Secret_History

338 The Secret History of the World
darkness that create and maintain the Matrix and have a strong vested interest in
seeing to it that their “food/power source” is not lost.
It is in this problem that the greatest danger lays. Since those forces that create
and maintain the Matrix have so much to lose, they exert a great deal of energy to
keep the Matrix of lies and false beliefs in place. And doing it from a state of
hyperdimensional reality enables them to work from a state of timelessness, so as
to be able to produce all the perceived effects that support their agenda; the Evil
Magician of Gurdjieff; the “Flyer“ of Castaneda; the Shaitans of the Sufis. And the
reality has been manipulated for so long that it seems natural. It has become a
comfortable prison in which Stockholm Syndrome reigns supreme, and the
inmates love their captors. The result of this is that when a hero returns with true
knowledge of the Matrix, he or she meets with such blank misunderstanding and
disregard from those he wishes most of all to help, that he gives up in despair.
Morpheus warned Neo about this:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. When you are inside you
look around – what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, and carpenters –
the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But, until we do, these people
are still part of that system and that makes them our enemy.
You have to understand: most of these people are not ready to be unplugged – and
many of them are so inert, so inured – hopelessly dependent on the system – that
they will fight to protect it. 240
The hero is generally described as one who begins life as the “youngest” or
“despised” child. There is some serious “rejection” of his being from his very
birth. But it is the triumphing over these personal oppressions that gives him the
means of regeneration of humanity as a whole.
The cosmogonic cycle is presented with astonishing consistency in the sacred
writings of all the continents, and it gives to the adventure of the hero a new and
interesting turn; for now it appears that the perilous journey was a labor not of
attainment but of reattainment, not discovery but rediscovery. The godly powers
sought and dangerously won are revealed to have been within the heart of the hero
all the time. He is ‘the king’s son’ who has come to know who he is and therewith
has entered into the exercise of his proper power – ‘God’s son’, who has learned to
know how much that title means. ...The hero is symbolical of that divine creative
and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and
rendered into life.
The effect of the successful adventure of the hero is the unlocking and release again
of the flow of life into the body of the world. The miracle of this flow may be
represented in physical terms as a circulation of food substance, dynamically as a
streaming of energy, or spiritually as a manifestation of grace. Such varieties of
240 Morpheus to Neo, The Matrix (emphasis ours).