Society - Outward Expression of Our Inward state

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~ A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"

What does the present have to do with the Roman Empire? Well, western societies are still following that line and are suffering the consequences. Hundreds of years have passed and nothing has changed. People today are making the same mistakes for the same reasons, even though these mistakes lead to disaster and collapse. You cannot build a society on a swamp, unless you intend the society to sink.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ~ Plato
At the end of the Roman Empire the Roman coins began to lose value, the silver coins contained less and less silver, and eventually the coins contained practically no silver. Money exchanged rapidly lost its value across the Empire. No society can grow from ongoing military conflict as a tool for colonisation. The Roman economy depended on conquest, and as a result more capital was needed to pay the military. Across the Eastern and Western Empires the Romans were hated. People were simply waiting for a chance to get rid of them. The military campaigns gradually changed from conquest to defending the Empire, and as a result the economy (Empire) collapsed.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ~ Plato
The Roman Empire justified it's aggressive behaviour and military conquests by claiming that Rome was civilised and the rest of the world were animals in comparison, barbarians. The civilised world was spreading civilised behaviour into the rest of the world. Freedom, democracy... Well, not freedom - as the Romans had slaves. Not freedom, as military might triumphed over cultural diversity. Democracy? The rest of the world chose to get rid of them, but they had to do it by fighting back. Why did the occupied territories fight Rome? Because the Romans had occupied their lands.

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. ~ Sun Tzu
When society is built on a swamp, is the road to failure and collapse built in? Yes, it is. The process of building a system to collapse, conditions the psyche to rebuild in a specific way. In other words, failure and distress are the tools used to form the next unit of social behaviour. Collective 'mind control', is a form of social and cultural programming of the worst kind. In physical terms each succeeding unit will increasingly weaken the probability of continuation. In a way these methods could be described in terms of DNA strands copying an increasing load of defective information leading to the demise of the species.

A conspiracy? No, it is stupidity and arrogance that leads the greater body to self-destruct. Any society that builds its own success on a wider destruction of surrounding habitats, will inevitably lead itself to destruction. It is a Cosmic law, a law of nature. A violent society will self-destruct. A society based on war and violence cannot sustain itself. Overall destruction does not lead to a growth pattern, it leads to destruction. Essentially because we are spiritual beings in a physical environment. The physical environment is simply the medium through which the spirit expresses itself. If the expression is to destroy the surrounding physical environment, then the core meaning of why the spirit is inhabiting matter is also being destroyed. Therefore the society self-destructs together with the degraded environment. It has nothing to do with religion, which itself has led countless wars. It is a basic law that regulates everything seen and unseen in cosmos.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
~ Lao Tzu

What few researchers understand is the extent to which the ongoing internal struggle and killings undermined Rome, essentially destroying the Empire from within. This inward deterioration took place over hundreds of years, and the effect was to bring an end to the despotic system. The Empire collapsed, as does any body when it destroys its own vital health. Political and ideological groups secretly fought for power and control, key oppositions were eliminated. Truth and justice advocats were silenced, often brutally. Healthy critisism and discussion of the Empire were labled unpatriotic, and it was a crime to question the motives and therefore the greatness of Rome. The Empire stood above the laws of man, and above the laws of nature and cosmos. Rome was a lawless state, a law unto itself, able to silence all opposition through punishment and death.

Questioning something does not automatically create opposition, but the freedom to question can be labled a crime by whoever controls the legal system and the military. The state signals to the citizens that it is no longer heathy to question, when in fact the opposite is true. It is healthy to question, and in silencing that option Rome effectively destroyed itself. Human beings do not have a hive mind, and they never will function under the control of a hive mind. When challeneged with such an option, either they will become extinct, or they will overcome it to express the unique force most commonly described as free will. When combined with compassion, freedom of action is elevated to its most powerful state. It is the Alchemy of turning base metal into gold.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all. ~ Tacitus

Fall of The Roman Empire

The current world wars being played out, are similar to the fall of the Roman Empire, and in some way give us hope that we will be able to establish a world based on peace and mutual cooperation after the Empire has fallen into ashes. The similarities between the old and the new Empires are astonishing. I watched some of the Google video's on the Secret Nazi UFO's, and old footage of the Third Reich. People carrying the Roman battle standards, the architecture, the beliefs, the pagan gods and the occult lodges. In one video it was suggested that Von Braun was also working for the Americans very early on during the war. Apparently the Ultra-Secret German and American projects shared the same scientists, the same plans and the same manufacturing base, while the war was going on... The money earned from the sale of weapons to all sides financed the secret projects.

The ideals of the Nazi Occult Empire were transferred to America after the war (Project Paperclip), and the continuation of occult ideologies were perpetuated in hidden forms throughout all areas of American commerce, government, and financial institutions. It is clear that the global elite behind the destruction of Germany are behind the current destruction of the United States. Today, no one disputes that the burning of the Reichstag in Berlin was carried out by the Nazis in order to seize political power. The government buildings were burned down shortly before the German elections. This is a clear occult symbol, the old was burned, destroyed in fire (Agni) - and the new Phoenix (Hitler's Nazis) were to arise from the ashes.

The German people did not vote Hitler and the Nazi party into power after the burning of the Reichstag. The Nazis did not get the political majority they desired. The Catholic Centre party and the Conservatives joined with Hitler to pass the legislation giving Hitler dictatorial powers (the SPD socialist party was outlawed). Knowing the German people, I doubt that Germany would have become a communist slave society, as happened in Russia. For the Nazis the fire portrayed evidence of a convenient enemy.

At the time of early Rome Augustus defeated Mark Antony (27BC) and reorganised the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Some historians argue that Julius Ceasar's appointment as perpetual dictatorship (44BC), was the beginning of the Roman Empire. The fall of the Roman Empire came as the Eastern and Western Empires fought to establish dominance of their own territories. At every corner of the globe Rome had to exercise military power to try to maintain control of its resources. Until then the Empire had existed only because widespread struggles and wars were not breaking out.

At the end of the Roman Empire regions not only began to resent being controlled by the Romans, they rebelled. And the rebellions spread to every corner of the Empire. Local military commanders rebelled, as will happen in the Middle East. The Americans and British maintain a military presence in Iraq today to prevent the Iraqi government aligning itself with Iran. It is the same in Afganistan. The soldiers of the Romans legions did not want to endlessly live in lands far from home, and so the local populations were used to police the various regions by creating Roman soldiers out of the indigenous populations. This meant that local populations eventually had command of Roman armaments, supplies, military styles and strategies. These well equipped armies later turned against their masters as commanders and regional strategists conspired to get rid of the Romans.

Why pay taxes to Rome? The taxes would be paid to local government leaders, to local regional leaders and used for regional military governments. It is the same question in the Middle East. Why be economic slaves to the West? Why should western powers control local and regional resources? Why should they control governments? Who are they to come into another sovereign state and control what goes on there? It's the fall of the Roman Empire all over again, and as the Empire falls it becomes increasingly violent, it attempts to do through military might what it cannot do through mutual agreement.

American and British soldiers will eventually get annoyed at being deployed overseas for longer periods of time. They will want to go home. The clock is ticking, time is running out. When the western military powers finally hand over control to the local forces, the local forces will rebel, they will ask: Why are we being controlled from the West? They will turn around and seek to establish local and regional control of the resources. Exactly as happened during the last days of the Roman Empire.

The barbarians who fought their way to Rome were well trained by the Romans themselves, and they knew how to payback what was due. There was no way the Roman Empire could maintain ongoing control through expensive mililtary campaigns across the Western and Eastern Empires. The regional powers had simply waited, built up their powers and had prepared for the rebellions, that soon spread like wildfire from region to region.

The reason the British foreign office are tearing out their hair, is because they know control cannot be affected through brute force, bombing, killing, genocide... Bush and Blair have done more in the past month to destroy diplomacy than all the Middle Eastern wars combined. Silently, the whole Arab world have decided this cannot continue. The effects of these decisions will be seen across the Middle East over the next two generations as the small children who survive the brutal killings bring up their children and their grandchildren. It is over this time that the greatest changes will occur. The Romans never considered that their brutality would bring its own natural fallout. They simply assumed that they would continue to rule as the most powerful global force. Whereas the most powerful global force is cooperation, not military might. Fall of The Roman Empire

Doris Lessing: On Dreams & The Ending of Empires
BILL MOYERS: But dreams are not rubbish.

DORIS LESSING: They're rubbish if they lead you to very unrealistic actions. That's what's bad about them. If you're dreaming about wonderful Utopias, and great horizons, and great dawns and all that, you're not really seeing what's there, and what could be done.

BILL MOYERS: Well, of course, you spent a lot of time trying to undo the British Empire. And I would say that you were successful. You and history.

DORIS LESSING: You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. You know, the French, and the Portuguese, and the Dutch, and you name it, excepting Germans, because they lost theirs. But they all had empires. And that's one of the themes of the BILL MOYERS: The sweetest dream?
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