Apokálupsis
Mist. Mistery. Copyright, Geoff Hall 2020.
Apokálupsis doesn’t mean ‘the end’ or even ‘the end times’ but rather ‘unveiling’ and suggests a continual process undertaken in every age. It means a revelation of what lies beneath the surface of things and brings to Light that which was hidden from us; shouting from the rooftops what has been whispered in secret; an exposing of the true nature of the State and its Conformist Religion.
“We will not be silent. We will be your bad conscience.”
The White Rose Movement.
grand delusions broken
Once it is brought to light then we have a choice; to change our allegiances or to deepen our commitment to the grand delusion. As this reality of denial is deepened there is no possibility of change. The strength of this delusion is in the fear of the people and the seductive prowess of the authorities; whether by brute force or the seduction of propaganda.
How do these things come to light? Sophie Scholl and The White Rose Movement put it this way, “We will not be silent. We will be your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.” This mantra we had to learn from young people, students who had the inspiration and gentleness of the Spirit, plus a sharp intellect. They taught us how to help us see our work against the Powers of oppressive State and a Church that had lost the transformational efficacy of salt, light and yeast. Those malformed practitioners of control and coercion, instead of serving the people, abused the people with their fallacious claims to authority.
Not that all young people of Germany joined with them in Spirit and Action, but the majority collaborated with Nazi Germany and became members of the Hitler Youth; betraying parents, brothers, sisters and friends in the name of a displaced loyalty. Corrupted by both the political and ecclesiastical Authorities.
Workers, who had been duped by the NSDAP, with it’s claim to Socialism and Unionisation, found the truth was that it was a German Nationalist Party. All Unions were banned and the workers now came under the DAF, the German Workers Federation. The voice of the Unions was strangled by this Federation; the State, not the Unions, governed the workers of Germany.
The DAF insignia. Copyright Control. Yes, notice the cog of the Nazi Regime!
the great unveiling
This unveiling then, is the work of activism, by which I do not mean reactionary action, but that which is rooted in the wisdom of being free from these Powers and perceiving the warp and weft of their weave of power, be that through religion or politics.
Writing is my activism. I know others who work through images, through movement and sound. Together, we can form an alliance and be the bad conscience of the malformation of power used to control people and demand their acquiescence. The old adage was “for the Senate and People of Rome” and is now “for the Government and the People of Britain”, or Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, America. Or in any nation around the world that seeks absolute power over its citizens, Same old tyrants, same old mottos.
The Nation State has assumed, grabbed, purloined, the folly of total power over all of life. The likes of Monsieur Gobelet, a political import from France and Mister Langley from Britain, not only assume but claim that they are the highest authority, or rather they assert that the State is the highest authority in the world. And then of course how happy for them that they are the representatives of ultimate authority.
As for me and the likes of those who suffer with me, we knew their limitations. Yes, they had the means to control life and death; of the body, but not of the Spirit. It is Spirit who is the ultimate authority. It is by this authority that we live and move and have our being. It is by this Spirit that we move, undetected; breathe the breath of Spirit without their clutching our throats and have our being held in the Spirit, not in the State Mortuary. Our words, our sounds, our movement, our images have their roots in the Tree of Life.
ultimate reality
This is for us, the ultimate reality and not the rotting corpse of the Body Politic supported by the Corpse of Christ.
Ours is the Spirit of Life, not death, of freedom. We are not bound by the Laws of the State or the Commandments of a dead Church, in league with its Political Masters.
We are free and we will show that freedom in resistance. We will not be silent. We will be their bad conscience. Because great are their sins, injustices and cruelties in the World.
They thought they had the last word on whether I lived or died, but then here I am speaking from beyond the grave. For such is the way of the artist, the artist who is truly conscious and doesn’t react to the thoughts and injuries of the ego. But when the ego dies, then you have a truly conscious artist.
the last word
For the artist will always have the last word - and not the politicians or the priests. It is the Spirit that soars high above them and continues in the heart of those who love freedom, true freedom and not that handed down to us by the State. For the control of freedom produces slaves.
Jack Stanza
