THE LAST PROPHETS AT THE END OF TIME - ALLISM

There are lessons to be learned from the colourful and diverse expressions of the western 'prophets' of the past few centruries, not just from their works, but from their lives. It is my contention that they all agree on a single unifying philosophy that includes everything. I will try to point out the perfect correspondence, but it may be necessary to ponder the nature of Quantum Physics in regards to the nature of consciousness in order to fully perceive for yourself the perfection & symphonic quality of the tapestry of these assertions and predictions.

The sixteenth century shoemaker Boehme was overtaken with the feeling that he had a visionary message to impart. While 'philosophy' and 'prophecy' have been closely allied throughout the ages (one describes what is, the other what will be) we can see that Boehme is saying 'I am a theologian', rather than presenting himself as an old-style 'prophet'.

The word 'prophet' is pre-loaded with ideas in the collective psyche, ideas of adulation, and for the forming of an evangelical sect, whereas these philosophers concur with the Quakers in prioritising the individual's noumnous sensations of the divine over scripture and are critical of the hierarchical churches.

On Boehme's title pages he identifies himself as 'a Theosophist' and 'The Teutonic Philosopher'. He was an influence on Blake, who preferred to identify himself as 'The Writer and Printer'. So Blake takes this further and says 'I am an Artist', yet the bulk of his work is definitely specifically prophetic** and he doesn't really beat around the bush about actually being a prophet

Many of Boehme's ideas are transfigured in form, though unchanged in essence, in Blake's grand illuminated prophecy - a prophecy no-one would even begin to understand for more than half a century after his death (even today I feel many of his ideas are commonly misinterpretted).

Later Tolkien would (probably unconsciously) weave the very same mystical core into his legendarium.

Now I come to cross-reference my thinking - I can find no discrepancy between what I myself first thought, and those who thought it first. I can demonstrate that there is no contradiction between the philosophy of Boehme, Swedenborg, Blake, Crowley, Tolkien, Krishnamurthi or myself - the diverse forms of our individual manifestations, both our written legacies and the legends of our lives - are a demonstration of this unifying philosophy.

If one perceives a single, immanent, conscious Creator [The One]? Then it follows that the manifest world is a Creation, an Artwork of which we are 'sub-creators' [The Many].

Below I have fused a paragraph from Tolkien's creation myth 'Ailundale' with a paragraph from Crowley's Book of Lies:

When they [The Ainur, Angels] were come into the Void, Iluvatar [The One] said to them 'Behold your Music!' and he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before there was only hearing; and they saw a new world made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it. There is no silence in that Abyss: for all that men call Silence is Its Speech. This Abyss is also called "Hell", and "The Many". Its name is "Consciousness", and "The Universe", among men. And as they looked and wondered this World began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew. And when the Ainur had gazed for a while and were silent, Iluvatar said again 'Behold your music! This is your minstrelsy; and each of you shall find contained herein, amid the design that I set before you, all those things which it may seem he himself devised or added. The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods and thou, Melkor [the fallen Angel who imposes his own reason and law upon the natural world]  Reason and Law is the Bond of the Great Lie. Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations. Thou, Melkor, wilt discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind, and wilt perceive that they are but a part of a whole and tributrary to its glory.

Later still George Lucas created the meta-narrative Star Wars, bringing these ideas to a wider audience; while Dan Brown has turned sacred geometry into a series of ludicruously popular detective stories, bringing what was formerly the reserve of certain esoteric schools within reach of anyone who can read 'Janet & John'. It is not relevant whether his conclusions are correct - through narrative he is teaching the ability to reinterpret sacred texts and geometry and to use these tools not to question one's faith, but to question the orthodoxy. None of these 'not-prophets' formed 'religions' - but their ideas have penetrated more deeply into the soul of our culture than those of any of those who did.

“They say to the seers, "See no more visions!" and to the prophets, "Give us no
more visions of what is right, tell us pleasant things, prophecy illusions."
Isaiah

Blavatsky fused Boehme's ideas with those of Edward Bulwer-Lytton**, the Rosicrucian writer and Magician, amongst others. Blavatsky, Leadbetter, Bessant et al did form an organised religion based on these ideas - Theosophy. Hierarchical and corrupt, it also harboured theories of root races that, along with the Nietzcsche's Antichrist and his other works, formed a good portion of the philosophical basis for Nazism.

"Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming,
even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last
hour." 1 John 2:18-19

The Theosophists also prophesied an imminent maitreya, a messiah. In the early twentieth century Leadbetter found him 'on the beach' and they groomed the young boy for the job. He did rather too well, disbanding The Order of The Star that had groomed him and damning organised religion (contrast with Richard Dawkins damnation of Spirituality and Religion in the same breath, as if they even shared tooth-brushes). Krishnamurthi went on to be one of the twentieth centuries most popular and profound mystical thinkers. What follows is a famous extract from the speech he delivered when he announced the end of the order and perhaps, the very beginning of the end of organised religion:

"We are going to discuss this morning the dissolution of the Order of the
Star. Many will be delighted, and others will be rather sad. It is a question
neither for rejoicing nor for sadness, because it is inevitable, as I am going
to explain....

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any
path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I
adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless,
unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor
should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular
path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to
organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and
must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a
creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others." Krishna Murthi

** Edward Bulwer-Lytton, That Secret 'Ghost Story' in Precis: There is an area in Leytonstone erected by Edward's father, including a Bulwer Rd and a Lytton Rd. Of all the buildings erected at the same time there is a certain address alone that has a seven-tiered shrine in the garden, erected at the same time as the building, and the basement is reputedly daubed with alchemical symbols - the supernatural activity reported at this location turned out to bear very close comparison to a Lytton story I uncovered 'The House and The Brain'. If that isn't spooky enough - my main slogan during my 'crazy' year was 'The Pen is ACTually mightier than the sword'. I gave away free notebooks with this (and 'you can rewrite the book of your life - literally!') scrawled on the inside covers, and I incorporated and illucidated this theme over and over again in my work. I thought it was Shakespeare. When I finally checked, to see the context of the original quote - it wasn't by Shakespeare - it was by Edward Bloody Bulwer-Lytton!