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A Satanic Comedy: Vendel Endrédy's Prison Memoirs. Part One: Interrogation

The following post follows up on my previous two posts (1,2) about Vendel Endrédy, the Abott of the Cistercian order who is a native son of the small Hungarian village I now call home. The following is an excerpt from Endrédy's prison memoirs.

They took me to the infamous secret police station at No. 60 Andrássy Street. The interrogation lasted eighteen hours with two short pauses. In the pauses they lit my face with highpowered lamps; two policemen saw to it that I would not close my eyes even for a minute.

The head of the Bureau of Investigation, whose name I never learned, told me that I had been under surveillance for two years and that they had followed every one of my steps. They had obtained irrefutable evidence about my criminal activities against the State. They told me that they intended to prove my crimes of organizing a conspiracy against the State, of espionage and of illegal dealings with foreign currency. They accused me of sending abroad twenty-four young members of the Order and of exhorting the Order to remain faithful to the Church even after Zirc had been suppressed. By doing this, they said, I wanted to weaken the power of the State and the new democratic regime. At the first interrogation they did not accuse me of conspiring to restore the Hapsburg monarchy, nor did they accuse me of anti-Semitism. These absurdities were invented later.

In the second hour of the interrogation, the colonel indignantly declared how insolent the hearsay was about the tortures done by the secret police. They would not even touch anybody. They had no intention of making a martyr of me. He gave his word “as a gentleman” to confirm all this. At this time, indeed, I could not even imagine that somebody of my age - I was 56 years old at the time - would be repeatedly beaten, kicked, tortured in all sorts of ways, and then given shots with chemicals that would deprive him of his free will.

They spent an awful lot of time telling me all sorts of slander about the personal lives of our bishops, the superiors of the religious orders and of other leading personalities of the Church. They declared who my lover was and made detailed statements about the sexual liaisons of the various bishops. That was followed by a long and detailed list of deviant sexual behavior attributed to these same persons. They, in fact, did not want to turn me into a martyr. To the contrary, they wanted to destroy my personality and turn me into a demoralized, humiliated non-person. They made no secret of their intent.

I was told how they planned to make the press in Hungary and abroad become a participant in this Satanic comedy. I received 72 hours to “think it over.” After that, if I would not cooperate, they would publish all those “facts” of which they had accused me. They would destroy not only my image but also the image of the Cistercian Order and the Church as a whole.

“I need not one minute of reflection,” I said. “There is nothing to think over.”

At the end of my first interrogation they accompanied me to the basement. On an ice-cold pavement floor, they stripped me naked: they wanted to see if I was hiding any items. They tore off the lining of my jacket, they broke off the sole of my shoe, they took off its heel. They took away my shirt buttons, my suspenders, even my eyeglasses.

In the prison cell there was only an incredibly dirty bunk bed. In the first two months I received no blanket. Later I got the kind of cover that one normally uses for horses. In the room the light was always on. Only the noise coming from the street enabled me to distinguish between night and day. I was expected to sit on the bunk bed without leaning back; only with permission was I allowed to lie down. I was expected to keep my hands outside the blanket. In my sleep I had to turn my head away from the wall, facing the light. 

An Example of How the Spiritual War is Won

This post is a response to a great question in a comment from yesterday's post about Abbot Vendel Endrédy, who chose to leave Hungary after the communists took power but returned shortly afterward with the full knowledge that he faced arrest, imprisonment, and torture once he stepped back into the country.

​I am publishing the response here to draw attention to a sorely neglected aspect of what it means to fight in the spiritual war and as an example of how the spiritual war is won.

The comment that motivated my response is a simple question: 

For what purpose did he return, or why did he feel he had to return?

I could answer that question by asking one of my own. The communists could have simply killed Endrédy before he left the country or upon his return – why didn’t they?

The short answer to your question: Endrédy understood that the fundamental nature of the war in which he was embroiled was spiritual, not merely political or ideological.

He recognized that the worldly cause against the communists was lost for the time being, but that the spiritual cause against the communists was not. Endrédy understood that being "free for" God meant infinitely more than being "free from" the communists.

In the interest of keeping yesterday’s blog post brief, I skipped over the details of Endrédy's departure and subsequent return to Hungary in 1948, but I'll expand on a few of those details now.

Though it was technically possible to escape from Hungary via clandestine means after the war, men of Endrédy's stature were on the communists' radar, so to speak. This made it virtually impossible for them to leave the country undetected.

The only way men like Endrédy could leave was to petition the communists for a special passport that would allow them to travel abroad for a set time.

Put another way, people like Endrédy had to ask the communists for permission to leave. The communists would only grant this permission if the applicants promised, under oath, to return before the passport expired.

The true spiritual aims of worldly evil reveal themselves in such arrangements. As stated above, the communists only granted permission to those who swore oaths to return. Here's the catch, people who were granted such passports knew they would be arrested the moment they stepped back into Hungary. Thus, the tacit spiritual objectives behind the travel permits become remarkably clear.

The communists did not want the travel permit owners to return; they wanted the permit owners to embrace the freedom they had been "granted" on the communists' terms.

Thus, those who chose to stay abroad under these conditions were doubly defeated.

First, because their physical “escape” was not an escape at all. On the contrary, it was little more than an admission of defeat and a confirmation of the communists’ worldly gains. Second, those who left for good under the conditions the communists established spiritually affirmed that they preferred freedom from the communists over freedom for God.

Endrédy understood that his return was a thumb in Satan’s eye. On the one hand, it was an annoying challenge to the supposed nature of the worldly gains the communists had made. On the other hand, it demonstrated Endrédy’s willingness to fight and eventually win the spiritual war.

The communists could have simply killed Endrédy upon his return, but they didn’t. Their excuse was that they did not want to make a martyr of him, which is partially true.

The last thing the communists wanted to do was kill men like Endrédy while they were aligned with God.

Though the communists openly rejected the spiritual, their actions reveal the spiritual objectives underpinning their actions. Death was inadequate on its own; damnation was the ultimate aim. Death without damanation was a loss, not a gain.

So they went to work on Endrédy and did everything they could to break him spiritually. They arrested him, humiliated him, degraded him, and tortured him, but Endrédy would not break. He remained firmly aligned with God despite the decades' long ordeal the communists inflicted upon him.

From a purely temporal perspective, Endrédy could be considered a tragic figure, but from the spiritual perspective -- the perspective of "real" Reality -- Endrédy emerged victorious from his war with evil because he understood the spiritual reality of what he was involved in.

He showed the communists that his spiritual freedom was more powerful than the freedom they had offered him.

Moreover, he also demonstrated the superiority of his God-aligned agency. In spite of all of their power, terror, victories, and gains in the world, the communists could not secure the one and only thing they truly wanted from Vendel Endrédy.

He proved that his freedom was ultimately greater than their power.  

My Village's Most Notable Native Son Was Worthy of Freedom

Should you ever travel to the small, non-descript Hungarian village I call home, you will inevitably encounter a large image of a bespectacled priest affixed to the rectory wall facing Main Street. The image depicts the village’s most famous native son, Kálmán Hadarits, who is better known as Vendel Endrédy.

​Hadarits changed his name shortly after he was ordained into the priesthood. The adopted surname is a direct reference to the village from which he hailed, which was known simply as Endréd at the time of his birth in 1895 (it is now called Fertőendréd).
After he completed his studies at a Benedictine school in Györ, Endrédy became a monk, entered teaching, and was eventually elected as the Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey in Zirc, but he is remembered primarily for a choice he made in 1948 when he was a fifty-three-year-old man.

The Second World War devastated the abbey’s schools; however, the devastation of war could not rival the devastation the communists inflicted upon the schools when they took them over in 1948. With no hope on the horizon, Endrédy fled to Rome, but he did not stay there long. Knowing he faced imprisonment or worse, Endrédy chose to return to his beloved abbey in Zirc.  Upon his return, he brought a message from Pope Pius XII to Cardinal Mindszenty, who the communists had placed under house arrest on December 26, 1948.

In 1950, the communists took over the Cistercian Abbey itself. Endrédy was the last to leave, but he did not get far. The communists arrested him four days later in Budapest. After surviving a ruthless regimen of torture, Endrédy was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 1951. The communists forced him to spend the first six of these in utter isolation where he was denied practically everything that may have maintained a connection to the outside world. He was even denied reading material, writing utensils, and paper. After these six terrible years, the communists transferred the 62-year-old Endrédy to a home for aged clerics in Pannonhalma, where lived until his death in 1981.

Whenever I read about a man like Endrédy, I can’t help but compare him to our current crop of clergy and reflect upon the actions churches took during the birdemic in 2020.

Endrédy’s escape to Rome in 1948 is perfectly understandable and justifiable. The situation in Hungary had become hopeless. His freedom and life were both in peril. He could have easily continued his career in Rome. He could have taken a safe and cushy job somewhere in the Vatican, and from that position he could have devised some way to liberate his abbey from the communists. Or he could have just put it all behind him and bidden his time until communism weakened or collapsed.

But he didn’t do any of that. He chose to return. He knew he would be arrested, humiliated, tortured, and imprisoned when he returned, but he returned anyway. When I read about a man like Endrédy, I can’t help but wonder what he would have done had he been the priest of the little church in my village in 2020. Would he have locked the doors as the current priest did? Or would he have chosen differently?

It’s difficult to say. If anything might provide a clue, it is Endrédy’s writings. After suffering through six years of isolation, Endrédy was finally granted access to writing utensils and notebooks. In one of those notebooks, he wrote the following:

Lord, grant that we may be worthy of freedom.

This, from the pen of a man who – from the perspective of most modern people – escaped to freedom in 1948, but decided to give up this freedom and return to his home country to be tortured and imprisoned – which begs the question:

What is the nature of the freedom to which Endrédy refers?

Well, I posit it’s the sort of freedom that nearly all mainstream churches blatantly rejected in 2020 under the guise of loving one’s neighbor.

Speaking of love, Endrédy also had something interesting to say on that subject:

The world has become hell, and the people no longer believe. A superhuman task awaits us; to once again convince the world that God loves. 

A Quaint and Curious Book About Becoming God's "Partner and Pal"

A few years ago, my mother gifted me a stack of old books that had come with a house she had purchased. The books looked nice, and she thought it wasteful to discard them. The titles and authors were unfamiliar, so I shelved the books without inspecting them. The books caught my eye as I was working in the study yesterday, so I decided to take one down and examine it.

The book in question is a large anthology published in 1933 called Quests and Conquests by Dean C. Dutton Ph. D., a Methodist pastor who divided his work into two distinct parts: Quests - “A search for the Wealth of Life, Truth and Assurances of Reality, and Conquests - Building this Wealth into Personality.

The first part consists of excerpts from literature and the Bible arranged into “One Hundred and Twenty-one Lessons in Life Building.” Among other things, Dutton utilizes the second part – “The Supreme Philosophy" – to expound upon his metaphysics. As I thumbed through the anthology, I quickly realized that the anthology was a “self-help life course” and that Dutton had regarded himself as something of a spiritual “life coach”.

Part One -- “Search for the Wealth of Life, Truth, and Assurances of Reality” -- crackles with the energy and enthusiasm of a well-read, cultured, educated, mid-twentieth-century, American protestant preacher who believes his arrangement and compilation of inspirational “nuggets” taken from the Bible and other great works will save souls and the world. Dutton’s ardor in excerpt compilation and arrangement concludes with a fireworks explosion of self-affirmation aptly titled: “My Reverie”:I shall be a citizen of the Universe forever! The Universe is throbbing with beauty, power, and glory! Unfolding sublimities are everywhere!I am a partner of the Creator and am to share in the enterprise of these tremendously interesting unfoldings!I shall have access to the whole Universe! Forever! Forever! FOREVER!I have a soul as big as an empire!I find myself in the image of my Maker!I have a Saviour to keep me in tune with the Infinite! He is my tender understanding Shepard and Friend. The blessed Comforter now guiding me to ALL TRUTH!My life is just hard enough to bring out the heroic . . . I am growing to greatness . . . Little by little I am to unfold into a life of unusual usefulness . . . My devotion to God is helping me and others to understand the joy of friendship with Him!Everything great, interesting, and precious is up ahead in my path!I am to have continual unfolding, ripening into eternal comradeship with the Creator!I am to share with Him the joys of developing and unfolding the whole Universe Forever!
The fireworks reverie shines even more brightly when one considers that Dutton’s book appeared in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression.

Part Two – The Supreme Philosophy – begins with a note:

The Scourge of the Ages, a false Philosophy, is sweeping our nation in magazines, movies, materialistic instructors, and in every possible way, attempts are being thrust forth to break down our national life and Christian civilization.

The State, the Church, and the Home are the institutions it would destroy. They prophesy that in fifty years men will not marry. Childbirth out of wedlock will be common. These brats will be gotten out of the way by dumping them on the state. Lust spurns the responsibility of parenthood. The glory and joy of our high idealism they ridicule. They threaten the Heart Throb of our nation.

Never was there such a need for a great sane, constructive philosophy as in this terrific hour. In the light of the newer facts of Science and under the glow of sane, clear, logic we present “The Supreme Philosophy” with glad assurances of Reality.

A cursory browsing of Dutton’s philosophy quickly revealed that he certainly had his finger on the pulse when it came to the “big picture” of Creation:

The logic of the Universal setting calls for a program of unfolding and development. If, therefore, there is to be such an unfolding by what agency is the Universe to come to its development?

Man is the agency by which this earth has come to its development. But man is not allowed to remain here but a little while. Right in the midst of the most interesting developments he is interrupted by a knock at the door – It is the Angel of Death. Man is called out into the Greater Workshop. What does this mean?

We think it means that man is the agency not only to have a part in the development of the earth but we also think he is the agency by which the whole Universe is to be unfolded. We feel that man is allowed to remain on the earth just long enough to learn something about life and things and get acquainted with the WORLD DOMINION business. Then he is promoted to the larger realms – ultimately to be the pal and partner of the Creator in His tremendous program of unfolding and developing the Universe forever.

Man as “the pal and partner” of the Creator drips with the sheer, exuberant Americanism that undoubtedly filled Dutton’s soul but does not diminish the correctness of Dutton’s assumption that God desires to raise man up to the level of co-creator within Creation and that man’s agency is the key to this “raising up.” This assumption forms the core of Dutton’s philosophy, and he employs it as the foundation of his mostly Protestant metaphysics.

My hasty and slipshod skimming of Dutton’s obscure and little-known Magnus Opus leads me to believe that the author intuitively understood the spiritual dead end the West was heading toward in the middle of the twentieth century. He also appears to have grasped the way forward, which he embraced with admirable dedication and zeal.

​Dutton was probably able to find that way forward himself, individually, but the life course and Supreme Philosophy he offered the world had no impact on the Great Scourge, which has virtually swept national life, Christian civilization, the state, the church, and the home away for good.

Why did the people of Dutton’s time largely fail to become “partners and pals” of the Creator? The answer lies somewhere within Dutton’s approach to his Supreme Philosophy, which was able to diagnose the problem and identify the cure, but ultimately failed to provide the correct treatment.

The fault seems to be in Dutton’s systematic and business-minded preoccupation with worldly achievement and utility coupled with the dogged belief that filling personality with external sources of greatness would inevitably create spiritual greatness internally and externally. Fill yourself full of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Mozart, Michelangelo, and watch your empire of a spirit expand! The approach appears to have worked for Dutton, but it was likely beyond the reach of most people who purchased his book.

Put more generally, the fault of Dutton’s Supreme Philosophy ultimately lies in his over-idealization of worldly institutions, worldly achievement, and an overly keen sense of American exceptionalism. Though he emphasizes the significance of human agency, Dutton appeared to have been unable to free himself from many idols:

Do we sense the high honor that is ours in being the pilot nation of the world?

Greece was the most highly cultured nation of her time. Rome reached a zenith of power tremendous. Both went down in a crash of selfishness, indulgence, and immorality.

What if America fails? Would it not mean a world collapse? If America fails the world, to whom might humanity cry for help?

World needs are intellectual, spiritual, moral, social, and industrial. We may dole out our millions for bread when they are starving, but what the world wants is to feel that America is living the life that Christian Democracy proposes. If America fails, the whole scheme of Christian civilization fails.

My conclusions about Dutton’s Supreme Philosophy are shallow speculations. Nevertheless, the inherent problem in his philosophy appears to lie not so much in his declaration of having a soul as big as an empire, but in the belief that his empire of a soul required an empire in which to flourish.

Greece and Rome were pagan rather than Christian empires, yet they managed to produce the sort of greatness Dutton admired. (Rome became Christian later, but only toward the end). All of this makes me wonder what how enthusiastic and connected Dutton’s empire soul would feel in today’s failed Christian civilization.

​Would he still strive for spiritual heroism and greatness? Would he still approach each day as a blessing? I wonder.

Unlike Dutton, I believe the absence of Christian civilization could be beneficial to God’s creative purposes of raising men up to be co-creators. Man's current predicament may lead him to becoming more conscious of his agency, which may lead to another step toward participating in the unfolding and the development of Creation. But he'll have to discover this on his own, without the aid of any self-help programs.

I suppose it all comes down to what one believes the essence of Christianity to be once God’s creative purposes have been discerned. Quest appeals to me. Conquest? Well, it depends on what we've set our sights on conquering.

Note added: If you can shed any light on Dean C. Dutton or his book, please do. Online information on both is scarce. I don't know how well-known Dutton was in his time, but he appears to be wallowing in obscurity now.  

More Zamboni - This Time, Lute Sonatas

A pleasing selection of sonatas by Zamboni . . . Giovanni, not Frank. Sample below; find the rest by clicking the link to YouTube. 

Creativity - The Third Truth

Christians tend to believe in two distinct paths toward truth. The first is divine revelation. The second is reason. 

Divine revelation comprises the truth God has revealed directly to man from above. Man arrives at reasoned truth empirically through his senses. As far as most Christians are concerned, there is no other viable way for man to access truth. Man receives it directly from God or figures it out via his senses. The first enlightens the second, and the second reveals the reality of the first.

The big problem for Christians is the treasured belief that empirical truth – truth arrived at by reason – always leads to the reality of God. In actuality, empirical truth has all but rejected divine truth and the reality of God. 

The truth man has gathered from his senses has informed him that God does not exist. This conclusion is then reinforced by the apparent centuries-long absence of divine revelation. This apparent centuries-long absence of divine revelation has led empirical man to conclude that earlier divine revelations were untrue, in the sense that they never occurred. 

Now, Christians will argue that the reasoned truth man has employed in the past two or three centuries is not reasoned at all because it is insincere and skewed. The argument is not wrong, but its correctness misses the larger point of how and why man’s use of empirical reason has become so insincere and skewed. 

I suggest that the insincere and skewed use of reasoned truth is rooted in man’s inability to recognize a third form of truth, which I will refer to here as divine-human revelation. 

To my knowledge, it was Berdyaev who coined the term, and he used it to describe another, as-of-yet, largely unacknowledged path toward truth, which he called creativity (bold added in all passages): 

Creativeness is something mysterious and hidden. The revelation of creativeness does not come from above but rather from below – it is an anthropological, not a theological, revelation. God revealed His will to sinful man in the law and granted man the grace of redemption, sending into the world His Only Son. And God awaits from man the anthropological revelation of creativity; in the name of man's god-like freedom, God has hidden from him the ways of creativeness and the justification of creativeness. (Meaning of the Creative Act)

Berdyaev’s introduction of an anthropological revelation turns the conventional Christian belief about revelation on its head and reveals a new and largely unexplored path toward truth. Instead of passively absorbing or waiting for God’s revelation, man must realize that he must actively reveal himself to God via creativity. Moreover, he should be pursuing creativity from within himself, from the core of his agency and freedom, rather than relying upon external sources: 

Man's creative activity has no holy scriptures: its ways are not revealed to man from above. In the Holy Scriptures which reveal to man the will of God, man always finds absolute truth, but it is another kind of truth and about something other. In creativeness, man is, as it were, left to himself, alone, and has no direct aid from on high. And in this fact the great wisdom of God is evident. (The Meaning of the Creative Act)

Creativity does not negate divine revelation or reasoned truth, but merges them, thereby ending the errant dichotomy that has been established between the two truths and, subsequently, affirming the existence of the form of truth simply through the conscious act of seeking it:

Truth is not objective, ordinary reality, reflected in the knower and entering into him from outside, but rather the enlightenment, the transfiguration of reality: it is the introduction into the world's data of a quality, which was not there before truth was revealed and known. Truth is not conformity with what we call being, but rather the kindling of a light within being. I am in darkness and seek the light; I do not yet know truth but I seek it. By this very fact, I affirm the existence of Truth and light, existence in another sense than the existence of the world's realities. My seeking is already the dawning light, and truth already beginning to reveal itself. (Truth and Revelation) 

And what is the overall purpose of the third truth? According to Berdyaev, the divine-human revelation of creativity sets the stage for the continued development of human consciousness and the fulfillment of God’s divine purpose for man:

The opening of a new epoch of the Spirit, which will include higher achievements of spirituality, presupposes a radical change and a new orientation in human consciousness. This will be a revolution of consciousness which hitherto has been considered as something static. The religion of the Spirit will be the religion of man's maturity, leaving behind him his childhood and adolescence... (The Divine and the Human)

And the core of God’s divine purpose within the third truth involves raising man up to the level of co-creator:
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The creative act will create new being rather than values of differentiated culture; in the creative act, life will not be quenched. Creativity will continue creation; it will reveal the resemblance of human nature to the Creator. In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening. (Meaning of the Creative Act)

Thinking About Spring Projects

It is nowhere near spring here in northwestern Hungary, but the milder-than-usual temperatures and abundant sunshine over the past week have started me thinking about springtime aims and projects.

One project I would like to embark upon is the construction of a small greenhouse. I originally wanted to purchase a ready-made one two years ago, but the prices were unreasonable. The prices have only become more unreasonable since then.

​In light of this, I have decided it would be cost-effective and more fun to build a greenhouse using the many old, single-pane windows I have on the property. The concrete base is already in place; all I need to do is frame the structure and fit the windows. I aim to make the greenhouse look something like this:  If the greenhouse I build resembles the one above, my wife will be pleased; however, if the greenhouse I build resembles the one below, my wife may leave me. So, the stakes are high! All kidding aside, the decision to build a greenhouse from old windows is just another response to the ridiculous cost-of-living increases that have “unexpectedly” hit the world since 2020. 

Although I have always been thrifty and strive to save money wherever I can, I have had to kick up the frugality meter a few notches over the past year or so. Not to make ends meet but to hinder the blatant wealth extraction campaign the System is currently waging. 

The hens and the vegetable garden have been helpful; both have alleviated some of the pressure brought on by exorbitant food prices. Come spring, I plan to raise a dozen or more chicks to refresh the flock, and I may even purchase a few ducklings and some quail. I am also looking for ways to expand my vegetable garden to increase yields. 
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As I mentioned above, I plan to do all of this primarily to counter skyrocketing cost-of-living expenses. On the other hand, I know I would be doing it even if the cost of living had not increased -- but I’ll avoid the clichéd sentiments about keeping animals, farming, gardening, self-sufficiency, frugality, and all the rest of it. ​

Latest Audio Posts Up at New World Island

The latest installment of New World Island's audio versions of selected blog posts from Romantic Christian blogs is now up at NWI's YouTube channel.

​This week's selection includes posts from Bruce Charlton, William Wildblood, and Yours Truly. Why not give it a listen and then support New World Island by subscribing to the channel? 

The Anti-Spiritual Aim of Committees Like Davos

A recently leaked document claims to list the people who will participate in the Davos Crew’s annual globalist summit in Switzerland in a few days. As always, the participant list reveals just how sweeping and far-reaching the nature of System power and influence is – and that’s without including the hundreds of thousands or millions of other, lower or higher-ranking System apparatchiks, the hundreds of millions of dupes who zealously parrot the agenda or the billions of drones who haplessly follow along in a mindless trance. 

The World Economic Forum provides the list to all attendees so that they can “use it for the sole purpose of personal communication and dialogue in furtherance of the Forum’s mission”, which in this case, encompasses the Litmus Test Issues and all the other great stuff we have had the intense displeasure of experiencing since 2020.

From a broader perspective, the WEF is simply a global committee connected to countless other global, international, national, municipal, and local committees, all of which purport to be working to make the world a better place via global agenda items like climate change action, net-zero carbon emissions, social inclusivity, the fourth industrial revolution, economic transformation, financial equity, human rights, and so forth. 

On the surface, these committees – and global node committees like the WEF – all appear to be working toward exclusively material and worldly aims. I assume most Davos attendees are oblivious to the underlying anti-spiritual aims within the Forum’s mission and the mission of all committees in general. 

In a nutshell, one of the underlying anti-spiritual aims of all committees and the agendas they promulgate is to hinder and obliterate the development of consciousness within individual human beings.

We have reached a point in history in which man has become capable of answering the call of God. More precisely, we have reached a stage where man possesses the potential to utilize his freedom to consciously choose to align with God and Creation, thereby overcoming the giveness of the world and setting the stage for the possibility of higher spiritual achievements. Put more simply, man has gained the potential to draw closer to God and Reality via his consciousness if he so chooses!

Though the vast majority of humanity is unconscious of this development, the higher forces opposing God and Creation are acutely aware of it. Moreover, they are doing everything within their power to ensure human beings remain oblivious by keeping consciousness grounded in the external, material, unreality of the given world. 

As Dr. Charlton explained yesterday, one of the most effective means to achieve this anti-spiritual goal is committee consensus. Committees like the WEF profess to have nothing but noble, worldly aims. An increasing number of people have discerned that these worldly aims are anything but noble. Though commendable, this discernment alone will not count for much if the far more grievous and devastating anti-spiritual goals are not discerned. 
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Note added: Even a cursory glance at the Davos participant list is enough to understand that all well-meaning calls to topple the System in the West are specious.No group or movement would stand a chance against the System, not even in its current state of self-sabotage. Moreover, a physical insurrection unsupported by spiritual motivations and convictions would likely do little to improve the overall situation. As it stands now, the only effective and most meaningful way to topple the System is via consciousness and the spirit, which is why system distancing remains a spiritual imperative.

Further note added: I have included the list as a PDF file below in case the link above goes dead.
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The Adverse Effects Barely Anyone Has Acknowledged or Repented

​The buzz surrounding the apparent adverse health effects of the birdemic peck has increased significantly in the past month or two. At the same time, barely anyone talks about the “none are safe until all are safe” global peck mandates anymore – you know, the ones that threatened to turn the world into a giant totalitarian concentration camp.
 
I find this strange because back in 2021, the mandates and all the other associated coercion related to the peck were a hot topic for a while on many secular and Christian blogs. Unfortunately, most mainstream Christian churches immediately complied with the “none are safe” dictum, as did the vast majority of Christian bloggers.
 
Others hedged their positions. For example, one prominent and respected Catholic blogger defended an individual’s free choice to take the peck and claimed that all individuals could do so in good conscience. On the other hand, said Catholic blogger opposed peck mandates and declared that it was unwise to mandate, manipulate, or coerce any individual into taking the peck. 

Sounds reasonable, right? Well, the aforementioned Catholic blogger admitted that he exploited his right to take the peck in good conscience. He argued that his free choice in no way compromised his general opposition to peck mandates. He insisted that he should be free to take the peck and that others should be free not to take the peck. Put another way, he firmly believed that the pecks should be voluntary rather than mandatory. 

However, said prominent blogger then backed away from his hedge a bit. He stated that if push came to shove, Catholics (and other Christians, I assume) could not reasonably object to a peck mandate merely because it was a mandate.

He then blathered on about prudence and its degrees before constructing a strange analogy between peck mandates and ill-advised tax policies. The remainder of his argument was a tedious philosophical ping-pong match between reasonable and unreasonable attitudes to the peck, life, the universe, and everything. 

I suppose it deserves a mention that the Catholic blogger’s employer implemented a peck mandate the second the pecks became available.

I guess it also deserves a speculative mention that this employer peck mandate may have influenced the blogger’s choice to take the peck – at least a little.

Speculation aside, even if it didn’t, does the blogger’s adamant opposition to peck mandates hold up? Or does all his waxing philosophical devolve into an overly elaborate cover for having your cake and eating it too?
 
Putting Catholic Blogger aside, I sense that many who took the peck -- whether voluntarily or involuntarily -- remain oblivious to the broader spiritual ramifications of their “free” or “coerced” individual choice. 

The apparent adverse health effects of the peck are of increasing concern for many.
 
The still largely unacknowledged and not repented adverse spiritual effects of the peck?

Not so much.