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A defense of Talarico’s theology, in the face of Paxton’s Christism.

Christism is the political ideology that deploys Christian language, imagery, and institutional authority as instruments of political power in service of a program that is, on examination, the systematic inversion of what Christ actually taught. It is not a distorted Christianity. It is Christianity’s antithesis, wearing Christianity’s costume.

I created this pretty cool 3D interactive model of a 3D Vitruvian Man in a sphere and a cube rather than square and circle and square. On and around it are the Tree of Life in anatomical locations and the symbolism of the LRP and Rose Cross Ritual. It looks best on a desktop but renders well on any device.

This book and website cover the current fascist iteration driven by corporate power and billionaires with pedestrian philosophies. It also stands as a living testament to the atrocities, policies and crimes of the current US administration.

“Authoritarianism" names concentrated power but not its marriage to corporate wealth. "Oligarchy" names the rule of the wealthy few but not the fascist method of its enforcement. "Fascism" alone invites the sterile debate about whether the present is identical to 1930s Italy. Each word captures a part and misses the whole. The phenomenon is the convergence, and the convergence needs one word that holds both halves.

CORPOFASCISM
Corporatocracy — the domination of government by business corporations — enforced by fascist method: law treated as an obstacle to be circumvented, a cult of the strong leader, and opposition recast as enemy action. The first is the structure: corporate power standing above the state and wearing it as an instrument. The second is the means. Where they combine — corporate rule imposed by fascist means — corpofascism is present.

The people that scream loudest about freedom of religion forget the fact that as a Christian I find MAGA to be satanic (and not even intellectually satanism) so my religious liberty would be infringed by suffering their blasphemy.

I realized many people may not wish to sift through many ages of dense academia to understand the point so I made this website as an interactive visual representation for the book The American Antichrist and the Apotheosis of Self-Interest as a Visual Companion. It tells the story of how dark triad personalities take control of religious institutions, invert Christ’s message in full and then scream the loudest about being a source of religious authority. It spans the history of our nation and should be a warning to the world to watch out for this in other democracies, as it has happened in the US.

I wrote this text as a way to explain something I went through when I was younger, and have since found healing in part due to the GD work I have undertaken in the last 30 years or so. I have Asperger’s and I used to heavily take LSD in the 90’s when I was younger. Over time the boundary between internal stimuli and the external world began to dissolve and eventually it was hard to distinguish what was external from internal. It’s actually pretty common and it’s called Source-Monitoring Degradation (SMD). I am posting it here in part because it’s built on the GD Qabalaistic framework and the work of Regardie, but more importantly this particular disorder can be detrimental to this work if left unchecked. The invoking of angels, meditation on the inner world and self, drawing an astral boundary, all of this requires a healthy working source monitoring system and this is how I figured out how to overcome it. I figured if it can help anyone do the same it’ll be worth it to post here. Also share with friends or family if this sounds familiar. One point of clarification though, this does NOT describe dopamine based psychosis or schizophrenia, I didn’t have that and the treatment and process of healing is very different but the lessons learned from this will likely translate to other disorders that include SMD.

I wrote this and am very passionate about communicating its message. I was hoping you would like it but I was hoping to get some feedback either way.
Excerpt:
“The book is theological at its foundation and political in its application. I argue that these two registers are not separable: the political crisis we face is, at root, a spiritual crisis. The crisis is that millions of people who claim the name of Christ have embraced, with enthusiasm, a movement organized around the systematic inversion of everything Christ taught. Understanding this requires understanding what evil actually is — not as an abstract metaphysical category, but as a concrete pathology with a definable structure.
That pathology has a name. The Church Fathers called it superbia. Contemporary psychology calls it narcissism. Both are pointing at the same thing: the elevation of the self as ultimate good, the refusal to accept creatureliness, the demand for absolute autonomy, contempt for those perceived as inferior, and the active work to corrupt or destroy anything that threatens the narcissist’s self-image. This is what Satan chose. This is what the Pharisees defended. This is what slaveholders justified with scripture. This is what segregationist clergy preached. And this is what is now organized as a national political movement claiming divine sanction.
To see this clearly is the first task. To name it accurately is the second. To resist it is the third. This book attempts the first two and gestures toward the third.”