‘First Principles and First Values of Evolving Perennialism’ (May 2023, Office for the Future)
The document presents itself as a unifying moral and philosophical framework designed to guide humanity through “meta-crisis,” claiming to recover “universal first principles” from spiritual traditions (especially the “perennial philosophy”) while promoting a vision of “planetary wholeness,” “dignity,” and “shared sensemaking.” It repeatedly uses terms like “sacred,” “sovereignty,” “truth,” “beauty,” and “goodness” to create the illusion of continuity with traditional metaphysical and moral realism. This is the doctrine of Game B - so remember who is cheerleading that initiative to “Phoenix The Republic” among many other goals.
2/ Operational Function
Beneath the sacred-sounding language, the document is a technocratic blueprint for embedding a totalitarian panentheistic monism into global governance. It does not defend Natural Law, Popular Sovereignty, or the inalienable rights of persons as metaphysically real. Instead it enables and facilitates Ontological Reversal:
It replaces being with becoming (process metaphysics)
Nature with emergence (constructivism)
Virtue with integration (systems compliance)
These shifts operationalize gnostic and neoplatonic metaphysics disguised as moral universalism.
🐍Synthetic “Spiritual” Grammar:
The “First Principles” are not grounded in ontology but in functional coherence within global systems; a coded moral-operational grammar fit for AI, behavioural algorithms and socio-technical modeling.
🐍Prisca Theologia Weaponized:
The “ancient wisdom” cited (Hermes Trismegistus, Plotinus, Teilhard de Chardin, etc.) is deployed not as spiritual formation but as epistemic architecture to justify planetary-scale soft-totalitarian convergence; governed by predictive behavioural models, not conscience or moral agency.
☠️Universal Moral Operating System:
The framework is designed to supersede all constitutions, religions, and legal traditions by embedding algorithmic authority beneath the appearance of pluralistic agreement. It is morally neutralized, consensus-driven and behaviorally enforced.
☠️Technocratic Containment of Dissent:
Language of “wholeness,” “transcendence,” “universal dignity,” and “meta-integration” is used to diffuse opposition and suppress political sovereignty by subsuming it into the rhetoric of “planetary consciousness evolution”.
3/ Primary Purpose:
To install a metaphysically inverted, AI-compatible moral grammar; derived from ancient emanationism and gnostic perennialism, as the core operating system of a post-constitutional, post-sovereign, technocratic world order. Its function is compliance through spiritualized consent, not liberty. It is however, marketed as “Freedom”. This instrumentalization of hermetic principles and alchemical processes is not a ‘return to wisdom’. It is a sophisticated ontological coup, hiding in sacred robes and guru charisma, rewiring man’s interior orientation so that he demands his own behavioural programming. It reanimates the prisca theologia not for reverence, but for predictive success in managing man as system of impulses - inputs and outputs, not a person with moral agency. It is Luciferian gnosis for the age of algorithms.
4/ ‘First Principles and First Values of Evolving Perennialism’
(Office for the Future, 2023)
5/ Monistic, Emanationist and Neoplatonic Foundations
The document openly declares a 🐍monistic metaphysical vision:
“The one is manifest as the many and the many are expressions of the one.”
“This worldview can be called non-dual, integral, holistic, cosmotheandric, evolutionary and participatory…”
“Panentheism is an accurate name for the metaphysical picture being offered.”
This aligns explicitly with Neoplatonic, Rosicrucian and Theosophical metaphysics; not with classical Realism. The use of “participatory” and “cosmotheandric” language under neoplatonic emanationism marks a rejection of distinction between Creator and creation, erasing metaphysical hierarchy and replacing it with emanationist continuity.
☠️Club of Rome Endorsement and Operational Network☠️
‘First Principles & First Values’ proudly admits institutional affiliation:
“This document was composed with support from the Office for the Future… launched under the auspices of The Club of Rome…”
This places the entire operation squarely within the technocratic global policy infrastructure:
Club of Rome
Tavistock-aligned think tanks
UN/SDGs
Evolving Perennialism spiritual-epistemic compliance schema
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🧵Integrity of the Human Person - Soul, Mind & Body
To understand classical metaphysical realism is to recognize that a human person is not ‘a body’ plus ‘a mind’ plus ‘some information’. A person is a substance; an embodied, rational creature whose created soul IS the form of the body. Mind is not a separable commodity (not a ‘thing’ that can be extracted, uploaded, leased, tokenized, or assigned its own jurisdiction). Bodily integrity is not a negotiable wrapper around a more ‘real’ subjective inner self; it is the integrity of the same being. Inalienable rights arise from the kind of being you ARE (essential nature - ontological), not from the kind of function you can perform, identity you project, or the kind of system you can interface with. Hylomorphism is a metaphysical ‘NO’ to every program that tries to treat the person as a modular stack. It refuses the split that attempts to rationalize what Jennifer is warning us about in her article extract. I’ll break this down further in the thread below but for a TL;DR gist, here’s a very short video intro to hylomorphism and its negation in academia and education.
2/ The corruption - replacing ontology with biology
When ontology is replaced by ‘biology’, the human being is no longer approached as a unified substance with intrinsic powers ordered to real ends, but as a managed organism:
The body becomes a system (inputs/outputs, optimization, risk management).
‘Nature’ is no longer essential, but instrumentalized - confined to description without normativity (what is measurable is what is real; what is real is what is manipulable).
The human is redefined as a living platform rather than a moral agent with intrinsic intelligible ends; man, woman ….etc.
Once that happens, rights stop being recognitions of what a person is and start becoming regulatory instruments for managing a population of systems. Rights as a TOOL OF governance, not a BOUNDARY AGAINST governance. open.substack.com/pub/jbilek/p/g…
3/ Bait & Switch - metaphysics replaced by method
The decisive hinge operationalized in academia and education. ‘Method’ promises™️ neutrality (🐍🙄 of course it does - the first big lie) procedures, metrics, compliance frameworks, ‘evidence-based’ policies, stakeholder processes, therapeutic protocols, behavioural nudges, risk models.
But method can’t tell you what a person IS. So it quietly seeds and reinforces in a substitute anthropology:
The human becomes whatever the method can operationalize.
The good becomes whatever the system can measure.
The true becomes whatever the process can stabilize.
That’s how a civilization moves from ‘rights are inalienable’ to ‘rights are permissions granted to controllable categories’ and look at those categories in the excerpt from Jennifer’s article. This sleight of hand does not deny inalienable rights explicitly - it simply makes ontological realism unnecessary to ‘administer’ the systems of the world that you buy into and feel you can’t opt out of without tremendous sacrifice. And lets face it - despite a secondary and tertiary education, who really understands what ontological realism is, enough that it informs their capacity not only to say “this is bullshit - now fuck off” - but also to present the exact precise procedural and legal reasoning in specific relation to the upholding and defence of inalienable rights as established in the Founding Documents? Those documents don’t defend and uphold themselves - that’s your job as formed responsible individuals with the knowledge, comprehension and articulation to do that. And of course, the spine to stand your ground no matter what’s thrown at you. open.substack.com/pub/jbilek/p/g…
🧵NOT a ‘Leftist Experiment’ (propagandizing = off the charts)
American civic liberty is not the product of politics. It is the fruit of metaphysical realism. The Founding’s self-government only functions when it grows from a prior ontological chain; the Creator-creature distinction establishes intelligible reality as measure, Aristotelian–Thomistic realism clarifies that natures are real and teleology is objective and Natural Law anthropology establishes man as imago Dei; a rational moral agent capable of judgment and accountable conscience. This thread provides you with more detail on the how & why.
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So then what is SCSR? Scottish Common Sense Realism (SCSR) does not replace this foundation; it is a defensive articulation that protects these preconditions from modern skeptical collapse, preserving first principles, testimony and the basic trustworthiness of ordinary knowing. Only on this basis can Founding jurisprudence hold; with The People as citizens not subjects, the exercise of popular sovereignty under law (not Democracy) and constitutional limits that restrain power because truth stands above will.
3/ The dead tree to the right shows what happens when realism is severed from its roots and you’ve lived through it - as your parents and grandparents also did. Nature dissolved into nominalism, moral order replaced by voluntarism and autonomy as gnostic - man enthroned as the highest authority. In that condition, the public cannot sustain self-rule, because judgment is no longer formed by reality but by competing narratives, identities and ideological ‘frameworks’. With realist metaphysics severed (denied, rejected, removed from Education and the Academy) Politics™️ then fills the vacuum. However, it does not simply do this as a means of parasitically usurping constitutional governance but also (and most powerfully) as a substitute metaphysic terraforming the mind of man. Terra/(terror!) (earth/material - remember Gramsci and his absolute terrestrialization of thought?!). Under precisely THIS terraforming of the public mind through Idea Laundering in the Academy (& Seminary) Ideology becomes a false root system. Most useful to Statecraft as it can produce endless agitation, enforcement and regime management. Of course it cannot form and generate moral agency, stable rights, or lawful civic order. It is designed and deployed to debilitate, destroy and negate them. This is why the Republic cannot be restored through politics alone; its roots must be restored first.
Subversion succeeds because the defenders (of e.g. a nation) cannot name what is happening. They are trained to interpret hostile action through the wrong categories. They are miseducated in a type of formation which produces permanent misrecognition and this is the ‘Education’🐍which has been in place for a long time. It guarantees policy failure no matter how many ‘facts’ are presented. Western nations are not losing because they lack information. They’re losing because they lack a realist threat-perception framework AND this situation serves specific vested interests, hence the refusal to acknowledge it at the highest levels AND the unwillingness to resource appropriate Education to counter the threats through equipping key personnel in addition to the public at large.
2/ So even when evidence exists, it gets metabolized into activism, polarization, disinformation, domestic extremism and the slogan which further serves to negate the American Constitutional Republic - ‘democracy under threat’ (America is not a ‘democracy’ and never has been, but huge efforts are in play to condition the people into accepting it as such, which serves the roll out of technocratic AI governance). HUGE marketing push on this currently. Observe how many times tech moguls and Influencers (and bot swarms) all push the term ‘democracy’ because it serves global governance mechanisms under emerging Communitarian models/systems and Networked States etc.
3/ The failure is to recognize political warfare in action aimed at epistemic collapse for the disabling of judgment - the failure to accurately name what’s going on. The decisive battlefield is the formation of judgment and the regime funding the destabilization survives by ensuring that the defenders (personnel and public) cannot perceive reality AS reality. Instead there is diversion into ‘fact checking’, personalities/scandal, money trails and partisan framing, instead of the deeper issue; what analytic firewall is missing such that personnel (and public) can’t even see (recognize) the operational form of subversion?
The consequence of NOT saying “…and the Son” obviously has theologically implications and consequences, but what I don’t see recognized (as yet) are the geopolitical, ontological and metaphysical ones. How this translates through to the civic level of operation. I’m no theologian and am not attempting a theological discussion per se here, but rather, looking at the downstream consequences in operation. Forgive me if I make specific theological mistakes due to my own ignorance or misunderstanding, I’m trying to get to the specifics of the consequences in civic application for both believers AND non believers. Please bear with me in this thread, as I try to work through this and of course, for the theology, please seek clarification from the theologians themselves. My focus is as ever, downstream civic consequences in practise.
2/ In the Nicene Creed as recited in the East, the Holy Spirit proceeds:
“…from the Father.”
In the West (since the 6th–11th centuries), the Creed includes:
“…from the Father and the Son.”
This is the Filioque clause. The Filioque is not a linguistic dispute; it is an ontological one.
It concerns the inner life of God Himself; the procession of Persons within the Trinity.
3/ Removing “and the Son” does three things in this context:
It symbolically yields the Western (Latin) tradition to the Eastern one. In this setting - on the site of Nicea - the optics are of Rome capitulating to Constantinople’s original form.
It erases 1,000+ years of doctrinal development that differentiated East and West. The Filioque was the clearest theological marker of the Western metaphysical grammar.
It signals a move toward a “lowest common denominator” creed - acceptable to all branches of Christianity - thus softening the particularities of each tradition. Not saying “and the Son” is an act of theological flattening.
🧵Shared civic metaphysics is not tyranny; it’s prevention of it
When people say, “requiring shared metaphysics in civic life is tyranny - you can’t dictate what I must believe,” they are confusing two entirely different things; private belief and public ontology. Their objection only sounds plausible because modern culture has erased the distinction. A constitutional republic does not require citizens to hold the same theology, join the same church, or pray the same prayers. The Founders rejected that explicitly. But every constitutional republic - every single one in human history - rests on some set of presumptions about what a human being is, what reason is for, how responsibility works and what counts as a real moral claim. These are not theological claims.
They are civic metaphysics and without them, self-government is impossible.
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A political community cannot function if some of its members believe human beings are moral agents capable of choosing in light of truth, while others believe people are organisms determined by social inputs, or self-creating wills unconstrained by nature, or mere data vessels optimized by systems. These are not private disagreements. They are incompatible definitions of the subject of law, the bearer of rights and the agent of responsibility. The Founders took it for granted that citizens shared a minimal ontology; that humans are rational creatures, that truth is real enough for public reasoning, that moral obligations exist independently of desire and that rights flow from that reality. These presumptions were not optional; they were prerequisites for deliberation itself. Without them, law becomes arbitrary, courts become managerial and elections become clashes of mutually unintelligible worldviews.
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To deny this and claim that any shared metaphysical ground is imposing tyranny’ is to demand the impossible; a republic in which people do not even agree on what a person is. That is not liberty at all - it is civic anarchy consequently followed by administrative domination, because the vacuum must eventually be filled by someone’s anthropology - usually the one with institutional/corporate power! This is why the post Enlightenment ‘modern’ appeal to ‘metaphysical neutrality’ is the real tyranny. It allows the State, corporations, the Foundations, the credentialing system, or elite institutions to impose an implicit metaphysics - a constructivist one - while pretending that no such metaphysics exists! Under the banner of tolerance, it inserts and imposes a worldview in which human nature is malleable, moral agency is diminished and rights no longer constrain power. The public is told that ‘nothing is being imposed’, while everything is being redefined!