Response to a Friend...

As for your question:
In all that you've read, how do you feel that man, anciently, achieved the secret knowledge and why aren't we getting it now?

I, at this point, believe this:
Man, somewhere along the way, has lost touch with the spirit of things. Not all men. But in general. We're too focused on inconsequential things. Who the fuck cares who Brittany Spears is having a baby with? Humanity, at least in our culture, is largely loosing its passion, and loosing its soul. We're spending too much energy fearing the future and our fate. We're dreaming of the past and romanticising what was and wishing it was still that way... I don't know the remedy for this, Josef.

Perhaps in some way, g-d has abandoned us. Or perhaps he's waiting for us to come out of a society-wide-fog. Perhaps that's why we're not getting the secret knowledge now...Or perhaps science has demystified the inexplicable to the point that science is the new religion. Nothing is magic when science can explain and rationalize everything...Perhaps our dreams of gods and goddesses and divine wisdom are to remain ancient, and don't have a place among today's world...

I don't want to believe this. Perhaps because it's in my Aquarian nature. Perhaps because I'm a romantic, because I'm a dreamer - that I don't want to believe sterile science can explain everything away...

I like my brain to be filled with visions of castles and dragons, heroes, Mystery, and the alchemist's laboratory...

I fear that today's world has not much time for mystics and philosophers ~ and that in ways, leaves me feeling a bit lost...

I know, it's not a bright picture that I paint, but it is my hope and my wish and my dream that indeed, the secret knowledge is not lost forever...

My Warmest Regards,
Qortni.