F4 is a confirmed secular intolerant. This means that values in general including right and wrong are a matter of subjective ethics conditioned by family, friends, and society. Ethics pertains to the outer man. The inner man or what we ARE as opposed to conditioning either doesn’t exist or is unimportant.
The distortions of the great beast survive through secular intolerance or the emotional defense of absurdity. Many fine people have been psychologically harmed by secular religion and its attempt to indoctrinate the outer man. In the process it has hurt the inner man and served as real spirit killers. Spirit killing crushes the inner man as it promotes its conceptions of the outer man. I’ll try and explain this by comparing the words exoteric with esoteric through an article on it.
http://www.kheper.net/topics/esotericis ... oteric.htm
Esoteric means the "inner" (eso-), in the sense of the inner consciousness; the contemplative, mysticalor meditative transpersonal perspective. This is something different from the ordinary everyday understanding of things, and can only be understood by intuition or higher mental or spiritual faculties.
The opposite of Esoteric is Exoteric, which means the "outer" (exo-), i.e. the outer or surface or everyday consciousness. This includes both the scientific-materialistic and the conventional (or literal) religious perspective. As it is based on the everyday understanding of things, and does not require any transformation of consciousness (and indeed considers any such transformation to be harmful), it assumes that the everyday mind alone can understand Reality. (Things are not always that simple though, because in order to do, say, quantum physics one requires a mathematical intuition not shared by many).
Right away there is a problem because a lot of the harm people have endured makes them deny the inner man so they become secular intolerants as a defense mechanism.
Central to the distinction between Esoteric and Exoteric is that of states of consciousness. An Exoteric philosophy or religion as one which is based on the normal waking state of consciousness, or a modified state of consciousness which is still pretty close to the normal waking state. Any aspiration beyond the ordinary state of existence is discouraged. For example, according to the religious person, "God created/loves you just as you are", so who are you to question what God has ordained for you by striving for some higher state of consciousness? While according to the sceptical Materialist, there is no higher state beyond the rational mind anyway (all non-rational states of consciousness being delusionary).
In contrast, all true Esotericism is Gnostic. That is, it is based on Higher Knowledge, or Gnosis, to use the Greek term. Gnosis is a much superior way of understanding than Reason. Reason stumbles around with premises and logical arguments, and uses these in its own way, without regard for higher truth. With reason alone, you can equally prove or disprove any statement. Certainly, used properly, reason is an invaluable aid to understanding and approaching the Truth. But used improperly, it can cunningly justify any statement or argument, no matter how patently false. It is through this negative use of reason that the inferior religious and sceptical materialistic philosophies are able to flourish.
The concept of secular intolerance doesn’t promote secularized religion directed at the indoctrination of the outer man and the corrupt practices sometimes adopted to further these aims. Secular intolerance refers to the emotional attitude which furthers corruption at the expense of the inner man’s need to pursue eros or that which is greater than himself. If anyone is willing to read the rest of this short article and discuss it, I’m game.
