For millennia, from the cry “The Great Pan died ! ” reported by Plutarch (De Defectu Oraculorum) to the “death of God ” proclaimed by Nietzsche (Also sprach Zarathustra ), the matrix of despair has worked to ignore, slight, destroy, deny the Sacred Knowledge and to substitute it with ideology, credence, opinions, and scientific information. “The matrix of despair” is its true name, because it is an immensely powerful evil will, weaving its sordid plans all across the cultural spectrum, aiming at denying the Truth and at denying to each single individual the Power and the Way to access the Truth. The “matrix of despair” plays the actors of the cultural scene as puppets, as pawns in an immense war aimed at reducing everyone’s life to pure misery, to sheer despair. The matrix of despair wants everyone to forget and to deny the Wonder, the Joy, the Mystery, the Awe of the Present that is the roaring Miracle of the Creation and it needs to use ANY tool to make Knowledge impossible and the wild opinion king. Everyone must forget - better: completely ignore - the Sacred Knowledge and everyone’s mind and thoughts and feelings must be controlled by empty concepts.
The puppets, the tools, the pawns of the war of the matrix of despair against the Sacred Knowledge may be aware of what they do or not, but this doesn’t change anything in the battle: today, everything in the daily life of a human being, from the cradle to his death, is carefully planned by an endless number of agencies to hide and to deny any trace of the Sacred Truth. Every voice in the soul will be carefully explained by so-called “experts” (of all kinds, blooming by legions on the branches of ideologies and opinions) until any voice of Truth in the soul will be reduced to one or another low level explanation.
Any “fear” of a “possible” totalitarian regime is obsolete and naïve after the matrix of despair has extended its iron grip to the heart and to the mind of every single person.
Unless an individual happens to be exceptionally Lucky (in the Traditional sense of directly meeting the Dea Fortuna), he will meet no Guide teaching the Art and the Way, and hinting at the Light.
The panorama is complete: from the academies where the Truth is laughed at to the movements of opinion where ignorance rules, the brainwashing is available everywhere (not for free of course, the human destiny as such is at stake). A new kind of “intellectual” has been forged for this war long ago, an “intellectual” who is no longer busy in the dialogue with the Intellect of Love ( “l’Intelletto d’Amore” of the Stilnovisti, the “quando Amor mi spira, noto” – “when Love inspires me, I take notes” - of Dante), with the Messengers of Light and Understanding, and takes instead his miserable “truths” from “himself” (and by “himself” he means his psychotic ego.)
(We all remember the sardonic laughing of the modern intellectuals discarding the “old” Scholastic discussions about the number of Angels Who can “stay” on a needle’s point. Those catastrophic days were nonetheless a paradise compared to today: today the agents of the matrix of despair don’t even want to recall those times, in fear that the whole game gets revealed and denounced by comparison with a higher and deeper Knowledge.)
A fast walk – and it must be fast, because it is an extremely dangerous lane - through the hellish fires of contemporary academia would allow anyone – anyone who still has eyes and ears - to witness everywhere the “small” omissions that omit the Heart of the Teachings, the endless and continual perversions of the words, the mistranslations always aimed at inventing dualism where there is non-dualism, at teaching despair where there is Knowledge.
But the large movements of opinion - that look for freedom from the ideologies that cause the University to wither – fall victim to the same cultural demons that command the matrix of despair and are often unaware of the catastrophic consequences of even very small strayings from the Tradition. Literal or metaphorical readings of the Tradition both wander away from the true depth of Symbology and lead the unaware back to the same desert of nihilism whence he tried to escape.
A literalistic reading of the Tradition means that SCIENTIFIC concepts and grids of interpretation are applied to the Sacred Knowledge: in this way, before saying ANYTHING, it is already SAID, by implication, that SCIENCE is the supreme form of knowledge and that the Sacred Knowledge is INFERIOR to science ! By applying scientific concepts to the Tradition, it is implied and accepted that space and time and events and the whole reality of the beings existing in the world are thoroughly described by a materialistic approach.
This is obviously a theoretic catastrophe, literally a fall (kata-strophe, a down-turn).
A tragedy.
On the other hand, metaphorical readings of the Tradition open of course the door to any ideological wandering, because they interpret the Sophia Perennis, the Eternal Wisdom, through historically determined grids of pseudo-concepts. The Eternal - by definition the Aion, i.e. Freedom from space and time - is then read as “a very long time”, an “immensity” (of space): the roaring Miracle of the Creation in the perspective of “time” gets transformed into something similar to the miserable “big bang” of the sciences, the sciences that can’t - and don’t - think. And in one way or another all the metaphorical readings of the Tradition read the Infinite Present of the Eternal in a way that transforms it into some kind of (equally, intellectually miserable) “history” (to be then denied by the atheist or transformed into a “problem” by “scholars” appointed by the matrix itself). (One example for all: the lies, literal and metaphorical, aimed at denying every Truth that the Christian Sacred Books already KNEW about the Parusia, the Vicinity, the Nearness, the Presence of the Kingdom).
Both the literalistic and the metaphorical readings of all the Tradition - based on the hidden assumption that scientific knowledge KNOWS best how to describe the “facts” or based on worldly concepts of “history” – are wide open to the destructive work of the sharks of nihilism who have just to make the hidden scientific assumptions explicit and consistent and then they can expose supposed “contradictions” in the Teachings …that had been previously misread.
In this way the job of the matrix of despair is made easier and faster.
And the visionary, the prophet, and the teacher of Truth (be they different persons or persons with a mix of different illuminations ), in the super-totalitarian plans of the matrix of despair will soon find their final home in a museum (certainly a museum of “anthropology” or some other shiny label of the nihilistic ignorance)…possibly after a compulsory residence in a mental health institution (but a “humane” and “friendly” one of course, nothing of soviet style - since the matrix of despair has learned that the soviet methods “strangely” convinced everybody that Truth was worth the fight). Under the minds-and-hearts control of the matrix of despair everybody will agree, in one way or another, that the age of meeting with the Sacred ended a long time ago, and the matrix is well determined to make sure that IN ANY CASE everyone will agree.
The horizon seems perfectly and completely dark.
But, as always with the Tradition and with the Sacred Truth, there is a little “but”, a voice shining in a forgotten corner.
Despite the terrifying tragedy - that is: despite the fact that all the People have been abandoned to the psychosis of the fake prophets of the blind faith in THE nothing - a voice still resounds: the voice of the Tradition itself, untouched, perfectly safe. And it has been saying, for thousands and thousands of years, and it has repeated without intermission until today…that all this was bound to happen.
In the Sacred Scriptures it is prophesized that this camouflaging had to happen, and that those who have already sold both their souls and the Truth will try to sell, for money !, perverted versions of the Truth too.
And now we have seen all this happening.
The perverted time, the Kali Yuga, the coldest moment of the night before Dawn, comes before the Light.
Even for those who tend to disregard the Gnostic Gospels, the image is too overwhelmingly powerful not to be repeated here: at the top of his sham “glory”, shamael raises his voice proclaiming his “power” and proclaiming himself “lord” of all…just before a thundering laugh from high and deep answers “No”.
In ages of unlimited Light, and long before the storm of darkness - and speaking in the same century at the two opposite ends of the planet - both Heraclitus and ChuangTzu knew already ALL the story that today we contemplate in horror and they said to the Knower: “Live hidden”.
“Live hidden !” is not only a simple and immensely profound practical advice, it has to be read like a good-hearted laugh too, mirroring the laugh from High: it evokes the Power and it says that the Knowledge will survive.
The subtle Knowledge is infinitely flexible like an immense bamboo forest where the Seer is hidden with the Way and its Secrets, and that forest is in a place “where” the storm of darkness can’t go: the matrix of despair has no spirit and can’t go where the Spirit lives.
(One could meaningfully quote the “Om Mani Padme Hum” as a comment of this last sentence about the Way and its Secrets and where it is…but some Readers could find this a bit too enigmatic…)
In fact, voices still hover around…
And, as always, they tell us to unplug ourselves from the matrix of despair.
And they teach us not to pray any longer the sacrilegious prayers of the other side, the prayers that have proclaimed that God is “not Present” until they have been “fulfilled” in a century of horrors.
And we are told to rip off the shirt of fire we have been constrained in. And to wake up to the Light Who Is every“thing”.
Let’s sit in the Wonderful Light of the Sacred Truth, and the Mother of All Knowledge will teach us all we need. Love for Wisdom is rewarded infinite times by the Love by Wisdom (Sophia, Star of the Sea, Ruach Ha Kodesh, Jnana, the Dove, Yemanja’, and PrajnaParamita and…infinite “and” …)
And She teaches us Love, which will make of us true human beings.