I Can Be A Philosopher, Too!

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I finished reading the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel, and I thought to nominate it as the craziest book in the world, aside from the Malleus Malificarum, but then I realized that crazy ideas are everywhere. Humans seem to have a preference for them. How would an objective person look at Tibetan Buddhism, or Mormonism, or Christianity? Maybe Zen is different. It IS different, at least as far as I know from reading Suzuki Roshi and Takuan Soho. Alan Watts wasn't really Zen -- I don't know what he was. And I found alll kinds of Nietzsche ideas in Heindel's book. I don't know why I was surprised to find out that Nietzsche was a Rosicrucian. All the Nazis were/are Rosicrucians.

Anyway, continuing on the trail of the Octopus, I started reading Hermann Hesse's "Demian" -- I just don't feel like I'm ready to read Jung's "Red Book," until I get more Rosicrucian background, because he writes in Rosicrucian code, otherwise, it doesn't make a damn bit of sense, and I won't be able to properly critique it. Not that it makes sense once you have the key, a hearty laugh out loud. I also need to read Schopenhauer before I read Jung. And I'd like to read Nietzsche's "Antichrist."

"Demian" starts with an introduction by Thomas Mann, saying how much he loves Hermann Hesse. And I thought, when I hear this kind of ass-kissing, it just makes me suspicious about the writer of the book, it makes me think he belongs to a cult, because why does he need someone telling us how great he is? How often does that happen in real life? Getting praised -- ha! I wish someone would praise me sometimes. And the book should speak for itself. If it's good, let's get on with it. I like people who self-publish and who can't get an agent, and write their own introductions, and don't have anyone from the New York Times, or so-called "famous" people, saying how great the book is when you know they never read it; otherwise, why would their comments be so boring?

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But before I go on, let me see if I can articulate the lunatic Rosicrucian view regarding race.

Stragglers, those who aren't qualified to evolve along with the rest of humanity, who if allowed to continue living among us would drag us down with their inferiority, and prevent our progress, our salvation, these "sunspots" obscuring the very light of the holy sun, who must be gotten "out of the way," "thrown out into space beyond recall," onto the moons surrounding the planets, which are the result of their own "crystallizing" energy, where they are "held over" in a state of inertia that lasts for inconceivable milliards of years, aka as "eternal damnation", which is not "endless" torture, "until some future evolution reaches a stage where they can drop in and proceed with their development," where they can rid themselves of their inferior bodies that correspond with the fact that they have no minds, bodies like monkeys and apes and "savages, Indians, Negroes, Australian aborigines, Bushmen, Red, Black, Yellow and Brown people," who have "duller nervous systems," are "less sensitive to lacerations," and are "sterile" ...

And Failures, those who are destined to die out according to "The Law of Evolution," because they inhabit the old, discarded bodies of the advancing Teutonic-Anglo-Saxon race who always get new, "flexible, plastic" bodies in which they can make wonderful progress ...

Two classes of beings THAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT from Races, which exist here on Earth at the very nadir of existence only because the differences between man and man are so great that the separation into races is "warranted," although it is a great sin to be too attached to your Race like Jews who -- "once a Jew, always a Jew" -- "have entirely forgotten their spiritual nature," and are "neither fish nor flesh" ...

Which Race story reads as follows: the "Original Semites," were "chosen" by Jehovah to be the "seed race" for the seven races of our present Aryan epoch because they were "different from the ordinary humanity of that time." They were "set apart and forbidden to marry into other tribes." They regulated their desires with "cunning and craftiness," and learned that "brain is superior to brawn." These people, twice chosen, were led out of Atlantis into the Gobi Desert and "imbued potentially with the qualities to be evolved by their descendants." But few "remained faithful" to Jehovah's edict to marry within their chosen race, and the rebellious, stiff-necked, hard Semites of the bunch married the "lower grades" of the Atlantean races, "thus bringing inferior blood into their descendants," for which they were punished by Jehovah by being lost like no people has ever been lost, "the fruit of such cross-breeding being useless as seed for the coming Race."

The faithful Semites who didn't marry other Atlanteans, reincarnated and inherited "the Promised Land," and are ancestors of the present Aryan Races.

The rebellious "lost" Semites are the present Jews who are still to this day governed by desire and cunning, and guilty of strong race-feeling, which makes them despise others and be despised back by them. These Jews "have no part in the advancing Aryan Race." They are "a people without a country." "They stubbornly refuse to amalgamate with others." In rejecting Christ, the Elder Brothers realized that the Jews were absolutely hopeless, "and as a last expedient, scattered them among all the nations of the earth." Which is to be their saving grace. "In the same way they became lost by marrying into inferior Races, they will be saved by marrying superior Races."

And a wonderful time without Race is on the horizon. The Elder Brothers will kill billions of people ("earth's density decreased"), and we'll have a new earth, at which time there will only be one Race. (Which Race? The Original Semites? The Supermen? Who are they?) At that time, Race will no longer be a problem for the remaining race. Why should it be when they've gotten rid of all their enemies?

Of course, if the "Coming Race" is based on the Superman model -- and it is -- we'll have a world inhabited only by conquerors and tyrants. It will be a Race of Titans. Which sounds very unpleasant to me. In Tibetan Buddhism, the realm of Titans is a realm of constant warfare. That sounds right on for this story.

The sad thing is the horrible Catch 22 for Jews in all of this. The present day Jews (not the faithful Original Semites) are blamed because they refused to marry within their race; they are blamed because they insist on marrying within their race; and they are praised when they marry outside their race. Or more simply put: "If you're a Jew, you're blamed if you do, and you're blamed if you don't."

But the Rosicrucian view is, you don't want to get too wrapped up in Race.

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It's so hard to learn the realities of any particular cult if you're not actually inside of it. I spent the greater part of my life learning about Tibetan Buddhism. I can spot a poseur a mile off. Similarly can others do to me. You have to pay very close attention to your learning about these other cults. But it helps if you've "done" similar weird stuff. I have. I have prayed to the wrathful deities, and drunk whiskey out of a skullcup, cut off my forehead and burned my own body in my skull on a tripod. I didn't feel like I was doing a bad thing. Neither did I trust the whole business. What's the difference between visualizing it and doing it? my teacher asked me once. And I ended up seeing way too close a relationship between the two, too close for comfort. Which is how I came to my philosophical view of the universe called the Tautological Nature of the Mind. It's obvious what it means, which is why I love the name. I don't actually have to explain it. On Tibetan "pechas," there's a library card made out of beautiful colored silk, that gives the title of the book, which a person in the know then knows everything that is in the book. My philosophy is titled with similar power. Nothing like good, old fashioned, common sense. People can try to deny the truth of it, but their denial will haunt them. Or as my Chinese fortune cookie said the other night: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions." My husband and I drew the fortune cookies to determine the winner of our argument. I won hand's down with that fortune. Then he wouldn't let me throw it away.

The only thing weirder than Tibetan Buddhism is what Aleister Crowley and his crazy gang did. The Marquis de Sade, and the Hellfire bunch. The Inquisition Priests. Yuck! Etcetera.

Maybe I can see a little more of the Masons' inside schtick than most people can -- don't freak out because I said "I", which shows you what kind of philosophy rules our world, which is not the enlightenment philosophy of Thomas Paine, but a terrible, German, nihilistic despair -- particularly Christians who are raised on Mother's Milk, because of having been involved in a similarly magical, sorcerer's tradition. Thank God without the Christianity, Paganism, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and Sufis!

Who knows, it's even possible that I may come to know a little bit more about the Rosicrucians than they know about themselves. Paradoxically, there's nothing like being in a cult to not know anything about your cult. From an objective viewpoint, that is. No one is more ignorant of the inside political shenanigans of a cult organization than the cult member. Strange how you just can't see the really great faults of your religion. Except in your dreams. I had to stop "being" a Tibetan Buddhist in order to know anything about Tibetan Buddhism. You can't even really see the inside of it, either. Once you sign on, you're just ignorant to the facts.

Like joining the military. They're not even allowed to question what they do. They are so unfree. They can't even open their mouth. And that's an arm of the U.S. Government? A little contradictory, I would say! If I was running the military -- and just give me the job! -- I'd let a private 1st class tell a general to fuck off any day! And there would be NO wars of aggression. There would be no wars at all. Is war not harmful? Is America a country that inflicts harm? How difficult is it to completely reject it? Is this America, or what?! We're supposed to be better than all of this. I believed every word I heard when I was growing up about what a great country America is, and it's not keeping up with my expectations. I guess I'm supposed to lower them like all the other ignoramuses in America do.

And there's absolutely nothing worse than a vow. Take a vow to NEVER take a vow. It's only going to cause you trouble in the future. Except for the marriage vow. People should get married, including homosexuals and lesbians. And the vow to protect the Constitution of the United States if you are one of our elected representatives. Don't call yourself an "official"! You're not my boss! Rather, it was meant to be the other way around. All of us as YOUR boss. "What a quaint idea," people say.

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Hermann Hesse's "Demian" character IS Carl Jung.

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Hermann Hesse confirms that Carl Jung had inside knowledge about -- I almost wrote "9/11." I'm sure they're very closely connected: World War I and 9/11. Foreknowledge means guilt, means conspiracy. It breaks my heart to think that World War I could have been yet another cult conspiracy. Well, of course it was. But to see Carl Jung in the thick of it, someone whom we've been told to admire, is shocking. And Hermann Hesse, Jung's little doggie: "I need only bend over that dark mirror to behold my own image, now completely resembling him, my brother, my master." Why does he have to bend over?

Incredible obsession. I guess privileged people can afford to be crazy and obsess about their feelings. To get on a train or bus and wander around randomly from city to city hoping they'll bump into their obsession. And they do, because they're so diligent. At least in the story, which is 3/4's truth and 1/4 fiction.

I've lost all respect for Hermann Hesse. He's a complete nutcase. He cannot stop obsessing about Carl Jung, to such an extent that he has to fall in love with Carl's mother, just to get a legitimate piece of him. He never loved the mother; she was simply a surrogate for Carl Jung. And such a follower Hermann Hesse was. But that bit he wrote in the last chapter of Demian about being part of the "higher community" that was going to step in and lead the world after the mass death predicted for World War I, and all he cares about is his "crystal" ego, is revolting and definitely cultish. And for some strange reason, all kinds of "important" people have an interest in promoting the myth of Hermann Hesse as a pacifist. Are these the words of a pacifist?

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Bullshit! Transmitted via media and mouth.

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Where is the religion in the cave paintings at Lascaux? http://www.naderlibrary.com/lascauxtoc.htm