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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 52
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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ROME VS. THE GRAIL: WHAT IS "THINKING"?
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In the ninth century, Pope Nicholas I declared that "man was no
longer to be considered as a trichotomy of Spirit, Soul and
Body." [1] The Papal See denied "the very existence of the
Individual Human Spirit, declaring man to be but body and soul
and relegating the personal spirit to the lowly estate of a mere
'intellectual quality' within the soul itself. In this way the
spiritual initiative of Western Man was confined to the prison of
three-dimensional awareness of the sense world, and the Dogmas of
the Roman Church became the only recognized source of
revelation." [2] Before, the individual had been deemed capable
of finding answers from "within." Pope Nicholases ruling
re-defined the situation: the Roman Church stood as intermediary
between God and man; it told man what God said; the Church became
the middleman between man and God. (Today's middleman is the
"expert," who is supposedly more qualified to think. The
"expert" is intermediary between Truth and the individual -- =but
the individual allows this to happen=.)
It can be seen how the new definition of God's relationship to
man just so happened to put the Roman Church in an extremely
powerful position. ("God says do this. God says do that.")
Opposing Nicholases dethronement of the individual human spirit
was "Grail Christianity." The word "Grail" comes from
"graduale," meaning "gradually" or "step by step." The "search
for the Grail" denoted an initiation process which gradually
developed the inner life. The process involved "the awakening of
a dullard from an unthinking stupor." [3]
Pope Nicholases ninth-century declaration "brought about man's
scepticism regarding the spiritual validity of thinking... From
thence forward, because Spirit had been relegated to a mere
shadowy intellectual quality in the soul, thinking was no longer
trusted as a means to truth." [4]
It has probably happened to you that first, you thought about
some problem, then later, "out of nowhere," the answer to the
problem suddenly "came to you." You have been led to presume
that such answers originate in a mysterious area of your material
brain called "The Unconscious." This "Unconscious," presumably
nothing more than a "mode of matter in motion," nonetheless
delivers startlingly original ideas. "Where do you come up with
these ideas?" I am sometimes asked. (Maybe you also have been
asked such a question.) My answer is that the ideas come from
"someplace else." By "someplace else" is not meant "modes of
matter in motion" located in the Unconscious MysteryLand. My
"MysteryLand" exists in either a different plane or different
dimension.
Thinking is a telepathic transmission to "someplace else." When
you suddenly "get an idea," that is a telepathic reception from
"someplace else." Beware however that not all telepathic
receptions are necessarily to be trusted. An idea that "pops
into your head" may or may not turn out to be true. If you
consult with other "thinkers" (transmitters) -- either through
conversation or the written word -- and they also corroborate
your "thoughts" (receptions), then you are on more solid ground.
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[1] *The Spear Of Destiny* by Trevor Ravenscroft. ISBN:
0-87728-547-0.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
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