The Allegory of the Cave

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?

⁴¹ Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

John 9:40-41

No doubt many here are familiar with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In Plato’s Cave, slaves are chained so as only to be able to see what’s in front of them. Thus, they mistake shadows being cast on a wall for substantial realities. This allegory seems to me instructive with regard to the international money-creators who are continuously shaping and re-shaping narratives and projecting them for us (the chained slaves) who, in turn, are meant to take their shadow shows for reality.

There have been prophets in our history to suggest that something’s missing from these narratives, especially as they relate to the historical reality of our body politic and our presumed rulers of state. Dabney wrote of “a power” whose “pathway among the nations the Confederate States undertook to obstruct, in behalf not only of their own children, but of all the children of men.” De Tocqueville also alluded to an “immense and tutelary power” that “gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself.” Woodrow Wilson wrote that “some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” Accordingly, seldom has the prophetic message been spelled out, except by a few intrepid souls, to reveal the root of all this evil: Mammonism. (There’s not space or time now to dissect Mammonism, but I’d encourage you to read Gottfried Feder’s seminal work entitled: Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money).

A quote I’ve heard attributed respectively to both Amschel Rothschild and Paul Warburg is, “give me control of a nation’s money supply and I don’t care who makes the laws.” Whether either actually said it is less important than the fact that it’s the credo of a global financial system that’s always tweaking a message that, as Gottfried Feder wrote, “has led to the decline of all moral concepts.” We’ve all lived for so long as subject-debtors, credit and debt have become accepted as something natural and necessary, but Scripture is plain that “the borrower is slave to the lender.” – Prov. 22:7.

Consider what John Taylor of Caroline wrote in Tyranny Unmasked:

“Governments, conscious that this property-transferring machine works for the conspiracy by which it is fabricated, protect their associates; not because they possess, but because they do not possess the public confidence. p. 77. Governments able to do so, uniformly sacrifice the national interest to their own. … Form is the shadow, but measures are the substance of governments. p. 9. … The shadow will go in spite of laws wherever it can acquire most substance.”

It’s a false dichotomy that’s been presented to these slaves in the cave between the false reality they labor under and totalitarian government. They’re told to bless themselves that they live in the freest cave in the world.

Alexander Stephens wrote in A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: “In my judgment, the strongest force that can hold the parts or constituent elements of any Government together is the affection of the people towards it.” Any Western Christian in his right mind would agree. But even if we were to concede that these alien traducers of morality holding the world’s purse strings are “the Chosen,” and we are but their cattle, a righteous chosen people would “have regard for the life of their beasts” per Proverbs 12:10.

I, for one, took Menachem Begin (former Prime Minister of Israel) at his word when he said:

“Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.”

Menachem Begin, ‘Speech to the Knesset’, quoted by Amnon Kapeliouk, “Begin and the Beasts,” New Statesman, 6/25/82

In this case, the crumb under the children’s table is a fortune cookie with the reminder that “the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”

For anyone may retort that this state of affairs is a net positive good, this notion is met head-on by Gilbert F. Stevenson in The Cuttle-Fish:

“We have frequently heard the argument made that a public debt is a public blessing. … To obtain victory over the public mind it is first necessary to confuse it. … The protocols distinctly declare that it is by means of sets of ideas which cluster around “democracy” that the first real victory over public opinion was obtained. … Most Gentiles are not thinkers, and attractive ideas have been thrown at them so strategically and persistently that their power of thought is almost destroyed, and they have become like jellyfish. pp. 96-7. The poor Gentiles depend upon the capitalistic press so much for what to think and how they shall think that the constipation of ideas is pitiful. p. 107. Many over-educated people are stubborn and intolerant, and not able to apply their learning except to confuse their ignorance.” p. 120

George Knupffer, The Struggle for World Power wrote:

“Before the rise of Capitalist States, tribes and families were integrated units, whatever the form of State, be it Monarchy, a Republic or even a despotism. Of course, some forms of State were preferable to others, but they had in common the fact that the rulers and ruled were organically … interdependent. … The theoretical rulers of the states subjected to the usurers and money-creators are no more than a façade entirely controlled by finance. … The principle for which we must fight is a return to an integrated and organic State at all levels, where rulers and ruled are in a condition of natural relationship. pp. 194-5. The only alternative to a materialistic conception of the State and society is a religious one. … It is, by no means the case that the State must be theocratic to be basically religious. … [But] it is certain that that there must be a higher stimulus than the mere personal and sectional self-interest of the corruptible voters.” p. 186

Government by the consent of the governed needs “rulers and ruled that are in a condition of natural relationship” per Deut. 17:15, and “a higher stimulus than the mere personal and sectional self-interest of corruptible voters.” Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Reflections of a Russian Statesman wrote:

“The principle of nationality may be considered the touchstone which reveals the falseness and impracticability of parliamentary government. … Today we see the various races of composite States animated by passionate feelings of intolerance to the political institution which unites them in a single body, and by an equally passionate aspiration to independent government with their generally fictitious culture.” p. 48.

The above may hit close to home for some. The Allegory of the Cave also makes a backhanded observation about the player self-promoters in parliamentary governments co-opted by this alien element:

“The State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.”

The West has trampled underfoot the virtue of humility and service to others for the glory of God, the once acknowledged excellence of self-denial, and the blessings of a common spirit in society. On the contrary, the assumed right to acquire as much for oneself by any means possible is celebrated as American exceptionalism. Solzhenitsyn wrote that “the very ideology of Communism, all of Lenin’s teachings, are that anyone who doesn’t take what’s lying in front of him is considered a fool.” How well our post Christian anti-culture has imbibed those teachings. Marx said that the first battlefield is to rewrite history. What’s happened and is happening in the South, then and now, is nothing unique and new. This “so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive” power has been at work a very long time. Even the sellout Winston Churchill knew them well:

“It may well be that this same astounding race may at the present time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.”

“Zionism versus Bolshevism“

-By German Confederate