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The fall after the fall...

(This article must be read as the second part of our post "History of the fall...")


What happens when the whole society is invested by the OMISSION of thought that nihilism is ?

The (pseudo-)cultural leaders that have sided with nihilism by omitting to focus their  reflection on the fundamental question ("whence the being of all that is ?") - and have thus rejected the Truth of the Eternal Being Who Is, the Truth of God Who Is Infinite Love - can inform the whole society with their ignorance: they write books, they train teachers, they can reach large audiences, they set the general tone of the cultural debate. In this way, the "general culture" ( the shared set of values and beliefs) of the society can be easily influenced by the thought that has been transformed into pseudo-thought by the omission that nihilism is.

But the story, although tragic, is not so simple.
The pseudo-leaders omit the Truth of God, omit the Quest for the Sacred Knowledge, and inevitably deny the Sacred Vision too. But the human path without the Vision becomes a very dark path, because the Revelation of the Vision is the only possible source for the impulse to a life guided by Love. True Love is built on the Joy and the Awe of the Sacred Vision. Without the impulse of the Vision, love withers: it becomes sentimentalism - that is often a mask for despair - or worse, it becomes a word with no meaning.

(Before proceeding in our analysis, it is important to highlight that the use of the verb "to deny" in the sentence "the pseudo-leaders...deny the Sacred Vision" is correct because, in line of principle, the Vision speaks to every single human being and although it is true that "reaching"  the Sacred Vision is the work of a life-time, such "work" is not a worldly work and often, or always, implies a backward path, a path that leads the individual back to his/her spiritual roots. The young Plato was still able to  identify "knowledge" and ANAMNESIS - memory, RECOLLECTION.
Therefore the verb "to deny" is appropriate: they refuse to remember who they truly are).

Any degree of the Vision reveals the Immensity of the Eternal Creation, the Creation that - free from time and space - is the Now of the Aion. The immense Awe and the immense Joy of the Vision lead directly to the understanding that the Infinite God Who Is has donated Life and Freedom to us and that the Aion, the Eternal, is paradoxically nailed to the cross of space and time for the Love of all who are. The Infinite Being Who Is suffers the existence of finitude and evil to grant us Life and Freedom: Infinite Love !

Thus it is the Path of Wisdom that inevitably teaches us Love.
The Vision reveals that to the humans is given the Gift of being able to imitate the Love of God and that to the humans is given the Gift of Freedom that allows them to actually imitate the Love of God.
The first duty that the Sacred Knowledge reveals to the human beings is the duty to respect such Gifts and consequently the duty to build a life founded on Love and Freedom.

The Vision opens the Way to Wisdom, and Love in action is the evidence that the individual has met Wisdom and has listened to Her.

The fake "leaders" who have not accepted to be oriented by the Sacred Knowledge inevitably ignore Love.
This is the primary tremendous consequence of the nihilistic ignorance.
And where do they lead the culture and the society if this is their ignorance ?
Ignorance of Love is inevitably hate.
Into hate. They lead culture and society into hate.

Ignoring Love means that the pseudo-leaders see the society as a battlefield, where the Other, the other person, can only be a tool or an enemy because the Other is never understood in its inherent dignity of Presence of the miracle of Life and being.

Unable to understand Love, and therefore unable to understand human dignity, the pseudo-leaders can only cherish those pseudo-cultural underworlds that we call "ideologies": "ideologies" are just the leftovers of past ignorance and are palatable to the nihilist pseudo-leaders because in the ideologies there is no trace of Love.

And which ideology can best fuel, and often at the same time disguise, hatred ?
The ideology of class-warfare.
Don't be fooled: it doesn't matter on which "side" the pseudo-leaders engage in the evil of class-warfare: it can be on the side of the socialist-communist totalitarians who want "to steal from the rich" (to give the loot to... themselves !) or it can be on the side of the soulless greedy person who does not want to see the sufferings of the people, doesn't pay decent wages, exploits children ... you name it...
...the "side" doesn't matter. The decisive point of ideology is the lack of Love.
The decisive point of class warfare is that it transforms the society in a battlefield where people who should cooperate for the good of each and everyone instead fight each other and aren't any longer able to see that every society is one  ship, that sinks or sails as a whole.

Through the ideologies promoted by the pseudo-leaders, the lack of love spreads like a fire to the whole society, infecting it with factionalism.

The lack of Love is the infection that dooms a society, a Republic.

The infection must be fought by challenging the cultural misery of the ideologies, and we must certainly bring the Republic back to its solid and good roots:
no factions and no class warfare, One Nation.
But at a most fundamental level the infection that consists of the lack of Love must be fought by defeating ignorance, and ignorance is always one and only one, it is ignorance of God as the Infinite Being Who Is, and Who Is Infinite Love.
One Nation, under God.

Neda

Iran, June 2009

History of the fall...

The mutation of the Western civilization from a civilization centered on the Quest for the Truth and for the Sacred Knowledge to a civilization centered on nihilism has been a very long process: the overlapping and recurring phases of this process can certainly be precisely identified but this "history of the fall" would be of little use if we kept our discourse at the level of  simple diachrony instead of focusing on the central and fundamental element of this spiritual devolution. To fully understand the process of going astray from the Sacred Way we must first identify  its core, in the hope that we can thus attain a new spiritual orientation.

The core of the catastrophe lies in a rebellion against Knowledge and Wisdom (and any such rebellion implies inevitably a rebellion against Justice too): the Gift of Freedom, that implies the obligation of decency and consistency, has been usurped inasmuch as the intellectuals have used Freedom  to renounce thought and to deny the self-evident Truth. Often trying to disguise itself as a form of super-intellectualism, a dark skepticism has clouded the minds and the hearts, with the goal of obscuring the light of the intellect and of fogging the sense of justice.

Immersed in the Light of the Wonder of the Creation, fallen humans have declared the marvel of the Being...invisible ! The rebellion against Knowledge and Wisdom consists in this rebellion against thought itself: the wonder of being, of being in a universe and of the being of all that is...it is not even taken into consideration: the being of everything is looked at in the same way a machine, a video-camera could look at the world, as a mere presence. This is a rebellion because the hidden intention behind this OMISSION of thought is to further omit the inevitable question that stems from any and every consideration about the being of all that is:
whence the being of all that is ?
Only in the most recent times the nihilist dared utter their monstrous answer to that question (i.e., that all that is came from nothing), but the omission of thought went on for centuries before these darkest forces emerged to the surface of the "culture" (today reduced to quasi-nothing itself). And the omission of the question "Whence the being of all that is ?" is more important than the delirious and monstrous answers of the nihilists, because such an omission of thought is enough to close the Sacred Way for all who fall prey of this intellectual trap.

And the omission of thought is a blasphemy, because it is committed IN FRONT OF the Eternal Creation: God Who Is Infinite Love eternally (that is, being absolutely free from time and space) creates all that is, and from our point of view the Creation is happening just NOW. In front of the Radiant Light,  of the thundering roar, and of the whispering poetry of the Infinite Love of God...we turn away, we don't even look, we don't ask "from where this blade of grass ?". From where all that is ?
 
And then we ask all the other possible questions, having omitted the only one that is important.

This intentional omission damns us to sheer stupidity and to be easily prey of evil, especially of evil  in the form of those complexes of pseudo-ideas built on top of other pseudo-ideas that are known as ideologies.  The vacuum artificially created in our spirit by the omission of the most fundamental question sucks into our minds pieces and crumbs of disparate doctrines, pseudo-scientific truths, and psychotic interpretations of the reality that we then put together in Babel towers of pseudo-theories and we dare apply to the reality, with catastrophic results that anyway don't quench the stubborn idiocy that originated them. ( The "best" example is the case of the marxist ideology  that, after causing hundreds of millions of victims - murdered, tortured, deported, "re-educated" in mental institutions - keeps being proposed as the "true solution" for every societal problem (be it real or invented) by the same pseudo-intellectuals who usually can't survive more than a few months in a marxist regime without being wiped out themselves as "enemies of the people".)

Ideologies of course fail to fill the hole left in our spirit by the omission of the most fundamental question ("whence the being of all that is ? "), therefore the individuals who  fall  prey of ideologies tend to become fanatics,  addicts of pseudo-ideas who need heavier and heavier doses of obsessive excogitations and who obsessively try to convert everybody to their "great truth".
How far all that is from the quiet  joy of the person who truly lives in the Light of the Love of God ! How deep the silent smile of Kashyapa (Mahakasyapa), who smiled when the Buddha, without pronouncing a word, lifted a flower in front of the assembly of Saints !

"Whence the being of all that is ?"
That is the question that opens the Way and denounces all ideologies, because it opens the Way to God, and to receive God's unending and Infinite Love.
And that is the question that we must contemplate until the Sacred Knowledge will DAWN again on the West and the ghosts of the night of nihilism - i.e., the ideologies that poison the hearts and the minds of the People - will be dispelled.

That Morning of Joy can be NOW for every spirit who will reject the omission of thought and will thus accept to open the Door...

When the ghosts of the night of nihilism  (the blind faith that wants to say that the sheer nothing originated the being) will be dispelled, then Religion will be again what religion is, i.e. Sacred Knowledge, the Quest for the Vision led by Sophia-Wisdom and oriented by the Principles of the Way. And philosophy will reject pre-scientific and pseudo-scientific pseudo-thoughts and will become love of sapiential knowledge again: thinking will be consistently centered on the Infinite Being Who Is and action will be dictated by Love, Joy, and Awe. All ideologies will be seen for what they truly are, a fruit of the materialistic and nihilistic blind faith, a poisoned fruit able to obscure the Spirit and the Reason of the human beings. Consequently ,even the dark world of politics will be enlightened by the Principles of the Way.