The West is broken into two; atomic science and metaphysics. The schisma goes deep, very deep. It goes all the way down to the very roots of western civilization. Two main roots is what we have; Mesopotamia and Egypt. In Mesopotamia natural science was born; biology, physics, astronomy, banking, writing and living in a city. The first city of Mesopotamia was called Eridu, or Eden in a biblical memory. It is still there, a lonely Ziggurat rising from earth, as a distant memory of past glories.
Egypt was the home of spirituality. One of the best sources to this amazingly beautiful culture is the Hermetica, a poem describing the truth of heaven and earth. It carries such beauty and elegance, that the modern world of corruption and Hip Hop reminds me of a tainted lake, difficult to bathe in, but nevertheless the bath I have to take everyday.
Today these traditions are, at one hand perfectioned in natural science; we fly to the moon, we make computers, we industrialize everything, everywhere. This credo is the cradle of civilization whereever the Anglo Saxons have put heir mark on the world; China, Japan, Australia, the US, South Korea, and so on. Industrialization have become a way of living, an empty sheath of mechanized marching. The paradox of it all in the former communist countries is the fact that communism is a copy of an egyptian tradition. Plato, who must have inspired Marx, copied his things from the Pythagoreans, a secret society with roots in Egypt. So the form of organization is originally created to preserve spirituality, but is today exactly the opposite, a spiritual mechanism aimed at materialism. I think this is one of the vices, and the ultimate downfall of the communists, you cannot worship money, it will give nothing but false living. This is one of the challenges of China, the quest for materialism is the quest for nothing. The virtues of family, trust, and spirituality is paramount.
Now spirituality has survived in different forms in the world. A very forceful spirituality is in buddhism. I have had the honour to talk with Mr. Ole Nydahl, an amazing buddhist, a very wise person, and a supporter of spirituality. In his mind, buddhism is all about philosophy, and his understanding of spirituality bears the mark of Egypt. Many of the principles are the same; enlightentment, rebirth. The basic mindset is the same as what we have inherited from Egypt through Hellas; Plato, Empedochles the Pythagoreans.
Now the schisma between physics and metaphysics happened in the wake of the breakdown of the Catholic church. We had Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Jung, Freud, Bohr and many others, who tried to understand the world in the new order. Some accepted the schisma, some tried to bridge it, without any succes.
My task has so far been to defend the west. The succes is there. Look at England and the English defense league, look at Stop Islamization of Denmark, look at the way the multiculturalists and the faithfull marxists are either on the defense or perhaps trying to find new ways in the conflict with the Nazi inspired Islam. The defense of the West has its hub here en Denmark, everybody knows it, we are the first front, the marines of the West.
But the wound is still there, and not until the wound is healed, the West will find its feet again. I know how heal the wound, my thoughts are not all completed, but there is one bridge between physics and metaphysics, and that bridge is the most beautiful of all. A bridge all man wants to walk if they can, a bridge we all strive to find and only some of us even succeed to reach, and that is the bridge of love. In love the realm of God and the realm physics do meet.
A lot of nonsense is being spread in the media concerning the word “spirituality”. Usually it means religion. This is a dangerous confusion. “Spirit” or “ésprit” or “Geist” is not belief in gods. According to Voltaire it is “knowledge” and “wisdom” – obviously including the knowledge of obtaining knowledge. According to Thomas Mann it is “Selbstkritik des Lebens” – reflection. If Buddhism can be said to rest on spirituality, this also means “wisdom” (prajna). But this is necessarily combined with “compassion” (karuna).
Your comment on Karl Marx and the Communist movement – to day a zombie – is quite astonishing and unfortunate: “So the form of organization is originally created to preserve spirituality, but is today exactly the opposite, a spiritual mechanism aimed at materialism. I think this is one of the vices, and the ultimate downfall of the communists, you cannot worship money, it will give nothing but false living. This is one of the challenges of China, the quest for materialism is the quest for nothing. The virtues of family, trust, and spirituality is paramount.” Communists never worshipped money. They worshipped tyranny. According to Albert Camus Marx’ ambition was to make culture vanquish nature, while Nietzsche wanted the opposite outcome. The intellectual corruption of Communism is monism, which is evident in the “Parisian” manuscripts of young Karl Marx – written before “the Communist manifesto” from 1848. Marx stated here: “In the future there will be only one science” (“Es wird in der Zukunft nur e i n e Wissenschaft sein” – meaning only one paradigm for social and natural science”). Very few historians in particular and academics in general realize this. Popper traces this calamity to Platon, who condemned democracy and admired the Spartan state.
– Popper traces this calamity to Platon, who condemned democracy and admired the Spartan state.
Yes, Popper was right. But to understand the ideas of Plato, you have to understand that Plato was basically a Pythagorean. Pythagoreans were the inheritors of Egypt, Plato studied for four years in Heliopolis, the seat of the egyptian God Ra, the God of light and truth.
So again, to understand the Pythagoreans, you have to understand the egyptians. The egyptian litterature is very limited, because of the persecutions of them by the early christian churchfathers. But there are still some works around, it is called “Hermetica”, and you can find traces of the ideas in gnostic works.
Concerning Sparta, to understand them, you might read Plutarch. If you put together all these ressources, it is clear that Marx copied Sparta, but only the material parts of it, not the spiritual part. Perhaps through the description by Plato, perhaps through the description through Plutarch. I suspect is Plutarch he is inspired by, because Plutarch is much more precise and practical than Plato. For instance Plutarch describes the secret police of Sparta; Crypteae. It worked in the same way as the KGB.
The spiritual part of Sparta? Well, the Spartans had obvious military virtues – ability to concentrate a message in few words, a spirit of patriotism and extreme courage in battle: “Molon lavé” was the answer of Leonidas to the Persians at Thermopylai in 479 B.C. But otherwise? Sun Tzu said it: He who loves war will himself incur punishment. That is what happended to Sparta a century after Leonidas. The West’s spiritual heritage – the ability to think – is athenian, and you know it, dear Asger.
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Athens was the hub of the thoughts in the meditarenean, they collected thoughts of Mesopotamia through Phonicians. Philosophers as Thales and Animaxander, and Egypt through their extensive work with the egytians. If you want to read a contemporay source, you can read Herodotus, he spends a lot of his work on the Egyptians, he is the father of history. Actually his book is called “histories” giving the name to the field.
If you want to learn a little about the background of Plato, i can recommend the book: Ancient Philosophy, mystery, and magic, by Peter Kingsley, Oxford University Press. Very interesting book indeed.
Plato was, all in all a mediator of the egyptian secrets he had learned in is tenureship in one of the temples in Heliopolis. But there is off cause the very interesting character Animaxander who some think conveyed some persian learning to Athens, I disagree it was Mesopotamian knowledge. You can recognise the structures and apply it to the knowledge we have from the Miletian philosophers.
Was Sparta spiritual? Not much, it was a system of justice and courage. A system of law, which is the speciality of Mesopotamia. But the structure was inspired by the Egyptian societies, or rather the structure of the priesthood. Because this was really what the pythagoreans were.
My point was, that the traditions of Mesopotamia, that are mostly the basis of our rule of law should be combined with the traditions we have of spirituality, that we have from Egypt. The schisma is here now, in the splitting of the academic world into natural science, and basically atomic science (Mesopotamia and Animaxander) and metaphysics (Egypt and the hermetic teachings). This is done by rejuvinating the natural science of the egyptians that is described in the Hermetica. In this all is described as vibration or energy. Matter is just energy that vibrates very slowly, God is vibration we cannot percieve with our senses. In this way the basis of our world is in accordance with the basic principles of the egyptians.
I know it is difficult to grasp the extent of the thought, but it is so.