The Law of Entropy

And what can I tell you about entropy? It’s something that’s in plain sight. If you put a pot of hot water next to a pot filled with cold water, you will see how entropy precipitates. There’s an exchange of the heat and the cold, and finally entropy triumphs and both are equalized.

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The twins Castor and Pollux invite us to reflection. It is in fact known that in nature, manifested matter and the occult energy symbolized in the heat, light, electricity, the chemical energies and other superior ones which are still unknown to us, always process themselves in an inverse manner and the appearance of one presupposes the entropy or disappearance of the other; no less and no more than the mysterious brothers Castor and Pollux, a symbol of such a phenomenon among the Greeks. They alternately lived and died in the same manner that matter and energy anywhere are alternately born and die, appear and disappear.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Entropy and Sacrifice

The process of Gemini is vital in Cosmo-genesis. The original earth was a sun that gradually condensed at the expense of a nebulous ring when, by irradiation or cooling down, the first solid film of our globe was determined by means of the chemical phenomenon of dissipation or entropy of the energy which constitutes the gross states of matter which we call solid and liquid.

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Well, I don't like to be dividing words so much. But in any case, it’s a Greek word that means transformation. In Greek, it means transformation.

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Entropy is an involutive, descending law of an equalizing and degenerating character. Why does it mean transformation in Greek? Well, it’s correct! It has another meaning—the Law of Entropy cannot be overcome without transformation; that’s obvious. But we in the West (strictly speaking, in the modern world) don’t use the word transformation for entropy. We say it must be overcome with transformation, and we know that transformation only takes place through the sacrifice of an inferior force for the sake of a superior one.

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Millions of people today, for example, are stuck on the path of entropy. Since they don’t work on themselves, they become more idiotic every day, their minds atrophying, the centers of the organic machine more and more degenerated, all the areas of the brain no longer working, and finally the day will come when the Law of Entropy will equalize them all down below in the Tartarus.

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Haven’t you noticed how the Law of Entropy equalizes people? Someone can be buried in a golden coffin and someone else in a wooden coffin, and no matter how beautiful the sepulcher may be, in the long run they end up the same, one as bony as the other; death equalizes them all, that’s obvious. That’s entropy.

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So, these humanoids who populate the face of the Earth, these three-brained or tricentered bipeds will one day all be equalized, degenerated and incapable, identical, hardly distinguishable from one another.

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And we also know that there is a law, and that law is none other than the Law of Entropy. If we do not work on our thoughts, if we do not work on our mind, if we do not work on the “I”, on the “me-myself”, on the “oneself”, etc., thoughts tend to be of a more and more inferior nature, emotions become more and more negative, volitions gradually become weaker, they fall into entropy, areas of the brain become weaker (and not all the areas of the brain work, as at other times, but only a few; the best doctors, the best men of science, know this); they fall into entropy.

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Everything tends, then, to involute according to the Law of Entropy, and in the long run, entropy leads to the equalization of things. For example, in the golden coffin of a rich man and in the coffin of a poor man, the two bodies are equal in the end because only bones remain of them.

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Let us observe the Earth; they say it moves slower every day, in other words, the rotation on its axis is getting slower and slower each day due to the high tides and friction of the waters. On the other hand, the Sun is said to be cooling down. I don’t think that’s so but I do say that as the Earth’s atmosphere becomes thinner, it will lose the capacity to screen and break down the Sun’s rays into light and heat. At the rate we’re going, the Moon will drift off if the rotational speed diminishes. That’s the thinking, and I believe it’s so; that’s entropy.

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One day the Earth will be just another moon; entropy will have equalized it. For a start, let’s see how it’s doing under the Law of Entropy, how it is. The oceans are already turned into garbage dumps, fish dying, rivers polluted, creatures dying, the atmosphere polluted with smog, the fruits of the Earth adulterated; that’s obvious.

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The pseudo-sapients who “know everything” have done away with the true fruits of the Earth. Now you can’t even find apples to eat, and we have to choke down Golden Delicious [apples]. Seedless oranges from California! Have you ever seen anything more stupid? Of course, that is the Law of Entropy; the know-it-alls are satisfied with their “wisdom” without knowing that what they’ve done is they’ve degenerated the vegetables, sending them down the path of entropy.

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At the rate we’re going, the lands will become sterile, and atomic explosions (because they’ve just made a killing financially), if we continue like this, the Earth will one day be equalized, it will become another moon.

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At present, the seas have become enormous garbage dumps; if everything continues like this, in forty years, half of humanity will have disappeared. Everything will be equalized by death.

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In high flights of the Being, one can investigate inside the belly of the Moon, what happens in the bowels of our neighboring satellite. There we have a group of Selenite “I’s” that belonged to a lunar type of people from when that satellite was inhabited (one day long ago, that satellite was inhabited, long before this Earth on which we live came into existence).

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The Moon is ancient. When it had real life, it also had people, humanity, and today one finds the remains of those people among the Selenite “I’s” of the infernal lunar worlds; they’re all the same, indistinguishable from one another. The Law of Entropy has equalized them in the same way that it equalizes two corpses in the long run even if one has been buried in a golden box and another in a wooden box; in the long run, they’re left equalized. The Law of Entropy is in charge of equalizing the rich and the poor and everybody; that is the crude reality of the facts.

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In the long run, there’s disorder with entropy. Isn’t there? As we see in the atoms and molecules of a cadaver, there’s disorder. There’s disorder in a library, for example, if it’s not cleaned, if order isn’t established, book upon book, paper upon paper, keep piling up, and in the long run it’s chaos that nobody understands, disorder. On the other hand, everything is different with transformation; with transformation, order is produced, an atomic order. There’s something that’s always left me thinking— we find order in any molecule of the universe. There’s order in the petals of a flower, there’s order in the ions and electrons of an atom. Obviously, if there’s order in an atom or molecule, it means there’s an ordering force because I couldn’t conceive of order in a molecule of copper or starch without an ordering force.

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Now, an ordering force must be an intelligent force because I could not believe, I could never accept, that an ordering force could arise by chance because chance is not intelligent. Now, if chance is capable of producing that ordering force, undoubtedly, that chance ceases to be chance and becomes an intelligent principle.

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So, by exact logic we can say the directing, ordering principle of all that is, has been, and will be, is the Creator Demiurge. Only that marvelous, ordering force that brought the universe into existence can realize extraordinary transformations. But if one does not use that ordering force, the Law of Entropy gradually produces disorder of the molecules, disorder of the atoms, disorder of the mind, disorder of psychological principles, and thus we all end up equalized, converted into something that has not the least importance. That is the crude reality of the facts.

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Fortunately, the wisdom of the Theomegalogos has it all very well calculated. We already know that only through transformation is it possible to overcome the Law of Entropy because transformation includes sacrifice; that is ostensible.

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Concretely, what does transformation really mean? With regard to this, much might be argued or objected to; someone might argue that transformation has nothing to do with sacrifice or vice versa but I’ve brought up the subject of transformation because it is fundamental to sacrifice.

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Let's look at this concretely. Oil is sacrificed in the locomotive for the sake of the propelling power that makes the train travel on its rails. In other times, coal or charcoal was specially used for this purpose; so, it was sacrificed, the coal for the sake of momentum.

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But let’s see how different these two aspects themselves are (coal and a running train). Let’s take a piece of coal or charcoal, examine it, and see a running train; they’re completely different ...

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However, by means of sacrifice, it’s possible to transform coal or charcoal into momentum, into velocity ...

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The fuel in a locomotive, for example, is sacrificed. For the sake of what? For the energy that sets the whole train in motion; that is sacrifice. If the engine is coal-fired like the old ones were, that fuel is sacrificed. For what? For the sake of energy, for the sake of making the train move. Yes, when an inferior force is sacrificed for the sake of a superior one, there is transformation. What happens is that the outcome is so different (because, let’s see, for example) a fuel like coal is different from the energy of the train; when it’s sacrificed, it becomes something so different because the energy that puts the train in motion is completely different from the energy of the coal; they’re different.

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In any case, by means of sacrifice, an inferior force is transformed into a superior and different force, as in the example we’ve cited of the coal and the engine.

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Likewise, when a man sacrifices his sexual impulses, the result of that energy becomes the superior existential bodies of the Being. Do you see how distinct, how different, the result is?

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From another angle, we could affirm that but that’s not what we’re proposing on this topic. Nevertheless, since you like to bring up other laws, I will gladly put in quotation marks and underline, “When an inferior law is transcended by a superior law, the superior law washes away the inferior law.” For an inferior law to be transcended by a superior law, it’s necessary for the inferior law to be sacrificed by the superior law. Right? And when it is sacrificed, transformation comes, and transformation converts the inferior law into a superior law.

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Jesus Christ sacrificed himself extensively for humanity. Why? He needed to open the path of initiation publicly for us (deep down, there’s something more to it).

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But we’re also told that in Mithras-worship a god appears over a beast, piercing it with a dagger; life then arises from the blood of that beast—plants, and all that is, has been, and will be (Mithras-worship spread throughout Europe).

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Yes, the transformation will take place on the basis of sacrifice. The sacrifice will cause a great catastrophe. Christ himself sacrificed himself on Golgotha to overcome the Law of Entropy. And the God Mithras was mounted on a bull with a knife stuck in the animal’s back; from the blood that was shed from that sacred bull, plants and all that is, has been, and will be, sprang forth. That tells us the same thing, sacrifice is indispensable for transformation; transformation is urgent to transcend entropy. If one does nothing, if he does not sacrifice even his own bitterness, he will be the victim of the Law of Entropy. People don’t feel like sacrificing themselves, no. They don’t comprehend the Law of Sacrifice, or they believe that fruitful work can be done without sacrifice, which is absurd because if one begins with great enthusiasm, for example, but without the spirit of sacrifice, sooner or later the Law of Entropy will come into action and his work will fail. But if one begins a work on the basis of sacrifice, it will cause incessant transformations, and his work will grow and will be fruitful everywhere; it’s clear.

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The very word sacrifice transforms us into apostles. Christ sacrificed himself to overcome the Law of Entropy, and this crucifixion and sacrifice must be made in each of us.

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Currently the Earth, for example, is marching completely in accordance with the Law of Entropy, and if there’s no great sacrifice it will be equalized in the future, becoming just one more moon. But the program has not been completed (each planet has to have its seven races before it becomes a moon); a great sacrifice must be made, a catastrophe is needed, and the sacrificer will be the Theomegalogos.

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A catastrophe is needed. What for? To transform it, this Earth; this humanity must be sacrificed, all this must be transformed, sacrificed. A transformation is needed, and as a result of that transformation of energies, a new Earth will emerge with its Golden Age and beauty.

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So, catastrophe is an indispensable necessity in order to overcome the Law of Entropy. If there were no such catastrophe, the Law of Entropy would end up equalizing the Earth with the Moon; it would be just another moon before its time. But thanks to the transformation that will take place with this sacrifice, which will be a catastrophe, a new Golden Age and a new humanity will emerge ... …

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… … The Earth, then, is in agony; entropy is taking it, little by little, until it becomes a moon. Anyone who has a little vision can know it. Only through transformation can it manage to not yet become a moon, for something new to emerge from the chaos.

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The Earth must be saved so the seven races can be completed. The planet must be sacrificed with the holocaust of fire, the banquet of water, and the combat of the elements, all according to the Law. The Gospel according to the Law is the Gospel of St. Luke.

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Keep in mind that people base their experiences on the sufferings they went through, on the bitterness they had; “they became what they are today thanks to having suffered so much.” Rare is the one willing to sacrifice his sufferings. People are not willing to sacrifice their sufferings. Why?

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They love them so much! Who doesn’t love them? Yes, observe people, look at them. You who are a practical man, observe the psychology of people and you will see how they love their sufferings. Everyone loves them and boasts of them; they enjoy reminiscing about them, “When I went through this and that, when I sold sweets on the street to become what I am today, Dr. So-and-So, or the powerful head of such-and-such a company. I, who sold newspapers, I, who slept on the sidewalk. How much I suffered!” Take that away from someone? No, they don’t want that; people love their own sufferings too much.

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Yes, and they enjoy it. However rich they become, and powerful and happy in their luxury, they remember their sufferings from time to time; thus, remembering them, they feel self-important.

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So, if one does nothing, if one doesn’t transform, if one doesn’t sacrifice himself or sacrifice something, he doesn’t transform, he’s swallowed by the Law of Entropy; that’s obvious. It’s worth reflecting on all these things.

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We’ve heard you. There is no doubt that your concept of sacrifice is full of a very profound cosmic beauty; I only allow myself to disagree about the pain factor because, obviously, this must exist in sacrifice or sacred-service.

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He who wants to self-realize must sacrifice himself. All sacrifice is frightful; one must be willing to lose what is dearest to him. Sacrifice itself is painful.

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If we were to think that creating an enterprise like Canada and Europe is painless, the missions of Canada and of Europe would be driven to entropy ...

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Between MI and FA there is a pause in order to move on to the next goal. We must continue the battles, no matter the pain, until all the inferior forces are transformed into superior forces.

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All forces must be transformed into something different. The true Man has to sacrifice himself to become the Superman of Nietzsche.

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Every sacrifice is painful by nature; the sacrifice of the Superman costs much blood. So, it is well worth understanding because on this basis we can withstand all the setbacks of life. Any company that works without sacrifice has no victory, and is just any old company.

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