“It was for the peasants to think of their fields and see nothing of the universe but their crops and coins which they hoarded at harvest only to pass into the pouch of the priest and pay for a parcel of earth in which they might conceal their carcass from the eye of the vulture.” -- Aleister Crowley

Mankind’s experience with “messiahs” should be likened to the experience of a one night stand. The messiahs of every religion could be said to be hustlers seducing mankind for a one lifetime stand. This is quite synchronistic.

Like a trailer park princess standing in the doorway of her hovel as her new lover, now sobering as he steps on the accelerator, drives into the sunrise, mankind has waved goodbye many a messiah. “Call me,” the princess, her lipstick smudged, her nightgown stained and torn, pleas. “Of course I will, baby,” comes the reply. “I’ll call you. Maybe we can get together again some time.” “Really?” she whispers. “Oh yeah, sure, I’ll drop by, um, next year some time, maybe in the spring, you know, when the birds are blooming and the flowers are singing.”

These final words are later written down by the forsaken, who then, over time tries to decode them to find out exactly, to the minute, the time of the reunion. And after years pass, when the reunion never happens, faith is lost.

In this way, the promise of the return of “God” is the seed of destruction for every religion. The promise of the return of the messiah epitomizes the foremost flaw of the patriarchal system, subservience of the will to that of the so-called “leaders.” The individual is to simply bow to the figureheads of the religion, recite the memorized prayers, and remain “meek” in the face of growing corruption of world politicos, corruption so deep and radical that the survival of the species is now threatened. By doing such, and by letting evil expand, eventually, the belief system asserts, “God” will return and spank blue the collective rears of the ne’er-do-wells and afterwards take to “heaven” the devout “meek.”

This formula will most assuredly wipe from the face of the Earth the last remnants of traditional organized religion. For beginners, because church leaders differ in their opinions as to what form the Messiah will take, nobody can be certain what to look for, thus eliminating the prospects of properly identifying the Messiah when he does return. And this is crucial because at this time numerous types of folk are being heavily persecuted, sometimes to the death. Were the Messiah born Somali or Palestinian or poor American, could church elites recognize him or her before they died horrific deaths at a young age?

Secondly, the notion of a Messiah saving “His people” creates the concept of there being two types of people in the world, “His people” and everyone else. This opens the door to the embrace of actions leading to the mass slaughter of everyone else because, frankly, they don’t matter. And then what happens when those who are supposed to be “His people” suffer incredibly and are not promptly “raptured,” as promised? Will faith be lost? Will the religion itself, as a discipline and means of political socialization, be wiped out, perhaps violently and in the manner described by the Maria apparition at Fatima of the end of Christianity with the slaughter of the Pope and his minions at the hands of savages in a not-too-distant Mad Max Road Warrior setting?

Ergo, one must consider two possibilities. Firstly it is likely that almost every major organized religion has built into it the seed of its own destruction by embracing the Messiah myth in one form or another and thus furthering the patriarchal system which requires that the individual subvert his or her will to that of the patriarch. It should be noted here that it is the subversion of the will that is a fatal practice and any system built on it, built one the idea that one person should subvert their will to that of another, is doomed because it denies the implicit mandate of experiencing freewill.

Secondly, this is a good thing and by design. That’s right, religion was born to destroy itself to give rise to something better than a species of followers. Read on.

Consider this quote attributed to Christ by John: “The works I can do you can do and greater.”

If we are all the sons and daughters of God, created in his image, then do we technically need to be saved? To suggest as much would be to suggest that God Himself needs to be saved. Instead, mankind should realize that within each of us is the propensity to attain the creative genius of God Himself. In fact, realizing such potential is your innate right.

Why don’t we embrace our awareness of this innate right? Because we don’t want the responsibility it brings. To embrace freedom is to embrace responsibility for not only one’s actions, but the human condition. This is a terrifying prospect because the human condition is one of murder. Thus we defer responsibility for that condition to the patriarchs, and thus need a patriarch, the Messiah to save us.

Restated, the Messiah is a receptacle into which we toss responsibility for our shortcomings. Instead of rising to the occasion and saving ourselves when it is apparent that that is what is called for, we shirk the responsibility for the human condition to God and demand to be saved from the consequences of not accepting that responsibility. Ergo, the need for the Messiah exists insofar as we refuse to embrace our freedom, freewill, responsibility for the human condition, and our innate right to manifest our own creation with godlike creativity.

I assert we don’t need a Messiah to save us. We need to save ourselves. And when we realize the Christ within and then indeed do save ourselves, then perhaps it could be said that the Messiah has returned, at which point religion, as a societal control program pushing humanity to evolve through trauma-based consciousness expansion, will have served its purpose. Man will then be one with God.