110. The third eye: Chapter 9 - Corruption

 

Humans often believe that once they’ve told a lie, they must stick to it, and it is honourable to defend that lie against all attacks. The question arises: if everyone tells the same lie — for example, in today’s mass demonocracy (sick democracy) and mass communication events, where people are forced to contradict themselves — does a previous lie become truth? No, because according to metaphysics, living truthfully, speaking the truth, and acting truthfully are interconnected. Therefore, today’s lie and a previous lie cannot be separated, as both lead to a life built on falsehood. The system of lies is nothing else but the failure to recognize the one true reality, so the false reality, the illusion, the model, and corruption. It is morally neither good nor bad, logically neither true nor false. It cannot even be defined in biological terms. Life — as the test run for existence — can exist within lies, within false reality, and sometimes it seems to do quite well. Corruption, the building of a false reality, occurs when instead of order, we create a system, pushing in illusion ourselves, or allowing the hidden powers to do so because we fail to recognize the only one reality, the interconnectedness of the above and the below. 

For centuries, Europeans, limited in spirit and without traditions, lived centuries where life was false and corrupt. Those who did not notice this identified with corruption and lies, and thus, corruption became normalized. Previous lies turned into truths. Some recognized the corrupt nature of life, the spiritual crisis, and tried to trace its origin in historical events of the time. They should have known that the corrupt life stemmed from an earlier spiritual crisis, another corrupt life, followed by another crisis and corrupt life, and so on. Finding the first cause is nearly impossible unless we refer to the ignorance of the first human couple, the elevation of material over spirit, when the universal existence with the One and Only became corrupted. Corruption, the system of lies, is always created by ignorance, and some use it for the exercise of power. For example, manipulation of concepts used to interpret the above and below worlds: heaven, purgatory, hell, sin; or intentional distortion of facts: e.g., Luther and Calvin initiated the Reformation, the cause of World War I was a murder; or the development of various manipulative systems: e.g., the necessity of equality, development, progress, profit, and utility. 

In liberal democracies, we have reached the point where we are capable of abandoning the inner order of the soul we received from the One and Only, to build a deceptive, disordered, lying external world, a false reality, an illusion in its place. For the sake of comfort, we give up the idea that there is more than life. This abandonment, lying, comfort, self-deception, and distance from the One and Only is corruption. As someone once said, the earth could easily be turned into paradise, but the ignorant human is who turn it into hell. If anything can be called hell, it is the confusion, individuality, and corruption of our souls, when we lose our consciousness of the One and Only. Yet, if we are prepared by our universal self, then life continues in existence. Some important characteristics of corruption include:

1. Ignorance: Recognizing hypocrisy, illusion, self-deception and liberation oneself from them is consciousness. A person becomes corrupt when they desire material things, the body, and therefore corruption becomes a hunger for life, mania, madness, elbowing, constant striving, success, crime, desire for power, etc. These are all things we should and could give up. They are weights that hinder our spiritual "ascension," much like the drags that prevent a hot-air balloon from rising. Escaping corruption cannot be viewed through pessimism or optimism, but through commitment to awareness, recognition, and liberation. Consciousness can be dramatic for some. A lighter purification may mean partial abandonment of previous ways, but deeper purification could even be tragic, as it would require a total abandonment of previous ways — a confrontation with one’s old self. Those who embrace this turning, this mirror gazing, also embrace failure, knowing that only after failure can one rise. This is the defeat of oneself. The example is given, as our Initiation Master showed us through three symbolic falls and standing up in the passion, that the way to redemption and resurrection goes from the bottom up. A meaningful life is one that is free from corruption, a purified, conscious life.

2. Unbalance and sinking into matter: Our universality, the connection of the above and below, cold and warm, man and woman, is unity in duality. When we lose this, we become unbalanced. A person, as part of duality, can find being within life, converting time into space, which restores order and balance. René Guénon stated, “duality is the prerequisite for all manifestation,” but it could also be said that duality is contained within manifestation. For example, a person manifests in two ways: as a man and as a woman. The same can be said for movement and stillness, white and black, day and night, good and evil, etc. The question is always, with what do we identify? Do we identify with the unity of duality, or with the part (the partial, the particular), with matter, thoughts, and emotions, with universality or individuality? When we identify with the part, individuality, we limit our identity and universality with the One, and thus become unbalanced. The interdependence of duality, their complementarity, and boundlessness are where pairs dissolve into each other. What appears as external division is, within duality, is inner balance, dissolution, and circularity, achieving unity. For example, the dissolution of our universal self within the One.

3. Excessiveness: We cannot say that something is "slightly corrupt," "more corrupt," or "most corrupt." Our soul is either corrupt or pure, either wounded or whole. The corrupt person is liar, rational, distorting, whether they are a scientist, philosopher, religious or irreligious person, politician, or simply a critic. The misguided politician is the peak of excessive, distorting facts and rational things just to win the next election. A creator, artist, or noble and true person cannot be corrupt because they give themselves in their creation, which, if truly authentic, cannot be corrupt. However, many so-called artistic works have been created, especially propaganda works, which serve to support the system's lies, manipulations, and influence of masses.