Friday, April 17, 2015

The Noble Lie

God fills everyone’s soul with gold, silver, and iron, but the working man and the farmer’s soul has less of those elements, so the ruler’s soul was the guardian.

Plato described the concept of the Noble Lie that way. Plato, the illustrious Greek philosopher, wrote about the Nobel Lie in his work The Republic. He developed the theory of the Noble Lie to bring awareness to the separatism that existed between the rulers and the common people. The rulers controlled the beliefs of the people, and they used that perceived truth to get what they wanted at the expense of the people they served.

The Noble Lie has gone through a metamorphosis through the years; political and religious leaders don’t use gold, silver and iron as the ingredients to control the masses these days. They use money, half-truths and bigotry to get what they want, when they want. Nothing is more sacred to them than the reincarnated Noble Lie.

The world is divided. Fragments of the Noble Lie seep through every political system in the world. The moral compass of confused nations point toward religious tyranny, which is a form of political bunkum that is arranged and tucked neatly in the arms of a perceived creator.

In every lie, there is a hidden truth. A nugget of awareness that opens the door of choices. We can change the Noble Lie, to the Noble Truth, but we have to understand it first. We must see that we are a part of it. A big part of it. Because we are a big part of it, we have the ability to identify the half-truths and transform them. We can direct the money toward the Noble Good, and make it work for the will of the people. We can accept the bigotry and switch it to informed discernment, which is the right of acceptance within the freedom of diversity.

Our political and religious rulers are our creations. We can mold them into a unified, just and forward thinking group if we bury the Noble Lie in the sand of complete awareness. The complete awareness of who we are and how we are connected.

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