The Grand Inquisitor interviews Merlin
by Jon Rappoport
May 2, 2014
In Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the Grand Inquisitor speaks to, and rejects, Jesus, who has returned to Earth.
Here, he speaks to Merlin the Magician:
Grand Inquisitor (GI): Again, we are faced with the issue of freedom, that most tormenting thing, which people cannot understand or make use of, except in absurd symbolic form. But in your case, you perform miracles, which we, the Holy Church, deploy for our own purposes…to subdue and entrain the masses. Therefore, I must warn you, you are treading on our ground. So first I ask you, are you for freedom?
Merlin: I am.
GI: And are you proposing the mad idea that anyone, sufficiently aware of his own latent power, can perform miracles?
Merlin: Yes.
GI: And do you understand that, for all these centuries, we have secretly been aligned with Satan, who has been teaching us how to rule and expand our kingdom?
Merlin: Of course I’m aware of that. But you see, you are inventing “Satan,” a surrogate, an image, to guide you. You want empire, and control of minds and hearts, and so you concoct an invisible “leader” who will instruct you.
GI: Nonsense.
Merlin: I first appeared on the bridge between two eras. In earlier times, magic was everywhere. People breathed it as they breathed air. The world was alive. And then a change occurred. The age of rationality was born. Science. Technology. Many benefits accrued. But along with that came an urge to transform the human being into a machine.
GI: Exactly. And it is the task of our Church, our organization, to complete and fulfill that urge. Do you know why? Because then we can deliver happiness to the masses, in so far as it is possible. Freedom, on the other hand, brings anguish. We are against freedom. If we can transform humans into machines that experience pleasure, regardless of external circumstances, then we can give them the redemption they truly seek.
Merlin: This is what I was afraid of. The “rational solution” taken to the extreme.
GI: What else would you expect? People come to us for an end to their suffering. And where does suffering begin? With sin? No, with freedom. We end that charade. We close the door.
Merlin: So this is your secret doctrine.
GI: You will see us align with science. You will see us support, eventually, the re-engineering of the brain. We will call that part of God’s plan. The elimination of the rebellion, the quelling of all “negative” emotions.
Merlin: Of course, those emotions you call negative are part and parcel of the energy that can fashion new realities, which are independent of your influence.
GI: True. Our goal is the achievement of a universal harmonization of attitude, response, feeling, among all people everywhere. This is the unity we seek. What difference does it make how we bring it about?
Merlin: You’re actually talking about the flattening of all emotions. A program like that would defeat magic. Magic relies on the most intense, various, free-flowing, and extensive emotions.
GI: When we say cooperation, we mean the passive acceptance of the consensus we contrive. When we say joy, we mean shared mediocre pleasure. When we say deliverance, we mean unquestioning loyalty to our Order.
Merlin: When I say joy, I mean creative penetration into the unknown, the not-yet imagined.
GI: And we will debase that by calling it sin and consorting with the Devil.
Merlin: And suppose I told you that I’m not here at all, but you are inventing me, because I represent your better Self, your hopes and wishes?
GI: I would call that ridiculous. We understand delusion. We control it. We dispense it. We are the experts of delusion.
Merlin: Is that so?
GI (pausing): You’re playing a trick on me. You’re still here…it’s true I can’t see you now, but that’s some of your magic at work…you’re playing your games, on a small stage. We, the Church, are operating all over the world…even if I feel, for a moment, that I’m talking to myself, it’s you I’m addressing…there is no hidden part of myself…I’m all here…the idea that you are really a part of my own consciousness is insane…because then I would stand for freedom, and I don’t…I stand for Order…it appears…I’ve compartmentalized my consciousness…how strange to see it…at this late date…there’s a wall…a bridge between the desire for order and control and the desire for freedom…I’ve blocked the bridge…I’m killing my own soul…I’m an agent of…death…
The Grand Inquisitor stood alone in his dim chamber. He was silent. He waited. He didn’t know what else to do.
He waited for a year. A century. A hundred centuries. Frozen. He knew he had always wanted to reduce the world to this silence and this lack of motion. He knew he had wanted to remake the world in his own image. He knew this was his concept of wisdom. He knew this was his goal. Perfection in nothing. And now he had it. He was experiencing it. And it was not the triumph he had supposed. It was the shrinking of all dynamism to a single point. There was no solace in it. It was not a Void at the blissful bottom of his own Being. It was a collection of forces held in check. It was diminishment of Self. It was darkness. It was no voice and no expression.
And then he thought…suppose I change my mind? Suppose I recreate my mind? What quality would I first impart to myself?
The answer came. Freedom.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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That was certainly one of your better philosophical forays. One always wonder what the state of pure consciousness or God is, and the concept of empty form would be like, where all time collapses into an instant. Is this existence or non existence?
Life itself has no logical or rational explanation (have spent many hundreds of hours attempting to conjure one), so is by its very nature pure magic. The fact that the Christian Church forbids the practice of magic or inner meditation is certainly reason to consider them anti freedom, and have always wondered why morality and stability of society, which is their purported function, has anything to do with how one views the Infinite Creator and one’s place in the World. The pre Christian Europeans were pantheists, and they saw the creators of their physical bodies, the Sun and Earth, as super beings that should be worshiped (open up lines of communication).
Considering that Humanity is at best a few million years old, and Father Ra and Mother Gaia are billions of years old, one should come to the conclusion that they created Humanity. If you believe the axiom that something cannot come from nothing, then it follows that Ra and Gaia are conscious and have Free Will, since Humanity does. Have definitely incorporated so called pagan techniques of meditation and prayer to open lines of communication with these super parents of ours, in order to enhance my power
You are correct, organized religion has become corrupt.
Your writing never fails to impress Jon; loved it to no end…
seems lke many people who, even though they had intelligence and very specified and directed talentsare now opening up to universal knowledgewisdom spiritual science. wow great time to b alive and experience enlightenemnt.
I happened to catch a segment of the 1958 ‘epic’ Hollywood film “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” about a female missionary in a remote area of China before WWII. Because of her benevolent character she eventually wins the approval of the local mandarin to proselytize, but he warns her not to do so to his women, because he has heard that she teaches that “No human being should be subject to the will of another”. This of course is the essential ‘revolutionary’ message of Jesus, who taught that there can be no good that is not motivated by love, and that love and compulsion are absolutely incompatible. We aren’t seeing authority-undermining messages like this slipping by the Hollywood filter these days. (To be more exactly correct, the mandarin’s wording should have been “No human being should involuntarily be subject to the will of another.” As it is impossible to reconcile this principle with a monopolistic system of finance, no polity that accepts such a system can justifiably claim to be authentically Christian.)
And so the GI went with freedom. Hey this is better. I’m not doing the same mission every day. Giving of my time talent and treasure to the mission. For what? This title? The decision maker? All based on something bullshit made up story in the first place which I bought hook line and sinker.
After the long reflection he became drawn to, and craved freedom himself. The freedom cornerstone. He is going to live by and through imagination, relying on his creative impulses even as it is planned to become completely illegal. Path maker. As the next GI organizes to find him. To find all of us. Capture us and hook us up to the cloud. The adventure is on.