THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES
THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES
As a backgrounder for my upcoming tele-seminar, THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES (click on the link above to sign up), I thought I’d write a few words about the US presidential circus underway.
As an illustration, let’s focus on Hillary versus Obama. This is not a political article. It’s not meant to cover the waterfront. It’s about two politicians, and how their styles reflect the secret society formula.
Hillary stands for secrecy. In her mind—and she cannot shake this off—everything important is a secret she holds in her fortress. There is what she will tell her supporters and the public, and then there is what she won’t tell. Of course, what she’s holding back is far more important than what she reveals. Two faces. Two ideas. Two plans. Two territories. That is her basic m.o.
The sense of her own inevitable triumph and her entitlement—these vibrations are perfect for her, because they allow her to keep her secrets behind a façade. Of course, when that front crumbles for a moment, she has no alternative. She has never considered another way.
People like Hillary and her husband Bill are trained to keep on going, no matter what, always asserting their way and their style are right. They have no fallback position, except to whine when they are on the losing end.
Hillary considers herself royalty. She has come to that conclusion, just like many members of secret societies.
She believes she knows what is best for the world, and she intends to impose it. This is secret-society thinking par excellence. For example, under her reign, she would do everything possible to inflict a medical/psychiatric model of “care” on every human being, from cradle to grave.
Obama is a more subtle case. He is plugged into another level of energy. Within the boundaries of his own thinking, he has found his “larger self.” He can access it at the drop of a hat. He can invent poetry of a kind. He has imagination and he knows it.
Obama also has religion. He is taking his campaign into a sacred space of his own devising. His followers, many of them, are worshippers. If the culture supported it, they would go down on their knees for him.
The problem with this kind of religion is that it re-shapes imagination into a tool of prophetic construction, in which the audience is mesmerized. To further baffle his audiences, Obama adopts a very crisp look. He’s Ivy League all the way.
All in all, Obama is a distorted reflection of the Tradition of Imagination.
Both candidates are making the same fundamental mistake: they are using government as the source of Final Change for us all. One is doing it with greater transparency; the other is doing it with more ingenuity.
When you boil off and distill their messages, you see it is the same old game of the secret society. Rule, strengthen the collectivist consensus, paint a picture of the future that stands in for the individual and the truly free imagination.
From time to time during a long campaign, the bubble within which a candidate like Hillary or Obama works explodes. Then people become depressed. For the moment, there is dead air. No one is substituting a “mural of reality” for the imagination of the individual. But in fact, this interlude of emptiness is an opportunity; people, if they are so disposed, can glimpse the fact that it is their own creative power that is the true crown.
If that glimpse rose to the level of a steady state of consciousness, and if it spread, there would be no reason for the political circus. It would collapse of its own weight, because there would be nothing to support it. That is called maturity.
THE SECRET BEHIND SECRET SOCIETIES
