Find your authenticity!

So, I’ve been chosen. Yeah, I know, it sounds all mysterious and weird, but I assure you it’s rather plain Jane. I am a secret destroyer of the decadence of the world. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s slow down.

For the last two thousand years, the Gods have gone silent. “The great God Pan has died!” they famously declared. The Buddha explained this silence by saying that there was no ego and the void was still God, so people shouldn’t worry.

But, yeah, God came back. Certain humans did enough groping in the silence and developed their peace enough to be able to hear a new voice of God, that must be amplified with psychedelic drugs, if necessary. They really are that important. I ain’t fucking around.

God tends to help those who God believes are doing good things. Back before Christianity in the Age of Aries, God had given animal husbandry to the world, and so God asked that people sacrifice their best rams in order to remember that people don’t own anything. Everything is a gift from God. When one is dependent on being a shepherd for one’s survival, one needs to have a spiritual sense to survive being dependent on something outside of oneself. Humans have enough trouble surviving on their own, but when you ask humans to depend on things outside of themselves, they can have issues.

OK, so Moses represented a break from decadent, agriculturally based Egyptian culture. Because the Egyptians had mastered agriculture, they became complacent, manipulative, and detached. Moses got in a heap of trouble for killing an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew slave, and it’s enough to understand that the myth is indicative of a truth than to wonder if it actually happened that way.

Moses said to Egypt, fuck you, I’m bailing on this ridiculous, decaying, decadent empire to strike out into the desert with some sheep and this new fiery God who is a God of warriors. Well, that was all well and good for a long time. The Egyptians were strong and powerful, but they had the weakness of too much order, and Moses was able to be real enough and flexible enough to tie those Egyptians into knots. Yay! Go warrior messiah!

Well, eventually running around with your hair on fire like a bunch of Klingons at a UFC match doesn’t always make for the best society. And so that fire, represented by the fiery ram of Aries, had to be baptized so that the archetype of Moses could learn to not fight every motherfucker who called him chicken. Marty McFly probably would understand Moses, but I digress.

Anyway, so all across the world, the fire of God went out. God became silent. The fires that Moses and other Age of Aries Messiahs had loosed upon the world were extinguished, and just in time! Shit was getting out of control. Alexander the Great had conquered basically everything and would have conquered Antarctica if the Parka technology was better at the time.

If you know anything about Star Trek, The Next Generation, you know there are a race of aliens called Klingons. They’re also in the original Star Trek, but by The Next Generation, they had signed a truce with the Federation, and there were even Klingons serving in the Federation Starfleet, which is like the peacekeeping quasi-military organization for the Federation.

So there is this one Klingon called Worf, son of Mogh, and he’s a badass warrior Klingon who loves to fight, craves honor and glory, and has this huge blade called a batleth that he loves killing with. But Worf grew up on Earth around humans and learned that in order to survive in human society, he could not just go chopping off heads whenever he felt like it. That might fly on the Klingon homeworld, but not on Earth. So Worf has to learn to control his anger and his fight without extinguishing it.

Worf is actually the character who appears most on Star Trek. What Worf represents is the fiery Moses figure if Moses got in a time machine and traveled to the year 2022. The reason that we have a society that supports so many billions of people is because we don’t reflexively go chopping off heads just when someone gives us an ugly look. Yeah, those people exist but not in the amount that they did over two thousand years ago. Today they’re rare. Then, they were the norm.

A stunning thing happens when Worf has to adapt to living with other diverse beings in the federation. He actually becomes more Klingon than the Klingons still living in the Klingon empire. Because his environment is relatively peaceful, he can go by himself into the holodeck [explain] every day to fight monsters and build up his warrior strength. He uses the virtual challenges made possible by the peace of the federation to become a very strong and controlled fire.

In the Bible, Moses could not enter the promised land, and it is not exactly explained why, but it is really because he could not control his anger. He was a raging fire of aggression, truth, and honor. This fire was necessary to forge a path out of the decadent Egyptian hegemony, but it was also kind of a drag to be around. Violence can often be contagious and can quickly escalate into war. A society built around angry, reactionary masculinity was more real than the previous decadent society, which could not find realness, but it needed to be tempered. When a blacksmith is creating a sword, after it is pounded into its shape, it is submerged into a bucket of water so that it is cured or tempered. This is what Jesus represented.

Jesus was the Jewish messiah, and Jesus was a reincarnation of Moses. Jesus came into the world fully able to be direct, confrontational, and angry, but God asked Jesus to learn silence. And so Jesus went on a journey to Asia to learn silence and to develop peace within. He succeeded, and he became submerged in water, like that blacksmith’s sword, cooling in the waters of peace. Yes, Jesus was the Jewish messiah, because although the fire of Moses was beautiful and truly effective, it had to be controlled. This was the way. When a powerful fire is called up, if one does not learn to control it, it will consume the person who calls it up.

Worf on Star Trek is a bit of a Jesus figure if you think of Jesus being a continuation of Moses. Worf learns how these federation peaceniks actually understand something since they have recently walked away from constant strife for an interdependent model of community. What true Christianity represents is the ability to learn the other hand of the fire of Moses, the feminine hand of peace and unity. Can Moses truly understand the feminine hand of peace and unity? No, he cannot. If Jesus is to be thought of as a continuation of Moses, Jesus is compromised. Jesus is in the penalty box, stepping to the sidelines to learn patience so that when he picks up his hockey stick and gets back out on the ice, he will be controlled and effective and not simply destroying the other side’s players.

But now, that timeout period is over. And with Fiery Jesus in the timeout of being in the bath getting baptized, a lot of people just forgot about that fiery challenge of Moses. They now think “God is just silence, don’t worry, nothing matters, just do whatever you want.” But Jesus has been sitting in that penalty box waiting to come back. In the New Testament and really in the old testament too, it is foretold that Jesus would come back storming into the world. This is not to say he’s going to wear a hat that says Jesus on the front or anything that obvious. It might be a more abstract second coming where artists of the world all start storming out of their penalty boxes with the lessons they learned sitting on the sidelines for a couple millennia. But trust me, they’re back. Moses is back, but Moses is like Worf in Star Trek now. He’s controlled and has learned the feminine way of waiting, pausing, breathing. Now his fire is a controlled laser beam, and he has the ability to hide between battles.

There is a truth coming back into the world. It is causing pain. It is causing disruption. The strong people of the world who can handle the truth, those who have walked the good path even while Moses was on the sidelines, knowing he would come back, they’ll be fine. The others who have let their skin grow thin with decadence, they will burn away like toilet paper in a wildfire.