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CovertOP Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:45 PM
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Knight of the Fifth Veil
Slavery and the eight veils

by Don Harkins

Over the last several years I have evolved and discarded several theories in an attempt to explain why it is that most people cannot see truth -- even when it smacks them in the face. Those of us who can see "the conspiracy" have participated in countless conversations amongst ourselves that address the frustration of most peoples' inability to comprehend the extremely well-documented arguments which we use to describe the process of our collective enslavement and exploitation. The most common explanation to be arrived at is that most people just "don't want to see" what is really going on.

Extremely evil men and women who make up the world's power-elite have cleverly cultivated a virtual pasture so grass green that few people seldom, if ever, bother to look up from where they are grazing long enough to notice the brightly colored tags stapled to their ears.

The same people who cannot see their enslavement for the pasture grass have a tendency to view as insane "conspiracy theorists" those of us who can see the past the farm and into the parlor of his feudal lordship's castle.

Finally, I understand why.

It's not that those who don't see that their freedom is vanishing under the leadership of the power-elite "don't want to see it" -- they simply can't see what is happening to them because of the unpierced veils that block their view.

All human endeavors are a filtration process. Sports is one of the best examples. We play specific sports until we get kicked off the playground. The pro athletes we pay big bucks to watch just never got kicked off the playground. Where millions of kids play little league each spring, they are filtered out until there are about 50 guys who go to the World Series in October.

Behind the first veil: There are over six billion people on the planet. Most of them live and die without having seriously contemplated anything other than what it takes to keep their lives together. Ninety percent of all humanity will live and die without having pierced the first veil.

The first veil: Ten percent of us will pierce the first veil and find the world of politics. We will vote, be active and have an opinion. Our opinions are shaped by the physical world around us; we have a tendency to accept that government officials, network media personalities and other "experts" are voices of authority. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the second veil.

The second veil: Ten percent of us will pierce the second veil to explore the world of history, the relationship between man and government and the meaning of self-government through constitutional and common law. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the third veil.

The third veil: Ten percent of us will pierce the third veil to find that the resources of the world, including people, are controlled by extremely wealthy and powerful families whose incorporated old world assets have, with modern extortion strategies, become the foundation upon which the world's economy is currently indebted. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the fourth veil.

The fourth veil: Ten percent of us will pierce the fourth veil to discover the Illuminati, Freemasonry and the other secret societies. These societies use symbols and perform ceremonies that perpetuate the generational transfers of arcane knowledge that is used to keep the ordinary people in political, economic and spiritual bondage to the oldest bloodlines on earth. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the fifth veil.

The fifth veil: Ten percent of us will pierce the fifth veil to learn that the secret societies are so far advanced technologically that time travel and interstellar communications have no boundaries and controlling the actions of people is what their members do as offhandedly as we tell our children when they must go to bed. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the sixth veil.

The sixth veil: Ten percent of us will pierce the sixth veil where the dragons and lizards and aliens we thought were the fictional monsters of childhood literature are real and are the controlling forces behind the secret societies. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without piercing the seventh veil.

The seventh veil: I do not know what is behind the seventh veil. I think it is where your soul is evolved to the point you can exist on earth and be the man Ghandi was, or the woman Peace Pilgrim was-people so enlightened they brighten the world around them no matter what.

The eighth veil? Piercing the eighth veil probably reveals God and the pure energy that is the life force in all living things-which are, I think, one and the same.

If my math is accurate there are only about 60,000 people on the planet who have pierced the sixth veil. The irony here is too incredible: Those who are stuck behind veils one through five have little choice but to view the people who have pierced the veils beyond them as insane. With each veil pierced, exponentially shrinking numbers of increasingly enlightened people are deemed insane by exponentially increasing masses of decreasingly enlightened people.

Adding to the irony, the harder a "sixth or better veiler" tries to explain what he is able to see to those who can't, the more insane he appears to them.

Our enemy, the state

Behind the first two veils we find the great majority of people on the planet. They are tools of the state: Second veilers are the gullible voters whose ignorance justify the actions of politicians who send first veilers off to die in foreign lands as cannon fodder -- their combined stations in life are to believe that the self-serving machinations of the power-elite are matters of national security worth dying for.

Third, fourth, fifth and sixth veilers are of increasing liability to the state because of their decreasing ability to be used as tools to consolidate power and wealth of the many into the hands of the power-elite. It is common for these people to sacrifice more of their relationships with friends and family, their professional careers and personal freedom with each veil they pierce.

Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945), author of "Our Enemy, the State" (1935), explained what happens to those who find the seventh and eighth veils: "What was the best that the state could find to do with an actual Socrates and an actual Jesus when it had them? Merely to poison one and crucify the other, for no reason but that they were too intolerably embarrassing to be allowed to live any longer."

Conclusions

And so now we know that it's not that our countrymen are so committed to their lives that, "they don't want to see," the mechanisms of their enslavement and exploitation. They simply "can't see" it as surely as I cannot see what's on the other side of a closed curtain.

The purpose of this essay is threefold: To help the handful of people in the latter veils to understand why the masses have little choice but to interpret their clarity as insanity; 2. To help people behind the first two veils understand that living, breathing and thinking are just the beginning and; 3. Show people that the greatest adventure of our life is behind the next veil because that is just one less veil between ourselves and God.


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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:49 PM
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1. You had me until the fifth veil...
The rest of it? I write that stuff myself. That probably makes me doubly skeptical.
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CovertOP Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:54 PM
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4. Don't the first
four make total sense though? Now even though I don't completely subscribe to the Fifth, Knight means that several times in my life paranormal "stuff" I have experienced has proven valuable, correct and right on the money.
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:58 PM
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8. I'm surrounded by people who believe in all sorts of weird things
I don't quite believe myself. But I'm willing to admit that I don't know for sure. I'm cautiously skeptical about a LOT of things...LOL
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gilpo Donating Member (601 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:07 PM
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11. They make total sense to me.
Very nice essay.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:50 PM
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2. He who dances is thought to be mad
by those who cannot hear the music.
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converted_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:05 PM
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10. That is an amazing quote....n/t
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:52 PM
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3. Are you Jeff Rense? n/t
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:55 PM
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5. Very interesting.
I've seen it before, and I think that there's much truth to it.

Thanks for posting it.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:55 PM
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6. Please be careful when you talk about ". . . cannon fodder . . . ." , some
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 09:06 PM by patrice
of us know Them.

This is sort of related to my attraction to "Liberation Theology".
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:58 PM
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7. There Will Always Be A Market, Sir
For a view of life that allows some to bask in the conviction they are clearly the superiors of millions of other people, without the expenditure of the least degree of effort. It will be especially attractive if it allows them to state loudly: "No, it's you who are mad, not me...."
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Marie26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:02 PM
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9. Sorry, I was with you till the fourth veil
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 09:07 PM by Marie26
Then it all descended into odd conspiracy theories. (Aliens & lizards are running secret societies?) But, this could just be because I'm not "enlightened" enough. It's an interesting post, though.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:12 PM
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12. That could almost be characterized as degrees of sanity.
As I read your post, I was hoping the layers would ascend to human potential/awareness/power/creativity. But, instead, it descended into something else.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:39 PM
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14. veils gone buffy
yes, i find the upper veils wanting. Somewhere in there i would expect these:

0. The end of objectivity. This veil is when a person comes to realize that
knowledge is relative to the state of mind you are in, and that profound states
of mind are not part of double-blind testing... that it all is ultimately a
personal experience, no matter how objective one's ego trends to paint it.

1. The end of experience. This veil is the realization that no experience will
ever satisfy the thirst. Until that point, a person focuses on experiences that
they "want", like a dreamer child wanting to play their favourite video game
chip over and over. "my experience".. the one where i feel all powerful, wise
and all knowing, and not the one where i feel abandoned and betrayed.

2. The abandon of love. This veil is realizing that live is filled with love,
and if you're not seeing it, you haven't abandon'ed it. To have passed this
veil, also called "sahadgja samadhi", would be the total integration of all
linear knowledge to unmitigatable current awareness of the totality.

3. Integration of love. This be when the profound aspect is multiplied that not
only is the person themselves awake and supraconscious universally, but they
transmit it by their touch... a kind of midas touch, except that the metaphorical
gold is enlightened love.

4. Integration of power. At this point, the person becomes all powerful, that
every wish of their consciousness is fulfilled.

5. Integration of creation. At this point, the person awakens people directly via
meditation and dreaming, without need for any physical context. A very small number
indeed exist living today who've becoming this veil.

It is a very interesting topic indeed, and i need consult some of my tibetan books
on the evolution of enlightenment awakening in the advanced stages to see how they
describe the "veils".

Integration of awakening.
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CovertOP Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:59 PM
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16. I thought
about adding a negative number scale for those who spout forth their talking points. You know the ones ingrained in them. Kind of like salivating Pavlovian Dogs over at hannity.com.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 10:32 PM
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17. Perhaps you should
A scale for cyncism would be appropros as well,
and maybe we can all see the excellent flippan example
of your so outrageious way to tell,
if anyone you're discussing with has any sample,
the way that swiftboaters assault,
slimy gratuitous ruthless with presumption most ample,
and we are to see the forked talk,
of just another demeanor to trample.

When the negative scale makes them balk,
the sublte rudeness of attack can surely agree,
a typical pattern, a most common walk,
waxing rude to the free speech of the free,
all so we can be covered in veils,
lost for the truth and so it ails.
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LouisianaLiberal Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:16 PM
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13. This is just a strange version
of Plato's cave. And Plato's metaphor was not wacky.
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CovertOP Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 09:55 PM
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15. Allegory of the Cave
I believe is the title.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 10:52 PM
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18. How do the dragons lead to the veil revealing God? Did God make the dragon
in His image? What's the dealio??
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