WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:06.639 The weird Things happened in. 2 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:11.320 Weird Weird. 3 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:34.439 Welcome everybody before we get into tonight's topic of Bledsoe said, 4 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:40.159 so with your host, yours truly, Ryan Bledsoe and our 5 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:44.840 producer who is joining us as usual, alex Uh. I 6 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:45.240 love that. 7 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:47.200 I really loved that. 8 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.079 I just can't stop thinking about it. Okay, moving on, 9 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:52.960 I want to talk about three things before we get 10 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.759 into the topic tonight, which I think will be interesting. 11 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.079 Who knows, maybe my brain is different than what I 12 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:01.439 think is interesting. Is not that interesting, Maybe it's really interesting. 13 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:03.920 We'll find out. 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Plus 43 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.360 I forgot to mention at that five dollars tier, and 44 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.759 at the ten dollars tier you get another show full 45 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.639 disclosure with Ryan Bledsoe me. 46 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:44.840 So. 47 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.199 Anyway, if you want to support the show, check out 48 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:49.120 our shop, check out our merch bletso sets dot Com, 49 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.000 check out our Patreon. Be tapped into what we're doing 50 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.599 and where we're going and where we're appearing and all 51 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:57.360 of that good stuff. So now that I have the 52 00:02:57.400 --> 00:02:59.719 work out of the way, let's get into the topic. 53 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:09.599 I really wanted to talk about the general influence of 54 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:15.560 the Dark Force. So I really wish I had a 55 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.159 soundboard button to remember that video with the Epic Gopher. 56 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:25.280 Remember that uh from like you might be too young 57 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:27.560 for this, dude, but back when YouTube memes were becoming 58 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:29.240 a thing, and they even like put it in South 59 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:31.800 Park and it was that little Epic Gophers seven second 60 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:33.960 clip and it goes bomb bomb bom. 61 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.000 Okay, that's the sound you want to put in there. 62 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.639 I just really at that moment, I just imagine hitting 63 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.639 a button and when I said the Dark Force, bam, 64 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.560 It's just like, uh, oh do it again, bomb bomb 65 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.840 bomb No, no, no, just press the button, I'll put the 66 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:52.159 I'll put the oh. Like this, I just really wish 67 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:53.879 I had a soundboard because when I said that that 68 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.319 that happened in the hand, So we'll see. Who knows, 69 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.199 maybe Alex will make something happen in post or maybe 70 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:05.240 us talking about it Suffice. I really wanted to talk 71 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.319 about the dark force because I think this is something 72 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:12.759 that is generally neglected or misunderstood, and it's important to 73 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:17.560 know that although ninety nine percent of the time we 74 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.680 are talking about good and we're talking about love and 75 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:24.120 we're talking about light and angelic beings and all of 76 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:25.879 that good stuff, that's a part of our story and 77 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.720 a part of what we're doing here and spreading awareness 78 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.519 of I think it's important to know that there are 79 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:37.160 dark influences on humanity that come on Odin, let's quit 80 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:37.759 this little dame. 81 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:39.759 Just get up here, dude. 82 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:41.879 Now that my wife is out of town, the door 83 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.480 to the studios open, because naturally my cats are going 84 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:46.439 to want to come in here, and you know, when 85 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:47.920 she's not here, they want to be all over me. 86 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.160 So hope you guys don't mind Odin being in this episode. 87 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:53.759 But anyway, so I think it's important to be aware 88 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:57.680 of the dark influences on humanity, you know. So I 89 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.639 wanted to take approach of discussing that through somewhat of 90 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:05.000 a different lens, because I think that this dark force 91 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:11.199 relates to understanding the phenomenon, if you will, the UFO phenomenon, 92 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.800 the angelic phenomenon, celestial beings, angelic beings, demonic beings, all 93 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.160 that good stuff. It's all a part of it. And 94 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.639 it's not all just sunshiny rainbows out there in the cosmos. 95 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:24.199 But there are dark things too, you know. So I 96 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:25.720 don't even know what got me onto this. I think 97 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:27.560 it was just all this talk of the demiurge and 98 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.360 gnosticism recently and just kind of going down this path, 99 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:34.120 and I just I thought to myself, I really need 100 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.240 to it's been a while since we've talked about this. 101 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:42.079 And then upon thinking about it, at first I wanted 102 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.199 this to be, you know, talking about the dark force 103 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:49.040 as it relates to the UFO phenomenon specifically, and as 104 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:52.120 I started digging into it, I thought, no, that's too narrow. 105 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:54.600 Let's expand it a little bit. So I want to 106 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.399 talk about just generally the dark force that exists in 107 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.319 the cosmos and the influence that it asserts upon humanity, 108 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.439 and then we can expand that into its influence in 109 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:09.000 the sphere of ufology and how a lot of these 110 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:16.439 negative alien stories have spawned from propaganda, psychological warfare, control 111 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.639 systems from the powers that be, and things like that. 112 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:25.519 So when getting into the subject of the dark Force, 113 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:30.279 I want to start with zoro Astor. Okay, so zoro 114 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.560 Aster If you guys don't know who he is by now, 115 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:40.560 he is an absolutely amazing historical figure. He lived around 116 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.680 one thousand years before Christ, so about what is that 117 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:50.480 a thousand BC, right around one thousand BC. He is 118 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:56.000 a Persian or as we say today, Iranian prophet. What 119 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.199 he's known for is going up into a cave on 120 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:03.920 top of a mountain and having a direct experience with 121 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:09.920 the light, which he called Ahura Mazda. Ahura Mazda appeared 122 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:14.079 to him and gave him all kinds of messages about, 123 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.279 you know, the world, the ultimate destiny of the soul, 124 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:21.839 the afterlife, judgment upon souls at the time of death, 125 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:25.160 and a time of you know, judgment for all souls 126 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:31.920 and light and dark, the duality of the universe. And 127 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.920 this is the first time that there was a really 128 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:44.319 fleshed out like Satanic figure that opposes God in the 129 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.199 Judeo Christian sense, right, And you had themes of this 130 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.120 in Egypt too that go way far back, like the 131 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:52.839 story of set Or in Babylon you have the story 132 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:56.560 of like Marduk and Tiamat, which will kind of not 133 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.839 really cover that today, but it's it's thrown in there 134 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:01.959 as a parallel, and there were other examples of this 135 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.879 throughout the ancient past. But ultimately, when you understand that 136 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:11.160 there was an interplay between the religious systems of Persia 137 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.160 and Israel, you kind of understand from a scholarly perspective 138 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:21.680 and from a historical perspective that the Zoroastrian tradition influenced 139 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.360 the writings of the individuals who were writing the Torah, right, 140 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:29.720 because there is a period of enslavement where the Jews 141 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:34.080 were held captive in Babylon. They were slaves and prisoners, 142 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:38.799 and it was the Persian king Cyrus who freed them. 143 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.600 So we understand that while the Jewish writers of the 144 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:49.159 Torah at the time were not only enslaved in Babylon, 145 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.679 so that they were like basing a lot of their 146 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:57.840 mythological symbols and belief system upon not only the Babylonian system, 147 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.320 but then also from the Persian system. Right, So their 148 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.919 system was changing over time and before they came into 149 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:14.759 contact with the Persian culture. There was no direct Satanic figure, right, 150 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.639 there were tribal they had Yahweh, this tribal deity. And 151 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.799 if you read the stories of the Old Old Old Testament, 152 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.200 like the first few books, right, it's this notion that 153 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:31.559 the kings of the tribes of Israel, they would be 154 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.240 going to war with neighboring countries, and it's like tribal 155 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.200 feuds between gods. So at this time it wasn't really 156 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.440 this idea of monotheism that one god exists, but it 157 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.039 was the idea of like, my God is greater than 158 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:47.279 your God. There is no opposition to our god, right, 159 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.519 and the prophets of old there's all these stories of 160 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.960 like you know, Exekiel for example, there's these like four 161 00:09:55.080 --> 00:10:00.480 hundred magicians of Babylon, right that worshiped Moloch ball and 162 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:05.200 they're like in the court of this king and Ezekiel says, 163 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.240 my God's greater than your God, and they're like, prove it, 164 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.919 and he goes, Okay, says a prayer throws a piece 165 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:18.000 of wood on the ground. It's wet, right, a fire 166 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:21.480 comes from out of the sky and soaks the wood, 167 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.360 catches it on fire, king goes in beheads, all the 168 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.919 four hundred magicians of Moloch ball. So there was a 169 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.240 lot of that kind of stuff in the Old Testament, right, 170 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:35.000 There wasn't this fleshed out theological system of God, Satan, Heaven, Hell. 171 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.559 In fact, before Jesus really came around and started fleshing 172 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.480 out a lot of this like heaven and Hell, and 173 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:42.240 we had the Book of Revelation and how the New 174 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.639 Testament came to be theologically as it is today. That 175 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:50.879 wasn't that. Then they had the concept of sheel, right, 176 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.759 which was this kind of like it's a garden when 177 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:57.000 you die. It's like, let me just look it up 178 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.799 because I'm not super clear on shield, but it's like 179 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.000 a garden you die and you just go there. Right. 180 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.480 It was their kind of proto version of hell before 181 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.440 they were influenced by zio astronism. It's an ancient Hebrew 182 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.360 word for the grave or the underworld, a place where 183 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.840 the dead or gathered in a state of unconsciousness. Right, 184 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:21.039 And that's that, right. The Greeks at the time had hades. Okay, 185 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:23.840 Jesus comes around, he starts talking about this whole new system, 186 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:26.399 and we know he was a gnostic, right, we know 187 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.919 that if you watch this show, you've you've learned enough 188 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.559 to figure that out. You know that Jesus was woke 189 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:37.080 as f U c k and he was dropping spiritual 190 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:42.440 wisdom on people and upgrading their understanding of the spiritual mysteries. So, 191 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:45.679 without getting you know, too far into that tangent, my 192 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:50.600 point is that we know that at the time as 193 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.399 the Torah was being written, it was influenced by other 194 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.639 cultures that it was around, one of those being Horroo Asterronism. 195 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:59.720 So let me get back to that. So part of 196 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:01.840 that system, right, he goes up, he speaks to the 197 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.799 spirit Hora mazda, and it's like basically on the light. 198 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.519 Now I understand this is a different language too. It's 199 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:12.600 a completely different language, so they have different names in 200 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:17.120 different words this is written, Okay, So the Bible is 201 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:21.919 written in like two languages, right, Aramaic or three Arabic, Hebrew, 202 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:27.759 and Greek. So we're talking about there's like three or 203 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:32.679 four different languages here that are saying similar things, and 204 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:37.320 we're translating words across lexicons of different languages. So it 205 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:40.480 could be argued that it's not so important what name 206 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:44.279 they give for a deity or what specific word they 207 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:46.720 use to describe a thing. But it's the concept, it's 208 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.039 the spirit of the concept that truly matters, right, And 209 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.600 I think they understood that pretty well back then. So 210 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.879 a Hora Mazda says that it's light, right, I'm light, 211 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.799 that's the creator of the universe. That in order to 212 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.960 purify your soul upon death and go on basically to 213 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:10.000 the heavenly afterlife is good thoughts, good word, good deeds. 214 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.720 You have to have good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. 215 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.240 I'm gonna say that one more time. Good thoughts, good words, 216 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:23.559 and good deeds. At the time, that wasn't necessarily a 217 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:27.600 thing if we're talking from a Judeo Christian, you know, 218 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:31.000 Abrahamic perspective, which is the majority of the world's population. 219 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.679 So it's important to address this perspective. Right at the time, 220 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:39.399 we had the law, which was the Ten Commandments, and 221 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.720 if you broke this law, what you were supposed to 222 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.639 do as penance was slaughter an animal and sacrifice it 223 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.360 as a burnt offering to God, and every Sabbath they 224 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.279 would meet in the temple, right the temple of the 225 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:57.799 Holy Temple, whatever it was in your town, and the 226 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:00.720 pharisees of the Sadducees would give some sort of sermons, 227 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.879 some sort of lesson and they would have the temple 228 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:06.679 scrolls which were the Torah. Right, only they could handle 229 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.759 it and or you could only handle it in the temple. 230 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.519 Not everybody just had access to this. Oh, I lied, 231 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:19.080 I cheated, I stole whatever, All right, cool sacrificed animal, 232 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.600 bring it, you know, pay your offering. That was kind 233 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.840 of the understanding of things then. It was obedience to 234 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:31.679 the tribe, obedience to the tribal deity yahweh, and there 235 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:36.600 was a very limited understanding of the afterlife. They got 236 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:43.840 introduced to this whole Zoroastrianism system sometime around I don't 237 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.080 know the exact year, but you can easily look this up. 238 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.480 It's when King Cyrus freed the you know, the Israelites 239 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:53.399 from captivity in Babylon. I think it was around like 240 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:57.120 four hundred BC or something like that. You know, things 241 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.919 start changing, they start updating their system, they start learning, 242 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:04.559 you know, and there's this notion of like a messiah figure. 243 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.679 I forgot to say that in Zoroastrianism. That was the 244 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:11.000 first time there was a messiah figure in this Western world. 245 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.360 It was known as the Seyoschayan, and there was a 246 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:18.519 prophecy that there would be a star that would appear, 247 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:23.039 and when this star appears in the east, that you know, 248 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:25.519 low and behold the Savior would be born, who would 249 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:31.200 change the world and would bring spiritual liberation. Basically I'm paraphrasing. 250 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:34.240 And then you know, you can look at the story 251 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.480 in the Book of Matthew and Jesus is born. He's 252 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.840 in the manger, the three Wise Men, or in some 253 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:43.360 earlier translations they say the three Magi, which is a Zoroastrian, 254 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:49.200 a priest magician. That's kind of like where magic magician. 255 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:53.480 You know, it's all related there. It was a part 256 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.039 of their system for a thousand years, so they knew 257 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.480 this star was special. They're like, oh shit, saviors here, 258 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.120 you know what I mean. So there's a correlation. And 259 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.360 what I'm trying to show you is there's a historical connection. 260 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.919 In the Western world. Souo Astrianism has long since been 261 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.600 forgotten from the minds of people, and right now it's 262 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:15.240 all you know, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. But we don't 263 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.399 necessarily consider the importance of what Zuo astronism brought to 264 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.360 the world, which was a lot of things. It was 265 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.799 the duality of the cosmos, the idea that there's I'm 266 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:25.360 gonna get into this now, talk about the dark force, right, 267 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.919 that there's this negative, antagonistic force that opposes God and 268 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.759 it's this role throughout the universe. I meant to say 269 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:35.960 a bit ago that that didn't get fleshed out in 270 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.159 the Old Testament until the Book of Job, and even 271 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.320 then it's murky. And do you know the story of Job, right, 272 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.039 it's one of the best Old Testament stories. So basically 273 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.879 Job was the most loyal man to God. It's Jobi right, Job, 274 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.000 And the book is called the Book of Job. Very 275 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.519 good story. You should read it for sure. And it's 276 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:56.320 all allegory. 277 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:56.759 Right. 278 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:01.559 But Job is like the most loyal to God. So 279 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.279 God and Satan, I'm pretty sure that's the first time 280 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:09.759 the word of this satan appears in the in the 281 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:13.880 Bible period. It means the adversary, right. So God and 282 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:18.240 Satan are having a conversation, and Satan is like, I'm 283 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.559 willing to bet that I can get Job to curse 284 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:26.160 you and to be unfaithful to you. And God is like, no, 285 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.200 there's there's no one more faithful alive on earth, like 286 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.440 I dare you to try, basically, and they made a wager. 287 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:35.839 I can't remember what the wager was, but it was like, 288 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.200 you know, I don't I don't remember if it was like, 289 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.839 you know, what they would gain or whatever. But the 290 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.400 point was, I bet you I can do this. And 291 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.480 God was like, no, I know you can't try it, 292 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.240 you know, but the rule is you can't kill him. 293 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:50.880 You can do anything, but you bet you can't kill him. 294 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:52.799 You have to give him an honest chance at this. 295 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:59.440 So Satan the adversary does everything he can to tear 296 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.240 down Job, gives him flesh wounds all over his body, 297 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:05.559 so he's in such writhing pain that he can barely function, 298 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:12.880 kills his wife and children, kills all his lifestock. They die, famine, plague, 299 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:15.920 all his crops die, and he becomes desolate and in 300 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.119 poverty and so much physical pain that he can't do anything. 301 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.200 And he just gets to the worst imaginable rock bottom 302 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.759 that you can fathom. Right, and he stays faithful to 303 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.599 God and he doesn't curse him. So then God's like, aha, 304 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.599 I told you, you know, I win. And then he 305 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:34.960 turns around and he blesses job tenfold and he gives 306 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:41.400 him like new wife, new family, new children, tenfold, livestock, wealth, abundance, 307 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.599 riches all that stuff, right, because he was faithful. And 308 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.279 that's the first time that there is like an introduction 309 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:56.599 of this Satanic adversarial force from the Torah perspective. And 310 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.559 even then it's a little murky because if you read 311 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.960 the story, Satan is just he's in heaven. He's in 312 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:05.599 heaven talking to God and they're having a friendly wager 313 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:12.200 over some mortal right. And the whole point of Satan 314 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:17.079 in this story is to be the opposing force, right, 315 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.559 That's all it is. And over time we built this 316 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.680 whole idea of what you know Satan is. So I 317 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:25.839 kind of wanted to talk about that. That's the point 318 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.599 of this episode today, and then I want to expand 319 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.079 on this in the future and get into how that 320 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.200 has affected you apology and how it has perverted the 321 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.480 subject to be very dark. And you know, we'll get 322 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.480 to that later. So one of the things that a 323 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:43.160 horror Maza tells Zoroaster a thousand years before Christ as 324 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:45.359 he says that there is a dark force, a shadow 325 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:49.240 He's my evil reflection, and his name is Angra Minu 326 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:55.680 or Ariman. He is the shadow of lies, deception, and illusion, 327 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.359 and that he's constantly on the prowl to deceive every 328 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:06.759 soul into being led astray from the light. He's evil, 329 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:11.440 he is a complete opposition to God, to the light, 330 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:16.920 to a horror mazda right as the Persians called him, 331 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:20.519 and that the way to defeat this force is to 332 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:23.920 purify yourself through good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and 333 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.680 to ascend above the illusion right and above the deception, 334 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:28.960 to live in truth. That the light is truth, that 335 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.759 a horror manster is truth, and that the shadow is lies. 336 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:35.519 So I wanted to start with this whole Ariman thing 337 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:37.400 because there is a concept that is known as the 338 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:42.279 Arimanic deception, which was made popularized by Rudolph Steiner. As 339 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.160 you know, we've done an episode about him. He's a 340 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:50.200 very very popular Rosicrucian thinker, very brilliant individual, and I 341 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:54.759 was really put on to him by the late great 342 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.880 doctor Robert Gilbert Rest in peace. He was an amazing 343 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:00.799 human being and meeting him changed my life. But we 344 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:02.559 got to talk about these concepts and it kind of 345 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:05.799 put me on this path, you know, and to really 346 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:10.960 looking at things from a Rosicrucian lens. So the Steiner 347 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.359 concept of the Aromanic deception is that this was the 348 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:20.200 point in human history where we realized that there was 349 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:25.119 a cosmic force that opposed consciousness, that had opposed our 350 00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:29.839 awakening to the light. But this is also paralleled in 351 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:32.519 the story of Set in ancient Egypt, right, So we'll 352 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:36.960 go into that a little bit too. So the notion 353 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:40.720 is that there are types of beings throughout the cosmos 354 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:44.119 that are constantly seeking to fight for the attention of 355 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:49.559 human consciousness. And Steiner classified these as arimonic or luciferic beings. 356 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:57.319 And if you think about the duality here, the Arimanic 357 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:01.319 beings are synonymous with Satan. Let's talk about that for 358 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:05.480 a second, because I forgot to expand on that. So 359 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:13.039 the Hebrews called Satan has Satan has Satan. In Egypt, 360 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:18.319 they had the concept of set as et set Set 361 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.839 was the brother of Osiris, right, and Osiris we all 362 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.559 know him, we all love him. He's the solar entity. 363 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:31.759 He was a king right at whatever dynasty he was revered. 364 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.319 He was the king of Egypt, and their mythology, and 365 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:40.079 Isis was his consort. Somehow she's also his sister. I 366 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:43.039 know that's probably an allegory, but I haven't really thought 367 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:46.240 too much to look into that. But so Isis is 368 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:49.200 his wife. Right, So set is his brother. He's like 369 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:52.279 classified as this god of the desert, god of the storms, 370 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:55.839 the darkness, chaos, whatever. And he's jealous of the throne. 371 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:58.240 He's jealous of his brother. He wants the glory, he 372 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:00.039 wants to be king. So he slaughters his brother, and 373 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:05.759 he chops him into fourteen pieces. And Isis oh and 374 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:06.880 throws him in the river Nile. 375 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:07.240 Right. 376 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:10.720 Well, as you know, some big fish in the Nile 377 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:20.000 eats his wand and Isis pulls his soul out from 378 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:24.839 the underworld and through magic, reconstructs his body. That's why 379 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:27.519 a lot of times he's you know, classified as a mummy. 380 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:29.720 He's got the wraps, he's got the green skin, he's 381 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:33.119 been into the underworld, he's been regenerated, he has eternal consciousness. 382 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.599 Now he's survived going into the underworld and returning. Right, 383 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.559 but Isis uses her magic to imbue his body back 384 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:43.279 to life with his soul, puts it in it. But 385 00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:48.920 somehow creates him a new member out of gold, which 386 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:54.359 is obviously symbolic as well, and his their son Horace 387 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.279 defeats Set and becomes the new king and is on 388 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:01.359 the throne. And Horus is a solar deity. He has 389 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:04.359 the head of a falcon. Right, So you have this 390 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:09.440 notion of the Father being opposed by this dark force 391 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:13.559 and this dark force being defeated by the awakened Sun 392 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:19.480 or the Christ did right, the fully realized. So this 393 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:22.839 is an ancient myth that has been paralleled in so 394 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:28.680 many cultures, this notion of the the dark force opposing 395 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:33.359 the light creation and then us the child, you know, 396 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:36.079 or Christ. It's Christ, but that also is reflected in 397 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:39.960 Us right, and whatever version of the story it's obviously 398 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:43.240 doesn't always say Christ. But this notion that it's the 399 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.359 only way to oppose the dark force through defeating the darkness, 400 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:52.039 defeeding the illusion, awakening to our divine nature and you know, 401 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:57.920