More script writing genius from the Grand Theft Auto 5 game. Praying is simple. One bows in submission before God and expresses their thoughts and thanks and pleas for forgiveness, some say a repetitive anthem, then one closes the prayer and proceeds with life embodying the hope of the prayer, the humility of Christ, the exertion of a master builder, the fearlessness of Daniel who when cast into the lions den was unharmed through his tribulation, and following this routine of silent contemplation he is one who gladly wears the crown of the righteous Melchizedek and yearns to sets his lamp on a lampstand for everyone to see. Christianity was never the opium of the masses but rather Christianity should be thought of as the wine of the masses. It can turn people drunk and vicious towards those of opposing views but more often its teachings are perfect oracles to facilitate familial responsibility and the ideal healthy mental state, and in this regard the wine in moderation “makes glad the heart of man” as the Psalms state. As for the New Age religion which may be a future universal faith, its teachings are self-aggrandizing perversions of the esoteric lore of the Orient which right away if anyone is familiar with should know that Tantra, animism, and Bon for example and that whole tradition contain some of the most sophisticated forms of dark magic to have ever been devised (Hitler even recruited Bon priests into Nazi ranks). The New Age religion also mixes Hindu pantheism with the Gaia worship of the United Nations, tries to conjoin Kabalistic interpretation, mythological plagiarism, and astrology with anything it can touch that is held dear within a traditional monotheistic religion to “de-spiritualize” its orthodox adherents, and most dangerously the New Age religion pretends that psychic powers, higher vibrational states of consciousness, and clairvoyance, can be used to mystify some rather everyday Earthly feelings and any chance occurrence, peculiarity, or moment of déjà vu within one’s train of thought and experience. If falsified rape allegations are a mockery of real rape victims one can only imagine how much damage the New Age religion will do in shaming the supernatural and all those grand old motifs associated with silent individual discovery: ‘I was a king in my previous life because Shakespeare’s King Lear personally resonates with me!’, ‘the Hierarchy has changed the last 7 traffic lights to green for me because my red shirt is absorbing the malignant astrological influences of planet Mars!’, ‘ I am both man and woman, equilibrium of duality’. Notice, this is where the real and only magic lies, magic being the ancient term for the study of the will, psychology, and the unconscious. Here, the magic is the placebo, swallowed by the victim and reinforced by the hypnotic mastery of a guru. At the start I spoke of the simple prayer as the repetitive regime for connecting with the divine and the self pity and honesty that is expected of presenting yourself before your God. For the flock, religious invocations are critical to personalizing a religion crafted by impersonal powers, the routines are symbolic of the overall doctrines, and are expected to be like an operant conditioning regime whereby each invocation is reinforced by the satisfaction of gregariousness, showmanship, and the satisfaction of having communicated some material thing to a higher divine power for if God is just and good he will know what’s best to do anyways and it really matters not if that wish stays an illusion or becomes reality. Invocations thus become habituated. In the New Age religion, the prime means of invocation is a misunderstood high ritual performed and perfected by only the most experienced of Buddhist monks and was never intended for any lay people. In the West, we broadly call this meditation and the three facets of unquestioned experts in society who will and are providing the gateway to this practice are psychiatrists, physicians, and teachers. To the Buddhist, meditation and the mantra chant is a mindful, lengthy, and mentally excruciating labor which symbolizes the reverberating of the macrocosmic ether with the Om chant to capture the microcosmic electrical swirls in the toes and soles, which better prepares one for daily tasks at the monastery. To the cattle however, especially of the Tantric or Yogic kind, meditation is simply mindless flattery and trains mindlessness. It is an act of showmanship, restricted by short attention spans, and offers a form of heightened suggestibility whereby a guru can hypnotically inject ideas with little resistance while making out the flesh to assume the role of the living God. Here, the invocations of the New Age religion are thus the exact opposite of the Christian prayer; self serving, self centered, zero remorse, zero forgiveness, open to deceit, and the God of true reverence is left out of the equation.

• published: 07 Jan 2015
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