On Abrahamism, Part I: God's Plan
Analyzing & Assessing the core concepts of the world's biggest religious tradition.
I have wrestled with the inner meaning and philosophical implications of Abrahamism for many years. When you are sensitive enough to detect vast spiritual realities as well as intellectual enough to consider the historical development of culture and religion, how could you not be1? The most significant fact, bar none, in the history of religion for the last 1600+ years has been the dramatic rise of the Abrahamic religions and their displacement of all the other religious expressions that came long before. When you are philosophically and spiritually inclined, you will inevitably collide with this question. If you try to hide from this question when it comes crashing into you, all you will ever be is a coward and everyone will be able to tell even if they don’t admit it to you. The two extreme positions to take on this question are a wholesale rejection or embrace of Abrahamism. The latter are the Christians or Muslims you see online who say that all ancient peoples prior to the rise of Abrahamism were deceived by demons and had no spiritual insight at all. The former are the Pagans or Dharmists2 you see online who say that the God of Abraham is some sort of desert demon who has deceived most of the present peoples such that they no longer have any spiritual insight at all. Between these two extremes are all the sophisticated points of view that see mysterious similarities between Abrahamism and the prior religious expressions as well as the richly fruitful tensions between them.
As one would expect, Abrahamists and Pagans3 of either extreme say frankly ridiculous things about the other side. They will point to the most degenerated practitioners as the primary representatives of the religion they oppose even if what such folks practice or believe is fringe within the context of that religion or out of touch with what it believed and practiced historically. So you will have Abrahamists justly mocking Hindus who bathe in cow dung4 or Pagans rightly ridiculing Evangelicals who think the whole point of Christianity is to accept infinite amounts of Africans into their countries and serve the Zionist state of “Israel”5. But the best way to approach the conflict between Abrahamism and Paganism is to do the opposite: look at the best possible exemplars from each set of traditions, the most exalted spirits and grandest personalities belonging to each set of traditions, and then do a comparison between them. What we will then see is striking similarities alongside the decisive differences.
Before we go any further, I want to talk about my own history of wrestling with this topic. I was first spiritually awakened through my exposure to the Dharmic religions. I had once wandered into a used bookstore looking for something different to read. I had always been someone who liked to read books, and I was growing tired of the fiction I was reading because I found it was always the same, so I had started to read non-fiction. I providentially found a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita6. Reading the Bhagavad-Gita as a teen transformed me from an agnostic to a firm believer in God overnight. I felt as I was reading it that God was speaking directly to me, and that I had actually always known all the things that book talked about but that these truths were hidden from my conscious mind in a chamber of my heart that God Himself was waiting for the right moment to unlock, and having opened it wave after wave of spiritual realization came over me in rapid succession. I took my dog out for a walk in a beautiful forest after finishing the Gita and felt as though God was all around me, in every leaf and every speck of dirt, nearer to me than my own heart. Such moments of spiritual ecstasy are the very heights of life. For a true devotee of God, moments of intimacy with The Supreme Being are more precious to you than anything else at all. Falling in love with God is more exhilarating than falling in love with a mere woman, and because He is infinite there is always more of Him to know so we will fall in love with Him forever. May He make us into true devotees, my dear reader.
Those who walk the spiritual path diligently will reach the summits of enlightened sanctity, and they will live in a state that is even better than the one that I was in on my walk that day forevermore. But for those who have yet to reach such grand inward heights like myself, these are only glimpses of the divine consciousness we seek to attain that God graciously gives His Devotees to encourage them on their journey, and those who attain rapid spiritual growth at certain opportune moments of their lives are only receiving the fruit of their spiritual efforts from previous lives. I am not a guru, my dear reader, and I caution you against those who claim to be such. I am a mere devotee of God on the spiritual path like you. I do not live in the state I talk about in the above paragraph every moment of my life.
When I discovered that the culture that produced the illuminating Bhagavad-Gita came from the common source as the culture that produced the noble Greco-Roman culture and the virile warrior cultures of Northern Europe I had another awakening, but of a different kind. When I read about the ancient Indo-European or Aryan culture, I felt a fiery feeling in my blood and an animalistic knowing in my veins. I could remember, physically, what it felt like to have my hair blowing in the wind as I rode a chariot in the Bronze Age… yes, I would be reading scientific papers or watching perfectly secular youtube videos on Indo-Europeans and this would trigger past-life memories in me that gave me tantalizing glimpses of my life before my spirit was ensnared by this wretched Modernity.7
These surges of past life memory stirred in me a desire to connect with the heritage of Northern Europe. As I did this, I found I had to wade through Abrahamism in order to draw near to the essence of North Europe, which I found frustrating, though I did not have strong feelings for or against Abrahamism initially. At around this time I had been redpilled on race, gender, and jews for a long time and the pressing dangers posed by my race’s refusal to acknowledge the realities of racial and gender difference was increasingly becoming the forefront of all my thoughts. When you see the sects of Jews and Evangelicals promoting falsehoods about race and promoting Zionistic things, it is easy to come to the conclusion that Abrahamism just in general is suspect. At around this time I discovered the writings of Nietzsche and devoured his books, and this propelled me into a conclusion tinged with the overhastiness of youth: Abrahamism is a series of Semitic plots to overthrow Aryan civilization, Christianity tricks Aryans into genteel passivity so they are defenseless against Jewish lies and Islamic violence. I believed in the “God of Abraham is a demon” concept wholesale, though this conclusion made me deeply sorrowful. How could my race, endowed by Nature and Nature’s God with such magnificent beauty of soul and body be deceived for a thousand years, and with no escape hatch to the Pre-Abrahamic world we left behind? I knew that God was real, and never once became an atheist. When you have had as many mystical experiences as I have you can’t just “become an Atheist” but mystics are not exempt from feelings of rage or despair towards The Supreme Being akin to the Biblical Job. My whole being shook from swallowing the realization that our old pagan altars are torn down with no hope of recovery, that my race which I loved so much has no living connection to its most ancient past. In the throes of passionate thinking, my heart was alternating daily between rage towards The Semites that they had ruptured us Aryans from our own traditions and despair that God had permitted this to happen to us. For a long time this was the default state of my inner life. I had begun to wonder at times, may He forgive me for even writing this, that God was simply mad, and that I too was mad for having encountered Him.
Yes, as a moth flies towards a flame only to be devoured by it, so too was I as a philosophical youth attracted to the dangerous beauty of the most difficult existential questions, only to be so troubled by them that I at times found it hard to live. If you find yourself being burned from within by such questions, my dear reader, all I can say to you is to let yourself burn! It’s the trial by such subtle fires that make you capable of being a true lover of wisdom, and those who are not familiar with dizzying throes of existential dread and the agony of doubt are merely playing with philosophy or worse they are mere academics. When the gods have destined a soul for heights of realization they first plunge them deep into abysses of madnesses, so it has been and will always be.
I could never bring myself to actively hate any Christians I knew in my life. They were all good people, though very naive which frustrated me and frustrates me still. I could see plainly that all the Christians I knew of whatever denomination opposed publicly most of the things I was opposed to: Transgenderism, pornography, consumerism, communism, secularism. In private most Christians I knew criticized Feminism, and a smaller number criticized the most serious issue which is Zionism and the Third Worldization of The West. So from a pragmatic perspective, it did not make sense to be aggressive towards those who had most of the same enemies as me. As I got to know Christians better, I decided to start reading some Christian books. I had always been a voluminous reader, but the vast majority of my spiritual reading was in the form of Eastern gurus and scriptures. I had not yet inquired much into Christianity, having dismissed it too readily.
As I began to do so, I found that most of the criticisms I had about Christianity before were actually very superficial and shallow. Gradually, I softened up towards what the world calls Abrahamism. This all came to a head when I began reading The Bible. I have, by now, finished reading the entire Bible from the first page of Genesis to the last page of Revelations three times. Yes, as I read it I knew without the slightest shadow of a doubt that The God of Abraham is but a different manifestation of The God who spoke to Arjuna in The Bhagavad-Gita. I could not explain this rationally at the time, except to say that His Devotees recognize Him no matter what form He chooses to take. A servant knows his Master’s voice. But I could not bring myself to join a Church, and I do not formally belong to one nor will I ever do so, because they are all corrupted by Liberalism to a fatal degree in our time. The essence of our ontological being as eternal spirits is fulfilled by serving God, and this must entail amidst this crisis of the modern world acting contrary to religious institutions and received traditions as these have all been subverted from within by demonic forces. Our being connected to God substantially is an existential reality that we may forget due to our own ignorance but it is never dependent upon mere affiliation to institutions or belonging to traditions, though those are not bad in and of themselves. I choose to affirm the natural panentheistic theism of my Spirit.
The Blessed Lord says to Arjuna that He takes on many forms in accordance with the needs of sentient beings, so if we take Him seriously we must reason that The God of Abraham is just one of these manifestations, and we are then left consider why it is that God chose to manifest Himself in this way to most of mankind in the last 1,600 years. We must reckon with the fact that Abrahamism and Dharma alike are paths to God in varying degrees and in different ways8. It was not all apparent to me at first how it could be that Abrahamism and Dharma are both ways of approaching The Supreme Lord, because though I knew it made perfect sense on the level of the intellection of the heart from my spiritual experiences it did not make sense to me rationally in my head, as there are many plain differences in what Abrahamism and Dharma teach. God had revealed to me that they both lead to Him, but He did not choose to explain this to me logically, so I was left to do this myself. God reveals and man reasons over revelations, having been left with no choice but to do that by He Who knows all. This is itself a part of His Plan, but we would be fools among fools to say that our reasoning over what He reveals is ever on the level of revelation. No, my dear reader, I am not a prophet, and I am not unique in it having been revealed to me that Christianity and Paganism are both paths to God.
I know that the reality of Abrahamism and Paganism having a common divine source is true remains a great mystery and will likely ever be so no matter how much we reason over it. For a length of days I wrestled with this question, but I discovered early on that it was more important to live the question rather than to strictly think it through rationally. I didn’t have to understand in a systematically rational manner how The God of Abraham and The God of The Aryans is the same to proceed from that truth in terms of my spiritual praxis. I meditated silently and connected with God through the natural world as I did before. I chanted Aum and many other Dharmic mantra as I did before. But now I also prayed the Biblical Psalms. I read the lives of Catholic and Orthodox saints alongside my study of the teachings of Vedic gurus, keeping many philosophico-theological questions in the back of my mind. Gradually, many satisfying answers blossomed in my mind that were not there before. I have shared most of these answers on all of the Substack content that I have produced so far9, and I will continue to do so. But I want you to know, my dear reader, that any errors in what I have argued for are purely my own, my own failure to discern what God has revealed. I am hardly infallible.
While I have compared and contrasted Abrahamism with The Aryan Dharma many times throughout this newsletter so far, I realized that I have not actually broken down what Abrahamism actually is. I felt compelled to write a new series of articles analyzing this peculiar belief system as thoroughly as possible. In this first part, we will look at the core concepts that animate the Abrahamic worldview, and then in the second part we will analyze the genealogical question in Abrahamism. In a third part we will discuss the serious limitations of this worldview and the problems I have with it, and in the fourth part I will go more in depth to what I appreciate about it and Christianity in particular.
The philosophical presuppositions of Abrahamism are so deeply ingrained in us that they can be very difficult to recognize. Abrahamism has become the air most of us breathe, for good or for ill. Let’s lay out the most foundational concepts of these sets of beliefs, the bedrock of Abrahamism, and assess each as we go.
The first concept of Abrahamism is that the universe is created by a singular Supreme Being who is self-existent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, and holy. He also mysteriously guides the history that happens within the universe that He made. So immediately, we have ideas that set apart Abrahamism from other belief systems. In some other ancient mythologies and philosophies, the universe exists all on its own, or it came into being accidentally, or it is the byproduct of multiple contesting beings and their factional strife or multiple elemental forces. In many belief systems in the ancient world, Fate or destiny is inexplicably higher than all, even the gods. But in the Biblical view, God is both the creator of the universe and the author of Fate. He has no rivals. So at the root of reality, then, is not a contest between impersonal elemental forces or competing pantheons of gods. At the root of reality is just one Transcendent Being and His Inexorable Will. Not multiple competing wills behind all things but just One Will. This idea is not unique to The Biblical Worldview but it was most popularized through it, and this was good for mankind that they might come to know their Transcendental Lord. Surely in spite of the ignorance of man there remain traces of The Supreme Being in every religion including every pagan mythology, even the most degenerated ones10, and even The Bible still portrays an imperfect image11 of God, but the Abrahamic religions have pressed the truth of The Supreme Being’s sovereignty over creation and history into the human mind more thoroughly than any other historical phenomenon. When we believe that the universe exists for a purpose that demands our responsibility, that our own life is one among many roles in the cosmic drama that must be played well, that nothing that ever happens is arbitrary or absurd no matter how much it may seem so (as it often does), then there is no way for the darkness of nihilism to creep in. The belief in the benevolent God who creates the universe and authors the history in it is the most impenetrable fortress against the forces of nihilism, and indeed the reason why it is the most perfect antidote to nihilism is because this belief is true, though this hardly means that every instantiation of this belief is true as we all know that Abrahamists disagree with each other decisively in a lot of important ways12. Precisely because of how powerful of a motivator the belief that you are acting out God’s salvific plan in history is, misinterpretations of the plan are more dangerous than perhaps any other idea, and we see this with the securalized and bastardized belief systems that are ultimately Abrahamic in their nature and origin: Liberalism, Marxism, Hegelianism, and Zionism. What these “Abrahamisms-gone-wrong” have in common is a belief that the primary orientation of one’s activity is towards reforming the world through harnessing political power rather than reforming oneself through spiritual discipline along with an arrogant declaration that one knows for certain what God’s plan is and what the outcome of that plan must be. It is certainly not the case, my dear reader, that it is God’s plan to make us all equal, or to make us all genderless and raceless. It’s not God’s plan to enslave all of mankind to Zionist Jews. For Abrahamism not to be dangerous a great deal of humility is required when it comes to the question of what God’s plan is, and it must be understood that we fulfill this plan by reforming ourselves first and foremost. Abrahamism was originally a good and pure work of God to remind human beings of essential truths that they had forgotten as their native pagan religions became corrupted over time as all religions do, including Abrahamism. But the Abrahamic traditions have been corrupted by human beings, and unless they can be reformed, as I suspect they won’t, then God will initiate a new great religious movement among mankind, as different from Abrahamism as Abrahamism was from the Paganisms that came before. But the things about Abrahamism that were true will be retained in this new religious movement, as Truth never changes. This future religion will itself become corrupted over time as all religions do. Religions come and go, serving their purpose in God’s mysterious plan to draw humans to Himself and defeat evil across space and time, but God and the spiritual truths He has woven into the fabric of reality remain ever the same.
As per the Genesis narrative, The Abrahamic God created the world through His Speech, and declared it very good, then made man in His Image. God is a rational being (though not always in ways comprehensible to us!) and we have reason as He does and the world is His Speech, thus the universe is a comprehensible place. The World that God made was originally perfect, and Man was to rule it as His imager, His representative. Man was made for a noble and divine purpose, not just to be a beast of burden. Most ancient worldviews assert that Man is a middling being in a cosmic hierarchy with Animals beneath him and spirit beings above him. The Abrahamic worldview is not at all alone in its assertion that Man lived a paradiscal life in a forgotten age long ago that he lost through some transgression, and the sheer ubiquity of this idea tells me that it is true. But Man fell from this high station through rebellion and lost the original paradise that he knew: from this comes all the sorrows that we know to be endemic to human life - aging, natural disasters, disease, sickness, death, the necessities of labour caused by material poverty, tyranny, strife, sin, and enslavement to dark spiritual entities in rebellion against God.
But the forgotten earthly paradise of yore will return. Yes, we need not despair, because God promises that He will restore this world from its wretched fallen condition and make it better than it ever was before after totally defeating all evil. All of evil’s plans in the end are subverted for the sake of bringing about more goodness than could ever have been possible without the initial rise of evil that is to be crushed at the right time. This is, in the end, a decisively optimistic worldview. Many ancient mythologies and philosophies were ultimately cynical. But this Abrahamic worldview that grew from The Levant is unusually optimistic for the ancient world. Many ancients believed Man fell from an age of bliss, but not many were so bold to believe that age would return, and that those who lived justly in their time were even destined to participate in it themselves even if it must be after they are resurrected from their graves. This optimism grounded in God’s omnipotent justice and love is one of the greatest ideas for us to imbibe from Abrahamism. Though it is not unique in teaching this, Abrahamism pressed this joyful truth into the heart of man powerfully in places where it had been forgotten, in lands where people even began to believe that Evil usually wins.
The most radical Abrahamic assertion, the beating heart of Abrahamism, is that God directs all of history, ultimately, for the happiness of Man and His Own Glory. God permits evil only to bring about more goodness in accordance with His Plans. We ought not to worry then about whether or not evil will win and undo God’s good creation, because it’s defeat is inevitable. Our chief concern is rather we will be destroyed alongside evil when its day of reckoning has finally come. Because if there is evil in us it will have to go - no evil can remain in God’s very good universe. This idea is true, and though many falsehoods have become widespread due to Abrahamism becoming corrupted overtime, the fact that this idea became widespread is ultimately good.
This brings us to my very favourite Abrahamic idea, which is that God will judge all of us and hold us accountable for all of our deeds, words, and thoughts. All we did or did not do with the time and gifts we were given we will be held accountable for. Who is confident enough in the strength of his moral character not to shudder at the thought of being judged by an omniscient and perfect judge who will deal out a sentence with the gravest possible consequences for our ultimate good or ill? Perhaps some wrong summoned itself out of your conscience just now that you had forgotten about. Abrahamism forcefully stamped the consciousness of mankind13 with Moral-centrism, the idea that life revolves around morality, that our ethical choices are of supreme value and that we will be judged by a timeless moral standard that is always at odds with the spirit of our age. Yes, the moral standards of the times change but real morality never does and never can. If, theoretically, we could follow eternal unchanging moral laws perfectly and then time travel back to every era of the past we would be at odds with the prevailing moral attitude of each era though in different ways. Many venerable men in ancient times could reason out how eternal moral laws exist and could identify them with great accuracy through reasoning, but only through reaching deep into the heart through religion could one imprint this idea onto the consciousness of Man as merely rational men tried and failed to do.
Abrahamic moral teaching was not always perfect due to the follies of man, as Christianity lapsed into the pathetic whimpering that is rightly called Slave-Morality, and Islam lapsed into pure Semitic tribal savagery, and Judaism lapsed into conspiratorial levantine ethnic supremacy. If these religions cannot reform themselves and overcome what they have lapsed into they will be replaced with other religions, new ones that God will initiate at the right time.
We can’t live up to a moral standard of perfect goodness, so before God who could stand? But He Himself loves us so much that He incarnates within the world that He made in order to suffer so that our bad deeds can be atoned for through His suffering. He has a passion to live with us forevermore, a great love proven through suffering as all great love is. Whose heart could not swell with warmth at the thought that the creator of the universe loves you enough to die for you and the sake of your ultimate happiness? Yes, in all religions Man makes sacrifices to the gods, but in Christianity God make a sacrifice for Man. The reception of this sacrifice by Man allows him to return to his high calling as a deputy over God’s creation, a kind of miniature god in his own right. This idea, most pronounced in Christianity, makes Christianity the best of the Abrahamisms and ultimately a good and life-affirming, noble religion though it has fallen from the holy, noble, enlightened doctrine that Christ taught.
A God who created an entire universe who directs a cosmic drama happening within it which every sentient creature participates in and who will judge all sentient beings according to unchanging moral standards could not but be a universal God for all mankind rather than just an ethnic deity. A universal rather than just a mere ethnic history could not but be the most high-stakes drama, the ultimate game for those who know it’s a drama directed by God and the most breathless circumstance for those totally wrapped up in it.
This worldview is theocentric, meaning God is always at the core of everything even if this is not apparent and He is the ultimate referent for every activity. Every being in the universe is determined by their relationship with God whether they are aware of this or whether they choose this to be so. In the end, glorifying God is the purpose of life.
This set of belief systems place a heavy emphasis on Faith in all of the above as a necessary virtue, even the most important one, the prerequisite for all meaningful virtues. This is good because all of our actions are tinged by the state of mind we do them in and grow in power or diminish in power as a result. When we act with the right faith our actions, even very ordinary ones, can become mighty enough to purify the whole world. Faith means continually affirming things that are true, and this helps us to keep certain spiritual truths that are not always discernible or apparent to our mind at the forefront of our thoughts so that we are oriented towards the world in the right way. But Faith is above all else a disposition of the heart to be receptive to God’s Will because you trust Him because you know that He is good and that He knows better than us.
The Biblical Revelation was never about teaching a new worldview to supplant the pagan one but rather it was about restoring truths that mankind had gradually forgotten in varying degrees and for different reasons over the course of millennia. This is how it is if we take The Bible at its word, because The God of Abraham is the God of not just a particular West Asian tribe but the original God of all mankind. Most or even all of the truths discussed above can be found even if just in heavily distorted ways in every Pagan worldview. All of the most sophisticated Pagans tended towards something like Monotheism. Aristotle recognized one uncaused cause, one unmoved mover at the core of existence rather than a competing pantheon of deities, and Abrahamics just gave that unmoved mover a Name. Plato recognized One Transcendent Good above all things, even the gods, and Abrahamists just personified that Good, and indeed the one transcendent good must be personified because the one transcendent good must by definition be the most good thing and a personified good is more good than a non-personified good. The Iranians already had an explicitly Monotheistic Faith with Zoroastrianism14 which proves that the Supreme Lord was at work in trying to restore forgotten truths with more than just Abraham’s lineage. The Vedic Aryans taught that all beings, even the gods, are derivative from one source, and the Bhagavad-Gita teaches the most sophisticated panentheistic monotheism of any revealed religion.
The Bhagavad-Gita teaches that the ways to God fit into three different categories broadly: The Way of Devotion [Bhakti], The Way of Contemplation[Jnana], and The Way of Action[Karma]. God says repeatedly throughout the Gita that the way of Devotion to God, which looks like prayers and worshipping God, is the one most suited for the current materialistic Dark Age. Abrahamism is essentially a militant Bhakti religion. This is good, as most people are by their inborn nature emotional, and the way of devotion is most suited for such people. One of the characteristics of the present Dark Age is the proliferation of a low-grade materialistic type of human, and this type abuses higher spiritual truths, so they need to be taught “Obey God good go to heaven, disobey God bad go to hell” in a forceful manner because they will twist around a more nuanced presentation of the truth to mean that they can do whatever they like. God knows this will alienate the more sophisticated who are born among the plebeians, which is why the Abrahamic religions always have schools within them of more sophisticated presentations of deeper spiritual truth which the intelligent will be able to find even if that usually isn’t mainstream within those traditions. Certain spiritual truths like the reality of Reincarnation had to be hidden, because low-grade humans abuse the truth of reincarnation to mean that they can put off walking the spiritual path since they have an infinite amount of chances to reach Enlightenment, and that going to Hell to suffer for sins isn’t such a big deal since people will incarnate out of Hell15 eventually once the karma that sent them there is burned away. So to forcefully encourage people to seek God, the truth of reincarnation is hidden in the Abrahamic religions, though most mystics in those traditions allude to it and sometimes very explicitly so. The teaching of the resurrection of the body was suitable for the low-grade humans in this epoch who are very attached to their bodies and fear losing it, and the teaching of resurrection is rich in esoteric meaning as we have discussed before. The Abrahamic orientation that God acts through history was most suited for the materialistic humanity that would proliferate during this dark age because such types often cannot lift their thoughts to anything higher than history.
Ultimately, it is true that the harshest criticism levelled towards Abrahamism is that it appeals to a materialistic type of humanity, but this is just because God really does love everyone, and Abrahamism is a way of casting a very wide net to catch as many humans as possible. Those who are more sophisticated than the materialistic masses can always find more mystical interpretations of Abrahamism that suit them if they really are as sophisticated as they claim to be, and they always have.
But what of those who were true followers of God but did not belong to this set of traditions or were even persecuted by those who did? God knows all His devotees even if His Devotees do not, and they will be justly recompensed in the end. The idea that one is automatically damned to Hell because they do not belong to the right institution or tradition is patently absurd. Abrahamists have often destroyed good things in their zeal to destroy evil things, and because of this it is Karmically inevitable that like all traditions Abrahamism will pass away.
The truth of there being One Supreme Being behind all things had been forgotten by mankind, and Abrahamism was the means God elected to restore this truth. But as He chooses to work through human beings to give us the privilege of serving Him, this was done imperfectly. I have criticized Abrahamism a lot in my earlier articles, and I will be summarizing all of these criticisms in the third part of this On Abrahamism series. But ultimately, the Abrahamic disposition of the heart that God ultimately controls all of history resulting in the salvation of the good and the destruction of the evil is best suited for this turbulent Kali Yuga16. I used to be ceaselessly anguished by the political troubles of the modern world until through reading The Bible, God Himself planted hope in my heart.
In the end, it was indeed God’s Plan for Abrahamism to dramatically rise so as to definitively implant certain ideas onto the consciousness of Man, but it is also His Plan, I do believe, for these religions to dramatically collapse as surely as they rose to be supplanted by new religions that will retain what was good about Abrahamism but correct what went wrong about it by being explicitly Nature-preserving and eugenic, among other things.
In the second part, we will examine the aspect of Abrahamism that is most peculiar to it and most troubling about it at times, namely the extent to which it is grounded in a particular historical lineage. The entire Bible is in a sense a book of genealogies, and very particular ones at that. It is singularly odd that a set of religions with such universal scope should be grounded in things so particular. God demonstrates His power by impacting the universal through the particular. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all trace their genealogy to Abraham in different ways and the way in which this is done shapes the entirety of those religions. We will examine these genealogies in the second part of this series.
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Being both spiritually and intellectually inclined is a curse at times, because it makes me alienated from spiritual and intellectual people alike. For the intellectuals I believe in too many things which I can see directly which they cannot, and for the spiritualists I am too heady. But we must accept what God has formed us to be and make use of our gifts as best we can. Being both spiritually and intellectually inclined lets me have the richest inner life possible and allows me to experience the fullness of the divine life. So it is more of a blessing, in the end.
Dharmist is a broad term that means anyone who accepts a religious worldview that has Dharma as its central concept, so Buddhists and Hindus and Jains are all Dharmists among others.
Using this term to just mean literally any non-Abrahamic religion, but most specifically the indigenous ethnic religions.
This bizarre practice is completely out of touch with the Aryan spirit that permeates the Bhagavad-Gita and the Vedas. It is clearly a Dravidian corruption of the Aryan religion that was brought to India by the Aryan founders of “Hinduism” long ago. The Indo-Aryans did not enforce their caste system strictly enough, as is the case with every other such system established by Aryan peoples throughout history as we have discussed before. Many popular forms of Hinduism today are the result of dysgenia, and sadly we can say the same about most popular forms of Christianity. Most Christians today believe that forcefully promoting equality between Whites and Negroids, men and women, and sending donations to The Zionist State is quintessential to Christ’s teaching which is of course not true. The destructive force of Dysgenia combined with Liberal madness effects all institutions in the modern world today at every level including the religious institutions, which is why high-IQ people, the spiritually inclined, and the racially healthy will increasingly tend towards “spiritual” rather than institutional expressions of their heritages of faith.
The liberal insanity was not a part of Christianity originally, to put it mildly, which is why when Europe was more Christian it kicked Muslims out rather than invited them in, and burned homosexuals rather than celebrate them. It enforced anti-miscegenation laws. But the liberal insanity has seeped very deeply into every Christian denomination in varying degrees, and if these traditions can’t push back against this they will be destroyed. Perhaps The Supreme Lord Himself will resurrect the Pagan religions back from the grave as surely as He resurrected Lazarus in order to deal with this problem.
I read the translation published by ISKCON but I have read numerous other translations of the Gita. I have read it more than I have read any other book. Bhagavad-Gita is The KING OF BOOKS…
I hate hearing Zoomers & Millennials say they were born into a doomed world and are suffering innocently for things they didn't do. If you didn't have The Karma necessary to be born in this wretched time then you wouldn't have been born here at all. Somehow, in a past life, you contributed towards the rise of Industrialism, Liberalism, Modernism, etc. even if it was just by not sufficiently resisting such things and have now reincarnated into this time to reap the consequences of your actions. Own up, take responsibility, and work on purifying your soul!
This obviously doesn’t necessarily mean that each instantiation of “Abrahamism” or “Dharma” or “Paganism” are valid representatives of those respective traditions.
In particular, the “Primeval Panentheism” three-part series, the “Our Eternal Spirits” two part series, and “Reconciling Reincarnation & Resurrection” examine the subjects of reconciling Abrahamism and Dharma.
Though I am a Perennialist, my approach is more “All religions are distorted fragments of one primordial religion that helped people experientially attain God-Consciousness through techniques and teaching” rather than “All religions are just like, the same religion, man”… and a critical part of this is that not all religions are equal. Not all Paganisms are equal. The Canaanite religion and the Aztec are both highly demonic as shown by the prevalence of sexual degeneracy and sadistic human sacrifices in them. Any manifestation of those two things, especially involving innocent children, is a sure sign of demonic activity. But the paganisms of Europe were a very high and elegant manifestation of religion, as were the paganisms of many North American Indigenous tribes. What the world calls “Hinduism” has many diverse schools of thought within it the most elite of which actually retain the original primordial religion of Man in a very high degree, and thus it serves as a useful interpretive lense to interpret other religions through.
Abrahamism is rightly criticized for making the distinction between creator and creature too sharp, which results in alienation from God. The belief purported in this newsletter is Panentheism - the idea that God is imminent in creation while transcending it at the same time. We will talk about this more in the third part of this series. To explore Panentheism you can read my “Primeval Panentheism” series.
The differences between Abrahamic religions are very important, and although they do indeed all worship the same God they believe decisively different things about Him. The Jews believe God is an ethnic supremacist just for them, which their own scriptures refute, so they invented a whole other set of books to interpret their scriptures through called The Talmud. Muslims believe God cannot incarnate as a human being and is essentially alien to the rest of His creation. Christians believe that God incarnated as a human being to die for us, and indeed God incarnates many times in many worlds in many galaxies. Christianity is the best of the Abrahamisms, with Islam second and Judaism dead last. Judaism is hardly even a religion and has tenuous ties at best to the religion practiced in The Old Testament which is most directly carried on by Christians.
We ought to add that just because one believes in eternal moral laws does not mean that one is necessarily correct about what those laws are. There is always something mysterious in the eternal natural moral laws of the universe.
While contemporary Zoroastrianism teaches that their supreme God, Ahura Mazda, has an equal but opposite rival I do not believe that the original Zoroastrians taught this but rather that this dualism is an accretion that developed in that religion later on. Dualism is a very serious metaphysical error because it ascribes more power to the demons than they actually have which makes it harder to cast them out.
I think that the displacement of Zoroastrianism by Islam, which is an inferior religion to both Zoroastrianism and Christianity, is one of the greatest tragedies in world history. The Magi who visited Christ as an infant were Zoroastrian priests - “Magi” is the word for priest in the Zoroastrian religion. When I went on a solo pilgrimage to Israel a few years ago to pray and fast, a Palestinian Christian told me that Zoroastrians respected the figure of Christ, and did not destroy the church of the nativity in Bethlehem because they recognized the Magi depicted on its walls as Zoroastrian priests. Zoroastrianism has many more connections to Abrahamism and is more thoroughly bound up with that religion than most people recognize. In particular, the idea of the judgment of all mankind and future world restoration were only implicit in the earliest documents of The Old Testament from the first temple period. Those who say those ideas weren’t present at all are wrong. But these ideas were very much explicit in Zoroastrianism, and the second temple period of Israel’s history made these ideas more explicit, so it is likely Israelites realized these ideas were present in their religion after seeing them in Zoroastrianism as was God’s Will. It was always God’s Will for people to realize things about their own religion through studying other people’s religions, and we don’t have to let the ignorance of Man down through the ages get in the way of us having these realizations today.
Hell is absolutely a real place and you can find depictions of it in nearly every sophisticated religion like Buddhist, Hinduism, zoroastrianism, islam, christianity, etc because it is actually real, and all these depictions of it are strikingly similar. We should make it clear that after one’s negative karma that lead to one suffering in Hell is expiated, one must then incarnate on Earth again. One only goes to a higher grade of existence than Earth after passing the tests of Earthly life. One cannot go from Hell to Heaven.
This idea is absolutely present in both Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism too. But in Abrahamism it is present in a more forceful and singular manner. It’s not that this idea is unique to Abrahamism but that the emphasis on it is more extreme and apparent and specific.
Since God is fair. He will judge everyone on the light they were given. Those who grasp after God genuinely. Always arrives at Jesus Christ as God incarnate.
God so willing to love humanity that he permanently took on Humanity. In addition to being the Sacrifice for Sin. In Jesus God is always one with Humanity. And the marriage of Humanity with God is achieved both in Jesus and in the Future Resurrection.
this was interesting and very well written. i think you would do well writing speculative, spiritual fiction. like having the gods as your characters, capturing their interactions with the world. not only in this text, but in others, the parts where you describe your spiritual experiences were particularly engaging, felt urgent.