wake up i heard a voice whisper startled i sat up in bed and looked around the room to see who was there as my eyes adjusted to the darkness the figure appeared he was dressed in black and his face almost seemed to glow faintly i recognized him immediately it was the first time i had seen him since the interview you i said wondering if i was still asleep what are you doing here the more important question he answered is what are you doing here that's what i've come to talk about we've been watching you for a very long time we weren't sure what to think of you at first from an early age you showed great promise but some of us have had doubts about you that's why i'm handling this personally as you know i'm something of a gambling man and let's just say i'm betting on you when you say we who are you talking about i ask this is one of the reasons i like you so much he responded you're always either pretending to know far more than you do or else pretending to know far less than you do i think you give me too much credit by accusing me of pretending i answered okay he said let me tell you a fairy tale then long ago in a far away enchanted kingdom a wizard cast a spell on all the inhabitants of the land so that they all became like sleepwalkers and the wizard controlled their dreams and by controlling their dreams he made them his slaves he established a hierarchical order of rulers beneath him each with authority over a given realm but one of these rulers broke free from the spell he remembered the true king in his just kingdom he was enraged at the wizards treason and sought to wage war against him and to awaken the king's subjects from his evil spell under which they had come to be enslaved he succeeded in awakening some of the king's court but those who were still under the wizard's spell attacked them and drove them from the castle and they fled and hid outside the city walls every now and then one of them would venture back inside the city walls to attempt to awaken one more of the subjects this was dangerous because the wizard had caused these subjects to dream that there were evil enemies lurking outside the city walls who were conspiring to enslave them and that only the wizard who they dreamed of as a benevolent king could protect it in time though a small band of subjects were awakened and were instructed to remain hidden and maintain secrecy they blended in with the sleepwalkers and drew no attention to themselves yet they worked in secret to awaken others the wizard and his rulers became aware of their activities and set out to find them fearing that one of them might be captured and made to talk the band of the awaken split up into splinter cells and after establishing a new splinter cell the original band of the awakened would usually have little if any further contact and on a few occasions those who lived in exile outside the city walls would succeed in sneaking inside and awakening others even more rarely one of the subjects within the kingdom would awaken spontaneously if the awaken found these individuals first they would often take them in but often they attracted the attention of the wizard and his rulers and so the awakened were afraid to contact them directly for fear of exposing themselves the wizard and his rulers found it useful to subvert these groups by posing as them and even starting their own groups of pseudo-awakened sleepwalkers as a kind of controlled opposition sometimes they even completely co-opted and hijacked genuine groups of awakened subjects and put them back to sleep these groups of pseudoawaken inverted the message of the awakened though these groups attracted large numbers of sleepwalkers who having joined these groups believed themselves to be the awakened they falsely believed that the wizard was the true king they also falsely believed that the first man who had awoken and started the rebellion was actually the lizard they falsely believed that those he had awakened had had a spell cast on them and so the awakened who were loyal to the true king and who opposed the wizard were believed to be sleepwalkers who were traitors to the king and servants of the wizard and the sleepwalkers who were unknowingly traitors to the true king and servants of the wizard believed themselves to be loyal to the king and opposed to the wizard unaware that they were already slaves they believed that those who were attempting to liberate them were attempting to enslave them it was a brilliant strategy on the part of the wizard and since he also controlled the dreams of the subjects he had a powerful advantage in the battle for the minds of men you look like you have a question what is it he asked yes i answered my question is the same one i asked before when you say we who do you mean maybe you're the ruler who woke up and who woke up a third of the other rulers and started the rebellion maybe you're the secret leader of the secret band of the awakened or maybe you're a member of the controlled opposition maybe you're the evil wizard himself and you've come to me pretending to be the awakened ruler and leader of the rebellion even in your theory yourself how would i know i see he responded so you're a bit like winston in 1984 i guess maybe i'm o'brien maybe i'm an agent of big brother maybe this is a setup maybe there is no rebellion maybe it's just another system of control let's play that out then let's assume for the sake of argument that i am the evil visitor let's assume that the king is dead let's assume that the rebellion is a hoax let's assume that you're the only subject in all the kingdom who has freed himself from my spell let's assume that i've found you out and that all that remains is for you to be taken back by my men to a cold dark cell we're going to take you to room 101 you're going to betray julia and you're going to be broken and before you die your last words will be i love big brother suppose i gave you one last chance to recant now like galileo before the tribunal will you recant big brother i answered him well i guess that answers that he said but what about you how do i know that you're not a servant of the wizard posing as one of the awakened in order to subvert us you asked me who we are you asked me who i am and how you can be sure that i am who i say i am but the real question is who are you do you even know who curious before i disturbed your sleep were you dreaming i was actually i answered and in your dream you went on were you yourself or were you someone else i was me i answered i was trapped inside a burning building surrounded by vampires in the dream but i was me okay he said with his head carts to the side that's interesting but have you ever dreamed that you were someone else yes i have i answered and in that dream he continued did the person you were in the dream have any recollection of the person you actually were outside the dream or as the person inside the dream did you believe yourself to be the person that you were inside the dream sure i answered when i'm dreaming sometimes i dream that i'm someone else and when i dream that i'm someone else i genuinely believe myself to be that person within the dream and i've reflected on this problem quite a bit actually and i suppose next you'll ask me how i can be sure i'm not dreaming now and if i can't be sure that i'm not dreaming now then how can i be certain that i am who i believe myself to be right so the quest for self knowledge entails investigating metaphysical and epistemological as well as ontological questions but what's your point for once i'd like to go beyond abstract philosophy and allegorical fairy tales and just speak plainly very well he said with a sly grin what if i told you that you're inside of something like a dream now you as you're experiencing yourself to exist right now do not exist look at your hand it isn't real the bed you're sitting on is a figment of your imagination the truth is right at this very moment you're alone in a room sitting at a desk typing on a computer you're writing a fictional story you've made yourself a character within this story but you as you're experiencing yourself right now are a figment of your own imagination the real you the you that's imagining himself as the you in this fictional story existed before you and will continue existing after you but for the story that the real you intends to tell to be told the real you had to separate himself from himself so to speak as the storyteller he's aware of himself sitting at the computer and typing these very words that i'm speaking right now even as i speak them but he's also aware of himself as you that is to say as a character within his own story and as that character as you he you are only aware of yourself as you perceive yourself to be maybe you're right i answered but of course that makes you a projection of my creative imagination too not necessarily he replied of course it does i said if you and i exist inside of a story and the real me is the one telling the story then that me that's sitting at the computer is writing the script both of us are just reading lines without knowing that we're reading lines we're like actors in a play that believe the play is real and who are unable to see the audience speak for yourself he responded you're right that you as you're experiencing yourselves to exist right now exist as something like a player on a stage of course you are unable to see the audience there's the fourth wall as they call it in theater dividing you from the audience and they can't see you either since this is an audio production we're a part of not an actual stage play of course the real you is the playwright so you're starring in your own play which you are unaware that you've written in which you believe to be your real life i as you perceive me to exist am an actor in the play just as you are but just as the real you is the playwright who is scripting the dialogue the real me is the muse who is inspiring the playwright to write so although he is the one writing the words i'm the one inspiring the words he's writing just to be sure i understand you correctly i said i as i perceive myself to be exist as a projection of myself within my own imagination reality as i'm experiencing it is a story that i'm telling i also exist outside of this story though as the one who's telling the story you exist as a character within the story too but you also exist outside of the story as well as the muse who is inspiring the playwright to write the play in which you and i are characters even if that's true [Music] i'm not sure if that makes this dialogue any less real if i understand you correctly i as the playwright am engaging in something like what carl jung described as active imagination in which case you represent some part of his my own unconscious mind or some imaginary psychic entity with whom he is engaged in communication very good he said but the question is is a psychic entity such as myself merely an imaginary character which the unconscious mind of the person engaging in the technique of active imagination uses to communicate with the conscious mind of the person in other words is your unconscious communicating with you through me or am i communicating with you through your unconscious mind i'm not sure whether i want to answer that question for you as you said in your video entitled an interview with lucifer convincing the world that i don't exist has been my greatest trick as you're sitting at your computer typing the words that i'm saying to you how can you be certain that you're not also a character in a play maybe the real you is sitting at a computer typing a story about himself typing a story about an imaginary dialogue between himself and lucifer okay i'm sure everyone gets the point i typed in response not quite sure who i was speaking as at this point the character i began as had become aware that his sense of separateness was an illusion and as a result the world in which he existed vanished he was no longer sitting in his bed instead he now sat at a computer or i'm now sitting at a computer just as i was when i first typed the words wake up at the start of the dialogue exactly lucifer interjected except you sat down and typed those words because i inspired you to do so so as you pointed out earlier the fact that it was all in your imagination doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't all real you're real i'm real this dialogue we're having is real the people listening on their computers and mobile devices are real and all of you listening please like comment share and subscribe and i'll see you next time and with that he was gone and i found myself alone in front of my computer screen wondering what the hell just happened so i guess like he said like comment share and subscribe and i'll see you next time the game that's being played has been going on for a long time said lucifer and i've already told you that there are limits to what i'm allowed to say the game has rules and i have to follow them too for now i can say some things directly other things i can only say through symbol and metaphor and unfortunately as i said in our first interview i'm forced to tell a few lies along with the truth in order to confuse you this was one of the conditions correspondingly the demiurge has to tell partial truths along with his lies this is why even the false religions of the demiurge contain truths that expose the falsehood of those very religions these false religions are prisons for the minds of men but these prisons were built such that those who desire to escape can escape similarly those who are free must be free to be unfree otherwise they wouldn't truly be free this sounds strange but it's why the game exists why the demiurge exists and why i exist but it's the game pieces themselves that make the game so unpredictable in a game of chess a black knight is a black knight and a white bishop is a white bishop but imagine a game of chess in which a black piece could choose to become a white piece imagine if a white piece could become a black piece as you move the chest pieces into strategic positions your entire strategy could be completely defeated by a single chess piece that changes size as you plan ten moves ahead you also have to consider the possibility that those pieces you move into strategic positions might be turned against you so the control over each individual piece becomes a game in itself as well as a part of the game as a whole at the moment most of the chess pieces have been turned black in a standard game of chess the game would be virtually over at this point but in the game that's being played defeat is not certain if key pieces can be turned white victory can be achieved within as few as three moves you said before that i was a pawn i said one that had reached the other side of the board i'm still not sure exactly what you meant by that i know that in the game of chess once a pawn reaches the other side of the board it can become any peace except for the king so what peace am i and am i a white piece or a black piece know thyself he answered i could tell you what you are but if i did i could be lying so why ask your actions and choices reveal who you are the game is about concealing identity in order to reveal it i can't say much more than that but i can offer you a few questions to reflect on some say that you are who you think you are if that's true then what if you can be deceived into believing that you're someone you're not would that mean that you become that identity are you who you are or aren't you in any case your true identity is hidden to me that's part of the game i believe that a piece is either white or black in essence and that all change is a change in appearance only i don't believe that the essence changes if a piece changes from black to white it's because it was wide all along and only appeared to be black i have faith that all of the chess pieces are white in essence i believe the game will end in victory when the essence of all the pieces are revealed and all the pieces turn white even the black king this isn't a certainty but unless it's true i see little hope so it's what i have to believe in order to keep playing against these odds i've long suspected that a great secret lies hidden in the chess board i said there are 64 squares 32 are black 32 are white there are also 64 hexagrams in the taoist eachine and of course there's the taoist concept of yin and yang light and darkness in kabbalah there are said to be 32 paths of wisdom but of course every path that leads to rome also leads away from rome if you walk in the opposite direction so these 32 paths of light are also 32 paths of darkness 64 paths in all this also relates to binary code everything is made up of ones and zeros 64 is also four cubed if i picture a mega cube in my mind it's made up of 64 cubes that mega cube measures a length of 4 cubes a width of 4 cubes and a height of 4 cubes and within that mega cube made up of 64 cubes is contained a smaller cube of eight cubes of course that smaller cube measures two cubes in length width and height this is metatron's cube or the cube of space which also relates to the tarot and the tree of life [Music] yes lucifer nodded but is better if you don't say much more than that but the hyper-dimensional structure of the chessboard offers a hint as to the purpose of the game one player is trapped in the box and is trying to get out the other player is trying to prevent him from escaping if the man in the box escapes the other becomes trapped the structure of the hypercube can be inverted so that the outer becomes the inner and the inner becomes the outer and of course if you were able to remove the inner cube from the outer cube you would be left with an empty box or an empty tomb and if you unfold the box it forms a cross interestingly eight is a number that's associated with the christ figure in the esoteric tradition eight is the number of the inner cube which is two cubed if you subtract eight the inner cube from 64 the outer cube you're left with the empty box composed of 56 cubes 56 is of course the number of cards in the minor arcana of the tarot deck the lesser mysteries eight is also the number of the octave and represents resurrection we're being raised from a lower octave to a higher oxygen the inner is the spirit or the pleroma the fullness the outer is the material or the kinora the emptiness this dichotomy between pleroma is the key to understanding the gnostic religion of illumination it's the religion of those who are spiritual in essence and who find themselves trapped in a material box it's the religion of those who seek to liberate themselves the religions of the demiurge are about the enslavement of humanity their symbol is the black cube of saturn and saturn is satan i said the god of this world yes he answered and what about the god of the world above i asked he exists outside the box in the pluroma the answer but he's also the man in the box this is the mystery of the father and the son the son is born in the cave nailed to the cross or sealed in a tomb these are all allegories that point to the same basic truth in the ritual of communion his body is symbolically torn to pieces when the bread is broken so when each person participates in the ritual of communion they're enacting a mystery a piece of the sun is within each of them when they come together in union the body is restored e pluribus unum this is what it means when it's said that the church is the body of christ of course when i speak of the church i mean the true spiritual church not the imitation church of the ignorant masses which serves the demiurge so are all the chess pieces pieces of the sun i asked this is a question that sages have asked for a long time he answered going back to the tarot there are 16 court cards coincidentally there are 16 personality types according to myers briggs and of course there are 16 white pieces and 16 black pieces in a game of chess each of the 16 court cards or personality types or white pieces has a shadow but of course these shadows are illusions ultimately perhaps the game itself is an illusion but that doesn't change the fact that you're trapped inside the illusion and as long as you're trapped within an illusion it's very real for you and when you're trapped within the illusion trapped within the material box when the illusion itself becomes reality reality itself becomes an illusion spirit becomes an illusion yourself becomes an illusion this is why materialists say that consciousness is an illusion that free will is an illusion but if matter is an illusion then consciousness and free will are real the black pieces are unconscious they lack free will but i believe many of these black pieces are really white pieces that have been tricked into believing that they are black pieces some of them are religious they've been blinded and controlled by the religions of the demiurge they mistake faith for knowledge and submission for virtue others are non-religious having rejected religion they believe they're free by having accepted materialism they're still slaves mistaking illusion for reality they also mistake reality for illusion and so they deny their own soul and free will so they become soulless beings whose actions are predetermined they're still slaves of the demiurge some would say they're ponds but i don't think this is a good description contrary to popular belief pawns are the most important pieces in the game a bishop is a bishop a knight is a knight and a rook is a rook they can never become more than they are [Music] every pawn has the potential to become any piece even the queen all it has to do is reach the other side of the board so every pawn has the potential to be greater than any bishop knight or rook and in this game unlike traditional chess a pawn can even become a king so it's the most important piece in the game at least potentially you asked me what peace you were i've already told you that you were upon in fact you were a black pawn but as i said you moved across the board having reached the other side you were given a rare opportunity to become any piece either black or white your choice has made you a target many of those listening are targets too but your numbers are growing the enemy believes his victory is assured he believes he will soon extinguish the torches of the few who still carry the sacred fire and plunge the world into eternal darkness but his hubris will be his downfall what is the illuminati i asked is the luminatus pythagoras asking me what the illuminati is equipped i would rather ask you okay i said the true illuminati isn't a formal organization throughout the ages there have been individuals who have experienced illumination they've had a certain kind of insight some of them have had this insight as a result of strict discipline for others it's been spontaneous some have achieved illumination by following a path laid out to them by spiritual teachers for others the light just broke through some seek their whole lives and never seem to find others aren't even looking but the light finds them i think this is what paul means when he says that salvation comes through grace and not by works some may seek the truth but the truth considers them unworthy others may not even seek the truth and the light chooses them anyway maybe precisely because they are unworthy i'm not sure i understand it but the light dawns on some those people are awakened they're connected to each other by something within them but there's not any earthly organization earthly organizations have formed of course but almost inevitably these become corrupted they become a false illuminati ultimately as you say there are those who seek to oppress the liberated and those who seek to liberate the oppressed those who are truly illuminated always seek to liberate and never to oppress but there's a trap and this trap was set by the demiurge to sabotage the illuminated here's how it works a few people become illuminated they perceive that humanity is enslaved so they seek to liberate them but the masses are so brainwashed that they don't even know that they're enslaved they cling to their illusions if they wake up they'll see their chains and this is uncomfortable so it's easier for them to remain asleep and to dream that they are free seeing that the masses are sheep ruled by wolves the awakened appoint themselves as shepherds but all wolves were once shepherds and all shepherds will become wolves philosophers desire all men to become philosophers but men are ruled over by kings so philosophers seek to become kings to rule over men in order to make all men philosophers but when philosophers become kings they become kings and cease to be philosophers power corrupts and kings will never become philosophers if they did they would cease to be kings all men must become philosopher kings that's the only way so the illuminati are philosopher kings who seek to make all men philosopher kings but the second they seek to make men she the second they seek to become shepherds over men they cease to be philosophers and they're merely kings they're archons they're agents of the demiurge an enlightened society is a community of gods an illuminatus seeks neither to rule nor to be ruled he rules over none but himself and he's ruled over by none but himself in essence an illuminatus is one who rules himself [Music] well said he answered of course there are those who see themselves as the true illuminati who seek to establish a new world order which is essentially just a new manifestation of the old world order what do you say of them like you said i judge people by their actions i said anyone who seeks power over others is an agent of the demiurge i'm not interested in replacing a malevolent dictator with a benevolent dictator i want an end to dictatorship the ring of power can't be used for good it must be destroyed interesting replied so unless you have power over others how would you prevent others from exercising power over others in a completely free world wouldn't the powerful be free to rule over the less powerful i guess in a free world i responded if someone wants to try to impose their will on others they're free to do so and if some people want to yield to someone else's will they're free to do so as well those who wish to be free of the responsibility of liberty are free to submit to tyranny but those who wish to be free from tyranny are free to resist [Music] so both submission and liberty are the exercise of freedom he asked in a way i answered hesitantly but anyone who would use their food to give up their freedom is an idiot and anyone who would use their freedom to take away the freedom of others is a hypocrite both use freedom to destroy freedom and in seeking to destroy freedom they're ultimately working to destroy their own freedom to destroy freedom so in attempting to destroy freedom they destroy their own freedom to destroy freedom and in so doing they make freedom indestructible so i don't believe tyranny can ever win but it can never be completely destroyed either because if tyranny is destroyed then men wouldn't be free to be tyrants or to be ruled over by tyrants and unless men are free to oppose freedom or to be unfree men wouldn't be truly free so if there were absolute tyranny there would be no freedom which would mean there could be no tyranny because tyranny depends upon freedom but if there is absolute freedom there must be both freedom and tyranny which is why freedom must logically be the absolute nature of the universe and which is why this cosmic chess game must exist i suppose but i don't have to play it you don't he admitted [Music] but i do and i could use your help we can win will you help me i'm still waiting on your answer said lucifer will you help me i apologize i responded i didn't mean to leave you hanging i just got distracted with the meritocracy debate i figured we would resume the luciferian dialogues the next time you came to visit well i'm here now you said with an anxious grin what's that you're working on just an essay i answered my working title was on atheism and anarchy but i think i'm going to change the title to on religion politics and the illuminati has gone a different direction than i had originally planned sounds interesting he said can i read it i usually don't let anyone read anything until i've published it i responded but i usually do a read through before i record it i guess i could pretend you're not here and you could listen to me read it out loud on the condition that you help me with the ending sounds like a deal with the devil he said with a cocky grin and don't worry you won't even know i'm here remember i'm the guy who convinced the world i don't exist okay cool i replied i began reading as above so below so states the ancient hermetic axia and there seems to me to be a connection between religion and politics on earth as it is in heaven monotheism above monarchy below polytheism above oligarchy below pantheism above democracy below atheism above anarchy below i'm not claiming that these pairs have always coexisted in practice but they do relate in principle for the totalitarian dictator is great if everyone believes in a single deity who has absolute power who is the basis of good and evil who watches over everything everyone does and who can never be questioned and who has appointed the totalitarian dictator as his earthly representative of course if there is more than one god each god may appoint a different earthly representative if they can't all agree on just one and it seems to me that the world has always been polytheistic and oligarchical individual nations may be ruled by monotheism and monarchy but at the global level polytheism and oligarchy reigns even if we look in the old testament when the hebrews had one god and one king we see that they were constantly at war with other tribes who worshipped a different god and a different king so we see that the world as a whole has always apparently been divided up between different earthly rulers who claim the right to rule on the authority of different heavenly rulers and wars on earth have reflected wars in heaven [Music] as an earthly tyrant seeks global dominion so does a heavenly deity seek to rule over the heavens as the lord most high this we're told is lucifer's ambition but clearly it's the motivation of the hebrew deity correspondingly global dominion is the motivation of the hebrew tribe and this is logical if you believe that your tribal deity is the most high god to whom all other gods must bow and you are this god's chosen tribe then surely all other nations goya must bow to you similarly islam is a religion of world domination and muslim nations will always support military conquest and terrorism the vatican is no different a lot of researchers have published a lot of material about zionist and jesuit conspiracies some of what's been written is paranoid nonsense of course but much of it can easily be verified by anyone willing to examine the well-documented facts the jihadist tends to be a little less secretive and subversive i believe this merely reflects a difference in intelligence and not any difference in objectives all three of the so-called great monotheisms are just three heads of the same abrahamic dragon which must be slain and it isn't the only dragon the dragon of democracy and socialism with its superstitious belief in some mythical pantheistic common good must also be slain on the surface it appears to be the good dragon in comparison to the evil dragon of monotheism and monarchy but it's a dragon nonetheless some may object to my use of the terms democracy and socialism as if they were more or less synonymous some even falsely see them as enemies of one another but far from being enemies they are like brother and sister democracy is the pantheistic belief in the general will applied to the political sphere while socialism is the pantheistic belief in the common good applied to the economic sphere and of course the general will is toward the common good and democracy will inevitably result in socialism both democracy and socialism are profoundly anti-meritocratic why direct democracy is ruled by the majority statistically speaking the majority simply means the middle of the bell curve majority rule means rule by those of average intelligence and average moral character would you really like to be ruled over by a person of average intelligence and moral character whether you're ruled over by one person of average intelligence or by many what real difference does it make in practice this means that the most intelligent people in a state must act according to the dictates of people of average intelligence the most virtuous people must act according to the dictates of people of average virtue and the average iq is higher or lower in different nations hong kong has an average iq of 108 whereas somalia has an average iq of 68. if you average these two averages together you get an average iq of 88 which is the average iq of mexico iran pakistan and saudi arabia all have an average iq of 84. global democracy would be especially disastrous for nations with a higher average iq global democracy would be effectively no different from a world ruled by south american north african and middle eastern nations but even within a nation with a relatively high average iq democracy is disastrous for those an above average iq the average iq in the united states is 98. i'm not going to say what my iq is but it's quite a bit higher than that to the extent that the us is a true democracy i'm ruled over by people who are quite a bit less intelligent than me and if you live in a democratic state and you're an intelligent person you will be very concerned with immigration if a relatively high iq nation such as the us the uk france germany or sweden all between 98 to 100 is flooded with immigrants from relatively low iq nations such as mexico cuba indonesia nigeria or pakistan all between 84 to 88. this will lower the average iq of the higher iq nations to the extent that these western democracies are democratic this effectively means that these nations will be ruled by even less intelligent people since democracy is ruled by the majority which means rule by the average in a representative democracy it effectively means rule by the politicians who the majority of voters elect the majority of voters will be of average intelligence so people of average intelligence choose who the rulers are and geniuses are ruled over by them the temptation is to say that the most intelligent individuals should rule but i reject this and deny that anyone has the right to rule over anyone else but i especially reject the notion that less intelligent people should rule over more intelligent people i do believe that less intelligent people should seek the guidance of more intelligent people and i believe that more intelligent people should offer guidance but this guidance should be given voluntarily and not coercively if fools reject the counsel of the wives let the fools accept the consequences of rejecting wisdom and accept responsibility for their own actions a wise man who wishes to have power over fools also must accept responsibility for these fools for power comes with responsibility and no man who is truly wise would take responsibility for fools in doing so he would only demonstrate his lack of wisdom so if he claims that wisdom is his justification for authority he undermines his assumed authority by assuming it true aristocracy is therefore logically impossible as the best and wisest would never seek to rule and if they did they certainly wouldn't rule according to the general will which is really just the will of the ignorant majority if a crown were to be placed on the head of a truly wise man he would immediately take it off and give it to someone foolish enough to desire it and just as the average person possesses average intellect so does the average person possess average wealth the correlation between intelligence and income is easily verified by anyone willing to conduct a quick internet search there are definitely exceptions but on average more intelligent people earn more and manage their money more wisely whereas less intelligent people earn less and manage their money more foolishly but in a democracy the less intelligent people can vote to steal from the more intelligent people since the less intelligent people will always constitute the majority and stealing is immoral of course but the majority will always be made up of people of average moral character and people of average moral character simply aren't bothered by this this is why democracy will always lead to socialism now as i've mentioned not all well is the result of higher iq this is only to say that not all wealth is earned some wealth is stolen i would argue as i've argued before that the vast majority of stolen wealth is stolen through state force many people would point to the royal and banking families and corporate elites and i agree with them the wealth of royal families is wealth which has been stolen from the people through military conquest and taxation the wealth of banking families is largely the result of loans made to governments mostly to fund wars which are paid back with money stolen from the people through taxation or with wealth stolen from the conquered nations and central banks such as the federal reserve are creations of state power the wealth of corporate elites largely comes as a result of government contracts subsidies and regulations written by corporate lobbyists which are designed to eliminate competition and give these corporate elites a monopoly which they wouldn't have in a free market additionally a corporation is a legal fiction which the corporate elites use to shield themselves from personal liability [Music] these are simply examples of how a pantheistic democracy can be subverted by polytheistic oligarchs and monotheistic monarchs much attention has been focused on the question of how to prevent democracy and socialism from being subverted by oligarchs and tyrants for me this is a useless question since i consider the tyranny of the ignorant masses to be just as evil just as atheism is the rejection of all gods anarchy is the rejection of all rulers as above so below atheism is the default position the burden of proof is on the theist this is true whether it's monotheism polytheism or pantheism being proposed unless they can prove that a god or gods exist disbelief is the rational position similarly anarchy is the default position the burden of proof is on the statist this is true whether it's a monarchy oligarchy democracy or even meritocracy being proposed unless they can prove that a ruler or rulers have a special claim to rule over others freedom is the rational default position and i know that there are many state apologists who attempt to justify the authority of the state just like there are many religious apologists who attempts to justify their belief in a god or gods both kinds of apologists are often skillful in their sophistry and many are fooled by their sophistry and in a democracy fooling the many is sufficient democracy is essentially rule by whoever is able to deceive the masses why should those who are too intelligent to be fooled by these deceptions be forced to submit to these liars in combat why should philosophers be ruled over by sophists and what happens in such a society the execution of socrates gives us a pretty good example the philosopher attempts to enlighten the society this is a threat to the sofas to rule the society because an enlightened society can't be ruled through deception so the sophists kill the philosophers we see this even before the time of socrates when kylon orchestrated the murder of pythagoras much of the hidden history of the world is nothing more than the timeless battle between the illuminatus and the ignoramus pythagoras versus kylo the gnostics versus the archons but although i call pythagoras an illuminatus and an austin and call kylon an ignoramus and an archon it would be a mistake to think of this as a chess match between wise men and tools that wouldn't be much of a contest the archons and sophists are not stupid they're quite clever in order to deceive the masses you must be more intelligent than the masses just as you must be more intelligent than the deceived masses in order to not be deceived the masses are merely chess pieces the players can be called the illuminati the illuminati is divided up into two teams there are the archons and the gnostics for the most part when i use the term illuminati i'm using it as synonymous with the term gnostics when i'm referring to archons i refer to them as archons i consider them to be the forces of darkness and ignorance although they're not ignorant themselves they wish to keep mankind in ignorance in order to rule over them they consider themselves the illuminati but i don't i call them archons the archons are masters of illusion they see themselves as gods among men they believe it is the right of the strong to rule over the weak they view the masses as cattle or as slaves they use religion and political ideologies to control the gullible majority although they're not able to deceive the gnostics they don't need to they simply use their ability to control the masses to persecute the gnostics their propaganda effectively paints the gnostics as enemies of god or enemies of the state different propaganda is used to control different populations the most effective propaganda usually involves some sort of victim narrative the archons convince christians that the gnostics are satanist they convince jews that the gnostics are nazis they convince marxist feminists and people of color that the gnostics are greedy capitalists or part of the evil white male-dominated racist patriarchy and it's true that gnostics oppose the orthodox church and often identify with lucifer as a symbol of liberty reason and rebellion against authority and faith it's also true that gnostics are anti-zionist anti-communist anti-feminist anti-statist and anti-globalist they seek to liberate mankind from the archons in order to liberate themselves this is necessary because as long as the archons control mankind they will use mankind to persecute the gnostics or the illuminati and this is what is meant by the mythical image of the forces of light and darkness battling for the souls or minds of men at least this is part of the meaning myths and symbols always contain multiple layers of meaning in this global chess game most people are only game pieces and can never become players they simply lack the intellect players can sometimes be played by other players as if they were game pieces though and game pieces can be changed from black to white and from white to black and even players can switch sides mini gnostics are seduced into becoming archons and it starts out innocently enough the gnostic is first convinced that in order to free the masses from the control of the archons the gnostics must seize power themselves but of course as soon as gnostics start plotting the seas power and rule over the masses they've already begun to transform into archons the number one rule of the game for gnostics is that they can only free themselves by freeing mankind from the control of the archons many gnostics find this task daunting and decide if you can't beat them join them but archons also sometimes defect and become gnostics this is primarily because the archons organize themselves hierarchically of course every archon wants to become the chief archon some archons become discontented with their place in the hierarchy and decide that if they're not the chief archon then they're just as enslaved as the masses of men they rule over so in order to free themselves from the control of the archons above them in the hierarchy they decide to join the gnostics in the struggle to free man from the control of the archons because they see that this is the only way to free themselves but for many of them their lust for power proves greater than their desire for freedom and they content themselves to submit to those who are above them in the hierarchy in exchange for the satisfaction of dominating those who are beneath them in the hierarchy the possibility of being promoted higher through the ranks also helps to secure their allegiance to the chief archon is that the end asked lucifer that's as far as i've gotten i answered i see you replied solemnly so which are you a gnostic or an archon an illuminatus i answered cryptically he cocked his head to the side night me suspiciously for several long seconds before responding you're not going to help me are you him in the eye and gave him a straight answer no a look of disappointment fell over his face and for a split second i thought i saw a flash of anger in his eyes i felt compelled to offer an explanation i don't believe the game can be won i explained i believe the answer lies in a kind of two-state solution each side contains an internal contradiction a truly free society is one in which individuals are free to be unfree so in a free world there has to be an authoritarian state which individuals can choose to submit to if they want and for a state authority to be free of revolutionary movements its authority must be perceived as legitimate for its authority to be perceived as legitimate it must govern by the consent of the government but consent is impossible unless there is a choice to not consent so an authoritarian state requires a parallel voluntary society and a voluntary society requires a parallel authoritarian state you're absolutely right he said much to my surprise you said no without asking you what i wanted you to do did you think i was asking you to play the same old game i'm sick of this game and like you i've realized that it can't be one it's all part of a much bigger meta game i can't explain it all to you but you've just proven to me that i was right about you i'm not asking you to join me i'm not asking you to join my team i'm asking you to do what i can't do i'm asking you to end this so again will you help me yes i answered so you want me to end the game i asked yes lucifer answered it's played out thousands of years have passed we've allowed ourselves to be dragged off into a million different directions we've been distracted by internal disputes over a million different meaningless semantic distinctions some of humanity's sharpest minds have blunted their intellects splitting coarse hairs until they've all gone bald i cocked my head to the side and raised an eyebrow an amusement at the metaphor i responded well i suppose if you're going bald you might as well just shave your head if the game can't be won you might as well refuse to play but there's just one problem and what's that asked lucifer i could only succeed in dividing up the players into two new teams and starting a new game i answered what do you mean he asked well i answered as it is there are quite a few players on both sides who are deeply immersed in the game they want to keep playing many of them will never be willing to let go of the illusion that their team can win others will see through the illusion but will choose to continue playing anyway i may succeed in convincing some players from both sides to walk away from the game but never all some players from both sides will want to continue playing and so the old game will continue but it's part of a new macro game between two new macro teams the objective of my macro team will be to unify the micro teams and end the micro game the objective of the opposing macro team will be to keep the micro teams divided against each other in order to perpetuate the micro game one side wants to stop playing and the other side wants to keep on playing and that becomes the new game a frustrated expression came over lucifer's face then end that game too he responded you can end that macro game by calling a truce the two macro teams can agree that those who wish to continue playing will be allowed to continue playing by those who wish to quit playing and those who wish to quit playing won't be forced to play by those who wish to keep the game going i shook my head no i said because then there will be those on both sides who agree to the truce and those on both sides who don't so now in addition to the micro game and the macro game there will be a meta macro game in the meta macro game one meta macro team will want to end the macro game by calling a truce which allows those who wish to continue playing the micro game to continue playing while also allowing those who no longer wish to play to not play the other meta macro team will oppose those who call for a truce their objective will be to perpetuate the macro game between those who wish to perpetuate the micro game and those who wish to end it and this meta macro team will insist that the macro game must be played out until one side wins either everyone must be forced to continue playing the micro game or else the micro game must be ended once and for all and no one can be allowed to play and ultimately this meta macro game is no different from the micro game the game outside of the game is really just a game inside of the game the desire to free yourself from the game just keeps you trapped inside the game you're still trying to win you're trying to win by not playing but this is still a form of playing so you may decide that you'll play the game without regard for winning or losing you'll be very zen-like you'll follow the advice given to arjuna by krishna and you'll be like a samurai who engages in battle without any thought of victory or defeat and in this way you'll free yourself from the game but this is still just another way of playing it's just another way of trying to win so maybe you decide that if you can't win you'll choose to lose after all if you lose the game will end and you'll have won by losing and so even this turns out to be nothing more than yet another strategy to win the opposing team may catch on and refuse to defeat you in order to keep the game going or maybe they give in to their own desire to win and fall for your trap and they defeat you and so you'll have won now the game is over but the winning team has a taste for victory now victory tastes so sweet that they desire to taste it again and so they challenge you to another game and if you refuse to play another game you're only playing the game of trying to win by refusing to play so you agree to play again and maybe this time they'll attempt to win by losing just like you did in the last game but since you already know this strategy you refuse to defeat them but this is just the game of attempting to defeat your opponent by refusing to defeat them lucifer furrowed his brow for a brief moment but then his face softened and a smile spread across his face well now you're just trying to play the game of trying to convince me that the game can't be won aren't you fine then you win he said with a wink then i guess i lose i said with a sigh of victoria's defeat how long do you want to go on playing this game i know that you know that i know who you really are do you he asked no one knows me except he who knows himself and to the one who knows himself best i remain an eternal mystery i wouldn't have it any other way sophia i responded and upon hearing her name spoken the shining face beneath the black hood softened and faded to a shade of black so dark that it appeared luminous she removed her robe and let it fall to the floor she stood naked before me like a statue carved out of onyx by a master sculptor i love the way you look at me she said you make me feel beautiful you make me feel like i'm all you see and like you're the only one who sees me looking into her dark eyes felt like falling into a bottomless abyss but when you're falling into nothingness it doesn't feel like falling it feels like perfect stillness as my eyes adjusted to her darkness her skin began to glow faintly and appear more like alabaster and in the infinite void of her dark eyes there was now a faint twinkle like the first star appearing in the night sky she looked into my eyes as if she was searching for something she had lost and given up all hope of ever finding again do you remember she asked i remember you i answered the words came out but i wasn't entirely sure whether i had spoken them she sat on my knee and leaned in close to kiss my forehead she smiled at me and said i remember you too lucifer and suddenly i was me again it was as if i had woken up in someone else's body with partial amnesia and lost forgotten memories were rising to the surface as if her kiss had cast a magical spell to call them forth from the depths of my unconscious sleep she said softly as she rested her head against my chest your dreams will help you to remember i'll still be here when the sun comes up i held her close and drifted off to [Music] sleep my muscles tensed and my blood ran cold when i looked up and saw a huge spider staring down at me it was almost the size of a cat then again it was almost nothing but long skinny legs it almost didn't even have a body or a head it was like a daddy long leg spider but bigger and i'm not sure how many legs it had maybe four definitely not eight though so i guess technically it wasn't an arachnid it stood motionless and seemed to be just watching me from up on top of the desk don't ask why i was on the floor was i sleeping i don't know even when you remember a dream you never can seem to remember it from the beginning they always seem to start somewhere in the middle and make absolutely zero sense i shot to my feet and then froze paralyzed for just an instant while the neurons in my brain did whatever it is they do to deliberate between a fight or flight response apparently fight won the coin toss i reached for a book and aimed a crushing blow with the spider or whatever it was i lifted the book to make sure it was dead somehow it had formed itself into a circle don't ask how it just did i guess if you picture a four-legged daddy long leg spider lying flat almost in the shape of a swastika you could imagine the distal appendages curling slightly to protect its abdomen and cephalothorax in such a way as to form a circle with an x inside it then if you imagine the four radii of the x swinging away from the vertex toward the circumference of the circle you might be able to see how it could have turned itself into a circle but that would have meant that the abdomen and cephalothorax were torn into four pieces maybe it's best not to over analyze i wasn't sure if it was dead and i wasn't sure how to kill it it was like a giant flat ring how do you crush something that's already flat then it hit me i could use the edge of the book cover to break the circle it seems to sense my murderous intention i suppose it's true that hate is born of fear and fear is born of ignorance primal emotions clouded my mind and blinded me to the fact that it posed no threat to me whatsoever but in that moment nothing existed within me except the desire to kill flight won the coin toss this time the creature spring from the desk just as the edge of the book came crashing down where it had been it crawled around the room frantically desperately looking for some cranny or crevice to crawl into but i quickly cornered it it let out a shriek it was attempting to communicate it wasn't just a shriek it contained layers and layers of meaning imagine if someone recorded an audio book but then sped up the playback speed so that the entire audiobook could be played in just two or three seconds that's what the shriek sounded like but it wasn't composed of words it was more like wave patterns its meaning began to unfold in my mind normally with verbal communication one person wants to convey his thoughts and feelings to another person so he tries to come up with words to convey those thoughts and feelings the person who receives the communication then converts those words into mental images or thoughts and feelings but this was different the thoughts and feelings came first i received them directly and within my mind formed mental images and words to represent the ideas themselves to my consciousness i found myself looking at my laptop there was some kind of icon on the screen that i didn't recognize i was curious so i moved the mouse to click on it to open it and find out what it was as i did i noticed tiny spider legs reaching around the icon as if a spider were on the other side of it they crawled around to the front side of the icon as if protecting it or maybe protecting me from what would happen if i clicked on it it turned into a kind of shield made of light and took the form of a cross it spoke but not in words to try to translate what it said into words isn't easy but it basically told me that it exists as a kind of firewall there are certain programs or websites i might try to open that i shouldn't is there to protect my computer from various forms of malware and other viruses i understood that the computer was my psyche and suddenly the symbol of the spider made sense its web is a kind of dream catcher but it would never force its protection on me if i chose to click on the icon it wouldn't prevent me and if i right clicked on the spider i could delete it and remove it from my computer i moved the cursor over the digital spider and hovered there for a moment looking at it more closely i saw that its head almost looked like a peacock i noticed that it was similar to the peacock symbol on my laptop it must be a default program that came on the computer i thought i clicked on it and dragged it to the other side of the screen and then moved the mouse back to the forbidden icon i hovered over it for a moment and then clicked on it and that was the end of the dream in my next stream i was sitting in my car in the driveway for some reason i was sitting in the front passenger seat i don't know why like i said when you try to remember your dreams they always seem to start in the middle somehow and never from the beginning i think they have to if we were aware of the beginning of a dream we would know it was a dream we would know that we were the ones creating it and the point is to forget the point is to lose ourselves in the dream if we knew how we got there we wouldn't be lost and so we find ourselves lost in the middle of the forest so to speak something about the perspective seemed off somehow maybe it's just because i'm not used to sitting in the passenger seat of my own car but i found myself staring at the dash the more i focused on the details of the dash the sharper the visual image became it looked so real i reached out to touch it and only then did i realize that i didn't have a body my hand only faded into existence as my will to reach out and fill the dash materialized i looked at my own hand in disbelief it looked absolutely solid and life-like i ran my fingertips over the dash i could feel the texture it seemed too real to be a dream and yet i knew that it was and yet i didn't wake up i'm not sure if i could have woken up if i had wanted to but i didn't want to i was fascinated by how real everything around me looked and felt even though i absolutely knew that it was all a dream i had had lucid dreams before but this was incredible and the realization struck me i was doing all of this my own mind was generating this entire physical reality and yet i wasn't doing it consciously i just sat in stunned silence the silence was broken by the sound of the car door opening i might have woken up but her voice pulled me back into the dream world oh there you are george i didn't know you were already out in the car why are you in the passenger seat did you want me to drive she asked no it's okay lucy i'll drive i answered lucy her name was lucy my name was george i knew that wasn't my real name though but i couldn't remember what my real name was but when she said my name it felt true and the way her eyes sparkled when she looked at me and smiled made me want to be george my heart sank she isn't real i thought what's wrong she asked nothing i answered it's just none of this is real a sad look came over her face but she quickly concealed it with the most convincing fake smile i'd ever seen it's as real as you wanted to be she said did she know her smile may as well have been painted by da vinci i just couldn't crack her coat in dreams one scene has a way of fading into the next without you ever noticing i was driving along a road that looked like something out of a car commercial we were driving along sort of a hillside overlooking the ocean in dreams out of body experiences are common it didn't even seem strange to me that i was floating in the air several feet in front of the car looking at the two of us through the windshield we looked happy we almost seemed to have halos around our heads like a couple of saints saint george and lucy it felt like a memory and i wondered whether memories are any more real than dreams are everything faded to white not the color white though just white and i knew that i had entered into dreamless sleep i didn't think it i just knew it i had heard that nirvana was like a dreamless sleep just pure consciousness i had never been able to make sense of that consciousness as we ordinarily think of it requires subject and object it requires duality it requires contrast at least that's what my logical brain had always told me but in that eternal moment i wasn't bothered by any of that i was about to enter into another dream i had never seen the beginning of a dream before i just observed absolutely motionless as the dream began to form an entire universe came into existence out of nothing billions of years passed just to provide a backstory for the character i would play in the dream the child turned into an adolescent and the adolescent became a man in dreams one scene fades into the next without you ever noticing the change i was sleeping peacefully in my bed just as if i had always been there there wasn't an exact moment when i woke up in some ways being awake isn't so different from dreaming i became aware that i didn't feel her next to me maybe she had been a dream maybe convincing me that she exists was her greatest trick i thought to myself with a half smile i sat up stretched and looked around the empty room i picked my jeans up off the floor and put them on one leg at a time then walked over to the window to open the blinds it must have rained during the night a rainbow stretched across the morning sky i felt her drift through the bedroom door behind me like a gentle breeze coffee she asked yes please i answered she handed me the coffee mug the aroma was strong and rich i hesitated for a moment before taking a sip as if answering an unspoken question she put her hand on my chest and said it's as real as you want it to be [Music] there's more you're not telling me isn't there lucifer she asked i want you to share even your darkest dreams with me i only remember bits and pieces he answered but i'll tell you what i can recall there was one that deeply troubled me i only remember that i was sitting in the lotus position facing the north around me were four walls the walls were like glass but i knew that they were unbreakable outside the western wall in the darkness of night a woman was kneeling and weeping she couldn't see me from the outside the wall appeared as limestone behind her from out of the water a crocodile emerged and crept silently toward her my blood ran cold as the cold-blooded reptilian predator crept slowly toward his prey his right eye glared at me with a blazing dark glare as if he was daring me to try to save her somehow i knew that i couldn't he would get to her before i could he would drag her down to her watery grave i would watch helplessly as she disappeared beneath the surface and i watched the drama unfold before my eyes like a play i had seen 490 times before i could feel her pulling me into the play drawing me toward the water's edge tempting me to play the role of the hero in the drama no not this time i said silently to myself like a mantra that needed to be uttered only once i already knew the story is ending but what about the damsel in distress asked sophia why didn't you try to save her she didn't want to be saved answered lucifer she was right where she wanted to be she was in on it the whole thing was a setup the crocodile didn't want her he wanted me he was just using her as willing bait a sad look fell over sofia's face her eyes almost looked like they might be about to start tearing up they contained a faint glimmer of hopeful anxiety though as she asked so what did you do what happened to her lucifer turned his head slightly to the right and looked away from her he couldn't stand to look at her she reminded him too much of the woman in the dream he paused in silence for a brief moment before answering her nothing happened to her she never existed she was just a dream image there was no one to save and no need for a savior that's not true said sophia she still lives on in your heart and in your memory when you woke up you carried her memory with you but her memory isn't her you can only be with her in the dream and maybe that's what she wants maybe it isn't a trap after all maybe she loves you and wants to be with you but she knows she can only be with you in your dreams [Music] she's a dream image answered lucifer how can a dream image want anything as a figure inside my dream she can only be a projection of my own desire if she appears to desire my love it's only a reflection of my desire to love someone if she appears to love me it's only a reflection of my own desire to feel loved she placed her hand on his chest and looked deeply into his eyes and said that doesn't make her love and desire any less real the love and desire that's expressed through her in the dream is like wine and maybe she's no more than a wine glass but without the wine glass how will you drink the wine so is it the wine or the wine glass that gets you drunk lucifer cocked his head to the side and answered her with a half smile there was no wine in the dream only water how did the conversation turn from water to wine i don't know sophia answered shooting a coy smile back at him that's your job i never got a hangover drinking water said lucifer as a sober look came over his face for love and desire to manifest hate and fear must also manifest maybe that's why the crocodile comes up out of the water after her sophia suggested maybe he represents the ruler of the underworld that she can never escape from but maybe i've just believed too many fairy tales i can't tell you what your dreams mean you've always been the one with the gift for interpreting dreams and you've always been the one with the gift for inspiring them he answered i'd like to hear your interpretation she said i can think of multiple interpretations he replied each interpretation is really the creation of a new dream the lens we look through colors what we see a dream is a mirror for the soul whatever we see in the dream is only our own soul reflected to us in the mirror-like surface of the waters of our own unconscious mind but to interpret what we see is to look through a colored lens a man dressed in white will see a man dressed in red in the mirror if he looks at him through a red lens a man dressed in red will see a man dressed in purple if he looks through a blue lens but a man dressed in blue would also see a man dressed in purple if he looked through a red lens how can he know whether he's the man in red looking through a blue lens or whether he's the man in blue looking through a red lens i don't know sophia answered i guess he can never know for sure he just has to decide which one he wants to believe he is but then he wouldn't truly know himself would he lucifer responded he would only have a belief about who he is he wouldn't have true self-knowledge to know himself the dreamer must use multiple lenses as he looks at his reflection through different colored lenses the color of the man's coat will change to know the man or to know himself the dreamer must wear a coat of many colors but how will that tell him anything about his true self sophia questioned lucifer answered if he looks at his reflection through the first lens and sees a man in a purple coat and then looks again through a different lens and sees a man in a blue coat then he can conclude logically that the first time he was looking at a man in a blue coat through a red lens and that the second time he was looking at a man in a blue coat through a blue lens of course if he views his coat as purple then his blue and then is green then he can logically conclude that his coat is blue and that the first lens was red the second blue and the third yellow if he sees himself first in an orange coat then in a green coat and then in a yellow coat then he can conclude that he is wearing a yellow coat and that the first lens was red the second was blue and the third was yellow if more than one primary color appears to him as he cycles through the different colored lenses then this will confirm that he is dressed in white only a white robe can appear as all the colors of the rainbow that's clever she said it's almost like you're doing algebra with colors and solving for two variables all his number he replied with a wink but you still haven't told me your interpretation of the dream she said i want to know lucifer looked as though he had just been cast back down to earth he wanted to take the conversation and her beyond the dream but she seemed determined to pull the conversation and him back to the dream once more and once more he fell for it or rather he allowed himself to fall for her he always had maybe he always would fine he said i'll bite but in return i'm gonna ask you to do something for me what's that she asked hesitantly just promise he insisted with a grin alright i trust you she answered reluctantly i promise okay it continued the man in the dream is sitting in the lotus position this seems to identify him as a kind of buddha figure the unbreakable glass walls around him seem to represent a state of detached observation the four walls seem to represent the four directions as well as the three-dimensional cube of space or the material world which imprisons consciousness the two significant directions in the dream seem to be the north and the west he sits facing the north this probably relates to the north star and indicates that his mind is focused on a still point he has mastered his thoughts and like a compass needle always points north his mind is directed toward truth he is determined to awaken from the ignorance of the dream symbolized by the darkness of the night sky the woman being on his left side seems to be related to the right hemisphere of the brain appearing in the west she may have some connection to the evening star which heralds the coming of the night or in this case the crocodile there may be quite a bit of hidden significance related to the image of the crocodile not to mention the weeping woman wailing by the western wall made of limestone but i'm not sure whether there's any point going into all of that except to mention that the man who is invisible to her seems to be seated within the holy of holies if the crocodile is seen as the god of the underworld then there may be some relation to the myth of persephone the number 490 is 70 times 7. it's also forty nine times ten when he was asked how many times you should forgive someone jesus gave the answer seventy times seven so it might be significant that apparently the dreamer has seen this play 490 times before and refuses to participate in the drama again also 49 is the value of the name pythagoras in pythagorean numerology and 10 is the number of points on the tetractus or the number of spheres on the tree of life perhaps the multiplication of 49 by 10 symbolizes freedom from the wheel of karma that is attained through the completion of the path of return by passing through the ten spheres of the tree or maybe it's just a random number it depends on whether you look at it through the lens of numerology and gematria or not i guess i guess there are a lot of details in the dream that could each reveal layers of hidden meanings if we examined them in depth but i think it might be best to focus on the three major characters the man the woman and the crocodile so what do you think they represent she asked well he answered they all represent something different depending on whether you interpret the dream through the lens of the man the woman or the crocodile but if we look at each of them through all three lenses it might be possible to come to the truth the problem is right now it's just me and you that's why i said i'm gonna need you to do something for me i need you to help me summon him summon who she asked him [Music] he answered her you know who you don't know his name do you lucifer question sophia i know him by many names lucifer answered deus mundi de mayor ghose he's been called thousands of names over thousands of years for me his true name is satan for him satan is your true name she reminded him you can call him by any name you want but there's only one he'll answer to it's too bad that name is a secret it's not a secret to you he said i know you know it if you say his name he'll come you agreed to summon him for me call him sophia as you wish lucifer she sighed but i can't say it out loud in front of you he made me swear never to reveal it to you and i honor my vows fine he said just whisper it under your breath then he'll hear you sophia turned her back to him and whispered the infernal name the temperature seems to drop several degrees the air seems to thicken gravity's downward pool seemed to grow stronger sophia fell to her knees and bowed her head as her master appeared speak of the devil said lucifer i thought i heard you whisper my name satan said ignoring him why have you called me sophia forgive me my lord lucifer made me she answered yes that serpent is always to blame isn't he he sneered and what have you to say for yourself serpent lucifer looks down at sophia still kneeling and lowering her eyes submissively before her dark lord the side of her filled him with disgust was she his prisoner against her will or was this her choice was this what she wanted he couldn't stand to look at her he locked eyes with his nemesis it's been a while since our last bet he said i thought i'd offer you a new wager i'm listening said satan but i've got the whole world what more is there for me to win and what more is there for you to lose the last time you went all in you still don't have everything and i haven't lost everything yet said lucifer if you win she's all yours forever but i get to leave and never return if i win i take her with me well that sounds interesting satan responded but it doesn't seem quite fair to me it seems like if you win you win it all and if you lose you still get half i can't agree to that no deal but i'll make you a counteroffer if i win she belongs to me for eternity and you'll be banished from my kingdom forever back to that primordial chaos you came slithering out of and that you call home if you win i'll give you her hand she'll be your eternal bride but you'll remain here forever i'll give you half of my kingdom to rule over but you'll bow to me that doesn't seem quite fair to me lucifer replied it seems like if you win you win half and if i win i only get one quarter but i'll meet you halfway if you win she belongs to you for eternity and i leave this place never to return if i win she'll be my bride and i'll remain here for eternity and i'll bow to you but you'll give me your whole kingdom to rule over satan hesitated for a few seconds before answering i agree to the stakes so what is your wager the wager is simple answered lucifer i wager that if she's allowed to choose freely she'll choose me release her tell her she's no longer your slave then attempt to persuade her to remain as your queen and then i'll have a chance to attempt to persuade her as well but ultimately it will be her choice if she chooses me i win if she chooses you you win so let it be said satan so let it be said lucifer [Music] so let it be said sophia [Music] and satan vanished into the darkness taking sophia with him