Rosicrucianism

Rosicrucianism is a mystical belief system and ideology that pursues spiritual and alchemical goals
largely through Occult and Christian Gnostic paths. However, throughout history its endeavours have
largely been to gain material power on the material plane, and the deep Gnostic teachings have become
twisted.

The core of the Secret Doctrine of Rosicrucianism, or Mystic Christianity, is the pursuit of psychic power
to control the mind of one's self and others. Through the control of one's will, one gains the unification of
one's psychic energies, although it is accepted that certain negative emotions such as guilt, are the
inevitable consequence of attempts to control another human being. However, the doctrine overcomes
these human feelings by requiring the student to "polarize themselves at the positive pole of a particular
emotional state, and by a process of refusing or denial they manage to escape the effects of the swing of
the emotional pendulum to the negative pole."

The philosophy goes so far as to state that there is no difference between these two poles or opposites and
thus negativity or darkness can be perceived as positivity and light. The Master has learned to strengthen
his own will, and control others, directly through the repression of his emotions. The initiated Rosicrucian
therefore looks upon the pain and suffering of the world as being no different from the opposing pole of
peace and happiness, and in fact believes that one cannot exist without the other. Thus for peace to exist
in one country, war must be raging in another, for wealth and abundance to exist in one region, poverty
and famine must exist in another.

These mystical theories of opposites stem from Eastern Gnostic concepts of the dual energies of Man that
are metaphysically expressed through the act of sex. Sex ritual and sexual concepts are central to the
alchemical Secret Doctrine, as great Power is believed to be released by the union of the pairs of
opposites - "Sex is the cause of all creation, for creation always results from generation, and generation
proceeds from sex activity".

Though these ideas have developed from Indian Tantric traditions, within Rosicrucianism they have
merged with Pagan ideas of sexual fertility ritual. The goal of the Rosicrucian initiate is to gain magickal
powers, as opposed to the Indian goal of attaining Enlightenment - an experience of the Love of God.

The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians, published anonymously early in the 20th Century by a senior
Rosicrucian "Magus Incognito", was threatened with a lawsuit by the worldwide Rosicrucian Order
(AMORC) for revealing the secrets of the order -- although AMORC is just one of many organizations
that subscribes to Rosicrucian philosophy -- beliefs that are the foundation of all so-called mystical or
occult groups including Freemasonry. As the Secret Doctrine states "The possession of Knowledge
unaccompanied by a manifestation and expression in Action, is like the hoarding of precious metals.
Forget not the Law of Use, in this and all other things". One must ask what this "magickal" power is to be
used for?

According to their dogma, it is the mission of the Rosicrucian initiate to assist in the evolution of human
consciousness. However, their evolutionary theories are fundamentally racist. According to their beliefs,
each race is of a higher or lesser degree of consciousness. One race may only step forward to a higher
plane when the lowest race is annihilated -- by whatever means it is their unfortunate "destiny" to endure.
As theories of reincarnation are also central to the Rosicrucian belief system, such racial genocides are
not considered to be negative, but in fact, most positive.

"The individuals of any sub-race who have outstripped their fellows in spiritual enfoldment, are still
bound by race ties to their brothers, until the great body of the sub-race moves up to the position of the
individual... Great convulsions of Nature destroy practically all traces of the preceding civilization, and
leave but few survivors".

The rich and powerful man is believed to be spiritually and genetically of a higher order than the poor
man "The law of rebirth and consequences is the only law that can satisfactorily make sense of justice. It
explains why individuals are born into wealth or poverty, joy or sorrow, peace or conflict". The
indigenous peoples of the world are considered "a remnant of degraded human creatures, persisting in
incarnation for thousands of years, being composed of those souls not sufficiently advanced to take part
in the life of the new races. These leftovers are in evidence in the cases of the Australian savages, the
African bushmen, and the Indians, and others of a similar low order of developments".

The higher ranks of Freemasonry are the lower ranks of the exclusive Rosicrucian orders. The Knights of
Malta, the Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion etc. are instructed in these Occult beliefs; which means
many powerful people have been conditioned to internalize these dehumanizing values.

At first glance it may appear that the Catholic monastic orders are at odds with Rosicrucianism, however,
the historical "civilizing" and "educational" mission of the Jesuits is rooted in these same beliefs. It is
believed by scholars that the inner-circle mystic teachings of the Jesuits and Rosicrucianism are
essentially the same thing. Pope John Paul II's announcement that "God is a supreme being with both
male and female qualities", contradicts traditional Catholic teaching, and is essentially a
Rosicrucian/Gnostic concept. In fact, the orthodox Roman Catholic Church has always been
fundamentally linked with the Rosicrucian Secret Church. It is alleged that Pope John XXIII was Grand
Master of the Priory of Sion during his papal reign, and the creator of the Cistercian monks St. Bernard
was involved in the formation of the Knights Templar. Rosicrucians believe that "Christ taught the laws
of rebirth and consequences secretly to his disciples, but requested that these two laws not be taught
publically for 2000 years". Traditional Catholicism's obsession with sex, is also a result of the Vatican's
knowledge of these secret teachings.

According to aristocratic historian Sir Laurence Gardner, the British contingent of the Imperial and Royal
Dragon Court embodies the "Knights Templar of St.Anthony" and resides within the "Rosicruciana
Anglicae" fraternity -- revealing that "Satanism" and Rosicrucianism are not so much distant cousins, as
close relatives. Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why the Catholic order of the Knights Templar
worshiped an idol named "Baphomet" -- a goat headed and hoofed androgenous figure with female
breasts, an erect penis, and a pentagram on its forehead. The massively wealthy Knights (gold bullion got
its name from Templar creator Godfroi de Bouillon) are widely credited with originating the capitalist
banking system and corporate model, and were eventually hounded by the Church's Inquisition allegedly
for "infanticide, sodomy, and witchcraft", although their demise did save the Church and many Princes of
Europe from repaying great debts. However, many Templars relocated to England and Scotland where
their tradition continued with the formation of Freemasonry.

Just as within the enormous body of the Catholic Church there are many monastic and ecclesiastic orders
with varying perceptions of Catholic dogma, so too the Rosicrucian Secret Church and its Great White
Brotherhood can be seen to be totally unified within its apparent fragmentation.

The repression and denial of the "negative feelings resulting from one's actions" is an attempt to avoid
feelings of guilt and social responsibility. The reverse thinking of Rosicrucianism is clearly an historical
ideology created by the rich and powerful, and based upon their pursuit of conquest and power.
Ultimately it is no different to the psychology of a psychopath or sociopath, as psychiatry defines. The
mental profile of a serial killer always follows a spiralling pattern -- feelings of inadequacy are overcome
by power fantasies of control and murder. These fantasies become an obsession and ultimately a
compulsion, forcing the psychopath to act out his fantasy. After the initial elation of fulfilment, guilt
follows, and the feelings of inadequacy return, but to a higher degree. The spiral downward begins again
with renewed fantasies, more desperate than before, to repress the human feelings of guilt. And so
obsession becomes compulsion etc. Any belief system founded on a similar spiral of repression of natural
human moral feelings can only lead to similar compulsive sociopathic behaviour. This logic is apparent in
the modern world with its internalized amoral "corporate values" of greed and conquest, and is illustrated
by Henry Kissinger's infamous statement "We're bombing them to save them from themselves".
Rosicrucianism was the foundation for the beliefs of the Theosophy movement, which was largely
responsible for the ideology of the Nazis and the resulting Holocaust.
Capitalism is Organized Narcissism

Monday, August 13, 2001

We live in a society organized around private property, the right of private

individuals and corporations to own the resources we all need in order to live. These
resources, belonging to a small proportion of the top one percent of the population,
include the natural products of the planet, what grows in the soil, the oceans and
the forests, as well as all the products of human culture and history -- the
techniques and knowledge and art we have created over the centuries. Even the
techniques of nature encoded in the genes of plants and animals and the human
body are now being swept up into the vaults of private corporations to be exploited
to their financial benefit.

A society of private property is a society of deprivation. What is owned by a few is

denied to the many. Obviously private property has to be defended by laws and
their enforcement, that is, a state as the sole legitimate agent of violence. "No
trespassing" signs are meaningless without an armed guard.

In my commentary a couple of weeks ago, I suggested that state-protected

capitalism is a system of organized crime: it organizes the predatory activity of
individuals against each other to make life safe for the winners. Today I'd like to
expand on that theme by arguing that capitalism is the legitimation of psychopathic
behavior.

First, here is some fairly typical corporate behavior. Responding to the Bill Moyers
PBS special on the chemical industry, Richard Grossman points out that information
has been available for many decades about "the mass production, use and dumping
of toxic chemicals, and about persistent manipulations, murders, deceptions and
usurpations by chemical corporation and government officials, " Anyone who
chooses to look will find massive evidence of chemical corporation murder, pillage
and lies. Anyone who chooses to look will see persistent corporate denial of
people’s constitutional and human rights, and government complicity…"

Now here is a description of the psychopath by forensic psychologist Barbara

Kerwin:

Most psychopaths could pass as normal people. They hold down jobs, they
have relationships, though often superficial ones, and they manage to
manage, however selfishly. But…more than most people, they are selfish,
highly absorbed with securing the primitive comforts of life. They cannot
delay their gratification, or set aside their resentments. … They are usually
charming, eager to please, and quite often very smart. However, though they
may function in the world effectively, they do not conduct their lives
according to accepted moral codes and standards of behavior. They do not
consider their crimes crimes. What seems a crime to us is to them an
expedience, an act of entitlement. As intelligent as they may be, psychopaths
lack …an awareness that they are participating in the overall drama of the
human species. Accused of a crime, they believe that the world that owes
them a living has done them wrong.

According to Kerwin, psychopathy is "not a mental disease or defect but a global

attitude of selfishness that governs a person's interactions with others." More than
just selfish, psychopaths are narcissistic. Narcissism makes people
  dangerous…because it deprives them of the restraint that results from
empathy and respect for others.…Narcissism permits them to ignore the
humanity of their victims.… It …renders them insensitive to the act of killing.
The blindness of the narcissist can extend even beyond the lack of empathy;
narcissists may not "see" others at all.

The notorious Ted Bundy was a psychopath, according to Kerwin, who interviewed
him at length. Bundy raped and mutilated at least thirty women, felt no remorse,
regretted only that he'd been caught, and bragged that "he owned a girl like he
owned a Porsche."

If Ted Bundy's narcissism unleashed his sado-masochistic impulses, corporate

narcissism gives free rein to the materialistic impulses of the chemical industry.
There are plenty of other examples. There are many products corporation have
known to cause suffering and death: guns, cigarettes, the Dalkon Shield, defective
cars and trucks. Recall also corporate reluctance to make live-saving drugs
available at affordable prices to people suffering from AIDS and malaria in third-
world countries. But these are only the more conscience-popping examples. At the
very heart of capitalism is the structural imperative to maximize income and
minimize costs, and in this process of being driven by the requirements of the
account books, workers and consumers are reduced to mere instruments. The
manager of capital cannot see people as persons at all. He or she may feel empathy
for friends and family or for the characters in movies, but genuinely felt empathy for
customers and employees is counter-productive. We must conclude, then, that
capitalism is institutionalized narcissism. It is organized psychopathy.

From a moral point of view, a criminal is someone who is willing to seize whatever
he can with no concern for the effect of that seizure on the lives of others. Crime is
a short-cut to the object of one's desires; it's the road to what one wants that
disregards the reality of other people, which ignores their experiences, their
situations.

Psychologically, crime involves the inability to respect and empathize with others --
in fact, a blindness to the reality of others as real people like oneself. The narcissist
is a solipsist for whom only her own experiences are real and other human beings
are, as it were, robots. The game of capitalism rewards its players for taking this
attitude towards each other.

To the extent that we play this game and allow our social relations with others to be
stripped down to the cash nexus and the quid pro quo, we live as narcissists among
narcissists. It's a cold world, this world of organized crime, the world of the film noir
in which only the love interest provides a momentary respite from the Hobbsean
state of war.

Most people are not narcissists; they do understand and respond to the experiences
and situations of other people, even people who are far away. The ties between us
are deeper than the cash nexus a`nd the rule of law. We are bound by ties of
affection. Ties of affection based on empathy for the situations of other people are
exactly what cannot be felt by the psychopathic narcissist. The enthusiastic
capitalist in pursuit of the profit margin may love and empathize with members of
his family and circle of friends, but to have these feelings towards those with whom
he exchanges money and commodities is ruled out by the structure of his work. If
such feelings arise, they must be squelched.
A fully civilized society, free of the incubus of private property, will be one in which
ties of affection will extend freely to everyone we meet and to all those whose
experiences we come to know about. Only then will we be cured of the social
pathology of universal narcissism.

I'm Clayton Morgareidge for the OMV.

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The Psychopathic Tendency in World Politics

by Jerry Russell and Richard Stanley

http://ponerology.blogspot.com/, February 12, 2006

For many years, psychologists have studied the frightening reality of

psychopathic or sociopathic personalities -- the serial killers, the
child abusers, the pathologically consistent liars and incorrigible
thieves. The scientific study of these individuals was systemically
organized by Hervey Cleckley and his 1941 classic "The Mask of
Sanity", and today the specialist Robert Hare is one of the foremost
authorities in the field. According to Hare, the key emotional and
interpersonal traits defining the psychopathic personality syndrome
are: a smooth, glib capability to lie, manipulate and dissemble; a
completely callous lack of empathy or concern for others; shallow
emotional affect and lack of remorse; and egocentric grandiosity.

While most psychological studies of psychopathy have been based on

prison populations, there's an emerging (and controversial)
recognition that many individuals with this cluster of personality
characteristics, are not in prison. The traits of these individuals are
so distinctive that they may even represent a distinct taxon, a true
sub-species of mankind -- consisting of otherwise normal human
beings who are completely lacking in normal human responses to
social interactions with others.

In his book, "Without Conscience", Hare writes:

"To give you some idea of the enormity of the problem that faces us,
consider that there are at least 2 million psychopaths in North
America; the citizens of New York City have as many as 100,000
psychopaths among them. And these are conservative estimates.
Far from being an esoteric, isolated problem that affects only a few
people, psychopathy touches virtually every one of us.

Consider that the prevalence of psychopathy in our society is about the

same as that of schizophrenia, a devastating mental disorder that
brings heart-wrenching distress to patient and family alike.
However, the scope of the personal pain and distress associated
with schizophrenia is small compared to the extensive personal,
social and economic carnage wrought by psychopaths. They cast a
wide net, and nearly everyone is caught in it one way or another.

The most obvious expressions of psychopathy -- but by no means the only

ones -- involve fragrant criminal violations of society's rules. Not
surprisingly, many psychopaths are criminals, but many others
remain out of prison, using their charm and chameleonlike abilities
to cut a wide swath through society and leaving a wake of ruined
lives behind them.

Together, these pieces of the puzzle form an image of a self-centered,

callous and remorseless person profoundly lacking in empathy and
the ability to form warm emotional relationships with others, a
person who functions without the restraints of conscience. If you
think about it, you will realize that what is missing in this picture
are the very qualities that allow human beings to live in social
harmony.

It is not a pretty picture, and some express doubt that such people exist.
To dispel this doubt you need only consider the more dramatic
examples of psychopathy that have been increasing in our society in
recent years. Dozens of books, movies, and television programs,
and hundreds of newspaper articles and headlines, tell the story:
Psychopaths make up a significant portion of the people the media
describe -- serial killers, rapists, thieves, con men, wife beaters,
white-collar criminals, hype-prone stock promoters and "boiler-
room" operators, child abusers, gang members, disbarred lawyers,
drug barons, professional gamblers, members of organized crime,
doctors who've lost their licenses, terrorists, cult leaders,
mercenaries, and unscrupulous businesspeople.

What about politicians? Well, here we have to be careful, because in any

individual case it can be very difficult to get the data that's needed
for a complete scientific diagnosis. However, in some cases there is
enough information available to make a persuasive case. For
example, Chris Barr in his essay Towards a unified theory of Clinton
notes the psychopathic aspects of Clinton's obsessive-compulsive
work habits and decision-making processes, his multiple sexual
escapades and denials, and his slimy yet inescapable "Sun King"
charisma. Unfortunately, Barr's article is less attentive to Clinton's
murderous attack on Yugoslavia, his coverup of the Vince Foster
scandal, and his cynical manipulation of the financial markets to
produce a massive and artificial boom-bust cycle, all of which would
 prove much more devastatingly that Clinton was a cold-blooded
killer and pokerfaced liar.

Based on the conduct of the Iraq war, more and more people worldwide
are concluding that George Bush is a psychopathic, insane
individual. Some skeptics argue that the events of 9/11 were a
cynical hoax, intended to provoke America into fighting aggressive
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, causing the deaths of hundreds of
thousands if not millions of innocents, in a quest for Imperial power.
If this is agreed, then it really should not be necessary to offer any
further evidence of the psychopathy of George W. Bush. But there is
much more: in this essay by Bev Conover of Online Journal, Bush
isn't a moron, he's a cunning sociopath, we learn that in his youth,
George W. "enjoyed putting firecrackers into frogs, throwing them
in the air, and then watching them blow up." Reporter Richard
Gooding of the tabloid STAR stated, in a well-referenced article,
that Bush was the president of Yale's Delta Epsilon Kappa fraternity
-- which "barbarically branded its new members on their backsides
with a red-hot metal rod as part of a sadistic hazing practice."
Reportedly, "the branding resulted in a second-degree burn that left
a half-inch scab in the shape of the Greek letter Delta."

While he was not busy slumming at Delta Epsilon Kappa, Bush also joined
the highly elite Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale. Some boys just
can't get enough of that "Greek" party lifestyle.

There's a lot of controversy over whether psychopathy should be viewed

as a disease caused by some sort of organic birth defect or brain
damage. Injuries to the frontal lobes can cause a syndrome that's
similar in some respects, but Hare has done a series of studies
showing that they're not identical, and that "true" psychopaths
basically have highly intact cognitive skills, unlike victims of brain
injuries.

Whether it's a "defect" or not, our speculation is that the psychopathic

personality is an inherited trait (although this would certainly be
controversial among psychologists, many of whom would argue that
it can be a result of traumatic childhood experiences or brain
injuries.) From our perspective on the literature, it seems
reasonable to speculate that it may be only a matter of time before
scientists isolate the particular genes that are involved in creating a
pre-disposition towards the psychopathic syndrome.

A paper by Harris, Rice & Quinsey (1994) argues that psychopathy is a

"taxon" -- that is, a discrete subclass, more or less as distinctive as
male vs. female, or cat vs. dog. This is based on a statistical
analysis of a population of subjects with their scores for
psychopathy. The distribution of scores is strongly bimodal,
indicating a lack of "shades of gray" for the psychopathic
personality syndrome. This is a strikingly unusual result in
personality research, which usually finds a continuous range of
variability in personality traits. While a five-factor personality
model (introversion/extroversion, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness) is often
considered sufficient to describe the normal range of personality,
 the psychopathic personality is very difficult to represent within
this space (see Miller et al., 2001), exhibiting highly differentiated
sub-traits within the major personality dimensions (where we would
normally expect to find correlated sub-traits.) The unusual pattern
of sub-traits is, in our view, another basis for believing that
psychopathy represents a distinct genetic syndrome.

A review article "the sociobiology of sociopathy an integrated evolutionary

model"(Mealey, 1995) treats "primary sociopathy" more or less as a
synonym for Cleckley/Hare psychopathy, and argues that it's an
evolutionary adaptation -- that enables a percentage of the
population to fill the ecological niche for cheaters and scam artists.

Along these lines, Kent Bailey(1995) argues that psychopaths should be

called "warrior hawks", and that a healthy contingent of them would
be necessary for the survival of any primitive band, faced with the
need to survive in violent competition with neighboring tribes.
"Warrior Hawks" is perhaps a kinder, less judgmental euphemism
for the phenomenon. But on the other hand, it might be unfair to
those who might favor warfare in some specific set of external
circumstances. "All warrior hawks are psychopaths"? Dramatic, but
probably not strictly accurate. (Some warrior hawks might only
appear to be psychopaths.)

A related issue is the extent to which "normal" individuals can adopt the
behavior patterns of psychopaths. The ideals of empathy, social
cooperation and altruism have been supported by a wide variety of
philosophical, ethical and spiritual arguments over the years. More
importantly, they may also be backed by millions of years of
evolution, as many species have adopted cooperative modes of
behavior for survival. A revulsion for excessive wanton cruelty may
be literally instinctive for most human beings. Nevertheless, any
evolutionary tendency towards kindness, empathy and cooperation
can apparently be overcome in certain circumstances -- for example,
when the government issues a call to war, and tells the people that
the enemy must be killed as a matter of the society's own survival.

The psychopaths have developed an extraordinarily powerful camouflage

mechanism. When it fits their purposes, they are glib, friendly and
easy-going, devoid of the petty anxieties that trouble most of us
and cast a pall over day-to-day interactions. They are the very
embodiment of charisma and chutzpah. In this way, they stay
hidden and undetected by their victims until a trap is sprung.
Precisely because most human beings have an instinctive
internalized sense of fair play and altruism, they are incapable of
seeing when another human being does not share these attributes.
We simply do not believe that such evil could exist -- and when we
do undeniably encounter it, we may be tempted to ascribe it to
supernatural causes, invoking the Devil himself. It is particularly
stunning and incredible to contemplate that a powerful and
reputable person, a company president or a Senator, or the Ruler of
our Country, could possibly be a true psychopath, a man devoid of
conscience.
Yet we maintain that this is quite frequently the case, from the beginning
of history down to the present day.

Psychopaths and Political Power. Sometimes (and seldom more than

today) it seems impossible to escape the conclusion that the whole
world is going insane with war and preparation for war. However,
the situation is merely a manifestation of a psychopathic tendency
in politics, a sinister undercurrent which is always present and
sometimes erupts into ugly prominence.

In order to explain how this has happened, we will take the liberty of
expressing a theory in terms of primitive, pre-historical culture.
(Ever since Rousseau invented the concepts of the "noble savage"
living in the "state of nature", philosophers have appealed to pre-
history in support of their frameworks, and scientists have criticized
those models as little better than fables. Keeping this criticism in
mind, we offer this historical just-so story as a model, but not as a
proof.)

A pre-history of psychopathy. Primitive man lived in small tribes of

perhaps a hundred people or so. Within these tribes, all the basic
functions of government and religion had to be filled--educating the
young, taking care of the old, making plans for hunting and
gathering, providing an ethical system and a knowledge base for
dealing with the world, and interacting with other tribes. To fill
these functions, we might imagine that hierarchies would naturally
emerge, based on strength, skill and intellect.

In this intimate environment, an unintelligent psychopath who actualized

a criminal desire to kill or steal from his fellow tribesmen, would
obviously be maladaptive as well as easily detected. However, a
more clever individual with the psychopathic personality syndrome
could find himself in an advantaged position in a tribal society.

With respect to a neighboring tribe -- a well-timed lie about their

intentions, or false allegations of evil actions on their part, could
inflame the passions of the psychopath's own tribe. This would have
tremendous advantages in terms of the outcome of prehistoric
warfare -- the ability to carry out an attack with surprise at a time
of one's own choosing. A psychopath could satisfy his blood-lust,
and emerge as a hero of his tribe as well -- while a non-
psychopathic leader would spend time pondering the pain and
suffering of the neighboring tribe, as well as the risks to his own
people.

With respect to one's own tribesmen -- clever, well-spun and glib lies
about Nature or "The Gods" could help fellow tribesmen achieve a
(quite likely false) sense of assurance and confidence about the
world and their place in it, while more honest individuals would
simply scratch their heads at the mystery of it all. As long as the
lies are not caught (and religious ideas are often framed in terms
which are not subject to verification) the psychopath can earn the
respect of his tribe, and probably extra benefits in terms of a
greater share of the wealth of the tribe, and better access to
women.
As society became more complex, the psychopath's psychological edge
may have become more significant. To the extent that psychopathy
and intelligence are both hereditary, those advantages would have
compounded the sociological advantages of better education and
greater wealth that would naturally have accrued to the children of
the leading lights of the tribe.

Psychopathy at the dawn of history. With the development of writing, the

elite class would multiply their advantage over the commoners,
because these highly specialized skills could be used to create an
aura of mystery as well as a body of tremendously useful proto-
scientific knowledge. Of course, not all members of the elite would
be likely to be psychopathic by any means -- on the contrary, we
would expect that accidents of birth, the distribution of skills within
the broader society, and the advantages of conscientiousness and
honesty, would be a constant balancing force. However, the
activities of the psychopathic element would put a continuously
insane "edge" on the acceptable range of elite conversation, and
more often than not, non-psychopaths would find it much to their
advantage to play along with the lies of the psychopaths (even
when they were able to understand the fraudulent nature of those
lies.)

By the time of earliest written history, we would argue that the

psychopaths must have been pretty firmly in control of the
emerging civilizations. We find that hordes of slaves were enlisted
to build gigantic stone temples for the benefit of rulers who were
seen as Gods Incarnate, while fear of the Gods (and rulers) was
sometimes maintained through human sacrifice at the altar of those
same gigantic temples. And this was in the stable, civilized part of
the world -- which was wracked from time to time by invading
hordes of roving barbarians who sometimes left none alive of the
vanquished. The hatred of human sacrifice was a major part of the
dialectic by which Rome conquered the ancient world.

The strategy and tactics of class struggle: As Karl Marx wrote in the
Communist Manifesto --

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf,
guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed,
stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an
uninterrupted, now hidden now open fight, a fight that each time
ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large,
or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Yet Marx was quite incorrect in viewing Capital as the fundamental

underlying nature of this struggle. Many other factors are just as
important, if not more so. Capitalism had not even been invented
when the process of Class Struggle was firmly entrenched in human
society. We argue that history should more precisely be viewed as a
struggle of Truth and Common Sense to emerge against the ongoing
efforts of psychopathic elements within the elite classes, who
promote chaos and insanity for their own benefit.
A list of the ever-evolving tactics of the psychopathic elite classes would
certainly include the following --

(1) Capitalist economics. Wealth obtained by the elite through conquest or

theft, or inheritance, or monopolistic practices, or government-
granted privilege, is treated equivalently to wealth generated by
hard work or trade or innovation. In this way, the elite co-opts the
support of the productive middle class.

(2) Socialist economics. The elite captures a large percentage of the total
income of society through taxation (as in most modern nations).
This is done ostensibly for the benefit of the common people at
large, but most of the resources are appropriated for elite
purposes, while only a relatively small trickle is used for "bread and
circuses" to maintain support from the lower and middle classes.

(3) Feudal, fascist or communist economics. The common people are more
or less owned by the elites as slaves, who are alternatively
terrorized and cajoled into compliance. This system occurs when the
elite is able to cause the breakdown of capitalist or socialist
economic system.

(4) Democratic political systems. All politicians come from the elite classes
or serve the interests of elite classes, while the people have the
illusion of determining outcomes for their benefit.

(5) Authoritarian political systems. Royal or dictatorial power is used to

direct as much as possible of all social resources towards elite
goals. The system may be justified on patriotic, ideological or
religious grounds. Typically associated with feudal or fascist
economic systems.

(6) Popular religions. Often created and always manipulated by

psychopathic lies from the priesthood, popular religions exploit
natural human spirituality to promote the goals of the elite.
Typically, individuals are encouraged to behave honestly and
altruistically on behalf of elite goals (in contrast to the elites
themselves, who routinely rely on deceit and treachery.) Religion
may also be used to promote war and ethnic hatred, when this is
required by elite strategies.

(7) Conspiracy. Elite individuals may choose to cooperate secretly with

other elite individuals in other institutions or nations, to achieve
mutual goals. Since elites do not necessarily share the religious and
ethnic prejudices of their citizens or subjects, these conspiratorial
alignments may often seem paradoxical or impossible when viewed
in terms of conventional (national or institutional) paradigms. They
make sense only in terms of the universal class struggle
transcending national or institutional boundaries.

(8) War and conquest. Elites in aggressor societies use their power and
deceitfulness to incite the population to make war. War creates
anxiety, and allows the upper classes to appropriate more resources
to defeat the enemy. For the losing side in war, the population at
large may suffer complete defeat (and death or slavery) but the
 losing elite typically emerges in quisling status -- reduced but far
from impotent. Sometimes a militarily strong but culturally inept
nation or tribe invades and conquers another, only to find
themselves ruled in short order by the elite classes of the
conquered.

A particularly astounding example of the creation of war by elite banking

interests is the extraordinary level of funding of both Hitler and
Stalin in the build-up to World War II, as documented in Antony
Sutton's books "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" (1976) and
"National Suicide, Military Aid to the Soviet Union" (1973). These
interests were obviously more important that Hitler in creating
World War II, yet they went unpunished and indeed invisible at the
Nuremberg War Crimes tribunals, and they are leading the charge
to war today as well.

(9) Revolution and submergence. If the lower classes make troublesome

demands, the elite may stage or permit a revolution which promises
a major overhaul in the social structure. Following the revolution,
the same old elite class emerges in control of the new institutional
framework.

(10) Economic and social chaos. Elites may intentionally create or

exacerbate economic boom-bust cycles, instigate ethnic conflict, or
intentionally sabotage the productive capacities of a society, in
order to increase the relative power and status of government and
corporate institutions.

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