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There is a general election in the UK today. I shan't vote because it's clear that all parties are equally determined to plunge the country further into spiritual chaos. It does seem to me, however, that a properly ordered society would naturally be conservative but in that case any conservative party would be totally, radically, different to the one we have now.

A true conservative society would be focused on God and on preserving what was valuable in tradition which is the wisdom of the ages, tried and tested in the fires of experience on the one hand and spiritual revelation on the other.  It would not be especially interested in protecting the fortunes of the rich or in the advancement of capitalism though it would not be averse to those things when appropriate either. Specifically, to preserve or enhance the spiritual order of society.

Note that in ancient India, a very conservative society, the Brahmins, the highest caste, were certainly not the richest though they were the most respected and the maintainers of religious orthodoxy.

Spiritually concerned people who are drawn to the left because it seems to promise a fairer, more egalitarian world should ask themselves what this world is actually for. The fact is that this material world does not exist for everyone to be happy and well off in the context of worldliness. It exists for spiritual salvation and the opening up of consciousness to light. But since its inception the left has drawn human beings further and further into the idea of this world as real in and for itself and human beings, as they appear to be in the context of this world, as real in and for themselves.  It has effectively become a humanistic religion which completely fails to understand that this world has no reality and no purpose in and for itself. It is a false religion which has sought to replace Christianity by usurping and over-emphasising certain aspects of it which have no relevance outside a spiritual context.

That is why the left is so spiritually harmful. Anyone tempted towards it on the ground of fairness or justice should know that the more it focuses its battles on this world, the more it cuts us off from higher spiritual realities. Which, of course, does not mean that unfairness and injustice are acceptable but everything here should be seen in the light of God's plan of salvation and spiritual unfoldment with the understanding implicit in the latter that there is a higher and a lower, a deeper and a shallower and that therefore things are by no means equal. The universe is based on oneness and hierarchy and these two cannot be consider separately. That is the key to all politics. Even politics comes down to metaphysics.

The Threat to the West

Last night I watched about 10 minutes of the pop concert in honour of the people killed in the Manchester terrorist attack. I believe part of its intention was to celebrate the West’s values but, as far as I am concerned, it completely trashed them. It left me wondering (not for the first time), what is the greater threat to Western civilization; Muslim terrorism or contemporary popular culture?

If you’re interested I have the answer. It is the latter, if for no other reason than it is welcomed with open arms and celebrated almost everywhere. Consequently it has infected innocent young minds, as well as not so innocent older ones, for decades.  It is one of the main weapons in the fight against spiritual truth and beauty, not to mention the vulgarization of real culture. Any liberating influence it may once have had is long since gone and it is now almost totally a corrupting force. The two opposites of fundamentalist Islam and modern popular culture spring from the same lack of awareness of the Good and the True, and the same narcissistic focus on self. To fight one with the other must leave the demons who are behind both howling with laughter.

Don’t take this as saying that any form of popular culture is wrong. There is room for many things in the world and not everything has to be spiritually uplifting. Indeed not everything should be spiritually uplifting for that would be too much of a stretch for most people and we all need to relax and be entertained sometimes. It's good to sing and to dance and to laugh. But nothing we do should be spiritually degrading either and nor should it be actively against the higher forms of the good, the beautiful and the true, all of which (most) modern popular culture is. When the body is seen as contiguous with the soul then it is fine, even right, to acknowledge its place in the scheme of things. When it is taken out of context and celebrated exclusively for itself, without any sense of the hierarchy of being, then you are asking for trouble.

Don't take this either as suggesting that somehow a pop concert is no better than murdering people going about their daily lives. That would be a wilful misunderstanding of what I am saying here. But our contemporary popular culture is a major contributory factor in the attack on the soul and has been used for some time as part of the demonic assault on true Western values.

Grace

A person is only given as much grace as he merits and is able to take without being overwhelmed by. 

So I was told by my teachers. Reflections on that thought on Albion Awakening.

Same Sex Marriage

I see the famous Australian tennis player Margaret Court has got into trouble for refusing to fly on Qantas as it promotes same sex marriage. See here.  I sympathise with her for standing up for what she believes in but she's wasting her time as this is something that the left (as in demonic powers and principalities with whom we are waging spiritual war) has poured a lot of time and energy into, and they're not going to give up on it. All we can do is stand up for the truth and speak it whenever possible in a calm and unemotional way and without putting pies in people's faces (see here). And then hope that those who are yearning for the truth, especially the young, in a world of lies can be given some support.

Clearly same sex marriage is a contradiction in terms. The fact that it is now regarded as perfectly right and proper shows that the world has gone slightly mad. You might think there are more important things to worry about but this is a real litmus text of spiritual understanding because what it involves (and this is why it has been pushed so hard by the left) is a radical restructuring of what a human being is. It is an essential  part of severing us from our spiritual roots, and attempting to divorce us from the reality of God because it denies the truth of what we are and what he is.

The excuse of love used to justify it is just that, an excuse, and boils down to doing what I want. Human love, real or imagined, cannot be used to overturn and deny truth. Divine love is a different matter but then divine love always coincides with truth and is not dependent on personal emotions.

None of this means that homosexuals themselves should be judged or treated with disrespect in any way. I wish I didn't have to say that as it's obvious but one must be prepared for misunderstanding when talking on this subject, not to mention an often deliberate distortion of what one actually says to put one in a bad light. So I must make clear my position, which is the standard religious one, that while same sex marriage is entirely wrong, homosexuality itself is natural to homosexuals and they are loved by God in just the same way as heterosexuals. But this does not mean that either the practice or expression of homosexuality is in line with spiritual truth, and homosexuals need to understand this before anyone else for the sake of their own development.

You might ask why people should suffer for how they were born through no fault of their own. I would first of all say, how do you know that's the case? How do you know that our character is not the result of something we agreed to or were given as a life lesson before we were born? But then I would add that plenty of people are either born or live their lives in far more difficult circumstances than this. That is part of the reality of this world which is a school not a holiday resort. Besides we are all called to live our lives in a way that is spiritually right not personally satisfactory. Very often that does require going against that aspect of our nature that is fallen, and homosexuality is certainly a result of the Fall. 'Man and woman created he them'. It may have a role in the short term for God can bring good out of evil, but that role would be on a spiritual plane not a sexual one. By which I mean that God can use the fact that homosexuals exist to push people towards the spiritual path which they can explore more fully than perhaps would otherwise have been the case due to the fact that they cannot express their sexuality normally. There are others ways too but none would involve the desecration of a spiritual energy.

I'm sorry to put the matter so bluntly but that is what the expression of homosexuality is. It is the desecration of a spiritual energy.  Of course, heterosexuals do this all the time in the modern world as well. We are all sinners, but just because overcoming sin is hard is no reason to deny its sinfulness.

I'm not saying that two people of the same sex cannot live together and even love each other but they should strive for a celibate life and their relationship should certainly not be called marriage or granted the same status. And frankly this is so obvious that only intellectuals, using that term in its derogatory sense of someone who restricts his thinking to abstractions separated from meaning, can fail to see it. Or dyed in the wool materialists or sentimentalists or those who follow the herd regardless of where it goes or homosexuals whose opinions are clouded by a personal agenda. But anyone relying on simple common sense, never mind spiritual understanding, can see that no same sex marriage was ever made in heaven.

Liberalism is Materialised Spirituality

The modern liberal/left position, which is pretty much the current orthodoxy, is a materialistic distortion of spirituality. This is why it is so hard to argue against from the perspective of a lack of belief in the Creator. It makes some kind of sense if there is no God. But then if you deny God you have literally no grounds for any kind of coherent understanding of life. Consequently you are forced to make things up to somehow fit in with your metaphysical ignorance.

The 20th century had the potential to be a time of spiritual rebirth.  From the higher planes of life forces rained down on humanity. New ideas were thus introduced onto the mental plane that were intended to carry us on to the next stage in spiritual growth, one in which the intellectual development of past centuries could be combined with a spiritual/intuitive outlook and human beings could learn to integrate the inner path with the outer.

Unfortunately, whether because of our own personal weakness, the failure of our political leaders, artists and philosophers or because of demonic derailment (or most likely all of these), this did not work out as hoped. Spiritual ideas were responded to but on a materialistic level and without acknowledgement of their true origin. Even where spirituality was acknowledged it was often done from the perspective of the lower or worldly self, with that as the driver instead of the passenger as is proper.

Thus the brotherhood of Man was recognised but not the fatherhood of God which led to the flattening out that is social equality. The complementarity of male and female was recognised but travestied as the sameness of equality. Condemning sinners was seen as wrong but so was condemning, or even recognising, sin. I could go on but it should be clear what I am driving at here. Ideas that were true on a spiritual or absolute plane were misapplied to the material or relative one, and the real spiritual was either ignored or seen in the light of the material.

This is why it is so hard to argue with someone of a liberal persuasion without seeming like an old fashioned bigot. He thinks he is standing for goodness and truth, ignoring the fact that if he is a materialist these concepts can have no real meaning.  But in his eyes, as far as they can have meaning, it is his ideology that best corresponds to them. And his ideology that has put right so many wrongs of the past. This is why so many people have unthinkingly adopted leftist attitudes and why those who oppose them are often forced into extremist positions, either real in over-reaction or apparent because they conflict with the unrecognised prejudices of liberalism. You don't believe in equality? You're a fascist.  You think feminism corrupts women and deforms the relationship between the sexes? You're a sexist. You think mass immigration was a mistake? You're a racist. You think homosexuality is contrary to God's laws and means of expression? Etc, etc.

Part of the problem is that people responded to these new spiritual ideas from within the limitations of their already existing worldview but that was not all. There were also demonic attempts to subvert and invert truth; aided and abetted I might say by their many servants, conscious and unconscious, in this world, in the latter case often motivated by their own egotistic agendas and rejection of God.

One of the principal ways this was achieved was through the sexual revolution, the unharnessing of sex from marriage. As all genuine spiritual teachers know sex is such a powerful force that, if unconstrained, it takes over as the prime motivating factor in peoples' lives. Now it has not only been let loose but is artificially stimulated by fashion, music and art to extreme forms. Even people who may not participate so much in this, either through choice or lack of opportunity, still live in a world in which they are surrounded by sexual imagery and the attitude that anything goes as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else holds sway. But it is precisely because sex is a physical manifestation of a spiritual energy that its use as a purely physical means of pleasure is so detrimental to any kind of spiritual growth or development. Union between a man and a woman (and that, and that only, is what sex is) must take place on as many levels as possible to be in line with spiritual truth and the wholeness of what a human being is. To restrict such a powerful force to the physical level alone, which is basically what the modern approach entails, will cut the individual off from the spiritual more effectively than practically anything else. The devil knows that the corruption of the best is the worst and that is the approach he consistently adopts and has certainly done here. Spiritual awakening absolutely demands the recognition of the perverted agenda of the sexual revolution.

To conclude. The modern liberal attitude has resulted from the deliberate attempt to replace real spirituality by hijacking some of its doctrines (which are dependent on recognition of their transcendent origin for their truth) and misinterpreting them on a lower level so that the higher and more real level is obscured. It is a misrepresentation of spiritual truths by transferring them to the material world where their relevance is limited and must be seen in the light of the spiritual which is always primary. It is part of an attempt to deny the spiritual truth in Christianity by misapplying its doctrines to an exclusively worldly level. If you are serious about making spiritual progress you must liberate yourself from its illusions, though without being driven to the opposite extreme which will suit the demons just as well. However there will be no risk of that if you make God the focus of your thoughts and love and wisdom the goals of your spiritual practice.

Tattoos and the Like

It's been an unusually warm week for the end of May in the south of England where I live. That, of course, means that all the tattoos are out. I asked myself why I find these so objectionable which, like any right thinking person, I do. The answer came. It's because they desecrate the body and the body is the image of the soul.  It is not to be despised or altered or rejected or deformed in any way, all of which a tattoo, regardless of subject, in some measure does. Nor is it to be given excessive attention because it is the soul that is principally important and hierarchically superior to the body which exists to manifest and glorify the soul. But the body is the vessel and outer image of the soul, and to mark it in a permanent fashion is to deface and defile it.



In fact many of the things people do to their bodies show disrespect for their Maker and that even includes such things as excessive use of make-up and the dyeing and altering of one's natural hair. Could it be that the roots of such practices come from a kind of self-hatred? The body is the temple of the soul and a temple should be treated with respect and presented or adorned in a way appropriate to its functions and calling.

I said that tattoos were spiritually damaging regardless of subject but it is certainly true that some images are worse than others in this respect in that they have a negative effect on the mind. Images are important and can elevate or debase. In today's world the power of the image is more than it ever has been which means we should be extra attentive as to what we admit into our consciousness. Just as one should be careful what one takes into one's body, so one should with regard to what is taken into the mind. To stamp the body with some kind of 'dark' or twisted image, as so many tattoos do, can only be detrimental to any kind of true spiritual development. And, at worst, it could even draw its possessor into the orbit of demonic influence.

Christianity and Mystery

Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life but much modern Christianity offers no real way and has little truth and still less life. Indeed, in many cases what calls itself Christianity today is something else entirely. This is because it has lost touch with what should be its central concern which is, of course, theosis; the deification of man. That is what Christianity really exists for. To spiritualise men and women and turn them into gods. But sadly it has been reduced to something far less, a mere code of beliefs and practices that aims to make men better instead of radically transforming them. It has over-simplified itself and, having been infected by secular humanism, it now prioritises loving your neighbour over loving God. Consequently it has become a thing of this world. You might think I exaggerate to make a point, but the exaggeration is not that much and the point is valid.

Continued on Albion Awakening.