98. Two power, one man

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If we focus only on examining the power apparatus of the past two thousand years, we find at least two distinct, yet similar, systems of religious power. One is the religion of punishment and salvation, while the other is the religion of materialistic and financial power. What is common to both power structures and systems is their linear, individualistic, and materialistic view of the old scripture. Furthermore, it was not told to people that the visible, tangible power and the invisible, behind-the-scenes power are not maintained by the institutions of the apparatus, but by the ignorant, misguided masses. 

Power has always treated the people, the masses, as controllable slaves; because this is the only way it could keep them in dependency. It is not the individual who depends on the power, but the power that depends on the individual. In the first power system, the so-called Christian slaves had the Lord taken away from them; in the second power system, the modern era, material slaves exist, and they have been made to believe that the Lord is nothing more than history, an old tale, and that in the modern age of computers and mobile phones, there is no need for the Lord because the essence is in materialism, profit, progress, and development. This is the new religion. The dominance of the old religion lasted for approximately 1500 years, while the new religion has been gaining strength ever since. 

The similarity between the two powers is also in their effort to promote and maintain democratic equality, i.e., the idea that all people are equal. According to one religious power, those who wish to dominate souls, before the One, everyone is equal, and everyone is saved (predestination), provided they suffer enough here on Earth. According to the other, the material religion, who wishes to dominate the body, there is no need for salvation or predestination, because people are equal in that they are interchangeable parts in the profit-generating machinery. The most important thing is human comfort, material development, and progress. The old religion promises salvation, while the new one promises material well-being and security. The old power took the Lord away to a lesser extent, while the new one does not even want to acknowledge the Lord. 

In practice, both promise to ease life: one promises ease through the promise of salvation, the other through material well-being. What is also common in both religions is that neither of them has anything to do with the teachings of our Initiation Master, nor with the belief and freedom that says we humans are capable of doing everything our Initiation Master did—that we can also return to the One and Only, provided we uncover our universal "I" and become truly and genuinely human. Where the two religions differ is that one cannot die for salvation, but one can die for material well-being and security. 

Both the religion of salvation and the religion of material (money, capital) tried to keep people within their own sphere, under their control, in slavery, shaping them in their own image and likeness, or re-educating them. Re-education means depriving people of the free will given by the One and Only, depriving them of the possibility of choice, in other words, enslaving them, where the universal "I" is hidden beneath the individual "I." The first religion dealt with the soul's individuality while forgetting to teach universality, for example, that man is made in the image and identic of the One, and therefore must "act" as the One would. In the second religion, the human being has no universal "I," only an individual "I," most often just a body (one body is equal to another), and this body is simply a part in the machinery of power, whose sole task is to generate profit for its owner, and be content with the wage that allows them to scrape through life. 

Neither power cared that the created human being has free will over themselves, self-determination, self-awareness, an identity, or that with their birth, they have received a universal "I." Neither the doctrine of salvation nor the materialistic doctrine of comfort requires self-awareness, self-identity, or freedom, because if they did, power and slavery would cease to exist. Neither power cared that depriving people of universal identity, self-awareness, or self-determination means slavery, loss of identity, or idiocy. The power has always needed this loss of identity, this idiocy. Slavery is the power of the individual "I," or more precisely, the weakness and deviation of the individual "I" from returning to its universality. Therefore, the power needs the individual soul. It cannot access the universal "I" because that has already been claimed by the One. Idiocy always has two participants: the slave, the person who has lost their freedom or voluntarily gave it up, and the power that takes the person’s freedom. The universal freedom and identity of a person can only be taken by power and temptation, visual tricks, manipulation, and in severe cases, by violence or dictatorship. 

Our Initiation Master did not teach salvation, adherence to the laws of the old scripture, the pursuit of material well-being, slavery, or profit. On the contrary, He taught us what we must do, what spiritual practices and tasks we need to undertake to reach the Kingdom of Heaven as free people and not be slaves of power. For example, practicing spiritual poverty (spiritual wealth or individual poverty), gentleness, the desire for truth, mercy, peace, tolerating human ignorance and misunderstanding, and accepting universality. Those who speak of moral teachings and behaviour are speaking from the level of the individual soul, not from the universal. Every view, dogma, rule, ideology, or policy that does not teach people universality, free self-determination, or the attainment of the state of being made in the image and identic of the One, takes the Lord away from them.