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BIG BAD PYRAMID
666 - - THE OPPOSITE OF THE
SPIRITUAL CITY FOURSQUARE
THE CORPORATE FORM OF US GOVERNMENT
IS THE OPPOSITE OF DEMOCRACY
THE PYRAMID IS INEQUALITY ITSELF, SUPERIOR-INFERIOR SYSTEM, MURDEROUS COMPETITION, SCAPEGOAT TEMPLE,
CHANCE, RELENTLESS AMALGAMATION
The pyramidal organizational form is the carnal mind's operating system used everywhere (governments, the military, businesses, religions, sports, entertainment, and even families). It amalgamates relentlessly, ultimating in "666." It houses all living material organisms. Intrinsic is the basic superior-inferior two-class mechanism expanded into hundreds of classes in all strata and activities in endless forms and degrees of its over-under, controller-controlled, devouring-devoured, winner-loser patterns.
Its competitiveness ranges from mild to murderous, constructive to destructive, but is always there.
It appears to be the ladder of success, glory, and identity, but those things require defeating others, instead of spiritual growth.
It's a torment - - even torture - - chamber from light to heavy.
It's a scapegoat temple ideal for dumping onto others.
It's the opposite of democracy.
It's inequality itself in all ways, including that the floors get smaller and smaller as they go up. Thus, while any one individual can theoretically get to the top, every one cannot.
It's the opposite of the Bible's City Foursquare, a symbol for the unseen but ever-present spiritual Kingdom.
Its nature is them-or-us. The battling to climb, the stopping of others from climbing onto occupied floors, the divisive envy from peers and those below, and "success" measured by the floor to which one has clawed, absorb us when instead Jesus said to seek first the Kingdom. On any floor, we stand above, or on, others.
Emblemized in Egypt (the Bible's metaphor for mammon), the pyramid's great stone weight also symbolizes oppression, slavery.
Real gain is finding (by degrees) the Spirit and our image and likeness, and that of others, which lifts instead of oppresses.
The real divine structure has an equality for all far above anything we imagine. The non-devouring scenes of wolf, lion, lamb and little child living in peace (Isa. 11:6-9) bespeak the divine nature.
The pyramid if "democratized" has some positive earthly uses, but if uncontrolled, it rules from the top, relentlessly amalgamates, and snuffs out democracy (or US-type democracy-based republics).
It steadily puts power, control and wealth in the top, creates a permanent upper class by insufficient taxation, then passes this intact in the manner of the royalty system. Our country relies on classes being open and accessible for all, for future generations.
We promote success, but not control of the nation or system - - and success has a partner in the opportunities, infrastructure, law, military, education, markets, financial systems, and so on, which the country provides.
The pyramid if not "democratized" locks in the classes.
Moreover it creates and maintains an oppressed, deprived, bleeding and often dying bottom, for scapegoat cleansing of the upper regions, general dumping, and a home for pyramid-created losers.
The pyramid poses as ladder of success - - but is a prison
At its least, the pyramid is a pecking order. At its most it's a food chain, devouring, crushing, and sending losers downward.
Victory, position, status, success, come from climbing, but these gains stand on others, and every floor - - and relationship - - involves superiority and dumping position.
Pyramidal "glory" comes from defeating others. One-left-standing gladiatorial elimination tournaments characterize sports, business, finance and entertainment today. Real climbing is spiritual.
Pyramids relentlessly merge with others, creating bigger ones.
Voters in democracies today have no idea of the size of present and growing global amalgamations and interlockings in commerce and finance - - and how these are a supra-government over everyone, not controlled by voters or any nation or group of nations.
The "666" final amalgamation will control all nations and people (but not the Kingdom or Kingdom-people on earth).
The system of sending accusations elsewhere, is instinctive in humans. When the four-year-old kid in the movie theater with his mother ripped a noisy one, he loudly said, "Excuse you, Mommy!" - - to the laughter of the audience and the ear of a newspaper reporter. The tot passed both the gas and the blame.
Accusations and blame can be cosmic or from this world, real, false, or just imagined, hidden or overt - - but people react, and push them off elsewhere.
Blaming others personally - - or impersonally and anonymously "below" or "over there" - - is the first step in scapegoating. Final steps kill victims somewhere (usually by random selection from untraceable remoteness). The deaths supposedly carry sins away from earth.
The pyramidal carnal mind structure is scapegoating's temple. Levels facilitate hidden, impersonal and untraceable dumping.
All pyramid levels deflect or dump
Danny Kaye had a routine where the General abusively speaks to a rank below, who passes the hard remarks further below until a private hollers at the dog - - who runs off scared.
In the actual pyramid, accusations and jabs seen and unseen, cosmic and civil, or from friends, enemies, or our consciences, are also deflected or dumped onto others where possible.
Created by the pyramid itself are superiorisms, belittlements, scorns, comparisons, bruising blows, insults, faults, exclusions, lies, shattered ethics, twisted laws, injustices, betrayals, and false and real accusations of guilt. These are deflected or dumped as quickly as possible. The whole system is injustice.
The pyramid is disguised as the way to rise, but actually helps the down-pushing death-system of the carnal mind. It's essentially negative, lifting only a few.
(In major pyramid expansions - - such as today's which is heading
towards a single world pyramid - - many people are lifted, even spectacularly and with suddenness, into newly-created space.)
Those mired and not moving up can only ogle.
However, the pyramid is a prison even for those in the top, who think they are hobnobbing with the gods or rising above it all. But the only way out is through the bottom, and getting free of the dumping system. Jesus' story of the beggar named Lazarus who was in the top here but in the bottom in the next zone (Lk. 16:19-26), points to the pyramid.
The shining top easily dumps negatives, because it thinks it is "above the law" (as in the old "divine right of kings" who made laws, but didn't obey them). Today, the US government can assassinate without responsibility, do "black bag" jobs and be freed if nabbed. Romans thought their emperors were either gods or closest to the gods. Admired in their top places today are the "gods," idols, demigods and demigoddesses of money, sports, entertainment, music, business, looks, property, fashion, sex, celebrity, and so on.
People strive to get to the top either in fact or vicariously.
Among the most-admired top figures of history have been some of its mass-murdering aggressors, keepers of dungeons, robbers and deceivers of the people - - not to mention the routinely merely corrupt. Seeming to shine, but often dirty, the top stays supposedly clean (it's an illusion) by dumping below. Woven-in with enforcement people, it dodges penalties, and even when caught, usually gets light penalties or pardons.
Even white-collar criminals in the middle classes pay less than lower-tier folk for identical crimes.
We can't purify by dumping evils -- only by overcoming evils.
The dumpee bottom is locked in, with only a few really escaping. Support is withdrawn.
Humans caught in the bottom but not selected to bleed and die, become the general-oppression absorbers, crap eaters and recyclers who also are helping to purify the pyramid above them.
They become untouchables in one degree or another from "lite" to heavy, and thus cannot fully reenter the "camp." They usually do lower jobs. Any who get out by talent, athletic ability or winning the lottery, are praised - - but often only by guilty consciences of upper types who still hold down the general bottom and push new people into it.
The bottom is created and maintained by the uppers, for their necessary scapegoating and general dumping needs. This explains why deplorable social and physical places and conditions remain. Some try to say that the bottom is really free and not oppressed.
Targets for scapegoating (specific or anonymous-random) can be found at any level of the pyramid, but in the main, victims are in the literal bottom, with no clout, and few that will "touch" them.
As for the middle, it passes off about half the negatives coming its way, but absorbs or keeps about half - - thus remaining in the middle. A few climb, a few sink, but most remain in the middle.
Scapegoat targets don't have to be below, but can be alongside, or even above. The mechanism is simply, "anyone but me."
Superiorisms by nature seep and stab mostly downward.
Individuals sink if they load up with negatives coming down beyond their ability to shove them off (or better, spiritually end them).
Innocence or guilt is not a factor - - only satisfying the cosmic demand for a victim is important.
"Round up the usual suspects," Claude ordered as he and Bogie walked off.
Kirk Douglas starred in a film about the French Army in WWI which - - when faced with a criminal case it couldn't solve - - chose its "criminal" by lot from the bottommost rank.
In the highest justice, punishment fits a real crime in a proportionate way.
In the lowest "justice," mobs kill. So do individuals. Even cops by prejudgment sometimes cause, via courts, the death or jailing of innocents - - feeling relieved because the cosmic requirement to nail someone (anyone) was met.
Worldwide and in history, blacks have received more than their share of injustice, the bottom, and scapegoat-type deaths.
In history, owners and masters of slaves were considered righteous, while slaves were deemed to be thieves and threats to decent people. Slaves wanting freedom were called seditious - - a capital crime. Meanwhile, owners stole everything slaves had, falsely accused them, criminally punished them with assault, twisted justice, murder and other horrendous elements of "law" - - all "righteous."
Jews have been the classic victimized people in all history. Persecution of this generally middle-class people was centrally - - even if not perceived as such - - for religious reasons, discussed earlier.
More about the system on a global scale
When the world or a large portion of it causes big bleeding somewhere in order to relieve pressure against its collective-consciousness sins, it averts its eyes as the system cleanses itself, flushes its toilet so to speak.
Hence genocides are ignored until almost over -- then the world is "shocked."
Bleeding and dying relieves the most important pressure, while mere oppression absorbs most of the rest.
Since the pyramid creates the bottom, it never fully addresses the problems there. Excellent charities and token governmental programs make heroic and laudable efforts, but can hardly dent the bottom - - a bottom now growing worldwide at an electrifying pace.
Jesus ministered to the bottom.
Jesus broke our "prison" of death - - told us to do his works.
Pyramidal Battling For Top Positions
In the pyramid, winners create losers. Success, glory, "immortality," is gained by beating someone, coming out on top.
Superiority creates inferiority.
Definition of place begins and ends with comparison.
The mythical "glory" of war requires killing.
Religion "A" pushes off against Religion "B" because pyramid-righteousness (obviously not divine righteousness) requires it.
But Jesus ministered to the losers, sick, deprived, falsely targeted - - and seldom to the overclass.
Nature films can be beautiful, astounding and revealing, but they also show the killing and eating of terrified prey.
In contrast, the Bible tells of when "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord," and the wolf dwells with the lamb, and "a little child shall lead them" (Isa. 11:6-9).
We're presently far from this "knowledge of the Lord."
Daniel was protected from the lions, and Scripture says, "I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes" (Mal. 3:11).
We play the pyramid game in everything we do.
Satisfaction always seems to be at a level above us.
Many admire video-game, TV and movie heroes settling matters with lethal weapons, just clearing the decks with righteous killing.
Today, too many things culminate in just one left standing - - like gladiatorial action.
Surviving is the essential thing. Be a "survivor." This bespeaks a basic death system, not God.
Is the US becoming a gladiatorial nation? Are our sports hiding deep blood-sports instincts?
In "sports," we "annihilate" other teams, "avenge" losses.
We "smashed" the Chinese in a world ladies' soccer championship. Instead, couldn't we have said, "Thanks for coming halfway around the world to play us on our own field, and playing us into an overtime"? And shouldn't we have also invited these worthy sportspeople to the White House and onto our talk shows?
Does "glory" come from defeating others? Maybe from defeating the Nazis, yes, but not in lesser contexts.
German submariners in WWII called their early, easy days sinking helpless merchant ships, "the glory time." That's false glory, but false glory has inspired many a war of aggression.
The hallucination of the "glory" of war quickly fades for those in battle on either side. The facts are so totally opposite. Yet, many volunteer on either side if war is in the air.
Today, even suicidal death doesn't stop hundreds in the Mideast, who believe their glory comes in heaven from suicidal acts of terror and mass murder.
It's the innate nature of the pyramid to amalgamate - - and the biblical "666" is the single, final world pyramid.
Today, we see rampant amalgamation of businesses and financial institutions all around us.
Hello. Is this "666" in the making?
Once, nation-pyramids battled it out, but now this is replaced by amalgamation as in the EU and trade blocs.
However, amalgamation also means danger.
Amalgamations (and interlocked groups) in commerce and finance are a new quasi-governmental system above all nations.
Once, business and finance were wisely prevented from assembling into huge sizes, but today we see "group monopolies" (my term) of a few immense firms controlling global extraction, processing and refining, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, finance and so on. These heavily influence all nations (because nations depend on them) - - and nations do not control them.
Egypt, the pyramid symbol, mammon, material existence
The pyramid represents Egypt, and Egypt biblically represents mammon.
All this is the opposite of the divine Kingdom which is gradually coming to earth's awareness as being present (as Jesus said it was).
In opposition to the unstoppable progress of the divine Kingdom coming into view, earth's pyramid rises to its apex in "666."
(Of course, "Egypt" is used here in metaphor and symbol, not in any reflection on modern Egypt or its people.)
If unregulated, the pyramid installs a rule-from-the-top government that is the opposite of democracy.
Democracies, fighting this, have to be careful not to overregulate - - not to quench the spirit of truly talented and visionary businesspeople, financiers, inventors, and the like. These people must be "given their head" - - to do the best they can for themselves and the nation and its people.
But left entirely to its own devices, the pyramid would help the overly-ambitious control and lock up nations, markets, resources, finance. Democracies have to be aware of this, and not allow control.
The US, for one nation, is not there to be taken over.
In the US, the people have provided a nation, stable laws, infrastructure such as transportation systems, courts developed over centuries, blood spilled in military protection - - and the opportunity for all to do their best...but not to control.
The people and nation are full partners with business, so taxation and laws have to reflect this, and the field be open for successive generations, not blocked.
Once, "Atlas shrugged," and the machine of wealth and talent quit because it was overloaded with regulations and taxes.
Today, the people have shrugged - - abdicated their role in our democracy-based republic, ratifying by default the new control by Atlas.
The answer lies somewhere in between.
- Will a careless public vote into office a non-democracy?
- Will it install permanent little-taxed upper classes passing control of the US to an inheritance aristocracy as in the European royalty system?
The colonies struggled to be free from royalty, and (after the US was established), from economic royalty's top-control. But Americans are now "re-royalizing" rapidly. The pyramid is in our blood.
Cartels, monopolies, and "group monopolies"
In the world amalgamation trend today, we see "group monopolies" which are as dangerous as the monopolies we once feared. They are monopolies only thinly disguised.
Groups of giants (some in single fields, like oil, some in several fields) essentially control world commerce and finance. These are interlocked. Although they can't meet over dinner in the US to discuss price fixing or strategies, they can meet anywhere else in the world. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.
The biggies are all transnationals not really based anywhere. Moreover, they can tell their "home" nation they will move to other parts of the globe, and often win big concessions to stay.
The customer once was "king" (or "queen"), but today the mass vendors have the customer at their mercy.
Today, the individual is steadily diminished by enormous controlling factors - - even global - - that never appear on voters' ballots.
Under "666," the global single commercial-government ruler tells the customer whether he or she can buy or sell. The customer then either knuckles under, or is arrested, or even shot as a seditionist. (But "666" has only the power of the preceding "beast," which has no power over spiritual identity - - Revelation 13:16-18; 12; 7-8.)
Also offsetting "666" is the Holy Spirit on "all flesh," revealing the Kingdom at hand which Jesus said adds "all things" if we seek it.
"We the people" - - even here in the US - - cannot touch the worldwide supra-government above all nations, made up of world commercial and financial corporations, international money arrangements, also global trade agreements.
No parts of the supra-government are on any ballots, or explained to voters. Unable to reach it, democracies are "short."
Worse, the people - - in mental enclaves of entertainment, consumer-goods warmth, and insulation from reality - - really don't care.
More About The Bottom
Unlike electricity (which can ground into the soil) the carnal mind's death system has to ground into a living human host.
Grain tried in ancient sacrifices didn't lessen death and hell, so animals were tried. Then humans. But of course, nothing worked.
We think we've gotten rid of human sacrifice, but the pyramid makes impersonal scapegoating easy. It's a big sacrificial temple.
We think scapegoating is archaic, but it's woven into the fabric of our life - - and is at the center of much of our Christianity.
The pyramid's designated victims or DVs
The pyramid picks victims. When specific - - groups or individuals - - these are designated victims or "DV's" (my term).
The pyramid also lets the "fickle finger of fate" land randomly.
Victims are as necessary to the system as toilets.
People in any group from families on up may, in a hidden psychological way, select a specific DV, a fall guy or gal, temporary or permanent. One person gets the stun gun while others look away - - better him than us - - and this clears the air, cleans the slate, focuses perpetrators' minds on how worthy and admirable they are.
In ancient storms at sea, the one with whom the gods were angry was designated and chucked overboard to "save" the vessel.
Group DVs
Group DVs are big in the picture.
World society for millennia has persecuted Jews. And usually averted its eyes while the dirty work was being done.
Black Africa from slave times has been a group DV mainly for the West (but also for Arab slavers, even today).
Those killed inside a DV group are random hits.
(In addition, Black Africa has been looted of its mineral wealth first by Western colonials and now by corporate economic colonials - - having the people do the work of robbing themselves, and leaving the world's deepest poverty and highest disease rates.)
Rwanda and the Hutus and Tutus were watched and reported on, but ignored. To this day, the white world can't quite believe why it didn't step in and "do something." The answer is that it indeed did something - - but unconsciously. It let the system run.
Blood sacrifice cleanses, is the concept. It's been that way since the beginning of recorded time.
Wars numbering 20 or 40 in Africa at one time? These don't make big headlines because essentially we turn our heads while the necessary blood outlet cleanses some of the overloaded system.
The anonymous, untraceable dumpers don't have to kill the recipients in the bottom, the pressure often causes the desperate folk to do the superior-inferior thing and slaughter each other.
Largely ignoring dumpings, we can talk about a single local murder for years. (Or a beached whale for days.)
In European Bosnia, years of slaughter preceded any real action to end it. Backs had been subtly turned.
Cambodia's deaths were in the millions - - yet there was no real outcry until it was all over. Then all were "shocked."
Random convulsions
An Asian tsunami - - deaths in the six figures. Much talk, many pledges, some early reporting, then silence. Cyclone (typhoon or hurricane) waters pushing onto delta flood plains in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal - - deaths in the six figures. Same general pattern.
Wars of any size or type relieve by imparting death, and also by bleeding a little in atoning blood.
In the macro, multinational - - even world - - sense, sizable wars periodically clear the air, cleanse the system, flush the toilet.
Mostly in oppression, but including some death necessary to the system, thousands of girls and boys worldwide are snatched yearly, and put into sordid prostitution. They are randomly-hit scapegoat victims for unseen forces deflected or dumped by societies, groups or individuals from above, that require some sort of host below.
Cultured families even in this country, may suddenly have a child voluntarily leave home for the streets, and there's little they can do about it for years despite efforts. The boy or girl took a random hit, and some die in this scene.
Carnal mind "mechanisms" reviewed
The carnal mind opposing God has tools, or "mechanisms."
First is the "law of sin [followed by death from a death-imputing harsh God]." This type of God and torture system exists only in the carnal mind, not in the real deific realm.
The spike of that "law" splits our mind, then presents only dichotomous existence, out of which we can't think our way.
The second biggie is the pyramid. It poses as the road to success and identity, but is a temple for dumping onto others. The inherent superior-inferior system opposes equality and democracy.
Other mechanisms in the pyramid include the chance or luck system; the built-in drive to amalgamate (hello, "666"); also gods, goddesses and idols (more in the US today than in history's total).
The Pyramid And Chance
Chance governs the pyramid. That fellow or gal "shooting up past you" while you are mired, is riding one of fortune's very few updrafts instead of its many more downdrafts.
We think hard work gets us to the top, but the hardest workers are rowing in the galleys. By contrast, suddenly appearing at the top of finance, society, and entertainment can be musicians, ballplayers, actors, politicians, lottery winners or others, making incomprehensible sums. But just as suddenly, some that were there are replaced - - their departure hardly noticed until years later.
But surely, skill and talent will get us to the top, right? That's true for a few (as well as for a few hard workers), but the trails are littered with the bones of skilled, talented, and hardworking people kept down, robbed, disappointed, or shoved out.
For every skilled, talented, or hardworking person in the top, there are many others who were just lucky, or connivers, militarists, thieves of others' monies or reputations, inheritors, charmers with good looks or sex appeal, the "destined," plain dodos, and so on.
The pyramid has to fill positions, especially in expansions (as today). The rising of people may not seem to be luck, but is mainly by luck-type selections micro and macro, by usually unseen forces.
We also fall by random selections.
We remain stuck in the mud by random....
"We just never have any luck," the wife complained to her struggling husband, "I'm gonna run off with Jim-Bob."
The restless bottom
Fifty years ago, the oppressed, frustrated bottom was restless, and governments worried lest rage cause revolutions. But today, sweepstakes and lotteries - - whereby low-income people can suddenly be in the money-class with lucky numbers - - have relieved some of this. I've been saying this for years, but last year a leading news magazine said it, and also a major TV news analyst.
The masses play games of chance intensely, spend money they can't afford, because the chance system "speaks to them" - - grips their psyches, and tells them they can "get out" this way. And they cheer winners of the very money they lost.
While supposedly making the pyramid less oppressive, lotteries in fact are the most pyramid-reinforcing things around. One person (or group) wins, there is glory, happiness and news.
All others lose.
Chance winnings bring with them the losers' bad luck: every cent of such good fortune comes from the ill fortune of others.
In the divine realm, everyone is supplied.
Lady Luck
Overlooked in today's chance-realm is the deep worship of the ancient "goddess of fortune" in new forms, often called "lady luck."
When we turn instead to the one divine entity, we get the spiritual flow, the reality behind the water from the rock.
The Scriptures teach that what we need is always there. (That's the "kingdom" concept.)
The Exodus taught that if we gather too much manna, it spoils. Today, big gains themselves might not rot, but our spiritual view, orientation and progress spoil, putting us deeper in the grip.
Summary
The pyramid is indeed the "big, bad pyramid."
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