The More Godlike, the Greater the Power

The basic concern of the "modern world" project, which began at the beginning of the 17^th century, can be summed up in a single sentence:

"A privileged spiritual person (magician, alchemist, or theosophist) attains the fullness of power when he accepts the fundamental truth of the fusion and dissolution of the difference between subject and object as an expression of the potential divinity of existence.

The meaning of this statement can be deciphered in simple terms as follows:

1) The leading position in the modern world is held by people who are spiritually privileged;

2) The ultimate goal is to gain and maintain power;

3) The greatest abundance of power is available to those who can merge and dissolve the difference between subject and object;

4) the potential divinity of existence is manifested only in this annulment.

What is meant by the merging of the difference between subject and object? The answer to this question concretizes the essence of the modern world. Nothing is more characteristic of our existence today than the levelling out of the difference between subject and object. Everything modern man does is aimed at bringing about this fusion. For the vast majority of people, this happens completely unconsciously; they are not even aware that what they are doing is leading to this very goal. But they are being pushed in this direction by those who know exactly what is behind it and what it is intended to achieve: the deification of man.

Whole books, yes, very many books, have been written about how the subject merges with the object. Isaac Newton (1642-1727), one of the founders of the modern world, spent the last 20 years of his life almost exclusively reading these books and performing the experiments described in them. The works he wrote about his own discoveries and experiments are many times longer than his books on physics.

The philosophy of German Idealism, as expounded by Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and above all Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, is - to put it bluntly - nothing other than the so-called "Aufhebung" of the difference between subject and object. In Hegelian philosophy, this is conceptually represented by the juxtaposition of the antithesis with the thesis and the creation of the synthesis. As the theologian Wilhelm Lütgert notes in his four-volume work on Idealism, this is the true civil religion of the Germans.

From Cartesian philosophy we know that the subject is human cognition: Cogito ergo sum - "I think, therefore I am." And from the same philosophy we know that the object is everything outside human consciousness. The great endeavor of the modern world is man's attempt to shape the external world according to his own ideas through his thinking. The more he succeeds, the more godlike he becomes. And the more godlike he becomes, the greater his power. How is it possible to obtain an infinite amount of money? Not primarily by going to great lengths to create something useful and then selling it to someone who needs it. No, just as God called everything into existence by an act of His Word, you simply think money into existence. But not everyone is given the ability to create money out of nothing; only the spiritually privileged, formerly known as Gnostics, Rosicrucians, or Hermeticists, are able to do so.

Rev. 18:10-13,23: ‘In one hour your doom has come!’ ¹¹ “The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore— ¹² cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; ¹³ cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves. […] ²³ Your merchants were the world’s important people. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.

NASB 1995

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