Counter-initiation, Archons, agents, the Black Iron Prison and whatnot

Found a funny interview with Robert Anton Wilson, wherein the subject of New Age is discussed:

DAB: Let's talk about the whole New Age movement happening now, Shirley McClaine, crystal healing and all that: Didn't I hear something about you writing a book about that?

RAW: Yes, I'm writing a book about New Age sewage.

DAB: New Age sewage?

RAW: Yes, I got the idea from William Erwin Thompson, the anthropologist. He pronounces New Age as "Newage" so it rhymes with sewage. And I thought, boy there sure is enough of that around, isn't there, New Age sewage. Just because there's a slight chance people may not have read my other books, and may read The New Inquisition, and think I'm only against one type of fundamentalism, I decided to make the sequel to it, an attack on the imbeciles on the other side. And so, I'm going to tear into Ramtha and all these other sages who come back . . . the main thing Ramtha proves is you can be dead 40,000 years and still be a bore. That may be interesting news, but that's . . . Everything I've heard from Ramtha sounds like an editorial from the Reader's Digest in 1958 or something.

Then there are these ecological loonies who would like to abolish the human race so that the trees could live in peace again. I think they're kind of funny. Then there's these animal rights activists who also seem to have a very low opinion of humanity. I don't know why they don't all commit suicide, and get rid of the most, I mean, if you hate humanity, you've got to regard yourself as one of the prime offenders, because you know yourself better than the rest of humanity. If they have a low view of humanity, they must have a very low view of themselves. I wish they'd remove themselves from the scene and stop annoying the rest of us. I like people, I like humanity.

Now, I've been thinking about something lately: What if there are actually people - agents - who are deliberately making people bark up the wrong tree, as it were, in order to make it easier to control these very people, or, at the very least, to "disarm" the issues they bring forth?

Of course, there's a fine line here; one might end up with nothing more than a spook to point one's finger at every time one runs across a stupid git (which happens regularly), almost akin to a christian pointing hir finger at the devil, or worse, David Icke pointing his shaky digits at reptiles. As for Mr Icke, I'm partial to the idea that he himself is one of these agents of which I speak. I'm not saying he is, I'm saying there's just as much chance of that as there is of scaly reptiles buggering apes to produce humans, and then tampering with them for aeons.

In this article, which I recommend, as well as the rest of the site, Aleister Crowley is quoted as saying,

"What I am out to complain of is what I seriously believe to be an organized conspiracy of the Black Lodges to prevent people from thinking . . ."

This all ties very well together with the whole gnostic thing, with the Archons and everything (by the way, did you know that the word "archon," apparently, comes from the same root as "monarch" and "hierarchy"?).

Now, that leaves the whole issue of just what exactly an Archon might be wide open. I won't be "feeling" that one, as they say, as I gather there are lots of opinions on the matter about.

Suffice it to say that this "current," if I may make so bold, is described in various esoteric teachings. Among the more lucid writings on this - and many other, gnostically themed subjects (seen from a magical, or initiatic, angle) - are to be found in Introduction to Magic by Julius Evola and the UR group:

What is employed here is a diversionary tactic, which is efficacious wherever one is ignorant that beyond the normal world there are worlds of the supernormal and of the subnormal; that the removal of the limits of ordinary consciousness may occur in the direction of the superpersonality and superconsciousness, but also as in the direction of the subpersonality and of a reduced consciousness; and finally, that beyond sensible and "natural" reality there is not only the sphere of the supernatural, but also that of the subnatural and of an inferior psychism. All this is completely ignored, it seems, by the various currents of contemporary occultism and "spiritualism," not to mention "metapsychics," psychoanalysts, and the like. The people who belong to these groups, due to their narrow-minded views and methods, do not even suspect the existence of this principle. [...] Thus the legitimate suspicion arises that what is at work here is a secret, nonhuman, intelligent action, the specific purpose of which is to lead every spirit that attempts to leave the magic circle of practical materialism in a downward rather than upward direction; not toward the higher personality but toward the subpersonality; not toward true spirituality, and metaphysical and initiatic knowledge, but toward the world of an inferior psychism, consisting of phenomena, nebulous visions, and sensations, which end by inhibiting every possibility of authentic development, if not actually causing the alteration and disintegration of the spiritual unity. This is precisely the purpose of the counter-initiation.

The late, great Bill Hicks also said that there were demons being set loose on the planet to lower the standards of God's holy children. Now, reminding ourselves not to take anything literally, can there be said that there are occurances of these buggers actually setting about on a mission to make people more stupid?

I should say there are - just look at advertising, as well as what kind of "role models" mass media is currently pumping out into the biomass; now it is, apparently, cool to be fucking stupid. Just look at Paris sodding Hilton - case in point.