Most people are not ready to die for a just cause, for they don't believe in Transcendence and eternal life. Their fear of death is the main condition for the triumph of evil, which meets little or no resistance. They wanted to be free from God, but ended up in the power of demons. The Shadow triumphs.

Unfortunately, the mad have thrown away the only cure for their madness — the Eleusinian Mysteries and other traditions of transformative experience of Transcendence. Without the experience of the Divine, man gradually lost his faith in God and got lost in meaningless existence.

Progress is a pure illusion, it occurs only in the sphere of matter, but the spirit undeviatingly degrades. What our contemporaries consider as achievements are actually shameful vices… The end of the modern world is just the end of an illusion. — René Guénon

The world in its bottomless groundlessness, devoid of any meaning, will become unbearable to man. For some time, despite the consciousness of utter meaninglessness, the exploration of the limitless will continue, feeding on the aspiration for truth preserved from past centuries, but this transitional period will not be able to last long. When godlessness becomes a reality, all interest in the truth will die out. Disappointment and lack of a fulcrum will push more and more towards nihilism. For the longest time, perhaps, a purely technical interest in the existent will remain, but it will also run out — it will not stand on its own. — Karl Jaspers

Never forget where we are and why. https://misharogov.medium.com/inferno-386eb5032ef2

The real conflict behind all seemed conflicts is always the same. And the Enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

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Good and evil

“There is nothing it is possible to think of anywhere in the world, or indeed anything at all outside it, that can be held to be good…

Like attracts like.

Evil remains evil even when done as retribution. — Karl Jaspers #GazaGenocide #PalestineGenocide

There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every evil and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge. If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty. If I was present at the murder of others without risking my life to prevent it, I feel guilty in a way not adequately conceivable either legally, politically or morally. That I live after such a thing has happened weighs upon me as indelible guilt. As human beings, unless good fortune spares us such situations, we come to a point where we must choose: either to risk our lives unconditionally, without chance of success and therefore to no purpose—or to prefer staying alive, because success is impossible. That somewhere among men the unconditioned prevails—the capacity to live only together or not at all, if crimes are committed against the one or the other, or if physical living requirements have to be shared—therein consists the substance of their being. But that this does not extend to the solidarity of all men, nor to that of fellow-citizens or even of smaller groups, but remains confined to the closest human ties—therein lies this guilt of us all. Jurisdiction rests with God alone. ... The metaphysical guilt results in a transformation of human self-consciousness before God. Pride is broken. This self-transformation by inner activity may lead to a new source of active life, but one linked with an indelible sense of guilt in that humility which grows modest before God and submerges all its doings in an atmosphere where arrogance becomes impossible. ... Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such—an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and if I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive. — Karl Jaspers, "The question of German guilt"

Humanity cannot be saved without a renaissance of faith in Transcendence and without a renaissance of ontological idealism — the truth that divine Consciousness is all there is. But such a renaissance is impossible without the resumption of the Eleusinian Mysteries in a new form. The transformative experience of divine Transcendence must be made available again to all human beings. This is the only cure for humanity's darkest spiritual state. This is the only way to save humanity from catastrophe. No philosophy can do this alone.

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Eleusinian Mysteries

“[A]mong the many exceptional and divine things your Athens has produced and contributed to human life, nothing is better than those…

In the history of mankind, it has happened many times that from the most natural impulses of people then suddenly unnatural monsters grew. — Solzhenitsyn, "Two hundred years together" (on the history of Jewish question in Russia)

[W]herever power does not limit itself, there exists violence and terror, and in the end the destruction of life and soul. — Karl Jaspers

The West is completely discredited by its support of Nazi Ukraine and Zionist Israel.

In days of war, we tend to forget that we all are ultimately One, brothers and sisters in God experiencing itself in an infinite variety of empirical forms of individual existence and intersubjectively projected phenomenal worlds. We are at war with ourselves and thus with God. Forgive us, Father, for we are mad.

"[Man’s] existence in the spatiotemporally pregiven world [is] the self-objectification of transcendental subjectivity." — Edmund Husserl Would we harm each other and other sentient beings if we could always be aware of the supreme truth that all humans and animals as empirical subjects are phenomenal self-representations of ontologically identical transcendental subjects rooted in divine Transcendence — brothers and sisters in God?

"Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it." ― Nicolás Gómez Dávila Faith in Transcendence is the most fundamental value at the foundation of Western civilization since the Axial Age (500 BC). In the XIX century Nietzsche proclaimed that faith in Transcendence is dead, and the horrors of the XX century proved him right. What comes next?

"Heroic surrender … is true in the self-destruction of a martyr. There is dignity in this will to be destroyed. It realizes the absolute dedication of a mundanely indifferent life to the transcendent truth grasped in that life." — Karl Jaspers Christ showed what happens when you don't resist evil with violence — you are crucified by this infernal world. This non-violent path is impossible for a society, it is only possible for an individual who is ready to become a martyr for his faith in Transcendence. To each his own path. "The Sermon on the Mount should be a mandatory requirement, but following that requirement will lead to the destruction of all. The respectful consistency in following the commandments of faith is visibly revealed to us in the martyrs and saints as something that cannot be in this world, except as its end. This is why theology becomes a work of composing compromises, reinterpretations, twists, to cover up the conflict between the requirements recognized, given in revelation, and one's own conduct not even approaching those requirements, and to make possible existence as duration and peace. Independent philosophizing appeals to honesty in order to either resolutely follow, or resolutely not follow the commandments." — Karl Jaspers "To abstain from violence toward the violent is to become their accomplice." — Maurice Merleau-Ponty "The only salvation is a world order based on the rule of law and possessing the power to preserve peace, by meeting every act of violence with superior force that robs it of all chance of success, and by punishing it as a crime." — Karl Jaspers

Don't believe those who are saying that the attack on #Israel by #Hamas and other forces of Palestinian resistance came by surprise. Just as in the case of 9/11 in the US, Israeli neocons wanted to be attacked to go forward with the final solution of the Palestinian question. Demons. #Palestine #Gaza

Sometimes a work of art expresses the deepest and most sacred truth in a way that no philosophy can do, but still, in order to see this truth, one must first perceive it from philosophy or from one's own mystical/transpersonal experience of Transcendence. https://misharogov.medium.com/light-9ac43e91e63