The defense of mankind in 2nd column
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In the second column we face the mythology of
empire, that the human being is not human, much less reflecting the divine. History
gives us an interesting example.
The American Independence was declared in
1776. In 1783 the British Empire's first war was lost that it fought in a
desperate attempt to recapture its colonies. The military defeat was
officially acknowledged by the Empire in 1784 with the Treaty of Paris, which
acknowledged the existence of the USA as an independent nation. Five years
later, in 1789 the USA established itself internally as a brand new nation
with a new constitution.
The US Constitution was adopted in 1787.
While the Constitution was being ratified by the individual States, near the end
of 1788, the old Congress that had been still operating under the Articles of
Confederation, voted for its self-termination and adjourned. The Articles of
Federation no longer applied. In 1789 the new government under the most advanced
Constitution ever created began its operations.
In this timeframe in which revolutionary
changes swept the world, with the curtain fast falling on the Empire, the Empire
began to retaliate through the back door in typical Venetian fashion. Its
retaliation began with a scientific fraud by the Venetian monk Giammaria Ortes
(1713-1790) who conjured up the image of a dying world, caused by
overpopulation. In the last year of his life, Ortes published a raving attack on
the human population under the gentle sounding title, "Reflections on
the Population of Nations in Relation to National Economy." In his
attack on humanity the fraudulent notion of the earth's "carrying
capacity" was put on the table, for which he set up an an absolute maximum
of 3 billion people. It was a fraudulent notion even then, because it was well
demonstrated during the Golden Renaissance and onward that the development of
mankind was not a function of the good graces of the Earth, which were rather
meagre, but was a function of the creative power of the human being, reflecting
scientific and technological progress, a metaphysical trend.
The publication of Ortes' attack on
mankind was launched in 1790, the following year after the U.S. Constitution was
enacted. The timing suggests that with the publication of this scientific fraud
a new phase in the war of empire versus civilization was launched.
Ortes' hoax was certainly a clever fraud.
He compared mankind with a herd of cattle that is limited in size by the size of
its pasture so that the herd must be culled in order to protect the pasture form
being overgrazed. With this comparative fraud on the table, the Empire gave
itself the mandate to do the culling of mankind. The worst atrocities, of which
there were many, now were said to serve a benign purpose. Of course the fraud
remained a fraud.
If Ortes had been correct in saying
that the "carrying capacity" of the Earth was a function of the
quality of the Earth, like a heard of wild cattle is dependent on the quality of
the land that an animal herd cannot improve with its own resources, then mankind
would have lived in a totally different world than the one in which Ortes found
himself. If Ortes had been correct the world population would would have
remained limited to the low population level that came out of the last Ice Age
because the Earth itself hadn't changed dramatically in those 10,000 years.
However, mankind had changed. Mankind had developed the technology of
agriculture, irrigation, land cultivation, fertilization, and evermore
energy-intensive agricultural methods. At Ortes' time mankind had developed the
means to support a world population of 800 million. That's a far cry away from
the 5 million population that the Earth by itself had been able to support in a
primitive fashion.
Unfortunately Ortes' fraud has been surprisingly successful. The
fraud created a world in which society has been 'educated' to hate its own
development, to even curse itself as a cancer on the earth, and to slavishly
follow their demoralizing leaders like so many sheep lined up to the
slaughter.
Ortes evidently knew that his "carrying capacity" song
was a fraud, and so did all the Empire's stooges and all the Empire's so-called
geniuses' who tirelessly continued singing this fraudulent song. The British
Empire's infamous pimp, Parson Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), the author of
the Essay on the Principle of Population (published in 1798) extensively
plagiarized Ortes and invited the whole of society to his depopulation
whorehouses, the infamous workhouses that used people up. All of Malthus'
arguments for depopulation, especially the depopulation of the poor, were
already contained in the writings of Ortes. Scholars point out that the
entire school of the ensuing British Philosophical Radicalism from Malthus
onward regurgitates Ortes. This trend of philosophical plagiarism includes the
'works' of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1732), James Mill (1773-1836) and John Stuart
Mill (1806-1873). Thus, the most honored British empiricists (possibly by their
lack of freedom to speak the truth) saw themselves forced to slavishly
plagiarize the ranting of a decadent defrocked 'Venetian' monk who might
therefore be recognized as the original master of all modern 'scientific' liars.
Perhaps the Empire's most honored scientific geniuses in the
barnyard of Ortes was Charles Darwin (1809-1882). By his own admission, he was
'inspired' by Malthus, the disciple of Ortes, the original author who was
defining the human being as basically an animal instead of as a unique spiritual
being with an intellectual quality that no animal has ever come even close to in
the entire billion-year history of the proliferation of life on this planet.
Darwin put the scientific stamp on the fraud of Ortes. With it
he opened the door to the perception of lesser human beings and superior human
beings, as a kind of extension of the fraud of Ortes, that became known as
social Darwinism. While Darwin didn't go as far on this trail as Aristotle went
to justify slavery as a good thing -- Aristotle insisted that the slaves benefit
from the naturally superior virtue of their master and are ennobled thereby --
Darwin nevertheless went that direction and inspired his cousin Francis Galton
(1822-1911) who added his own invention. Galton advanced the science of social
Darwinism into a new science, called Eugenics, the science (of the genetically
impure that Hitler latched on) that justified the sterilization and eliination
of the unwanted populations like the immigrants and the poor.
Since permanent sterilization rarely ever
happens truly voluntarily by the victims, Eugenics should not be labelled a
science, but a crime, a crime against mankind and against God. This crime is
still being carried out under the original doctrine of Ortes, but with a new
political twist as a policy to limit Third World economic development so their
their raw materials can be preserved for the needs of empire as was spelled out
under the 1974 U.S. National Security Study Memorandum 200 doctrine, which names
13 nations as targets for depopulation measures, including Brazil. One of the
lesser-known crimes along this line is that inflicted onto the Brazilian women
of the poor with a policy of mass sterilization under NSSM 200. The Brazilian
Health Ministry discovered that an estimated 44% of all Brazilian women of
child-bearing age have been permanently sterilized by private imperial
institutions, with double the figure (an estimated 90%) of all Brazilian women
of African descent having been sterilized. That's huge genocide by any standard
in a nation with a black population that is the second largest in the world,
second only to Nigeria's. (see: Seeds
of Destruction and 1994
- STERILIZATION OF WOMEN IN BRAZIL)
"The Earth has Cancer and that Cancer
is Man," proclaimed the banner headlines in the late 1960s when the masters
of the modern world revived the terrible lie of Ortes in a big way. The
so-called "carrying capacity" hoax was then, and still is, being
dragged before mankind for it to swallow as a poison. And a poison it is! It is
served up by some of the most noble and respected institutions, including the
U.N.,, whose leaders in the service to empire have prostituted themselves to
singing Ortes' fraudulent song, some demanding a combined world-population
reduction by 85%, even 90%. And they sing that song well, since society now
cheerfully dances to the tune played by their pipers. Doesn't anyone agree that
there are too many people in the world?
The great lie of Ortes is a lie against
God. Mary Baker Eddy defined this lie under the term Adam in respect to God. The
portion of this definition, for the second column, reads: "The
name Adam represents the false supposition... that the infinite enters the
finite, that intelligence passes into non-intelligence, and that Soul dwells in
material sense." If we bow to this lie, which is prominently reflected
in the sophistry of Ortes, then we have no hope, for in joining the traitors
against God we have nothing to celebrate in the Temple and thereby all hope
vanishes with it.
The brainwashing with the Ortes-type of
sophistry is strong. It has worked so remarkably well that hardly anyone is even
interested in hearing the truth. And the truth is, the world needs ten billion
people to build the infrastructures and technologies to get an advanced society
through the next Ice Age, supplied totally with food resources from indoor
agriculture. The truth is that as human beings we have that kind of capability
to fully meet this vast kind need, and much more so the little needs of of
today. The truth is that we have every justification that one cares to name to
celebrate ourselves as the brightest stars in the heaven of life, and to accept
that nothing less would reflect the infinite God. The truth is, mankind is a
metaphysical society with unbounded resources in its spiritual dimension where
the physical factors are determined by the spiritual factors that are
expressions of God. Mankind is limited only by its subjection to empire that
defines mankind as a cancer on the Earth instead of a creator of resources for
the unfolding of life. Once the factor of empire is put out of the way, the sky
is the limit and all of its stars, or as Mary Baker Eddy defined for the second
column: "eastward, to the star seen by the
Wisemen of the Orient, who followed it to the manger of Jesus."
Jesus demonstrated to some degree that
there are no physical limits standing in the way of mankind's unbounded
development. Only self-imposed limits stand in our way. This is a spiritual
fact, a divine reality. This is what the Church services are instituted to
celebrate in the Temple; providing a continuing platform for celebration. The
spiritual fact is that the divine idea man is inherently complete, whole, and
substantial, because God is complete, whole, and substantial; and that therefore
man is unbounded, including all right ideas, because God is unbounded and
includes all. This fact defines man not like a wind-up toy that has spent all
its energy, but as a spiritual being with the quality of life that is ever
expanding from its boundless base. Once this quality becomes recognized as
symbolic with the sun and is accepted as the reality of our being, then our
individual reading rooms will be filled with light. Then we cannot hesitate to
take on the mission of the sun that the Pastor Emeritus exemplifies, a mission
defined by the Christ in which we find our 'sonship' with God. That's what we
bring to the Temple, the place of celebration in recognition of the completeness
of man and our acceptance of it in our celebration of the universal sovereignty
of all individuals, societies, nations, and churches as it is spelled out in the
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