How civilizations decline

From Understanding the elite and the counter-elite, by Saint Germain, April 6, 2007

The second law of thermodynamics and politics
You see, my beloved, as one of the masters who sponsored science on this planet, I would like to bring you a scientific perspective. What is the problem in America today? Well, it is a problem that has been described by physics in a law that has been known for centuries. And it is called the second law of thermodynamics.

Some of you are familiar with it through our releases. But unfortunately most people in the world and in America are not familiar with this law. And if they are, they see it as something that applies only to science but not to other areas of life.

And this, my beloved, is indeed part of the problem—that everything becomes so compartmentalized. And as Jesus, Nada and Mother Mary have talked about, people become so blinded by their filter in front of their eyes that they can no longer see beyond it. They cannot see the greater perspective, they cannot see themselves from the outside—and therefore they cannot see that they are heading straight for the abyss.

Therefore, my beloved, what is needed is an integration of the philosophical implications of the second law of thermodynamics, where you understand what this law actually means for a civilization, a nation, a group of people or even an individual. So for those not familiar with this law, it states very simply that if a system becomes closed, becomes isolated from anything outside itself, then disorder will increase in that system, until the system breaks down to the lowest possible energy state. Which we also might call the lowest common denominator, where things are so bad, so flat, so dead that they simply cannot go any lower.

And so, my beloved, what exactly does that mean for a civilization, for a nation? Well, it has been said that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. So let us look at history. Let us look at the Roman civilization, as a perfect example for many reasons. One is that at its time Rome was close to being as dominant in the ancient world as America has become after the so-called collapse of the Soviet Union.

Rome could do almost whatever they wanted with their armies, as America today thinks they can do almost whatever they want. Yet, this great civilization – that had conquered most of the known world back then – collapsed. And why did it collapse? Well, it collapsed because it fell victim to the second law of thermodynamics! Because Rome, especially those who lived in the city of Rome and directed the Roman empire – or the emperors, wherever they lived – they isolated, they insulated, themselves from anything outside their own little mental box.

And as a result, their mental box became narrower and narrower. It became more and more focused on themselves, and they became more and more blinded by their own logic, by their own filter through which they were looking at the world. And so they were absolutely convinced that they were right and that their way of looking at the world was the only possible way of looking at the world. And they were so convinced that Rome was so mighty and so powerful that it could not possibly collapse.

And, my beloved, what was it that caused that collapse? Well, it was precisely because they had been blinded by their logic—they refused to change themselves, they refused to transcend themselves and come up higher. They wanted to expand the empire militarily but they did not want to expand their minds. They did not want to expand the empire in a spiritual way, in a spiritual capacity. And once the emperors had gained power, they wanted to maintain power, rather than using that power for the benefit of their own people or for the progress of civilization as a whole.

My beloved, the Roman empire collapsed first and foremost from within, through corruption, through decadence, through neglect, through denial. And it was this corruption, this division from within, that made the empire vulnerable to invasion from without. But truly, the invading forces were only instruments of the people’s own divisions and their inner turmoil. They simply finished the breakdown process that the people themselves had started, led by the power elite of the Roman civilization.

But do not believe that the people, as suppressed as they might have been, were without responsibility in this matter. For what did the Roman people do during those times? Well, they wanted to live the good life—to sing, dance and make merry, to be entertained in the forum by the gladiators, to entertain themselves with the power and the greatness of Rome, thinking that they were so sophisticated and had such a wonderful civilization, the likes of which the world had never seen.

Looking in the national mirror
Well of course, I must tell you that compared to the civilizations of Atlantis and previous golden ages, the Roman civilization was not at all sophisticated. It was actually very, very primitive in almost every respect. And of course, you today can look back at the Roman civilization, and you can see that the Roman civilization was quite primitive compared to what you have today, even here in America and other places throughout the world.

But what most Americans do not bother to see – because they are not willing to look in the mirror – is that American society has the exact same dynamics as what you saw in the Roman empire in the century or so before its collapse. The same internal contradictions, the same power elite that runs things, the same people who want to be entertained through television, through football games, through pursuing the American dream—which has been redefined by the power elite to be the dream of being trapped into a 30-year mortgage, of owning your own home.

Well, my beloved, I should think that you can see that this was not my dream for America, when I sponsored this nation. Certainly, my beloved, I have no problem with people having a comfortable material life. For indeed, I sponsored science precisely because I realized that as long as people, the population, were toiling like the population in the middles ages, they would not have the energy and attention left over to pursue any kind of spiritual goals.

So I have no problem with a civilization where there is enough material wealth and still enough free time that people have attention left over to pursue spiritual goals. But what have the American people done with their affluence, with their abundance of time? Well, they have busied themselves with all kinds of empty forms of entertainment that drag them down and down and down – or hammer their energies down – so that they never have any quiet moment in their lives to actually reflect and say, "Perhaps there is something better I could do with my life than living this rat race of always feeling stressed out, even though I have more time on my hands than any previous generation."

So my beloved, my point is simply this: when a society becomes trapped in its own mental box, when it starts closing that mental box – isolating itself from any input from the outside, any input that can disturb that nation's sense that all is well – well, my beloved, that is precisely the time to watch out for. Because you know that just as the people are totally trapped in the illusion that they have it all made and that they have created an eternal society—well just about at that point, the second law of thermodynamics will start breaking down their “eternal” civilization.

This is what happened to the Roman empire. This is what is in the process of happening in America but it has not yet reached the point of being irreversible. For there is still time, which is why I started out by saying that it was eleven o’clock—the time has not yet run out to turn around America, but it is getting close. And if people do not start awakening themselves from the mass delusion that all is well in America – and that America will remain free because she is a democratic nation – well then things will start sliding downhill. And they could slide downhill much quicker than most people would be willing to consider.

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