Once is enough, trial is alone
Grace fall into us
All through the night
Father, I crawled
Sun of my soul, be revealed
Walking amongst the stones from the sky
Feeling their rhythm wash over me
Rite of this waring god
Destructive, alive, frees you now
Rivers of fear, don't you know?
Vigil of faith stills you now
You've been shown over and over, don't you know?
You've been shown over and over, don't you know?
—Neurosis, “Stones from the Sky”
Here is John Waters’ essay
It really is a masterpiece. Astounding it is how many diverse strands of analysis—geopolitical, economic, historical, cultural, sociological, psychological, philosophical, theological—Waters’ seamlessly weaves together, articulated with unmatched grace and eloquence. And above all, Waters is prophetic. His penetrating analysis of the present situation is all to the purpose of warning us of what most certainly is to come:
It is exceedingly likely that, in addition to the risks of hyperinflation, within a few months, the chief currencies of the free world will, without exception, become subject to outright collapse, which means that the savings of citizens will become worthless. This will affect virtually all existing currencies, including the dollar, the pound sterling and the euro. In the unlikely event that anything remains in the wake of this meltdown, this is likely to be subject to governmental ‘bail-ins,’ which is to say that any remaining financial assets will be liable to partial or total confiscation. A global digital currency is planned but, leaving aside the myriad other problems and dangers arising from this, the chances of any future compensation of citizens under such a system are unpromising.
Right now, it is as though nothing like this could possibly be imminent, since it is receiving either negligible or extremely opaque or misleading coverage in the legacy media. Throughout our lives, we have become accustomed to a more or less honest press, which we have felt able to rely upon to alert us in times of danger. This press was by no means perfect — it was afflicted by manifold financial compromises and ideological corruptions. But never in the history of Western civilisation have we before been threatened by anything remotely like what is coming without as much as a murmur from the Fourth Estates of our nations and societies, to prepare us to defend our own and our families’ lives.
The absence of a warning, as we must surely know by now, offers no reassurance whatsoever. The dog-not-barking has been sedated and muzzled. Though expected to continue paying for these corrupted platforms, we must look elsewhere to discover and confirm the truth. Moreover, we need to be watchful for the new role of the old ‘Fourth Estate,’ which resides in deflecting us from any kind of certainty or even awareness of what is really happening. We most certainly need to take notive of and override the insinuated scorn that is one of the modern media’s core products: the rejection as ‘conspiracy theory’ of everything and anything that does not fit the prescribed Narrative. For the past two years, these tendencies have destroyed innumerable businesses and cost millions of lives. To be waylaid by the same voices now will almost certainly prove fatal to the very civilisation we have hitherto felt able to take for granted.
The world, including the former ‘free world,’ faces a calamity of existential proportions, and it will accelerate rapidly from the very near future. To describe this in factual terms is to invite the incredulity of most of those who may hear or read it described. It does not seem possible that those upon whom we have depended to protect our societies, our economic welfare, our lives and our well-being, could possibly not be warning us in the event that some such catastrophe is now imminent. That, after all, is the very definition of their function, and arguably the whole of their necessary purpose. But that is precisely what is occurring.
Let us state things straightforwardly: The world, including the former ‘civilised’ world, now faces shortages of essential products that are likely to lead to widespread hunger, hardship, and very possibly starvation, and death. The flashpoints are the most critical conceivable: food and fuel. Moreover, there is every reason to believe that these shortages are being deliberately engineered to achieve something akin to that outcome.
The upshot is that the ongoing war of the Luciferian .0001% elite against the entire present and future global population is about to enter the final phase, in which those who are not mass-murdered by injections and starvation will be turned into their (literally) mechanized, soulless slaves. Imagine a synthesis of Brave New World, 1984, The Matrix, and The Hunger Games. The scamdemic was the initiation ritual into their demonic psychopathic fantasies, implemented by force and fraud, and seduction, on the global population. What’s coming is the full liturgy, ending with the arrival of a posthuman world:
Where the Combine of 2022 plans to take us has the appearance, superficially at least, of something like a neo-feudal world, but is more complex than that. The lockdowns were in a sense predictive of the future in the context of the enforced idleness they imposed upon the human race by virtue of the insinuated fear of death arising from a deadly virus. This was, in part, a rehearsal for a world without conventional work. In the early stages of the post-‘pandemic’ world, this model will become part of a trial in which the world’s populations will be invited to consume without producing, to see if it is possible, in practice, to create an economy that operates on a more or less totally mechanised process of production, with a consumer base comprising idle, unproductive consumers who simply spend the money which is skimmed off the top of the transactional wealth accumulation process so that it may serve this manufactured economic model while ensuring that the totality of the world’s wealth and tokens gravitates to and remains within the control of the oligarchs. The objective is not power for the purposes of enrichment, but the other way around: money as the instrument of total power.
Their plan is that the many must submit themselves as instruments of the few — the ‘elite’ which has finally stepped up to sit on the throne recently presumed to have been vacated by the deity. Physically indistinguishable from the rest of mankind, the ‘few’ plan to maintain their dominion by the usurpation of earthbound power, having accumulated most of the earth’s resources so as to leave the majority of men disempowered and bereft, while bribing a sufficiency of willing collaborators and traitors to defend themselves from any possible rebellion.
The super-rich have never wanted to share the planet with those who merely struggled to get by and wished for nothing other than the means to do so and be let alone to do it. They most certainly do not want to share the planet with those they have made poor, and might — some of them anyway — be inclined to seek revenge.
We had displeased our ‘betters,’ who now become our new ‘creators’ — both by our unclean natures and our desire selfishly to exploit the resources of the earth, as we claimed God had permitted us to do. The escalating numbers of the human race as a whole had, in the estimation of the elites, threatened to leave an insufficiency for themselves. The self-proclaimed gods had become alien and hostile to man, desiring all things to be theirs. More precisely, we had outlived our usefulness, for very soon technology would deliver the few of the need to have the many around them. The harmony between the people and the hidden elites had suddenly revealed itself as fictional. Man, as he stands, even at his best, is of limited use to the ‘few’. When it comes to doing what is to be done, technology is more malleable, cheaper, more efficient, adaptable. And technology shows no inclination to rebel. In these circumstances, there has arisen a clear and urgent need to absorb the bulk of the human population into the mechanistic realm, to make them, in effect — and in no sense metaphorically — parts of the machine.
Honestly, I don’t know to handle this. I’d like to stop it. I don’t know how to do that. I don’t think it can be stopped. I’d like to prepare for it. I don’t know how to do that. I don’t think it’s possible to prepare for it. It’s like putting your head between your legs and hiding under your desk at school in case the bomb is dropped, or like wearing a mask, nothing but psychological and emotional theatre. But Waters insists that this plan is bound to fail because both it and its orchestrators are out of touch with reality, and reality always wins in the end. That it is failing and must fail will be made abundantly clear soon, Waters tells us, but not before “they will have completely dismantled the world as it was.”
One must read Waters and other godly conduits of reality whom God has raised up for us at this time to understand what is happening, not because understanding it means we can stop it, but first and foremost because understanding is the key to being in touch with reality, even if the reality we are in touch with is the unreality of evil—we are obliged as creatures to inhabit reality by knowledge and love of the truth, for no other reason than that it is the Truth. God is Truth. Period. Second, understanding, particularly understanding how things are on the ground, as it were, can protect us from unconsciously abetting the evil through ignorance and imprudence. We can have the best speculative and practical formation in the liberal arts, philosophy, theology, spirituality, etc., along with a good moral character and will, but if we are ignorant to what is happening right in front of us and the conspirators who are doing it, either due to the unavoidable contagion of massive propaganda and social enginering, or because we have our head in the sand or up someone or groups you-know-what, or both, then we, at best, cannot act effecitvely for the good, and at worst, our actions will contribute to the evil against which we are intending to fight.
We must pray, suffer, read, inquire, research, observe, listen, understand, and then act, personally, culturally, socially, politically, legally, and, if need be, coercively and militarily, but always in, by, and with God’s love flowing through us, in the truth. But it may very well be that what we are experiencing is a real chastisement from God, and perhaps the final one to purge the world before the promised Era of Peace. And if this is so, though our grace-inspired acts may mitigate the chastisements, they will still come, and many will suffer tremendous hardships, including those who in God’s eyes do not deserve them.
As I have opined in other essays, IXXI, the Scamdemic, and now the Ukrainsane are essentially counterfeit religions, cults aping the one true religion of Catholicism. They have everything our hearts desire: infallible doctrines, sacraments, rituals, friends, community in the “truth,” moral prescriptions and proscriptions, saints, an eschaton, sacred awe and fear—and for our fallen hearts, enemies and scapegoats. These are prepatory for the ultimate counterfeit religion of the Antichrist, who, I think, is coming very soon. So, so, so many people have embraced these cults, while thinking they are still members in good standing of their previous religions, and being in complete denial that they have willingly initiated themselves into satanic worship. What this amounts to is a final judgment before the Final Judgment. It is akin to the scene in Homer’s Odyssey in which the evil suitors, right before they are all dispatched in a bloodbath by Odysseus and his son Telemachos, are sitting at table ready to feast:
Pallas Athena roused them all to laughter, with no sense of control.
She unhinged their minds, so the laughing from their mouths
came from an alien source, and the meat they ate
became blood-spattered.(5) Their eyes filled up with tears.
All their hearts were filled with thoughts of lamentation.
Right after this public premonition and revelation of their imminent doom, they go back to their feasting as if nothing had happened. They are shown their fate and guilt, for a moment, like a last-ditch effort of mercy granted to them by Athena to repent of their ways and avoid their doom:
Then godlike Theoclymenus addressed them all:
“O you miserable men, what troubles
are you feeling now? Your heads, your faces,
your lower limbs are shrouded in the night.
You’re on fire with grief, faces wet with tears,
fine pedestals and walls have gobs of blood,
the porch is full of ghosts, so is the yard—
ghosts rushing in the dark to Erebus.
Up in the sky the sun has disappeared—
an evil mist is shrouding everything.”Theoclymenus said these words. But they all laughed,
enjoying themselves at his expense.
Oh you miserable men, with your filthy masks on, suffocating and cowering in fear, begging for the next suicidal command, giving your arm to the poison elixir and your souls to demon-men, cheering the slaughter of innocents by the Nazis you love to hate, offering your babies and children to be murdered in body and soul by Moloch-Gates-Fauci-Schwab, celebrating your enslavement, degradaton, and dehumnization—all just to get a vitual and socially-distanced pat on the back from your fellow slaves and slavemasters—”You’re a good person!”
But Jesus says: “Do you really want this? I am showing you now what it looks like to reject me and my Lordship. It means being tortured and mocked and ruled by cruel, malicious, vampiric demons. There is no other alternative. My yoke is easy and my burden is light, and you will have rest for your souls. Yes, but you must renounce your desire to be praised and accepted by corrupt men. You will be scorned and ridiculed and persecuted by them, but it’s worth it, I tell you. I am the truth. If you want something other than truth, you can have it, I permit you, but I will make it clear exactly what you are choosing. You are choosing Hell. The whole world will celebrate and praise you as a saint, but I won’t. And that’s all that matters, for I am the Truth. And you will know, and I will make sure of this, in the back of your mind, that everything they are saying is a lie. I am giving you this chance, now, to see what it really means to reject me, and giving you the chance to reject this rejection, but after this grace, you will note able to choose Truth.”
Pre-plandemic and pre-Ukrainsane, so, so, so many people, including Church-going Christians, had already rejected Christ by doing their “good” deeds so people could see and praise them, but caring nothing for God’s eye and approval. This is the essence of liberalism. It was so easy to get away with this Phariseeism in the past, but God is no longer allowing it.
“If you reject the Beatitudes and Christ’s easy yoke and light burden of absolute integrity and humility, doing all for my pleasure and no one else’s, and instead embrace the counterfeit God of the Beast of Virtual-signaling Prestige, the hatred of all personal responsibility for your own precious soul, the Luciferian will-to-power and non-serviam of postmodern bourgeoise therapeuticism—the lukewarm I will vomit from my mouth!—you have chosen hell over heaven, right now, and this will be your eternity.
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live.”
This is what Waters is teaching us. Listen. Listen. And Obey God.