The Rope remains around the neck
Welcome to the Machine
The few insights, the many fire flies, bring me to this post. Our era is one which the Russian philosopher Berdyaev describes as the realm of Caesar. The Greek and Roman world did not know the principle of freedom of spirit which arose in Europe after Christianity, their world was totalitarian. For Berdyaev, a Russian Orthodox Gnostic, the realm of Caesar is always at war with the human spirit and the social world we inhabit bends and obeys Caesar in what he describes as a “terrible socio-morphism” where each free spirit decides in their tragic necessity of being dual, man and spirit, how to be in this world.
At any moment the Great Reset rubs us out, all of us, any of us, as if say 5 million years of intelligence augmentation was for nought, a river flowing uphill in treacherous terrain eventually dying from exhaustion.
The only possible resistance is personal and thus interior to the human not affiliation with social group. That river lies within. The source of the mighty Nile is in the majestic mountains of our mind. These mountains exist due to geology. This geology is due to God. The maker.
In Self-knowledge, Berdyaev observed that he could only accept and experience Christianity as a religion of Godmanhood.
To Berdyaev, Godmanhood entails the understanding that "not only man needs God, but God also needs man."This understanding is not rooted in any notion of replacing God with man or man with God, but rather on the "radical" belief that the eternal divinity of man is godlike. The Christian tradition asserts God as the Creator; Berdyaev postulates that man is also a creator possessing inherent supernatural potential.
The idea that God needs man as much as man needs God contains within it the very meaning of creativity, which is joint action between God and man. God is both father and Creator; man is a co-creating child.
Thus worshiping and glorifying God demands continuing the work of the Father. And the way man continues the work of the Father is through creativity.
Man's creativity is an essential part of God's activity. The transformation of the world is carried out by man, not God - but it can only be carried out by man if he works from his Divine Self and works in accordance to the Divine Plan.
Once he learns this, man will know that is he not a means, but an end. And he will understand that creativity is not a choice between good and evil, but his creation of good and evil.
That is how human power becomes Divine Power.
If man were utterly insignificant and irrelevant to God's activity, the side opposed to God and Creation would not work so diligently to obscure and destroy all that is divine in man.