As the year draws to a close we tend to reflect on how we lived the past year and during the totality of our lives and what we could do to improve our lot according to individual and group values.
During this period of introspection − however brief it might be − we tend to think of our relationship to a power greater than ourselves and if we lived our lives in accordance with the guidance we have received. I take this opportunity to share with you a reflection of one of many issues affecting us.
The Great Absolute, the Great Mystery, or God, by whatever other name, represents the supreme existence, the power behind the all, and has two primary components as conceived by the mortal mind.
The first of these consists of truth, which is constant, enduring, and never changing. As Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the Sun.” There cannot be. Everything emanates from the truth.
The truth provides order to the universe. “Accidents” do not occur in its functioning − all movement occurs within the framework of the truth.
However, truth does not have warmth and feeling; to have value and meaning truth must be accompanied by love.
Love provides the warmth and desire to reproduce and nurture; it gives purpose to life.
The Godhead consists of Truth and Love. All life requires truth and love to function properly.
Truth provides the environment and means for love to function.
Truth and Love represent the gender principle of the universe.
The masculine principle represents truth and provides the structure and means for the feminine principle to bring forth life and nurture it − the activity that expresses its love.
Love cannot be expressed outside of a structured environment, only chaos exists without structure.
Men created the family and the extended family or tribe as the fundamental structure necessary to propagate the species. Within the confines of this structure societies throughout the world functioned, prospered, and grew. These societies were called patriarchal and contained:
spiritual awareness, gender understanding, and family focus
These three components are essential to the proper functioning of the patriarchal society natural to humankind.
European society and by extension Western society, does not grasp the three essentials necessary for the propagation and preservation of the species. It focuses on material accumulation and self-indulgence. Its structures relate to the production of goods and services and the accumulation of material things. In the absence of ethics and the moral structure they provide, the Western world enacts laws and relies on the enforcement of legal and illegal activities.
The Western world neutered male authority, destroyed the family, sent its children to the government to be cared for like cattle, and interned its women to collapsing institutional structures based on the production of goods and materialistic services.
Eliminating the structures and values created by men such as ethics, appropriateness, responsibility, and obligations has caused the moral breakdown of society. Only gross materialistic standards prevail. Greed, fraud, whoredom, and adultery run rampant in Western society accompanied by the mental, physical and emotional deterioration of women and children. These conditions result in the fall of civilizations.
The demise of Western civilization has begun and will soon be in its death throes.
As the year draws to a close and you look ahead to the next year and decade you might be comforted with the realization this corruption we live in is reaching its end and a new era will soon be ushered in based on:
spiritual awareness, gender understanding, and family focus
This new era will require rebuilding on the old values based on Truth.
The prophet Isaiah said, “You will be known as the rebuilders, and you will rebuild on the old foundations.”
Are you ready to be a rebuilder? Or are you going to do nothing and get sucked under by the undertow of the sinking ship of Western civilization?
The time is at hand and the decision yours to make.
Have a Happy New Year!
E.G.
