The Way of the Magi

The Way of the Magi, the methodology used to bring a person (and through him human society) into conscious harmony with the earth, leads to conscious awareness of the deep cycles and feedback systems of the environment. These are sensed at a very deep level of the self and require an epiphany, a “consciousness raising,” often as the result of long preparation and initiation. It is called the Way or Tao and those who practice it are the Magi or wizards, or Buddahs, or Saints. They are the enlightened. They are the holy. They are the wise.

The Way of the Magi has been practiced throughout the world since at least the Neolithic Revolution (the Fall). It has always had local popularized forms, allowing easy transmission of the message to succeeding generations. Before the Fall, children who excelled in symbol manipulation (anciently accomplished through the integrated curriculum of spontaneous composition and singing of complex songs accompanied by dance or drumming, in other words, children talented in music, dance, and poetry) were initiated at puberty into the Magi. The methods of the Magi brought order to the human realm.

During fifteen thousand years of succeeding ecological catastrophes (15000 BC to 1000 BC), telescoped now into a single myth—Noah’s flood--the methods and secrets of the Magi were lost and found again many times. The Magi were secreted among those who move from place to place; more aspects of nomadic Paleolithic life were preserved among pastoralists, traders, and healers. Zoroaster, the first prophet, was a Magi. He sought to stop conflict among pastoralists and promoted agriculture.

Civilization began as when humans were no longer be bound by the ancient laws, but instead, for each to follow his own good. This was caused by the surfeit of wealth brought on by agriculture, which had been promoted by Zoroaster as a method to stop cattle raiding; an analogous situation happened in the American West. Greed led to the exploitation of the ancient mysteries to control human behavior by usurpers, first on horseback, then by chariot. Class and caste systems were created. These ancient methods of societal control by symbol manipulation are known to us as the world religions. They have each aligned themselves with the power center of their civilization, which, by definition, is built on subjugation and slavery. Each religion, though, began as a revolt against a previous religion. It is only in this revolutionary moment that we can distinguish the Magi in history. Otherwise, they are silently wait until the end of the age, spreading the ancient ideas of compassion, peace, love, and forgiveness.

It is the study of this incipient moment, repeated again and again throughout recorded history, that we can once again here the echoes of our ancestor’s timeless harmony with the earth. We can still hear them singing at the heart of all the world’s religions.

This is not the dominant story of religion, however. Religion serves civilization and thus it serves slavery and exploitation (until the present, necessary aspects of civilization). The Magi have little interest in fighting elites, but, when the time is right, they (together with countless impostors) emerge and lead mankind into a new age.