THE END OF AN ILLUSION

We are approaching the end of our current cycle of historical manifestation. The Mayan end-date of 2012, despite the variables involved in the alignment phenomenon it was intended to target, has become the date in popular consciousness for "th end." But, the end of what? At the terminal point of the darkest age of materialism an illusion, what is it that will be ending? The answer can only be materialism and illusion. Perhaps then we should welcome this transformation as much-needed shift away from everything that deludes and binds us more deeply int realms of despair and decadence. We are so far gone that we no longer even acknowledge the current situation as being lamentable, but actively buy into and feed all that kills us.

The certainity of the impending "end" of modern civilisation is not a new revelation. Renee Gueenon, still hugely ignored in the West, nailed it to the wall over fifty years ago. Despite being criticised as nihilistic, his message is optimistic for those who can transcend their historical, ego-rooted, identities and be in service to a higher good.

Those who will be successful in overcoming
all these obstacles (of modern spiritual deca-
dence) and triumphing over the hostility of
an environment opposed to all spirituality will
doubtless be few in numbers ; but once again,
it is not numbers that count here, for this is
a realm where the laws are quite other than
those of matter. There is therefore no occasion
for despondency; and even where there is no
hope of achieving any visible result before the
collapse of the modern world through a catas-
strophe, that would still not be a valid reason to
refrain from embarking upon a work extending
in scope far beyond the present time. Those who
may feel tempted to give way to discourage-
ment should remind themselves that nothing
accomplished within this order can ever be lost,
that confusion, error and darkness can enjoy
no more than a specious and purely ephemeral
triumph, that every kind of partial and transi-
tory disequilibrium perforce contribute
towards the great equilibrium of the whole, and
that nothing can ultimately prevail against the
power of truth; for their motto they should take
the one adopted in former times by certain ini-
tiatory organisations in the West: Vincit omnia
Veritas.

Vincit omnia Veritas: Truth conquers all. Let go of illusion. Stop feeding fear. This are times of death and renewal, big questions, hard truths, and universal process power- fully coming in to play within human culture that has lost its ability to appreciate its connection to such universal processes. What is now ending thus seems to be a paradigm that has already lost all sense of orientation, all sense of true being. Everything of value that might be lost in a global cataclysm has already been lost in the steep attrition of Kali Yuga (the Iron Age). The materialist delusion has run its course. There is no better way to end than with the prophetic words of Gueenon himself, written over half a century ago. The ultimate terminal moment of the current historical cycle only appears to be the "end of the world"

to those who see nothing beyond the limits of
this particular cycle. A very excusable error of
perspective it is true, but one that has nonethe-
less some regrettable consequences in the exces-
sive and unjustified terrors to which it gives rise
in people who are not sufficiently detached from
terrestrial existence; and naturally they are the
very people who form this erroneous conception
most easily, just because of the narrowness of
their point of view.... The end now under con-
sideration is undeniably of considerably greater
importance then any other, for it is the end of a
whole Mnavantara, and so of the temporal exist-
ence of what may rightly be called a humanity,
but this, it must be said once more, in no way
implies that it is the end of the terrestrial world
itself, because, through the "reinstatement" that
takes place at the final instant, this end will
itself immediately become the beginning of
another Manvantara.... If one does not stop short
of the most profound order of reality, it can be
said in all truth that the "end of a world" never
is and never can be anything but the end of an
illusion.

Excerpted from Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciounsness According to Mayan, Egyptian and Vedic Traditions by John Major Jenkins.