Book I

1 Human Being
2 Who Am I?
3 Man – Types
4 Two Natures of Man, The
5 Identities
6 Wealth, Power and Energy
7 Violence
8 Life
9 Mind & Thinking
10 Linear & Non-Linear Thinking
11 Images
12 Will
13 Emotions
14 Love - Natural
15 Hatred
16 Love & Hate
17 Suffering & Pain

18 Peace, Happiness & Pleasure
19 Guilt & Shame
20 Judging
21 Intimacy
22 Individualism
23 Destiny
24 Hardness & Softness
25 Slavery
26 Victim & Victimizer
27 Cardinal Poisons
28 Vulgarity
29 Errors & Sin
30 Ego
31 Mental Disorder
32 Madness
33 Unclassified

1:1 It is a unique spiritual event, when at the moment of conception a spiritual entity, which we call Spiritual Self manifests itself in the womb of a woman.

1:2 Life within man belongs not to him but to God, just as the warmth of the earth belongs not to the earth but to the sun.

1:3 Only human beings have self-consciousness, the ability to be aware of themselves. Only human beings have the free will, enabling them to commit violence against the ‘will of the flesh’. *

1:4 A human being should be like a tree planted to bear fruit, for others to consume.

      (1) All men are vulnerable and all men are born wounded.
      (2) All men are enslaved.
      (3) All men are violent.
      (4) All men are victims.
      (5) All men are victimizers.
      (6) There is no equality among men.

1:6 Most men dwell in the world of delusions. They are surrounded by oppressive darkness or blinding light; they seek union to experience intimacy, and separation to experience themselves.

1:7 Most men are obsessive-compulsive addicts clearing their path into poverty or riches.

1:8 All men are sinners** and all men are violent. Only when they are seduced by righteous fathers with Noble Ideas their sinning might be curtailed and their violence redirected.

1:9 There are no ‘evil’ men, only men whose activities may bring harm to others.

1:10 The well being of man depends to a great degree upon the quality of his culture and the quality of his religious/spiritual beliefs.

1:11 Life of man is one of temptations; the last and the greatest comes at the time of his death.

* The ‘will of the flesh’ is rooted in one’s astral body – desires, feelings, emotions and passions – born from experiences of the senses, imagination and memories.
**To sin is to break the laws of creation.
See also: Noble Idea, Book III, Chapter 5; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32.

“When you know yourself, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father”. Gospel of Thomas

"One who knows everything else but who does not know himself knows nothing". Gospel of Thomas

2:2 Man and God are of the same spirit. When man loses faith in God, he also forgets who he truly is. This leads him to identify with inferior spirits. This forgetfulness and identification can be conscious or unconscious, partial or total. The end result will always be unnecessary suffering manifested in an infinite number of ways.

2:3 There is a stream of images unceasingly coming into one's consciousness from the experiences of the senses, imagination and the memories stored in one’s mind, from which man creates his universe.

2:4 Most men are ignorant and weak. Weak as their will is enslaved internally by the will of their flesh – the lower self – and externally by the will of unrighteous fathers.* Ignorant, as they identify themselves with ego, born from the games they play in the pyramids. By transcending** his ego identity, and finding awakening, man can reconnect with his own true nature and his true center in God.

* The unrighteous fathers are referred to in Christian theology as the “world”, meaning corrupt and decadent men with power promoting culture of unrighteousness, materialism, and carnality.
**To transcend is to ‘see through’.
See Also: Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32; Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.

“The most profound differences between men is in the love they can have for others, and the power they are capable to utilize.” A.M.*

3:1 Men can be divided according to the manner of seduction used, their beliefs, their hope, their state of mind, and their inner direction.

      (1) Those who conquer others through love.
      (2) Those who conquer others by brute force.
      (3) Those who conquer others through trickery.

3:3 According to their beliefs men can be horizontalists, verticalists or centrists. Horizontalists consist of the majority of atheists, agnostics, and modernists. Verticalists can be found among Buddhists, Hindus, and cultists of various types. Centrists consist of the majority of Christians, Jews and Muslims.

      (a) Hope to enter paradise through faith in God.
      (b) Hope to create a better world for themselves through a Noble Idea.
      (c) Hope to become rich by acquiring wealth.

3:5 According to their state of mind, men can be awakened, natural or dehumanized.

3:6 According to their inner direction men can be warriors, magicians, martyrs, wanderers or seekers of truth. Seekers of truth may be spiritual seekers, searching for spiritual knowledge, or scientists searching for scientific knowledge. A warrior is an active person engaged in battle, or a passive one waiting for the call to battle.** A magician is a warrior who has won the game. A martyr is one who has dedicated his life to serve others. Also one who is willing to die for the sake of others. A wanderer is an autonomous individual who consciously avoids the game.

3:7 Many men do not possess attributes belonging only to one single category, but also attributes of other categories. However, one category is always predominant.

*Anonymous Man, author of Point Zero.
**A warrior can use violent or non-violent means to achieve goals, which may be for his sake or for the sake of a Noble Idea. All those who seek more power and higher rank belong to this category.

4:1 Everyone has two natures: personal and tribal. The personal is rooted in one's personal soul; the tribal in the tribal soul. Seeing into the true nature of one's personal soul and seeing into the true nature of one's tribal soul is the final and ultimate journey one can take in search of oneself and in search of one's tribe. Seeing into one's own true nature is seeing the original self, and seeing into the true nature of one's tribe is seeing the original and ancient face of one's tribe. This is a path of great awakening, which may unleash violent interior forces in search of true personal identity and transformation, or violent exterior forces in search of true tribal identity and transformation.

5:2 Primary identity is pure self-identity. It produces total alienation leading to madness. Since it is in the pyramids that man fulfills his worldly hopes and attains his goals, lacking strong secondary identities, man will be drawn inwardly into the void of the center.

5:3 Secondary terrestrial ego- identities are born in family, social, livelihood and tribal and global pyramids. In the modern world, secondary ego identities are becoming weaker and weaker because of weaknesses in contemporary pyramids.

5:4 Secondary non-terrestrial identity is born from consciously or unconsciously seeking unity with God or a spiritual entity from the underworld. To be in unity with God or a spiritual entity from the underworld, one must die to oneself and be born again… Those finding unity with God are born again of the Holy Spirit and Truth. Those finding unity with a spiritual entity from the underworld are born again of the unholy spirit and untruth.

6:1 There is wealth, power and energy. Wealth is the source of power and energy is its essence.

6:2 Everything begins with wealth – the source of power. There can be no creation and no game without it.

6:3 There are many sources of wealth. There are also quantitive and qualitive differences in wealth, resulting in the size and the nature of power.

6:4 Wealth is invisible, like gold under a mountain; one must receive ‘revelation’, one must believe, one must have faith that it is there, and that it can be turned into power.* Wealth is dormant power.

6:5 Most men are born with worldly wealth – the wealth of the environment they are born into, and the intelligence and talents they posses. However, to transform this wealth into power, intelligence must be developed into knowledge and talents into skills. Only then will power come their way, power needed to experience pleasure.

6:6 The powerful are powerful because they can tap the resources of power; the weak are weak because they cannot tap the resources of power.

6:8 The desire of every man is to increase his power, the source of pleasure. Only an awakened one can have full access to power.

6:9 The main goal of all man’s adversaries is to take away his power. This may be done by violent and visible way, or by non-violent and invisible way. Feeling of powerlessness usually manifests itself in violence or emotional disorders.

6:10 To give away power is pathological, unless it is done for charity directed toward the deserving poor. When a father loses faith in the game, he becomes ‘generous’ with his power: he squanders it, and it soon ends up in the hands of his enemies. He who is given money not earned, or power not won in a game, will often misuse the power and squander the money.

6:11 Man without power may be dangerous, as he cannot play the game successfully. Therefore, violence is his only path leading to pleasure.

6:13 Power is like water which makes things grow; in a river it can be damned to generate energy. Uncontrolled, it will destroy all in its path.

6:14 Energy is power in action. This power may be of normal, paranormal or supernatural origin.

See also: Book II, Chapters 1&8; Programming, Book III, Chapter 11; Faith, Book IV, Chapter 23; Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32; Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33; Prayer, Book IV, Chapter 34; Subtle Energies of the Cosmos, Book IV, Chapter 33.

“Violence always leads to peace and peace eventually leads to violence.” A.M.

7:1 Violence begins when unity is not welcome or when separation is not allowed.

7:2 Violence comes from the depths of human emotions. It is the essence of life and the essence of all games.

7:3 Violence is the father of disorder and the mother of order. It can bring death and destruction, but also new birth and new creation.

7:5 One's life in this world consists of violent birth and often violent death. In between, there is a period of growth and decline, also filled with violence.

7:6 To be alive is to have emotions; to have likes and dislikes, to have love and hate, to have convictions and to be willing to use violence in defending those convictions.

7:7 Disliking violence is like disliking water because it may bring flooding.

7:9 Violence produced by anger is always rooted in real or perceived injustice: the belief that something that belongs to me was taken away from me, or, that to which I was entitled was never given to me. What has been taken away or has never been given to me is power, needed to play a game and experience pleasure.

7:10 In every violent confrontation one must ask oneself the following four questions:

      (1) Is the confrontation morally right?
      (2) Is winning truly in my interest?
      (3) Am I willing to pay the price?
      (4) Can I win?

Without answering "yes" to the above questions, one should never proceed with a violent confrontation.

7:13 Violence shall last until the end of games, and games shall last until the end of time.

8:1 Life is visible manifestation of never-ending acts of creation. Vitality is power of life and energy is essence of vitality.

8:2 Life is a mystery, and when this mystery is comprehended exclusively through reason, logic and formulas of science, it loses it’s magic.

8:3 There are known and unknown components of life. Known components are spirit, intelligence and energy.

8:4 The stages of human life on this earth are like those of a plant, planting a seed; tending it as it sprouts and grows; the plant's maturity; its blossoming and fruition; its decline and death.

8:5 Life in this world is just a blip compared to an eternity from which one comes and to which one returns. Birth and death are no more than signposts on that journey.

8:6 To have a good life in this world, one must avoid errors. To have a good life in the world to come, one must avoid sin.

8:7 Life of man is almost always goal oriented, and supported by hope. It can be in survival or expansion mode.

8:8 Life should not be a problem solving exercise or a marathon from one goal to another.

8:10 There is no purpose to life, apart from the one chosen by man.* Believing that one’s life on this earth has purpose, given to one by God, is an error. God has no needs or goals to reach for which help of man would be required.

8:11 The highest purpose man can give to his life is to be benevolent to all human beings through unconditional love

*The purpose of life for the majority is centered in family life – spouse and children, or livelihood – job or business. One almost always take precedence over the other.
See also: Images, Book I, Chapter 12; Existence, Book IV, Chapter 2, Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28.

“The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it receives, but does not keep.” Chuang Tzu

"A free mind is one that is not confused by anything or bound to anything. It has not attached its advantage to any way of life…" Meister Eckhart

9:1 The brain is a mechanism used by the mind to process and store thoughts. Stored thoughts we call memories – the illusions collected through time.

9:2 The thoughts of the mind can be divided among the following three types:

        (1) Survival-seeking: non-pyramidal, conscious linear thinking.
        (2) Pleasure-seeking: pyramid-climbing, conscious linear thinking.
        (3) Liberation-seeking: non-pyramidal, conscious linear or non-linear thinking.

9:3 You are not your thoughts. Allow not your thoughts to enslave you! Free man dwells in life itself, and dwelling in life, he dwells everywhere, and by dwelling everywhere he is free.

9:4 Persistent negative thinking on the same negative subject can create powerful mental images capable of bringing mental disorder or even physical sickness.

10 Linear & Non-Linear Thinking

10:1 Man, as well as a culture can be linear or non-linear, depending upon which type of thinking is predominant.

10:2 The non-linear journey, with its non-linear thinking, can be rooted in worldly chaos bringing death or divine chaos bringing life. Non-linear man may be a madman lost in worldly chaos, or a creative genius or saint surfing divine chaos.

10:3 To avoid mental disorder, the non-linear journey must be regularly interrupted by linear thinking. Likewise, the linear journey must also be regularly interrupted by non-linear thinking.

10:4 Man on a linear journey, a journey totally devoid of non-linear thinking, as well as man on a non-linear journey, a journey totally devoid of linear thinking are being equaly driven into madness.

10:5 All true creativity, as well as all true prophecies, come from non-linear thinking.

10:6 To survive, a man on a linear path needs hope. When his basic day-to-day hope is lost, then hope deriving from a Noble Ideas is needed: worldly, rooted in a political myth or spiritual rooted in a religious myth. If all hope is gone then despair sets in bringing mental disorder.

“You see and you hear. The images enter your consciousness. You believe… You remember, or, you may forget.” A.M.

11:1 All images* which enter ones consciousness come from experiences of the senses, imagination or memories.

11:2 The images are like picture frames, appearing on a video screen showing a film created through imagination. Of course the images and the film are illusion, sometimes pleasant and sometimes unpleasant.

11:3 When images enter one’s consciousness, they awaken the mental and emotional body, which will lead to mental and emotional activities.

11:4 When life is process-oriented, and flow is present, it appears the images are entering consciousness as a ‘wave’. When life is goal-oriented, and flow is not present, the wave may collapse, creating blockage – a cluster of ‘particles’ preventing a free flow.

11:5 Some images can get out of control, or convey confused messages. Sometimes images by-pass reason, and become troublesome, awakening uncontrollable passions.

11:6 All human attachments are attachments to images entering one’s consciousness.

11:7 Negative images can only be transcended when one finds internal peace and external harmony.

11:8 There are memories, there is visualization, and there are images. Memories represent a film library… Visualization represents specific films retrieved from this library… Images represent individual scenes from a film…

11:9 The images are appearing and passing through my consciousness, and yet, I remain calm and at peace, watching the images on the screen...

*An image is no more than a sensation with a message.
See also: Consciousness, Book IV, Chapter 21; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32.

12:1 A child is born with the will of the flesh, also part of the lower will – the automatic pleasure-pain response – rooted in emotional body.* Through “proper” upbringing, limited higher will, emerges; through awakening one acquires full use of the higher will.

12:2 The function of the will of the flesh should be similar to the function of instinct in animals. However, due to the fallen nature of man, the will of the flesh goes beyond its basic function of ensuring one's basic survival.

12:3 The will of the flesh, rooted in the love of pleasure and fear of pain, is triggered by experiences of senses together with stimuli of memories producing feelings and emotions.

12:4 The will of unrighteous fathers. The seduction by unrighteous fathers is possible because of one's lack of awareness, a sleep-like state. Unrighteous fathers bring hope through a promise, the fulfillment of which may bring pleasure, the ultimate goal of all human beings.

12:5 The higher will gives one power to seek the truth and avoid sin and error. However, due to the fallen nature of man, his higher will is weak. Only through violence against the will of the flesh**, and relentless search for truth, a seeker, can regain full use of his higher will. This is the Great Escape: the escape from enslavement by the will of the flesh and the will of unrighteous fathers.

12:6 When a human being leads a life of sin, decadence, or corruption, seduction by the entities from the underworld may occur forcing him to do the will of those entities.

12:7 Through "proper" upbringing a child learns discipline; he learns how to handle pain when forced to obey parents contrary to the will of his flesh. This will help him later in life to handle pain, which he will experience when faced with the need to go against the will of the flesh.

12:8 Man was given a free will, and all that man wills is in the will of God, all but that which would bring harm to himself or others. God never interferes with the will of man.

12:9 The sum of the wills of citizens creates the collective will of a nation. Each citizen contributes to the collective will of the nation according to the strength of his will, i.e., his power. Therefore, not only all men, but also all nations have a limited free will.

*Also known as astral body.
**Violence against the flesh consists of self-denial and ascetic practices. The practice of voluntary suffering can be found in all religions. Its purpose is to free oneself from the grip of sensory reality and the will of the flesh, also known as the will of the lower self.
See also: Father & Child, Book II, Chapter 2; Visualization, Book IV, Chapter 10; Faith, Book IV, Chapter 23; Spiritual Entities, Book IV, Chapter 31; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32.

13:1 Emotions! The language of silent words spoken in a rage, without grammar and punctuation…

13:2 Emotions are the emotional (astral) body’s response to images entering one’s consciousness.

13:3 Emotions combined with imagination can lead one to the ultimate in pleasure and well being, as well as the ultimate in suffering and despair.

13:5 Negative emotions, which bring stress and suffering, can be discharged in innumerable ways. Some positive and some negative. The following are some of the ways:

13:8 Modern man lacks emotions, therefore, he can neither truly love, or truly hate.

“Being without love is being deprived of all worth. Being without love would be the most appalling torment – the inferno itself!” Author Unknown

14:1 Natural love, is directed toward a person or an object because of pleasure one is receiving, pleasure one hopes to receive, or suffering one tries to avoid.

14:2 Natural love can be love for someone or for something one desires, admires, possesses or derives pleasure from.

14:4 When an act of love and compassion is void of pity and sentimentality, one will avoid doing harm to the weak and vulnerable. Much harm is being done through misguided charity.

14:5 Pity is not love… He who can only pity has nothing to give! Only he who is strong can give something to those who are weak.

15:2 Hatred is born from the realization that power was lost or the fear that power may be lost in the future. It is directed towards the person or persons one blames for the suffering one has experienced, is experiencing, or may be experiencing in the future. Humiliation, betrayal, rejection, or some other real or imaginary reason brings intensity to hatred.

15:3 On a socio-political level, hatred is directed toward those who are interfering with one's desire to preserve, reform or destroy the status quo.

15:4 It is a sin and an error to hate another man. One can only hate his actions, his behavior, or his beliefs.

16:1 Like and dislike are born from feelings; love and hatred, from emotions seeking action.

16:2 Love comes from the desire for unity; hatred from the desire to find or maintain separation.

“If you know how to suffer you would be able not to suffer. Learn how to suffer and you will be able not to suffer.” Acts of John 96

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius

17:2 Buddha said that life is suffering*… And indeed, life is suffering, and because of this suffering, man seeks an escape. For most, it is only temporary relief through pleasure and relaxation.

17:3 Pain originates in the physical body, suffering in the astral body. They manifest themselves through the mental body.

17:4 To experience pain one needs a nervous system. To experience suffering one needs memory and imagination. Suffering can be experienced without pain, but pain can only seldom be experienced without suffering.

17:5 Suffering originates in a second or third universe, and sometimes in a universe “X” – the universe created by the entities from the underworld.

17:6 The experience of suffering and pain can come from any of the following ten sources:

17:7 Much of the suffering comes from lack of humility, as proud people are not capable of learning.

17:8 One can diminish, or even overcome the severity of suffering and pain by any of the following methods:

(d) By changing the focus of attention away from the source of the pain or suffering.

17:9 To avoid suffering and to find pleasure, human beings enter the ‘game’. Here they formulate goals, gather power, build hope. They may or may not reach the goal and experience pleasure. Then, they will enter the same path again and again…

17:10 The suffering of man is a subjective experience about which no objective judgment is possible.

* Pain, anxiety, grief, hardship, etc.
**Very rarely natural love fails to bring attachment, leading to suffering if the attachment is broken. This trauma is usually “treated” by establishing another attachment…
***Including one’s inability to forgive oneself for an error committed.
****(a) Accepting suffering by avoiding seeing it as an enemy to be conquered, but rather a tool to free oneself from the grip of the senses and the will of the flesh. (b) Accepting suffering is accepting one’s humanity – the road to divinity.
See also: Programming, Book III, Chapter 11; Visualization, Book IV, Chapter 10; Movement & Rest, Book IV, Chapter 18; Consciousness, Book IV, Chapter 21; Creation, Book IV, Chapter 29; Bodies of Men, Book IV, Chapter 32; Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.

18:1 Man must participate in a game to gain power and experience pleasure. And, since fair games are in decline, the power and pleasure of the majority are also in decline. For this reason there is more greed – the obsession with money to buy pleasure, the pleasure one is unable to experience through participation in the game. The pleasure one buys is often no more than an escape from pain, a suspension of boredom, or a way of forgetting. Obsession with the search for pleasure is a symptom of weakness and decadence.

18:2 Man cannot ‘find’ happiness, he can only search and find peace, which will give birth to happiness.

18:3 The well being of the flesh – the body – is called health; the well being of the soul – Spiritual Self – is called peace; and the well being of the heart – the astral body – is called happiness.

18:4 Pleasure is happiness corrupted. He who seeks pleasure creates dams, preventing happiness from reaching him. The happy man has no need for pleasure, as pleasure is a poor replacement for happiness.

18:5 Materialism and carnality are two dominant forces, which promote pleasure at the expense of happiness.

18:7 A child is at peace and happy. As he grows and first enters the pyramid with its games, the ego appears. Then, as the ego enters into the battle for power, the source of pleasure, peace and happiness decline.

19:1 What pain is to the flesh, guilt is to the soul. Pain is the cry of the flesh and guilt is the cry of the soul.

19:2 Shame is a pain coming from publicly experiencing loss in a game or demotion in rank.

19:3 When men no longer feel shame or guilt they become “free” – “liberated” through the power of darkness.

20:1 Man must judge in order to discriminate between superior and inferior, good and bad, right and wrong.

20.2 One has a right to exercise judgment concerning things and concerning the actions of others. Not to be discriminating in one's thinking is inhuman; one must become de-humanized in order to lose the will to judge.

20:3 All can be judged by him who carries a yardstick and has found sufficient evidence on the basis from which to judge. One who has no yardstick and possesses no evidence cannot judge.

20:4 It is an error to judge man as he seldom knows what he is doing, and he is often unable to say “no” to himself.

20:5 The purpose of a judicial system should not be to punish and to condemn the lawbreakers, but to restrain and to create conditions for them to turn away from their disregard for the law.

20:6 Value judgment is an essential component of searching for truth, seeking true progress, or just attempting to avoid disaster and suffering.

21:1 In true love there is always a yearning for unity and intimacy with the object of love.

21:3 One seeks intimacy for the sake of pleasure, power, surrender, death, re-birth…

21:4 Man hungers for intimacy… Two of the most intimate acts are murder and suicide: murder, when it is done with a passion; suicide, when it is devoid of passion.

“Individualism is not personalism, which is the realization in man of the image and likeness of God.” N. Berdyaev

22:1 “To be”, and to play a game, man must maintain mental stability which comes from programming found in the pyramids. They give him identity and power to play the game. At present the pyramids are weak and are not fulfilling their function.* For this reason, man of today is obsessed with individualism – secular self-realization through dangerous self-programming, from which a personal myth, replacing the collective myth may often emerge.

22:2 Individualism is an attempt of man to find "himself" and to find "freedom" through his own strength. It is one of the most deadly of all false paths. Following this path one may become, in due time, caught in the web of false myths leading to alienation and mental disorder.

* When weaknesses in the pyramids appeared in the past, one could turn to a Noble Idea. Today, however, this is seldom an option as the secular Noble Ideas have almost all become discredited.
See also: Book II, Chapters 1&8.

23:1 Man has a free will, and at the same time he is forced to follow his destiny as there are things he cannot change.

23:2 Destiny is rooted in one's genetic and non-genetic programming, as well as cause and effect.

23:3 Genetic programming consists of all that one is born with – strengths, talents, inclination, as well as weaknesses and handicaps. These genes influence one's entire life.

23:4 Non-genetic programming consists of environment and programs created by the fathers.

23:5 Cause and effect are events and experiences taking place as a result of decisions made and actions taken by one in the past, decisions made and actions taken by others, as well as natural events. This follows the law of consequences.

23:6 There are things which one would like to change, but cannot, due to lack of power, will, wisdom or vision.

23:7 The destiny of man can sometimes be modified through conscious labour and volunteer suffering, combined with clear intent and powerful will; the destiny of a nation by a great man. Changing destiny is not an easy task.

24:1 Your heart belongs to your flesh… It gives birth to emotions, like and dislike, love and hatred. But your will belongs to your mind, and when your mind finds truth, your will should not bend… It should become hard like steel, breaking and destroying all that is weak and not of truth.

24:2 To be soft is to be permissive towards oneself and to others. It is to allow disorder and lawlessness, which lead to suffering.

24:3 Seek hardness, in order that the hardness of your will reaches to the weak to make them strong!

25:2 The will of the flesh. From birth onwards one receives impressions, which are carefully recorded by the mind and be remembered as being pleasant or unpleasant. The majority of one's actions and reactions are influenced and directed by those impressions.

25:3 The will of the unrighteous fathers. Actions and decisions are made under the influence and direction of unrighteous fathers. This occurs through programming as a result of being in a state of conscious or unconscious surrender to known, as well as unknown and hidden fathers.

25:4 Strategy of the unrighteous fathers. To keep the slaves, masters must keep them happy by bringing superficial changes to the game in order to avoid repetition and boredom; by allowing controlled and regulated acts of rebellion; by providing new and exciting myths. Most contemporary myths created and propagated by the masters are centered on freedom and rights leading to false hope and unfulfilled vision. This way slaves are rendered impotent and unable to find a path leading to true freedom.

      (1) Adherence to beliefs and ideologies rooted in error.
      (2) Habits, attachments and addictions.
      (3) Cowardice.

       (1) Those who know and are content.
       (2) Those who know and try to escape.
       (3) Those who do not know, the majority.

25:7 Almost all men are slaves, slaves in denial, their souls imprisoned by the world with its masters, and by the flesh with its cravings.

25:8 Only awakening can set man free! A slave can become truly free when he is set free internally. More harm than good will be done to a slave who becomes externally free and remains internally enslaved.

25:10 A slave must become aware that he is enslaved. Only then can he become a seeker of truth that will truly set him free.

25:11 Increase in internal slavery is often the result of increase in external freedom. Increase in internal freedom is often the result of increase in external slavery.

25:12 They keep saying "yes" and building bridges; they are unable to say "no", and build fences. Slaves can never say "no". Only free men can say "no", as they have said "no", in order to become free.

25:13 Slavery was never abolished. It only moved from a primitive to a more sophisticated level.

25:15 Only a warrior can destroy slavery; only a warrior can maintain freedom.

25:16 The chain – a series of rings connected to each other – is a perfect metaphor for slavery. He who breaks the chain divides; he who escapes becomes alienated. A weak escapee will die or become part of a new chain.

25:18 There are many types of chains created by unrighteous fathers for seducing children. They are all chains of slavery and exploitation. The following are three major types of chains created by unrighteous fathers:

       (1) Mental – created for head-centered men.
       (2) Emotional – created for heart-centered men.
       (3) Physical – created for body-centered men.

25:19 In the creation of mental chains, the void of vision becomes exploited. In the creation of emotional chains, the thirst for love and belonging, as well as the desire for revenge become exploited. In the creation of physical chains, greed and the desire for pleasure, become exploited.

26:2 A victim is a person unable or unwilling to resist the advances of unrighteous fathers, or a person who has lost a fight in an unfair game – a game stacked against him, or a game he was forced to enter.

26:3 Forgive the victimizer, he may not know what he is doing, he may not be able to say "no" to himself.

26:4 Contemporary promoters of victimhood are promoting powerlessness and impotence.

27:1 There are eight cardinal poisons, or "potions," served by unrighteous fathers to corrupt minds by awakening robotism, intellectualism, scientism, and legalism; to corrupt hearts by awakening emotionalism and sentimentalism; and to corrupt bodies, by awakening base animal and base sexual energies.

27:2 Robotism is a corruption of natural desire for stability and order. It creates a happy slave. It is a product of robotic training combined with the desire to escape organic life full of the unknown.

27:3 Intellectualism is a corruption of intellect. Intellect not guided by wisdom will interfere with insight and place barriers against direct seeing.

27:5 Legalism is a corruption of the law. It perverts and corrupts the due process of the law. Promoting adherence to the letter, rather than to the spirit of the law.

27:6 Emotionalism is a corruption of healthy human emotions. Overcoming emotionalism is the key to freedom, as it liberates the will.

27:7 Sentimentalism is a corruption of healthy human feelings for the purpose of self-indulgence. Sentimentalism interferes with compassion and makes one soft – capable not of giving but merely of sharing in another's misery.

27:8 Base animal energies are a corruption of healthy human energies. They are the deadliest of all negative energies – the energies of the "animal" in man.

27:9 Base sexual energies bring corruption of the noble act of human procreation. They destroy peace and happiness, replacing it with never-ending search for pleasure.

28:1 Vulgar men are those who are unwilling or unable to seek and find beauty.

28:3 Man was made in the image and likeness of God. Vulgarity debases man and destroys his dignity. A vulgar man retains God's image but loses His likeness.

28:4 Vulgarity is ugly; it should not be tolerated. A noble warrior seeks battle to slay vulgarity, victory to celebrate beauty!

28:5 At the end of times, true beauty will perish and vulgarity will be widespread.

29:1 Error* is an action contrary to the natural law or rule of the game that often brings suffering. He who commits multiple errors becomes a “loser” in the games of men.

29:2 To sin** is to transgress spiritual laws designed to protect man. Sin is that which will bring harm to oneself or to others. The consequences of sin may be experienced in this world, as well in the afterlife.

29:4 It is in the interest of man to avoid sin and error. By not avoiding it, one increases one’s own suffering, as well as the suffering of others.

29:7 The seven “deadly sins” and their corresponding virtues are pride – humility, avarice – generosity, lust – chastity, envy – charity, gluttony – temperance, anger – patience, sloth – diligence.***

29:8 There are cardinal sins which bring “hell” in the afterlife, and they are cardinal errors which bring “hell” in the present world…

29:9 The pain from guilt and shame often guides one away from error and sin.

*A mistake made due to lack of wisdom, leading to wrong judgment, wrong behavior or carelessness.
**Only those who live under the “law” can commit sin, for others there is no sin, only ignorance.
*** John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, composed the first list of “deadly sins.”
See also: Book II, Chapters 1&8.

30:1 Ego-identifications are rooted in experiences of life in the pyramids, which give birth, as well as nourishment to the ego. To live in the world, ego identification is needed. Only an awakened man has the power to transcend it.

30:2 The ego is not only man’s identity, but also his psychological/worldly soul. An attack on a man's ego is also attack on his psychological/worldly soul, and he will defend it unto death.

30:3 One can have up to five egos: family, social, livelihood, tribal and global. Each one is born from identification with a specific pyramid.

30:4 Pyramids are the birthplace as well as the playground of the ego; game is the ego's play; power and pleasure, the reason and purpose of its existence.

30:5 In its evolution, the ego can pass through three different stages: status quo, reform and sometimes, transformation.

30:6 Antagonism is essential to ego existence and to the existence of the game.

30:7 Without awakening, an attempt to destroy or “overcome” ego, can only lead to mental disorder.

“Plagues by anxiety, depression, vague discontents, a sense of inner emptiness, the ‘psychological man’ of the twentieth century seeks neither individual self-aggrandizement nor spiritual transcendence but peace of mind, under conditions that increasingly militate against it. Therapists…become his principal allies in the struggle for composure; he turns to them in the hope of achieving the modern equivalent of salvation, ‘mental health’. Therapy constitutes an antireligion…because modern society ‘has no future’ and therefore gives no thought to anything beyond its immediate needs. Even when therapists speak of the need for ‘meaning’ and ‘love’, they define love and meaning simply as the fulfillment of the patient’s emotional requirements… ‘Love’ as self-sacrifice or self-abasement, ‘meaning’ as submission to a higher loyalty – these sublimations strike the therapeutic sensibility as intolerably oppressive, offensive to common sense and injurious to personal health and well-being… Mental health means the overthrow of inhibitions and the immediate gratification of every impulse.” G. Lasch

31:1 It is the function of the intellect to manage images entering one’s consciousness. The root-cause of the majority of mental disorders, is in the malfunctioning of the intellect. The lack of proper management of images could have a harmful influence upon emotions leading to a variety of mental disorders.

(1) Images with a specific message produced by the thoughts from the conscious mind.

(2) Images with a non-specific message produced by thoughts from the unconscious mind.

31:3 The fundamental reason leading one into mental disorder is realization of powerlessness; the realization of loosing power; the realization of one's inability to maintain power. This will lead to an inability to play a game – the source of power and pleasure – bringing alienation, confusion and despair.

(3) Guilt, shame and anxiety resulting from errors and sins committed by breaking laws, rules and taboos.

(b) Weak pyramids, which are no longer offering stability and a sense of identity.

31:6 When one is dysfunctional to the degree of being unable to play a game, one will experience emotional or mental disorder.

31:7 Mental disorder in man creates disorder in the pyramid; disorder in the pyramid creates disorder in man.

31:8 Programming gives structure to one’s thinking process. Over-programming, multiple programming, malevolent programming or damaged programming will bring conflict of ideas and confusion leading to mental disorder.

31:9 As physical body becomes ‘ill’ when possessed by bacteria, the same way mental body becomes ‘ill’ when become possessed by ‘spiritual bacteria’ – malevolent spirits from the underworld.

31:10 Occasionally, an entity from the underworld, like a ghost may enter man creating chaos, bringing mental disorder, also known as possession.

31:11 There is no mental "illness"! One can only speak of it when an organic disorder is present. Before any healing can begin, the label of illness must be removed. Mental disorder void of biological roots should be classified as behavioral or functional disorder, and treated as such.

31:12 He who swims in the sewer will become contaminated by its poisons. Contaminated by poison, he will spend his life struggling against its effects.

(1) One must have a Center in one's life, which brings identity.
(See: Book IV, Chapter 16).

(2) One must follow an Orderly Orbit, which brings stability.
(See: Book IV, Chapter 17).

(3) One must stay in Flow, which brings continuity.
(See: Book IV, Chapter 18).

(4) One must have Love, which brings peace.
(See: Book IV, Chapter 8).

31:14 Input and output of vital energy is at the center of one’s ability to maintain emotional and mental health. In a well-functioning pyramid, there is a well-functioning game in which input and output of vital energy is balanced. When there is a lack of balance between the input and output, one will experience stress, which will lead to an emotional or even mental disorder.

*New programming or awakening.
See also: Book II; Programming, Book III, Chapter 11; Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28; Spiritual Entities, Book IV, Chapter 31; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32.

32:1 He who separates himself from an orderly orbit will find mental disorder; he who separates himself from the center will find madness.

32:2 Madness is rooted in alienation – from men and from God. This brings permanent ego-identification with thoughts, concepts and ideas created by a confused mind, resulting in the creation of harmful mental images.

32:3 Through alienation from men one progressively loses interest in the games of men. This brings destruction to one's ego-identity, and loss of hope and vision for the future leading to madness. However, for a seeker of God, alienation from men will not lead to madness, since one's identity, vision, goals and hope remain intact, as their roots are in God rather than in the world.

32:4 Madness represents the "end of time," because linear thinking needed to play a game is being substituted with the non-linear thinking by men without power.

32:5 The process of madness will lead one inward to the creation of internal games, games not regulated by outside rules, thus creating inward havoc with serious external consequences.

32:6 There is individual and collective madness. Individual madness feeds off collective madness and collective madness feeds off individual madness.

33:1 Just as a tree has no strength in itself to bear fruit without fertile soil, sun, air and rain, so man has no strength in himself to produce fruit without nutritious food, water, sun and air for his body, mental food for his mind and spiritual food for his soul.

33:3 Before one can give, one must receive. To receive one must empty oneself. To empty oneself, one must realize that what one possesses may not be worth keeping.

33:4 There is an appearance and an essence to every man. All can see the appearance, but few can see the essence.

33:5 Some men fight to possess things possessed by others; others fight to relinquish things possessing them.

33:7 Nothing in this world is equal and nothing is the same. He who no longer discriminates against that which is inferior follows the path of destruction.

33:10 Reason and logic are no more than tools given to man to accomplish certain goals.

33:11 Men fear war and death. And yet, rebirth is only possible after death, and peace is only possible after war.

33:12 Death should neither be welcome or unwelcome. To welcome death is to be ungrateful for the gift of life; not to welcome death is to show attachment to life and unwillingness to go.

33:13 People dislike discussing religion and politics because they are afraid of having their beliefs shattered and their faith destroyed. This would damage the programming they need to exercise power, and have pleasure.

33:14 It may not be fair for one man to be rich and another poor, and it may not be just for all men to be equally rich.

33:15 Brave men wander in the unknown in search of the unknown, risking confusion and madness; they return with wealth for themselves and others. Cowards stay at home reinforcing the known; they never find wealth for themselves or others.

Book I

Selected Sayings Concerning

Human Beings

(a)	Awakened men. Those capable of seeing into "their own true nature". They were "born again" through the Spirit and the Truth.
(b)	Natural men. They are programmed by fathers and controlled by the will of the flesh, rooted in the automatic pleasure-pain response.
(c)	Dehumanized men. They consist of zombies, robots and lost souls. Zombies are heavy drug users controlled by legal or illegal drugs. Robots are reliable workers not participating in the game. Lost souls are non-functional, totally powerless individuals.

(a)	Positive, righteous and just, or negative, unrighteous and unjust.
(b)	Conscious and obvious, or unconscious and subtle.
(c)	Aggressive or defensive.
(d)	Directed against others or directed against oneself.

(1)	Positive, which brings happiness, and negative, which brings suffering.
(2)	Conscious/unconscious – emotions which one is aware/not aware of.
(3)	Visible/invisible – emotions one displays and makes visible, or emotions one does not display and make visible.
(4)	Strong/weak. Strong emotions will awaken imagination, producing powerful visions, and encourage the will to act.
(5)	Sentimental emotions present in those no longer capable of experiencing healthy emotions.
(6)	Static. Moods are static emotions

(a)	Violence against others or oneself.
(b)	Crying, screaming or singing.
(c)	Meditation or therapeutic exercises.

(1)	The status quo stage begins with a strong and functional ego, and ends with a weak and stagnant ego.
(2)	The reform stage consists of orderly growth, with humility and mild neurosis as its catalysts.
(3)	The transformation stage begins with mental upheaval leading first to chaos, then to a higher state of consciousness, bringing awareness of one’s spiritual identity.