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Cultural Balance By Richard Kieninger The Hermetic Brotherhood,
which was responsible for the design of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh built
6,700 years ago, was used as the agency for reintroducing technology into the
world. The “mystery” taught by the Heretics is precision, and scientific
technology and engineering are closely tied to the disciplines of mathematics
in which this Brotherhood specializes. They carried out their plan through
two Semitic peoples to each of whom the Brotherhood gave a philosophy,
religious cohesiveness, and a name. These were the Minoans on the island of
Crete and the Jews. The people who eventually became known by these names
were selected for the Hermetics’ program because they were feisty nomads who
had few ties to the Earth Religions of that period and were unusually
aggressive raiders. They were unlike the whole rest of the world which then
consisted of matriarchal planting cultures. The Hyksos came from the
region east of present-day Turkey; and over a period of a century, they
gradually migrated into Egypt. A few members of their race who were
subsequently born in Egypt gradually took over the administration of the
country and prepared the way for construction of the Great Pyramid. When its
construction was completed, these people disappeared from Egyptian history as
mysteriously as they entered it. From Egypt, they migrated to Crete and
entered history as the Minoans—then the only sea-faring people of the
Mediterranean area. When the volcanic island of Santorin north of Crete
exploded some 3,300 years later (during the reign of Akhnaton) and made Crete
uninhabitable, the Minoans dispersed to several of their close-knit colonies
in Greece, Phoenicia (Philistia), Carthage, Etruria, and Wales. Their
introduction en masse into the
matriarchal culture of the Carians in Greece created a cultural upheaval that
was intended by the Hermetic Brotherhoods (which, incidentally, set up
headquarters in Greece at that time). Matriarchy is a religious
stage of development in which mankind experiences close bonds with Mother
Earth—her seasonal rhythms, the Demeter (goddess of agriculture) Mystery, and
maternity. In a matriarchal culture there is abandonment to natural drives,
peaceful pleasure, and infantilism lasting into old age. Unconditional love,
unconscious lawfulness, emphasis on bonds of blood and soil, compassion and
mercy, equality, and natural communal democracy are all elements of the
unrestrained, undisciplined way of the Earth Religions. Matriarchy is
characteristic of the Dionysian (Katholi) world-view. The Hermetics’
carefully-evolved, patriarchal attitudes in the masculine, aggressive,
courageous, bull-worshipping Minoans called to the Carians to strive toward
spiritual ambitions. This historical episode was commemorated in the tale of
the titan, Prometheus, who challenged the gods and brought fire from Mount
Olympus down to man. Now Hellenic man rises above body-centeredness and
becomes aware of a higher calling and aspires to cosmic exaltation. He dares
to become as the gods and struggles toward his own divinization, thus taking
on the painful strivings of intellectual and spiritual advancement.
Individualism, overcoming nature, accumulating property and wealth as means
to power are the by-products of this Apollonian (Pfree) world view. Logic,
abstract thought, parental love that is conditional upon obedience, man-made
laws, hierarchical structures, and the war-like state are the inevitable
consequences of patriarchal dominance. Why would the Brotherhoods
want to introduce patriarchal concepts into the peaceful matriarchal world?
Because a purely matriarchal society stands in the way of spiritual
development of the individual and prevents technical, rational progress. The
Brotherhoods undertook to challenge a complacent, stagnating world in a way
similar to the Luciferian Angels destroying Eden. The Hebrews were enticed
into Egypt by one of it illustrious sons, Joseph ben Jacob, in order to
educate them over three centuries and turn them into a patriarchal society
under Moses. The Greek gentiles and the Jews were the two agencies prepared
by Melchizedek to spread the word of Christian thought. From the Jews,
Western Civilization has been given the concepts of obedience to authority,
personal sacrifice for a king or priest, male superiority, denial of the
body, and shamefulness of sex (by which guilt and unworthiness are maintained
in a culture in order to keep people submissive to authority). At the time of
Christ, Greek philosophy supported these concepts—except that a Greek might
be ashamed to have a body for the reason that it demonstrated that he was
still too base spiritually to do without one. The Minoan refugees had carried
the cause of patriarchy throughout the Mediterranean Basin, and the Romans
learned it all too well from their Etruscan forebears. The legacy of
masculine machismo plagues us to this day in Judaism, Christianity, and
Muhammadanism. Surely, the Brotherhoods
saw the end results of all this, for it has been foretold in the Great
Pyramid, in Biblical prophecy, and especially in St. John’s Revelation of the
end days before the beginning of the Nation of God and the Golden Age. The
recent world-wide domination of patriarchal attitudes and Apollonian thought
have fostered industrial pollution, destructive rape of agricultural lands,
power politics, the madness of war, the dream of escaping our planet by
colonizing space, economic enslavement, our inability to love, and wholesale
sociopathic violence all leading to the brink of Armageddon. Will Man regain
civilization and save himself? Yes! It’s just that we seem to have to go to
extremes before we become truly aware of the need for balance and moderation.
The Great Plan of the Brotherhoods is calculated to lead us back to a
condition where we will have the great advantages of technology and still
preserve our oneness with the earth. The establishment of the Nation of God,
which The Adelphi Organization is assigned to help bring about, will be
guided by an enlightened synthesis between Pfree and Katholi, practical and
spiritual, Apollonian and Dionysian, patriarchal and matriarchal. Either
outlook by itself leads to a dead end. Idealistic young people
rebelled against our country’s insane destruction of Viet Nam and the
arrogant policies of the “Establishment” as it expresses through the
industrial-military complex and a national exploitiveness of the resources
and peoples of the world. They dropped out of the main cultural stream
to create alternative communities to demonstrate that Americans can live
happily without engaging in conspicuous consumption of commodities, gouging
their way up a corporate ladder, or contributing to overpopulation. They
intend to prove that man can live in complete harmony with the whole ecological
system and can re-learn how to enhance love of spouse, children and people
rather than owning and controlling them as things to serve him. In this they
serve a valuable function in the national society. As is the danger of all
reaction, the majority of such communes rejected technology as an evil of the
Establishment, and they drift toward matriarchal ways merely as a negation of
patriarchal aggressiveness. However, this only leads back to the imbalance
the Brotherhoods sought to undo 6,700 years ago. Of course, the manner in
which various peoples adopted and responded to patriarchalism was their own
doing, not the Brotherhoods’. It took sixty-six centuries
to fully develop the cultural characteristics of Western Civilization needed
to lead to the hoped-for balance, and then less than a century for technology
to flower. Now that we have technology, we must hold on to it and bring it
under control of humanistic values. Psychology can show us the way to
understanding how we got into the patriarchal syndrome so deeply and how to
find our way sanely to the balance that human beings so desperately need in
order to provide for man’s material and spiritual needs over the future
millennia. A colony of only 144,000 men and women of the Brotherhoods with
their children is destined to preserve both technology and a balanced cosmic
view for dissemination throughout the world after Armageddon. For this
reason, Adelphi, the precursor to the Nation of God, is an alternative
community dedicated to the sensible preservation and advancement of
technology while also educating their members in the ways of finding true
fulfillment of their humanness. |
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