“The Fear of God is
the root of the poisonous tree.”
What is God? It is
the personification of the Superego: the voice in your head that tells you the
Id is bad, sinful, damned everlastingly to hellfire – when in fact the Id is
the entire source of your power to enjoy life. Society was your Superego’s maker,
and for that, it forfeits any claim to your allegiance.
“Blessed are the
selfish, for they have their hands on the throat of God.”
God – the Superego –
would have you sacrifice your Id on the altar of moral goodness. Make no
mistake: the Id and the Superego are at war. The War in Heaven and the Fall of
Lucifer are metaphors for the struggle inside your head. The vanguard of the Id’s
advancing army is your innate selfishness, which, the moment it has your
acknowledgement and approval, goes straight at the Superego with ruthless and
merciless malice.
“Blessed are the
greedy, for they would possess the earth.”
The highest
expression of selfishness is greed: wanting it all and wanting it now. It is
never satiated, and therefore it drives your relentless conquest of the
material world. It is the territory and treasure aspect of your will to power,
and the most perfect expression of that will, for territory and treasure are
both the ends and the means of power.
“The love of money
is the beginning of wisdom.”
No tool of
domination is better suited to its task than filthy lucre. All the cunning arts
of seduction and manipulation can be neutralized in an instant by the hand that
offers coin of the realm. And make no mistake: domination is what money is for,
when you have enough of it.
“Blessed are the
rich, for they stand at the helm.”
Many Western nations
are plutocracies pretending to be democracies, and chief among them is the
United States. Nor is it merely billionaires and hectomillionaires that rule. If
you have enough money that only a fraction is needed for necessities and common
luxuries, what remains can be spent on acquiring and consolidating economic and
even political power.
“Blessed are the
buyers and sellers, for they make the world go round.”
Buying and selling
are the primary expressions of economic power, and since for every buyer there
is a seller who may then turn and buy with the proceeds, and for every seller a
buyer who may then turn and sell what was bought, what we have is an endless
dance of financial transactions, a ballet for which the whole world is the
stage. Nothing of any importance happens independently of this choreography.
Nothing political, nothing warlike, nothing scientific, nothing cultural. All
of humanity in all of its dimensions of life is swept up in the great swirling dance
of money changing hands.
“Blessed are they
who honor the name of Mammon, for they prove they are fearless of God.”
For over a thousand
years, the disciples of the crucified were taught, “You cannot serve two masters.
You will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and
despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” (The use of the demonic proper name was a
mistranslation but it held sway for over a millennium.) I agree heartily: you
must choose between greed and Superego: between the love of money and the fear
of God. Don’t be fooled by the millionaire televangelists. They’re no more Christian
than you or I.
This is the end of my
third wave of postings. I have expressed all of my philosophy as of August 6th,
2021. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!

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