learn that most elite also see themselves as a special group. The psychopaths regard other humans as lesser beings. But easily befriend each other (like the Nazis became part of NATO).
Psychopaths will use whatever idea to abuse others. Whether it is capitalism or communism, or whether it is Christianity (Inquisition), Hinduism or Atheism (Pol Pot).
I am curious when theosophy really took off. There's a book by a Russian that Blavatsky tried to convince to support her and it shows her as a tawdry and petty fake. He said that her society's membership was greatly exaggerated. It seems clear from her biography that she was motivated by a need to make money. She wanted this Russian to promote her in Russia so she could return, despite an apparently notorious reputation there from her youth. She doesn't really come across as a mastermind of anything.
What it brings to mind for me is Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. In that novel, the main character and his friends come up with a compelling story connecting the knights templar to a secret. Their theory attracts what Eco called the diabolicals, who treat it as if it is real and plot against the main characters. Part of Eco's point seemed to be that it doesn't actually matter if the content of the mystery is real or not. It will attract these certain types anyways. That is what seems to have happened with early theosophy. The doctrine was obvious hogwash, but it attracted certain types.
Similarly, the NXIVM founder seemed to screen people for lack of empathetic response to horrific videos. So regarding social engineering: first you have to recruit those suitable to be engineers. I wonder if these dogma like theosophy act as a screening tool to attract suitable sociopaths.
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875. By 1876 there were Theosophy Lodges all over England and London in particular. It was almost certainly am intentional propping up swiftly by an existing and wealthy power structure, then quickly thrust on India within a few years.
The author of Terrorism and the Illuminati traces some of the connections between Theosophy and radical Islam through Jamal al-Din al Afghani, who was in India at the same time as Blavatsky.
He also posits that radical Islam in the form of what he calls Salafism was fostered by the British at least in part as a thorn in the side of the Ottomans. I'm not certain how solid his evidence is but I think the idea of a parallel construction by the British of religious sects for imperial purposes is an interesting theory.
Radical Islam became a powerful tool in shaping the Middle East. There was no particular reason that Islam had to be so intolerant and it is highly suspect that first the British and then America would choose to back one of the most intolerant factions the Wahhabists and house of Saud. Also the US inherited ties to the Muslim Brotherhood from the Nazis, who we apparently maintained on good terms with throughout the 'war on terror.'
Regarding Nazism and the occult, there is a scholarly book on it called The Occult Roots of Nazism - Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. The author does a careful job of examining the subject and towards the end outlines how some of the less substantiated myths (like the supposed hunt for the spear of destiny) came into being. Mostly these Aryan mystic writers seemed to have be some hucksters spinning stories about the historical identity of Germans and mixing in esoteric junk like rune magic.
I used to diss the hucksters before seeing and documenting the connections, and recognizing how the chaos leaves people dazed and confused, needing globalist daddy corp to guide them.
Also interesting is the history of the Ismaili sect. Abdul ibn Maymun set up the sect as an occult society in the ninth century with nine ranks and at each promotion a deception was revealed until at the ninth level it was revealed that there was no god and all that mattered was power (Nietzsche / Crowley style) - i.e. just the same as every other occult society. Within a few decades he had taken over half the Moslem world and murdered millions.
His line remains intact and the current scion and head of the Ismaili sect is the Aga Khan whose followers call him "the Lightbringer" which would be amusing if it wasn't so serious.
The subtitle of my first Substack essay, “A Primer for the Propagandized” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized) is “Fear Is the Mind-Killer” from “Dune.” I figured the series contains valuable lessons for the present scenario but haven’t read it since high school and don’t remember it well enough to draw comparisons, so thank you for refreshing my memory a bit and highlighting this relevant storyline (“instant death by way of a poison needle” turned out to be especially prescient).
Did you coin “Military Occult Banking Syndicate (MOBS),” Mathew? That’s brilliant. I’m adding it to my running glossary of neologisms and acronyms with credit to you (unless it comes from another source).
The devil's greatest trick has been convincing the world that he doesn't exist.
Hah - he had me fooled for a while - but no longer.
I was fascinated when I read about the Bene Gesserit and the effort put into social engineering. Looks like our despotic overlords have decent taste in Sci-fi. Actually I think Tucker Carlson and Neil Oliver decided it was more Logan's Run this week, watch those crystals turn black.
Living in a rural area where people have set traps on our family property, our dogs and 1 cat have been snared in various types of traps. None have died. Each time, the animal has patiently waited. And someone has always arrived to rescue them. My sister's cay was once snared around the middle. The trap was on a golf course belonging to the government ( a trapper set a snare there "off season" when the property was no longer occupied). The cat waited in the snow, under a tree, for at least 2 days. My sister is a very lucky person, and was somehow able to find her cat around 10 pm, after looking frantically. Our dogs have fortunately been located before 24 hours.
I know a trapper who told me that they have never discovered a domestic animal who left behind a leg, but did find the legs of wild animals. Gross, I know. It is wierd that there is such a disparity between ferel and domestic animals.
Having spent much time on the problem of controlled opposition and trustworthiness, I have concluded that anyone who is trustworthy and has nothing to hide, should embrace
Mathew 's criticisms. Why act offended and victimized? People who are accused of controlled opposition should say, "Yes, you should question everything I say and do. There are too many liars and corrupt people in authority to think that anyone is acting in good faith."
Wow - so glad you are back to writing. My (much older) 68 year old brother laments over what he sees as the transformation of his generation into fearful, evil, selfish tyrants. His recollection of the '60s is a generation of youngsters who truly wanted peace, were highly skeptical of (opposed to?) 'the man,' and freedom for all. I look forward to your article about Theosophy and the 60s. It will spark interesting dinner conversations.
All the worlds cultures are decaying fast not just the west. the downfall of western culture began in the 1600's with the enlightenment or even earlier. the world is becoming one homogenous blob
Excellent piece of work. Love the narrative tie-in with the Bene Geserit/Jesuit angle who were also renowned for intensive visionalizing (see: self induced hypnotic inductions) to live out brutal torture in Hell in preparation for the highly likely chance of being skinned alive when target cultures you are assigned to manipulate (and shape new sacred myths for) get pissed and push back. The Theosophists really need to be exposed as a driving force behind much of the worst shit to happen to humanity during the past 140 years. The fact that so much of all world cultures are so influenced by this cult, and that so many modern sci fi myths are potentially the sacred stories of the future pagan religion is more than a little worrisome to say the least
There are 'coaching' cults based in Ojai. One is the seemingly innocuous "Getting Things Done". Looks like a productivity tool, but its founder is all tangled up with metaphysical groups. Decent tool but a VERY weird organization.
"Decent tool"
I think it's spiritually dangerous to use the tools of these groups.
Glad you're back. I suspect you may be familiar with the Maccregor & Docherty books on the Milner group et al. and Quigley's (of Tragedy and Hope fame) Anglo- American Establishment. I went back and checked. No theosophy comments indexed. Maybe means it was too important to note. Or hidden in plain site.
You may have been born to investigate Cults, as no one else can. Take care of yourself and all the best.
MacGregor
Fascinating. Thanks for exploring the areas so few others dare to touch, Mathew!
Theosophy committed one very important crime that nobody ever observes: it gutted, altered, 're-defined' and assimilated (like the Borg) something we used to call 'folklore.' As William Butler Yeats pointed out before he became a politician and member of secret societies: there is what used to be called Peasant Lore, and then there is 'occultism.' Occultism is for and from aristocrats, the city dwelling upper class. Folklore is for the rest of us commoners, and it has no pope, prophet or guru. Theosophy is nothing less than some weird composite of upper class freemasonry, occultism, new agery, eugenics, and has very little connection to what the 'peasant' experiences or has a connection to. Rural folk who lived off the land didn't have seances and try to talk to ghosts, but they did see Bigfoot and weird lights in the woods and had a vast vocabulary for it all for generations upon generations, and they didn't need fraternities and degrees and initiations.
Worth noting that Rasputin was connected to Theosophy (and may well have been a theosophist himself) through his key lieutenant and posthumous son-in-law Boris Soloviev. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rasputin
"Rasputin had persuaded Maria to marry Boris Soloviev, the charismatic son of Nikolai Soloviev, the Treasurer of the Holy Synod, and one of her father's admirers.[24] Boris Soloviev, a graduate of a school of mysticism, quickly emerged as Rasputin's successor after the murder. Boris, who had studied Madame Blavatsky's theosophy,[25] and hypnotism, attended meetings at which Rasputin's followers attempted to communicate with the dead through prayer meetings and séances.[26] Maria also attended the meetings, but later wrote in her diary that she could not understand why her father kept telling her to "love Boris" when the group spoke to him at the séances. She said she did not like Boris at all.[27] Boris was no more enthusiastic about Maria. In his own diary, he wrote that his wife was not even useful for sexual relations, because there were so many women who had bodies he found more attractive than hers.[28] In September 1917, Boris received jewels from the Tsarina to help arrange for their escape,[29] but according to Radzinsky, he kept the funds for himself. Nonetheless, she married Boris on October 5, 1917, in the chapel of the Tauride Palace. After the fall of the Russian Provisional Government the situation got worse. In spring 1918, the couple fled to her mother.[30] They lived in Pokrovskoye,[27] Tyumen, and Tobolsk.
"Boris and her brother Dmitry turned in the officers who had come to Ekaterinburg to plan the escape of the Romanovs. Boris lost the money he had obtained from the jewels during the Russian Civil War that followed.[31] Boris defrauded prominent Russian families by asking for money for a Romanov impostor to escape to China. Boris also found young women willing to masquerade as one of the grand duchesses for the benefit of the families he had defrauded.[32] (For more information on the betrayal and jewels see the account of Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden.) "
Seems like a nice man!
Thank you.
If Theosophy isn’t the octopus head, it’s gotta be one of its three beating hearts.
I don't think this is correct. Theosophy is just one in a long line of occult groups stemming back into the mists of history.
The common thread that seems to link every one of them is the Kabbalah - that might be the beating heart if you like.
My theory is that it stemmed from the original gnostics, and they stole heavily from the Kabbalah. I see Theosophy as a branch of the Gnostics. Something that is now the modern day control arm.
It seems to be the body that people are willing to follow, so long as the lighting is kept low. In that sense, Theosophy is like the narcissistic Ivy Leaguer running the Church of Kumbaya Globalism.
I would point out that gnosticism, ie hardcore neoplatonists Christians, have been the main victims of authoritian control structures and strongly persecuted by dogmatics. Why? Well, because its very hard to control people who have no fear of death, personal connection with the divine and who are trained to act in accordance with God's universal love.
And theosophy is not like gnosticism, as the latter is egalitarian (all are brothers and sisters in christ), but instead hierarchical, and built around the idea of an elect group of ascended beings with secret knowledge (gnosticism is not based around secrets, but mysteries), see orthodox Christian theology for the a close relative).
What they do have in common, is a set of psycho-techniques. Ie methods of changing consciousness, but one is based on connection (go into yourself), the other on disconnection (hence sexual abuse, trauma etc).
Yes - huge overlap between Gnosticism and Kabbalah. I tend to ascribe the origin to Kabbalah since it (supposedly at least) came first - but they are definitely interlinked.
The selection of a "guru" / "ascended master" is very common in Hindu religion. The believe is that the master reincarnates into a new body and can be a saint again. Some other religion branches have a similar ideas.. I think that Theosophy tried to merge all religions together. They also added a lot of ideas from shamanism (including communication with spirits).
The idea that one group stands above all others is also common in religion groups. Like Zionism. In the west we have "Nobility" who were supported by the church. The idea is already present in ancient times. People are judged on their family line instead of their capabilities and character. Women are often not regarded as equal, and abused like slaves (or worse) in several cultures.
From Epstein's victims we can learn that most elite also see themselves as a special group. The psychopaths regard other humans as lesser beings. But easily befriend each other (like the Nazis became part of NATO).
Psychopaths will use whatever idea to abuse others. Whether it is capitalism or communism, or whether it is Christianity (Inquisition), Hinduism or Atheism (Pol Pot).
I am curious when theosophy really took off. There's a book by a Russian that Blavatsky tried to convince to support her and it shows her as a tawdry and petty fake. He said that her society's membership was greatly exaggerated. It seems clear from her biography that she was motivated by a need to make money. She wanted this Russian to promote her in Russia so she could return, despite an apparently notorious reputation there from her youth. She doesn't really come across as a mastermind of anything.
What it brings to mind for me is Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. In that novel, the main character and his friends come up with a compelling story connecting the knights templar to a secret. Their theory attracts what Eco called the diabolicals, who treat it as if it is real and plot against the main characters. Part of Eco's point seemed to be that it doesn't actually matter if the content of the mystery is real or not. It will attract these certain types anyways. That is what seems to have happened with early theosophy. The doctrine was obvious hogwash, but it attracted certain types.
Similarly, the NXIVM founder seemed to screen people for lack of empathetic response to horrific videos. So regarding social engineering: first you have to recruit those suitable to be engineers. I wonder if these dogma like theosophy act as a screening tool to attract suitable sociopaths.
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875. By 1876 there were Theosophy Lodges all over England and London in particular. It was almost certainly am intentional propping up swiftly by an existing and wealthy power structure, then quickly thrust on India within a few years.
The author of Terrorism and the Illuminati traces some of the connections between Theosophy and radical Islam through Jamal al-Din al Afghani, who was in India at the same time as Blavatsky.
He also posits that radical Islam in the form of what he calls Salafism was fostered by the British at least in part as a thorn in the side of the Ottomans. I'm not certain how solid his evidence is but I think the idea of a parallel construction by the British of religious sects for imperial purposes is an interesting theory.
Radical Islam became a powerful tool in shaping the Middle East. There was no particular reason that Islam had to be so intolerant and it is highly suspect that first the British and then America would choose to back one of the most intolerant factions the Wahhabists and house of Saud. Also the US inherited ties to the Muslim Brotherhood from the Nazis, who we apparently maintained on good terms with throughout the 'war on terror.'
Regarding Nazism and the occult, there is a scholarly book on it called The Occult Roots of Nazism - Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. The author does a careful job of examining the subject and towards the end outlines how some of the less substantiated myths (like the supposed hunt for the spear of destiny) came into being. Mostly these Aryan mystic writers seemed to have be some hucksters spinning stories about the historical identity of Germans and mixing in esoteric junk like rune magic.
I used to diss the hucksters before seeing and documenting the connections, and recognizing how the chaos leaves people dazed and confused, needing globalist daddy corp to guide them.
Also interesting is the history of the Ismaili sect. Abdul ibn Maymun set up the sect as an occult society in the ninth century with nine ranks and at each promotion a deception was revealed until at the ninth level it was revealed that there was no god and all that mattered was power (Nietzsche / Crowley style) - i.e. just the same as every other occult society. Within a few decades he had taken over half the Moslem world and murdered millions.
His line remains intact and the current scion and head of the Ismaili sect is the Aga Khan whose followers call him "the Lightbringer" which would be amusing if it wasn't so serious.
This is who the Deep State is. We are in an angels and demons moment in world history. The 70% that are sheep are unaware and refusing to see.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mysticwilliam/p/satanic-ignorance?r=80dri&utm_medium=ios