Why the West hates itself

There is a large swath of westerners, especially in Europe, that hold anti-western sympathies they may not even be aware of. The West is depicted as the sole colonialists, Christianity as the 'false note' of religion. These are terrible perversions of the truth. Where do such odd self-loathing sentiments come from? Are they laced with truths, and to what extent? This is what I wish to broach here.

This topic is complex, but I will give a sketch of why I think this condition came about. I also want to say why it is important. There are modern conspiracy theories about events in the early 20th century, some of them with more than an modicum of truth, yet they are insufficient to explain the phenomenon. For instance they do not explain why the conspirators would engage in such an agenda. Hence we need to look much further back.

By the 4th century, Christianity was largely a fully developed religion and theology, best encapsulated in the works of Saint Augustine.

In the 1950s Baba revealed the following about Saint Augustine:

"My two favorite women saints are Saint Theresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena; my two favorite men, Francis of Assisi and Saint Augustine" (Lord Meher, 1986 print edition, p. 3818).

Augustine gave Christianity its moral sense, and also its philosophical grounding. He is considered one of the great philosophers of history, a doctor of the Church, and one of the greatest saints in Christendom by both Catholic and Orthodox theologians.

As Christianity overtook Pagan Rome, it abolished torture and crucifixion, replaced the gladiatorial games of the Coliseum with horse races in the Hippodrome, and within a few centuries slavery vanished. It emancipated women, fought against superstition, and preserved the Latin language and Roman civil law.

Augustine was a Platonist, which is a subject too detailed to go into here. But it meant that his philosophy was mystical, and unworldly. He did not give Aristotelian syllogisms as arguments for God, but said that God had to be accepted before one realized it made sense. And he showed why. The mysticism of Augustine will have to wait for another post or written work. But Augustine detested persecution of Jews and also torture. He also gave the first diatribes on unjust war. The wars of the 21st century would have been classified as unjust by Augustine on all accounts.

The Early Middle Ages were relatively peaceful and calm. Wars by kings went on as ever, but did not touch ordinary lives. No time is perfect, but things were not terrible. And there was a flavor to them that we cannot any longer imagine, a mystical and religious flavor. Life was simple, but not harsh. People were calm, but not stupid. They did not, as we hear today, burn witches and imagine ships falling off the Earth. These are inventions of later times.

Now around 1100 AD the works on logic came back into Vogue. These works were deeply materialistic, and used syllogistic logic. 'Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.' That is paradigm syllogistic logic.

About this time men began to make arguments for God using these types of strings of words. These words were never intended for that purpose, for premises require observation. Remember, Aristotle was a materialist and an empiricist. He and Plato did not agree on things. One was mystical, the other empirical and material in his thinking. Both have their place. But just as Plato is not applicable to science, Aristotle is not applicable to theological arguments.

The result was a slow loss of Augustine's mysticism, and a kind of cold logical analysis of everything. This was great for material progress, but just the opposite for spiritual understanding. And slowly that deep cool fragrance known to the people of the Early Middle Ages was lost, and soon forgotten.

People grew smarter and smarter. And soon they saw the holes in these Aristotelian arguments for God. Now, having lost the feeling, and growing their intelligence, now vast and cool and unsympathetic, they began to question God altogether. 'Show Him to me,' the now empiricist thinkers demanded. And no one could.

Hence as the Late Middle Ages passed and we entered the Renaissance, men calling themselves 'free thinkers' began to cover Europe.

As the Enlightenment (about 1640-1780) swept Europe, men previously considering themselves theists now called themselves 'deists.' You see in that period, people still had no other theory for how the world got here, and how we came into it, except the story of Genesis in the Bible inherited from the Jews. God created the world. But deists reasoned that if He did, that is all He did. They reasoned that He made it like a clock. You wind it once and it goes on ticking. The natural laws (then being discovered) were the mechanisms of this cosmic clock, the Universe, that God once made when He was in the mood. Then he abandoned us.

Many of the Enlightenment were deists, if not most. Thomas Jefferson was one. He wrote a version of the New Testament in 1820, called the Jefferson Bible, in which he kept the stories but omitted all the miracles and removed all reference to Jesus being God. The phrase in the US Declaration of Independence, that Jefferson penned with the help of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, "the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them . . .," reflects Deist sentiments.

In Europe, especially France, where the Enlightenment began, things were meanwhile taking an even more severe course. Ideas of God and religion were being done away with outright. Atheism was the new intellectual vogue, and the mark of true rationality. 'Reason' as it was called, became the new God. During the French Revolution, the people even created a Temple of Reason (Aristotelian Reason), and Robespierre himself climbed its stairs and sat in its thrown.

This was all coordinated by Deists who had for years plotted to create just such a revolution, and new world order. These were certain orders of the Masons, and other closed Gentleman's clubs. This was not the case in the American lodges, only those in Europe. As hard to believe as all this sounds, I suggest the skeptic order a book through their library and read some of it. The book is Proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe: carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati, and reading societies by John Robinson (1797). A copy of this book was sent to George Washington in 1798 and a copy of his reply is in the Library of Congress. You can read the full text of his reply here. In short, Washington referred to these ideas that he admitted were circulating in Europe at the time as “diabolical tenets” and “pernicious principles,” but assured the sender that such ideas had not infiltrated the American Masonic lodges as yet. Quoting Wikipedia's discussion of Washington's relation to Freemasonry, "The American lodges did not share the anti-clerical perspective that made the European lodges so controversial." (source)

Anyway, atheist Socialism became the vogue in Germany, Austria, and France. One famous German socialist was Karl Marx, who in 1848 penned the Communist Manifesto, which then swept Europe. I'm leaving out some other philosophical roots to the coming trend that affected Marx for sake of space. For the interested, the roots of this new religion substitute are found in the writings of the German philosopher Georg Hegel, from whom Marx drew most of his inspiration. Hegel is an extremely difficult philosopher to read and comprehend and there are many interpretations of his work, and we will not get into it. We can in turn trace Hegel's thinking to preceding German idealists of the post-Enlightenment. Hence, obviously this is too much to get into here. But in Hegel, clearly the roots of the concept that human reason is God can be found.

Now we come to post-Marx, and even post-Darwin (publishing 10 years after Marx), Europe. As we approach the end of the 19th century two groups emerge in turn. One is the Fabian Society, the symbol of which is the wolf in sheep's clothing, and the Frankfurt School that emerged in Germany in the 1920s. Both taught roughly the same anti-Christian philosophy. Both envisioned a totalitarian New World Order. And both envisioned the right tactic for such a 'world revolution' is stealth.

The Fabian shield, the wolf in sheep's clothing

When the time is right, the Fabians wrote in their tracts, we strike hard.

When the Nazis came to power Germany through the members of the Frankfurt School out. Where did they migrate to? America, where Socialists preceding them got them into Columbia University. Gradually, over the course of the twentieth century, nearly all colleges in the US and Europe were infiltrated with atheist socialist relativists.

The Fabians, under different names, virtually run the Deep State now. The Counsel on Foreign Relations is actually a Fabian society. All presidents since Jimmy Carter have been obliged to attend, and potential leaders are expected to pay homage to it. Of course not Trump. Do you see why he is hated? I'm not for or against anyone. I'm just telling you what is happening.

So here we are. This is the dreaded thing you may or may not have heard of, by endless names, the elite, the globalists, the Deep State, the shadow government, the New World Order, etc.

Sadly many Baba followers from the 1960s are largely deluded into the deceptive mind-set created by this agenda to replace God with statehood and have swallowed whole the products of this slow careful social engineering, anti-Christian, anti-traditional, anti-West, anti-European civilization, anti-illiberalism. It is the awful relic of the Enlightenment, that otherwise gave us so much good.

Naturally there are hundreds of threads that come in and out of this, including the CIA creation of the drug movement through MKUltra sub-project 58 (sounds like I'm crazy doesn't it?), that went through the 1950s and 60s. Even the rock and roll uprising (now our muzak) has CIA roots. The Grateful Dead (originally the Warlocks) was quietly funded and promoted by the CIA in 1965. There was CIA in the Merry Pranksters, and behind Timothy Leary. All this was run out of the CFR (established 1921) and other similar think tanks that are neither right nor left, but globalist. The feminist movement was also backed by the CIA, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation (connected to David Rockefeller, who was head of the CFR), fully admitted by Gloria Steinem, along with the promotion of "the pill." We can even add the UFO farce, that increased doubt in a Christian God and is seriously contemplated now as a source of life on Earth, called conscious panspermia. (See this recent article)

So, now, what does all this have to do with Baba?

Because people have become so cleverly anti-Christian, and anti-Western, and anti-European they do not know anything about their own philosophical and theological heritage. What would shock most Baba followers to learn is that God Speaks addresses more Western Christian theological concerns than Eastern or Persian. Several things Baba makes a point to say are directed directly at ancient Christian puzzles -- not Indian ones. All Baba's books were first published in English.

I believe that Baba's books were in fact written for metaphysically educated western thinkers knowledgeable of their own past traditions, and I believe that a people ignorant of Western tradition can't take full advantage of his teaching.

Now I forgot to include one other strain that affected this western self-hatred that is not connected to any of what I just said. The first comprehensive history of western civilization was written by Edward Gibbon in the late 18th Century, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon was himself a man of the Enlightenment, and he loathed Christianity. His mammoth book on the history of the West is framed as a cautionary moral tale against monotheistic religion itself. He idealized everything about the ancient world, and denigrated Christianity as the opposite of what it really was, as a stupid superstitious movement by weak minded gutless people who brought about the demise of the great Roman Empire. All subsequent western history is based in some way on Gibbon. That is where we get our terms 'Classical' (ancient Greece and Rome), 'the Fall,' 'the Dark Ages,' 'the Middle Ages,' 'the High Middle Ages,' 'the Renaissance (meaning rebirth), and 'the Enlightenment.' It is all written as a kind of decline (into Christianity) and rise back to our current materialistic machine driven 'rational' age.

We thus owe a lot of our hate for Christians to Gibbon. However, things have denigrated much further, as now we don't even know our history, and pivot East and idealize them (as opposed to our own ancients). Today most westerners don't know anything about their own history, as if there's nothing in it. They don't know that Greece wasn't in Greece, and wasn't an Empire. They don't know what Alexander did, or who his teacher was. They can't tell you the difference between Augustine and Aquinas. And more recently they don't know what century the American Revolution was in. They know nothing, and weirdly feel emancipated.

If you want to see a world where totally ignorant people feel emancipated, watch this movie. It is deeply connected to the agenda of where we are being led.