The Illuminated Society

The Illuminated Society The revival of the Gnostic path. Builders of systems. Guardians of liberty, mutual respect, and the Great Work. To know. To become. To build.

Illuminists walking the middle path to wholeness through Equilibrium.

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans.” William Blake About The Illuminated Society

The Illuminated Society is a living, evolving expression of the Great Work—an initiatory path for those who seek inner sovereignty and outer harmony. We walk the Gnostic path, not of blind belief, but of direct experience and

personal transformation. Ours is a system of system-builders, where each initiate becomes the architect of their own becoming. We are Illuminists, seekers of the light within darkness, the Omega Humans who no longer follow nor lead, but stand as the keystone—holding the arch of civilization together with vision, wisdom, and purpose. Our work is rooted in ritual, resonance entrainment, esoteric philosophy, shadow integration, and practical mastery. Through these, we become fully human—whole, self-directed, and aligned with the continuum of existence. Our Philosophy is liberty, mutual respect, and equilibrium—the sacred word and core principle that unites our polarity. In The Illuminated Society, the goal is not obedience or conformity, but illumination. If you come to our page and "Like" it, and want to see ALL our posts, click on the "like" button again, and click "Get Notifications" that way you will get a notification every time we post something. For more information please email us at [email protected].

08/28/2026

Secret Teachings with the Illuminated Society

Where does it all point to? You could invoke a hundred gods and goddesses. You could evoke angels and even demons and they all point in the same direction. Where?

To the secret center. A place many of us knew as children. The inner voice. The inner guide.

As children this was easy to do. It was a secret place only we could visit. There you could share everything. Your fears, your feelings, your thoughts, everything.

But at some point, for many of us, this secret inner guide was projected outward onto a rigid dogma. We didn’t lose this ability but many of us have temporarily surrendered it to another. Whichever outer authority figure that may be. God, man, woman, teacher, parent, boss, lover, etc. On and on that list can go.

But the inner authority was always there, deep In the darkness of the west, speaking to us from the unconscious through dreams, synchronicity, intuitions, feelings within the body.

There is a way to return to this inner guide. We must remember ourselves as children. And just begin to speak with it. Share with it. Open yourself to it.

Don’t worry, it’s a secret place. No one else will know. 🤫

08/15/2026

Welcome to the mystery!

The theme of this years posts have revolved around the stories we tell ourselves. The stories others have told us that we have accepted with blind faith.

Faith isn’t always what we think it is. As many people deconstruct their particular religious faiths, they are unaware that there is another kind of faith that lurks in the background. The faith and belief of everyday life. Belief systems don’t have to be religious. They can be secular. They’re the kinds of stories that people say, this is how it’s always been done.

Blue is blue and that’s the way everyone sees it. In is in and out is out. Read the signs.

Stories are legends told to us about others. Historical figures, celebrities, even family members.

Stories are philosophies handed down from one generation to the next. Often times these are familiar stories within families, cultures or nations as a whole.

Yet, our story is shifting once more. As we begin to phase out this theme and begin another one, following what we call the Anthonic cycle. Fall will introduce us back into the world of stories but in a more mysterious way.

Remaining grounded is key, if that is the proper word. Allowing oneself
To suspend disbelief temporarily while remaining wholly rational. A hard feat to accomplish at times. We get lost in stories. And, for the most part that is a great thing. But if there is something called a master, we imagine he or she is fully able to enter the story, while remembering it is just a story.

As the mysterious story unfolds we are allowed to feel those feelings that rise up within us. Just like we do when reading a work of fiction or watching a show. This is a good thing.

The mysterious story will invoke many feelings.

In this we say, welcome to the mystery!

- Fisher King

07/31/2026

Late Night Reflections with the Illuminated Society

It is disastrous to assume that the whole is greater than its parts. Without the parts there would be no whole. Yet, without the whole there certainly would be the parts.

Which is greater? The whole or its parts? Neither and both as they equally serve a purpose.

Taoism talks about the uncarved block. Freemasonry speaks of the rough cut ashlar. On the surface these seem like similar philosophical view points. But they are not.

The uncarved block is full of potential. It serves no purpose in its uncarved state. At least at the moment. To the Taoist, that’s okay. There’s no need to rush or force this process.

To freemasonry, the rough cut ashlar is similarly pure potential, yet the mason has already decided how to carve it, what to do with it and where it will fit within the temples building.

Each is a part. Yet, only one has been designated to become part of the whole. Because to the mason, the parts only purpose in this world is to be part of the whole. But to the Taoist, the uncarved block is special just as it is. Not as a whole but simply as a part.

But where the two philosophies deviate further is in their relationship to the mind. The rough cut ashlar will eventually be shaped to become part of the whole and in this it will think of itself as special. I am part of a whole and it will believe it is now this wonderful, awesome thing. I am now a master, it believes about itself.

The Taoist sees this differently, as when he or she begins to believe themselves to be of some high regard, or say to themselves I am a master now, they can remember the uncarved block and be brought back into alignment with the way things are.

This is summed up very well in the book, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, where even the long time master never sees themselves as such, but always sees themselves as a beginner. As the uncarved block.

The uncarved block is a powerful example as it suggests that things are most powerful, honest, and true when they remain free from societal rules, ego, and cleverness. Unlike the rough cut ashlar which will be carved and shaped to fit all of the above.

- Fisher King

07/21/2026

A post in Darkness

Can you see in the dark? Can you see through the illusion of the common belief systems? Can you see through your own?

Dogma. Everywhere. In everything. We are rule breakers. Anti dogma misfits. We go in the out door and out the in door. You feed us a set of principles and ideas we nod in agreement with you while laughing away the bu****it on the inside.

We call Belief systems, BS for short. We know that most people are stuck in some kind of hypnotic loop. Moving from one belief system to the next, until they arrive back to where they began.

They are force fed information daily. They gorge themselves on it. From
One story to the next, to the next and to the next. Thirty second video
Clips, news stories and social media posts….like this one.

Well I say sir, I’ll tell you what I believe. I believe it should be this way….stuck. In a never ending cycle of stories. Illusions. Hypnotic. Words are spells and spells are words. Spell. Words. Spell words. I believe!!!

We are force fed dogma from a wide variety of s**t heads who’s only talent in this world is conning you. Me. Everyone. Without the con they’d be beggars on the street. Without the suits or the fancy robes, they’d be eating thrown away food from a dumpster.

Believe me, I know what I’m talking about.

Mindfulness. A new agey word that’s lost its original meaning. Be present. Dogma.

Remember.

Enlightenment. Another word hijacked and devoid of any real meaning in the world of trend. Enlightened to what? I’ll grow my
Hair out all shaggy, show my half naked body and sing songs about how enlightened I am to quick scrollers on TikTok.

Belief systems. Reality tunnels. Hypnotic state, lulled to sleep by….word spells.

Pessimistic? Sometimes. Optimistic? Always. I’m a trickster, after all.

BS!

How many times can you wake up in a dream before you realize….

- Reuben

07/19/2026

Late Night Reflections with the Illuminated Society

Are you curious? Whats your curiosity scale? On a scale from 1 to 10, one being the lowest and ten being the highest, how curious are you?

As a child did you ever day dream about curious things? Did you ever day dream into different situations? Go places that only felt possible in a dream. Did someone ever tell you to snap out of it, stop day dreaming? Or did someone ever relay a stark warning about wasting away your life by day dreaming about curious things? Did someone ever tell you the grass isn’t greener on the other side?

As you got older did you ever feel like all of these warnings and rebukes, and insults of shame were part of some grand conspiracy to keep you in a kind of Truman show existence? Don’t go too far, stay close to home, don’t be too curious. Curiosity killed the cat after all?

Where do you find yourself now? Do their words still haunt you? Can you hear their voices from deep within your shadow? Do you now repeat them yourself?

What if we told you, upside down is right side up? That the dark is less scary than the light? That the curious cat is still alive? And indeed, the grass is greener in many places.

Would you be curious about it?

- Terash Myoflin

07/16/2026

Late night reflections with the Illuminated Society

In the past we’ve described Nietzsche as the most optimistic pessimist of all time. Or maybe it’s the other way around? It’s quite the paradox. Can one carry two conflicting attitudes and remain mentally sound?

Currently, the world seems to be sinking further and further into pessimism. And for good reason. So it seems. Optimism is becoming rare. Where are all the optimistic people? Certainly not on social media. And certainly not on your 24 hour news channels. Which leads to a valid question; is pessimism being pushed onto the general population?

Pessimism alone can become a cancer. Everything sucks. F**k this s**t. I give up. I don’t trust anyone. People are losing their faith in their governments. In their sciences. In medical professionals. In relationships. In the very foundations of societies structures. And worst of all, in themselves.

Unlike optimism, pessimism spreads quickly like a virus. One pessimistic person in a family can bring the whole mood of the gathering down. One pessimistic person in the office can make work suck more than it does.

To a pessimist, nothing works out. Everything sucks. Instead of seeing any light in a situation all they can see is the negative side of things.

But pessimism and optimism share one thing in common. They are both stories we tell ourselves. Stories that become belief systems and belief systems that become reality tunnels that seem impossible to escape. But it can be escaped. Maybe not all at once. But step by step we can shift our mindsets back to a more optimistic outlook on life and the world. A thousand mile journey begins with one step.

So we ask, where are all the optimistic people out there? Where are their posts on social media? Why doesn’t the algorithm give them equal attention?

Let us begin with one simple step. Instead of immediately finding the negative in a thing, what is one optimistic thing we can think of to counter balance the pessimism?

If it rains tomorrow don’t view it through a pessimistic lens only. Yes it’s raining, it sucks, we can’t really go out and do much. But, the grass needed it. Trees and bushes and flowers needed it. And maybe you needed it. To rest. To relax. To read a book. Or to temporarily drown out the pessimistic noise the mind makes with the drip, drip, drip of the rain drops.

We say it again. As we have in the past. The earth is the point. Life is the point.

- Terash Myoflin

07/09/2026

Late-Night Reflections with the Illuminated Society

The world is far more interesting than we have been led to believe. Curiosity is the icing on the cake. Never lose your childlike curiosity. If you have, I recommend getting it back.

Many of us landed on this page because we were curious. And though we are not a formal community per se, we are a community nonetheless—a community of the curious. Many of us were drawn here because of the writings of the Armageddon Conspiracy group. We were curious about them, what they taught, and our curiosity drove us to want to know more.

If you’re like me, you’ve gone down the rabbit hole of curiosity, and that rabbit hole has led you to a plethora of collective human knowledge. I personally believe there is a great book called the Book of Life that contains every writing, every story, every poem, every piece of music, every work of art, every philosophy, and every religion humanity has ever conceived. Not a literal book in our world, but a metaphorical one that exists on another plane. It has been called by many names, but I call it the Book of Life—the true Book of Life. Because what are poetry, art, music, and stories if not life itself?

Hmm… a Book of Life.

Lastly, many people may have tried to extinguish that curiosity within us. They didn’t necessarily mean any harm; they simply believed they were protecting us. Remember the old saying, “Curiosity killed the cat”? Nonsense. Curiosity is one of the greatest gifts we possess.

We are a community of the curious. Curiosity is life. It has helped humanity overcome countless challenges. Without curiosity, we wouldn’t understand the changing seasons, electricity, radio waves, microwaves, or any other kind of wave—even the one the very first surfer caught. Perhaps they had drifted too far from shore, spotted a piece of wood floating nearby, and thought, Maybe if I lie on this, the waves will carry me back. And they did.

I like to imagine little scenarios like that. I’m curious. What can I say?

Never relinquish that curiosity. Reclaim it if someone convinced you to set it aside. The world is indeed far more interesting than we have been led to believe.

- Terash Myoflin

07/08/2026

Late Night reflections with the Illuminated Society

We often see transformation as this final destination place that we ultimately arrive at. One day I’ll get there, we tell ourselves. And when I do there will be glory and prestige, riches and power. But this is the false light of the east, a place many in our modern world continue to gaze outward, watching as the sun rises, falsely believing that the beauty of the east is where all my hopes and dreams will rise too.

Rarely does that happen. No, in fact we offer something quite different. Each moment is an arrival. Like the sun, the moment rises, fixes, settles, then fades. And as a result a new moment is born.

This doesn’t undermine our hopes, desires, dreams or goals. In fact, it gives life to them, daily, from moment to moment, in THE moment, the only moment that exists.

Transformation is a life long process. Not a final arrival point. It can be slow or fast depending on the moment. But usually, the transformation is so subtle, we barely notice it occurred. Others usually have to tell us something is different about us.

In all our learning, studying, practicing, the way has pointed in a direction we never assumed it would. We were often blinded by the false light of the east. By the beauty and glory that was always out there, waiting for us to arrive. But you arrived the day you were born. You arrive each and every moment of each and every day.

- Terash Myoflin

06/27/2026

Want to change your life and circumstances?

Grift yourself. Create the most elaborate con you can think of and begin to believe it.

Work a ritual around this con. Tell yourself once this s**t happens, it will be as I’ve specified. Draw a sigil, burn it into your minds eye.

Take every step a person would who believes the con. Case in point. We knew someone who wasn’t supposed to eat red meat anymore. This person conned themselves into believing they didn’t like it anymore. This person is now an ethical non beef eater. Cows are sacred to them.

Grift yourself into a new set of circumstances!

- Rueben

06/26/2026

One thing the counter culture of the 60s and 90s didn’t plan for was that one day, the counter culture to it would be a return to traditional values and traditional religion.

Oh well. Here we are. We remain. Because in just a few years, the counter culture to the counter cultures counter culture will be back. Until then. Live free! Keep seeking further Illumination. And patiently wait for those who seek Illumination to come asking questions.

Peace - Terash Myoflin

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