The Great Year and the Rebirth of Civilization
Part 1 | The Philosophy of Armageddon
Today I’m sharing Part I of a six-part series that revisits the themes of the Kali Yuga - a topic I’ve discussed previously - and links it to the timetable of the 25,800-year Precession Cycle. The timing of when this material is coming out is notable: this evening marks the 2025 Summer Solstice, an event whose significance you’ll come to appreciate as we go through the series.
This material is extracted from the extended Conclusion essay that finishes my new book The Coming World Nation (a PDF copy is now available for paid subscribers). It builds on the work of Peter Dawkins and Bibhu Dev Misra, two scholars whom I’ve interviewed previously on the podcast. It also cites Manly P. Hall, the great American philosopher, revisiting key themes that I originally explored in my 2023 book Manly P. Hall: The Maestro of Esoteric Philosophy.
The Philosophy of Armageddon
Every ancient religious tradition has its own version of an Armageddon myth: a great battle of good versus evil, with the fate of human destiny hanging in the balance. In these myths, transcendent powers are always involved, with Satanic forces of corruption seeking to bring mankind to self-destruction while an angelic hierarchy resists this scheme, striving instead to inspire mankind to liberate itself from the clutches of evil and break through into a new and higher state of consciousness. In these myths, the forces of light always emerge victorious and afterwards a great spiritual renaissance is initiated.
There are different ways of interpreting the meaning of this universal myth. One way is to view it as symbolizing a battle that takes place everywhere in Nature: evolution versus dissolution, with energy seeking its own self-optimization and entropy continuously confronting it as an adversarial force of negation. While this battle between creation and destruction is occurring at every moment, at certain key points in time the struggle between these opposing forces reaches a critical mass and a great Armageddon must occur.
For mankind, this becomes period of trial and testing, when the opposing forces of creation and destruction within the human soul must undergo a great showdown, with the fate of human destiny hanging in the balance. Eventually, the forces of light win this battle and redeem the forces of darkness, with human civilization progressing into a new and higher stage of evolutionary development as a result of the contest.
In this interpretation of the Armageddon myth, the great showdown between progress and resistance occurs not as a single event, but as an archetype that activates at numerous key stages in mankind’s evolutionary growth cycle. Philosopher Manly P. Hall expands on this point, stating that the Armageddon doesn’t have to do with a specific "date or time, but a sequence of events. And every sequence of events comes finally to some kind of an Armageddon. Every period of history goes through this; every religion will pass through this.”
The human soul - both individually and collectively - will, at key points in its evolutionary pathway, undergo Armageddon-like battles, when it finds itself trapped in an existential struggle against a mysterious force of negation within itself. In order to liberate itself from the entropic pull of this resisting force, the spirit within the soul must fight and win a great showdown against it, with victory measured not by the annihilation of that opposing force but its redemption and assimilation. This process is identical to what Carl Jung described as the “Fight with the Shadow”: it is an archetypal battle between the light and dark elements within the human psyche, which every person must experience at key stages of their individuation process.
Although this existential battle is a challenging event to go through, there’s a deep, cleansing purpose behind its occurrence: it forces the soul to purge from itself those elements within it that “have not within them the integrity of their own survival,” as Hall describes it. In other words, any element within us that has alternative motivations beyond facilitating our own spiritual advancement becomes entropic in its effect. In the process of evolving, we must continually root-out these self-negating elements within us, shining a light where the Shadow still lingers. Until the entropic pull of these shadow elements are successfully addressed, they will continuously undermine our growth and erode our self-integration. The arrival of an Armageddon forces an existential confrontation against them, giving the soul no choice but to finally liberate itself from the Shadow’s pull.
In the philosophy of Buddhism, the buildup of shadow complexes within the psyche is correlated with the buildup of “negative karma,” which accumulates not just within one lifetime, but across a sequence of lifetimes extending deep into the past. When the Armageddon erupts, this accumulated negative karma bursts forth, forcing the individual to finally address and deal with it.
Discussing the karmic underpinnings of how and why an Armageddon occurs, Manly Hall writes: “We are told in the Bible that cause and effect follow each other. We are told that as you sow, so shall you reap. Buddha puts it in slightly different words when he says ‘effects follow causes as the wheel of a cart follows the foot of the oxen’. Therefore, wherever there is a causation of catastrophe and that causation is not transmuted, then evil is not corrected. Then, in the due course of time, the catastrophe comes.” In other words, an Armageddon manifests as a concentrated expression of past karma, forcing the individual or group to finally confront and overcome this karma, lest they be destroyed by the negative entropic pull that it exerts upon the soul.
When a person or group succumbs to the influence of their inner Shadow, they not only set themselves on a course for self-destruction, but they also go on to outwardly personify its attributes within society, becoming a manifestation of the collective Shadow. Consider the drug addict strung out on Skid Row: they’ve not only destroyed their own lives, but they also become a blight on society, turning to crime to feed their addiction, which harms other people’s lives and entropically erodes the collective social fabric. Consider also the empire: when a nation falls under the control of an avaricious leader and begins to plunder and pillage its neighbors, it comes to personify the spirit of negation on a collective scale. In both cases, a common dynamic is observed: those who succumb to the pull of entropy from within end up personifying its attributes externally to others.
The timing of when an archetypal Armageddon-like event will occur is not arbitrary. They tend to arise at one of two key power points in a time cycle: a) at its midpoint, when the cycle's initial downward, descending arch culminates and transitions into an upward, ascending motion; and b) at the transition point between cycles, when one cycle ends and a new one begins.
The birth of each new time cycle marks the death of a previous cycle. This occasion marks the occurrence of a death-rebirth ritual, where the old pattern dies so a new one can be born from its ashes. With each new rebirth, there is a progression or advancement that occurs. There is also a new journey, which brings the evolving soul into a new engagement with material existence.
During the soul’s journey into material creation, a major turning point is reached when its orientation shifts from involution to evolution - involution signifying the initial downward arch of the cycle and evolution its subsequent upward ascent. The transition point between these two opposing motions marks the occurrence of another Armageddon-like event. The cataclysms and transformations that occur during this period signifies the time cycle hitting a bottoming-out point. From this moment on, a gradual upward motion ensues, with the ascending pull of evolution winning out over the downward push of involution.
In astrology, the horoscope - which can be calculated for persons, groups, nations, or the world as a whole - reveals an interwoven matrix of time cycles operating at different timescales, with each cycle having its own power points and Armageddon-like events. For example, it is routine for people to undergo a period of turmoil and testing during their “Saturn return.” This marks the point in one’s late twenties when Saturn, the planet of discipline, structure, and karma, returns to the Zodiac position it originally occupied at the person's time of birth. This occasion marks the end of one Saturn cycle and the beginning of a new one. It often catalyzes a period of existential reckoning, where one’s ability to handle responsibility, set boundaries, and demonstrate alignment are tested. When this critical phase in life is reached, if the foundation of one’s life has been thus far been built on shaky ground - whether due to avoidance, fear, or superficial ambition - the Saturn archetype will dismantle those structures entirely, forcing the person to rebuild with greater integrity and purpose.
Pluto is another planet whose archetypal influence tends to evoke the themes of Armageddon in how it impacts the horoscope. In astrology, Pluto signifies death, rebirth, and hidden power. At the present moment, the United States is experiencing its Pluto return, with the planet's 248-year cycle around the US horoscope coming to an end. This is a highly significant event, signaling the onset of an existential confrontation between the populace and the hidden power structures that secretly dominate the nation’s politics, economics, and culture.
America’s Pluto return marks a period when the concealed forces behind the nation's rise as a global empire must either be brought to the surface and reckoned with or allowed to consume the nation from within. Today, the foundations of the American Empire are fast eroding, with the systems that once sustained its dominance - black budgets, financial hegemony, covert wars, and corporate imperialism - proving increasingly unviable. The Plutonian archetype is forcing an end to this status quo, with the American populace now facing an unavoidable confrontation with the ugly, shadow aspects of its government.
Nations undergoing their Pluto return must confront their hidden histories and shadow governments. In the case of America, this involves illuminating the role that the capitalist oligarchy and Deep State play in driving the US away from its democratic foundations and into the role of becoming an extractive global empire. Pluto’s influence is not entirely destructive, however; it can also be revelatory, unearthing suppressed corruption and unrealized potential. In America, this unrealized potential is to be found in the Technocratic Superstate - the invisible scientific institution whose classified arsenal of Ether-based technologies have the power to transform the world, rebirthing civilization into a new age of global prosperity.
Note the synchronous interplay of circumstances that are now taking place: at the same moment that the foundations of American Empire are beginning to unravel and the Deep State’s grip on power is beginning to wane, the surfacing of the Technocratic Superstate is also beginning to take place, with the ongoing disclosure of the UFO mystery (which it is deeply involved in) working to catalyze this process. This motion represents a tremendous upwelling of unrealized potential surfacing within the world system, which the Plutonian archetype (activated by America’s Pluto return) is working to catalyze.
Part II, titled “The Summer Solstice and the Galactic Center,” will be out tomorrow.