2.5 A Fascist Gallery
Last modified 06/27/2008
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Twentieth century esotericism has transmogrified into a crime scene, and
there the question of the emergence of fascism leaves an ominous question mark.
The reactionary rejection of modernism, the wish to establish a kind of
postmodern civilization once again dominated by the authoritarianism of an
earlier age, is a built in theme of the whole spectrum of New Age movements, but
this perspective slowly but surely is proving itself false, in the process
leaving behind the sordid crypto-politics of fascism that lurks behind the
spiritual fronts, beginning with Blavatsky, that rise to meet the wished for
counterrevolution and restoration.
The whole game threatens to discredit the entire sweep of 'New Age' initiatives, and conspiracies, ironically provoking the real New Age movement latent in the transformation of modernity. Gurdjieff's place in this in not clear, and it can be supposed that while his views resonated with this perspective he did not embrace what was to be the 'esoteric' version unknown to him of fascist anti-liberalism and counterrevolution against modernism that hides itself to do this day, despite the many hints and innuendos. Some of Gurdjieff's successors we should note have concealed outright neo-Nazi gestures, beyond the public view, and have issued ambiguous distortions of Gurdjieff's theme of reciprocal maintenance as the justification of genocide. Clearly a student of esotericism needs to stop being an idiot and approach this field with extreme caution.
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