Israel is a universal problem which presents to us a set of problems that I encapsulate with the symbol “Lucifer” and the symbol “Jesus”.
In the Gospel story Satan flies Jesus up to a position outside and over the world and reveals to him:
To live life is, to one degree or another, to give in, to compromise morally, to become complicit in what I suggest we can only see as the “Machiavellian Project”.“All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
Israel — by that I mean the core picture, the diagram, the insuperable problem, the terrifying play between “light” and “dark” that is so very evident when we actually see into it — is really our problem.
Examining the darkest aspect of Jewish or Israeli theology — the metaphysics of Zionism at the religious center — we see that to get, to own, to lay claim to what “God” had promised, is to become, to embody, to embrace, and to live through a Luciferian perceptual philosophy. One says “I am a Son of Light” and God has blessed me. But one digs down into the very bedrock of materialism and the exigencies of power and control.
To the degree that one openly states the truth of what one does, to the degree that one understands it and empowers oneself in what one does, is the exact degree that one joins “Lucifer” in the Machiavellian Project.
Yet note that unless one is talking in realpolitik terms to a Luciferian associate, one is obligated, in sincere cynicism, to deny Luciferian connection and in fact describe oneself as a Son of Light in a metaphysical battle against the Sons of Darkness.
Thus one’s complicity is transformed into an imperative, and the imperative into an enduring project.
If you say:
You can only make this real by a tangible renunciation of your own material condition, yet the paradox — the realization that life is a trap — is the knowledge that you cannot in truth escape. You are born into complicity.“Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”
For us — I will continue to play within this Gospel metaphor — to be ministered by angels is what is available to us in the privacy of our internal awareness and being. The love of higher ideals, of beauty, which can only be reached or even known by a purified, renounced soul.Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.