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Dethroning the Gods of the Religions, p. 4 If
its powers sometimes appear superhuman, not as regards their being informed
by extraordinary intelligence, but with respect to the intensity of
their effects this is because of the cumulative force of both the living
and the ancestral psychic elements of the collectivity that the God
has at its disposal. Therefore all Gods are in their origins projected
on distinct racial, tribal or nationalist lines. They have no identity
apart from that given them by the collective psychism of the group to
which they are attached. Even within one and the same religion one can
find multiple nationalist Gods who often enter into conflict with one
another and the history of Europe provides many examples of this, the
saga of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) in the 100 Years War between France
and England being a case in point. Since
the existence and identity of every God derives from the psychic force
of its worshippers, it must at all times manipulate its worshippers
to constant praise and devotion of itself and its self-proclaimed greatness
and thereby convert every action of the devotee into a form of psychic
dependency upon itself. Thereafter it maintains this dependency by means
of systems guilt, reward and punishment. However, the God is a composite
of the highest aspirations and ambitions of the mass mind which it seeks
to realize and this is why the nature of the relationship between a
God and its people is precisely a reciprocal symbiosis that is marked
by strong tribal or nationalist narcissism [7].
Thus the religious Gods are often sincere within the context of their
own unconscious limitations and can manifest qualities of protection,
strength and even of love just as easily as qualities of injustice,
revenge and cruelty both in relation to an outsider group and even with
respect to elements within its body of worshippers that fall short of
the standards of devotional energy required by the God to nourish and
sustain its power. The
externalized Gods of the religions are therefore not enlightened entities
and have no interest in the enlightenment of their devotees. In fact
their existence and the interests of the mass mind require that the
devotee have no profound understanding of the real nature of the God
in question nor of himself nor of the universe and this is why the “lunar”
religions of the mass mind have always been at war with the radical
esoterisms that from time to time emerge in their midst and attempt
to unveil them, and the critical importance of an immutable dogmatic
system of knowledge, an obediential morality and social taboos. The
greatest threat to the God and to the collectivity is the emergence
of the conscious individual who has realized the condition of free consciousness
while bodily alive, a consciousness and a realization that immensely
surpasses the God and the collective mind with which he is inseparably
associated. No
God is eternal since its coordinates in the terrestrial plane are precisely
the collectivity of which it is a psychic composite. This composite
is made up of both the psychism of those physically alive as well as
the accumulated ancestral depositories of the dead as has been explained
in the foregoing. Therefore, like the many Gods of the past which have
ceased to exist on the terrestrial plane or entered into dormancy, the
Gods of the religions cease to exist when their devotees dissipate either
through attrition or through conquest and assimilation by another group.
For the same reason the scope of influence and power of a given God,
while being real on a certain plane, is strictly limited by the psychic
possibilities of the collectivity - including all the possibilities
represented by the accumulated ancestral mass - to which it is attached. The
progressive metamorphosis of the tribal God of the ancient Hebrews well
illustrates many of the points that have just been made. The starting
point for this metamorphosis was an encounter between Jehovah and the
ambitions of a nomadic tribal group under Abraham, a convergence which
led to the promise made to Abraham that he and his descendants would
be exalted above all other tribes and nations and given world empire.
Now,
since in time it became apparent that this absurd promise of world dominion
was becoming increasingly remote, Prophets arose among the Jews who
perpetuated and legitimized this dangerous hallucination by explaining
the failure of the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham as punishment
for the recalcitrance of the people, in short, their failure to obey
their God. In response to this dilemma the notion of the Messiah was
invented: the Messiah would lead the Jews to the final triumphant fulfillment
of the great promise whose seat would be Jerusalem. Needless to say
they are still waiting for the Deliverer and so are the Christians who
have inserted themselves into the drama of this collective psychosis. Every
form of national or racial narcissism in principle and in fact directly
contributes to the disintegration of humanity, not its unification,
and cannot form the basis of a universal civilization. |
