Organized religion is about power, not about spirituality.

The veracity of this assertion is evidenced in the content of most major religious texts, in the nomenclature of religious elites, and in the means by which those elites humble the peasantry into subservience.

The major religious texts are written and censored to reinforce the power structure favoring the religious elites. For example, the King James Bible is the books that King James approved on the following, history and words of Christ. In other words, the Bible is the collection of books on Christ that King James gave to the peasantry to read. Certainly such books cannot be deemed a threat to the power of the monarchy if the monarchy approves of their mass dissemination.

The content of most religious texts is convoluted and cryptic, to such an extent that the majority of readers will forego independent study and simply defer interpretation to the ciphers, decoders, scholars and oracles approved by the religious elite power structure. This is no accident.

Meanwhile, a majority of passages will reinforce the archetypical patriarchal power structure within the religion, regularly telling the reader that true understanding of any Absolute Truths comes from subservience to the right religious leaders. The Bhagavad Gita, a Vedic text, is a perfect example. His Divine Grace Swami Prabhupada interprets the passages, which are chunks of dialogue betwixt Krsna and Arjuna on the battlefield where the army of the latter must defeat the armies of his more treacherous family members to retake his rightful kingdom. Prabhupada primarily warns the reader away from independent study. He pushes subservience to an official Master. For every 10 redundant pages reiterating this message there is but one page revealing the secret and sacred history of mankind. Only the most diligent reader will persevere. The majority will cave and, as mentioned, can their independent study of the texts in favor of guided study by the approved authorities.

And who are these authorities? The current Pope, for example, is a former Nazi-youth. This is not anomalous. After WWII the Vatican was a conduit of Nazi war criminals. Nazi “ratlines” led through the Vatican to the US, Central and South America, where former-Nazi death squad leaders like Gehlen ran Yankee efforts to stop democratic uprisings of descendents of the indigenous Mayan, Aztec and Incan peoples, whose “religions” favored shamans, a form of gnosis, and inward searching to attain transcendence and thus predated the rise of the patriarchal priest archetype as the lone vender of salvation. Meanwhile, can the Dali Llama, whose family has been on the CIA payroll for decades, be considered Buddhist being that he eats meat? You get the picture.

How do these compromised, so-called “religious leaders” maintain their following. The major organized religions humble us into subservience by shaming us for being human. Human being consciousness is divided thrice, according to Jung. The instinctual conscious, who Crowley referred to as The Beast, resides in the brainstem and channels our primary drives – hunger, procreation, defense, rest – to accomplish various feats mandatory for survival. We also have, according to Jung, a subconscious or unconscious and a conscious. Today’s major organized religions shame us first and foremost for having a sex drive. They attempt to get us to suppress our natural inclination for procreation and instinctually-driven ritualistic procreation at that.

Suppressing that drive makes one neurotic and the resulting neuroses manifest in various destructive, sometimes lethal outbursts, for which we are further shamed by our so-called religious masters. Eventually we learn to hate ourselves for how these neuroses-complexes quite regularly manifest embarrassing acts. And this self-hatred paves the way to hatred and fear of others, leading to acquiescence to and participation in predation, war and slavery. Meanwhile lost on the majority is the reality that The Beast is essential to our survival. It is not the conscious or the subconscious that compels the body to slay the wolf that is preying upon the tribe’s children, that compels the body to put out the roaring blaze in the nursery or to cast oneself off into the unknown to discover new hunting or farming grounds. No, it is The Beast within that slays The Wolf. The Beast charges into the burning building and douses the fire. The Beast braves the darkness and unknown to attain a new world for his peoples. The Beast is not to be jailed, as the major organized religions would have us do. Instead he is to be consulted and employed. He is the source of the shrewd bravado that has ensured the survival of a species that has not fangs, horns, claws nor hooves for self-defense. We’re a soft bunch, without scales, exoskeletons or thick hides, and we have survived this long on a brooding, sometimes hostile planet not by being a computer-type intelligence locked in animated matter, but by being cunning adventurers guided by a keen instinctual drive that is quite bestial.

Organized religion is not a pipeline to God. It is a means of political socialization for members of a profoundly sick society.