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by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
August 01, 2024
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Gods Destroy the
World
The saying Whom the gods would destroy, they
first make mad, sometimes given in Latin as Quos Deus vult perdere,
prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he
first deprives of reason), has taken on an ominous resonance in
today's world.
As I sit here, reflecting on the chaos that seems
to engulf every corner of our existence, it is hard to ignore the
parallels between this ancient wisdom and the modern madness that
rages unchecked across the globe.
An early version of the phrase appears in verses 620-623 of
Sophocles' play Antigone: τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽
ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν; translated:
"Evil appears as good in the minds of those
whom god leads to destruction."
And then, Plato's
The Republic (380a) quotes a
fragment attributed to Aeschylus:
θεὸς μὲν αἰτίαν φύει βροτοῖς, / ὅταν κακῶσαι
δῶμα παμπήδην θέλῃ; translated "A god implants the guilty cause
in men / When he would utterly destroy a house."
Interestingly, this idea is found in the New
Testament, in 2nd Thessalonians, as follows:
The coming of the lawless one is apparent in
the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,
and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing,
because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
For this reason God sends them a powerful
delusion, leading them to believe what is false, so that all who
have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness
will be condemned.
(2 Thess, 2: 9-12)
In my extensive research, spanning over decades
and across multiple topics and works, I have often delved into the
idea that humanity's hubris and collective
insanity may very well be the precursor to its destruction.
In "The
Apocalypse - Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes,"
I explored the notion that cosmic forces, beyond our control, have
historically played a significant role in shaping the destiny of our
planet and its inhabitants.
But it is not just the celestial bodies that we
must fear; it is,
the madness within ourselves
that may ultimately lead to our downfall because there appears
to be a 'stimulus-response' aspect to this cosmic destruction
business...
CELESTIAL INTENTIONS
As I read through the piles of books on the archaeology, history
(assumed and reasonably reconstructed from data), and especially the
input from the sciences such as astronomy, geology and genetics that
should accurately parallel the archaeology and history, but usually
doesn't for many reasons, in order to collect the material for my
various books, the one thing that became increasingly apparent was
that,
over and over and over again
this planet has been bombarded by various types of impacts, the
most common being the overhead comet fragment airburst of the
Tunguska type.
These events have repeatedly,
brought cultures, nations, even
civilizations, to their knees.
Dark Ages,
are inevitably the result, and then, when
human society begins to recover, myths are created, religions
are born, or re-born with twists and distortions, and always and
ever, the facts of the previous era of destruction are covered
up in veils of metaphor and allegory...
Why? What sort of madness is this?
It is actually very simple...
Historically, when a people begin to perceive
atmospheric, geological, climatic disruption and all the ills
that these bring on a society, including, eventually, famine,
plague and pestilence, they individually and collectively look
to their leaders to fix things.
That is where the concept of the Divine King
came from to begin with:
The king was supposed to be able to intercede
for his people with the gods.
If the king was unsuccessful with his
intercession, a solution had to be found.
Sacrifices were made, rituals were performed,
and of course, if that didn't work, if the gods remained angry,
then the king had to die.
If the gods are angry, find a scape-goat.
Obviously, the most likely scapegoats are
those in charge when things go wrong, i.e. the 'king' and the
elite.
What's more, they know
their vulnerability to this reaction instinctively.
Postulating that such
corruption (and its spread throughout society) is the
mechanism by which a civilization attracts cosmic catastrophe,
(something like an electric charge), blaming and deposing the elite
is a good solution.
Obviously, the elite do not want this.
In the end, the people and the elite both seek a paradigm that
downplays cyclical catastrophes, but they do it for different
reasons.
The people want to relieve the enormous
stress of a certain but unpredictable major catastrophe, while
the elite want to remain in power.
The compromise that serves both objectives is,
the illusion of an elite that is able to
protect the people from any disaster.
This illusion can take various forms:
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rituals to appease the gods
-
revision of history displaying a
uniformitarian, uneventful evolution of humanity
-
lots and lots of propaganda...
In a paper addressed to the European Office of
Aerospace Research and Development, dated June 4th, 1996
and entitled, 'The
Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets',
astronomer Victor Clube wrote:
Asteroids which pass close to the Earth have
been fully recognized by mankind for only about 20 years.
Previously, the idea that substantial
unobserved objects might be close enough to be a potential
hazard to the Earth was treated with as much derision as the
unobserved aether.
Scientists of course are in business to
establish broad principles (e.g. relativity) and the Earth's
supposedly uneventful, uniformitarian environment was already
very much in place.
The result was that scientists who paid more
than lip service to objects close enough to encounter the Earth
did so in an atmosphere of barely disguised contempt.
Even now, it is difficult for laymen to
appreciate the enormity of the intellectual blow with which most
of the Body Scientific has recently been struck and from which
it is now seeking to recover. [Referring to the impacts of
Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter
in 1994.]
The present report, then, is concerned with
those other
celestial bodies recorded by mankind
since the dawn of civilization which either miss or impinge upon
the Earth and which have also been despised.
Now known respectively as,
Confronted on many occasions in the past by
the prospect of world-end, national elites have often found
themselves having to suppress public panic - only to discover,
too late, that the usual means of control commonly fail...
Thus,
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an institutionalized science is
expected to withhold knowledge of the
-
a self-regulated press is expected to
make light of any disaster
-
while an institutionalized religion
is expected to oppose predestination and to secure such
general belief in a fundamentally benevolent deity as
can be mustered. [...]
There are fundamental paradoxes to be
assimilated as a result of this unexpected situation.
Thus the perceived culture of enterprise and
enlightenment which underpins the two centuries culminating with
the Space Age and which led mankind to spurn comets and
fireballs may now be seen as the prelude to a profound paradigm
shift:
the restoration of an environmental
outlook more in keeping with that which preceded American
Independence and which paid serious heed to comets and
fireballs.
(Clube (1996))
The thing is, it sounds surprisingly like our own
era, does it not?
In fact, Clube draws the direct connection:
...the
Christian, Islamic and Judaic cultures
have all moved since the European Renaissance to adopt an
unreasoning anti-apocalyptic stance, apparently unaware of the
burgeoning science of catastrophes.
History, it now seems, is repeating itself:
it has taken the Space Age to revive the
Platonist voice of reason but it emerges this time within a
modern anti-fundamentalist, anti-apocalyptic tradition over
which governments may, as before, be unable to exercise
control...
Cynics (or modern sophists), in other
words, would say that we do not need the celestial threat to
disguise Cold War intentions:
rather we need the Cold War to disguise
celestial intentions...!
(Clube (1996) op. cit.)
There are differences in detail and in scale,
but,
the dynamics of a world gone mad, incredible
cruelty running rampant, and global climate fluctuations are the
same as we see before us now.
We need to ask,
how our monumental blindness
came about...?
The lies of
the elite in power work
well during the periods of calm, however, history shows that
when,
famines, earthquakes and plagues have struck
and taken a heavy toll, when volcanoes erupt or comets blaze
across the sky or meteor storms and weather anomalies increase,
...the illusion collapses, the raison d'être
of the elites (i.e. protecting the people) collapses and the
target has always and will ever be, ultimately, the ruling classes.
And they know it...
Thus, when anyone mentions these uncomfortable
facts, they are silenced by ridicule and defamation, and even death.
The symptoms of an increased cometary activity are systematically
covered up by the elites as man-made phenomena.
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The high jet contrails due to higher
concentrations of atmospheric cometary dust are conflated
with the 'chemtrails',
sprayed by government agencies probably intended to dumb
down the population.
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The ever more frequent overhead cometary
explosions are presented as normal, or as missile tests.
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The
weather changes
due to changed solar activity or lading of the
atmosphere with comet dust is labeled 'anthropogenic
global warming', and humanity is blamed for
everything that is happening.
By attributing the cause of those cosmically
induced events to men, the elites maintain the illusion
that they are in control...
'Chemtrails' can be stopped if the
'sprayings' end, missile tests can be stopped if the military
can be coerced to do so, global warming can be reduced by
controlling man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
However, high contrails triggered by increased
cometary activity, overhead cometary explosions, and cosmically
induced solar and weather disruptions cannot be changed by the
elite.
Not only that, if the public realizes this, they
may also begin to think that the 'gods are angry' and try to find
the real reason, settling ultimately on the corruption and
violence of the elite in their efforts to get and maintain
greater power.
If the masses of humanity were to recognize the real causes
of such phenomena, that would entail recognizing the powerlessness
of the elite and therefore the end of their 'mandate from heaven'...
Dendrochronologist Mike Baillie comments:
The Chinese believed that an emperor could
reign only while he enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, that is,
while he 'looked after his people'.
If for any reason he failed to look after
their well-being, Heaven would withdraw its Mandate and the
emperor and probably his ruling dynasty would be deposed...
Heaven would have been seen to withdraw its
Mandate when the sky darkened, the crops failed and famine
ensued bringing death to large numbers of people.
The emperor, guilty or not, gets the blame
for failing his people.
In the aftermath of a calamitous dust-veil
event the political upset could easily lead to the deposing of
the ruling regime.
(Baillie (1999) p. 62.)
Of course, in the beginning of such times of
trouble, people want to believe that their government - their kings
and ruling elite - are powerful enough, or pure enough, to control
nature such that,
the floods, wildfires, earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions cease and all returns to normal.
And the ruling elite take advantage of this
during such times by trying to find likely scapegoats in other
nations, some minority group in their own country, or their personal
enemies - including those who are pointing out that it just might be
their corruption that is bringing on all the evils,
so as to distract the larger
populace from their own possible sins of commission or
omission.
This means that such a period can include
protracted wars and the accompanying necessary burden of taxes,
persecutions of this group or that group, generally increasing
social hysteria and unrest,
until finally, one day, the people, as a
whole, wake up and see that their rulers have behaved
very badly and all the blame gets dumped on them.
This is ironic because an anthropocentric
worldview where man believes he is in control stops people - even
people in power - from being aware of the realities of our existence
on this planet which include,
civilization destroying cosmic events...
Victor Clube writes in
The Cosmic Winter...:
Even before the Black Death came,
then, a human catastrophe of great proportions was under way in
late medieval times.
Indeed, the cold snap lasted well beyond the
period of the... plague.
A number of such fluctuations are to be found
in the historical record, and there is good evidence that these
climatic stresses are connected not only with famine but also
with times of great social unrest, wars, revolution and mass
migrations.
(Clube (1990).)
Looking around now, one cannot help
but see the signs of collective insanity.
Political leaders, driven by greed and power,
lead their nations into endless conflicts.
The media, once a bastion of
truth, now peddles lies and manipulates reality, creating a
world where facts are subjective and truth is a commodity.
The masses, distracted by trivialities and
consumed by consumerism, fail to see the bigger picture,
oblivious to the looming dangers that threaten our very
existence.
This madness is not new...!
History is replete with examples of civilizations
that have succumbed to their own insanity before meeting their end.
The Roman Empire, once a beacon of
progress and culture, fell into decadence and chaos before it
crumbled.
Looking back at the history we notice how
much like the Roman Empire our present civilization actually is.
The Romans were certainly rational and scientific
in many respects.
They had factories which produced tableware
that has been found at the farthest reaches of the Empire, even
in peasant homes.
They had factories that manufactured roof
tiles that covered the heads of even the poorest workers and
their livestock.
A cache of letters was found in northern Britain
where soldiers wrote home to have socks sent to them, which were,
apparently, mass produced.
The Roman army was superior because it had
standardized equipment, produced in mass quantities at factories
located in hubs of the Empire.
Grain, olives, oil, foodstuffs of all kinds,
luxury goods, were mass-produced and distributed throughout the
Roman world.
Literacy was obviously very widespread, even
to the working classes.
There were roads, sanitation systems, haute
cuisine.
In short, everything that we take for granted as
essential to civilization.
The only difference seems to be that we have
harnessed sources of power that the Romans did not have, which
enables our civilization to aspire to
globalization.
But in almost every other way, we are exactly
like them...
It is only science that has made us bigger
and badder, so to say.
And, as the saying goes, the bigger they are,
the harder they fall.
That fall may be the extinction of the
human race...
The end of the Roman Empire witnessed horrors
and dislocation of a kind I sincerely hope never to have to live
through; and it destroyed a complex civilization, throwing the
inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of
prehistoric times.
Romans before the fall were as certain as we
are today that their world would continue forever, substantially
unchanged.
They were wrong...
We would be wise not to repeat their
complacency.
(Bryan Ward-Perkins,
The Fall of Rome and the End of
Civilization - 2005, p.
183.)
The
Maya civilization, with its
advanced knowledge and achievements, mysteriously collapsed,
possibly driven to madness by environmental and societal pressures.
And now, in our modern age, we see the same
patterns emerging.
In my writings, I have often detailed how the manipulation of
truth and the suppression of knowledge have been used as
tools by those in power to maintain control.
This deliberate obfuscation and distortion of
reality can lead to a form of collective madness, where the populace
is unable to distinguish between what is real and what is
fabricated.
This, in turn, creates a fertile ground for the
seeds of destruction to be sown.
The current state of the world is a testament to this.
We are bombarded with conflicting
information, half-truths, and outright lies.
The rise of social media has only exacerbated
this problem, creating echo chambers where individuals are only
exposed to information that reinforces their existing beliefs.
This has led to a polarization of society,
where rational discourse is replaced by vitriol and hatred.
At the present moment,
Elon Musk
has positioned himself as one of the 'elite arbiters of truth'.
He has taken the side of the
Deep State,
against Venezuela.
He is on the side of
the genocidal Zionists against
the true Semites of Palestine.
He proclaims himself a champion of Free
Speech and Truth while continuing to censor and suppress.
(I certainly wouldn't want to be in his shoes on
'Judgment Day'. And make no mistake about it, there will be a
Judgment Day, just nothing like what religions teach us.)
Furthermore, the environmental crisis that looms over us is a clear
indication of our collective madness.
Despite overwhelming evidence that the
climate IS changing, and it isn't 'global warming' except as
a
precursor to an Ice Age and its
devastating effects, we continue to get everything wrong.
Stupid people like
Bill Gates thinks he can fool
Mother Nature by blocking out the sun, all the while 'green energy'
claims that solar power is the way forward:
how do you get solar power when the sun is
blocked...?
Our oceans are choked with
plastic, our air is polluted, and
our forests are being decimated at an alarming rate made even worse
by the ridiculous anti-CO2
scam.
This destruction of our planet is not just an act
of madness; it is an act of suicide. But I think that is
intentional.
Recall what Victor Clube wrote cited
above:
Confronted on many occasions in the past by
the prospect of world-end, national elites have often found
themselves having to suppress public panic - only to discover,
too late, that the usual means of control commonly fail.
The elites of our day know this. And so, they
seek to
decimate the population to make it
more manageable.
That is undoubtedly at the root of
the COVID vaccine horror as well as
the efforts to
curtail agriculture so that masses
of people starve.
It's right in their faces and still people
don't do anything...!
It is as if we are under a spell, unable to see
the consequences of our actions or inaction.
In much of my work I discuss the idea that,
there are forces beyond our understanding
that may be influencing our behavior.
Whether these forces are extraterrestrial
or
hyperdimensional, the result is
the same:
a humanity that is disconnected from its true
nature and driven to such madness as transgenderism, widespread
pedophilia, human trafficking, and worse.
Again, the Apostle Paul addressed this:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and wickedness of those who by their
wickedness suppress the truth.
For what can be known about God is plain to
them, because God has shown it to them.
Ever since the creation of the world his
eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have
been understood and seen through the things he has made.
So they are without excuse; for though they
knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him,
but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless
minds were darkened.
Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the
glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human
being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among
themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie
and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,
who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions.
Their women exchanged natural intercourse for
unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural
intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one
another.
Men committed shameless acts with men and
received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them
up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
They were filled with every kind of
wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice.
Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
craftiness, they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent,
haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,
foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
They know God's decree, that those who
practice such things deserve to die--yet they not only do them
but even applaud others who practice them.
(Rom 1:18-31)
That is truly a description of Quos Deus vult
perdere, prius dementat; 'Whom the gods would destroy, they
first make mad'...
Is there any hope...?
Throughout history, there have been those who
have stood against the tide of insanity, who have sought to uncover
the truth and awaken the masses.
Most often they are ignored or
killed. I don't think we can avoid the fate that the gods
have seemingly laid out for us.
All we can do is strive to see beyond the
illusions and distractions, to seek out the truth and to reconnect
with our true nature in hopes that,
some will survive the Global
Cleansing that is coming...
In conclusion,
the saying "Whom the gods would destroy, they
first make mad" is a chilling reminder of the path we are
currently on.
Our collective insanity, driven by greed,
ignorance, and manipulation, is leading us towards destruction.
Is it too late to change course...?
I do think that we have the power to change our
course, to awaken from our madness, and to create a future that is
not dictated by the whims of the gods but by our own enlightened
choices.
The question is,
do we have the will to do so...?
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