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Chapter 7: Ancient Enigmas 245
of the Catholic church when it instituted the Inquisition and the Crusades. We can
see the twisted version of the desire to create a “genetic superman” that led to the
holocaust. It’s easy to discern these errors of the past, because we “know more
now”.
We know more now. How much more can we learn? Can we be certain that the
current beliefs of our reality are not similar manipulations? How much more will
we know in the future about our own present situation? Do we have any clues
around us pointing out that something is dreadfully amiss as were present in the
years preceding the Holocaust? How many people at that time ignored all the
warning signs until it was too late? How many people didn’t “get it” until they
were bombed back to the Stone Age? Can we compare any of our present reality to
such a scenario? After all, a smart man learns from his mistakes; a genius learns
from the mistakes of others.
At the present time, there are, indeed, indicators that we are being maneuvered
into a certain mind-set, a certain belief system. The “reality game” has just gotten
more and more complex, but the same essential errors keep getting repeated. What
is at the root? Will our descendants look back on our own time and shake their
heads in dismay at how ignorant we were, how manipulated our thinking was, and
how great an error we made because of our beliefs? As the reader will discover, it
seems that we are presently facing just such a grand illusion; one that may be the
grandest of them all, and if we do not find our way to the light whereby our eyes
can be healed, we shall be, indeed, the householder who lost all he possessed
because he was bound and blinded by “demons”. And if we are blind, and follow
the blind, we will most certainly all fall into a pit; one that we may not be able to
get out of for a very long time.
We know that this question, “why is life the way it is?” is one that we don’t like
to face. But, when we awaken late at night, alone in our thoughts, with no
distractions of daily life to fill the void, we are face to face with our existential
dilemma. And it is a terrible silence. In those moments of cold clarity, the
bleakness and futility of our existence in cosmic terms rises up to confront us as it
has confronted all of humanity throughout millennia.
Looking back at history, we see that, to escape this monstrous “dark night of the
soul”, human beings will accept any answer—any religious belief or philosophy—
that may be offered, because the cold, abyssal silence that follows the question
must be filled at any cost. The sad fact is, there are plenty of people willing to try
to convince us that they have “the answer to all our questions”. These blind
leading the blind can be found in the pulpits of nearly every church across the
land, and in the seminars and lecture circuit of the New Age. But, these answers
generally consist of confusing the discernment of reality with personal opinion
which results in a judgment upon reality by refusing to acknowledge it as it really
is. Those parts of reality that are not acknowledged have a way of biting us.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
At the present moment in history, it seems that everybody and his brother are
either looking for King Arthur and the Holy Grail, or are waiting for aliens to land
on the White House lawn so they can kick the tires of the UFO Cadillac. I have
hundreds of books on these subjects, and over two dozen recent books, all of
which claim to have discovered that the two subjects overlap and that the Holy