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Most people hear the word “occult” and picture robes and candlelight — but it’s really something far more ordinary, and far more important. In this opening session of his all-day seminar, Mark Passio strips away the fear and glamour to reveal what the occult actually is: hidden knowledge. Specifically, knowledge of the self and of nature’s laws, deliberately encrypted and kept from most people on purpose. Filmed live in Connecticut, he traces the word back to the Latin occultus, separates public teachings from inner-circle truth, and sorts magic from sorcery. Then he opens the map of the great traditions — shamanism, the Egyptian mysteries, alchemy, and Hermeticism — each one pointing the same way: toward reclaiming the sovereignty that was always yours.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, thanks a lot. Please, if you could sit down and be as quiet as you can, it’ll help our audio situation tremendously.
Mark is going to kick off right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Passio.
I want to thank everyone personally for taking the time to be here today.
I want to thank Art for doing such a great job setting up the venue.
I want to thank his brother Chris for helping out as well.
I want to thank Barb for helping out with the table in the back.
We have some merchandise back there if you’re interested during the day.
And I want to thank Richard Grove and his whole team for coming out and filming the presentation today.
I just want to go through a little bit of housekeeping before I get started and let people know about the format.
I’ll be speaking until 1 o’clock, and then we’ll take a one-hour lunch break from 1 to 2.
There’ll be a second session from 2 to 5 p.m., and then at 5 p.m. we’ll be taking a second break, a dinner break, from 5 to 6.
And then we’ll have a third session from 6 to about 8, which will hopefully include a question and answer session.
Hopefully, you know, if I stay on time with what I want to cover today.
My seminar for today is called Demystifying the Occult.
And what I really want to do here today is bring occult terminology, occult traditions, and occult symbology into practical application for people and help them understand what these sciences really are and how they’re being used today in the world all around them.
So before we begin, as I often do with many of my lectures, I want to give a few caveats or things that you should kind of look out for.
The first thing here today, and I get this a lot with people who are new to my work.
Let me just, before I even start this, ask how many people are completely new to my work here today by a show of hands?
Okay, just a couple.
Okay, so not many who are completely new.
How many would you say are relatively new?
You haven’t looked at a lot of my material, but you’ve seen maybe a few YouTube videos.
Okay, a decent bit.
How many people would say that they’re very familiar with my work to the point of having watched most of my videos or gone through most of my podcasts, if not all of them, by a show of hands?
Great, so we have a lot of veterans with my material here today, so to speak. That’s good.
Well, you know, there’s this old saying in ancient philosophy and in occultism in general.
It goes, there is nothing new under the sun.
A lot of people don’t know what this really means, you know.
It means that the truth has always been here, is always going to be here, it always has
been here around us, whether we’ve noticed it or not.
What I’m presenting here today is nothing new.
It’s not any revolutionary, groundbreaking material.
What it is, is it’s pattern recognition.
It’s looking at information and presenting it in a tapestry so that it can be readily
understood by people who have not been familiar with this material before.
So all I could really do with this material, it’s not like I’m inventing anything.
I’m just presenting what’s already there.
All I can really do is present it in a personalized style, my own particular personalized style
and aesthetics applied to it.
That’s all.
But for people who are expecting radically new material here, that’s not the point
of this. The point of this is to bring what’s already going on around us in our world to
people’s attention so that they can understand it more easily.
My presentation style has been described by some people as very intense. I consider that
fair. I’m an intense person. The truth is intense. Some people will say that I’m combative
And I don’t deny that, too, because, like I said, the truth is combative by its very nature.
The truth is at war with deception.
The truth is at war with mind control.
All right?
The truth is at war with the forces of evil at work in our world.
By that very nature, it’s belligerent.
It’s a warlike force, truth, you know, if it’s wielded properly.
If people get angered or upset by some of the comments that I make during the course
of the presentation, fine, so be it.
Feel those emotions, let them run through you.
But I would say don’t let those emotions, if they are negative or if they are emotions
of anger for some of the things that I say, try not to let that color what you feel about
the information that’s being presented regarding whether it’s true or not.
That’s called emotional mind control, falling into that trap, and that’s something that
people really need to look out for.
I don’t present the information that I present or I didn’t decide to become a public speaker
because this is just information I’m interested in or because I like doing this.
I always have to laugh at people, especially in my personal life, who say, Mark, this is
just stuff that you’re interested in, okay?
I tell them, you have to be out of your mind
if you think, you know, telling people about
that the world is in a state of slavery and mind control
is my personal interests, you know?
So I don’t do this with my time
because I want to be liked, because I want to be popular,
because I want to make friends,
or because I want to make money.
I don’t do it for any of those reasons.
I don’t really particularly want to do this with my time.
I do it because I recognize that in a time of universal deceit and deception that we’re
living in and universal ignorance that the public is in, that I have a moral obligation
to bring this information to public awareness so that humanity can turn the situation around
if there’s still time left to do so.
That’s why I do what I do.
Two other things people should try to do to take full value away from this whole seminar,
set your perceptions aside of me as the presenter very difficult for some people
to do some people watch a presentation they focus on the presenter the whole
time the sound of their voice the way they dress their mannerisms their
inflections okay you want to try to focus on the information as much as
possible not me I’m not the important thing here the information is and to be
consciously aware as I’ve already said of your own impulses to possibly reject
information that I’m going to present here today based on initial emotional response or reaction
to what I’m saying. It is a logical fallacy to gauge the veracity or truthfulness of any information
based upon your emotions, how you feel when you first hear it. So you may be upset, you may be a
little scared, you know, you have to put those emotions aside and try to gauge the information
rationally. It can be very difficult. It’s a difficult process and I recognize fully what
I’m asking people to do by making that statement. Another little caveat, this seminar is a tapestry
of information. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle. It is meant to be taken in as a whole, connected
together in its entirety. To gain the maximum value from this whole seminar, I highly recommend
that you stay for the duration of the whole seminar. Otherwise, you will most likely not
recognize the patterns inherent to this tapestry and more likely than not you’ll
have wasted your time and money and I don’t want to see that happen with
anyone I want you to take full value away for taking the time to be here
today the scope of the information that I’m presenting here today is so enormous
that it could not possibly be conveyed in a time frame measured in multiple
years probably it couldn’t be conveyed in time frame measured in multiple
lifetimes okay this is a lifelong study you could not possibly present the
entirety of occult information in one seminar okay I couldn’t teach that to
someone I you I can couldn’t make the claim I have the entirety of that
information okay again this is a lifelong study it’s an entire it’s a
journey over one’s lifetime and I want people to fully recognize this material
introductory and rudimentary you know I’m not here to speak to lifetime
lifelong occultists who are going super deep into occult information I’m here to
wet the appetite of beginners to try to kind of spark them on their own personal
journey of discovery regarding this information you know and please
recognize I’m also putting this information out there online to people
it’s not just for those in the room it’s for people who may be 100% completely
new to it who are watching the seminar online so that’s really all the caveats
I want to talk about before we get started now my last presentation was
called streetwise spirituality what does it truly mean to be awake I gave this
back in May in st. Louis Missouri and it’s about a seven eight hour
presentation something like that and in it I presented a framework of 20 factors
of what it means to really be awake and they’re all listed here these were the
main points of this seminar I’m not going to read every one of them but I
just want to really say that what this presentation here today is is it’s kind
of unpacking the number one factor that I presented in that in that seminar
our streetwise spirituality.
I said that the number one factor
for what it really means to be awake,
not this new age hokum, new age perception
of what awakening means,
but a very practical, feet on the ground,
streetwise approach to spirituality.
In that framework, what does it mean to be awake?
My number one factor in my list of factors
for what real awakening means
was knowing about the occult and understanding that there are both light and dark aspects
to it.
When I really thought about all the factors that constituted awakening and I structured
that into a presentation, this was my very, very, very first factor, okay, after I looked
at all 20.
Because I realized that the thing that people who I consider unconscious or asleep do share
in common almost universally is that those individuals know nothing about the occult
at all.
Zero.
Zero.
You know?
The people that I consider not awake, the people that I consider still being manipulated,
still operating at a largely unconscious level, all of them share that same factor in common.
They don’t know about the occult at all.
Whether they be people who think it’s just a political problem that can be solved by
voting or just electing the right person into office, whether it’s people who think it’s
just a financial problem or we just have to reel in the big banks and the Federal Reserve.
You name the factor that they blame externally on the conditions that are present for humanity.
They leave consciousness at the door.
They don’t talk about that as an issue.
And again, universally, they have no knowledge of the occult.
So that’s kind of who I really, really am directing this presentation toward here today,
is the people who don’t have a frame of reference based in knowledge about what the occult is
and the knowledge that it contains, which is what we’re going to be talking about here
today.
So my first section is called, What is the Occult?
I’ll actually be presenting this information in three basic, I’m sorry, is it three?
It’s four basic components.
four basic sections to this seminar. The first is what is the occult? It’s a general overview
of occultism and what it is, the knowledge that it contains. The second section of the
presentation will be occult traditions. And I’ll be breaking down in a very rudimentary way because
time doesn’t allow to go into any depth, several different occult traditions. The third section of
the presentation I’ll be breaking down many different occult symbols some of
the more prevalent symbols involved in occult symbology and then in the last
section more likely than not at the end of the dinner break that we’ll be taking
I’ll be doing a case study in occult symbolism by presenting some of the very
deep spiritually significant symbolism in the major arcana of the tarot deck
and that’ll be the last part of the presentation so the first section again
is what is the occult and why should you know about it why is it so important to
know what the occult really is you know people have different ideas of what is
meant by the word occult you know you say this to some people and they
immediately think of an image like this you know a conjuration of a demon okay
you know and I’m not going to tell you that there aren’t specific occult
practices that may involve something like this or people believe that this can be done
or attempt to do it or possibly even do it.
This is more of a Hollywood variant, a Hollywood conception of what people think of as going
on in the occult.
You think of all those rebellious teenagers out in the woods with the black robes, with
a bonfire lit, sacrificing some animals.
This is a very limited perception of what the occult is, and it’s often a wildly off
perception of what it is and what it contains.
The occult is so much more than that, and it’s so much more significant than practices
like this, which I would consider mystical practices, and I’m going to talk about mystical
practices versus actual occultism, the study of the occult information.
The first thing, before we get into a working definition or a practical definition of occult
information or occultism, let’s look at the word occult itself.
For people who are familiar with my work, this is nothing new.
The word occult is derived from the Latin adjective occultus.
Occultus in Latin means hidden from sight, not easily seen.
The word occultus in Latin, the adjective in Latin, comes from the Latin verb occultare.
means to hide to conceal or to keep secret and both of those words in Latin
are in turn from derived from the Latin noun oculus oculus means I so ultimately
occult information is that which is related to vision to what one is capable
of seeing or not capable of seeing it is hidden information it is information
that is veiled. It is information that is not readily seen by most people, okay? Like
an iceberg floating in icy waters. You know, the biggest part of the iceberg is often below
the surface. You have to penetrate the surface to get at the bulk of the material. And that’s
the same with occultism. You know, the truth is hidden from view. It’s veiled from sight.
And you have to penetrate into the depths. You know, you can’t just wait in the shallow
waters to get this information and to understand it deeply you have to go into
the deep waters to understand it and that involves going deeply into the self
you know because that’s what ultimately the occult is about the occult is
knowledge okay let’s get that straight from Jump Street okay we’re talking
about knowledge here hidden information and it’s knowledge that is held very
tightly by a few people on earth it’s not widely known okay it’s structured
knowledge in many cases by different traditions okay it is hierarchically
organized in many different traditions it is compartmentalized by some who want
the people who are adherents of this information at lower levels you know
they don’t want them to understand the entire tapestry for many different
reasons. Okay, so compartmentalization and hierarchy play a role in different occult
organizations when it comes to the structuring of this information. You have to look at it
like that hierarchical and compartmentalized pyramid structure pictured there. You know,
the bottom levels represent the people who have the least amount of knowledge and the least amount
of knowledge about how all of that information fits together in a tapestry. With, as you go
higher up in the you know hierarchical structure there’s fewer and fewer people
but the knowledge becomes concentrated it operates at a higher level and they
see how it’s all connected together and those people want to keep that their
position in that structure because again a differential in knowledge is a
differential in power you keep people ignorant of what you know and how it all
fits together and how it all inter operates and correlates with all of the
other information in that data set, in that body of knowledge, then you’re in a position
to completely manipulate those below you.
And this is how much of the occult works, particularly dark occultism, which we’ll be
talking about.
The key point to keep in mind here is that the occult is hidden knowledge.
That’s all it means, okay?
It doesn’t mean bad.
It doesn’t mean evil.
It doesn’t mean negative.
It doesn’t mean Satanism, voodoo, or any other specific occult practices.
The occult is a generalized term, generalized terminology for hidden knowledge, for knowledge
which has been hidden from people’s view.
So hey, could that include sciences that people don’t really understand, you know, about how
energy works in the universe, you know, how we could gain energy from, you know, different
methodologies other than internal combustion engines or burning fuel or, you know, things
like that?
Sure.
It contains that.
Knowledge of different kinds of propulsion systems
that people see when they see UFO sightings.
Are we talking about the occult there?
Are we talking about the occult when we talk about
ghost sightings and possible other dimensions of being?
It’s all contained in there.
All of those things are occult knowledge.
It’s not just one thing.
It’s hidden knowledge that is hidden for a specific reason
and that’s to create a power differential
between people who understand it and those who don’t.
when we get into talking about occultism we have to understand the difference between these two
terms exoteric and esoteric exoteric means something that is intended for or likely to
be understood by the general public okay it’s common knowledge exoteric knowledge or exoteric
wisdom all right it’s current or popular among the general public the general public is comfortable
with it.
The word exoteric comes from the Greek adjective exoterikos.
Exoterikos in Greek means external or outside of.
So you’re not in the inner circle if you’re in the exoteric realm.
This is the realm of knowledge that is taught to the general population because they don’t
want people getting at the bullseye.
You look at this as a dart board or something to that effect.
The core of truth lies at the very center, at the bullseye.
That’s what we ultimately want to get to.
If we’re going to transform ourselves and transform our society for the better.
The exoteric realm is that which is fed to the great hordes of unwashed masses.
You know, simple explanations, unidimensional world views and explanations for things.
And when we penetrate that, you know, next layer, we get into the occult traditions,
esoteric sciences that get us closer to the very core to the heart of truth the
esoteric is information which is intended for or likely to be understood
by only a small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest okay
it requires desire for it you have to want it you have to be interested enough
to want it you have to care enough to want to take it in the esoteric is that
which is hidden or occulted it is mysterious it is beyond the range of
ordinary knowledge experience or perception it is that which is
communicated only to the initiated the initiated means those who have begun
okay I tell people about my former involvement in the dark occult and these
dark occultists called the average human being one of the very strange terms that
they called the average person is the unbegun which I didn’t even understand
what it meant when they said it to me repeatedly the higher knowledgeable
people in the dark occult would use this term not the lower down minions okay it
was something that was used by people who directed a lot of these occult
groups that I was involved in these dark occult organizations and you know again
I had no I didn’t understand what they meant by that too long after I had
completely you know ceased my involvement with those groups the unbegun it means those who have
not started at all you know they’re still at a zero level of knowledge when it comes to occult
information so what this whole seminar constitutes is a process of initiation it is helping people
to get started to begin and that’s why my first section was before we begin you know it’s prior
to the initiation process you know and then delving into the occult for the
first time is a process of initiation and I ask people all the time where do
you see researchers who are presenting simplified rudimentary information about
occultism in general you know you can see people who break down occult
symbolism and talk about the occult in general but where do you see people
really talking about what occult information is, what it contains, why it’s
important to understand, and break it down in a simple and practical way. It’s
a very rare thing. There’s very few people who are willing to come forward
and do that for whatever their reasons are for wanting to maintain their
secrecy. But to go back to this, the esoteric realm, that word esoteric
comes from the Greek adjective esoterikos, which means within or on the
inside of okay so that’s what we’re really talking about we’re in the inner
circle now when we penetrate that veil of the exoteric explanations and we’re
getting closer to the the hard core information the closer to that core of
truth that we really want to be at how is occultism different from mysticism
people will often think that these two things are completely the same and the
terms can be used interchangeably but I would say mysticism is a lower level of
of knowledge or experience or practice than true occultism, than a person who truly understands
the occult.
Mysticism as a term is derived from the Greek verb muo, the first part of mystic or mysticism.
The verb muo in Greek means to conceal, similar to the Latin occultare.
Mysticism is a loosely defined set of practices, beliefs, traditions, and experiences aimed
at human transformation, evolution, and union with the divine.
Most forms of mysticism, especially those practiced in modern times, constitute what
I would definitely consider an exoteric pathway, which often deemphasizes knowledge and places
large emphasis on emotion, intuition, internal experiences, faith, and perception, much like
religion does.
This is the main way that mysticism differs from occultism, which conversely comprises
a set of esoteric traditions focused on objective knowledge of natural law and the alignment
of thought, emotion, and action, resulting in true intelligence, true care, and true
will being born within the individual.
We’re talking about the actual awakening of the aspects of consciousness and aligning
them all in harmony with each other. This is the goal of true occultism. It is the alignment
of intelligence, holistic intelligence, logical and intuitive combined. True care, the desire
for truth, not just everyday mundane cares. Care with a capital C, as I call it, and true
will, alignment with the will of creation, alignment with the force that expands consciousness,
which is love, energy, alignment with freedom, and aligning our behaviors to putting our
behaviors into practical action toward true freedom.
That’s the true will.
This is what the goals of real occultism are, whereas mysticism often serves the self.
you know get into things like just meditative practices because they want
to be more productive they get into fortune-telling you know because they
want to provide services to other people perhaps for you know monetary value all
kinds of different motivations drive mystical thought people wanting simply
to gain a leg up over their fellow man by certain knowledge or practices okay
or just improve upon themselves the occult encompasses a lot more than that
because real positive true light occultism has again a deep objective
knowledge of natural law principles at its foundation and the alignment of the
aspects of consciousness as its goal okay so that’s how I would define the
difference between these sets of practices. I would say that mysticism is
an exoteric religion. It’s like religious practices or beliefs, whereas
occultism is a body of science. It’s a body of objective knowledge that
represents esoteric sciences. Okay, I hope that makes the difference clear in most
people’s minds. Going back to what the occult actually is, I’d like to read a
quote by the occultist and Freemason C.W. Ledbeater from 1913. He said,
How shall we define occultism? And this is his definition, which I think is a
pretty good one. The word is derived from the Latin occultus, meaning hidden, so
that it is the study of the hidden laws of nature. Since all the great laws of
nature are in fact working in the invisible world far more than in the
visible world, occultism involves the acceptance of a much wider view of
nature than that which is ordinarily taken. The occultist then is a man or
woman who studies all the laws of nature that he or she can reach or of which he
or she can hear and as a result of his or her study he she identifies him
herself with the laws and with these laws of nature and devotes their life to
the service of human evolution that is what occultism is it’s understanding the
laws of nature and our connection to them the self’s connection to them okay
and as a result we are aligning all of our thoughts our emotions and our
actions toward the goal of the evolution not only of our individuated self but
but the evolution of all beings, okay?
That’s the goal of the occult and occultism in general.
So this is my personal working definition of the occult.
When I use the word the occult, this is what I mean by it
when I use the phrase the occult.
The occult is a body of science
which is not widely known to the general population,
consisting of hidden knowledge about the workings
of the human psyche and the laws of nature, both the seen laws, meaning the physical laws,
the physical sciences, and the unseen laws, meaning the spiritual laws, the laws that
govern morality, the laws that govern behavioral consequence, okay?
That is my working definition of what the occult and occultism is in general.
And I think it’s a pretty simple, practical working definition.
So when we’re talking about hidden knowledge or occulted knowledge, what knowledge does
occultism hide?
What kind of knowledge are we actually talking about?
Occultism comprises and quote unquote hides two bodies of knowledge.
Now I put hides in quotes because I just want to make a point here.
We can’t even look at it such that dark occultists, which I’m going to explain their motivations
in a future slide.
You can’t look at it as the beings who want to keep this information back from people
actually try to eradicate it and keep it out of people’s hands.
That’s really not what they do, particularly in the modern world.
Their main method of manipulation is dissuasion.
They try to dissuade people from looking into these bodies of knowledge by telling them
there’s nothing to see here, move along, okay?
Back to bed, nothing to see here, folks.
not important, or that’s not practical, that can’t be used in your everyday life, it’s
of no benefit to you personally, practically, in your life to learn about that.
Or it’s some quaint religious belief that has no bearing on anything that was just made
up by people a long time ago, and it’s all nonsense.
That’s the main method of dissuasion that is employed, and most people fall for it.
people just, you know, think there’s nothing to any of this. I don’t need to know about it. That’s
one of the heights of ignorance is the phrase, I don’t need to know about that. Okay. Just think
about that statement right there. The first, the highest height of ignorance is, you know,
the pinnacle of all ignorance is I don’t want to know about that. I don’t care to know about that.
But the people who think they have it figured out say, that’s not something I need to know about.
You know, what do I need to look into that for?
And that’s how you know they’re gotten.
They’re already owned.
Lock, stock, and barrel.
And most people are in that position because they think, you know, oh, all of this is just hokum.
All of this is just religion.
And I tried to explain to somebody who’s very concerned about the political degradation and the political process and the direction America and the world in general is headed, politically and financially.
And I tried to explain, you know, what really drives this underneath is the occult.
Religion drives this.
Religious beliefs by the people involved in dark occultism and their religious belief systems is ultimately what’s driving the slavery system on earth.
and he says to me I don’t need to know anything about that I don’t want to know anything about
that I said oh really that’s something you don’t need to learn you don’t need to know about he said
yeah that’s right because I don’t believe in any of that stuff and I said you’re gotten right to
them they already have you and you don’t even understand you know because he said that’s
somebody else’s belief how does that affect me as if somebody else’s beliefs can’t affect us
And we’re immune to what other people believe, because particularly religious zealots and
people who have very deep-seated belief systems based on faith and religion, right?
They don’t take action in the world based on those religious beliefs, do they?
Never.
They never do.
And those actions would never affect anybody else living in the world.
You’re completely insulated from those behaviors.
It’s a child’s view.
At some point with someone like that, I have to set it down and say, you think you’re fine?
Well then go be fine, you know, at that point.
That’s a deep, hardcore level of ignorance to be in.
Again, that’s not really surpassed by much of anything in the way of ignorance, which
is something we’re going to talk about, the different kinds of ignorance.
But to go back to what knowledge occultism actually is comprised of, the bodies of knowledge,
The two main bodies of knowledge are knowledge of the self and knowledge of the laws of nature.
That’s basically it.
The knowledge of the self, the knowledge of the human psyche and how the psyche operates,
its components, its aspects, its motivations, its desires, etc.
What drives us?
What’s going on at a subconscious level?
What’s going on at the unseen level?
In the recesses of the human psyche, in the psychological realms.
This is what is known as the minor knowledge of the occult.
The minor arcana.
Arcana is a Greek word that means knowledge.
I have a Latin word that means knowledge.
I tell people don’t look at this because it’s called the minor arcana or the lesser arcana
as meaning of lesser importance.
That is not what it means.
It’s just distinguishing it from that which is larger in scope as far as the kind of systems
that it actually affects or that it governs okay so you want to look at the part there on the left
as this is the small scope of things the scope of things operating at the individual level at the
individuated domain of the of the individual self and then on the right hand side here you want to
look at the major or greater arcana as simply being that which deals with the macrocosmic world
the world of large things, large systems of nature, okay, the physical laws that, you know,
deal with dynamics and motion and gravity, et cetera, you know, all of the physical dynamics,
electromagnetism, et cetera. But then the major or greater arcana, the world of macrocosmic
knowledge, also includes the knowledge of what I call natural law, the moral laws that govern
and the consequences of behavior of beings
that have the capacity for holistic intelligence.
Or in other words, universal moral law,
the laws that govern consciousness.
These are the two bodies of knowledge
that comprise all occult knowledge.
And I ask people when I explain to them
the two bodies of knowledge,
what is not contained within these two groups?
What knowledge that is of any significance,
except, you know, the football and baseball stats, okay,
is of any significance in the realm of human life.
I would say, if you control these two bodies of knowledge
and you’re trying to dissuade people from looking into them,
then you have people manipulated from the get-go.
You know, they don’t have a chance
if they don’t understand these things.
And it’s the same thing like in the ancient priest classes
that wanted to control the population,
the priest king would go up to the top of the pyramid
tell people, hey, the great sky beast is getting ready to eat the sun. And it was an eclipse.
You know, it was a solar eclipse. And he’s going to eat the earth next if you don’t bow down and
give me total power. You know, and if, you know, you accept me as the intermediary between the
gods and yourself, then, you know, in a few minutes the sun will come back and, you know,
life will continue on earth. And it worked beautifully because these people had no
knowledge of the macroscopic laws of nature. They didn’t understand the physical sciences
and astronomy in particular back then. They didn’t understand how that motion worked and
how that phenomenon worked. So that’s how a differential in power can be created when
you have a differential in knowledge present. A major point to keep in mind, and this is
something people constantly take a unidimensional viewpoint regarding. So many people want to say,
oh, all the occult is bad. It’s knowledge, folks. It’s not something that is universally good or
universally evil. It’s knowledge and what we do with it. That’s it. It’s a tool. It’s a tool set.
Would you say astronomy is good or evil? Would you say mathematics is good or evil? Would you
say biology is good or evil? It’s knowledge. That’s all the occult is. It’s knowledge. The
consciousness of the wielder of that knowledge determine whether it’s used for good or evil.
You know, so if I’m trying to create genetically engineered food products so I could sell people
poison to undermine their health just so I could make more money because I could grow more crops
on less land, I’d say that’s a pretty dastardly use of science, in my opinion, in my worldview.
You know, but science of biology and genetics is just knowledge.
What we then do with them determines whether it’s good or bad.
The same for the occult, and that’s how we have to look at it.
The occult is a double-edged blade, however.
There is, again, a light side to it and a dark side to it.
And it’s all dependent on how that knowledge is used.
So the knowledge contained within the occult sciences can be used for good, which I consider the uplift of consciousness, or it can be used for evil, the manipulation of consciousness, the control of people, and ultimately putting people into bondage and slavery.
To clearly distinguish between these different usages of occult knowledge, I refer to occult knowledge that is employed toward the expansion of human consciousness and morality as light occultism or magic.
now some people won’t make this distinction they’ll say it’s all one body of information
i’m going to just group it all in and it’s a very dangerous proposition because those people again
take a very unidimensional approach and they usually take the approach it’s all bad and
therefore none of it should be looked into now religious people take this approach it’s why they
don’t understand the occult many new agers take this approach now they say if it’s not pure
spiritualism or pure spiritual mysticism, then I don’t want anything to do with it.
I consider that’s dark stuff or sorcery.
It’s a very unidimensional and naive and childish view of this body of science, okay?
So that’s what I call light occultism.
When you use this hidden knowledge toward the uplift of humanity, toward the expansion
of consciousness and the expansion of morality.
So the other way of using it is for manipulation, control and the suppression of consciousness.
And if this knowledge is used in that methodology, then I refer to it as dark occultism or sorcery
is a perfectly acceptable term for it.
Thus the practitioners of light occultism could be referred to as light occultists,
magicians, magi, light builders or light workers.
terms that I feel could be used interchangeably as long as we’re looking
at it within the context of occult knowledge as I have defined it in my
working definition. And you can look at the practitioners of dark occultism as
dark occultists, sorcerers, dark builders, or dark workers. All terms that I feel
are perfectly acceptable and interchangeable with each other. So why
has such knowledge been hidden from humanity? Well let’s look at, we’ll look
at why each set of occultists hide this information okay first let’s look at why
dark occultists hide it then at a later point we’ll look at why even light
occultists sometimes conceal this knowledge dark occultists have
deliberately hidden occult knowledge in order to create and maintain a power
differential between those who hold such knowledge and those who are ignorant of
it we’ve already been talking about that and if through this mechanism all power
ultimately flows to them because knowledge applied is power in the world
knowledge is not itself power it is the potential for power when you apply
knowledge then you can gain power if you don’t have it you’re completely
disempowered from the very beginning dark occultists work through fear and
manipulation to bring about compliance with their own selfish will that’s what
But I would consider the dark arts in general.
I would consider sorcery the act of applying knowledge in order to bring about manipulation
in other people so that they comply with your selfish will.
What you want for you only, not for the uplift of all.
Dark occultists work is always done in secrecy.
They don’t want to do their works in the light of day where everyone can know what they’re
doing. They’re constantly contravening the freedom and prosperity of all but
themselves, of course. That’s the out of control ego run amok. The pure left brain,
you know, modality of consciousness without the balance of the sacred feminine,
compassionate, creative right brain. I consider this pyramidal, hierarchical, and
compartmentalized structure the occult structure of our entire world. Dark
Occultists have completely infiltrated
and permeated all institutional walks of life on Earth.
This is a topic I constantly talk about in my work,
on my radio show, my podcast series,
and in the interviews that I do.
It’s so important for people to understand,
this is who’s really running the show here on Earth.
You know, it’s not just the international bankers.
It is them, but they’re dark occultists
at the highest levels.
You know, the people involved in the political think tanks are dark occultists at the highest levels.
The people involved in, you know, corporatism and business at the very highest levels use these sciences and this knowledge.
You know, the high-level religionists in all religion, all ostensible religions,
guarantee they have this knowledge at the highest levels and they’re using it for dark purposes.
You know, people want to think, well, that’s not happening in my religion.
And that’s going on in all the other religions, but mine is completely pure and free of any wrongdoing.
Yeah.
Through their manipulation of these institutions, dark occultists currently hold the overall mindset of the human population in a general state of unconsciousness, thus holding humanity in a state of slavery.
They have the hordes of humanity in thrall, okay?
They are completely at their mercy at this point because of the amount of knowledge that they lack.
Not only regarding what the occult is in general, but regarding the multifaceted array of mind-control methodologies
that are being used against them on a daily basis, that they’re being barraged with.
And until we level that playing field through knowledge, don’t expect it to change.
The thing that the two states that dark occultism wants to hold the overall population in is what I call the mental schism and the worldview schism.
They want to hold people in a state of chronic, imbalanced thought.
And then they want to hold people in a chronically imbalanced overall worldview regarding human nature and life in general.
If they can keep people in those modes of consciousness, they can keep their control over their behavior because they have control over their mind as a result.
So the mental schism works through mind control methods, all the multifaceted soft mind control techniques that I covered over the course of about a year and a half on my radio shows.
And in general, how it works is keeping people chronically imbalanced toward one type of consciousness or another.
one type of brain activity or another either the masculine left brain modality
of consciousness or the feminine right brain modality of consciousness but
never actually holistically bringing them both together in a state of balance
they want it in a chronic state of imbalance such as such that most people
are either always always left brain or always right brain if the left brain
the masculine component of the brain, the intellect, depicted here by the upward
pointing triangle which is an ancient archetypal symbol known as the blade
representing masculine energy, a rudimentary phallic symbol archetypally.
If that part of the brain, that left hemisphere, is chronically dominant in an
individual, the following states can manifest within that individual. Rigid skepticism or
scientism, atheism, and by atheism I simply mean the belief that there is no higher power than
mankind, than humanity, that we’re the pinnacle, we’re the highest force in nature, nothing
ultimately governs humanity except the laws that we arbitrarily make up in this farce called
government okay so it can create rigid skepticism scientism atheism solipsism
the notion that there is no such thing as actual objective truth that can truly
be known you just social Darwinism moral relativism moral relativism relativism
is the belief that there’s no such thing as right and wrong objectively that
these are just arbitrarily chosen concepts and man gets to make up what’s
right or make up what’s wrong. Social Darwinism, the idea that, you know, since
man is the highest pinnacle of mind, the highest animal in nature, that those who
are somehow gifted with better genetics and a higher intellect should somehow
rule over those who they consider beneath them or at some kind of a lower
caste than them, and society naturally should be structured like that, with an elite class
ruling over a class of slaves, basically.
Eugenics, the notion that certain people’s gene sets should propagate themselves, be
allowed to propagate, and they should control what gene pools should be allowed to propagate.
as the intellectual and genetic elite, then they want to control who gets to breed and
who does not get to breed. Essentially, who lives and who dies. Authoritarianism, of course,
this belief in authority, this illusion that some people are masters and others are slaves,
you know, and the masters get to issue commands and the slaves have some sort of an inherent
moral obligation to obey these commands it’s what i call master think ultimately you know that’s why
they want to create this schism you know it’s a divide and conquer strategy it’s a very structured
arch you could look at it where these two forces you know combine and lean against each other
left brain imbalance leans against right brain imbalance creating a very rigid structure which
is difficult to disassemble and take down because these forces play on each other.
A right brain imbalance or feminine imbalance, the right hemisphere of the brain which governs
creativity, intuition, compassion, nurturing, et cetera.
If that part of the brain that is depicted here by the symbol, the inverted equilateral
triangle which again is an ancient archetypal symbol known as the chalice because it is
is a rudimentary womb.
If that part of the brain is chronically imbalanced,
or chronically dominant, I should say,
these following states result, naivete, blind belief,
religious extremism, total belief, total faith,
not actually checking anything,
not looking into things for oneself,
taking other people’s word on it.
Solipsism, again, the belief that there’s no such thing
truth. Both forms of mental imbalance can create that state. Moral relativism, you
see so much moral relativism in the New Age movement. You think moral relativism
is the exclusive domain of left brain imbalance. Think again because people in
the New Age movement are super right brain imbalanced in many cases and you’ll
hear many of them saying there’s no such thing as right and wrong. Those are
religious concepts. I don’t believe in those. So a right brain state of
Objective imbalance can lead to the belief that there’s no such thing as objective right
and wrong as well.
Feelings of unworthiness, feelings of self-loathing, falling into patterns of following other people’s
orders because, hey, if you’re naive, if you blindly believe and you don’t really believe
there’s such a thing as absolute objective truth, then I’m going to take somebody else’s
word for it.
And if they say this is what’s right to do, then I’m just going to go along, follow their
orders.
many people are in that extremely imbalanced dangerous state of mind and I
call this all of this imbalanced thought slave think in general and that’s what
the dark occult overlords right now at our time in history that’s what they
want they want these two states they just want them operating all over
society they don’t want anybody in a state of balance coming bring bridging
these two modalities of consciousness
and bringing them together.
They want people in one state of imbalance or the other
so that those dynamics of master think and slave think
continually play off against each other.
The second imbalanced mind state
that dark occultism wants to maintain.
Again, what I’m talking about here is their great work.
The dark occultists’ great work.
We’re talking about what their goal is.
What are they trying to constantly maintain in humanity?
And they’re doing a very effective job of it.
They are successful because they operate on the same page
for the same goal, like one huge mind.
They call it a mastermind.
They focus their energy on that intent.
They carry it out in the world through their methodologies.
They get it done.
That’s why we’re so scattered.
We can’t come together with that same mastermind focus,
that coming together and operating on the same page
because we share collective common knowledge.
That’s what they’re doing.
They have this knowledge and they use it for dark purposes,
all on the same page, all focused, all together
for the same goal.
These two things are their goal,
the mental schism and the worldview schism.
The worldview schism is this notion
that the world is either completely random
or completely determined.
They want these two schisms of worldview present
because they don’t want people to understand the balance
that is the actual truth,
that there is components within nature
of both of these views of reality,
but they operate in conjunction with each other,
not in a state of imbalance.
They operate in a state of true balance with each other.
I’ll explain that in a moment.
Let’s look at the states of imbalance
that the dark occult wants to maintain.
The notion or worldview of randomness
is a very left-brain, imbalanced worldview.
It contains notions such as
the universe is a grand accident.
Everything just is accidental that has happened.
There’s no purpose.
There’s no underlying purpose for anything.
We’re living in a random, accidental realm
that happened for no true reason or purpose.
They believe that people who subscribe
to the randomness worldview believe there’s no creator
and therefore there is no underlying intelligence in nature.
You know, everything is reductionist and a dead thing.
You know, the cell is dead.
There’s no such thing as consciousness.
The earth is dead.
The solar system’s dead.
The sun is just a big ball of, you know,
hydrogen and helium having a sustained fusion reaction,
but it’s a dead thing.
Randomness worldview often postulates there’s no such thing as spiritual or
moral or natural law. Because, hey, if the universe is a dead thing, came into
reality for no real purpose, it’s a purposeless clockwork mechanism
operating only by matter,
okay, then, you know, there can’t be any such thing as actual morality and laws
that govern our decisions, whether our decisions are based in right or wrong, the belief that
existence has no purpose other than to continue to exist, survival mentality, pure survival
mentality. Nothing wrong with the concept of preparedness or survival, especially in the kind
of times we’re living in today, but to believe that existence itself exists for no other reason
then to survive is very left-brain imbalanced.
And randomness is the general hallmarks of scientism, atheism, and just about every totalitarian
culture that has ever existed on this planet.
Conversely, the deterministic worldview holds notions such as, God controls every event
in creation.
This is a very right-brain imbalanced worldview.
is preordained. You know, free will doesn’t even enter into the picture. It’s an illusion. It
doesn’t really exist. I hear so many new agers constantly say, there’s no such thing as free
will. Free will is an illusion. You know, at an ultimate level, it’s an illusion. Very, very
dangerous proposition. Very dangerous belief that we don’t have free will. You know, that starts to
excuse people for immoral behavior. Determinism often postulates, hey, since the whole universe
is controlled and it’s like a clockwork mechanism, but it’s run by God, why bother trying to create
any change? Change is impossible. It’s already set in stone. Action, therefore, becomes ultimately
meaningless. Why do anything? I tell religionists who think like this, why do you get out of bed in
the morning? Why bother doing anything? Why say a word to another human being? Why eat? Why breathe?
You know, why not just lay in a supine position in the corner somewhere and wait to expire from malnutrition and dehydration and then go back to dust, you know?
But, you know, many people, they actually say that this is what they believe, you know?
It’s a big hallmark of salvationist religiosity, you know, that action is meaningless.
Only faith is what’s required.
something that I’m vehemently opposed to you know the new age takes this in to
you know they converted in their own imbalanced way that you know we’re here
just to observe you know don’t get involved in anything just observe it
watch it be the observer you know life’s not a movie playing on a screen in front
of your eyes folks your active participants whether you realize that or
not again this right brain imbalance and this whole worldview of determinism
are the is the hallmark of religious extremism and what I call slave think
the truth lies as it always does in the balance point okay in the synthesis in
the coming together between extremes in many cases and that is often extreme in
itself because so few people are in that balance point truly the truth is that
the actual way that the universe operates is through two overarching
mechanisms a deterministic component to creation and a randomness component to
creation the deterministic component is natural law which I delved into in the
seminar in Connecticut last year and again that’s the work that I highly
recommend people to deeply deeply know for people who haven’t you know who’ve
only touched on some of my work and you know may not be familiar with my natural
law material it is the most important work that I’ve put forward and I highly
recommend the people to watch my natural law seminar in its entirety multiple
times if you have to to drive the information home so natural law is the
deterministic component of creation the moral laws that govern the consequences
of our behavioral decisions, those laws themselves are set in stone and cannot be changed.
They are the deterministic component to nature.
And then there is a free will component to nature which beings with the capacity for
holistic intelligence have been gifted with by creation itself.
That is the force of free will.
That’s why that can never be dismissed.
it works in tandem with the laws of nature to bring us the results of our choices into our
experience so that we can learn and grow from those choices and those experiences this is the
world view that the dark occult wants to keep people from which is why i embodied it by the
all-seeing eye that’s what that’s a big part of enlightenment what real enlightenment is about
And I talk about that as well in my Streetwise Spirituality seminar.
Another thing that dark occultists want to prevent people from understanding is how our reality is actually built.
How we together in the aggregate, in aggregate numbers, meaning collectively as a species, co-create our reality that we are experiencing on the earth together as a people.
You know, you hear this notion in the New Age movement, the law of attraction, you know,
that a lot of the New Age people want people to believe we’re individually creating our reality
all by ourselves. Mark Passio does not create Mark Passio’s reality entirely what I experience
by myself, by how I think. Other people are involved in that process. It’s a co-creative
process. Because if someone randomly does something violent to me, I did not create
that experience. This is a total misunderstanding of the law of attraction, how the law of attraction
works. Free will is involved. I can do something completely random. So can other people because
they have the capacity for free will behavior. So we’re not creating our reality individually
at an individuated level, based upon the knowledge that we take in, based upon our understanding of
that knowledge, and then based upon what we do in our behaviors with that knowledge,
in the aggregate numbers, determines how a society is creating its reality for itself.
It happens on a societal scale. So dark occultists know how this principle operates.
and that’s why there’s the level they always want to control reality from
that’s the level of reality that if you’re a dark occultist that you want to
get to that you want to poison the stream of that you want to limit access
to that you want to dissuade people from looking into it’s the knowledge itself
what I’m going to build here in this slide is actually the trivium it’s the
ancient trivia methodology of truth discovery which I also broke down in my
natural law seminar. It’s called Knowledge, Understanding, and Wisdom. In the modern
trivium, it’s referred to as grammar, logic, and rhetoric. There’s also what I
call a computer analogy model of the trivium, which is input, processing, and
output. They’re all ultimately the same thing. So this is the grammar or input
step of the trivium method. It’s taking in all the seemingly disparate pieces of
information that are out there. You’re gathering your grammar. You’re gathering
your different pieces of your vocabulary. Available information constitutes
potential knowledge that we can gather, that we can process, that we can come to
understand, and then that we can act upon. If we don’t do that, we have ignorance.
We haven’t even looked at it. So the opposite of knowledge is total ignorance.
You haven’t even begun looking into it.
The second level of how our reality is built,
it’s built atop knowledge.
On top of that knowledge as a foundation,
you either have a grasp or an understanding
of those principles, or you do not.
So you either learn what that knowledge means
and how it works,
or you don’t have a deep understanding of that.
So these are decision-making filtering processes.
This is the logic step of the trivium,
or in the computing analogy model,
this would be the processing step.
These processes take place in the human mind
and are chosen by each individual
based upon the available information
that they have taken in.
So if you haven’t done your grammar
or you haven’t aggregated your knowledge
in step number one of this process,
you can’t possibly do the processing
and come to an understanding of it.
It’s why so many people have no understanding
of the principles of the occult sciences
because they haven’t even started beginning to learn
what the occult is or what it contains.
So you can’t possibly arrive at an understanding
of how the universe works
if you haven’t gathered that knowledge.
Then the third step in this process is acting,
actually taking action based upon your understanding.
Each individual in a society, each individual’s behavior
is based upon the quality of their decision-making processes
that they exercise in step number two,
which in turn were based on the quality
of the available information which they took in.
Now, again, notice wisdom is action.
It’s different than knowledge.
It’s different than understanding, all right?
These, knowledge is something that exists inherently
and you can take it in objectively.
Understanding is an internal process
that goes on within the self based upon the knowledge
that you’ve taken in and processed.
And then wisdom is action.
It’s what you do in the world with the knowledge
that you have accrued and understood.
So again, I put here, or lack thereof
in every one of these blocks.
The lack of knowledge is ignorance.
The lack of understanding is confusion.
And the lack of wisdom is folly.
So one more level above that is what we get
based upon what we’ve done.
What is manifested?
What is generated?
What do we experience?
the manifested reality. It’s the quality of the conditions that we experience. And the
quality of the condition which manifests collectively in our society, in any society, is based upon
the aggregate quality of behavior within that society. So again, it’s a stepwise progression.
What we’ve taken in, what we’ve come to understand, how we behave, what we get. I tell people
this is the most powerful slide in all my work. If you understand one slide, deeply, deeply understand
this process because this is what the dark occultists do not want people to understand.
That’s the real law of attraction, folks. Not the new age variant of it. Not the new age hokum
mysticism. I want to sell a million billion books telling people what they want to hear,
law of attraction, okay? This is how the universe actually works inherently. And it describes not
only how it works, but our relationship to that process. And this is what they don’t want you to
know. That’s the most deeply hidden information. Because natural law is contained within that.
Because as the aggregate quality of behavior is immoral, slavery is the manifestation. That’s why
we’re at where we are at because so many people aren’t truly moral individuals
they don’t really deeply know the difference between right and wrong
behavior and choose the right over the wrong so as long as they can keep that
back from the bulk of humanity from deeply understanding there’s always
going to they’re always going to be in control until this becomes common
knowledge of how the universe really works and how our experience is really
generated. And we understand as in the aggregate we become more and more moral of a civilization
then our civilization becomes more free as we become more moral. We understand how those
governing dynamics bring to us the overall quality of our aggregate experience. That’s when
we’re making progress as a species. That’s when we’re breaking out of mind control. And that’s
when we’re countering the dark occultists’ great work.
Now, why do light occultists hide occult knowledge?
Because they do.
Light occultists also hide occult knowledge.
Light occultists have hidden occult knowledge
in order to prevent its complete eradication
during Exedian, Draconian times.
And at other times, they have hidden that knowledge
to prevent it from falling into the hands
of would-be dark occultists.
In other words, those who knew of the empowerment
that could be gained from such knowledge,
but who wanted to use it for immoral purposes
or for purposes of manipulation and control.
Occasionally, at times in history,
those who consider themselves
or others have considered light occultists
have sequestered certain occult knowledge
for these purposes.
And again, if it’s strictly for those purposes,
I would not fully condemn that.
However, at certain stages in history, like the one we’re in now, where this information could be brought forward without immediately being, you know, burned at the stake or something like that or tortured in a horrific way, I do not agree with hiding it even for these purposes.
Could there be a would-be dark occultist in this audience?
Yes, possibly.
You know, I gave a lecture one time at a food market in Philadelphia, and there were some teenage children around the age of 17 or 18 in the audience who wanted to know all about the occult symbolism that I was going to talk about because they actually wanted to use it for manipulative purposes.
purposes they wanted to learn about the archetypal ways that symbolism could be used and somebody
who knew them told me this that that was why they came and i said hey let them understand it because
if everybody understands it the playing field is leveled then nobody can use it for those dark
purposes because you’re empowered by knowledge and if you see how they’re using it you say oh
i know how that’s being used that’s not going to have an effect on me it’s like gun ownership
It’s the same thing.
I want everybody to own guns because the only way you’re ever going to stop a bad guy with
a gun is a good guy with a gun.
As long as guns exist in the natural world, that’s the reality of the situation whether
anybody likes it or not.
Get as offended about it as you want.
So it levels the playing field.
When you want to take something away from one group of people and only have it in the
hands of the other group of people, there’s a huge imbalance in power.
I’m for egalitarianism when it comes to natural rights and when it comes to the dissemination
of knowledge.
Everybody should be on equal footing as to their ability to take in what they desire
to take in.
And in that sense, no knowledge should be sequestered.
The great work of light occultists, in stark contrast to the great work of dark occultists,
which we’ve been talking about,
is the distribution of occult knowledge freely to humanity,
thereby ending the slavery of humanity
by eliminating the widespread ignorance
which dark occultists exploit
to gain and maintain their control.
Light occultists would be better referred to as de-occultists,
which is a term I absolutely love and I consider myself.
I don’t even want anybody to call me a light occultist
or an occultist in general.
I like to be called a de-occultist.
That’s my task, that’s my work,
to break this knowledge out like an avalanche
onto humanity and just let it flow freely where it will
so that people can take it in
and we can level the playing field
that has thus far been dominated by ignorance.
So light occultists I feel would be better referred to
as de-occultists because what de-occultists do
is reveal and spread knowledge which has been hidden
and which must be known, commonly known.
It must become common knowledge
in order for freedom to manifest.
Is the occult really hidden, really hidden?
Again, it’s what I was talking about when I said,
do they really hide it or do they just dissuade people
from looking into it?
Is this knowledge truly inaccessible and completely hidden
or is it out there for anyone who wants it?
I would make the argument it’s out there for anyone who wants it.
I mean, we’re drowning in information.
If anything, it’s become a little bit more difficult to even get the information
because of how much nonsense you often have to weed through to get the real material.
It’s covered by a, the signal is often covered by noise, you could say.
But are we living in a nascent society or an ignorant society?
And this involves the understanding of the difference between two connotative forms of not knowing something.
I call this the context of not knowing, nescience versus ignorance.
Most people have not heard the word nescience.
It’s a fairly antiquated word not used much in colloquial English these days.
Nescience comes from the Latin verb nesciere.
Nesciere in Latin means to not know because knowledge was absent or unattainable.
Well, is the knowledge of the occult completely absent?
Is it totally unattainable?
Can we not understand it because we don’t have access to the knowledge?
We don’t have access to that baseline level in that trivium process, the grammar, the
input?
Is it present in our world or is it absent in our world?
I’d make the argument it is completely present.
Not only is it completely present, it is accessible at anyone’s fingertips who has the desire.
And again, the colors I’ve chosen for this presentation as a brief aside, since I mentioned
the concept of desire here, are not just fall colors, although that’s a part of it.
But the color orange resonates with the concept of desire in the occult, of wanting something,
of wanting to know particularly, okay?
And are we a society that truly wants to know?
You know, I don’t consider us a nation society.
When we look at the meaning of the word ignorance
coming from the Latin verb ignorare,
which means to not know,
even though necessary information is present
because that information has been willfully refused
or key word here, disregarded, for whatever reason.
I don’t wanna know it.
That’s too difficult for me to comprehend.
I have to expand my worldview in order to take that in.
I’ve been dissuaded from looking into that.
I’ve been told it’s not important.
Dissuasion and disregarding information
work hand in hand with each other.
So by a show of hands, how many people think
we are living in a nescient society by a show of hands?
Nescient society.
The information that humanity needs to know
is completely unavailable to us.
Anybody?
No one in the room.
That means 100% of this crowd, at least,
thinks that we are living as a entire species
in a state of ignorance, in the aggregate.
Of course, there are very knowledgeable individuals
within humanity, but as a species in the aggregate,
we are an ignorant species.
We ignore that which is present,
that which is all around us,
that which is capable of empowering us and setting us free,
but we don’t wanna do the work.
We don’t wanna put the time in.
We don’t wanna make the effort.
I have to laugh at people who think,
this is just an interest for me.
It’s your hobby, something you wanna do.
I sat in the room, basically like a hermit, literally,
in a room for years.
People said, Mark, Mark, what are you doing?
Why aren’t you even interacting with other people?
Why are you sitting in a room
day after day after day after day after day it’s called reading and that’s hard
work that’s a lot of effort that means you’re gonna sacrifice your time that
means you’re not gonna do other things you know because you’re gonna make the
effort to care enough to take in what is necessary to take in to transform and
then help to transform others that’s a work of a labor of love it is a work of
willpower and care which is why most people don’t want to do it most people
are in the state I can’t be bothered I don’t have time for that I’m too busy I
don’t need to know that I already have it figured out I know everything I need
to know to get by that’s where humanities at folks so let’s begin an
initiation all right again initiation means beginning we’re gonna look at some
different schools of occultism, different occult sciences. I call them the many
paths or the many ways, the many methods to the same place, to the same
destination. So this section constitutes kind of a an occult initiation about the
very basic generalized concepts of some of these occult traditions. Again time is
not going to allow me to go into great depths or details nor is this
presentation intended to be a very in-depth introductory work it’s
intended to be rudimentary for people who are just learning about this
information for the first time occult traditions many paths one destination
I’ll just say at the beginning of this section and I’ll kind of highlight this
as we go through these traditions ultimately all of the esoteric
traditions were designed specifically to do one thing and that was to convey a
working knowledge of natural law to the initiates of that tradition which means
a working knowledge of how the universe actually creates through the interaction
with our free will decisions with our free will decision-making processes we
We are co-creating with the laws of the universe the experience that we are having, that is
being generated for us, okay, as a result of those laws operating in conjunction with
our free will.
That’s what the occult has always tried to teach people.
See that one slide, you know, with the building blocks on top of each other, the trivium process
resulting in what manifests in our world?
That’s ultimately the occult.
That is the occult traditions.
They were trying to teach people how the laws of nature work in conjunction with the decision-making
processes of the individuals of a society.
So let’s look at a few of these traditions.
Probably the oldest occult tradition on earth is shamanism.
And some people don’t look at it as an occult tradition.
I personally do.
And shamanism, like the occult in general, isn’t one thing.
You can get down into subsections, subgroupings of shamanistic practices, different practices
are practiced in different regions of the world, in different cultural regions, different
geographic regions.
In general, I feel that shamanism grew out of very, very, very ancient knowledge which
was brought here from another place, ultimately.
And this connects with my work in Cosmic Abandonment
and the information I’ve been going through
on my radio show recently.
But I think the earliest shamans were working
with high-level ancient knowledge,
and they were working with knowledge of spiritual realms
and different levels of consciousness
that are out of the ordinary,
out of the realm of what we would consider
ordinary levels of experience or consciousness.
It’s a very internal work, but then the true shaman brings the internal work that they’ve
done within themselves back out into the seeming external domain and applies it in their society.
So as such, a shaman is a way shower.
What shamanism actually is is an ancient tradition of knowledge comprising practices that involve
practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness via diverse techniques.
Some of these techniques can include music, dancing, endurance practices,
endurance scenarios, extremes of temperature, or ingestion of
hallucinogenic compounds, and many other techniques as well, in order to encounter
and interact directly with intelligences existing in purely spiritual
domains. The word shaman itself means one who sees in the dark. As a word, that’s what it means.
So while darkness is present all around, the shaman can still see in the darkness. He has
night vision, in other words. And he’s employing that for the benefit of the people around him who
have difficulty seeing in that darkness. Again, as such, shamans were considered way showers
of their people. Those who are capable of showing the people of their society the way out of
darkness and chaos and into the light of knowledge. Shamans were those who had attained understanding
of both the forces dwelling within the human psyche, which was the bulk of their work, the bulk
of their practices dealt with those techniques to work with the psyche, particularly the very
deeply nested and dark material of the human subconscious. But they also well worked with
the forces that are inherent in nature, what I call natural law. And they used that knowledge
for the benefit, for the healing, and for the uplift of their respective communities.
That’s the best definition that I can think of for explaining exactly what the practice,
the set of practices that comprise shamanism is. Again, it is a diversified set of practices. It
is not one thing. Shamans often employ hallucinogenic compounds, which have been
called many different names in different cultures and throughout different times
in history I just want to go through some of the names and break down some of
the words because you know as we’re going to get into symbolism later words
are very symbolic in many cases and the subsections of the words that are used
to comprise them coming from the different ancient languages when we
break them down etymologically and look at the etymology of the word tells us so
much about the intended meaning of the word. So some of these hallucinogenic
compounds that shamans have used over the centuries, the natural ones, some
neo shamans use these new designer hallucinogenic compounds which I won’t
be getting into but the three traditional ones that have been used
in a widespread way all over the earth are cannabis in its four different
forms as sativa or indica, different variations of hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow in every
continent of the world, and the ayahuasca vine or some of the different analogs of ayahuasca
prepared often in South America and Central America.
So ayahuasca is one of the key, one of the active ingredients actually in ayahuasca is
dimethyltryptamine.
That’s not pictured here.
This is the actual mono, MAO inhibitor that works with dimethyltryptamine to make it orally
active to comprise an ayahuasca analog on the right hand side here.
That’s mimosa hostilis root bark used by many shamans to create ayahuasca by adding a plant
material that contains DMT to that and cooking it down. DMT is another entheogenic or psychedelic
compound that shamans have often used. Derivatives of that were very similar compounds to that
like bufotinine. But to just go back to the etymology of the word, entheogen is a more
modern way of looking at hallucinogens or psychedelics. It comes from the Greek, Greek
and Latin. The Greek prefix en means within, the first part of the word. Then in the middle
of the word we have theo, that comes from the Greek noun theos, which means God or divinity.
And then the last part, gens, in entheogen, comes from the Latin verb genere, which means
to create so we put these three root words together and entheogen means to
create create or generate the divine within it doesn’t mean to become God it
means to work with and grow the spark of the divine within the individual by
communing with this force that is capable of opening up an other
dimensional experience within us so you’re seeing a divine realm or an
otherworldly realm within the mind’s eye when you commune with these compounds or
helper spirits they’ve been called psychedelics it’s a much more popular
word for them that comes from the Greek noun psyche meaning mind and the Greek
verb the loon which means to make visible or to reveal by removing a
source of obscuration now what have I just said there to make visible or to
reveal by removing a source of obscuration is to do what? To de-occult.
Literally the word psychedelic means to de-occult. And again I don’t advocate for
the irresponsible use of any of these compounds. I feel that they have a
specific purpose that they can be used for to uplift human consciousness if
they are worked with in a respectful way. So psychedelic literally means to reveal
the mind or to de-occult aspects of the mind.
These were the true sacraments of the ancient world employed by early human beings.
The word sacrament comes from the Latin adjective sacrum, which means sacred or holy, and the
Latin noun mens mentis, which means mind, where we get the English word mental from.
Again, a sacrament is something that is capable of helping us to foster a holy mind or a sacred
mindset.
That’s why the sacraments of the ancient world were active ones.
They were active compounds that were given to the congregation or the initiates of the
shamanic tradition.
Now in today’s religion, it has become an esoteric religion, a fragmentary memory of
true shamanism of the past, of the ancient world, and we now have inert sacraments that
are often given to religious congregations, which don’t actually provide any different
or mind-altering state of consciousness.
Sacraments or psychedelics or entheogens have also been referred to as communion.
This is a religious term, of course, in the Christian tradition.
It comes from the Latin preposition com, which means together, and the Latin verb munire,
which means to build or to strengthen or to fortify or to protect.
So when we look at the word tradition, etymologically, it actually means to build together.
That’s what communion within a community will help you to do.
It will help you to build strength together and to come into a state of protection by
understanding morality and natural law.
And finally, these compounds were simply referred to, probably the best word you could refer
to them as, medicines, because they’re true medicines, especially cannabis.
That’s something people really need to do their homework about and then spread that
information to a lot of other people.
Cannabis is one of the most potent medicines, particularly just about for curing any chronic
ailment, but particularly for healing cancer of all kinds.
And this is something that has been occulted from most people’s view because pharmaceutical
cartels, you know, they want to clean up and keep people dependent on their drugs
loaded with harmful effects and side effects for the duration of
their natural lives. A real medicine, the word medicine, comes from the Latin noun
medi, which means the middle, the center, or the balance point, and the Latin noun
Sinus or Kinos which means ruin destruction or chaos so we put these
together what a medicine does is it brings balance to ruin it brings balance
to that which once was in ruin is that not what a true medicine is supposed to
help us to achieve to achieve a state of balance in other words to bring order to
that which was in chaos you know and ultimately what the shaman really worked
with was knowledge. That’s the most important thing that can bring balance back to a society
that is in ruins or to bring order back to a society which was in chaos. Knowledge was the
ultimate medicine of a shamanic culture. Which brings me to the point, and this is going to be
a pretty controversial point of view that I’m going to lay out here. But if you actually look
into this point you will understand that this is the case and many people will
not advocate for this position and I will. This is something I make no bones
about advocating for. A shamanic culture was very controlling of their
young and I don’t even want to use the word control. It was very strictly guiding of
their young. Let’s use that expression, okay. Control takes a very negative
connotation because control is often for a manipulative purpose this design to
bring about the desire of the person who’s doing the manipulation okay their
own selfish will shamanic education is something that I think people need to
more deeply understand about what it was and how it was done I talked about this
a little bit at the end of my last seminar and I started to talk about it
at the end of the last time I was in Connecticut last year in the question
and answer session many shamanic cultures throughout time have employed a
strict system of moral education the teaching of natural law principles for
their young in such an educational system it is deemed unacceptable for
their young not to learn the objective difference between right and wrong
behavior at an early age again this is something that’s not even taught in our
society. In any schools in the world, anywhere in the world, are teachers
really teaching the difference, the true difference between right and wrong
behavior? Are we teaching morality to our children? How many parents are even doing
it, let alone teachers in schools? We’re sending them off to a state-run
educational system that wants to teach them compliance, obedience, and make them
malleable so that their minds are easily molded to whatever the state wants them
to be that’s why it’s called outcome based education well shamanic education
can be looked at as a different form of outcome based education because the
ringer or the gauntlet that the shamanic culture was putting their children
through was you’re gonna come out the other end a moral human being or you’re
not going to live in this culture we’re gonna put you out into the wilderness as
result which equals death in there in those societies in there especially the
ancient versions of them you know in the modern world these practices are largely
dying due to they’re not really being any shamanic cultures practically left
and you know the rapid influx of you know modern civilization and technology
and cities etc we’re wiping out these old shamanic cultures the the very few
that are still left in very remote regions, pretty much only in South America and Africa
and certain isolated places in Asia.
So the small percentage of those children who proved unable or unwilling to learn such
moral sensibilities during their childhood may have often been ostracized from the shamanic
culture upon reaching adulthood.
They were recognized as the psychopathic, primarily psychopathic beings within that
culture and the shamanic culture would not tolerate their presence.
They would just take them to the edge of the village, say, don’t come back here.
If you come back, it would be considered an act of aggression you’ll be dealt with.
So the forest will deal with you, you know, and that’s it.
You’re on your own and if you can survive there, that’s fine.
If not, don’t come, don’t bring your immoral presence
back into our culture.
And I advocate for this methodology.
So such child rearing methods, and again, this is because,
I’m not saying you wanna be a total domineering parent
over your child.
What I’m saying is, a child is literally
like a blank hard drive, literally.
And it’s a hard thing for people to swallow.
They don’t wanna accept.
we largely, we come in with some inherent capabilities
into this reality, but largely, largely,
what we become in our adult years
is the product of what goes into the individual
during their childhood developmental years,
and this is something that is highly unpopular
for most people to hear,
and they’ll fight with it to their bitter death
not for it to be that way,
because they don’t want the responsibility
of having to program the young properly,
to put the software into that hard drive,
to lay down the operating system,
to lay down the format, to lay down the operating system,
and to lay down the good software without bugs
into that mine.
They don’t want that.
They think it’s just magically gonna work itself out
or they can turn the child over to the state
or God forbid, even worse, the television,
and magically they’ll grow up fine.
Well, it doesn’t work that way, folks.
And that’s part of the problem of this whole society,
is we largely have a society of abandoned children
running around this planet
that didn’t have a moral upbringing by their parents.
I know I didn’t.
That’s what led me into the dark occult.
I was an ignorant child
thinking I knew what was really going on in this world.
That’s what pushed me right into the arms of Satanism,
you know, because I didn’t receive a moral upbringing at all.
You know, everybody can say to an extent
Our parents tried to get us to be good people.
It’s not good enough, doesn’t cut it.
Sorry to burst your bubble, get as offended as you want.
If parents can’t definitively teach objective knowledge
of what is right and what is wrong to their young,
there is absolutely no possibility of that child
truly growing up as a true moral being.
I didn’t receive that information,
that knowledge from my parents, my grandparents,
or anybody else in my family.
I received it from strangers who cared enough to either talk about that knowledge, record
it in video presentations, record it in audio presentations, or write it down in books.
And that’s who raised me.
Strangers raised me.
No one in my family, and that’s largely the case in most people’s family, those who do
have family members who truly raised them are blessed individuals.
Be thankful for those individuals in your life.
What the shamanic culture, just to wrap up this slide,
such child rearing methods are one of the many reasons
that shamanic cultures often display extremely low
incidences of crime and mental illness
compared with other cultures.
They knew a simple principle.
If garbage goes into a complex system like a computer,
inevitably, invariably, garbage comes out of it.
You program a computer with a bad file,
system format, a bad operating system, bad software, you’re not getting good output on
the screen, on the printer, on the internet, or anywhere else the information goes out
to.
Not possible.
You put good quality information and coding into that computer, you’re going to get quality
out of it.
And that is largely how a human being works.
I’m not saying we are computers, I always make that caveat, because there’s always people
who say, he’s getting up here and saying we’re all computers.
Not what I’m saying.
I’m saying our fundamental thought and behavioral processes largely work like a computer, that
if you put good information in to be taken in, understood, and enacted upon, then you’re
going to have good output through behavior.
If you have bad information that you’ve fed that to, and that goes for bad food that you’re
putting into the body, bad information that you’re programming in through media and through
the school system, et cetera, you can only get garbage output on the screen of life called
human behavior.
this has to be deeply understood because we’re not truly educating our young at all. Certainly
not in a moral sense. That’s shamanism in general, in a nutshell. Again, I’m only going to cursorily
touch on these. That’s all time allows for. The commission tradition, okay, this is the ancient
Egyptian system of moral teachings. The ancient Egyptian system of occult practices and beliefs.
The Kemetian people were from Egypt, which was then called Kemet or Kem, simply Kem.
You could say it was Kemet, K-M-T is how it’s transliterated into English.
Kem or Kemet means the black land.
The word black in Egyptian is Kem.
So the original name for Egypt was Kemet.
There it is in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Kemet is derived from the word Kem, again a shortening of Kemet, and the word Kem means
black or dark in ancient Egyptian.
The term may have referred to the darkness of the soil of ancient Egypt caused by the
mineral deposits left by the yearly overflow of the Nile River in the Nile Valley.
The English word Egypt is derived from the Greek aigeptos, which means, that was the
Greek word for the ancient capital city of Egypt named Memphis.
And that in turn, aigeptos, which meant Memphis in Greek, the original name in Comitian or
in ancient Egyptian for the city of Memphis was called Khutka Ptah by the ancient Comitians
themselves. Khutka Ptah means the temple of the spirit of Ptah. Ptah is one of the highest
creator gods in the Egyptian pantheon of gods and goddesses. He was considered a very important
creator god. He was actually considered the first and greatest of the alchemists, those
from Khem, the teachers from Khem, where the word alchemist and alchemy comes from. So
So Ptah was considered one of the original master teachers.
He is often equivalent, equivalated with Thoth, with Hermes Trismegistus in different occult
traditions.
Today, the word that modern Egyptians use for the nation of Egypt is Misr, which is
derived from the Hebrew name for Egypt, Mizraim.
Mizraim in Hebrew means a narrow place or narrow straits,
probably referring to certain areas of the Nile River.
But I would suggest that synchromystically, if for no other reason,
this name, narrow straits, ultimately refers to the moral teachings of ancient Khem
and the Khemician tradition,
because they did teach a strict set of principles regarding natural or moral law.
I’ll get to that in a moment.
I just want to look at some of their symbolism in the example of the Comitian Trinity.
Just like Christianity, which derived its trinity from the ancient Comitian culture,
the Comitians had a trinity of gods and goddesses, two gods and a goddess to be exact.
This was Osiris, Isis, and Horus. Osiris depicted there in the middle atop the pillar was the creator god of this trinity.
He was the father, god the father in other words.
But what he symbolically represented in this allegorical symbolism of this trinity was the creative essence of the human being, which is the thought process, the mind.
The thing that ultimately has to go to work first for anything to get created.
Anything we want to create or put into manifestation has to ultimately work through the mental realm first.
You want to build a computer, you want to build a podium, you want to build a home, you know, any piece of technology,
it has to exist first in the realm of mind.
It has to be thought about archetypally, the need for it, you know, its purpose.
then you have to go through the process of what you’re going to do to make that happen
and come into manifestation.
All mental processes.
So creation follows the mind, hence the mind, the thoughts.
That’s the father figure, the creator God.
And that’s what Osiris represented.
Isis was the goddess figure in this trinity, depicted on the right.
She was the divine mother, or in other words, the emotional aspects of the being,
the spirit, the spirit in which we do something.
our spiritual essence the sacred feminine essence and then when those two
things come together our cares our desires our spirit combined with our
mental faculties of the mind then what happens we act in the world and
something is generated as a result and this was Horus he was the male child
because he represented action the masculine principle and he was
considered the Savior figure, the one that was ultimately born to redeem the
world through right action. Right action is what’s ultimately going to redeem the
world and you can only take right action if you have right knowledge about the
difference between right and wrong behavior. So he represented right action,
that which we do with our body, it’s a sacred masculine force. Very powerful if
we understand the Trinity as such that it is just different aspects of our own
consciousness thought emotion and action again here’s more commission allegorical
symbolism through their statues you see the god Osiris the Creator God in the
middle and this is representative of the mind specifically the brain physiology
you have the left brain set on Osiris is left hand side whoever made this graphic
I didn’t make the colors in the background I just found this graphic
like this person probably already had a very good understanding that this
represented the brain because they actually depicted the frequencies that
often represent the left and right brain. Red usually represents the left brain
tendencies or capabilities and blue is usually symbolic of the right brain, the
intuitive and creative capacities. So if you put yourself as Osiris in this image
on the statue set the dark god of the dualistic light, the dualistic sun aspect, okay?
He was the dark sun.
He was the setting sun.
That’s why his name is Set.
The word sunset comes from set, okay?
So Horus was the rising sun, the solar disk that was coming up into power on the eastern
horizon.
and as such he represents the the positive aspects of light or the nurturing aspects of light okay
light coming into our presence and operating through the creative mind operating through the
right mind through the compassionate and nurturing qualities the sacred feminine in other words
and set kind of represents in this image logic and the left brain mental capacities without the
balance of that sacred feminine force of truth and upright action that Horus
represented. As such, Set was always a mischievous character in the Egyptian
pantheon and the Egyptian stories, their allegorical stories, and he fought
against Horus and ultimately conquers him and vanishes him into the underworld
where they have to do battle and Horus has to use his willpower to conquer Set
and then rise again on the eastern horizon to rejuvenate the world through
light and right action. It’s an allegory about knowledge and how knowledge can be used for
good or ill and if you use just pure intellect without the balance of the right brain, morality
and compassion, then you’re going toward a dark path. The Egyptians had no word for death
but in the commission tradition during the direction that the setting sun was setting
over the western horizon, they called, if you had passed on into the other, into the
next realm, they called it westing.
Moving to the west was their term for death.
That’s it.
And again, that’s the opposite direction of the rising sun.
It’s going into a place of darkness and a place of the unknown.
And we’ll look at that when we look at Freemasonic symbolism a little bit later.
Another aspect of the Khamisian tradition was the goddess Maat, perhaps one of the most
powerful allegorical representations was Maat. She was, there was no higher god or
goddess than Maat because she represented natural law itself. She was
the law, okay? So the goddess Maat represented truth, law, and justice among
the Khamisian people. The purpose of coming into harmony with the teachings
of Maat, this mother goddess figure, was to learn how to avoid self-inflicted
chaos by learning the laws of morality and thus not generating chaos for yourself by choosing
wrong action. And the society would thus not generate social chaos by choosing wrong action
in the aggregate as a whole culture. They would definitively, objectively know the difference
between right and wrong behavior as a whole, and therefore they would embrace Mott and not go into
a state of self-inflicted chaos.
The Commetians taught what is known as the negative confessions of Maat.
I call these apophatic confessions, coming from the Greek term apophysis, which means
to say that which something is not.
To say that which something definitively is not and has nothing to do with and is nothing
like.
That’s the process of apophysis.
I’m going, you’re going to say, well, if I want to describe right action, what do I want
to really convey about it?
I want to say it is the opposite of action that is employed toward a harmful end.
It does not create harm to another being when I take that action.
That’s an apophatic definition of what a right is, okay?
So there was a whole laundry list of apophatic confessions, or in other words, things that
you had to say in the afterlife realm to this goddess when you went into the realm of judgment
upon dying that you did not do she didn’t want to know what your works were she wanted to know
what your works were not so she wanted to look at here’s all the harmful things you could do
in a life i won’t read them all it’s a whole you know huge again list of things but she wanted to
know did you not engage in these things and if you did not engage in these
things then I can say you truly were a good being you truly understood the
difference between right and wrong because you didn’t do any of these wrong
behaviors and this is what people want to make constant justifications for you
know and say oh we don’t need to know that real definitive difference between
right and wrong you know we could just listen to somebody else or you know do
what they’re telling us to do and take it on faith you know to really know
natural law is to know what actions we do not have a right to do because taking
them is harming another being where their property their rightful property
so what I would say in my analysis of Commission philosophy particularly when
it came to their apophatic more sense of morality is this was the real narrow
straits that we’re talking about you know it was a very narrow pathway that
they defined morality to be and in the story in the allegorical story of the
afterlife when you went into the hall or chamber of Maat the god Anubis would
take the initiate where the dead beings heart and they would weigh it on Maat’s
scale. And this represented, did they have a light heart? Did they truly understand
the difference between right and wrong? Did they try to live that way all the
time? Did they not make excuses and justifications? And she would put one of
that, she would put this feather depicted in her headband there, a blue feather on
the other end of the scale. And if the, and if the heart outweighed the feather,
that meant that the person really did not have a true understanding of
morality and their soul would kind of be recycled and have to go back and learn
more spiritual lessons in another life and if it did weigh either the same or
you know not outweigh the feather then the allegorical story was that the
being had become a being of light through their knowledge of the
difference between right and wrong and allegorically the commissions taught
that then that being would be able to go to a different star system or actually
become a star and shine their light to other civilizations. A very beautiful symbolic allegory
dealing with morality, specifically an apophatic variant of moral teachings. One other piece
of symbolism that I used as the cover image for this seminar was the great sphinx of Egypt,
who I call the guardian of the mysteries and many other cultists have referred to as the
guardian of the mysteries. Again, some people think that this was originally
the image of the original alchemist Ptah, possibly having changed over the years,
the visage possibly being weathered away by different natural forces, particularly
water. A lot of revisionist Egyptologists and revisionist historians have clearly
demonstrated that there were deluges and floodwaters in that part of the world
over 10,000 years ago, 11,000 years ago, and the Sphinx’s weathering is clearly
water-derived. But it looks like the face has been redone on the Sphinx to
represent a modern zodiacal reference of Leo combined with Virgo, the
feminine visage of this great sphinx. Also you could look at that as representing the
feminine aspect of natural law. So really what we’re looking at here is a zodiac in
stone representing the rising of the sun during the spring equinox at approximately 12,000
or so years ago. Let’s look at the tradition of alchemy, the occult tradition known as
alchemy. Again, this came out of the Egyptian tradition. So it’s going to have a lot of
teachings regarding morality and ultimately that’s what again to
re-emphasize it’s what all these traditions were about teaching morality
to their adherents teaching the difference between right and wrong and
teaching how natural law operates so we could transform from a being that is in
ignorance of that knowledge to a being that is actually enlightened to that
knowledge and then could practically put that knowledge into work in real life so
So I call this section alchemy out of darkness and into light.
Alchemy literally means from chem.
Al is a prefix that means from or related to or out of and then chem of course meant
black in ancient Egyptian and was often the name used for Egypt.
So it was from darkness, out of darkness.
Alchemy is an occult tradition taught through allegories.
allegory again is a cryptic story poem or picture that can be interpreted or
decoded in order to reveal a hidden meaning meaning typically a moral lesson
again as we were breaking down those statues in the commission tradition
allegorically what lesson were they trying to communicate to people by
building statues and you’d have to know the background of the story of these
gods to really be able to decode you know what the allegory is you know
showing that statue to somebody who’s never heard of Horus, Osiris, or Isis
wouldn’t really do much. But if you understand the verbal traditions and the
written stories about those gods, then you understand what they represented and
the allegory can be decoded. That’s how occultism works. It works through
relational and correlative thinking. So alchemy is taught
through allegory, through symbols and allegory, as many occult traditions are.
In the tradition of alchemy, it is asserted that all base modes of human consciousness,
which are called base metals in alchemy, again, in alchemy you’re dealing with the transmutation
of metals from one form into another form. But they’re not really talking about metals.
They’re talking about qualities of human consciousness. That’s what these metals are.
They’re modalities of consciousness. So it’s taught that the base modalities of human
consciousness or base metals are actually imperfections of pure consciousness or what
the alchemist symbolically called gold, gold consciousness. And that all metals are ordained
by nature to become the perfect quote gold of the sun or in other words enlightened consciousness
or enlightened beings. The alchemist then seeks to remove from his or her thoughts, emotions and
actions their disorderly imperfections or base characteristics in order to
bring them to their true state of natural order in other words harmony
with natural law and to transmute them into quote alchemical gold which again
represented the purification of mind body and spirit now notice this is again
an apophatic tradition it works through a negative pathway you’re starting with
something and you are breaking it down and removing the impurities you’re not
adding something to it you’re taking away something that is already there and
this is representative of we are polluted with so much bad information
with bad programming with beliefs that don’t serve who we really are with
beliefs that don’t give us an accurate understanding about how nature and the
laws of consciousness work so we need to get rid of those impurities to get to
take them away from ourselves to break them down and to decalcify that which
has become rigid and hardened and it’s it’s like ossified like bone and that’s
what the hardened ego is like and it’s to break that down and to carry it away
to dissolve it and remove those impurities some of the symbols in the
symbolic tradition of allegory very simple basic rudimentary ones there’s so
many of them you can get lost in the mall. But there were elemental forces that the alchemists
wanted to convey information about and basically define. And they had a symbol for them and
then they interpreted that allegorically. And here’s some basic ones. The symbol of
earth, an inverted equilateral triangle with a line going through about the two-thirds
point if you take the measure from the base to the to the apex. The symbol of
Earth represented inherent characteristics of the being, their
talents and resources that they may have developed or that they had a proclivity
to or an inclination toward. Perhaps something that was inherent that they
maybe came in with a tendency for so air represented the intellect and that is
the pure intellect meaning the the left brain modality our ability to compute
our ability to define things logically our ability to break things down analyze
etc water the inverted triangle represented emotion intuition and
creativity again that sacred feminine essence dealing with largely emotion and
the sacred feminine qualities and then fire an upward pointing triangle again
we’ve seen that inverted triangle in water representing the chalice called
the chalice in many older symbolic traditions and the element of fire in
alchemy was the upright pointing triangle which represented the blade or
again a rudimentary masculine phallic symbol represented representing action
willpower and courage the actual ability to create change within oneself and to
go out and create change in the world then there was a fifth element so you
have earth air water and fire and then you had the quintessence meaning the
fifth essence the fifth element was spirit represented by a solar wheel with
eight spokes, a circle and then an eight spoke cross in the middle of it.
This represented the divine spark or the divine essence within all of us.
You know, the essence of the source, the creator, the underlying intelligence in nature which
is ultimately present in everything within nature including us.
Alchemists speak of something called prima materia or starting matter, starting substance
is what prima materia was.
Again, the starting substance is the human being that needs to be purified,
that needs the impurities removed from them so that they can come to a more clear
and accurate and de-occulted understanding of the laws of nature.
The starting substance or prima materia is used at the inception of the alchemical work, the beginning.
Silver is considered to be one of the starting substances.
There are others, but silver is one of the main sources of prima materia in alchemy.
The alchemical symbol for silver is the moon or is associated with the moon because silver
represented in alchemy the feminine aspects of the human psyche including the attributes of
intuition, inner wisdom, compassion, open-mindedness, and contemplation. And that’s what you need to
begin. You need that sense of open-mindedness, of desire, of willing to learn, willing to open
yourself up and receive okay the truth is always out there but we have to be open to receive it
that’s a feminine quality it’s it’s uh absolutely essential and central to the tradition of
kabbalah which we’re going to talk about momentarily which means reception so alchemists
also referred to an all-important agent which is necessary for the transmutation of quote base
metals into, quote, gold, or in other words, base modes of consciousness into higher forms of
consciousness. This agent has been referred to as the elixir of life, the philosophical powder,
and the quintessence. But by far, the most well-known name for this agent of transformation
was the philosopher’s stone. The philosopher’s stone represented man himself at the beginning
of the process of self-mastery. It also represented the universal spark, the divine spark or divine
essence, which is present in everything that has been created and thus also in the alchemist
himself. The great work of alchemical transmutation is accomplished in three phases, which I’m going
to cover briefly here. These three phases of transformation in alchemy are all explained
allegorically. The first phase was called nigredo. Nigredo means blackening in Latin.
This is a state of putrefaction, of breaking something down, corruption, dissolution,
individuation, descent into matter, descent into the undifferentiated and into chaos.
It represents the soul’s descent into the material plane
and the suffering experienced in the physical world.
Alchemists often represented the soul at this stage as the element of salt
because salt is crystallized, it’s hardened, it’s fixed,
just like an ego that is resistant to change.
And I would suggest this is the state the world is in.
We are in the state of nigredo, of blackening, of corruption, of putrefaction.
And believe me, the vast, vast, vast majority of the people on this world are the salt.
And I don’t mean salt of the earth in the good way.
They’re crystallized. They’re hardened.
They’re resistant to change and they need to be dissolved and broken down mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
The second phase of alchemical transformation is albedo, which means whitening.
Albedo represents the process of spiritual purification, the burning out of impurities from the salt or hardened ego.
The salt in this step is reduced into quicksilver or mercury, which represents fluidity,
and the process of rapid mental, emotional, and spiritual change,
and the strengthening of the sacred feminine essence leading to the engagement of the
imagination the only substance the only essence from which the elixir of life or the awakened
or enlightened mind can then be made this is why the dark occult want to stamp out the human
imagination because they don’t want the process of transformation to happen in our species
You know, this step is about when people start to learn the truth and are accepting of it.
They have the mindset of openness and reception.
Again, the date today is no accident.
Highly synchromystic.
10-4.
Reception.
I got it.
I get it.
I’ve heard it.
10-4.
Okay?
No accident.
No such thing.
As soon as Art suggested the date, I said, I love it.
It’s all about reception, you know?
So this step is the awakening process, the awakening step.
It’s when we recognize the world isn’t what we thought it was, and we start developing
a desire for more than the base things in life.
We start developing a desire to know the truth, the desire to reach higher realms of consciousness,
desire to better ourselves and be better than we were the day before.
Well, we’re going to start working upon ourselves by taking in the truth and letting go of beliefs
and letting go of impurities in our thought processes and bringing our consciousness into
alignment with truth and with morality.
That’s this step of the process, whitening, purification, the burning out of impurities.
It’s a beautiful allegory if it’s properly understood.
The third and final phase of the alchemical, quote, great work is rubedo.
Rubedo means reddening.
The transmutation into gold or sulfur, alchemical substances, gold or sulfur.
And they represented purified and enlightened consciousness.
The elemental fire of the philosopher’s stone, again that’s why it was symbolized by a red
elixir, often the philosopher’s stone.
the philosopher’s stone was depicted as a red stone itself. And that represented the
unification of man, which was the limited being, with the divine, the divine will, often
represented by a red color as well, the unlimited. So it’s a paradox in terms. It’s the microcosm
joining with the macrocosm. It’s man as the limited being in the physical domain having
a spiritual learning experience here in the physical world, coming into union with divine
spark or essence, the unlimited force inherent in nature.
That’s alchemy in a nutshell, very simple explanation of the allegorical tradition.
Again, this is rudimentary work meant to whet the appetite of the student.
Let’s briefly look at the Hermetic tradition, a quote which is an inception, I’m sorry,
description from the ruins at the Delphic Oracle in Greece.
Heed these words, ye who wish to probe the depths of nature.
If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside
of yourself.
If you ignore the wonders of your own house, how do you expect to find other wonders?
In you is hidden the treasure of treasures.
Know thyself and you will know the universe and the gods.
Again, it’s an understanding that if you really deeply explore either of the realms of the
occult, the microcosmic realm or the macrocosmic realm, they are reflections of each other.
This is the correspondence principle at work.
To know the self is to know the universe.
To know the universe is to know the self.
to understand the dynamic interplay between free will and natural law,
a theme that comes up over and over and over again in occult traditions and teachings.
And again, the Hermetic tradition was also a growing out of,
a continuation of the Commission tradition that was practiced in, again, later Egypt
and then was passed into Greece.
I’m going to read some hermetic philosophy from a book known as the Kybalion.
I know a lot of people debate that pronunciation and like to call it the Kybalion, but I see
that as far too like modern Englishized and I like to pronounce it how it probably would
have been pronounced in the ancient Greek language in which there was no like short
Y sounds, you know, it would have been a long I sound, Kaibalyan, and every syllable would
have been pronounced.
Again, people can debate that, you know, it’s kind of a splitting of hairs, but I prefer
what would have been closer to the ancient pronunciation.
The Kaibalyan states, there is no portion of the occult teachings possessed by the world
which have been so closely guarded as the fragments of the Hermetic teachings
which have come down to us over the tens of centuries
which have elapsed since the lifetime of its great founder Hermes Trismegistus
the quote scribe of the gods again Thoth in the Egyptian tradition
Hermes in the Greek tradition
In the hermetic tradition, you know, he was known as Hermes Trismegistus, the Thrice Great One.
Trismegistus means great three times over or thrice great.
He was great in his thoughts, in his emotions, and in his actions.
His aspects of his consciousness were unified.
You know, some people look at he was the original alchemist in the Commission tradition, the creator god Ptah.
okay so Hermes Trismegistus the quote scribe of the gods who dwelt in old
Egypt in the days when the present race of men was in its infancy and I would
agree with that Hermes was and is the great central son of occultism whose
rays have served to illumine the countless teachings which have been
promulgated since his time all the fundamental and basic teachings embedded
in the esoteric teachings of every race may be traced back to Hermes Trismegistus.
Even the most ancient teachings of India, he’s referring to the Vedas here, undoubtedly
have their roots in the ancient Hermetic teachings.
So the person who wrote the Kybalion or the group of people who wrote the Kybalion are
stating that it is their belief that the Hermetic teachings are the roots of modern occultism.
I tend to look at ancient commission philosophy as being even older than even the hermetic tradition
and perhaps shamanism being even more than that.
In this section, I’m going to go for about another 15 minutes, and then we’re going to break for lunch.
More from the Kybalion.
The life work of Hermes seems to have been in the direction of planting the great seed truth,
which has grown and blossomed in so many strange forms.
rather than to establish a school of philosophy which would dominate the
world’s thought.” Again, he’s trying to make it clear that the Hermetic tradition
was a collection of teachings, a body of knowledge, not one specific dogmatic
religion or one set of teaching. But nevertheless, the original truths taught
by Hermes have been kept intact in their original purity by a few men in each age
who, refusing great numbers of half-developed students and followers,
followed the Hermetic custom and reserved their truth for the few who
were ready to comprehend and master it. They’re describing occultism. They hid
the truth from those who did not really want it or they knew would not use it
wisely. In other words, their motto or their dictate was no pearls
before swine okay I see it as kind of an elitist ideology and I’ll tell you why I
don’t agree necessarily agree with it they’re gonna you know talk about the
people who didn’t agree with this approach in the modern day I’m certainly
one of them now perhaps in those times things would have been different but
I’ll tell you what with the world on the brink of collapse and chaos the way it
is now the likes of which humanity may may never have seen the likes of the
kind of chaos we’re likely to see in our lifetimes possibly. I don’t even think some of the old
Hermetic teachers would have advocated secrecy in today’s world. They would have advocated taking
this knowledge and propagating it as widely and as freely as possible. At least I hope so. I hope
they would have taken that position, but that’s the position I take anyway. They followed the
Hermetic custom and reserved their truths, their truth for the few who were ready to comprehend
and master it. From lip to ear the truth has been handed down among the few. There have
always been a few initiates in each generation in the various lands of the earth who kept
alive the sacred flame of the hermetic teachings, and such have always been willing to use their
lamps to relight the lesser lamps of the outside world, when the light of truth grew dim and
became clouded by reason of neglect, and when the wicks became clogged with foreign matter.
There were always a few to tend faithfully to the altar of truth, upon which was kept
alight the perpetual lamp of wisdom.
These men have never sought popular approval, nor numbers of followers.
They are indifferent to these things, for they know how few there are in each generation
who are ready for the truth or who would recognize it if it were presented to them.
Now, I don’t make any bones about that.
Yeah, there’s a few people who are very prepared and ready to receive truth,
and if it’s presented to them, they’re going to accept it readily.
Few people are already prepared through knowledge and open-mindedness and humbleness
enough to simply open up their mind and heart and receive truth.
Not in this world. I know that’s not how it happened for me.
I suffered like, you know, I mean like, you know, beating the red hot sword with the iron hammer in a forge of suffering.
That’s what got me to finally wake up and break my ego down, you know.
Hardcore fire of purification did it for me.
But, you know, I speak this information to try to explain to people you don’t have to go through that process.
If you will listen to wisdom and truth, then you don’t have to go through that deep level of suffering.
But most people seem to want it.
To go back to this quote, these teachers reserved the, quote, strong meat for men while others furnished the, quote, milk for babes.
They reserve their pearls of wisdom for the few elect who recognize their value and who
wear them in their crowns instead of casting them before the materialistic vulgar swine
who would trample those teachings in the mud and mix them with their disgusting mental
food.
But still these men have never forgotten or overlooked the original teachings of Hermes
regarding the passing on of the words of truth
to those ready to receive it.
Their customary attitude has always been strictly
in accordance with the other Hermetic aphorism,
quote, the lips of wisdom are closed
except to the ears of understanding.
Now, people could say, well, I have stated in the past,
I’m putting out my work for the people
who are ready to become teachers themselves,
and they are ready to receive it.
I’ve made no bones about the fact I can’t make anybody
take this information if they don’t want to hear it or they’re not interested if that desire you
know that i symbolically represent by this orange color throughout this presentation that that
sacred desire force that that operates to take the person up out of the base instincts
and just living you know for this see the world you know what you see is what you get type thing
never penetrating the surface, never looking any deeper,
never going into the deeper realms of the human subconscious
and the human mind, then I can’t make them look at that.
There’s no way to make somebody do that work
because that’s internal work
that has to be done upon themselves.
I can only act as an assistant
to that process of transformation
through providing some information and some support.
But I don’t agree with this elitist attitude
of don’t put the information out there
because these people don’t wanna hear it,
which seems to be the spirit in which this is said, okay?
I take the approach again of egalitarian aspect
or egalitarian mentality on two fronts.
One, when it comes to all of our natural rights,
we are equal under that law, under that natural law.
And two, I believe in egalitarianism
when it comes to information being presented,
information which we need, vital information,
which we need to make truly informed decisions in life.
that information should be provided freely and openly.
So I don’t agree with this hermitist’s attitude
of don’t cast pearls before swine.
I’m gonna speak information to everybody.
Who’s ready to take it will take it
and that will be their karmic choice and consequence.
And who ignores it will do so at their own peril.
There are those who have criticized this attitude
of the hermitists and who have claimed
that they did not manifest the proper spirit
in their policy of seclusion and reticence.
and I would be one of those, and still am,
regardless of the statement that comes after it,
I still say I criticize that attitude and spirit.
But a moment’s glance back over the pages of history
will show the wisdom of the, quote, masters,
who knew the folly of attempting to teach the world
that which it was neither ready or willing to receive.
I don’t think we have a choice now, folks.
We’re on the precipice of ruin,
and it needs to be taught now,
regardless of who wants to hear it or receive it.
At least all we could do is put it out there.
Again, it’s someone else’s karma, you know, it’s humanity’s karma, whether they will receive it or not.
The Hermetists have never sought to be martyrs and have instead sat silently aside with a pitying smile on their closed lips
while the, quote, heathen raged noisily about them in their customary amusement of putting to death
and torture the honest but misguided enthusiast who imagined that they could force upon a race of barbarians
the truth capable of being understood only by the elect who had advanced along the path.
I think you can hear the kind of elitist attitude or spirit embedded in this,
but I do also understand what they’re saying.
At certain times in history, you would have been tortured for presenting some of these truths
about the reality of our world.
And so then some hermeticist took this approach of just keep your mouth closed
and let the people who don’t want to receive this suffer again i personally do criticize that
attitude particularly in the world today maybe if more people would have stepped up taught this
to more people and they would have gained the courage to teach it to a wider audience
we wouldn’t have gone down the path we did as a species namely into slavery another big aspect
of the hermetic principles uh again taught in this great little book the caibalion which i
highly recommend everybody to read about the Hermetic philosophy of ancient Egypt
and Greece. What time do we have? How much time do we have? About seven minutes? Okay,
thank you. The Hermeticists taught seven basic overarching operating principles
in nature. The principle of mentalism, which essentially I’ve already covered
that it states anything that is going to be manifested in reality must first
exist in the realm of mind. As a matter of fact, all of nature is ultimately a
mental construct at the deepest level and matter is a construct for experience
and growth in consciousness. As such, is solidity, is matter truly physically real?
It is a quantum fluctuation in the vacuum. It’s a holographic quantum
experience that is necessary for growth and development of consciousness. So, you
know, that doesn’t mean I go into the full right brain imbalance mode that
many New Agers and religionists take that this is all an inferior realm matter is and
we shouldn’t try to act and create any real world change here. No, that’s not a state
of balance. That’s right brain imbalance. Balance means you have your head in the cosmos
meaning you are at a higher level of consciousness in how you’re operating and you understand
that matter may be a constructural thing to provide learning for the soul, but you have
your feet firmly planted on the ground, anchored in the real world, taking real world action
to better yourself and to help better others.
So that’s the principle of mentalism.
Correspondence is the aphorism of as above, so below, or as within, so without.
The microcosm reflects the macrocosm and the macrocosm reflects the microcosm.
That which we do at an individual scale will become our aggregate quality of behavior at
a larger scale and will become our macroscopic experience.
That’s the law of correspondence.
The law of vibration, again, at a very low, undifferentiated level, everything is simply
fluctuation or a vibration vibratory energy existing in you know the vacuum
and nothing is truly at rest everything ultimately is in a state of vibration
there is no such thing as the cessation of motion or the cessation of vibration
or sound the principle of polarity everything has poles to it everything
has opposites everything has a kind of a spectrum of extremes a spectrum of
of polarities that result in two opposite extremes, ultimately operating through the
same thing, through the same medium, but seeming to have different extremes in their polarities.
The principle of rhythm, everything moves in cycles and has a rhythm to it, has an up
and down quality, an ebb and flow quality through time.
The principle of cause and effect essentially is almost equivalent with natural law principles.
That which we cause and put out into effect in the universe is then demonstrated back
to us by the universe like a mirror.
So we reap what we sow.
That which we put out into the universe we receive back from the universe.
There is no effects that manifest without causal factors that precede them.
And finally the principle of gender which states that there is a masculine and feminine
quality, a blending between those two polarities in everything in nature.
These principles operate in everything in the natural world and they are always operating.
As such they were called the Hermetic Principles and the word Hermetic comes down to us in
modern English through the word hermetically sealed.
It means that it’s fixed, it’s operating inherently in nature and nothing we do is going to change
those principles at work in nature.
All we can do is align our consciousness to them
by understanding that they do exist,
that they are operating in nature,
and then we can learn to live in harmony with them
and not create self-inflicted suffering,
just like the physical laws of dynamics.
They are fixed, they are set in stone.
While you are on Earth,
you are operating in a 1G gravitational field.
If you step off of a large building,
gravity will have an effect upon the mass of your body
and you will go splat.
That’s a fixed law, and all you can really do is understand it.
It doesn’t matter if you like it or not, but you can understand it,
and therefore align your behavior not to do such a stupid thing
by walking off a building in a 1G field.
So the laws of nature expressed by the hermetic tradition
are set in stone and hermetically sealed,
and this tradition does a really good job of explaining
the underlying principles of natural law.
I think we’ll leave it there for this morning session, and in the second session, we will meet at exactly 2 p.m.
Please come back a little bit before then, like if you could be back around 5 of 2, that would be great, so you could take your seats and get ready.
I’m going to start exactly at 2 p.m. Thank you.
Source: Mark Passio