Knowing the Truth

In political situations, it is dangerous to know the truth.

In all situations, knowing the truth is necessary. 

It is necessary for morality.

Without respecting the truth, morality is impossible.

All ideology is reflective of bigotry.

All religion is a battle between the ego and the soul.

When purported leaders of the political and/or religious varieties act contrary to the truth, what do you do?

Most people in the world are descended from peasants, slaves and/or indigenous peoples.

From whom are you descended, and how do you know?

How has your ancestry influenced your experiences of life: genetically, politically, religiously and economically?

Who has been assessing your ethics, and why?

Where have you been seeking to locate very necessary news, and why?

How do you think about art in relation to news, and history?

How do you think about science in relation to news, and the future?

What have you discovered about the enlightened being of political kindness?

How have you attempted to transform yourself into a real world leader?

How do you know you are adequately on the side of the oppressed?

How do you know you are adequately on the side of the reasonable?

How do you know you are adequately on the side of justice?

How do you know you are adequately on the side of freedom?

What has your education taught you about knowing the truth?

What has politics taught you about knowing the truth?

How have you attempted to acquire the truth about purported rebellions?

What is your acquaintance with truth, and how do you know?

What is your acquaintance with authority and authoritarianism?

What has history taught you about attempts to justify cruelty?

What do you know about the various meanings of justification?

How carefully do you attempt to separate fact from fiction, and where is your proof?

If you are not currently involved in a peaceful rebellion against cruelty, what are your reasons for ignoring your responsibilities towards true justice?

Perhaps your understanding of history, politics and science, has been influenced as much by fiction as fact.

How have you attempted to acquaint yourself with the truth about democracy?

How do you interpret perceptions of hostility?

Perhaps you regard all rebellions, revolts, reform movements and revolutions as violent, not peaceful.

Perhaps you regard all protesters, campaigners, complainants and opponents as belligerents.

The documentation of particular historical perspectives has usually been commissioned not only by whoever has had the resources to fund the writers, illustrators and film makers but who also has the power to prevent other perspectives from being known.

Perhaps you pay homage to a particular version of history rather than the truth.

How have you attempted to understand the structure of societies?

How have you attempted to understand the influence of money in politics?

How do you attempt to understand the political and legal aspects of access to land and water?

What have you discovered about the history of empires, and how?

Do you usually regard nation-states as empires?

Do you usually regard extended families in much the same way as dynasties, clans and tribes?

Have you thought much about the history of feuds, political factions, bullying and sieges?

Are you well acquainted with the history of enlightenment?

While peasant revolts have usually been associated with rural experiences, popular uprisings have also been associated with experiences in towns and cities.

Peasant uprisings have been documented for many centuries.  This is especially the case in China.

How do you usually assess the causes and consequences of uprisings?

What is your acquaintance with wars of attrition?

What is your acquaintance with wars of conquest and territorial disputes?

What do you know about the history of ambushes and piracy?

What do you know about privacy and bodily integrity?

How do you interpret various rights, responsibilities and records?

How do you distinguish between believing something to be true and knowing the truth?

What, for example, do you know for certain about the history of pandemics?

What do you know for certain about yourself?

What do you know for certain about research?

What do you know for certain about advice?

What do you know for certain about economic depressions?

How clearly do you distinguish between pseudohistory and real history?

Perhaps you are not yet aware that this grimoire is itself a document of historical significance.

How effectively do you work with physical energies and how do you know you do not work against them?

How have you assessed your effectiveness in relation to meeting goals you regard as important?

How do you decide whether or not a goal is important to you, personally and/or politically?

There is much to consider.

What do books tell you about history and humanity?

What do books tell you about wealth?

What do books tell you about what is believable and what is not?

What has your education revealed to you about the believable, the implausible and the impossible?

When have your experiences and investigations revealed the facts to be contrary to longstanding beliefs, whether about history, nature or morality? 

What is your acquaintance with monoliths and megaliths?

What do you know about petroglyphs?

What is your familiarity with rock-cut architecture?

What is your acquaintance with the scientific aspects of population density?

What is your acquaintance with geology?

How can you be sure your interpretations of evidence are accurate?

How have you attempted to improve your awareness and perception of the truth?

What, for example, do you know about the public interest, and how do you know it?

What do you know about calendars and solstices, the solar year and lunar phases?

How do you assess the value of natural resources?

What have you discovered about agrarian societies?

What is your acquaintance with fungi?

What do you know about the way plants communicate with each other?

What is your acquaintance with sacred mountains?

What is your acquaintance with standing stones and stone circles?

What is your acquaintance with the amazing and ancient?

Today is the June solstice.

How do you imagine the wonderful witches of Australia acting today, and where?

What is your acquaintance with nature conservation and how do you act in relation to it?

What do you know about dolmens, henges and archaeoastronomy?

What is your acquaintance with anthropogenic disasters?

What have you discovered of most importance about mysteries and histories?

You may know something about the Megalithic Temples of Malta.

You may know something about the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek.

What do you know about the spiritual and intellectual necessity of silence?

The truth is often to be found through silence.

How have you attempted to observe the primordial EverTime?

What do you know about mass uprisings in the late Middle Ages in Europe?

What is your acquaintance with Mongol invasions and conquests and the associated destruction?

How do you usually interpret blessings and curses?

How do you know you have been continually refining meanings appropriately?

How do you know your perceptions and interpretations are in accordance with the truth?

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