The Noosphere

Quotations

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. – Jean Racine

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. – Harlan Ellison

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. – Henry Ford

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – John Kenneth Galbraith

He who thinks little errs much… – Leonardo da Vinci

"Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)" – René Descartes

Table of Contents

The Noosphere

Quotations

Table of Contents

The Mind Sphere

Intellect versus Senses

The Rational Soul

Neoplatonism

The Soul Hierarchy

Reincarnation

Aleister Crowley

Mirror World

The Infinity Multiplier

God of Gods

The God Point

The Wisdom of Saint-Just

The Apocalypse

The Imaginary Shoemakers

Stadium Bands or Gig Bands?

The Dawn of the Modern World

HyperNature

Fangs for the Memories

Religious Homicide

Parmenides

Alice Cooper

The God Failure

The Great Chain of Being

The Ultimate Equation

Want to Be a Virgin Again?

Apollo and Dionysus

All Religions Contain the Truth?

Monads versus Henads

Gentlemen versus Gangsters

The Time Illusion

Innate Knowledge

The Grand Illusion

Resistance

The Foundations of Mathematics

The Soul

Teddy Bears

Hell on Earth

Hyperreality

Psychoid

Lumen Naturae (the Light of Nature)

Unus Mundus (One World)

Golgonooza

Conclusion

The Mind Sphere

What is the strangest idea in history? It’s that the mind-bogglingly vast, solid universe we appear to inhabit erupted all of a sudden, billions of years ago, out of nothing at all. If you think that’s really what happened then you’re not thinking at all. Scientists claim that the evidence for their materialist Big Bang is overwhelming. In this book, we will show that their evidence is laughable. There was a Big Bang, but it was mathematical, not materialistic. Bizarrely, given that mathematics is at the heart of science, scientists don’t understand mathematics at all. Existence is 100% mathematical and mathematics is quintessentially mental – it’s what mind is made of. This universe is mental, not physical. The material world is a specific, well-defined mathematical illusion.

The closest analogy to the true nature of the universe is that of an objective dream. In your subjective dreams, you can build apparently solid worlds, which vanish each night. With an objective dream – shared by all the minds in the universe – the apparently solid world created by the dream does not vanish each night. It seems to be there permanently, and we soon conclude that it is anything but a dream because it behaves very differently from our normal dreams. Yet this is the whole point of the difference between ephemeral, private subjective dreams and a persistent, collective objective dream.

What are the only two things of which you can be absolutely sure? One is yourself (the Ego), and the other is everything that’s not-yourself (the Non-Ego; the Other). Your Ego consists of mental activity: thinking, desiring, feeling, willing, sensing, intuiting. Do you have any sufficient reason to suppose that the Non-Ego is any different? Why would you conclude that there are not one but two other things: a) other minds (like your own) and then b) an extremely mysterious thing called matter, which is said to be composed of hard, solid, brute, inert, lifeless, mindless, senseless atoms – of which you yourself are said to be made, and which even allegedly give rise to your life and mind (despite the fact that they possess neither life nor mind). Moreover, you encounter this non-mental matter only via ideas, impressions and sensations in your mind! You are expected to believe in the existence of matter even though you never have any contact with it except mentally.

So, why bother with this strange thing called matter at all? It generates more problems than answers. If atoms are lifeless and mindless, through what magic do they produce life and mind? How do minds interact with atoms? How do we use our minds to will the atoms of our arm to move? If we are nothing but atoms obeying inescapable, inevitable, deterministic, materialist laws then how are we capable of free will? If we are not in fact free then how did the preposterous delusion arise (via mindless, deterministic atoms) that we are free, and what conceivable scientific function could such an absurd, false idea serve?

The brilliant German philosopher Leibniz proposed that there was no such thing as matter. He envisaged a world composed solely of minds: infinite minds. Matter, space and time were, for Leibniz, all mental constructs of this infinite ensemble of minds.

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People who have lost their sight can see again in their dreams. Each night, they can create a vivid, realistic, new material world, but it exists only in their dream, in their mind. All of us are world builders in our dreams. Yet if we can literally dream up a material world that has no solid reality, why do we imagine that the actual world we encounter is any different?

Our dreams prove that minds are capable of creating the illusion of matter without a single trace of bona fide matter. Why should the obvious conclusion be avoided? The real world is a dream world – a construct of mental activity – with one quintessential quality that makes it radically different from our normal dreams: it is a collective dreamscape, not singular. All the minds in the universe contribute to this dream. It’s a public, not a private dream. We can wake up from our private dreams, but we can’t wake up from the public dream because we are not in control of it, and nor is anyone else. We can, however, die, and then we do leave the dream. However, reincarnation (or shall we call it periodic re-insertion into the collective dream) throws us back in. Reincarnation is nothing more than waking up, but in a brand new body. Not even death affords an escape from the dream! To quote The Eagles’ famous song Hotel California, You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

There is only one exit from the dream: gnosis (enlightenment). When you finally grasp that your existence has been one long dream, both public and private (waking and sleeping, across many different bodies and lifetimes), you transcend the dream. You become a Dream Master, a God. Like Neo in The Matrix, you can then do whatever you like in the public dream: you have super powers – in fact, divine powers. You can choose to stay within the dream, but, to Gods, the normal dream rapidly loses its attraction.

The Gods can do something else. They can construct a higher dream, reserved for the highest minds. The Gods can build heaven, and from heaven they can look in whenever they like on the lower dream: our world. People imagine that they go to such a heaven when they die. They don’t. They are reincarnated back into the normal world and they will never get out until they have understood the true nature of reality. One might say that there are only two public dream domains – heaven and hell – and we, sadly, are all in hell!

Souls are not involved in a test of good versus evil, overseen by a supreme arbiter of morality, whether it be a morally perfect God or some cosmic moral force called karma that ensures that good deeds are rewarded and bad deeds punished. There is no such God and no such karma. Just about the greatest lie of existence is that it’s inherently connected with morality. Morality per se has nothing to do with anything. There is no such thing as morality if understood as an infallible, absolute set of criteria of good and evil. Morality is always about opinions, beliefs, customs, biases and self-interest. The definitive and unanswerable critique of morality is provided by Friedrich Nietzsche in his book The Genealogy of Morals.

Nietzsche called himself the first immoralist in order to demonstrate that he was the first to see through the lie of morality. He showed that morality is always a weapon wielded by one group against another out of pure self-interest, hence has nothing at all to do with what morality is supposed to be (i.e., entirely beyond self-interest).

The true test of existence is that of intelligence versus stupidity; knowledge versus ignorance. Heaven is full of the smartest people in the universe, not the nicest or most faithful or obedient or sanctimonious or best at kneeling and grovelling or the best at putting on a show of meekness, mildness and rectitude. Life is a cosmic IQ test and the only people who get saved are the geniuses! Geniuses are the true Elect. The people who get into heaven are those smart enough to build it! Simone de Beauvoir rightly said, "One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius." So, your fate is in your own hands.

The ultimate allegory is the tale of Adam and Eve. Here we are provided with the two supreme choices: knowledge or morality. Morality, in this context, signifies absolute obedience to God; it has nothing to do with good and evil unless you deem that absolute obedience to God is good and any disobedience is evil. Hitler and Stalin promoted the same morality but with their names replacing God’s – and no one sees them as anything other than psychotic tyrants and dictators. Why should it be any different for God, the same God who exterminated the whole of humanity (because they were disobedient), bar Noah and his family?

In Genesis 3:3, God says to Adam and Eve, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. Note that an order is given, but no reason for the order, and the punishment of death is announced for transgressing the order. In Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K is arrested without any reason, then subjected to a trial where no charges are ever made, found guilty nevertheless and brutally executed. We can imagine that Kafka was writing about the God of Adam and Eve.

In Genesis 3:4-5, the Serpent (one of the great heroes of Gnosticism) says to Eve (a great Gnostic heroine),You won’t die! God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.

So, here we see that the choice is between slavish obedience to God or striving to become God, and sharing the same knowledge. This is nothing other than Hegel’s master-slave dialect in action. You can choose to be the slave of your master (God), or you can choose to become equal to God and thus abolish both masters and slaves.

Our world is one that has preferred slavery to God over becoming God. The ancient Gnostics – the seekers of ultimate knowledge – were those who sided with the Serpent and Eve and saw the attainment of knowledge as the highest good. To attain the highest knowledge was equivalent to transmuting yourself into God.

This choice has never gone away. Are you someone who seeks to define yourself as God’s slave, willing to obey him at all times, even if he orders you to murder your child (as he ordered his first prophet Abraham)? That, astoundingly, is what most people regard as morality: doing God’s bidding at all times even if it involves murder. Of course, it’s not morality at all, it’s blind, mindless obedience. By exactly the same criterion, all Nazis who obeyed Hitler to the letter were the most moral Nazis. Were the Muslim maniacs of 9/11 mass murderers or faithful martyrs of Allah? What kind of morality promotes 9/11 as something that furnishes an instant passport to the highest level of Paradise, to the seats next to God himself? How can anyone imagine that 9/11 has any connection with morality, goodness or virtue? It’s the opposite. That, of course, is the whole problem with morality. It’s whatever anyone, including mass murderers, wants it to be.

Those who want to worship God and obey him at all times are natural-born slaves. Those who want all the knowledge of the universe are natural-born Gods-in-the-making.

You can never become God by obeying God. You can become God only by discovering everything he knows. God promises death and hell to those who seek to know what he knows. Gnosticism promises divinity to those (the mathematikoi) who learn everything.

The obeyers are permanent slaves; the knowers are those on their way to heaven. Our world has been a horrific battlefield between the obeyers (Abrahamists and karmists) and the knowers (Gnostics and scientists). Which are you?

In the absence of God’s physical presence on our planet, the powers-that-be have installed themselves as his Earthly representatives. (The Pope calls himself the vicar of Christ, kings say they rule by divine right, and the super rich say they are the elect and the saved, specially favoured and rewarded by God.)

The message is always the same. In order to obey God, you must obey his agents on earth. In other words, they become the Gods, who are then worshipped as if they were the real thing. Look at the slavish devotion towards popes, kings, celebrities, the nobility, CEOs, the super rich. It’s easy to see why the elite love God so much and so eagerly promote religion. It allows them to enjoy Godlike powers, to be worshipped by the credulous masses and to be absolute masters over legions of slaves, wielding total control over them. Religion is the supreme tool of mass control.

Imagine a world in which religion had promoted not obedience but knowledge, in which Adam and Eve would have been held in contempt if they did not eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Imagine if religion said that all stupid, obedient slaves went to hell and only autonomous people of knowledge went to heaven. Our world would be unrecognisable. There would be no controlling elite, and no slaves and no masters in our world.

Slavish obedience is the greatest sin and crime of all, the biggest insult to divinity. Knowledge is its antidote. Only smart people have the imago dei (image of God) imprinted on them. Only they can become Gods and gain entry to paradise. The pearly gates are forever locked to those who failed to understand the true meaning of the tale of Adam and Eve. You must eat the forbidden fruit – or remain a slave forever, someone who robotically obeys your controllers because you are incapable of anything better, because you refuse to take responsibility and control of your own life.

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There is one subject above all that reveals the truth of reality, and it’s almost as if the cosmos is enjoying a private joke because this is the most hated, feared and unpopular subject of them all: mathematics. Where else would you hide the ultimate secret – the answer to life, the universe and everything – except in the last place anyone would look? Mathematics is the answer to everything, yet is hidden in plain sight. No one has made the slightest attempt to conceal the truth of existence, but it might as well be buried in a bottomless pit that none can ever reach.

To know the answer to existence, you have to know where to look and you will look there only if you want to. The average person will never look to mathematics because they have no desire to contemplate mathematics at all, and thus they condemn themselves to endless trips on the Wheel of Suffering.

What was the Philosopher’s Stone? It was said to be a miraculous substance that turns base metals into gold and confers rejuvenation and immortality. It was the Great Work of the Alchemists to discover it. Yet, in truth, it is nothing other than complete understanding and mental control of existence through ontological mathematics.

We live in a universe of mathematical information conveyed by precise, analytic mathematical waves (sines and cosines). Such waves are the basis of Fourier mathematics, and Fourier mathematics is the basis of both quantum mechanics and holography.

Here is the remarkable truth of existence. The whole of reality unfolds within a single point called the Singularity. Yet this Singularity (with a capital S) is itself composed of infinite singularities (with a small s). All of these singularities are minds, and nothing else exists. In particular, there is no such thing as matter (except as an idea created mathematically by minds, just as holograms are created by illuminating wave interference patterns, thus generating the illusion of solid things from nothing but intangible waves).

These minds are all fundamental, indestructible mathematical units which have compulsory existence and have been present forever. In religious terms, these mathematical units (monads) have a far more resonant name. They are immortal souls.

Souls are 100% mathematical, defined 100% by mathematics and interact with other souls 100% mathematically. There is nothing other than mathematics. Precisely thanks to that fact, each of us can gain 100% knowledge of the universe and know everything, i.e. we can all become GODS.

Each soul exists in two different ways: 1) privately (in relation to itself, to its own inner space, its own dream world), but also 2) publicly as one node of the whole monadic collection. It’s this latter context that constitutes the real, external, objective world that we mistake as a material world independent of minds. In fact, it’s a collective construct of all those minds. Just as a single mind can generate an internal dream world, so can the whole mind collective, but now that dream is regarded as external to each individual mind, and, moreover, it obeys firm, rigid, objective mathematical rules and laws – precisely those studied by science as the alleged basis of the material world.

The collective dream world is rather like The Matrix, and we are all plugged into it. It wasn’t an artificial intelligence that created it, but our own minds.

So, how does the film The Matrix match up to true reality? In the movie, there is both a real world (a post-Apocalyptic wasteland) and a simulated world that resembles a previous peaceful period of human history. People have real bodies but these are all in life-support incubators plugged in to the simulated reality. Their simulated bodies match their actual bodies.

Each real person is permanently asleep, but experiences two different sleeping modes: waking sleep (when they are directly part of the Matrix simulation and doing things within it) and sleeping sleep (when they go to sleep within the Matrix and are no longer interacting with it). When people wake from sleeping sleep, they enter the waking sleep of normal Matrix life, but no one completely wakes up (to true reality) unless they are explicitly unplugged from the Matrix. Death in the Matrix causes death in real life. (In other words, the simulation can kill you.)

Outside the movies (!), reality comprises a world of minds. Each mind is plugged into a material world (collectively generated by all of the minds), where it’s attached to a specific material body. When its body is awake, the mind is linked to the objective reality of the material world. When its body is asleep, the mind retreats to its own subjective hinterland where it creates its own dream worlds, over which it has complete control.

In this system, the mind is never asleep; only the body sleeps. The status of the body – sleeping or waking – determines what experiences the mind has (subjective or objective). A sleeping body in effect frees the mind from objective, body-focused reality.

Your dreams, remarkably, are the proof that your mind can exist and function without a body, and hence that the death of your body is irrelevant to your mind, except that it deprives your mind of a link to the objective world of other minds. Only via reincarnation is a new bodily connection established. Death is thus simply super sleep. Normally when you go to sleep, you wake up in your familiar body, but, following death, you wake up in a brand new body (that of a newborn baby!), with all of your previous consciousness memories erased. As the ancient Greeks liked to say to explain why people couldn’t remember their past lives, you have drunk of the deep waters of forgetfulness of the underworld river known as Lethe. Death resets your consciousness of the objective world, but does not reset your mind itself, which has full knowledge of all past lives. Death and sleep are basically the same process, but with death effecting a much more radical transition upon waking.

The study of sleep and dreams should be one of the key activities of the human race since all of the mysteries of life and death are contained in sleeping and dreaming. Yet this subject is barely studied at all. That’s mostly thanks to the scientific materialists, who have an inverted understanding of reality, putting matter above mind.

Your body isn’t a physical thing. It’s a mental construct, a kind of avatar that operates on your behalf in the objective world. The key to understanding the material world lies in quantum mechanics. Quantum particles are simply thoughts that emerge from individual minds into the collective mental arena, where they become objective rather than subjective, and thus seem like solid, persistent things (i.e. material objects). They are external rather than internal thoughts. Individual quantum particles display the extremely bizarre behaviour well known in the quantum world because they are so closely related to mental rather than physical things. Only collections of trillions upon trillions of quantum particles take on the solid character of the familiar material objects of our world. If we subjected any physical body to a powerful enough microscope it would, at the highest resolutions, dissolve into oblivion because its particles would vanish into the non-physical minds from which they originally came.

Your normal thoughts are internal and subjective (unextended; dimensionless), but what happens when your thoughts become external and objective (extended and dimensional)? Then they are converted into quantum entities, shared between all of the minds of the universe, and multitudes of interacting quantum particles produce the illusion of a solid, material world. Matter is, however, just a different kind of mental expression: objective rather than subjective, external rather than internal, extended rather than unextended, dimensional rather than dimensionless.

Matter is produced by the thinking of an infinite collection of minds, while normal thoughts are produced by individual minds. So, everything boils down to minds operating on their own and minds operating collectively. Nothing else is going on. Reality is all about minds and thinking, and that’s it. There’s no mysterious matter, independent of minds and thinking.

To grasp Illuminism, the religion of the Illuminati, you have to abolish all thoughts of matter as an independent entity. Minds create matter; matter does not create minds. All matter is actually alive insofar as it all belongs to living minds. This position is known as hylozoism – living matter. We could equally refer to panpsychism, meaning that mind is everywhere and in everything.

What, then, is the difference between a living body and a lump of rock? The stuff of both the body and the rock is the same: atoms, which are generated by the Mind Collective. Atoms derive from the energy content of minds, but are not minds themselves (rather, they are psychoid: relating to mind; resulting from mind). Living things are those things that are directly and efficiently controlled by individual minds. Life is a continuum and things are more alive to the extent that they allow the expression of individual wills. A lump of rock does not express any meaningful will at all, so it can be concluded that either it has no active, individual controlling mind (it is under the passive control of the Mind Collective, hence obeys the deterministic laws of mathematics) or any individual mind linked to it cannot achieve any significant degree of expression, so any such mind is both passive and totally unconscious. A plant is a living thing, but barely expresses more will than a rock. However, any individual mind linked to it is slightly more active and slightly less unconscious than that of a rock. Animals are higher again on the scale and individual controlling minds of animals are active and pre-conscious. Then come human beings. Human beings have controlling minds that are active and conscious (meaning that they are self-aware and can exercise authentic free will – such minds are what we properly call souls: they are active souls as opposed to passive souls).

On Earth, DNA is the crucial factor that allows minds to exert meaningful control over bodies and thus generate the phenomenon of life. Everything is in fact alive since mathematical minds are the only things that actually exist, but only a few of these minds can express their life meaningfully, via bodies they control in the material world. DNA is the living code: the way of organising atoms in such a way as to allow individual minds to take direct control of bodies made of DNA and express themselves through those bodies. DNA is a mathematical information code and contains enormously more information, order and organisation than a lump of rock. It wasn’t Darwinian evolution by natural selection that created DNA, but continual attempts by individual minds – over hundreds of millions of years – to create atomic and molecular information systems over which they could exert direct mathematical control. This mental process would, from a materialist perspective, seem Darwinian and random, but actually reflects unseen and unobservable operations of individual minds, and collaborative collections of minds.

All minds are on a scale of passivity versus activity and unconsciousness versus consciousness. The higher your mind is on the scale, the more active and conscious you are, and the more you control your own destiny. Gods have the highest minds on the scale: they are completely active and conscious. They have fully incorporated all unconscious elements.

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Matter, it must be emphasized, does not belong to individual minds and is not defined by individual minds. It belongs to infinite minds and is defined in that context. Since each mind is trivial compared with the whole collection of minds, no ordinary mind can hope to influence the material world, except in the limited arena of its own physical actions, carried out by its body. The material world is therefore a world of rules and laws that no ordinary mind can ever defy. These rules and laws were there before we were born and will be there after we die. These rules and laws endure forever, although, periodically, the universe itself dies and reincarnates. The death of the universe is the same as the death of an individual, but on a cosmic scale; the cosmic mind then requires a new body and it generates it via a cosmic mental event known as the Big Bang! Mathematically, the Big Bang is an antisymmetry event involving infinite minds. We have described this in detail elsewhere in The God Series.

The most notorious problem of quantum mechanics is the so-called measurement problem. This says that things collapse into a definite state only when a measurement or observation takes place, which therefore seems to create a requirement for conscious observers (but no conscious observers were present during the Big Bang, so how did anything collapse into a real state back then?). In Illuminism, this is solved easily. The universe consists of nothing but minds (which are overwhelmingly unconscious or barely conscious), and minds do nothing but measure and observe the universe, albeit unconsciously, so the universal wavefunction is always collapsing (then instantly reforming). There is no such phenomenon as Schrödinger’s cat where a cat trapped in a potentially lethal box –the box has a 50-50 chance of releasing poison gas – is simultaneously alive and dead until someone opens the box to find out, thereby collapsing the cat into the state of alive or dead. The sheer absurdity of this notion ought to have destroyed the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics (the establishment position known as the Copenhagen Interpretation), but, no, this junk continues to be taught as if it were somehow relevant to reality rather than just a bizarre artifact of a manifestly false hypothesis.