The Cabal is not Shadowy

Over and over again, I keep hearing online conspiracy theorists go on about the "shadowy cabal" of "satanists" who run the world. Some people go so far as to think they are literally shape-shifting lizards. Others insist that they're magicians, occultists, or pagans. In all these cases, though, they're secret. Nobody knows who their members are, and constant speculation goes back and forth over who might or might not be a member.

If you're one of these people wondering about the truth, do I have news for you! It is no mystery whatsoever who these people are, at least in the United Stats. As a matter of fact, a list of them is published every year. It's called the Forbes 400. Don't believe me? You should. Billionaires run nearly every aspect of the modern world, especially in the United States.

Being a billionaire is not just being rich. I'm willing to bet that hardly anybody reading this has an accurate sense of how much money a billion dollars actually is. People seem to feel like a billionaire is somebody a fair amount richer than a millionaire. But a millionaire is a thousand times closer to being entirely destitute than they are to being a billionaire. The real difference in scale is staggering.

A million dollars is a sum that a lot of people will wind up earning over the course of their careers. If you work for 40 years and average $25,000 per year you will earn a million dollars. You'll need to spend most of it on expenses, of course, and won't have anywhere near that amount in savings. But a billion dollars? You would have to make 25 million dollars per year over that same span to earn a billion.

$25,000 per year is a little over $12 per hour if you assume full-time work. 25 million dollars a year is a little over $12,000 per hour. There is no way you can "work hard enough" to earn a billion dollars. The only honest way to make that kind of money is to inherit it, and even then whoever made it in the first place got it by exploiting somebody. It isn't always something criminal, but in a lot of cases where it isn't it's still something that should be.

The Rothschild banking family shows up in a lot of conspiracy theories, first because of anti-semitism and second because they really were one of the richest families in the world in the nineteenth century. They were the bankers to the various empires of Europe and as such were very wealthy and well-connected. But today? They're pikers compared to the top American billionaires.

Today the entire Rothschild family collectively controls about $150 billion in assets. That's a lot in absolute terms, but Elon Musk is personally worth three times that much. Larry Ellison is personally worth more, as are Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. Those four guys together are worth over a trillion, which is another thousandfold leap from a billion. And if we're talking families, the Waltons, who own Walmart and Sam's Club, are worth a lot more than the Rothschilds. It's not even that close.

This article lists the richest men in the world during the twentieth century and there's not a single Rothschild on the list. All of them are American and all of them are famous, well-known names: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, Bill Gates, and Sam Walton. Gates is still around but has dropped a bit in the rankings thanks to giving away a large portion of his wealth, and the Walton family divided up Sam Walton's fortune and are all towards the top of the list.

At any rate, not only do we know who these people are, we also know of none that are occultists or "Satanists" - or lizards for that matter. Most of these wealthy folks identifty as Christians of some mainstream denomination. As I've been mentioning in recent posts, Evangelical Christians do sometimes try to give "Satanists" real numbers by defining every kind of Christianity but their own as Satanic, but that hardly makes sense to anyone outside their weird little bubble world. These are the same people who think "Allah" is the name of a demon, when in fact it is literally just the Arabic word for "God."

And there's a reason none of these folks have anything to do with occultism. If for whatever reason you find yourself with billionaire-level wealth, why bother spending decades learning how to cast effective spells when you can just write a check? Similarly, in order to make that kind of money you have to think about money all the time to the exclusion of everything else, including morals and ethics. That doesn't leave any time for mystical discipline and practice.

It also is important to note that "rituals" are not necessarily magick. A lot of people don't seem to understand that when police are talking about "ritualistic" crime, they are not referring to occultism. The term refers to crimes that follow a specific pattern. Many serial murderers and rapists commit their crimes following a specific set of steps that they repeat with each new victim. The repetition is "ritualistic." The term doesn't mean that these criminals are all out there casting spells.

The same is true of ceremonies. For example, in recent years it has become fairly well-known that the Bohemian Grove, a club for wealthy and political elites that meets at a campground in California every year. The gathering opens with a dramatic play called "The Cremation of Care" in which the spirit of "Care," representing worldly concerns, is dramatically killed and cremated. This is NOT an example of "magical human sacrifice." It is a play with no clear magical function that simply serves as an opening ceremony.

So keep this in mind whenever you see somebody online talking about some sort of mysterious cabal that secretly runs the world. There's no secrecy about it, the cabal is "hiding" - if you can call it that - in plain sight. They're just rich people and most of them are well-known. They do exert an outsized influence on everything in the world including politics, so that portion of all the various conspiracy theories is correct. They just keep making up who the "puppet masters" are supposed to be - when it's totally freaking obvious.

This brings me back the point I keep making, which is one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place back in 2006. People who have no idea how magick works or what magicians do come up with their own ideas about it, usually based on horror movies or some other convenient fiction. I want to dispel that, with what I keep referring to as "Exotericism." I want to educate people about how magick works and what magicians really do. If they think it's bullshit, that's fine. The problem is when it gets associated with fearmongering nonsense.

These days everybody knows all about astrologers and tarot readers, and nobody in their right mind would ever confuse them with the world's allegedly evil ruling class. I want everyone to understand that magick is exactly the same, a disciplined spiritual practice that involves none of the criminality or violence found in horror books and films. If I can accomplish that, I will consider my career as a magical teacher an absolute success.