Bankers

There are few egregores as powerful as money. Money, like any other thing in this world, has many occult layers to be peeled back. Money is anything which is generally accepted as payment for goods and services, as well as repayment of debts. Money serves the use of storing value, as well as being a unit of account and medium of exchange. Marx equated the value of money to scarcity and time. Some money theories propose that money is a social contract, an agreement to cooperate as a society.

Money historically has followed geographic borders, its use being enforced by state interest. But let’s examine money from a metaphysical perspective. Money, being an abstraction, is a codified collective energy people use to advance themselves, both individually and collectively. And yet, almost universally we bemoan money as ‘the root of all evil’, and the lack of money is more common than not. This is because of a fascinating mechanism called interest, historically known as usury.

I actually enjoy the descriptor of interest because it can accurately represents the extra attention paid on a currency because of current market events, or expectations of future events. Unfortunately, when centralized control of currency occurs, the mechanism of interest, or usury, can exert controls over people through inflation and deflation. In a natural system, if someone has a monopoly it is because they have cornered a technique or a resource that others have yet to discover. In a free system, within a short period of time another source for that resource, or a similar/better technique will be discovered. The only way a monopoly can be maintained is through state enforced law making. Unfortunately it is through this mechanism we see historically a repetition of money changers, bankers, establishing private monopolies on centralized control of currency.

Cultures globally have mostly similar attitudes towards interest. All the Abrahamic religions shun it, Buddhism shuns it, even Marxism is very clear on the abhorrent nature of it. The bible actually has a fair number of laws regarding money, including the forgiving and resetting of debts every seven years, called a Jubilee. One of the first recorded stories of usury is in the bible. The money changers cornered the market on silver half shekels that were accepted by the temple, and were making a mint off people’s religious offerings. They could charge whatever the people could afford for the coins, far above the value of the silver. All the other coins of the time were stamped with emperors or kings, and not suitable offerings. 

“Usury centralizes money wealth where the means of production are dispersed. It does not alter the mode of production, but attaches itself firmly to it like a parasite and makes it wretched. It sucks out its blood, enervates it and compels reproduction to proceed under ever more pitiable conditions.” - Karl Marx, Capital

Capitalism thrives without interest. One of the longest used and most stable currencies in human history was the Tally Stick, and the split tally technique of the Middle Ages remained in use until the 20th century. It was a simple wooden stick, carved and split to denote a debt. Primitive, but one of the longest lasting currencies in human history. On an energetic level, without the need to centralize a decentralized energy, a system becomes more efficient and more stable.

Usury brings with it a number of tools to further deceive the common person. Interest on a fixed supply is impossible, so new money is constantly needed. This means that once markets like gold, or silver, (which though they are not a fixed supply are rare enough to act like one,) have been cornered (monopolized), different tactics are needed to further syphon wealth from the population. Fractional reserve lending is one such tactic.

Fractional reserve banking is easier explained during it’s infancy back before banks as we know them existed. Banks were preceded by private individuals who were originally goldsmiths, gold workers, or otherwise owned guards and a large vault. People would keep their gold in that vault for safety, and in return were issued promissory notes, usually in paper/papyrus form. These notes were then traded as though they were gold, as humans are excellent at abstraction, and abstracting abstraction etc. The problem comes in when some clever goldsmiths begin using the gold in their vaults, and dipping into the gold that isn’t theirs. At a certain point, the amount of gold in the vault becomes less than the amount of notes out in circulation. This is never a problem, unless everyone decides to get their gold back at the same time. This happens when people have reason to distrust the bank, and/or crises. Historically, bankers would end up being executed when bank runs occurred.

There is a great history of how the house Bauer, née Rothschild cornered the central banking power in Europe, but they are only a part of a much larger history of families dating back to antiquity who have been working the various magics of economic enchantment, and slight of mind to control vast swaths of society. Centralized control of currency metaphysically is allowing the siphoning of the codified, collective energy we use to better ourselves. This is incredible power being stolen from us, and when you consider how relatively small the population of these families are, they can be viewed as a breakaway cabal of magicians of blood magicians. Funding both sides of every war back to antiquity, the enchantment relies on a number of sacrifices to be made, of both blood (life) and humanity (morals). This is not just true of war time, but during times of peace as well, and this is why we think of money as the root of all evil. 

“Evil is a real life sport when the one who’s burnt turns to pass the torch” -  Fiona Apple

We are so ensconced in the enchantment, we don’t see the parasitic slight of mind occurring with our money. There have been many people who have seen through this deception though. One of the more interesting examples would be Andy Warhol, signing a one hundred dollar bill and selling it for one thousand. Another would be seventh American president Andrew Jackson, who famously spent his career trying to rid America of the tentacles of centralized banking. Another would be Satoshi Nakomoto (likely Adam Back), who in 2009 launched Bitcoin, a deflationary cryptographic asset on a distributed ledger. 

Having less energy siphoned away, we will thrive. Ultimately the goal is to have commonly accepted currencies that can be as unencumbered as we choose. The families that control the central banks are too well hidden and protected at this point to be rooted out. Likely, we are talking about beings that do not view themselves as part of the same civilization as us, and they may not be at this point. That is of no consequence, because when a critical mass of people see past the slight of mind, the enchantment will be broken.