The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger had bluntly stated in her 1922 pamphlet, The Pivot of Civilization, “birth control,” a term she coined, as “the process of weeding out the unfit” was aimed at “the creation of a superman.”
She was also influenced by Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), a British sexologist, who wrote that under-educated women needed contraception so they wouldn’t pass on their “weakness” to their offspring.
Sanger once wrote: “The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of those who are physically, mentally, and morally unfit.”
This plan also focused on African Americans using religion and their own people.
In 1922, Sanger wrote: “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal…. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
Sanger’s organization, Planned Parenthood, has been responsible for countless abortions and birth control measures, but her legacy has been largely forgotten by today’s feminists and African Americans.
Sanger’s background was linked to eugenics, an ideology based on improving human hereditary traits through social intervention. Eugenics was popular in America from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century.
The idea behind eugenics was that if you wanted to get rid of people who were criminals or mentally ill or poor or whatever else, then you should prevent them from having children. In an article in her magazine Birth Control Review, she wrote: “More children from the fit, less from the unfit—that is the chief aim of Eugenics.”
This is why it was so closely associated with birth control and still is to this very day, and her baby killing propaganda has worked wonders on the feeble American mind to the point that the CDC reported 629,898 abortions in 2019, the last full year of available data.
Sanger’s American Eugenics program focused on identifying those with “undesirable” traits and preventing them from reproducing; in some cases, this involved forced sterilization or euthanasia.
She called for legislation “for the sterilization of failure-prone individuals,” and even published a paper entitled “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda,” which argued that birth control should be used as a method for controlling populations deemed unworthy by the state.
Yes, including today’s feminists, who many belong to the very same undesirable groups she identifies as whose babies need to be simply murdered.
Rather than educate and help lower and middle class women with guidance on proper nutrition, hygiene, and adequate health care to raise their children, Sanger argues that our society as a whole would be better off with these children dead.
This may seem like hyperbole – until you read her own words.
In fact, Margret Sanger was not shy in expressing her opinions on the mass killing of babies.
As I mentioned above, she had written that “the most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it,” and that “all our problems are the result of overbreeding among the evils of too prolific breeding among wage-workers .”
“Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts.
The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
The same factors which create the terrible infant mortality rate, and which swell the death rate of children between the ages of one and five, operate even more extensively to lower the health rate of the surviving members. Moreover, the overcrowded homes of large families reared in poverty further contribute to this condition.
Lack of medical attention is still another factor, so that the child who must struggle for health in competition with other members of a closely packed family has still great difficulties to meet after its poor constitution and malnutrition have been accounted for.”
Margret Sanger had complete disdain towards the middle and lower classes in America. The very people who we call today “essential workers” that keep our economy and the system operating.
In fact, Sanger wanted to kill them all!
The unworthy obviously include all criminals, paupers, and work-shirkers. They should either be segregated or eliminated by some humane form of euthanasia. The worthy class would include only those who are physically fit (no cripples or lunatics), mentally capable (no idiots), and morally sound (no criminals).
In “The Morality of Birth Control”, a 1921 speech, she divided society into three groups: the “educated and informed” class that regulated the size of their families, the “intelligent and responsible” who desired to control their families in spite of lacking the means or the knowledge, and the “irresponsible and reckless people” whose religious scruples “prevent their exercising control over their numbers”.
Sanger emphatically states, “There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.”
The probability of a child handicapped by a weak constitution, an overcrowded home, inadequate food and care, and possibly a deficient mental equipment, winding up in prison or an almshouse, is too evident for comment. Every jail, hospital for the insane, reformatory and institution for the feebleminded cries out against the evils of too prolific breeding among wage-workers,” she said.
In 1939, Sanger wrote in her autobiography: “When I became convinced that there was no reasonable hope of converting the American people to birth control through voluntary education, I decided to devote what time I had left in America to establishing a clinic which would be dedicated to its principles.”
In October 1939, Sanger opened her first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. It was closed by police after three days, but reopened two weeks later under the direction of Sanger’s associate, Mary Lasker. The next year, 1940, Sanger opened another clinic in Harlem; it was closed by police after three months.
Like we see today, Margaret Sanger was the person who introduced the evil propaganda women are not free unless they can control their bodies and decide whether or they will be a mother. Meaning, that if these women do not have the power to kill their unborn babies, then they are not free people.
Sanger wrote;
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” (Woman and the New Race)
In her 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization, she wrote: “As an example of what I mean by intelligent direction of fecundity. . . . wee should require that every woman be taught how to perform her own abortion and that there should be erected throughout this nation free clinics where abortions would be performed at public expense.”
As a result of her work and government funding, Sanger co-founded an organization called the American Birth Control League (ABCL) in 1921 and then two years later renamed it The Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA). She served as president of the American Birth Control League from 1922 until 1929, when it was renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
Her successor as president was Frederick J. Taussig, an economist and friend who had helped her found PPFA. In 1936 PPFA merged with Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau to form Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
When you research the work and quotes from Margret Sanger as I provided just a few above, you find a very cold, psychopathic intellectual who provides the ideology and foundational premises for the like minded monsters (demons) who will actually carry out the business-end of her evil intentions.
Today, she is loved and admired mainly by the Democrats and the political Left in this country.
Sanger’s evil plans seemed to have worked like a charm on those weak American minds who follow her baby-killing gospel to this very day. Even to their own detriment.
People, if that is what you want to call them, who have no qualms at killing their own babies and euthenizing the morally and mentally unfit – meaning their own families.
The very population she wanted to kill is not only demanding the freedom to murder their own babies, if needed be, they will kill you for the right to do so!
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
“Traditionalism is the only way to preserve the world.” – Julius Evola
Traditionalism is a reactionary and counter-revolutionary movement that arose in the early 20th century. Traditionalists believe that there is a spiritual decay in Western civilization owing to modernity and rationalism, which they see as being based on Judeo-Christian values and defines itself as “a philosophy which favors traditionalism, hierarchy, and authority”.
The word “Traditionalism” derives from the Latin word tradere, which means “to hand down”. The term “traditionalist” derives from “traditional”, which refers to the commonalities between all traditions, or customarily accepted beliefs and practices.
It is a school of thought that believes in the primacy of the wisdom and knowledge of traditional societies, especially those that existed prior to the modern period or what is often called Modernity by Tradionialists. They affirm that there is a transcendent order, which constitutes the objective reality of human experience.
The transcendent order as the “Traditional” or “Perennial” Way, and and advocates the return to “the Old Ways” which they believe has been manifested in all cultures at all times.
Over the last 200 years, Traditionalist thinkers have criticized modernity and liberalism, while advocating a return to our original values and ways of life. It is not a unified movement, but rather various different traditions that have existed throughout history under this name.
The term “traditionalism” was first used as a self-descriptor by French writer François-René de Chateaubriand in 1821, although tradition had been used prior to this by Joseph de Maistre and other counterrevolutionaries. These ideas have been popularized by a number of writers and thinkers in Europe, Russia, and America. They include Julius Evola, René Guénon, Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and Aleksandr Dugin.
Traditionalism can be seen as an attempt to preserve the traditionalist ethos against modernizing trends in Western culture. This includes preserving the identity and customs of one’s people from the erosion of globalism and multiculturalism, which are seen as diluting traditional values and religion with foreign influences; for example: Christianity replacing paganism in Europe or Hinduism replacing Buddhism in India.
The traditionalist worldview sees humanity as being on a spiritual journey through time; it sees all religions as having an essential truth about this journey; it sees modernity as bringing us further away from this truth; and it sees modernity as being associated with increasing inequality, injustice and environmental destruction.
Traditionalists reject universalizing ideologies such as rationalism (the idea that reason is supreme), liberalism (the idea that individual rights are paramount) and socialism (the idea that government should be controlled by the community).
They have traditionally been opposed to both communism and capitalism, which they regard as modern manifestations of an anti-traditional system of society. They are also often opposed to progressivism and industrialization for similar reasons.
Traditionalists believe these ideologies are contrary to human nature and lead to moral decay because they undermine natural hierarchies.
Many Traditionalists believe that our present condition is due not just to bad politics but also to bad ideas (because politics are always based on ideas). Bad ideas that simply need to be destroyed. They believe that there has been a decadence of thought since modern times began, which has resulted in all kinds of irrational beliefs such as materialism, atheism, and liberalism.
Traditionalists believe that various aspects of society and social life are organic wholes that exist whether or not humans recognize or acknowledge their existence. They further believe that these wholes have an inborn “spirit” or “soul” that one can only understand intuitively, rather than rationally.
Traditionalists thus reject abstract rationalist notions like natural rights and social contract theory as a basis for legitimacy and authority. Instead, they espouse an organicist conception of society as a living organism with a spiritual soul through which “legitimate” authority must be exercised.
It is opposed by both liberal individualism and modernist historicism in all its forms. It rejects what it sees as the rootless cosmopolitanism inherent to modernity—including capitalism, individualism, egalitarianism and multiculturalism—as well as the secularization of religion into a mere human institution devoid of its transcendent purpose.
They argue that society has been thrown into confusion by waves of materialistic thinking and has forgotten its spiritual foundation. They wish to restore religious practices and beliefs that are not bound by time or space.
Some traditionalists support monarchy or other forms of non-democratic government; others support various types of autocracy or oligarchy; some support democracy if it can be shown that it is consistent with traditional values; others oppose all forms of government intervention in political affairs.
They believe that the way forward is not to be found in any political ideology — liberal or conservative — but rather in a return to what they see as ancient wisdom traditions which developed over thousands of years before Christianity arrived in Europe (and which existed even before Judaism and Islam).
Traditionalism has been accused of being related to several other movements within the 20th century, including far-right politics, fascism, and Nazism. However, most traditionalists adamantly reject these associations.
Meet the Traditionalists
The Traditionalist School (la scuola tradizionalista) was founded by Julius Evola (1898–1974), an Italian philosopher who rejected modernity in favor of an idealized past. He argued that there was a perennial spiritual conflict between Tradition and Modernity, and sought to restore what he saw as the virtues of ancient Greece and Rome: hierarchy, excellence, spirituality and heroism.
In his book Revolt Against The Modern World, Evola presents an extremely critical view of modernity and industrial civilization. He believed that Western civilization has been in decline since the 19th century because it had abandoned its traditional roots in favor of democracy, socialism and materialism. Evola argued that this decline could only be reversed by the development of an elite which would lead society towards an organic hierarchical order based on spiritual principles rather than liberal individualism.
Evola claimed that those people who are connected to their ancient traditions are those who are truly awake. He wrote in Revolt Against the Modern World;
“Beside the great “currents” of the world there are still individuals who are rooted in terra firma. Generally speaking, they are unknown people who shun the spotlight of modern popularity and culture.
They live on spiritual heights; they do not belong to this world. Though they are scattered over the earth and often ignorant of each other’s existence, they are united by an invisible bond and form an unbreakable chain in the traditional spirit… by virtue of these people, Tradition is present despite all; the flame burns invisibly, and something still connects the world to the superworld.
“They are those who are awake.” Evola wrote;
Evolian Traditionalism is thus a form of counter-Enlightenment philosophy, and stands in opposition to modernity, democracy and egalitarianism. It holds that the world changes in cycles: civilizations rise while others fall; humanity moves from one state of being to another. To Evola, these cycles corresponded with a natural law: what he called “metaphysics”.
According to the scholar Franco Ferraresi, he “is considered one of the most innovative and influential theorists of ‘traditionalism’—a current of thought within fascist ideology which emphasizes the need for a hierarchical social order based on natural differences.”
Next to Evola, René Guénon (1886–1951) was the most prominent figure of the traditionalist movement in twentieth-century France. He was a prolific writer whose works were influential all over the world and he also had an impact on Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, as well as Christian theology.
Guénon developed the “Primordial Tradition”, in which he presented his works as elaborative of “traditional metaphysical principles” through his publication, “Études tradition nelles.” He wrote another important book on Traditionalism called Crisis of the Modern World (1927) where he explains how modern society is facing a crisis and how this crisis can be solved by returning to our spiritual roots. Evola wrote the introduction to the book.
In 1931 he wrote his most famous work, “The Reign of Quantity and The Signs of The Times“. This book has been translated into several languages and continues to be studied by seekers all over the world.
Guénon’s work is characterized by its uncompromising defense of traditionalism and its rigorous criticism of modernity. His writings have been described as “an unsystematic exposition of traditional doctrines”, but Guénon himself maintained that his work could be understood only within the context of the whole tradition; consequently, many of his works are often referred to as “classics”.
Guénon wrote;
“Where is the notion of a real hierarchy still to be found in the modern world?
Nothing and nobody is any longer in the right place; men no longer recognize any effective authority in the spiritual order or any legitimate power in the temporal; the ‘profane’ presume to discuss what is sacred, and to contest its character and even its existence; the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the Divine, earth has priority over Heaven, the individual sets the measure for all things and claims to dictate to the universe laws drawn entirely from his own relative and fallible reason.
‘Woe unto you, ye blind guides,’ the Gospel says; and indeed everywhere today one sees nothing but blind leaders of the blind, who, unless restrained by some timely check, will inevitably lead them into the abyss, there to perish with them.”
After Guénon, the next most important person was German philosopher and a founding member of the Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). His ideas have had an enormous impact on western philosophy, yet he remains one of the most difficult and controversial philosophers to read.
Although Heidegger did not claim to be or belong to any of the Traditionalist groups that Evola and Guénon had developed and was sometimes critical of Traditionalism. Although he is often described as a Traditionalist and a favorite philosopher for people such as Alexandr Dugin, because he believed that modern society had lost touch with its past and we needed to preserve it.
Heidegger said this about Traditionalism:
“There are many different kinds of traditionalism. Some people think that tradition means simply living in the past, but this is not true. Tradition only means maintaining something that has been handed down from generation to generation.”
“Tradition is not just re-enacting things from the past; it means preserving them so they can be handed down to future generations.”
One of his most important contributions to philosophy was his analysis of the concept of being and is often referred to as his “Being and Time” period. In this early period, Heidegger attempted to develop a philosophical hermeneutics that would be able to interpret all forms of human existence in view of their being in the world.
In particular, Heidegger made a distinction between two types of being: ready-to-hand (Zuhandenes), and present-at-hand (Vorhandenes). The former is an understanding of being that is based in everyday life, where things are useful to us and part of our lives; the latter is an understanding of being as something detached from our lives, which we can examine through reason alone.
This distinction has become known as Dasein-analytic or existentialism. In this kind of thinking we come to understand ourselves as human beings – in other words, we are not simply objects but subjects (what Heidegger calls Dasein). We are not simply products or objects, but subjects who have their own agency (being able to make choices).
His analysis focused on understanding being-in-the-world as being-with others (Mitsein). This approach was indebted to Martin Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and Immanuel Kant’s conception of practical reason.
Heidegger also stated that human existence cannot be understood apart from its relationship with other people in the world. This relationship is always already there before us, as we find it in our everyday dealings with others. But it is not something that can be analyzed by science or philosophy, because it is always changing according to circumstances and traditions particular to each historical era.
He argued that science and technology were destroying our sense of tradition and replacing it with calculative thinking. This led to humans becoming soulless “dwellers” in technology-dominated cities who are unable to think deeply about their lives or to have meaningful experiences with other people.
Heidegger wrote;
“It is not enough to think of a tradition as a kind of intellectual property, in which we have invested our money and labor. We must also recognize that our tradition is directly responsible for our present condition, and that we are therefore obliged to it.
This obligation is what makes it possible for us to overcome the danger of becoming “strangers and sojourners” in the world.”
He famously said that “only a god can save us” from technology and industrial society (“Der Spiegel” interview 1966). His critique of modernity has been compared to that of Friedrich Nietzsche — another philosopher who was accused by some critics of being anti-Semitic — but it is also true that Nietzsche thought highly of Heidegger’s work.
Heidegger’s work remains controversial because of its association with National Socialism — he was a member of the Nazi party from 1933 until 1945 — and because of his political views after World War II.
If we are to examine this time period with the German NAZI regime, we can see that they had attempted to preserve the Traditions of their race and their so-called Arayan ancestors who were seen as biologically superior to other racial groups. Adolf Hitler promoted his ideaologies about Germany’s ancestors in his 1925 book, Mein Kampf. The think tank called The Ahnenerbe (German: [ˈʔaːnənˌʔɛʁbə], ancestral heritage) operated between 1935 and 1945 to promote their doctrines with a group of Germany’s leading scholars and scientists.
Traditionalist conservatism takes its name from the Traditionalists, a group of French intellectuals known as Les Veilleurs or “The Watchers,” who first met in 1928 at the Institut Catholique de Paris, a Jesuit-run graduate university dedicated to training priests for the Catholic priesthood.
The original members were: Charles Champetier (1890–1946), Marcel Haedrich (1892–1952), Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), Louis Massignon (1883–1955), Jean Ousset (1905–1974) and Louis Lecerf (1906–1972). They were joined later by such men as Henri de Lubac, Yves Congar and Jean Daniélou. The movement was part of a wider effort to defend the Roman Catholic Church against modernists who questioned some of its teachings.
Today, Alexander Dugin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин; born January 7, 1962) is one of the most influential and controversial Traditionalist thinkers on the world stage today. He is a Russian political scientist known for promoting a “traditionalist” worldview through his leadership of the International Eurasian Movement (Russian: Международное евразийское движение), a political party called “The Conservative Party of Russia”, and several books about geopolitics.
Dugin has been described as “Russia’s chief ideologist” by The New York Times. His work has been translated into many languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese. He has influenced political movements from Ukraine to Brazil and Venezuela to Africa by providing them with a philosophical basis for their actions.
Dugin has expressed admiration for Julius Evola, who became an early influence on his thought and introduced him to Traditionalism; as well as for Martin Heidegar and Carl Schmitt, whose ideas on geopolitics influenced Dugin’s later works on geopolitics; and René Guénon (who Dugin calls “the master”) who introduced him to Gnosticism and Manichaeism.
He defines Traditionalism as a philosophy that “questions modernity” and advocates for a return to traditional values as “the recognition of the perennial character of human nature”. What is true, good and beautiful.
Dugin recently said;
“Traditionalism is a philosophy of life and a system of values based on the veneration of the past, particularly with regard to the preservation of what is perceived to be true, good, and beautiful.”
Dugin’s philosophy called Neo-Eurasianism or Fourth Political Theory (4PT). The 4PT is a syncretic ideology combining traditionalist ideas from Eurasian religions and European New Right with Russian nationalism and anti-liberalism. In 2006 he wrote The Fourth Political Theory, which proposed a new ideology for Russia based on traditionalism, conservatism and nationalism.
Dugin believes that Russia should be an empire like it used to be before Peter the Great. In his book The Fourth Political Theory, he argues for a postmodernist approach to politics:
“The Fourth Political Theory is thus openly opposed not only to liberalism but also to Marxism and fascism; it rejects them both as modernist ideologies that deny the uniqueness and specificity of each historical epoch.”
In 2007 he founded the Eurasia Party and in 2011 he left the party to create his own political party called Eurasian Youth Union (ESYU). The Eurasia Movement was established to promote Russian foreign policy in opposition to American hegemony. He has been described as a “key intellectual proponent” of the idea that Russia is destined to lead a new empire in place of the Soviet Union, which Dugin considers to have been usurped by Atlanticism (meaning liberalism) and globalism (meaning capitalism).
In a recent interview, Dugin speaks about the meaning of tradition and its relation to the West. He also talks about his role in Russia as a “philosopher” and what he hopes to accomplish with his work.
Question: What is your understanding of tradition?
Alexander Dugin said;
“Tradition is a complex concept. It is not just something that has existed for a long time, or that has been preserved from generation to generation. Tradition does not mean conservation of something that already exists; it means renewal and expansion of something that already exists.
Tradition is not the past but the future being born in the present,” Dugin said.
“Tradition is not a dead past but an alive future: when we look at tradition we see history being born again in us as we live our lives today. This concept is difficult for people today because they are used to living in front of their TVs or on Facebook where everything becomes “old news” within hours or minutes–or even seconds!
There’s no sense of continuity here; it’s all just fragments of information from various sources that have nothing in common except their ephemerality. We don’t live in one place anymore either; we’re constantly moving around from one place to another so there’s no sense,” he said.
While Dugin’s views are often described as fascist or neo-fascist, he rejects these labels as inaccurate and misused. In an interview with liberal Russian talk show host Ksenia Sobchak, Dugin claimed that any comparison between his views and those of Adolf Hitler was “ridiculous”.
He instead prefers to describe himself as a Traditionalist who advocates for “conservative revolution” against modernity.
Dugin recently said in an interview;
“The Traditionalists are not only a school of theology, but also a school of politics, and they have much to say about the laws of history. In particular, they believe that there is a law of cycles in history, according to which societies rise and fall according to their adherence or lack thereof to Tradition.
“The most important aspect of this Tradition is what I call the “vertical axis,” meaning the transcendent dimension of human existence. This does not mean that Traditionalists reject science or rationality — far from it! But it does mean that they think that there are levels of understanding in reality beyond our materialist vision; that is why we need both science and religion.”
In a recent interview I conducted with Alexandr Dugin on the Gnostic Warrior Podcast, he told me that this battle is not only against what he calls a Liberal Dictatorship that seeks to destroy our ancestral traditions and philosophical ideas, but for our very souls and for eternity.
He is not fighting just for the Russian Traditions, but the whole world’s Traditions.
We spoke about his 4th Political Theory and how it is the only political system right now that honors people’s traditions across cultures while bringing these issues to the political arena.
MOE: So you’re, you’re fighting for everybody’s traditions.
DUGIN: Exactly. I don’t fight only for the Russian tradition, my tradition, my church. I’m Christian. But I defend the principles that religion and tradition are not something that belongs to the past.
I argue that it belongs to eternity, but eternity is now, the past is now, and it will be tomorrow.
So that is the fight on the side of eternity, against the dictatorship or the temporality of the time of becoming. And we consider all these three models, ideology, communism, liberalism, and the French.
They are all based on a secular understanding of history. They are founded in a materialistic understanding of the world.
They don’t believe in eternity. Eternity doesn’t exist. There is only time. There is only this world. There is nothing outside of it.”
Here is my interview with Dugin.
In another article for The National Interest, Dugin is rallying the global troops of Traditionalists to join the fight against this dictatorship:
“All of us who consider ourselves traditionalists — whether religious or not — should join our efforts against the dictatorship of relativism and consumerism, against globalisation and its political instrumentality.”
I have found that a lot of what Dugin advocates for in the name of Tradition makes perfect sense. While his views at times can be considered extreme, we can also make a great case that the current Liberal Dictatoship are even more extreme to the point they seek to destroy all our Traditions – what is good, true and beautiful.
Instead, they want to indoctrinate the people and our children into their Godless Lberal religion that pisses on the past and makes up their own absurd ideologies, from changing the meaning of biology to what it means to be a man or woman and have a family by changing their genders and their identities.
So, how does a modern day Traditionalist fight against what seems to be a massive army of Liberal clones hell-bent on destroying your Traditions and indoctrinating your children into their Global Death Cult?
I will leave you with a quote by Julius Evola that accurately describes how Traditionalists battle the dregs of Modernity. Evola wrote;
“It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean that they amount to mere “ideas.” These are measure.
Let people of our time talk about these things with condescension as if they were anachronistic and anti-historical; we know that this is an alibi for their defeat. Let us leave modern men to their “truths” and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins,” Evola wrote. (Revolt Against the Modern World)
In other words, let the crazy Liberals keep spewing their irrational beliefs and acting like chimps. The more they do so, the easier it will be to defeat their ignorance and lies.
It is Traditionalist Watchers today, like Dugin, who believe that this is the Great Awakening and that we are in a war against Modernity. What he calls the “Serpents of Wisdom versus Serpents of Capitalism.”
It is philosophers like Dugin who are ready to defend these Traditions and, if needed, destroy Modernity into an eternal heap of ruins with Traditional ideas, and, if needed, one rocket launcher at a time.
One last final thought.
As an American, I’m on the side of Traditionalists and wish to fight for the original American ethos that honored their ancestors Traditions while also granting the people Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This is being stolen from us all as we watch the liberals indoctrinate our children with their bad ideas and they piss on our country’s values as it all burns right before our eyes.
Dugin is right. This is a battle for eternity.
One that I believe that this will culminate into not only a world war of ideas, but the final battle for the World Soul.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
Apple is the most popular and recognizable brand in the world. Their computers and smartphone technology have both changed and taken over our lives. Today, approximately 45% of the U.S. population owns an Apple iPhone.
Almost everyone today recognizes the Apple logo. To me and other people, it looks like it represents the Biblical story of the Devil, serpent, and the apple from the Adam and Eve story.
Apple even capitalized on the story with their first advertisements, such as this one.
Hell, maybe me and my tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy friends are not so crazy after all…
But the occult references and conspiracy clues do not end there.
The original Apple I computers were hand built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Jobs and other friends in Wozniak’s garage with parts purchased from a local electronics store called The Byte Shop in Mountain View California (now called Fry’s Electronics) or scavenged from broken machines at their college dorms.
The first Apple 1 computer that cost about $1,533 to build, but Jobs and Wozniak decided to sell them for $666.66 each with the slogan “Byte into an Apple.”
Some people say that Jobs purposely chose the apples with a bite out of it and selling the first computers for $666.66 to honor the Mark of the Beast, and that it was Satanic because in the Bible, the Beast is identified with the number, 666.
In Revelation 13:18, it says, “This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.”
As if Jobs and Wozniak were summoning the Devil to ritualistically assist him in this new demonic venture, and this was the machine that would do it.
Then you have Apple’s slogan, “Think Different,” which glorifies the crazy ones, misfits, rebels and trouble makers.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
This can’t all be a coincidence, could it?
According to Steve Jobs, “Apple was so named because Jobs was coming back from an apple farm, and he was on a fruitarian diet. He thought the name was “fun, spirited and not intimidating.”
And as for the price of $666.66, Steve Wozniak says it became $666.66 because Wozniak “liked repeating digits” and because of a one-third markup on the $500 wholesale price.
Do you believe these stories or could there be something more occult going on here?
It seems to depend on who you ask.
For example, when Jean Louis Gassée, an executive at Apple Computer from 1981 to 1990, was asked about his thoughts on the Apple logo, he answered:
“One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy.”
When it comes to Steve Jobs character, there’s the “Good Steve,” and then, there’s the “Bad Steve,” says biographer Walter Isaacson.
In other words, he had a dark (shadow/demon) and light (enlightened/angel) side to his character.
Steve Jobs has been described as an amazingly talented leader but a highly flawed individual. He was known to be a manipulative, excitable liar who was cold, mean, and vindictive. He was not very pleasant to be around and could change moods at the drop of a dime.
While working at Atari, Jobs recruited Wozniak to help him work on the game Pong. There was a big cash bonus involved if they finished the job fast and efficiently.
They did, but Jobs lied about how much money the bonus was, pocketing the majority of the money for himself.
This was how Jobs treated people. He could give a flying f*ck about friends, co-workers and even family members like his daughter who he refused to acknowledge or support and whose mother had to live on welfare.
And even his practice of Zen Buddhism could not save the man.
Jobs lacked self-reflection skills and acted sociopathic. His capacity to deceive others, distort reality, exhibit emotional outbursts, and inflict cruelty seemed to withstand the test of time.
In my personal opinion, Steve Jobs was a talented business man but also a human piece of shit, or what some people would accurately call a sociopath, and some religious folks, a demon or the Devil incarnate himself.
Even though I do not think that he worshiped Satan or summoned demons, he was a liar, thief and terrible person – just like the so-called Devil.
His mode of being was completely individualistic or what could be called Satanic.
Hell, many CEO’s and captains of industry of this Modern world act in a similar fashion to Jobs. In fact, I believe it is more common than uncommon in the world of business.
So, it is quite fitting that Jobs, the Beast of Apple Computers, had decided to sell their first computer for $666.66.
Remember, “This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.” – Revelation 13:18
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The Grand Master proclaims, ” We come to complete the work and to consecrate it to the glory of the Grand Architect of the Universe, to truth, to virtue, and to light the fire of Freemasonry.”
Perhaps no other philosophical concept and symbol is more important in the history of Freemasonry than the Grand Architect of the Universe (initials T.G.A.O.T.U.), which is also sometimes referred to as the Great Architect of the Universe, The Sovereign Grand Architect of the Universe, or the All-Seeing Eye of God. The term itself has been used by Freemasons since at least 1723.
The name “Great Architect” comes from Greek words meaning “Great Artificer” or “Great Workman”; both terms refer to God’s creative powers and abilities to create anything out of nothing at all (Genesis 1:2). This idea seems very similar to what Albert Pike (1809-1891) said about God: “God is uncreated; all else is created.”
Pike claims that T.G.A.O.T.U. is invisible. He wrote, “The point is invisible as the grand architect of the universe of Freemasonry is invisible. But by singular substitution we have assembled to represent a visible sign of this invisible grace.”
In Freemasonry, there is a requirement that a Mason must believe in God, and the Grand Architect of the Universe would represent this deity.
To Freemasons, T.G.A.O.T.U. is associated with light, fire, divinity, the divine wisdom of God, and sacred geometry, which is found symbolized in Lodges as the letter G, the Blazing Star (upright pentagram) or a single eye often enclosed within a triangle with rays of light emanating from it.
God is always associated with creation, light, truth and divine wisdom.
The Masonic philosophy is based on enlightened rationalism (beliefs based on reason rather than faith) and emphasizes goodness, charity, and brotherhood among people regardless of race, creed, or religion). Each Mason has his own unique function or purpose in life and must seek spiritual enlightenment through self-realization and self-development so that he may become a better person who contributes something meaningful to society at large.
The phrase “Grand Architect” appears in Masonic rituals in various forms, such as “Grand Geometrician of the Universe” (or some variant thereof), “Great Geometrician” and “Great Architect” (or some variant thereof). The word “Geometry” here refers to “sacred geometry”, which is a system of measuring and constructing the world and cosmos that was first developed by the Ancient Egyptians and Greeks but has been used by many cultures throughout history.
Thomas McKay wrote:
“We know, for instance, from the recent researches of the archaeologists, that in all the documents of the ancient Egyptians, written in the demotic or common character of the country, the names of the gods were invariably denoted by symbols; and I have already alluded to the different modes by which the Jews expressed the tetragrammaton.
A similar practice prevailed among the other nations of antiquity. Freemasonry has adopted the same expedient, and the Grand Architect of the Universe, whom it is the usage, even in ordinary writing, to designate by the initials G.A.O.T.U., is accordingly presented to us in a variety of symbols, three of which particularly require attention.
These are the letter G, the equilateral triangle, and the All-Seeing Eye.”
33rd Degree Freemason and author Manly P. Hall said it was an expression of a hidden reality. Hall wrote:
Freemasons have for centuries held the conception of the Universe as the material expression of a hidden reality, an invisible blueprint set down by the hand of the Grand Architect of the Universe [in his Spiritual, Moral and Masonic Trestle Board].
Hall also wrote:
“Let him never forget that the Master is near. Day and night let him feet the presence of the Supreme or Overshadowing One. The All-Seeing Eye is upon him. Day and night this great Orb measures his depths, seeing into his innermost soul of souls.”
The great duties that are inculcated by the lessons taught by the working-instruments of a Grand Master Architect, demanding so much of us, and taking for granted the capacity to perform them faithfully and fully, bring us at once to reflect upon the dignity of human nature, and the vast powers and capacities of the human soul; and to that theme we invite your attention in this Degree.
Let us begin to rise from earth toward the Stars.
Evermore the human soul struggles toward the light, toward God, and the Infinite. It is especially so in its afflictions. Words go but a little way into the depths of sorrow. The thoughts that writhe there in silence, that go into the stillness of Infinitude and Eternity, have no emblems.
Thoughts enough come there, such as no tongue ever uttered. They do not so much want human sympathy, as higher help. There is a loneliness in deep sorrow which the Deity alone can relieve. Alone, the mind wrestles with the great problem of calamity, and seeks the solution from the Infinite Providence of Heaven, and thus is led directly to God.”(Morals and Dogma Chapter 12)
HISTORY OF THE GRAND ARCHITECT
The concept of God, symbolized as an eye and being the creator or grand architect of the world, goes back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Phoenicia. The Egyptians had the Eye of Ra and Horus for thousands of years.
The Greek concept of the Grand Architect was Plato’s Demiurge (Gk., dēmiourgos, ‘craftsman’) who formed and molded the visible world. In Christianity, we have God and the LORD with the Eye of Providence dating back well over 1,200 years ago.
Many of us know the Eye of Providence from the back of our U.S. currency on the dollar bill showing an eye enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by rays of light. It was placed there by Masons to represent the eye of God, who watches over humanity, guiding us by the principles of divine providence.
It should be no surprise to some of us that many Masonic and Christain symbols adorn such important items as our currency, since many of our nation’s founders were Freemasons, including George Washington, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, and John Hancock.
A Novus Ordo Seclorum – “A new order of the ages (is born).”
The original Great Seal of the United States of America was said to have been designed in 1782 by Charles Thomson, who, in collaboration with lawyer and artist William Barton, had originated the idea of a pyramid and Eye of Providence and other elements.
THE ANCIENT GREEK CONCEPT OF T.G.A.O.T.U. AS THE DEMIURGE
The Ancient Greek scientific concept of The Grand Architect of the Universe can be found in Plato’s Timaeus as the Demiurge, from the Greek dēmiourgos, which means craftsman. He uses the term dēmiourgos to refer both to an artisan and to an original arranger of the world.
In the opening speech, Timaeus (Timaeus 27d5-29b1) claims that the cosmos must be the product of what he calls the Demiurge, creating an eternal paradigm. Plato wrote, “To find the maker and father of this universe is a difficult task, and even once found, it’s impossible to declare him to all” (Timaeus 28c3–5).
Plato explains that it is impossible for something to come into being from nothing (27e2-28a4). The first premise is that here must be some source for motion for the universe as a whole, which is unchanging and indestructible. Plato says that an efficient cause is one that acts without being acted upon.
Meaning, the Demiurge does not receive its motion from something else. Instead, it is the first source of all motion in the universe as a whole. Timaeus states that this source must be an efficient cause (Timaeus 27d).
The Demiurge fashioned the world, people and the cosmos out of preexisting chaos which the Demiurge organized into the four elements — Earth, Water, Air and Fire. These formed the “body” of the cosmos, which was also endowed with a “soul”. The soul of the cosmos, which Plato considered as its better or more important part, was its principle of eternal and recurring circular motion, causing the circular motion of the planets, sun, moon, and stars.
Plato’s student, Aristotle added the fifth Platonoic element, aether as the prima matter of the heavenly bodies. He claimed that crystalline spheres were made of a fire like substance that was always moving, called aether. A substance that also filled the space between the celestial bodies.
According to Aristotle’s theories of motion, he believed that ether was a fire like substance that was always moving in a circular motion. But the other four elements tended to move in straight lines. The earth moved downward; fire moved upward, while water and air fell in between.
I believe that Plato’s philosophical explanation of the Demiurge and Aristotle’s aether are the closest scientific explanations of The Grand Architect of the Universe that have been posited to date. In a future essay, I will go into more detail on the Greek concept of the Demiurge and how it can be connected to modern science.
THE CHRISTIAN GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE
In Christianity, the symbol of the eye of God may be found in the Book of Proverbs, which introduces the idea that “The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge (Gnosis).”
The first known use of the symbol is in the Palatine Chapel, Aachen Cathedral, which was built by Charlemagne in 786. It was a fairly common symbol throughout the middle ages and well into the Enlightenment period.
Thomas Aquinas said in the Summa: “God, Who is the first principle of all things, may be compared to things created “as the architect is to things designed” (ut artifex ad artificiata).”
John Calvin (1509-1564) was a French reformer of the Church who calls the Christian God “the Architect of the Universe”, also referring to his works as “Architecture of the Universe”, and in his commentary on Psalm 19 refers to the Christian God as the “Great Architect” or “Architect of the Universe”. (Institutes of the Christian Religion – 1536)
In Scripture, God is the master or choirmaster of the heavens, and his handywork can be seen as the creator of the world. The firmament showeth his handywork. (Genesis 1:6, 20.) as the atmosphere enveloping the earth. Psalm 19 reads, “For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge (Gnosis).”
THE GRAND ARCHITECT IN EGYPT AS RA
The ancient Egyptians believed that Ra was the one who created everything in their world as the father of all creation.
They believed that Ra created himself out of nothingness and then created everything else in their world by speaking it into existence. He was the patron of the heavens, light, the sun, power and royalty. He was said to govern the actions of the sun.
The Eye of Ra would be one of the earliest or the first representations of the The Grand Architect of the Universe, the Eye of Providence and All-Seeing Eye of God.
Ra was one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon and was later merged with Atum to become Atum-Ra, which means “the complete one.” He also merged with the God Amon to become Amon-Ra At Thebes, becoming the principal god of the pantheon, the “king of the gods,” and the patron of kings.
All Egyptian Pharoahs from the 4th Dynasty on held the title “Son of Ra” (Son of God or the Grand Architect). As the Sons of Ra, they were tasked with governing their kingdoms and people as God issuing justice via rewards and punishments.
Gnostic Warrior Conclusion
The Masonic Grand Architect of the Universe symbolizes creator God and the primeval creative force in both ancient and modern religions, particularly those of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
In the end, believing in the creator of the universe will always be a matter of faith and opinion.
It’s a fascinating subject with roots in Egyptian Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Christian theology and Freemasonry throughout history—and it’s one that every Mason should spend some time researching on his own in order to appreciate its many different facets.
But as you can see from the course of history, several ancient nations, religions, and secret societies such as Freemasonry believed in a creator God whom they honored and defied in their writings.
For the Masons, the idea of a Great Architect is dogmatic as with many other religions. It is a requirement to believe in God, and there are no acceptions.
An ancient tradition that is still followed to this day not only by Masons, but also by billions of people.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
The Etheric Body is one of the various names given to what has also been called by various esoteric authors as the Astral Body, Light Body, Body of Light, Human Energy Field, or Aura, which all mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably.
The etheric body is part of the human constitution in the form of light energy or luminous fluid. It is considered the energetic template of the physical body that has the ability to act as a mediator between the soul and body and can also record and store information.
The etheric body is made of a material known as ether (aether) that comes from the heavens (cosmos or space). In a similar sense, the term astral body refers to the stars. Very similar descriptions and words such as the light body and aura have been used throughout traditional history to modernity.
This mysterious and luminous material has been described as the light or energy field of the body to be both liquid and gaseous in nature. It is not visible to the naked eye, and some people claim that it can only be seen with spiritual sight or when it interacts with physical matter in some way (i.e., through magnetism).
As I researched this subject, I found that we can use modern science to identify what exactly the etheric body is and I can provide examples of my studies. In this article, I will detail the various aspects of its history with various quotes from people who have written on the subject and also the results of my research. I also believe today that we can witness, measure and record this phenomenon with magnetic image resonance machines, which I will explain in my next article on the Science of the Etheric Body.
The first people to write about and debate what aether was were the Ancient Greeks through the writings of various philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus. This tradition continued among many of the world’s greatest thinkers, such as Descartes, Paracelsues John Dee, Eliphas Levi, Issac Newton, Rudolph Steiner, Albert Einstein, and Nikola Tesla, who have all written and or debated about its existence.
As I explained in my previous essay, according to the Greeks, aether (Greek αἰθήρ, aithēr), also spelled ether, is the fifth element that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere. It is a type of heavenly fire, light, or luminous substance that is always in motion. But they claimed that it is not to be compared to real fire, and is distinct from the other four classical elements (Platonic Solids), Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.
Both Plato and Aristotle also referred to ether as “Idea” (Greek ίδέα), or ίερόν, (Greek hieron “a divine thing”) because it was thought to be heavenly, i.e. not of the material world (matter) and have the power of life. Plato, in his Timaeus, described Aether as that “which God used in the delineation of the universe.”
As it relates to the Ancient Greek concept of the human and the etheric body, I have found that pneuma, topa, and vital heat were used interchangeably by fellow Platonists in the exoteric sense by some authors, such as Aristotle and Proculus. Today, as I mentioned above, we also have the terms Astral Body, Light Body, Body of Light, Human Energy Field, or Aura, which all represent the same phenomena of the creative fire within humans and all life.
In Aristotle’s biology, pneuma is mentioned in connection with the soul and a number of bodily functions. It is compared to ether, the fifth element from which the heavenly bodies are composed. In explaining the abilities of the soul within the context of functional transmission, he describes pneuma as analogous to ether (the upper fiery-air).
Aristotle states that the hot substance or vital heat included in the semen is a “natural principle in the breath [pneuma], being analogous to the element of the stars” (i.e., the Aether). He wrote;
“Now, so far as we can see, the faculty (δύναμις) of Soul of every kind has to do with some physical substance which
is different from the so-called ‘elements’ (στοιχεȋον) and more divine than they are …….
In all cases the semen contains within itself that which causes it to be fertile (γόνιμα)—what is known as ‘hot substance’ (θερμόν), which is not fire nor any similar substance, but the pneuma which is enclosed within the semen or foam-like stuff, and the natural substance which is in the pneuma; and this substance, is analogous to the element which belongs to the stars. (De generatione animalium, Book II, Peck 1949, p. 171, II 736b30-737al)
The next authority after Aristotle to speak on this subject, but using a different word than pneuma or aether was the Neoplatonist Proclus of Athens (412–485 C.E.). He was the most authoritative philosopher of his time and is said to have been the first person to speak of place (topos) as the intermediary between the soul and body, or what is also known as the “etheric body.”
Proclus had a theory that place (topos) was a three-dimensional extension, and it was a luminous body (soma). He believed that this place had life (empsukhos), which moved other bodies. Proclus said there were subtle “planes”, and these planes had two bodies or “carriers” (okhema) intermediate between the rational soul and the physical body. He claimed that topos as the medium between soul and body, and identified it with the luminous “vehicle” of the soul.
One of the last Neo-Platonists, Simplicius of Cilicia, tells us that Proclus’ hypothesis was novel and unique.
The Greek Stoics had called the divine creative fire by the names pneuma or aether. They believed that the cosmos was ruled by a divine mind (nous) and permeated by pneuma, an aether composed of fire and air.
Chrysippos took the lead in ascribing the generality of natural phenomena to tensions in the pneuma, an aether-like blending of air and fire that he held to pervade the cosmos.
The Greek term pneuma was later used in religious contexts and was associated with the spirit and the divine.
This opposition of theories led to many Greek philosophers to examine and comment upon the subject.
In the 17th century, René Descartes (1596-1650) said ether was the medium of space in Principia philosophiae (1644). His theory was in a similar line with the Anceint Greeks concept of ether as the 5th element that made up the World Soul or what is also called the Noosphere today.
Descartes’ was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist and is best known for his philosophical writings, which include several essays on optics, the philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics.
He claimed that ether was the elements of vortices that transmitted forces between bodies at a distance, were also transmitted by direct contact. When two bodies were not touching each other, such as two magnets, or the moon’s influence upon the tides, he believed they were still in direct contact through intermediate contiguous matter I ether.
Descartes said that force is transmitted through ether by two agencies, pressure and impact. He believed that space was occupied by ether. Although it was imperceptible to the senses, it was capable of transmitting forces on the material bodies immersed in it.
Descartes said the ether particles are in constant spinning motions of closed chains of particles (vortices). He believed that matter is made up of extremely small particles called “corpuscles” and that these corpuscles are attracted to each other by ether.
The difference between Descartes’ theory and modern theories is that he believed that this attraction occurs because of the motion and rotation of matter, not because mass attracts mass.
Descartes also developed three laws of motion:
The law of inertia – objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
The law of action-and-reaction – every force has an equal counter-force, so if one body exerts a force on another body, then that body exerts a force back on the first body equal in magnitude but opposite in direction.
The third law – if one body exerts twice as much force on another body than it experiences from that
Descartes’ theory was never accepted by his contemporaries, who adhered to Newton’s theories of action at a distance. Descartes’ theory remained forgotten until James Clerk Maxwell rediscovered it in 1864, which I will discuss below.
Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) dedicated much of his career to analyzing and developing further the ether theory. He called ether an elastic medium that carried vibrations and had pervaded the pores of all material bodies. Newton wrote:
All space is permeated by an elastic medium or aether, which is capable of propagating vibrations. This aether pervades the pores of all material bodies and is the cause of their cohesion; its density varies from one body to another, being greatest in the free interplanetary spaces.
One of Isaac Newton’s major theories was that ether played a major role in gravity and light in the Third Book of Opticks (1st ed. 1704; 2nd ed.) He described it as the medium that “flows” continually downward toward the Earth’s surface and is partially absorbed and partially diffused as an elastic, invisible, strong, and subtle matter that existed everywhere in different forms.
In the 19th century, James Clerk Maxwell showed that electricity and magnetism were related phenomena. He proposed that light waves were electric and magnetic waves traveling through an electromagnetic field called ether. This led to theories about a luminiferous (light-bearing) ether, which became popular during this period.
Maxwell developed a mathematical theory of electromagnetic waves that propagated through the luminiferous ether, which permeates all space. He had used ether to explain electric and magnetic phenomena, now called Maxwell’s equations, for the understanding that light is an electromagnetic wave.
Maxwell (1878) wrote:
“Aethers were invented for the planets to swim in, to constitute electric atmospheres and magnetic effluvia, to convey sensations from one part of our bodies to another, and so on, until all space had been filled three or four times over with aethers. The only aether which has survived is that which was invented by Huygens to explain the propagation of light.”
Rudolph Steiner (1861-1935) considered the etheric body as distinct from the physical material reality, being intermediate between the physical world and the astral world. He believed that it was formed as a result of thinking and contained a person’s thoughts.
Steiner said:
“Only if I could perceive how the percept of an object affects the percept of the subject, or–conversely–only if I could observe the construction of a perceptual form by the subject, would it be possible to speak like modern physiology and the critical idealism built upon it…The link between the subjective and the objective is not built…by any perceptible event. It is built by thinking alone.”
For Steiner, it was also part of the earth’s biofield and all living things—plants, animals, and humans. Without the etheric body, one only has left a dead physical body whose structure and organization are now subject only to entropic forces and decay. He often referred to the etheric body (Ätherleib or “Life Body”) in association with the etheric formative forces and the evolution of man and the cosmos.
According to Steiner;
“Memory is a subconscious reading activity. In memory remain the signs which the etheric body engraved upon the physical body. You may have lived through something years ago and gathered from it the necessary experience; what remains behind is the impression which the etheric body engraved upon the physical body, and when you remember this past experience your memory process is a subconscious act of reading.”
It is an energy field composed of millions of tiny particles called etheric cells that are constantly interacting with each other to create all the different structures and functions of the body. Each etheric cell contains information about how to build certain parts of the body, such as muscles, bones and organs.
The etheric cells are organized into groups called chakras that are responsible for different aspects of our health and well-being, such as digestion or sexual function. Each chakra has a specific purpose and role within our bodies, which is why we feel pain or discomfort when they aren’t functioning properly or if they become blocked by negative emotions or thoughts.
Its color varies from individual to individual, but ranges from bright white to deep purple depending on your state of being. When you’re healthy, your etheric body can be seen as an aura surrounding your physical form has a vibrant, colorful aura that reflects its energetic functioning.
According to Steiner, the etheric field can be perceived by a person gifted with clairvoyance as being of “peach-blossom color”.
If it’s damaged or unhealthy, it may appear dull, cloudy, gray or blackened in appearance due to disease or trauma.
Russian Esotericist, Madame Blavatsky
The etheric plane (see also Etheric body) is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent one of the planes
According to Max Heindel, the Grand Master of the American Rosicrucuans (AMORC), the etheric body, composed of four ethers, is called the “Vital Body” since the ether is the way of ingress for vital force from the Sun and the field of agencies in nature which promote such vital activities as assimilation, growth, and propagation.
It is an exact counterpart of our physical body, molecule for molecule, and organ for organ, but it is of the opposite polarity. It is slightly larger, extending about one and one-half inches beyond the periphery of the physical body.
It is a template that holds the knowledge (gnosis), information, and our memories, that allows the physical body to function and exist in the world, i.e., this dimension. It has been described as a “blueprint” for the physical body, and contains all the anatomical designs on a cellular level.
Freemason and author, Manly P. Hall calls ether the sacred 5th element, and says it represents the brain. Hall wrote;
“As man’s physical body has five distinct and important extremities–two legs, two arms, and a head, of which the last governs the first four–the number 5 has been accepted as the symbol of man.
By its four corners the pyramid symbolizes the arms and legs, and by its apex the head, thus indicating that one rational power controls four irrational corners.
The hands and feet are used to represent the four elements, of which the two feet are earth and water, and the two hands fire and air.
The brain then symbolizes the sacred fifth element–æther–which controls and unites the other four. If the feet are placed together and the arms outspread, man then symbolizes the cross with the rational intellect as the head or upper limb.”
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
