William James, first among the Harvard faculty giants a century ago, wrote in “one of his most eloquent, utterly ageless essays…“History is a bath of blood..”
Archaeological sites are strewn with the evidence of mass conflicts and burials of massacred people…At the present time, we are still fundamentally the same.
In the article Is War Inevitable? by E. O. Wilson, he argues that, yes, it is. The struggle to control vital resources continues globally, and it is growing worse.
No-one understands the need to control vital resources better than spirit beings.
Unlike four dimensional humans who are created with the ability to convert mass to energy through metabolism, hyper dimensional being must replenish their used stores of vital energy with pure energy in order to maintain their ability to function. This is described in the Bible as a form of grain.
“he had…rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food.” (Psalm 78:23-25)
Those who lost this access must plunder the God-given life force found in all created living beings.
This is even confirmed by A Druid Fellowship, which explains that “we offer to sustain the cosmos” in any voluntary sacrifice of wine, food, blood, or other forms of life energy such as sex, or involuntary loss of life energy through violence.
These humanist assessments validate the biblical account that
“Ye are of your father / authority the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning.” (John 8:44)
An updated version of Satan and his evil spirit beings destroying humanity is fantastically – in every sense – presented by the celebrated author Neil Gaiman in American Gods. His gods are not only based on historic records but also consistent with the scientific understanding of energy beings as detailed in the post Sons of God.
Whether or not Neil Gaiman believes his gods are real beings, he absolutely understands the concept of the gods’ interaction with humanity is all about power. Literal transfer of life energy from humans to spirit beings who, having disconnected from the infinite Singularity, can only replenish the energy they expend through tapping another source of the breath of life.
“Wednesday”, a modern incarnation of Odin the All-Father, is recruiting American manifestations of the Old Gods, whose powers have waned.
Shadow, a human being, is so-called because he is fading away as his energy is being used in service of his new aquaintances. He comes to realize that Odin and Loki have been working a “two-man con“. Loki had arranged for Odin’s murder, thus making the battle between the New and Old Gods a sacrifice to Odin, which restores Odin’s power / life, while also allowing Loki to feed on the chaos / uncontrolled energy of the battle.
Bram Stoker‘s 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel, made the vampire a dominant figure in the horror genre and spawned masses of spinoff books, films, television shows, and video games. By feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living a vampire never dies. This is the humanist version of eternal life through drinking the blood of Christ’s last supper / eucharist.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft 1890 – 1937) was an American writer who based his horror fiction on an obvious spin-off of Spiritualism. Rejecting biblical anthropocentrism the secular philosophy of cosmicism posits that humans are an insignificant part of the cosmos, and could be swept away at any moment by the unseen spirit beings who are the true powers. The Great Old Ones are the central characters in Lovecraft’s cosmos of the Cthulhu Mythos. They are malignant beings of great power who once presided over the planet as gods and rulers but now reside on earth and bear undying hatred against humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), wrote The Heavenly Doctrine in order to reform Christianity, stating that the Last Judgment had already occurred in 1757, affecting only people already dead, and no-one alive since has to worry about being judged. He stated that his information came to him direct direct from angels, demons and other spirit beings during his visits to heaven and hell.
Swedenborg’s writings formed the basics of Spiritualism, according to spiritualism spirits are more advanced than humans. Spirit guides provide spiritual guidance to individual humans regarding moral and ethical issues, and the nature of God.
By 1897, Spiritualism was said to have more than eight million followers in the United States and Europe. In the era of women’s suffragette.
Several factors combined to make Spiritualism a viable new source of comfort and assurance during this period. The mid-19th century was a time of social and geographic mobility,
encounter with immigrant groups, industrialization, and intense revivalism; all of these engendered bold individualism and normless anomie (Juster and Hartigan-O’Connor 2002:403; Nelson
1969:69–70). Unsettled by secular developments, freed from traditional norms, and individually
empowered, many Americans were attracted to Spiritualism’s “radical individualism” (Braude
1990:406).
This describes our current social situation exactly.
For a time, Spiritualists were among the few American women allowed to speak in public. On this basis, they proclaimed woman’s rights, a more benevolent heaven than orthodox ministers preached, and critiqued white male failings such as intemperance, solicitation of prostitution, and the ill treatment of women, children, blacks, and American Indians (Klass and Goss 2002:711–12; McGarry 2008:163)…In addition, Spiritualism had an undeniable entertainment value (Cox 2003:17; McGarry 2008:9; Moore 1977:26; Taves 1999:186–95)…
Spiritualism burgeoned when concern with the dead increased and the consoling power of traditional religion diminished. For example, the postwar peak of Spiritualist activity…is consistent with the
increased desire for consolation over [Civil War] military loses.
Some of the most famous adherents to spiritualism are Queen Victoria, Thomas Edison, the author Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln who famously held seances in the White House.
At this same time in the late 19th century, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, cofounder of the Theosophical Society embracing Buddhist and Brahmanic notions such as reincarnation, announced a coming New Age. She taught that enlightened humans should cooperate with the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood whose mystical brotherhood guided the destiny of the planet. Her ideas contributed to expectation of a New Age among practitioners of Spiritualism and believers in astrology, for whom the coming of the new Aquarian Age promised a period of brotherhood and enlightenment.
Blavatsky’s successor, Annie Besant, taught that the Indian teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti, was the fulfillment of the biblical coming Messiah. In the 1940s Alice A. Bailey, founder of the Arcane School taught that the Master Maitreya, would appear in the last quarter of the 20th century. After Bailey’s death, former members of the Arcane School created a host of new independent theosophical groups claiming the ability to transmit spiritual energy to the world and allegedly received channeled messages from various preternatural beings, especially the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood.
In the 1970s and ʾ80s the variety of occult and metaphysical religious communities were brought together in anticipation of a New Age of love and light through personal transformation and healing. Carlos Castaneda is considered a father of the New Age movement for his series of books based on the mystical secrets of a Peruvian Yaqui Indian shaman. The movement’s strongest supporters were followers of modern esotericism. Popular in the West since the 2nd century AD, especially in the form of Gnosticism, the original frankly pagan methods of acquiring mystical knowledge were supplanted by various esoteric movements including Christian-oriented Rosicrucianism in the 17th century and Freemasonry, theosophy, and ritual magic in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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