Book III
Selected
Sayings Concerning
Human
Beings
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1
Human Being
General
“Let us make man in
our own image and
likeness of our self.”1 Genesis 1:8
Part One
1:1 It is a unique spiritual event,
when at the
moment of conception a spiritual entity, which we call Spiritual Self,
manifests itself in the womb of a woman.
1:2
Life within man
belongs not to
man but to God, just as the warmth of the earth belongs not to the
earth but to
the sun.
1:3 Only human beings have
self-consciousness, the
ability to be aware of themselves. Only
human beings have the free will, enabling them to commit violence
against the
‘will of the flesh’. 2
1:4 A human being should be like a
tree planted to
bear fruit, for others to consume.
1:5 The seven fundamental truths about man:
(1) All men are born wounded.
(2) All men are vulnerable.
(3) All men are enslaved.
(4) All men are violent.
(5) All men are victims.
(6) All men are victimizers.
(7) There is no equality among men.
1:6 Most men dwell in the world of
delusions. They are surrounded by
oppressive darkness or
blinding light; they seek union to experience intimacy, and separation
to
experience them.
1:7 Most men are obsessive-compulsive
addicts
clearing their path into poverty or riches.
1:8
All men are sinners.3 Only
when they are seduced by righteous
fathers with Noble Idea their sinning might be curtailed and their
violence
redirected.
1:9 Almost all men are possessed;
possessed by the
spirits of the world or the underworld.
1:10 There are no ‘evil’
men, only men whose
activities may bring harm to others.
1:11
Life of man is one
of
temptations; the last and the greatest come at the time of his death.
1:12 All human beings are individuals.
An individual can be male or female.
Male can
also be a father and female can also
be a mother. There is coordinated
effort in progress by modernists to reduce the differences between the
sexes.
This is being done by changing the traditional understanding of
differences and
obligations of male as father, and female as mother, part of natural
order of
things.4 It is a
crime
against children to degrade unique nurturing energies of a female, by
diminishing her motherhood status. The attempt to remove motherhood and
womanhood from woman, and fatherhood and manhood from man will be one
of many
sinister legacies left behind by the modernists.
Who
Am I?
For
a more complete understanding of “Who am I” go to Bodies
of Man, Book IV, Chapter 29.
“When you know
yourself, then you will
be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living
father”. Gospel of Thomas
"One who knows everything
else but
who does not know himself knows nothing".
Gospel of Thomas
1:13 am a spiritual being, dwelling in
the flesh. I
come from the One who was never born and will never die… I am
pure existence, exercising
free will and dwelling at the centre of the universe5, the universe
which belongs to me, to
the degree I am aware of it, and to the degree I love it.
1.14 When one finds oneself by finding
one’s pure existence then one will also find
the ultimate in power, vision, will and wisdom.
1:15 Man and God are of the same
spirit. When man
loses faith in God, he also forgets who he truly is, leading him to
identify
with inferior spirits. This forgetfulness and identification can be
conscious
or unconscious, partial or total. The end result will always be
unnecessary
suffering manifested in an infinite number of ways.
1:16 Most men are ignorant and weak.
Weak as their
will is enslaved internally by the will of their flesh – the
lower self – and
externally by the will of unrighteous fathers.6Ignorant, as
they identify themselves exclusively with ego, born from the games they
play in
the pyramids. By transcending7 their
ego identity, and finding awakening, men
can reconnect with their own true nature8 and
their true center in God.
1:17 External programming, combined
with internal
psychic blueprint, provides the infrastructure for one’s life.
1:18 Only when you truly see your
nothingness, will you also be
able to see your greatness.
1:19 Men can be divided according to
the manner of seduction used, their beliefs,
their hope, their state of mind,
and their inner direction.
1:20 From the manner of seduction
used;
(a) Those who conquer others through love.
(b) Those who conquer others
through
trickery.
1:21 According to their beliefs, men can be
horizontality, verticality or centrists. Horizontality consists of the
majority
of atheists and agnostics. Verticality can be found among Buddhists,
Hindus,
and cultists of various types. Centrists consist of the majority
of Christians, Jews and Muslims.
1:22 According
to their hope:
(a) Hope to
enter paradise through faith in God.
(b) Hope to
create a better world for themselves through a Noble Idea.
(c) Hope to
become rich by acquiring wealth.
1:23 According to their state
of mind, men can be awakened, natural, dehumanized or
solitary.
(a) Awakened men.
Those capable of
seeing into "their own true nature". They were "born again"
through the Spirit and the Truth.
(b) Natural men. They are programmed by fathers and controlled by the will of the flesh, rooted in the automatic pleasure-pain response.
(c) Dehumanized men. They consist of zombies, robots and lost souls. Zombies are heavy drug users controlled by legal or illegal drugs. Robots are reliable workers not participating in the game. Lost souls are non-functional, totally powerless individuals.
(d) Solitary men. Those who don’t belong to any of the above categories.
1:24
According to their inner
direction men can be warriors, magicians, martyrs, wanderers or
seekers of
truth. Seekers of truth may be spiritual seekers, searching for
spiritual
knowledge, or scientists searching for scientific knowledge. A warrior
is an
active person engaged in battle, or a passive one waiting for the call
to
battle. A magician is a warrior who has won the game. A martyr is one
who has
dedicated his life to serve others. Also one who is willing to die for
the sake
of others? A wanderer is an autonomous individual who consciously
avoids the
game.
1:25 Many men do not possess attributes belonging only to one single category, but also attributes of many other categories. However, one category is always predominant.
1:26
Man can also be divided between those whose decisions are made by their
minds,
and those whose decisions are made by their hearts. Those who control
their
actions through their will, and those who are led by their emotions and
passions.
The Two
Natures of Man
1:27 Everyone has two natures: personal
and tribal.
The personal is rooted in one's personal soul; the tribal in the tribal
soul.
Seeing into the true nature of one's personal soul and seeing into the
true
nature of one's tribal soul is the final and ultimate journey one can
take in
search of oneself and in search of one's tribe. Seeing into one's own
true
nature is seeing the original self, and seeing into the true nature of
one's
tribe is seeing the original and ancient face of one's tribe. This is a
path of
great awakening, which may unleash violent interior forces in search of
true
personal identity and transformation, or violent exterior forces in
search of
true tribal identity and transformation.
Identities of Man
1:28 Identities
(1) Primary.
(2) Secondary –terrestrial. (3)
Secondary – non-terrestrial.
1:29 Primary identity is pure
self-identity. It
produces total alienation leading to madness. Since it is in the
pyramids that
man fulfills his worldly hopes and attains his goals, lacking strong
secondary
identities, man will be drawn inwardly into the void of the center.
1:30 Secondary terrestrial ego-
identities are born
in family, social, livelihood, tribal and global pyramids. In the
modern world,
secondary ego identities are becoming weaker and weaker because of
weaknesses
in contemporary pyramids.
1:31 Secondary non-terrestrial identity
is born from
consciously or unconsciously seeking unity with God or a spiritual
entity from
the underworld. To be in unity with God or a spiritual entity from the
underworld, one must die to oneself and be born again… Those
finding unity with
God are born again of the Holy Spirit and Truth. Those finding unity
with a
spiritual entity from the underworld are born again of the unholy
spirit and
untruth.
1. There are
innumerable stories and myths throughout the world concerning the
origin of
man. They may differ in detail. However they all agree that man was
created by
God —the higher power, referred to as God or Gods. (It is
important to remember
that God is beyond one and beyond many.)
2. The ‘will of
the flesh’ is rooted in one’s astral body – desires, feelings, emotions and passions – born
from
experiences of the senses, imagination and memories.
3. To sin is to
break the laws of creation.
4. According to
historians the division of labor in families started around 11,000 BC.
5. Unfortunately,
the lack of awareness prevents man from seeing into his own true nature
and
from realizing who he is.
6. The
unrighteous fathers are referred to in Christian theology as the
“world”,
meaning corrupt and decadent men with power promoting culture of
unrighteousness, materialism, and carnality.
7. To transcend
is to ‘see through’.
8. Spiritual Self.
9. A warrior can
use violent or non-violent means to achieve goals, which may be for his
sake or
for the sake of a Noble Idea. All those who seek more power and higher
rank
belong to this category.
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Wealth, Power & Energy
General
2:1
There is wealth,
power and
energy. Wealth is the source of power and energy is the essence of
power.
Wealth
2:2
There is natural,
subtle,
paranormal and supernatural wealth1 accessible
to man with sufficient faith. There
can be no game, healing, empowerment or transformation without it.
2:3 Wealth is invisible, like gold
under a
mountain; one must receive ‘revelation’, one must believe,
one must have faith
that it is there, and that it can be turned into power. Wealth is
dormant
power.
Power
2:4 Power, which is born from wealth,
becomes the
source of all energy.
2:5 To exercise power must be
activated. Energy is
power in action.
2:6 Most men are born with worldly
wealth – the
wealth of the environment they are born into, and the intelligence and
talents
they posses. However, to transform this wealth into power, intelligence
must be
developed into knowledge and talents into skills. Only then will power
come
their way.
2:7 The powerful are powerful because
they can tap
the resources of power; the weak are weak because they cannot tap the
resources
of power.
2:8 Man without power may be
dangerous, as he
cannot play the game successfully. Therefore, violence is his only path
leading
to pleasure.
2:9 Power attracts power, as all men
seek a good
game…
2:10 The main goal of all man’s
adversaries is to
take away his wealth and his power. This
may be done by violent and visible way, or by non-violent and invisible
way. Feeling of powerlessness usually
manifests itself in violence or emotional disorders.
2:11
To give away power
is
pathological, unless it is done for charity directed toward the
deserving poor.
When a father loses faith in the game, he becomes
‘generous’ with his power: he
squanders it, and it soon ends up in the hands of his enemies. He who
is given
money not earned, or power not won in a game, will often misuse the
power and
squander the money.
2:12 Vitality is raw power in need of
cultivation.
2:13
Power is like water
which makes
things grow; in a river it can be damned to generate energy.
Uncontrolled, it
will destroy all in its path.
Energy
2:14
Power can be
transformed into
energy through faith and focused attention. Attention focused upon one thing.1
2:15
Power can
be compared to fuel in a car. By putting the foot on the pedal, one
changes the
power of the fuel into energy. What
is also needed is wisdom – knowing how to drive, vision –
deciding upon a
destination, and will – a decision to go.
2:16
Energy can
also be compared to electricity created by damming a river. The river
is the wealth, transforming its current into power by the dam.
1.
Supernatural wealth is only accessible to a fully-awakened person.
2.
This is true for everything, from meditation to success in life, as
well as
falling asleep.
3
Violence
3:1 Violence begins when unity is not
welcome or
when separation is not allowed.
3:2
Violence comes from
the depths
of human emotions. It is the essence of life and the essence of all
games.
3:3
Violence is the
father of
disorder and the mother of order. It can bring death and destruction,
but also
new birth and new creation.
3:4 Power can only be maintained
through violence –
power in action.
3:5 One's life in this world consists
of violent
birth and sometime also violent death. In between, there is a period of
growth
and decline, also filled with violence.
3:6 To be alive is to have emotions;
to have likes
and dislikes, to have love and hate, to have convictions and to be
willing to
use violence in defending those convictions.
3:7 Disliking violence is like
disliking water
because it may bring flooding.
3:8 There are four types of violence:
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(1) |
Positive, righteous and just, or negative, unrighteous and unjust. |
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(2) |
Conscious and obvious, or unconscious and subtle. |
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(3) |
Aggressive or defensive. |
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(4) |
Directed against others or directed against oneself. |
3:9 Violence produced by anger is always rooted in real or perceived injustice: the belief that something that belongs to me was taken away from me, or, that to which I was entitled was never given to me. What has been taken away or has never been given to me is power, needed to play a game and experience pleasure.
3:10 Insult, humiliation, betrayal or rejection that attack ones pride often leads to violence.
3:11 In every violent confrontation one must ask oneself the following three questions:
(1) Is the confrontation morally right?
(2) Am I willing to pay the
price?
(3) Can I win?
Without answering "yes" to the above questions, one should never proceed with a violent confrontation.
3:12 ‘Non-violence’ is only
a strategy of a violent
man.
3:13 Violence is the agent of change.
3:14 Violence always leads to peace and
peace
eventually leads to violence.
3:15 Violence shall last until the end
of games, and
games shall last until the end of time.
4
Life
“For a human the
unexamined life is not
worth living.” Socrates
“Life is a beautiful
ritual. It should
not be a marathon from the delivery room to the funeral.” Old Man
from the Holy
Mountain
Part One
4:1
Life – part
of the Great
Mystery of the invisible spiritual universe –
is visible manifestation of never-ending acts of creation. Vitality is power of life and energy is
essence of vitality.
4:2 At the time of conception life began to
manifest itself through the embryo of a child.
4:3 It is an error to explain life exclusively through reason, logic and formulas of science.
Part Two
4:4 The
stages of human life on this earth are like those of a plant,
planting a seed; tending it as it sprouts and grows; the plant's
maturity; its
blossoming and fruition; its decline and death.
4:5
Life in this world is just a blip
compared to an
eternity from which one comes and to which one returns.
Birth and death are no more than signposts on
that journey.
4:6 To have a good life in this world, one must avoid errors. To have a good life in the world to come, one must avoid sin.
4:7 Life of man is almost always goal
oriented, and supported by hope. It can
be in survival or expansion mode.
4:8
Life should not be a problem solving
exercise or a
marathon from one goal to another.
4:9
Man experiences
life through
the mystery of time. Inwardly through thinking and feelings; outwardly
through
the movement and speech.
4:10
There is no purpose
to life,
apart from the one chosen by man.1 Believing
that one’s life on this earth has purpose, given to one by God,
is an
error. God has no needs or goals to
reach for which help of man would be required. To believe in purpose,
separate
from one given to life by man, would eliminate one’s free will.
4:11
The ultimate
purpose of life
should not to seek pleasure, but to overcome ignorance and false
knowledge, the
barriers to the Kingdom of God.
1. The purpose of life for
the majority
is centered in family life – spouse and children, or livelihood
– job or
business. One almost always take
precedence over the other.
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Mind & Thinking
“The perfect man
employs his mind as a
mirror. It grasps nothing; it receives, but does not keep.”
Chuang Tzu
"A free mind is one that is
not
confused by anything or bound to anything. It has not attached its
advantage to
any way of life…" Meister Eckhart
“My thoughts are
images that I have
made.” A Course in Miracles
5:1 The
brain is a mechanism used by the mind to process and store
thoughts. Stored thoughts we call
memories. They consist of selected information and of experiences
stored in the
mind.
5:2 The thoughts of the mind can be divided among the
following three
types:
(1) Survival-seeking: non-pyramidal, conscious linear thinking.
(2) Pleasure-seeking:
pyramid-climbing, conscious linear thinking.
(3) Liberation-seeking:
non-pyramidal, conscious linear or non-linear thinking.
5:3
You are not your
thoughts.
Allow not your thoughts to enslave you! Free man dwells in life itself,
and
dwelling in life, he dwells everywhere, and by dwelling everywhere he
is free.
5:4 Only through awakening can one
transcend
disturbing thoughts, full of regrets and full of fears regarding the
future.
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Linear & Non-Linear
Thinking
6:1 Man, as well as a culture can be
linear or non-linear, depending upon which type of thinking is
predominant.
6:2 The non-linear journey, with its
non-linear
thinking, can be rooted in worldly chaos bringing death or Divine chaos
bringing life. Non-linear man may be a madman lost in worldly chaos, or
a
creative genius or saint surfing divine chaos.
6:3 To avoid mental disorder, the
non-linear
journey must be regularly interrupted by linear thinking. Likewise, the
linear
journey must also be regularly interrupted by non-linear thinking.
6:4 Man on a linear journey, a journey
totally
devoid of non-linear thinking, as well as man on a non-linear journey,
a
journey totally devoid of linear thinking are being equally driven into
madness.
6:5 All true creativity, as well as
all true
prophecies, come from non-linear thinking.
6:6
To survive, a man
on a linear path
needs hope. When his basic day-to-day hope is lost, then hope deriving
from a
Noble Ideas is needed: worldly, rooted in a political myth or spiritual
rooted
in a religious myth. If all hope is gone then despair sets in bringing
mental
disorder.
7
Images
“Every time that the
powers of the soul
come into contact with created things, they receive the create
images and likenesses from the created thing and absorb
them. In this way arises the soul’s knowledge of created things.
Created things
cannot come nearer to the soul than this, and the soul can only
approach
created things by the voluntary reception of images. And it is through
the
presence of the image that the soul approaches the created world: for the image is a Thing, which the soul creates
with her own powers. Doe the soul want to know the nature of a stone, a
horse,
a man? She forms an image.” Meister Eckhart
Part One
7:1
The images are like
picture
frames, appearing on a video screen showing a film created through
imagination.
Of course the images and the film are illusion, sometimes pleasant and
sometimes unpleasant.
7:2 There are three types
of images1, which can enter our consciousness:
(1) Images which come from experiences
of the senses, which
we have no power
over.
(2) Images
which come from our memories. Some appear spontaneously and some are
recalled.
(3) Images
which come from imagination and visualization. They can be positive or
negative. Positive visualization will bring positive outcome, and
negative visualization
will bring negative outcome.
7:3
When life is
process-oriented,
and flow is present, it appears the images are entering consciousness
as a
‘wave’. When life is
goal-oriented, and
flow is not present, the wave may
collapse, creating blockage – a cluster of
‘particles’ preventing a free flow.
7:4
Some images can get
out of
control, or convey confused messages. Sometimes images by-pass reason,
and
become troublesome, awakening uncontrollable passions.
7:5
All human
attachments are
attachments to images entering one’s consciousness.
7:6
Negative images can
only be
transcended when one finds internal peace and external harmony.
Part Two
7:7
There are memories,
there is
visualization, and there are images. Memories represent a film
library… Visualization represents
specific films
retrieved from this library… Images
represent individual scenes from a film…
7:8 The images are appearing and passing through my consciousness, and yet, I remain calm and at peace, watching the images on the screen...
1. An image is no more than a
sensation with a message.
8
Will
“To proceed entirely
according to one’s
own will was to act like an outlaw to the Divine – cosmic order
to which human
beings aboriginally belong.” Mesopotamian
King Naram-Sin
8:1 To be in the will of God, is
to avoid
actions which are against the laws of creation, bringing harm to
oneself and /or
others.
8:2 A child is born with the will
of the
flesh, part of the lower will, the
automatic pleasure-pain response rooted in emotional body.1 Through
“proper” upbringing, limited higher will,
emerges; through awakening
one acquires full use of the higher will.
8:3
The
function of the will of the flesh should be similar to the function of
instinct
in animals. However, in man, the will of the flesh goes beyond its
basic
function of ensuring one's basic survival.
8:4 The will of the flesh, rooted in
the love of
pleasure and fear of pain, is triggered by experiences of senses
together with
stimuli of memories producing feelings and emotions.
8:5
The
will of unrighteous fathers. The seduction by unrighteous fathers is
possible
because of one's lack of awareness, a sleep-like state. Unrighteous
fathers
bring hope through a promise, the fulfillment of which may bring
pleasure, the
ultimate goal of all human beings.
8:6 The higher will2 gives
one power to seek the truth and avoid
sin and error. However, due to the fallen nature of man, his higher
will is
weak. Only through violence against the will of the flesh,3 and
relentless search for truth, a seeker, can
regain full use of his higher will.
This is the Great Escape: the escape from enslavement by the will of
the flesh
and the will of unrighteous fathers.
8:7 When a human being leads a life of
sin,
decadence, or corruption, seduction by the entities from the underworld
may
occur forcing him to do the will of those entities.
8:8 Through "proper" upbringing a
child
learns discipline; he learns how to handle pain when forced to obey
parents
contrary to the will of his flesh. This will help him later in life to
handle
pain, which he will experience when faced with the need to go against
the will
of the flesh.
8:9
The sum of the
wills of
citizens creates the collective will of a nation4. Each citizen contributes to the collective
will of the nation according to the strength of his will and power.
Therefore,
not only men, but also all nations have a limited free will.
1. Also known as astral body.
2. This is the will of Spirit of Man when one with the Spiritual Self. It is known in Christianity as the will of God.
3. Violence against the flesh consists of self-denial and ascetic practices. The practice of voluntary suffering can be found in all religions. Its purpose is to free oneself from the grip of sensory reality and the will of the flesh, also known as the will of the lower self.
4. This would not be the case when the power is in the hands of a dictator.
9 Emotions
9:1 Emotions! The language of silent
words spoken
in a rage, without grammar and punctuation…They are the
emotional body’s
response to images entering one’s consciousness.
9:2
From experiences of
senses,
memories and imagination come feelings, emotions and passions. They
give birth
to all pleasures as well as to all pain and suffering.
9:3 There are six categories of
emotions:
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(1) |
Positive, which brings happiness, and negative, which brings suffering. |
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(2) |
Conscious/unconscious – emotions which one is aware/not aware of. |
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(3) |
Visible/invisible – emotions one displays and makes visible, or emotions one does not display and make visible. |
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(4) |
Strong/weak. Strong emotions will awaken imagination, producing powerful visions, and encourage the will to act. |
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(5) |
Sentimental emotions — perverted emotions — present in those no longer capable of experiencing healthy emotions. |
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(6) |
Static. Moods are static emotions |
9:4
Negative emotions,
which bring
stress and suffering, can be discharged in innumerable ways. Some positive and some negative.
The following are some of the ways:
(a) Violence against others or oneself.
(b) Crying, screaming or singing.
(c) Meditation or therapeutic exercises.
9:5
Nothing can be
truly
experienced without emotions.
9:6 Modern man lacks emotions, therefore, he can neither truly love, nor truly hate.
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Love – Natural
See Also: Love-Unconditional,
Book III, Chapter 10
10:1
Natural love1 awakens
one’s feelings and emotions, gives birth to images which enter
one’s
consciousness, creates imagination and becomes part of one’s
memory.
10:2 Natural love, is directed toward a
person or an
object because of pleasure one is receiving, pleasure one hopes to
receive, or
suffering one tries to avoid.
10:3
Natural love can be
love for
someone or for something one desires, admires, possesses or derives
pleasure
from.
10:4
Natural love is
often an
exchange of power.
10:5
Lovers should never
forget
their duties. Forgetting duties would be an error, or even a sin, with
serious
consequences.
10:6
Pity is not
love… He who can
only pity has nothing to give! Only he who is strong can give something
to
those who are weak.
10:7
Love with
attachment is always
dangerous, as well as unavoidable.
10:8
Total absence of
love brings
total madness.
1. Love among the members of a
family,
platonic love, romantic love, love for a great man, etc., are a few
examples of
natural love.
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Hatred
11:1 Hatred comes from extreme dislike
combined with
strong emotions. One has no power over it. Violence is hatred in action.
11:2 Hatred is born from the
realization that power
was lost or the fear that power may be lost in the future. It is
directed
towards the person or persons one blames for the suffering one has
experienced,
is experiencing, or may be experiencing in the future. Humiliation,
betrayal,
rejection, or some other real or imaginary reason brings intensity to
hatred.
11:3 On a socio-political level, hatred
is directed
toward those who are interfering with one's desire to preserve, reform
or
destroy the status quo.
11:4 It is a sin and an error to hate
another man.
One can only hate his actions, his behavior, or his beliefs.
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Love & Hate
12:1 Like and dislike are born from
feelings; love
and hatred, from emotions seeking action.
12:2 Love comes from the desire for
unity; hatred
from the desire to find or maintain separation.
12:3
From a moral point
of view,
love and hate can be positive or negative.
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Suffering &
Pain
“If you know how to
suffer you would be
able not to suffer. Learn how to suffer and you will be able not to
suffer.”
Acts of John 52
“Man
is spending his whole life seeking pleasure and never finding it. This
is the
main source of his suffering. ” Old Man From the Holy Mountain
“If you are
distressed by anything
external, the suffering is not due to the thing itself, but to your
estimate of
it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius
“Don’t be
afraid of pain. Learn from
it.” P. Chodkon
“Pain
is unavoidable,
but suffering is optional.” S. Boorstein
“The
more is one
seeking pleasure, the more one is enforcing the duality between
pleasure and
pain, and the harder it will be to handle pain. Old Man from the Holy Mountain
Part One
13:1 Pain
originates in the physical body. It is the physical body’s call
for help.
Suffering originates in the astral body.
13:2 Buddha
said that life is suffering1… And indeed, life is
suffering, and because of
this suffering, man seeks an escape. For most, it is only temporary
relief
through pleasure and relaxation, rather than finding the source of
suffering.
13:3 To experience pain one needs a
nervous system. To
experience suffering one needs memory and imagination.
Among all the living creatures only human
beings are able to suffer.
13:4 Suffering originates in a second or third universe, and sometimes in a universe “X” – the universe created by the entities from the underworld.
13:5 The experience of suffering and pain comes from the following:
(1) Pain
from the physical body -
sickness, injury, etc.
(2) Mental
or emotional disorder.
(3) Images
recalled from memories –
worry, anxiety, guilt, shame, etc.
(4) The
inability to satisfy one’s
desires and cravings.
(5) Consequences from
errors
committed. 2
(6) Attachments.
3
(7) Negative
environment.
(8) Weak or
faulty programming as well as self-programming.
(9) Genetic
programming.
(1) Through acceptance of it4.
(2) With prayer, meditation, contemplation or mantra.
(3) By entering an alternative state of consciousness.
(4) By changing the focus of attention away from the source of the pain or suffering.
(5) Through practice of positive visualization.
(6) Forgiveness.
(7) Revenge.5.
13:7 To find pleasure, human beings enter the ‘game’. Here they formulate goals, gather power, build hope. They may or may not reach the goal and experience pleasure. Then, they will enter the same path again and again…
13:8 Suffering experienced due to breaking of the laws of the13 second or third universes will not continue after death. Suffering experienced due to the breaking of the laws of the first universe – the laws of God – may continue after death.
13:9 The suffering of
man is a subjective experience about which no objective judgment is
possible.
Part Two
13:10 From an esoteric perspective, free will is the culprit responsible for all suffering. However without free will, there would be no game and no life.
1. According to Buddha the human mind in its normal state generates dukha, which can be translated as suffering, misery, unhappiness, etc.
2. Very rarely natural love fails to bring attachment, leading to suffering if the attachment is broken.
3. Including one’s inability to forgive oneself for an error committed.
4. Accepting suffering by avoiding seeing it as an enemy to be conquered, but rather a tool to free oneself from the grip of the senses and the will of the flesh.
5. When suffering comes from losing ones wealth, or ones rank, and one knows the person, tribe or nation responsible.
14
Peace, Happiness &
Pleasure
“Attachment to
pleasure brings misery.”
Longchenpa
“The eternal error is
imagining that
happiness is the realization of desires.” L. Tolstoy
14:1 Man must participate in a game to
gain power
and experience pleasure. And, since fair games are in decline, the
power and
pleasure of the majority are also in decline. For this reason there is
more
greed – the obsession with money to buy pleasure, the pleasure
one is unable to
experience through participation in the game. The pleasure one buys is
often no
more than an escape from pain, a suspension of boredom, or a way of
forgetting.
Obsession with the search for pleasure is a symptom of weakness and
decadence.
14:2
Pain and pleasure1 can be
triggered by a specific experience, or
by memory. They come to the attention of the mind through ones feelings
and
emotions.
14:3
Man cannot
‘find’ happiness, he
can only search and find peace – the door to happiness.
14:4
The well being of
the flesh –
the body – is called health; the well being of the soul –
Spiritual Self – is
called peace; and the well being of the heart – the astral body
– is called
happiness.
14:5 Pleasure is happiness corrupted. He who seeks pleasure creates dams,
preventing happiness from reaching him.
The happy man has no need for pleasure, as pleasure is a poor
replacement
for happiness.
14:6 Materialism and carnality are two
dominant
forces, which promote pleasure at the expense of happiness.
14:7
Forgiveness is the
prerequisite
to peace – the key to happiness.
14:8 A child is at peace and happy. As
he grows and
first enters the pyramid with its games, the ego appears. Then, as the
ego
enters into the battle for power – the source of pleasure –
peace and happiness
decline.
14:9
Peace is passive
happiness;
happiness is active peace.
14:10
Happiness comes
from giving,
pleasure from receiving. Happiness is free; pleasure must be bought or
fought
for.
1. Pain is the ultimate in
discomfort;
pleasure is the ultimate in comfort.
15 Guilt & Shame
15:1 What pain is to the flesh, guilt
is to the
soul. Pain is the cry of the flesh and guilt is the cry of the soul.
15:2 Shame is a pain coming from
publicly
experiencing loss in a game or demotion in rank.
15:3 When men no longer feel shame or
guilt they
become “free” – “liberated” through the
power of darkness.
15:4 The majority of human beings feel
bad when they
bring harm and suffering to others. This is known as guilt. The
widespread
collapse of the Christian faith in the West diminished feelings of
guilt. The
feelings of shame become diminished due to the disintegration of
communities.
16
Judging
“Judge not, that you
be not judged.”
Matthew 7:1
16.1
It is an error to
judge man as
he may not know what he is doing, or he is unable to say
“no” to himself.
However, one has a right to exercise judgment concerning things
and concerning the actions
of others.
16:2 All can be judged by him who
carries a
yardstick and has found sufficient evidence on the basis from which to
judge.
One who has no yardstick and possesses no evidence cannot judge.
16:3 To judge is an essential component
of searching
for truth, seeking true progress, or just attempting to avoid disaster
and
suffering.
16:4
Blaming, which is
related to
judging, is always wrong. Accused of wrongdoing, which may or may not
occur,
the feeling of guilt often descends upon a person, an experience always
hard to
overcome.
16:5
We should not judge
the past
with the standards of today.
17
Intimacy
“Intimacy without
seduction is a sister
of madness.” B. Bavdaz
17:1 In true love there is always a
yearning for
unity and intimacy with the object of love.
17:2 One seeks intimacy for the sake of
pleasure,
power, surrender, death, re-birth…
17:3 Man hungers for intimacy…
Two of the most
intimate acts are murder and suicide: murder, when it is done with a
passion
and suicide, which it is devoid of passion.
18
Individualism
“Individualism is not
personalism,
which is the realization in man of the image and likeness of
God.” N. Berdyaev
Part One
18:1 “To be”, and to
play a game, man must
maintain mental stability which comes from programming found in the
pyramids.
They give him identity and power to play the game. At present the
pyramids are
weak and are not fulfilling their function.1 For
this reason, man of today is obsessed with individualism –
secular
self-realization through dangerous self-programming.
18:2 Individualism is an attempt of man
to find
"himself" and to find "freedom" through his own strength.
It is one of the most deadly of all false paths. Following this path
one may
become, in due time, caught in the web of false myths leading to
alienation and
mental confusion.
Part Two
18:3 Autonomous individuals of today
have escaped
the programming of the fathers found in the pyramids by escaping the
system,
also known as the box. They have also lost the old identity as well as
the
security and the benefits of living in a box. Living outside of the box
is hard
and often confusing. Although reluctant, this individual just may
someday enter
another box, often inferior to the old one, to play another game in
search for more
power and higher rank…
1. When weaknesses in the
pyramids
appeared in the past, one could turn to a
new Noble Idea. Today, however, this is seldom an option as the
secular
Noble Ideas have almost all become discredited.
19
Destiny
19:1
Man has a free
will, and at the
same time he is forced to follow his destiny as there are things he
cannot
change.
19:2 Destiny is rooted in one's genetic
and
non-genetic programming, as well as cause and effect.
19:3 Genetic programming consists of
all that one is
born with – strengths, talents, inclinations, as well as
weaknesses and
handicaps. Non-genetic programming consists of environment and programs
created
by the fathers.
19:4 Cause and effect are events and
experiences
taking place as a result of decisions made and actions taken by one in
the
past, decisions made and actions taken by others, as well as natural
events.
This is the law of consequences.
19:5 There are things which one would
like to
change, but cannot, due to lack of power, will, wisdom or vision.
19:6
The destiny of man
can
sometimes be modified through conscious labour and volunteer suffering,
combined with clear intent and powerful will; the destiny of a nation
by a
great man. Changing destiny is not an
easy task.
20 Hardness
& Softness
20:1 Your heart gives birth to your
emotions, like
and dislike, love and hatred. But your will belong to your higher self,
and
when your mind finds truth, your will should not bend… It should
become hard
like steel, breaking and destroying all that is weak and not of truth.
20:2
To be soft is to be
permissive
towards one and to others. It is to allow disorder and lawlessness,
which lead
to suffering.
20:3
Seek hardness, in
order that
the hardness of your will reaches the weak to make them strong!
21
Slavery
Part One
21:1 The five roots of slavery are:
(1)
The will of the flesh.
(2)
The self-programming.
(3)
The unrighteous fathers.
(4)
The entities from the underworld.
(5)
The paradigm of the age.
21:2 The will of the flesh. From birth
onwards one
receives impressions, which are carefully recorded by the mind and be
remembered as being pleasant or unpleasant. The majority of one's
actions
and reactions are influenced and directed by those impressions.
21:3 The will of the unrighteous
fathers. Actions
and decisions are made under the influence and direction of unrighteous
fathers. This occurs through programming as a result of being in a
state of
conscious or unconscious surrender to known, as well as unknown and
hidden
fathers.
21:4 Strategy of the
unrighteous fathers.
To keep the slaves, masters must keep them happy by bringing
superficial
changes to the game in order to avoid repetition and boredom; by
allowing
controlled and regulated acts of rebellion; by providing new and
exciting
myths. Most contemporary myths created and propagated by the masters
are
centered on freedom and rights leading to false hope and unfulfilled
vision.
This way slaves are rendered impotent and unable to find a path leading
to true
freedom.
21:5
Factors preventing one's escape from slavery:
(1) Adherence to beliefs and ideologies rooted in error.
(2) Habits, attachments and
addictions.
(3) Cowardice.
21:6
There are three types of slaves:
(1) Those who know and are content.
(2) Those who know and try to
escape.
(3) Those who do not know,
the
majority.
21:7 Almost all men are slaves, slaves
in denial,
their souls imprisoned by the world with its masters, and by the flesh
with its
cravings.
21:8 Only awakening can set man free! A
slave can
become truly free when he is set free internally. More harm than good
will be
done to a slave who becomes externally free and remains internally
enslaved.
21:9 When slaves kill their masters,
new masters
appear…
21:10 A slave must become aware that he
is enslaved.
Only then can he become a seeker of truth that will truly set him free.
21:11
Increase in
internal slavery is
often the result of increase in external freedom. Increase
in internal freedom is often the
result of increase in external slavery.
21:12
They keep saying
"yes" and building bridges; they are unable to say "no",
and build fences. Slaves can never say "no". Only free men can say
"no", as they have said "no", in order to become free.
21:13 Slavery was never abolished. It
only moved from
a primitive to a more sophisticated level.
21:14 To men without power total freedom
will bring
total slavery.
21:15 Escape from slavery can only be
accomplished
with an outside help.
21:16 Only a warrior can destroy
slavery; only a
warrior can maintain freedom.
Part Two
21:17 The chain – a series of
rings connected to each
other – is a perfect metaphor for slavery. He who breaks the
chain divides; he
who escapes becomes alienated. A weak escapee will die or become part
of a new
chain.
21:18 There are many types of chains created by unrighteous fathers for seducing children. They are all chains of slavery and exploitation. The following are three major types of chains created by unrighteous fathers:
(1) Mental – created for head-centered men.
(2) Emotional – created
for
heart-centered men.
(3) Physical – created
for
body-centered men.
21:19 In the creation of mental chains,
the void of
vision becomes exploited. In the creation of emotional chains, the
thirst for
love and belonging, as well as the desire for revenge become exploited.
In the
creation of physical chains, greed and the desire for pleasure become
exploited.
22
Victim & Victimizer
22:1
Everyone is a
victim and
everyone is a victimizer.
22:2 A victim is a person who has lost
a fight in an
unfair game – a game stacked against him, or a game he was forced
to enter.
22:3
Contemporary
promoters of
victimhood are promoting powerlessness and impotence.
23
Cardinal Poisons
23:1 There are eight cardinal poisons,
or
"potions," served by unrighteous fathers to corrupt minds by
awakening robotism, intellectualism, scientism, and legalism;
to corrupt hearts by awakening emotionalism
and sentimentalism; and to corrupt
bodies, by awakening base animal and
base sexual energies.
23:2
Robotism is
a corruption of natural desire for stability and order. It creates a
happy
slave. It is a product of robotic training combined with the desire to
escape
organic life full of the unknown.
23:3 Intellectualism
is a corruption of intellect. Intellect not guided by wisdom will
interfere
with insight and place barriers against direct seeing.
23:4 Scientism
is a corruption of true science, creating false knowledge.
23:5 Legalism
is a corruption of the law. It perverts and corrupts the due process of
the
law. Promoting adherence to the letter, rather than to the spirit of
the law.
23:6 Emotionalism
is a corruption of healthy human emotions. Overcoming emotionalism is
the key
to freedom, as it liberates the will.
23:7 Sentimentalism
is a corruption of healthy human feelings for the purpose of
self-indulgence.
Sentimentalism interferes with compassion and makes one soft –
capable not of
giving but merely of sharing in another's misery.
23:8 Base
animal energies are a corruption of healthy human energies. They
are the
deadliest of all negative energies – the energies of the "animal"
in
man.
23:9 Base
sexual energies bring corruption of the noble act of human
procreation.
They destroy peace and happiness, replacing it with never-ending search
for
pleasure.
24
Vulgarity
24:1 Vulgar men are those who are
unwilling or
unable to seek and find beauty. Only he who is capable of hating
vulgarity is
able to love beauty.
24:2 Vulgarity is ugly; it should not
be tolerated.
A noble warrior seeks battle to slay vulgarity, victory to celebrate
beauty!
24:3 At the end of time, true beauty
will perish and
vulgarity will be widespread.
25
Errors & Sin
25:1
Error is an action
contrary to
the natural law or rule of the game that often brings suffering. A
mistake made
due to lack of wisdom, leading to wrong judgment, wrong behavior or
carelessness. He who commits multiple errors becomes a
“loser” in the games of
men.
25:2 To sin1 is to transgress spiritual laws designed to protect man1. Sin is that which will bring harm to oneself and/or to others. The consequences of sin may be experienced in this world, as well in the afterlife.
25:3
It is in the interest of man to avoid sin and
error. By not avoiding it, one increases one’s own suffering, as
well as the
suffering of others.
25:4 Through sins and errors, disarray
enters into
the life of man and nations.
25:5 All men are sinners and all commit
errors.
25:6
The seven
“deadly sins” and
their corresponding virtues are pride – humility, greed –
generosity, lust –
chastity, envy – charity, gluttony – temperance, anger
– patience, sloth –
diligence1.
25:7
There are cardinal
sins which
bring “hell” in the afterlife, and they are cardinal errors
which bring “hell”
in the present world…
25:8 The pain from guilt and shame
often guides one
away from error and sin.
1. Only those who live under the “law” can commit sin, for others there is no sin, only ignorance.
2. Unfortunately,iindividual
sin is today being replaced by collective sin.
3.
John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, composed the first list of
“deadly sins.”
26
Ego
26:1 Ego-identifications are rooted in
experiences
of life in the pyramids, which give birth, as well as nourishment to
the
ego. To live in the world, ego
identification is needed. Only an
awakened man has the power to transcend it.
26:2 The ego is not only man’s
identity, but also
his psychological/worldly soul. An attack on a man's ego is also attack
on his
psychological/worldly soul, and he may defend it unto death.
26:3
One can have up to
five egos:
family, social, livelihood, tribal and global. Each one is born from
identification with a specific pyramid.
26:4 One’s survival instinct
gives birth to ego, whose purpose
is to endlessly seek ways to satisfy one’s desires.
26:5 In its evolution, the ego can pass
through
three different stages: status quo, reform and sometimes transformation.
|
(1) |
The status quo stage begins with a strong and functional ego, and ends with a weak and stagnant ego. |
|
(2) |
The reform stage consists of orderly growth, with humility and mild neurosis as its catalysts. |
|
(3) |
The transformation stage begins with mental upheaval leading first to chaos, then to a higher state of consciousness, bringing awareness of one’s spiritual identity. |
26:6 Antagonism is essential to ego
existence and to
the existence of the game.
26:7 Without awakening, an attempt to
destroy or
“overcome” ego, can only lead to mental disorder.
27
Mental Disorder
“Plagues by anxiety,
depression, vague
discontents, a sense of inner emptiness, the ‘psychological
man’ of the
twentieth century seeks neither individual self-aggrandizement nor
spiritual
transcendence but peace of mind, under conditions that increasingly
militate
against it. Therapists…become his principal allies in the
struggle for
composure; he turns to them in the hope of achieving the modern
equivalent of
salvation, ‘mental health’. Therapy constitutes an
antireligion…because modern
society ‘has no future’ and therefore gives no thought to
anything beyond its immediate
needs. Even when therapists speak of the need for ‘meaning’
and ‘love’, they
define love and meaning simply as the fulfillment of the
patient’s emotional
requirements… ‘Love’ as self-sacrifice or
self-abasement, ‘meaning’ as
submission to a higher loyalty – these sublimations strike the
therapeutic
sensibility as intolerably oppressive, offensive to common sense and
injurious
to personal health and well-being… Mental health means the
overthrow of
inhibitions and the immediate gratification of every impulse.” G.
Lasch
“Mental
‘illness’ is not like any other
illness.” Thomas Szasz, M.D.
Part One
27:1 It is the function of the
intellect to manage
images entering one’s consciousness, and it is the function of
the will, to
control the desires of the flesh – the lower self. The root cause
of the
majority of mental disorders is in the malfunctioning of the intellect
and in
the lack of power to exercise the will, which leads to mental confusion
and
mental disorder.
27:2 Man is above all a social being,
who must act
in accordance with the norms of society. When this is not the case he
will be
classified as not being ‘normal’.
27:3 In most cases one who is not
considered
‘normal’, will also experience mental confusion preventing
him from playing the
game. This may lead him to enter the path of a wild man,
or lost soul.
27:4 The three main internal factors responsible for mental disorders are:
(1) Lack of functional ego.
(2) Lack of hope – vision for the future.
(3) Imbalance between linear and non-linear thinking.
27:5 The three main external factors responsible for mental disorders are:
(1) Lack of “proper” upbringing1.
(2) Weak pyramids, which are no longer offering stability and a sense of identity.
(3) A spiritual entity from the underworld, like a ghost, which may enter man, creating chaos, bringing mental disorder, also known as possession. 2
27:6 Mental disorder in man creates
disorder in the
pyramid and disorder in the pyramid creates disorder in man.
27:7 There is no mental "illness"! One
can
only speak of it when an organic disorder is present. Before any
healing can
begin, the label of illness must be removed. Mental disorder void of
biological
roots is a disability and should be classified as behavioral or
functional
disorder, and treated as such.3
27:8 He who swims in the sewer will become contaminated by its poisons.4 Contaminated by poison, he will spend his life struggling against its effects.
27:9 Mental disorder can be
classified as
inability of man to be in charge of himself – to have control
over his thinking
and his actions.
27:10 Input and output of vital energy is at the center of one’s ability to maintain emotional and mental health. In a well-functioning pyramid, there is a well-functioning game in which input and output of vital energy is balanced. When there is a lack of balance between the input and output, one will experience stress, which will lead to an emotional or even mental disorder.
Part Two
27:11
To
maintain mental order there are four essential conditions:
(1)
One must have Love, which brings peace.5
(See: Book II, Chapter 8).
(2)
One must have a Center in one's life, which brings
identity.
(See: Book II, Chapter 15).
(3)
One must follow
an Orderly Orbit, which brings
stability.
(See: Book II, Chapter 16).
(4)
One must stay in Flow, which brings continuity.
(See: Book II, Chapter 17).
1. Programming gives structure to one’s thinking process. Self-programming, over-programming, multiple programming, malevolent programming or damaged programming will bring conflict of ideas and confusion leading to mental disorder.
2. One should avoid seeing possessions through the eyes of the popular culture. Possession is always wrong, as it invades autonomy of an individual. Experience can be painful or even pleasant; visible to others or invisible. The consequences of possession are a mild or severe.
3. The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM) is a listing of over 130 illnesses. Judge for
yourself…
4. Lies and false ‘knowledge’, as
well as immoral and
unethical behavior
5. Giving, which comes from love, brings happiness, and a happy person will not experience mental or emotional disorder. Unfortunately today one has less opportunity to give than in the past, before the introduction of the ‘social net’ and the government takeover of charity.
28
Madness
28:1 He who separates himself from an
orderly orbit
will find mental disorder; he who separates himself from the center
will find
madness1.
28:2 Madness
is rooted
in alienation – from men and from God. This brings permanent
ego-identification
with thoughts, concepts and ideas created by a confused mind, resulting
in the
creation of harmful mental images.
28:3
Through alienation
from men one
progressively loses interest in the games of men. This brings
destruction to
one's ego-identity and loss of hope and vision for the future leading
to
madness. However, for a seeker of God, alienation from men will not
lead to
madness, since one's identity, vision, goals and hope remain intact, as
their
roots are in God rather than in the world.
28:4 Madness represents the ‘end
of time,’ because
linear thinking needed to play a game is being substituted with the
non-linear
thinking by men without power.
28:5 The process of madness will lead
one inward to
the creation of internal games, games not regulated by outside rules,
thus
creating inward havoc with serious external consequences.
28:6
There is individual
and
collective madness. Individual madness
feeds off collective madness and collective madness feeds off
individual
madness.
28:7
Collective madness
brings end
of times, as madness destroys sanity, the product of programming.
1.See : Book II,
Chapters 15 & 16.
29
Unclassified
“The self-indulgent
man is a slave to his
passions and pleasure. Seeking it is degrading and vulgar.” Buddha
29:1 Just as a tree has no strength in
itself to
bear fruit without fertile soil, sun, air and rain, so man has no
strength in
himself to produce fruit without nutritious food, water, sun and air
for his
body, mental food for his mind and spiritual food for his soul.
29:2 When man loses his dignity, he
becomes proud –
his substitute for dignity.
29:3 To have good manners means that
you care about
others.
29:4 The tree does not consume its own
fruit, and
neither should man.
29:5 Before one can receive, one must
give. To
receive one must empty oneself. To empty oneself, one must realize that
what
one possesses may not be worth keeping.
29:6 There is an appearance and an
essence to every
man. All can see the appearance, but few can see the essence.
29:7 Pigeons eat everything; eagles are
very choosy
and almost extinct.
29:8 Nothing in this world is equal and
nothing is
the same. He who no longer discriminates against that which is inferior
follows
the path of destruction.
29:9
Without mothers
children
perish; without fathers they lose their way.
29:10
The road which
leads one to pleasure
is the same road which may lead one to suffering.
29:11
Man has no control
over his
beliefs or his feelings, only his actions.
29:12
Life is a bowl of
cherries, but
watch out for the stones…
29:13
The inability to
overcome the
need for instant gratification is often the cause of poverty.
29:14
To reach a goal,
one must
change a wish into will.
29:15
The game becomes
play when
winning or losing no longer matter.
29:16
Death should
neither be welcome
or unwelcome. To welcome death is to be ungrateful for the gift of
life; not to
welcome death is to show attachment to life and unwillingness to go.
29:17
People dislike
discussing
religion and politics because they are afraid of having their beliefs
shattered
and their faith destroyed. This would damage the programming they need
to
exercise power, and have pleasure.
29:18
It may not be fair
for one man
to be rich and another poor, and it may not be just for all men to be
equally
rich.
29:19 Almost all human actions take place for the sake of ones gain or in prevention of one’s loss.
29:20 Virtues are more important then freedom.
29: 21 Brave men wander in the unknown in search of the unknown, risking confusion and madness; they return with wealth for themselves and others. Cowards stay at home reinforcing the known; they never find wealth for themselves or others.