The Kali Yuga Reaches Its Grand Finale

The introduction to my forthcoming book "The Coming World Nation"

I'm excited to announce that my new book The Coming World Nation is only a few weeks away from publication! It's a re-edited and expanded version of the "Secret History of the 20th Century" series I published last year. I rewrote almost the entire thing and added three new chapters, updating its contents to present day.

I'm happy to finally share with you the introduction to the book, which is titled "The Kali Yuga Reaches Its Grand Finale". It discusses how the world is moving into the end phase of a 5,000+ year "dark age" subcycle (the Kali Yuga) and how, as a result, its archetypal themes are expressing themselves in a particularly concentrated way today. The overall theme is one of death and rebirth, with the architecture of modern civilization deconstructing in anticipation of its eventual rebirth in a new globalized form.

There’s an audio version of this essay available on my podcast (and a video version will be posted soon on my YouTube). In the podcast, before I delve into my reading of this introduction, I go over the book's table of contents and overview the main ideas behind each of its sections and chapters. Here’s the table of contents for the book:

Table of Contents:

Introduction | The Kali Yuga Reaches Its Grand Finale

I.  The Origin of American Empire

• 1.   How Capitalism Changed America

• 2.   World War I: A Conspiracy of Interests

• 3.   The Industrial Age and the Politics of Energy

• 4.   The Great Depression and the Build-Up to WWII

II.  The Birth of the Technocratic Superstate

• 5.   The Classified Science of Nikola Tesla

• 6.   Technocracy: Government in the Scientific Age

• 7.   The Hidden Agenda Behind World War II

• 8.   An Empire of Secrecy

• 9.   The Untold Story of the Nazi “Wonder Weapons”

III.  The Transition to Global Government

• 10.  The Cold War and the Petrodollar

• 11.  The Shadow Economy and the Black Budget

• 12.  The UFO: An Instrument of Social Engineering

• 13.  The Return of the Mystery Schools

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The Philosophy of Time Cycles

The great philosophical traditions of world history share one essential teaching in common: God is ever-present within Creation, fashioning it from His substance and essence, residing in every atom and molecule within it, and driving it toward a final state of evolutionary completion.

• According to ancient philosophy, the Universe is formed as the result of a divine meditation taking place within the Mind of God. When God focuses His consciousness inward during this meditation, the Universe is born; when God eventually withdraws His consciousness back out and concludes his meditation, the Universe disappears.

• This oscillation between creation and dissolution is part of an eternal pattern of existence: the mystic spiral of the Tao. Creation is Yang; Dissolution is Yin. God forever moves back and forth between the two, the ebb and flow of Universal Consciousness.

• Having meditated the Universe into existence, God is ever-present within its space. It was fashioned for a reason: God is working something out through its evolution. The same is true with the forms and events that arise within the Universe: each exists for a deliberate purpose and holds a special spiritual significance. Therefore, while it may seem from our limited perspective that life is chaotic and random in its motions, in reality the opposite is true: the laws of Creation are universally operative, nothing is out of place, everything has meaning, and in the end God’s Plan will triumph.

What are the implications of this spiritual worldview for us today? The basic idea is simple: human beings and the world we inhabit are ideations of a single Divine Mind, formed as thought patterns within its internal space. As the evolution of life on Earth advances, this Divine Thought works itself out toward completion. Once a final resolution to the Thought is achieved, the Divine Plan is fulfilled and the form of the world absorbs back into the consciousness of the Divine Mind. This results in a period of cosmic rest ensuing, before eventually a new cycle of meditative activity begins, resulting in the formation of a new cycle of creation.

• As humans, there are many lessons we can take from this philosophical understanding of God’s creation process. For one, it emphasizes that we are deliberate creations of God fashioned for a special reason and purpose. Specifically, we are intended to serve as awakened instruments of God’s Plan, helping to facilitate its conclusion here on Earth. To achieve this, the indwelling presence of God within us must be awakened and given sovereign control over the lower physical personality. The experience of enlightenment that results from this process is what gives the human being the spiritual wisdom, intelligence, and power they need in order to fulfill their part in the realization of God’s Plan.

• The fact that each of us has a unique and personal relationship with God gives meaning and purpose to our lives and offers us hope for the future. The story of human life is not arbitrary; this is true for each person and also for the story of humanity as a whole. The contours of God’s Plan may not be evident within the boundaries of a single lifetime or historical period, but when you factor in the concept of reincarnation and expand the parameters of your analysis to incorporate multiple lifetimes and historical epochs, the true scope of the Divine Plan becomes clear.

Creation unfolds within the Mind of God in the form of a cycle, with a beginning, middle, and end. There are two dominant motions within this cycle: involution and evolution. Involution involves the projection of God’s consciousness from unity to diversity, with the energy of spirit moving down into matter and clothing itself in material form. Evolution is a reversal of this process: spirit, locked within matter, gradually liberates itself from the confines of material form and reascends back to its source condition of unity.

• During the initial involution phase of the creation cycle, a diverse ecosystem of differentiated, individualized life forms is created. God injects His consciousness into each of these forms and experiences existence through their eyes. These forms range from simple to complex and extend from the physical to the metaphysical. At one end of the spectrum are simple atoms, molecules, and organisms; at the other are great spiritual beings or gods, whose existence is entirely metaphysical.

• Mankind resides in the middle ground between these two extremes: we have bodies made from the gross matter of the Earth and souls comprised of the metaphysical substance of the gods. This duality gives man the capacity to experience both the physical and metaphysical dimensions of Creation equally: the earth below and the heavens above. It also gives it the choice to choose which side of itself it will most strongly identify with: its lower material body or its higher spiritual soul?

The Spiritual Meaning of a Dark Age

Within the creation cycle, the midpoint between its beginning and end marks a period of time when matter’s entropic pull against spirit is most strongly felt. The consciousness of the Creator falls asleep within the forms it has fashioned and the selfish concerns of the body and ego grow dominant over those of the higher spiritual Self. When this period in the cycle is reached it’s known as a “dark age”. This comes as a natural and inevitable phase of the creation process, one that the Creator’s higher mind orchestrates so that its lower bodily forms can experience and learn from its dynamics.

• Within each creation cycle, there are embedded innumerable sub-cycles of varying size and duration. Each follows the same core pattern as the master cycle: there is a beginning, middle, and end, with involutionary forces dominating in the first half of the cycle and evolutionary ones in the second half. By implication, each sub-cycle has its own version of a dark age, as does the larger master cycle that contains them.

• According to the teachings of ancient philosophy, the central dark age of Earth’s master cycle was experienced long ago during the fall of Atlantis. Mankind lived through this experience and has now progressed beyond it. We are now on the evolutionary upswing phase of the master cycle: having passed its nadir point, we are now somewhere on the ascending arch leading upward toward the eventual establishment of a new golden age.

While mankind has passed beyond the great Atlantean dark age, there are still subsidiary dark age sub-cycles along the path of evolutionary ascent we are now on and for the past several thousand years the world has fallen into one of these. The Brahmins of ancient India termed the present dark age the “Kali Yuga”, naming it after their goddess of initiation, Kali. In their philosophical teachings, they discussed its characteristics extensively and forecasted a timeline for its beginning and end.

• According to the prophesies of the ancient Hindu philosophers, during the Kali Yuga civilization will sink into a period of relative spiritual decline, with humanity falling victim to the evil potentials latent within itself. Negative psychological tendencies like materialism, ignorance, egotism, and empire will become endemic and corruption will continuously destabilize the social order. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see clearly that over the past several thousand years since these prophecies were originally made each of its predictions has in one form or another come true.

• The suffering that mankind endures during a dark age like this is not arbitrary; rather, the trials and tribulations we experience are highly symbolic and intended to be instructive, informing us where our shortcomings are and what aspects of ourselves we need to develop to progress to the next stage of our evolutionary development. In this way, each dark age holds a special spiritual significance: it comes not as a cosmic mistake or divine injustice but rather as a necessary and inevitable aspect of the creation cycle and of humanity’s evolutionary journey within it. The struggle, strife, and despair we encounter during this period are part of a necessary “bottoming out” phase that must be faced and overcome before the human soul’s re-ascent to a new and higher phase of its growth journey can occur.

The philosophers of ancient India were not the only ones who discussed the present dark age in their teachings; other traditions also had their own names and descriptions of it. For example, American esotericist Manly P. Hall writes of Plato’s concept of the Age of Iron. According to Plato, "the world is subject to alternating periods of fertility and sterility: fertility is to be understood as an abundance of life, so that all growth is accelerated; sterility, by contrast, infers a privation of the life principle.”

• “A period of fertility is called a golden age, and during such a time arts, philosophies, sciences, and religions flourish, and men live together in a state of concord. After a golden age, the spiritual energies decline, and the world passes into the age of silver, from there into an age of bronze, falling finally into an age of iron, which is the lowest place in the cycle of fertility.”

• Plato’s Age of Iron equates to what the Hindus call the Kali Yuga: it is the nadir phase of a cosmic cycle, when the entropic pull of matter is at its strongest and the consciousness-liberating impulse of spirit at its weakest. In periods like this, “the destructive tendencies gain domination and men devote their lives to the gratification of selfishness and ambition. Thus, the least degree of fertility produces the greatest degree of sterility and all noble institutions languish.”

The Historical Timing of the Kali Yuga

In the Hindu tradition, there is considerable controversy about how to date the beginning, duration, and ending of the Kali Yuga. One widespread interpretation is that it began in 3102 BC and is set to last for a staggering 432,00 years. Critics point out that this number is vastly overinflated, however, and that the Kali Yuga’s true duration is much shorter (~5,000 years), thus falling within the timeframe of recorded history. Bibhu Dev Misra, in his recent book “Yuga Shift”, makes a strong case that the exact duration of the Kali Yuga is 5701 years, with its start date coming in 3676 BC (rather than 3102 BC) and its end date slated for 2025 AD. Misra’s timeline makes sense to me for three reasons:

• First, in Misra’s model, the Kali Yuga’s start date (~3600 BC) marks the beginning of the period in human history called the Bronze Age, whose civilizations prominently featured the Kali Yuga’s archetypal themes in the story of their rise and fall. These include: a decline in the wisdom of priesthoods; an increase in the imperial ambitions of monarchies; the idolatrous worship of rulers; the gradual erosion of moral values and social cohesion; and the overuse of environmental resources, leading to desperate expansionism and the eventual collapse of civilization.

• Second, the midpoint of the Kali Yuga aligns with the beginning of the Axial Age, when a new wave of oligarch-run empires emerged to dominate the geopolitics of Eurasia. These empires were proto-capitalistic and ruled by rich and powerful dynastic families, who controlled the population through the strategic manipulation of debt. The trend of moral and cultural decline originally seen in earlier Bronze Age civilizations accelerated during this period, with a huge percentage of the population becoming enslaved as the consequence of the perpetual war-fighting, pillaging, and plundering of the period's oligarch-driven empires. In the West, the eventual fall of the Roman Empire, the last of the oligarch-run empires of the Axial Age, brought about the final collapse of pagandom and set the stage for the modern world order to emerge from its ashes.

• Third, the end phase of the Kali Yuga coincides with the crises, opportunities, and transformations of the present moment, with global civilization sitting at the cusp of an epochal shift away from nation-states and into global government. Other significant developments occurring today include: the emergence of Artificial Intelligence; the global interconnection of peoples and cultures through the internet; the rise of technocracy as a new governance paradigm; the slow-drip revelation of the UFO mystery; a renewed interest in Atlantis and the mysteries of human history; and the possibility of world-altering breakthroughs in science and technology. Accompanying these trends is the outbreak of a series of acute sociopolitical, psychological, and environmental crises, which have already brought despair and death to millions and which feature strong “Armageddon” motifs in their symptomatology. In the near future, there is also the very real possibility of a major climatic event occurring, caused either by a meteor strike, a shift in the planet’s magnetic poles, a major volcanic eruption, or some form of counter-reaction by Nature to modern civilization’s systematic destruction of the environment.

It is fitting that the world should experience a time of profound crisis and transformation at the precise moment when the Kali Yuga is prophesied to come to its final end. Furthermore, when we zoom in and analyze the nature of the challenges and opportunities facing mankind today, we discover that their themes are closely connected to trends that have built up and progressed over the course of the Kali Yuga’s 5700-year time cycle, starting with its origin point in the 37th century BC. One of these trends has to do with the gradual secularization of economic management: a trend that began in the Bronze Age, progressed during the Axial Age, and is now reaching its culmination point with the phase of “late-stage capitalism” we are now in.

• During the Bronze Age, the management of society’s economic institutions shifted out of the hands of the priesthood and fell instead under the control of the state. With this motion, the material organization of society (i.e. the economy) detached from being governed by religious values and instead fell prey to the increasingly secular, greedy, and materialistic motivations of state rulers. As the Kali Yuga progressed, this trend would steadily increase, becoming a dominant theme of the age, with the pursuit of material wealth and power becoming a purpose unto itself: a new secular religion for the ruling elite.

• Alongside this motion, the institutions of church and state would gradually separate. The traditional caste system fragmented and cultural infighting became prominent, with competing perspectives and interests developing between the various castes of the social order. In this environment, each caste would succumb to its own worst tendencies, with the aristocracy becoming greedy and obsessed with wealth, the state growing tyrannical and imperialistic, and the priesthood falling into ignorance and superstition. This trend culminated in the final deconstruction of the pagan social order, which occurred around the time of the Axial Age’s endpoint during the 5th century AD.

The rise of proto-capitalistic oligarchies at the beginning of the Axial Age played a crucial role in facilitating the deconstruction of the pagan social order. In the West, oligarchy emerged as a byproduct of increased international trade, which supported the rise of powerful merchant-banking families. In time, these banded together to form the first oligarchies, which displaced the old pattern of monarchial rule.

• For reasons we will be discussing in this book, the emergence of oligarchy coincided with the rise of a series of proto-capitalistic empires, of which the Roman Empire is the prototypical example. Part of the reason why has to do with the “secret weapon” that the oligarchs behind these empires utilized to amass their power: the strategic manipulation of debt, which they weaponized to subjugate kings, enslave populations, build extensive fiefdoms, and centralize power and wealth into their hands.

• In their behaviors, the oligarch-driven empires of the Axial Age perfectly encapsulated the archetypal themes of the Kali Yuga, including materialism, greed, selfishness, hedonism, and degeneration. It’s fitting, therefore, that these empires should emerge at the exact midpoint of the Kali Yuga cycle. Keeping this synchronicity in mind, we discover that these empires and the social destabilization they brought about were no accidents of history: they were instruments of Kali’s manifestation; tools that she wielded to bring about the entropic deconstruction of pagandom so that a new institutional order could arise from its ashes - one that began in the Middle Ages and has since progressed to become the foundation of modern civilization.

• When we compare the historical saga of the Axial Age with the archetypal themes of the Kali Yuga, we discover the wisdom in philosopher Manly P. Hall’s assessment that pagan civilization's “final corruption was due to the motion of the world from a state of fertility to one of sterility. The outward indication was the increase in the political ambition of governing classes, with resultant wars and internal dissension.”

There’s another crucial aspect of the Axial Age that is not to be overlooked: it is the moment in history when philosophy first emerged as a public-facing institution. Before 600 BC, philosophy was embedded within the institutions of pagan religion and had no separate, independent existence. It was preserved by their priesthoods and in order to gain access to it, one had to join their ranks.

• But after the 6th century BC, this situation changed, with independent philosophical schools emerging all over the world. These were dedicated to disseminating the same sacred wisdom teachings that the ancient priesthoods once exclusively possessed. But now, detached from temple control, these teachings were given a new body and taught in a new form. This independence was crucial for the future, given that, by this point, the old priesthoods had already begun their descent into corruption.

• The pending collapse of pagandom’s religious institutions was inevitable, but after the emergence of philosophy, their most vital wisdom teachings could now live on in a new institutional form: the philosophical school. The first philosophical schools to emerge at the start of the Axial Age included: the Greek academies of Pythagoras and Plato; the Buddhist school of Gautama Buddha; the Taoist order founded by Lao Tzu in China; the Jains sect of India; the Zoroastrians of Persia; and the cult of Quetzalcoatl in America. Altogether, the new institution of philosophy that the Axial Age gave birth to would go on to shape the trajectory of modern civilization in ways that few today truly appreciate. I believe that as we move into and beyond the Kali Yuga’s ending, philosophy’s role within society will expand, becoming a central pillar of the more enlightened golden age civilization that is to one day come.

The End of the Kali Yuga Draws Near

Moving up to the present, we are fast approaching the end of the Kali Yuga, with its archetypal themes woven deeply into the pattern of major existential crises now confronting civilization. It’s as if the unresolved karma of the past five thousand years is accumulating, concentrating, and manifesting within a short, intense period of time - a grand finale to the dark age.

• The intense life experiences that the ending of this cycle presents to humanity forces it to finally confront and overcome its past failures and shortcomings. In so doing, mankind is enabled to liberate itself from the baggage of the past so that it can now focus its attention on a new collective goal: building toward the establishment of a new golden age.

• The institutions that have played major roles in driving the events of the Kali Yuga, particularly those concerning oligarchy, capitalism, and empire, are again involved in the current spate of crises now facing mankind. In the globalized civilization of the future, however, there is no more room for these institutions to persist. Each has played a unique and important role in driving forward the dharma of the age, but now that it’s time for the Kali Yuga to come to its final end, we must transcend the constraints they impose and shed them like an old skin, embracing in their place a new organizing logic for civilization.

The World Nation that is to come will arise from the deconstruction of the base elements of the modern world order and their reconstruction into the form of a new, globalized pattern of civilization. The American Empire is the epicenter of this alchemical project, with the themes of the Kali Yuga playing out in a particularly potent manner through the story of America’s rise and fall as global hegemon.

• As with Rome before it, the pending downfall of America indicates the last gasp of a dying civilization, one that the goddess Kali will no longer allow to be carried forward into the world of the future. But unlike with Rome, the death of America will not result in the deconstruction and balkanization of civilization; rather, America’s destiny is to give birth to the World Nation, which will arise out of the flame and ash of its decaying empire and emerge as a forward advancement of America's highest ideals.

• Elaborating on the themes involved with this alchemical death-and-rebirth process, Manly P. Hall writes that “humanity is now approaching the end of an Age of Iron (Plato’s term for the Kali Yuga). Revulsion mechanisms are setting in and humanity is becoming weary with the sterility of its conditions.” In time, this “revolt against the limitations of materialism will result in the re-establishment of the golden age, that blessed time when the gods walk with men.”

• As we approach the end of the Kali Yuga, civilization will find itself moving out of its previous condition of material “sterility” and back toward one of spiritual “fertility”. Hall informs us that this transformation will be “supported by an increase of natural vitality,” which moves into human life, enlivens it, and begins guiding it "toward a new birth in wisdom and truth.” This “new birth" is mankind’s reward for successfully overcoming the trials, obstacles, and challenges it has faced during Kali Yuga, these taking the form of “war, crime, and poverty, all of which must be experienced to the fullest before the mind will reject them in favor of a simpler and more mature course of action.”

The Dweller on the Threshold

The numerous existential crises now facing mankind together constitute the bodily form of an archetypal adversary: what in the ancient Mysteries was called the Dweller on the Threshold. This adversary represents the “guardian at the gate”, who bars the pathway to transcendence and demands that the candidate successfully confront and overcome its challenge in order to progress to the next stage of their initiation journey.

• Every initiate of the ancient Mysteries was required to face off against this existential adversary. Today, we are being presented with a great collective version of it, with it manifesting as the accumulated sum of the various disasters now facing our civilization.

• The Dweller on the Threshold arises out of the repressed shadow tendencies and unresolved negative karma of the initiate themselves. It is a manifestation of their psychological shadow, in other words. The intense pressure of the initiation process provides the alchemical “heat” necessary to force one’s inner impurities outward, projecting them in the form of a shadow adversary. This adversary confronts the initiate as the personification of their worst fears, tendencies, and shortcomings. Faced with this existential threat, the candidate can either shrink from the confrontation and fail their initiation test or rise to the challenge and use the conflict as a means to liberate themselves from the negative attributes persisting with them, which their shadow adversary personifies and projects back at them.

• In other words, when we confront the Dweller as an external foe, we are in actuality confronting an external projection of the inner shadow complexes and evil tendencies we hold within ourselves. Consequently, the only way to defeat this adversary is to vanquish the negative elements within ourselves that it feeds off of. When you cleanse yourself of its fuel source, the Dweller ceases its attack on you and you are now prepared to walk through the doorway it guards toward the “new birth in wisdom and truth” that the Mystery Schools have been preparing you for and driving you towards attaining.

Simply put, the spiritual function of the Dweller archetype and the reason the Mystery Schools harnessed it as an initiation tool is because it forces the candidate to alchemically transmute the negative karma they hold within themselves and convert it into positive “soul power”, which they can then carry forward and use in the next phase of their soul’s evolutionary development journey.

• It’s fitting that mankind’s great collective confrontation with the Dweller archetype should occur at the precise moment the Kali Yuga approaches its final endpoint. Kali has drawn us into her initiation portal, with the promise of a great evolutionary leap forward in human civilization possible on the other side of the archetypal Guardian at the Gate now confronting us.

• In psychological terms, this Dweller is the manifestation of what Carl Jung termed the Collective Shadow. It appears in different forms in different cultures and regions but today is primarily manifesting through the activities of American Empire. To better understand the nature of this American “Shadow” adversary, in this book we’re going to dive deep into the history, mechanics, and endgame of American Empire, overviewing how it’s structured, what its internal mechanics are, how it has evolved through time, what its current form looks like, and where within its body the Shadow has taken hold. In other words, we’re going to shine a light on regions of American society that have not yet seen the light of public awareness and in so doing we’re going to set the stage for a social and psychological process of re-integration and self-transformation to occur.

• From an alchemical perspective, this book offers a deconstruction of the “Pax Americana”, stripping it down to its base elements and showing how each component can be cleansed, purified, and reassembled in the effort of forming a new paradigm of global government from their union, one rooted in the Platonic ideal of the World Nation.

The Resurrection of the Mysteries and the Archetype of the Phoenix

The psychological function of the shadow is to conceal the light of the Self within - in other words, the indwelling presence of divinity within the human soul. Within the heart of American Empire, beyond many layers of Shadow activity that surround it, there is an institutional equivalent of this principle of the Self: a sacred organization dedicated to serving the indwelling presence of divinity within human civilization.

• The hierarchs of this institution hold a direct connection in consciousness with the spirit world above. Like the Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, they have pledged themselves to the task of guiding mankind toward the eventual attainment of its evolutionary completion.

• Theosophists called the institution that houses these sages and wise men the “Great White Lodge”. The Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages called it the Invisible College. It is a Mystery School, and one of its key symbols, the All-Seeing Eye, can be found on the US dollar bill.

In every age of civilization, this esoteric spiritual institution has existed. It is perennial, with its eternal home residing in the Etheric energy field pervading and permeating the planet. From this ethereal headquarters, its hierarchs administer a network of terrestrial institutions, which collectively serve as the outer gateways to its invisible inner structure.

• These terrestrial gateways into the Mysteries take different forms in different ages. In the heyday of classical civilization, they resided within the inner sanctums of the pagan religious temples. Back then, its existence was more widely known and accepted, with its initiates occupying key positions of influence within the overt power structures of ancient society. Over the course of the Kali Yuga, however, this situation changed and gradually the Mystery Schools and their terrestrial ambassadors disappeared from public view. The Great White Lodge never ceased existing; it merely shifted from an active to passive involvement in the affairs of society, working from deep behind the scenes rather than out on the surface.

• As we move toward the end of Kali’s initiation portal, one of our key tasks is to rediscover the concealed existence of this sacred institution and call upon it, drawing upon its resources and guidance to aid us in achieving our victory over the Dweller on the Threshold, which bars our passage to a better age beyond.

Situated next to the archetypal symbol of the Mystery Schools - the All-Seeing Eye - on the US dollar bill is the image of an eagle. As I discuss in my book on Manly P. Hall, this eagle is actually a concealed phoenix, which in the lore of esoteric philosophy symbolizes the spiritual rebirth of the initiate, who dies to their former self in order to be psychologically reborn into a higher and more awakened state of existence.

• The ritual of the phoenix is something every initiate must undergo during their passage through the initiation degrees of the Mysteries. It reproduces on the level of the mind the natural creative destruction processes of Mother Nature, in which evolution brings about the death of an old form so that a new and higher “soul vehicle” can arise in its place.

• The flames that engulf and consume the phoenix as it undergoes its death-rebirth ritual symbolize the “baptism by fire” that each human inevitably experiences during key phases of their evolutionary development. The Mystery Schools, in their initiation degrees, concentrate and amplify this natural evolutionary process, thereby quickening the pace of the spiritual development of their initiates. At a key phase of their disciples’ initiation process, the hierarchs of the Mysteries orchestrate an experiential confrontation with the Dweller, the purpose being to use this encounter as a quickening agent to catalyze the spiritual transformation of their initiates.

Because of its association with initiation, the phoenix should be understood as yet another archetypal symbol of the Mystery Schools. Its inclusion on the dollar bill alongside the All-Seeing Eye is therefore an indication that the Mysteries are currently active within America. Located within a concealed vantage point at the heart of American Empire, this esoteric institution has been quietly working to guide mankind through Kali’s initiation portal and toward its rebirth into a new paradigm of global government.

• The overt structures driving American Empire - the so-called “Deep State” or “Shadow Government” - surround and conceal this Mystery School. They exist as manifestations of the Collective Shadow and embody the archetype of the Dweller on the Threshold. In other words, they personify the “guardian at the gate”, which barricades mankind’s great leap forward into a new and better world beyond.

• In the coming years, the manifestation of the Dweller within America will engulf its nation, its empire, and its vassal colonies in great pyre of flame. This event may or may not coincide with the synchronistic emergence of environmental catastrophes. Either way, the archetypal themes of the Armageddon will emerge, after which point a great transformation in world civilization will occur. This will involve the collective rebirth of society into the form of a new World Nation, which will alchemically rise out of the deconstructed elements of the world’s last great empire, America. The arrival of this World Nation will signify the formal ending of the Kali Yuga and herald the beginning of a new cycle of human development, one that will eventually result in the establishment of a new golden age on Earth.