Gnostic Intel

“That all superstition of pagans and heathens should be annihilated is what God wants, God commands, God proclaims!” — Saint Augustine Notes: The story of Christianity's rise in Ancient Rome is often told in secular terms: weakened emperors, barbarian invasions, heavy taxation, plagues, and a weary populace. Religion, when mentioned, is seen as a psychological comfort in an age marked by disease, war, famine, and death. Conventional narratives argue that in such times, people sought reassurance and were drawn to Christianity, which promised hope in this life or the next. However, this was more than a sociopolitical shift; it was viewed as a spiritual war between good and evil, God and Satan. Modern historians may overlook these demonologies, but they deeply influenced early Christian thinkers like Augustine. Demons stalk the pages of his book, “The City of God” of which it’s full forgotten title was "The City of God Against the Pagans.” Christianity may have been adopted by the Roman ruling class to centralise power and control the populace by creating a docile and slave like population. With Rome's increasing diversity, a universalist religion, rather than prior ethnic religions, was more suitable for the rulers to impose. Passages like “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21) and “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established” (Romans 13:1) encouraged obedience and tax compliance. The Roman rulers, taken in by the Trojan horse of Christianity, likely had no conception of its true long-term purpose: to act as prophecy fulfilment of the Old Testament, destroying the ancestral and indigenous tradition and worship of the Old Gods, bringing the gentiles under the yoke of the God of Israel. Christianity constituted a form of theological and spiritual warfare, as those who injected this archontic plague into populations understood the Hermetic maxim of ‘As Above, So Below’. Thus, if the gentiles were conquered in the heavens by the destruction of their native Gods (as above), they could thereby be more easily conquered on earth (so below).

“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” — Plato, The Republic Notes: We are often told by our leaders, ‘intellectuals’, and the media that democracy is the pinnacle of civilisation, with liberal democracy being the apex, as Francis Fukuyama famously declared it 'the end of history'. This belief asserts that liberal democracy should be spread globally by its champions. However, from a traditionalist and cyclical perspective, democracy marks the beginning of a decline, ultimately leading to dictatorship and tyranny. Julius Evola’s traditionalist view sees liberalism as a step in this decline, progressing from democracy to socialism, radicalism, and finally to Communism and Bolshevism. Each stage prepares for the next, driven by the same underlying malevolent force. Image: Ruins of a Greek temple at sunset by Zhizhilenko Aleksandr Ivanovich

“The Sunday School narrative of a church of martyrs, of Christians huddled in catacombs out of fear, meeting in secret to avoid arrest, and mercilessly thrown to lions merely for their religious beliefs is a macabre fairy tale. When Christians appeared in Roman courtrooms, they were not tried as heretics, blasphemers, or even fools. Christians had a reputation for being socially reclusive, refusing to join the military, and refusing to swear oaths… A close look at the evidence shows that Christians were never the victims of sustained, targeted persecution. Even the so-called great persecutions under the emperors Decius and Diocletian have been vastly exaggerated in our Christian sources. In general, when Christians were executed, it was for activities that were authentically politically and socially subversive.” ―Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution Image: The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme

“Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.” ―Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Image: The Gleaners by Julien Dupre

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ―H. L. Mencken Image: Hobson’s Arse by Bob Moran

"For the old European world, the forest was the birthplace of myth, a vast and mysterious realm where the boundaries between the human and the supernatural blurred. It was in the depths of these ancient woods that stories of gods, heroes, and mythical creatures were born, woven into the fabric of cultural memory.” –Yvonne Verdier, The Forest of Stories Notes: Yvonne Verdier (1941-1989) was a renowned French ethnologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Her work primarily focused on rural communities in France, examining their traditions, daily life, and cultural practices through a detailed ethnographic lens. Her research often delved into how myth and cultural practices were deeply intertwined with the natural environment. Image: Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek

“There are two totally different orders of mythology. There is the mythology that relates you to your nature and to the natural world, of which you're a part. Then, there is the mythology that is strictly sociological, linking you to a particular society. You are not simply a natural human being; you are a member of a particular group… Now, the biblical tradition is a socially oriented mythology. Nature is condemned. In the nineteenth century, scholars thought of mythology and ritual as an attempt to control nature. But that is magic, not mythology or religion. Nature religions are not attempts to control nature but to help you put yourself in accord with it. However, when nature is thought of as evil, you don't put yourself in accord with it; you control it, or try to, and hence the tension, the anxiety, the cutting down of forests, and the annihilation of native people. This perspective accentuates the separation from nature.” ―Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth Image: The Druids by Julia Tar

“Money, being naturally barren, to make it breed money is preposterous and a perversion from the end of its institution, which was only to serve the purpose of exchange and not of increase... Men called bankers we shall hate, for they enrich themselves while doing nothing.” – Aristotle, Politics Image: The Tax Collectors by Quentin Massys

“the world has become full of the ideas of the Messiah, the ideas of the Torah and the ideas of the commandments, so that these have spread to faraway islands and to many dim hearted nations, and they now discuss these ideas and the commandments of the Torah.” —Mosheh ben Maimon (Maimonides), Hayad Hachazaka Notes: Moses Maimonides aka Ramban, a 12th-century scholar and philosopher, is considered a foundational figure in modern Jewish law and a leading authority on Jewish philosophy. In his legal work 'Hayad Hachazaka,' he acknowledges Christianity and Islam as necessary preparations for the Messiah, promoting the worship of one God, and moving gentiles away from their ancestral gods, priming them to accept Noahidism. Maimonides notes that Christians and Muslims, by accepting the Torah's authenticity validates Jewish fables and myths as genuine history. This belief in the Torah also affirms their prophetic powers and their unique relationship with the one God. Image: Isidor Kaufmann

“I can categorically state beyond the shadow of a doubt that Julian Assange and Wikileaks is complete and utter it's a piece of theatre put out there. It is ‘QAnon and the white hats’ for Guardian readers and normies… I know Julian Assange is an actor is because if he was real he would have been vaporised years ago. He is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the current world to give you hope and believe that somehow out there are good guys on the inside…Wikileaks what did it achieve? Nothing, no prosecutions, no trials, no arrests. Julian Assange is a crisis actor; Wikileaks was a lie, the same lie they've been given us for 2,000 years since Constantine implemented the Edict of Milan. You’re still waiting for redeemers, you're still waiting for saviours; because they know that as long as you're waiting for the next Revelation you won't do anything yourself.” —Thomas Sheridan Image: Wikileaks Anon