I suppose it was around 3000 years ago that
Zarathustra was the first man in History to envision and then to teach far and
wide that there was a distinction between Good and Evil and that Humanity
should choose the Good. He started a
Moral Revolution, and most subsequent Religions, in various degrees, accepted
the Moral Innovation, but even to this day there is something about Evil that
is comforting and appealing for a lot of people – for isn’t it true that Nothing Forgives Sins
as thoroughly as Evil's thorough indifference to Moral Consequences?
But Civilizations cannot operate if the Sands of
Evil are clogging all the gears. Civilizations
require active empathy and cooperation – a willingness to strive for the
Greater Good, and Hearts that find Self-Satisfaction in serving the Community
and relieving the sufferings of others.
Civilizations are built upon and are sustained by Goodness. When Evil comes to eclipse the Good,
Civilizations collapse.
When Zarathustra first began singing his song of Good
versus Evil, Persians were a little known people back in the far off Hills of
Northeast Nowhere. But the Vision of
Goodness soon allowed the Persian People to coalesce, unite and expand. And the Goodness was obvious all around. We can read in the Bible that the Hebrews saw
the Persian Emperor, Cyrus the Great, as their first Messiah. He was a
Conqueror who bestowed a bounty on all whom he conquered. Only the Barbarian Greeks were able to withstand Persia, but then
they went on to fight and defeat themselves as their Evil turned inward.
For our interest here, allow me to tell you of one
of the Visions Zarathustra had, which was taken up by the Hebrews, in their
Oral Traditions, and which the English Language remembers in terms of Milton’s “Paradise
Lost”, and that is the Tale of the War in Heaven. It seems that approximately one third of the
Angels were proud and selfish and went into Rebellion in order to suppress the
Angels of Light and Goodness, so they could cast the Spiritual Universe into
Darkness and Evil, where Angels with ambition and know-how could be successful
and thrive… you know, what they euphemistically call the Pursuit of Happiness but is actually a predatory hunt for taking advantage over others. The way Zarathustra tells
the story, the Angels of Light with their numerical superiority, and under the
Leadership of the Arch Angel Mithra (Michael), had won the day and cast the
Evil Angels, now Demons, out of Heaven.
But was that the end of it?
That brings us to the present. Let me tell you all about a favorite of mine,
a young Spanish Woman that I greatly admire, who lives within a stone’s throw
of where Saint Teresa of Avila had lived and had blessed the ground she walked
upon. This young woman’s online name is
Susu Ro. She spoke in detail of a full
blown Enlightenment Experience she had (see Susu Ro, “Back to the Source
Experience” dated Feb 5, 2018, YouTube).
She describes a classic Kundalini Awakening, with the Ida, Pingala and
Sushumna channels all opened up and flowing to the max. When she popped out the top and moved beyond
body consciousness, becoming an expanding point of perception, we are told that
she was at first concerned in regards to where she was floating off too. A thoroughly practiced Meditator, she did not
have any thoughts that she didn’t really need, but this concern regarding the
direction of her drift became an urgent point for her and so she thought “Where
am I going? I want to go to the Divine”.
Well, it’s disturbing what happened next – a chorus
of ethereal entities began laughing derisively at her, and then she describes
that the legion of laughing hyenas coalesced into one voice that said “What the
Fuck is the Divine?” Well, the
experience continued and Susu Ro, being concerned about the Darkness she had
been carrying around within her, offered it up and it was accepted and
dispelled, which was a good thing, as far as that goes. But how are we expected to view the derisive
laughter and the apparent urge to humiliate a sincere Spiritual Pilgrim? What about the Contempt for Things Holy and
the ‘Fuck the Divine’ attitude? It took
me a few days mulling it over, and I have too much respect for Susu Ro to have
been immediately critical of her Experience, but then while working a Math
Problem with my head totally involved elsewhere, my mind all at once erupted with
the thought “Oh My God! The Demons have captured Heaven!”
Now, yes, I am sure that those who view God from the
old Greek Theological Perspective, in which God is presented as All Powerful
and Providential, would exclaim that God would never allow such a thing. However, when you get beyond purely
intellectual speculation, which was all that the Greek Philosophers were doing,
and get into the reports of Mystics, Saints and Spiritualists, well, their Experience
of it is that God is Transcendental. What that really means is that God is beyond caring about tiny
little insignificant us. The interpenetrating
God may keep the planets swinging in their orbits and the atoms contained within
their valences (accept when Man wants to make nuclear bombs and such), but in
regards to LIFE, the Transcendental and Unchanging God is quite
indifferent. So if there is any Providentiality
and Heavenly concern for Life and Humanity, well, it must come from the Angelic
Realm.
Well, then, what are the Angels? Well, because the Angels are concerned about
Life, I would suppose they are connected to and bound to Life somehow. My guess is that Life on Earth, and maybe
Human Life specifically, creates a kind of a Field of Life Consciousness – we
could call it a Collective Consciousness (as opposed to Jung’s Collective
Unconscious… well, what the good would that be – a Brick is Unconscious!). This Collective Consciousness would evolve
side by side with Human Life. We could
then infer that when the greater part of Humanity is full of righteous zeal, living
together in joyful cooperation, with Love in their Hearts for each and every
one, then that is when the Angels of Light would thrive and that Heaven would
be brilliant with a diamond clear White Light.
But what about when Evil runs free and selfishness and greed abound,
when powerless people are exploited for pleasure or profit, when Competition is
placed above Cooperation, and when it becomes a Proverb that “nice guys finish
last”. What happens to the Angelic Host
then? I would guess that in that case Mithra (Michael) and his Angels of Light, now
greatly outnumbered, would be the one’s cast out of Heaven, and that Heaven
itself would turn dark.
Now that I think about it, I may have a bit of
insight into all of this. Decades ago
when I was still a young man, I had a dream that I was in the Sacred Cave of
Prayer up somewhere in old Mount Carmel.
The Cave was still being maintained by Elijah. It was dark, and the candles up on the black
sooty walls were only dim points of light, when Elijah walked up behind me, as
I had been in some vague thoughtless prayer, and said “Look up and Behold!” Suddenly it was as though the ceiling of the
Cave melted away and I looked up into a bright blue sky that had no sun. Then Elijah said, “Observe how the
Principalities of the Sky vie for your Soul”.
Yes, there were scores of dragons joined in aerial combat. Some dragons shown with their own light, and other
dragons, festooned in metallic plate, shined only with reflected light. But they all twisted and curled and circled up
above, and I could discern no clear trend in their battle. But when I awoke in the morning it occurred to
me that I should no longer be so casual as to the distinctions between Good and
Evil. But I was a young man back then and
so it would take years to figure out what that responsibility would even
entail.
Now, with my Wider Collective Perspective, I realize
that the ‘Principalities of the Sky’ were not just vying over little old me, but
over Humanity itself. And guess
what? I think Mithra lost this time. I believe that Lucifer is now in the driver’s
seat. So it is that a sweet and sincere spiritual seeker such as Susu Ro would
be met with jeers and obscenities as she passed through the Gates of Heaven.
So, what could have possibly flipped the Battle in
favor of Darkness? Here I would suppose
that Heaven Above is a Reflection of the Earth Below. Greed and Capitalism had triumphed (and all
of the Moral Religions had warned that Usury was an essential Evil), and
Collectivism and Community are now forced to be Revolutionary and
Anti-Establishment (where being good is now suppressed as subversive). So
with the Triumph of Evil on Earth, the Mantel in Heaven was also passed. The Heavenly Sun of Diamond White Light dimmed
and died and a starless Night enveloped Heaven.
So I would imagine that Mithra too and his minority
of Righteous Angels of Light are collecting somewhere, somehow. Yes, they are beaten down but not
exterminated for, after all, my Consciousness, and that of the others in the Good Minority must count for something (thank God that the Spiritual World is not a Democracy were an Evil Majority may take All). It may
be that the shaky and tremulous Goodness of the last remaining Kind Hearts might be the last material thread that
keeps the Light of Spirit from being snuffed out altogether.
Well, we need to ask ourselves about who exactly comprises this Good Minority that could rally
against Evil and stand for the Good.
Well, in the Social and Political realms we see that Good People are standing up. But the
Spiritual Community seems to have been either captured or neutralized. From what we can gather from Susu Ro’s
Experience, the Demons now seem to be in control of ‘Spiritual Communications”. So it is that People are becoming “Enlightened”
and coming back to tell us all that any idea of a distinction between Good and
Evil, Light and Darkness, are just false and ephemeral intellectual
contrivances, and that All is One and that Evil has as much right to exist as
Good (“We can’t have Good without Evil and so Evil is actually a Good Thing”… I
hear it said all the time by people who seem to actually believe it.)
Somehow Spiritual People need to be able to join in
the Heavenly Battle. Spirituality should
be taking the Leadership in the Battle for Good down here on Earth, but as it
stands, Spirituality is either on the sidelines in mute meditation, or
positively Black as Night in its advocacy for selfishness and sensuality, which
is the New Age Doctrine of Spirituality.
We need to alert the Spiritual Community about this Catastrophe.
We could start by publishing a Study of
the Manifestation of the Blessed Virgin over the last 3 or 4 Centuries, where She
warned of the dangerous proliferation of Evil.
Then there is the fact that Saintly Miracles seemed to entirely disappear
in the course of the 20th Century.
It is like Heaven was snuffed out. Everything we know, it turns out, pointed to
this trouble, this slow sinking of Heaven into Darkness.
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