46. About you: Chapter - What comes after equality? (20)

Since the counterpart of equality is hierarchy, those who dismantle equality and quantity those build hierarchy and quality. Conversely, those who dismantle hierarchy and verticality make things linear and equal. This rule applies both on the individual level and the level of individual organizations, i.e., society. What we are experiencing in the 21st century, not just in Europe but also in the global demonocracy (distorted democracy), is a decaying process based on material equality, which has been intensifying since the 15th century. This material process was preceded by a religious exercise of power operating on the same basis of equality, lasting about 1500 years. The difference between these two periods is that in the first, human souls were equal in their inherent sin, which had already been redeemed two thousand years ago, while in the second, where the soul was no longer concerned with, material was equal to material, one body to another. Humanism, for example, marks the dawn of the age of corporeality. Considering the societal law of duality, what comes after the linear democracy based on equality and mathematical quantity is none other than a vertically organized, hierarchically structured quality society based on networked relationships. 

We are attempting to examine the available opportunities that would allow us to break out of linearity and reach verticality. Part of the methodology and toolset for this departure is the realization that the intersections of linear and vertical, lower and upper networks are all parts of universality. The process of dismantling and building is possible both on the individual level and on the societal level, if there is courage, willingness, perseverance, and risk-taking involved. On an individual level, the process, the return to the One and Only, begins within each person and continues as they implement it. On a societal level, the process of reconstruction is expected to come from the cooperation of individuals who have already built their own hierarchy, which could also be referred to as a mass shift from today's equality-based society. To put it mildly, this is a desertion from democracy, or rather the creation of the people of the House of the One. There is no other way but to return. The construction of a hierarchical network-based organization is likely to take as much time as the dismantling process, so theoretically, it may take the next five hundred or even a thousand years. However, if explosive events, such as wars or mass epidemics, occur, the process could either accelerate or slow down. 

Why would it be worth rebuilding a hierarchical society, and what should the new hierarchy after democracy look like? Should it be like the old one, or should we take into account the "positive results" of centuries of decline and create a new, functional hierarchy? The reason to rebuild the hierarchy is that the fabric and functionality of society, the existing or future horizontal and vertical networks of human relationships, the intersections of those networks, and the return to universality all depend on it. The 20th and 21st centuries have proven that linear, equality-based societies, which reject universality and therefore become individualized, fall apart. This is what we are experiencing today. What seemingly holds society together is the constant desire for the accumulation of material and money, which leads to power struggles, sinking into matter, hunger for life, career-orientation, and the use of buzzwords like interest, development, progress, profit, and success. In the reconstruction of hierarchy, we need to explore the causes, foundations, operations, errors, current state of equality-based societies, and the reasons and factors behind the disappearance of previously hierarchically organized societies. Furthermore, we must define the basic elements, factors, and operational rules necessary for the construction of a new hierarchical and network-based society. Note: In the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of the German Empire, asked universities to find an answer to the disintegration of empires. The answer: Empires disintegrate due to the interest mechanism, the free money system. He was also the one who initiated the Kulturkampf against the Catholic Church in Germany. 

To carry out these tasks, we must answer numerous questions, such as: what were the previous hierarchical societies that served as models? The answer to this question can best be found in the enlightened minds of the ancient world, who were both scientists, philosophers, and statesmen. Before our Initiation Master, around the 6th century, science and philosophy were not yet separated. Our ancient ancestors concluded that the universe, or cosmos, operates according to order and structure, leading back to an initial state or arche, which we would now refer to as a relational or qualitative state. This state later became known as the principle. They also understood that these states and relationships could transform into one another. Today, we describe this transformation in terms of the theory of relativity, where energy can turn into matter and vice versa. The connection between the two is ensured by information. The informational content, or quality, manifests the relationships, the changing state by which something (indefinable) either appears as matter or energy. In the living world, an example of this information source is the genetic information responsible for inheritance, such as DNA or/and RNA, where the relationships between components determine the manifestation, such as the colour of the eyes (blue or brown). 

In the ancient world, they knew that relationships and transformations were continuous, which they referred to as apeiron, and these represented a hierarchical order, as we can observe in the structure of the living world, such as in lower and higher plants or animals. Our ancient ancestors were aware that human knowledge is also dual, involving both sensory and intellectual understanding. Through our senses, we understand the material world, while through our intellect, we understand the spiritual world. Sensory knowledge is not a true knowledge but merely opinion, imagination, or what they called doxa—a vision, a dream, a detail, not the whole. The true world, the universe, can only be comprehended through reason. The development and maturity of reason comes through contemplation and meditation. This contemplation, this spiritual practice, is the path, the method which can lead in constructing hierarchy.