Education and Truth

Why is it that so many people of recent generations have been so easily won over to the project of the inversion of the good and subversion of truth? After all, most of these people are no different to those who came before them, a mixture of good and bad like us all, and presumably would favour the good in most circumstances. Well, perhaps they would favour it if they knew it but they don't and have been misled as to what it might be. There are various reasons for this and they range from the decline of religion to the rise of materialistic science. There is also the fact that the demonic powers are mounting their most sustained assault on humanity yet, part of which involves substituting the materialistic egalitarian humanistic doctrine, or secular liberalism, for proper spiritual teachings which, by their very nature, are more subtle and less easily tailored to universal global application than the simplistic belief system that's been foisted on us today. The idea of spirituality has been corrupted to mean what gives happiness and reduces suffering in this world, and goodness has been diminished to the recognition of equality with evil the corresponding rejection of it. 

But why has this belief in equality become so pervasive in the world today when, despite its superficial and theoretical truth, it is so clearly mistaken when one looks beneath the surface? (As the Masters said men are by no means equal on the earth plane). Partly, no doubt, as a reaction to the excessive inequality of the past but chiefly, I would say, because everyone seems to want to think that they are as good as anyone else. No one is better than me. So my diagnosis is that, outside the ivory towers of intellectuals who don't really believe what they teach anyway, the modern belief in equality is actually founded on and sustained by egotism.

However there are two other factors which have helped in the dissemination of the project of subverting truth, and both of them are almost always regarded as good in the topsy turvy world of today. One of them is feminism. One of the reasons this has been encouraged (and, let's be honest, the soil was fertile because of the pronounced inequalities of the past) is that women are more likely than men to go along with the status quo and consequently much less likely to fight against it unless they have a very strong reason to do so, probably relating to their children for whom, rightfully, they will fight tooth and nail. But generally women are more likely to want to be seen as, and actually to want to be, nice. This quality is easily exploited for if nobody's feelings are to be hurt then all kinds of untruths will be allowed to flourish. As indeed they are now when nice has replaced true.

The second, and more profound, factor in this is education. It is a cliché but one founded in reality that frequently the more educated a person is the less he is guided by common sense. The more he can be made to live in a world of ideas and thought, the less he is in touch with basic reality. Mass education to university level has only really kicked in over the last fifty years which is precisely the time that more and more people have succumbed to the ethos of secular liberalism. That is basically an abstract idea with no grounding in any kind of spiritual truth. In fact, as man needs some kind of religious belief, it has replaced that for those who have lost their religion, and the universities have become the seminaries.

So education and the life of thought are largely to blame for the success of the project of dismantling spiritual truth. Does that mean we restrict education? First of all, that's impossible and secondly, it is undesirable.  But we should strive to create a form of education in which spiritual truths are front and centre. This might mean it was not so intellectually focused. The cultivation and development and training of intellect would still be highly important, of course, but it would be guided by intuition with each faculty used to check and balance the other. Now we have a situation in which the intellect is presumed to be the arbiter of truth and the highest faculty we possess for interpreting reality.  This has led to the illusions of the present day. Education will always be essential, that goes without saying, but we need to radically overhaul our concept of what it means and the end to which it is directed.

The unseen powers behind secular liberalism are going to force all people who are truly faithful to the values of religion into what will appear an extremist position.  Let us remember that, according to Tertullian, when Nero martyred the early Christians, it was on the grounds of hatred for humanity. We must be careful not to let the denial of real truth that is liberal leftism (resulting from using one aspect of truth as an excuse to deny the rest) drive us into a corresponding state of anger and hatred in reaction. That's just what the devil wants as it will (seemingly) justify his position and his purpose which is to make good appear as evil and evil as good.