The divide between nations, religions, the sexes, the so-called 'races,' and other groups of the world has in late time only seemed to widen with the unfolding of tragic human events. Terror, a word swung by the whip of media to keep viewers reeling with shock value, as a word, only further increases the distance amongst the people of the Earth and thus opens the gateway to the violence which incites it. Terror is in this way, as a concept, self-existent as long as its utterance continues to be invoked to keep people terrorized, as the North American media does to its fearfully complacent populace. The concept of terror is born from the belief of identity dualism: a belief that differences between another person's opinions or interests and our own are at odds and so must be fought over to assert the rightness of one or the other. Identity dualism is to blame for every war in history, and war is the singular most atrocious and self-deprecating thing to ever be created by man.
The Hermetics call this the "fallen state;" where we are now is a result of involution, the reverse of evolution, and like unto the individual who experiences crisis, humankind collectively has to sink to the bottom of an ocean of despair before we will find the sense and rationale to improve our standards and escalate to good graces. In this fallen state, we are to experience a vast array of physical suffering, emotional turmoil, and eventual judgment to rebound us and set us along the right course.
The only escape from the fallen state of man is through enlightenment, and a cyclical recourse to history. In ancient Greece, when the Stoics gave in to materialism and dropped all spiritualism, (a move the Gnostics, who held light and spirit as holy and matter the product of evil, would have abhorred,) and popularized materialism in place of the ancient lore of Gods, the society saw an eventual regression into debauchery, lust, and wastefulness of life. Thus the philosophical migration to spirit began, and people developed their sense of honor, saw the importance of love, and sought unity with the divine nature found inside of man, which were embodied in the archetypes of the Gods.
In order for progression to occur, we must be like the magical movements of the past. As enlightenment and self-discovery bring more people to ascension, peace, and understanding, terror will have less of a grip upon the minds of humankind in the collective. War, greed, poverty, hunger, and pollution will cease with the spiritual advancement of the people of the globe, and Heaven will come to Earth at the end of the world.... According to what is held in religious prophecy.
