15-03-2016, 10:52 AM
Kara Dellacioppa Wrote:Im looking up the interview now. I wasnt' aware of Annie Besants connection to Marx.
In Webster Tarpley's Just to Weird book on Mitt Romney. he has a passage where he makes a connection of Karl Marx's works being used by British agents to de stabilize other European nations. Interesting that his collaborator was Engels, a guy from a wealthy industrialist family. In his expose of Mormonism, he points out that in the 19th Century, the British elite were also big fans of Mormonism and that Britain was one of the biggest recruitment countries for Mormonism.. Anyway he makes interesting analogies of how the Brits used protestantism in Korea, Marxism in Europe, the Bahai Faith in Iran and the Mormons in America to destabilize countries on several continents... And Theosophy in India, etc etc...
And as you know Kara, and just to mention in passing, Smith's Mormonism drew extremely heavily from Smith's grounding in Freemasonry and other magical practices, as detailed in the essay: Occultic and Masonic Influence in Early Mormonism, although there are plenty of other articles and books out there on this. As far as I can see, Smith had a huge appetite as a gold digging, wealth accumulating con man. Just like L Ron Hubbard I suppose...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14