Like in the Days of Babylon (The Enlightenment Industry)
As the New Age movement gained popularity, the doctrine and images of the seven rays were produced across a variety of contexts. And, just as would happen with the rest of the esoteric sciences, their products were put up for sale, in line with corporate policies. Figures such as Doreen Virtue appeared, who appropriated the teachings of the seven rays and created an endless catalogue of divination card games as if they were collector’s items. The teachings were corrupted. But she would not be the only one: incense, candles, perfumes, images of Buddha, of Christ, of the Virgin, prayer books, natural recipes and vegetarian diets, occult symbols, psychotherapies, etc. The teachings became embodied, and began to be mass-produced and sold on a large scale.
If you bought such incense it would bring happiness to your home. If you lit that candle it would bring protection to your loved ones. Images of any of your religious leaders would harmonise your home. If you used that particular perfume you would attract wealth. With the books you could invoke spirits and recite chants to communicate with the spiritual hierarchy. If you followed that recipe you would be healthy and would heal others. Of course, if you were vegetarian you were a lover of the earth, so you had to learn to nourish yourself properly. If you used that particular symbol you could attract love. If you attended that therapy you would find the path to the divine, and so on. You could achieve all of this easily, you just had to pay for it. But when you have bought the product and it does not work, the incense has not brought happiness to the home, a relative has died despite having a hundred candles lit, you have to be constantly dusting the figures, the perfume has irritated the skin, the diets are strict like the Nazis, even with the symbol tattooed the love has not arrived, and therapies cost a fortune. Then the enlightened ones, those who are awake, tell you: you have resistances, and that is why it has not worked. Therefore, you must buy incense, candles, perfumes, hire someone to clean the dust off your figures, implant other symbols, and continue certain therapies so that those resistances disappear. But while those resistances fade, you must buy these books so that angels, masters and spirits help you in the process. A vicious circle from which there is no escape. The consumption of the spiritual.
Then suddenly, love appears or such illness has been healed -physical, mental, spiritual-. Everything has been thanks to that candle and incense I bought at the market, the tattoo has given me a special power, they would boast to their friends: we met in another life, but as I was a priestess and he was a farmer we could not be together. What seemed to be a treatise to unmask the programme of political-religious science, and to return man to a point of existential reflection, soon the esoteric teachings began to navigate within corporations that were willing to exploit the spiritual product through the consumption of the spiritual. One of the most frequent characteristics of the spiritual consumer groups that form the New Age is that the set of beliefs adopted -based on religious myths and political legends- reject the most negative aspects of mythologies and histories. They have called themselves beings of light, the destroyers of shadow. Although you may remember them as the enlightened ones. They have pointed to the culprit of all evils: the ego. While they have exalted the victim: the soul. And their movements revolve around light therapy. The soul is wounded for having lived for millennia in the light of cruelty, mistreatment, abuse, slavery, labels and injustices that the unleashed ego has sown in experience. It would be the era of healing. Healers from different parts of the world arose, such as Jesus of Nazareth with his message of hope, based on the healing of that wounded soul. And they had their executioner, governments and corporations -the evil ego-.
