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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].

09/26/2026

Equilibrium is the Royal Secret but is defined by Sourcery as one’s natural state. It is not like the more modern trendy version of love and light balance.

Balance is a forced act. Equilibrium is harmony. It is one’s natural state. The one most of us have been trying to fight against much of our lives.

Why?

Because we are told by society that we must constantly improve. And by doing so we repress all the things that make us who we are.

Nietzsche is often quoted as saying “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

Yet, whether religiously or secularly, we are constantly made to feel that we should throw out the best parts of ourselves, because those things are not compatible with society at large.

We compare our sacred word, Equilibrium with true will of Thelema. Except in Sourcery one doesn’t have to spend a large portion of their lives trying to figure out what their own true will is. That’s equivalent to trying to figure out what gods will is for you in the Abrahamic religions.

Rubbish, as Crowley would say.

Equilibrium is the natural state. One’s own perfect disposition. Who you really are.

Fighting against that to create some kind of balance is actually causing the opposite thing to happen.

We will delve more into this as the winter approaches and tie it to the stories we create about our lives. Because the argument could be made that one’s natural equilibrium is to be a horrible person who does terrible things.

Again, rubbish.

In our opinion all humans share a common equilibrium. Yet there are certainly individualistic differences within each of us. Equilibrium benefits the individual and the whole at large, by standing on its own two feet as was intended. And, linking hands with others.

We will follow the stages of addiction recovery as we traverse this philosophical lesson. Because let’s be honest with ourselves, many of us are addicted to the story of constant self improvement.

And honesty with ourselves is one of the first steps to addiction recovery.

09/16/2026

It was during a meditation when the moment of clarity came.

I was meditating on a particular incident from my past. The thing that happened, how I felt about it, and what I thought about it afterward. What I continued to believe about it for years.

That’s when I realized I had created a story around the event. Yes, the event happened. Yes, I felt a particular way, and yes I thought about it often for a long time. But it is what I believed about it, the story I created around it, that became very clear to me. Like I was viewing the whole thing from an outside perspective, and could clearly see how I weaved this story.

Sadly, the story I weaved plagued me for a long time. But it was believing the story that fueled the whole thing.

As I meditated upon this I could clearly see that I had suspended my disbelief, and entered a story arc that was mostly fiction. I was fully invested in the story. I repeated it to myself for many years. Repeated it to others. Wrote about it in my journal, and contemplated why I felt a certain way about it.

But that night in meditation, I realized what I had done. The story around it was just a story. Told to myself for one reason or the other.

Self Practice

I encourage you to try this yourself. Perhaps maybe not with a very traumatic event in your life at first, but something a little less intense.

Sit comfortably, close your eyes, get relaxed and focus on your natural breathing.

Begin to remember something. An incident. Then recall what you felt in that moment. Recall what you felt after the moment. Recall what you told yourself about the incident. Just observe it from the outside like you’re watching a movie and seeing characters play out a role.

Once you do this, try to see the story you have created over the period of time since this incident occurred.

Don’t judge yourself. There is no guilt for how you felt or over the story you created. Just try to see what kind of story was created as a result of it.

Bring yourself back to waking awareness gently. Open your eyes, clap your hands, stomp your feet. Whatever you do to ground yourself back into the waking world.

If you feel so inclined let us know how you felt in the comments or what you saw. You don’t have to tell us the specifics of the incident.

- Terash Myoflin

09/13/2026

Do you hunger for genuine connections?

We are in the developing stages of creating open meet ups. These will be in person get togethers located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. However, so that we may include all those of you who do not live in or around this area, we were thinking about adding a zoom feature as well.

The get togethers will focus around our system called Sourcery. However, it is not another system you should try to follow. It is a system that teaches system creation. Where you, as the practitioner, create your own system.

As we said, we’re in the early stages of developing this. Determining how to facilitate the get togethers. Its location, who will facilitate it, etc.

Our question to you is, who would be interested in this kind of meet up? Either in person in Chattanooga, TN or participating online.

If you can, let us know in the comments.

Thanks,

Fisher King

09/12/2026

We post late, in hopes that only those with eyes to see will see.

What if myth was reality? Can we separate the story from our lives?

The story is real because we believe it is. The story of your life, the story of someone else’s life, the story of the hero. The story of the gods.

All very real.

Each morning when we open our eyes and exit the dream world, we suspend our disbelief and enter the story of the waking world. We naturally assume everything we see around us is real. Everything we can touch, hear, smell and taste. All real.

But still a story. The morning coffee hitting our taste buds is a story we have told ourselves. I really enjoy coffee. I can’t live without my morning coffee. Coffee wakes me up.

Everything we do, every pattern we have, is just a story we have repeated to ourselves again and again. And it’s a story we have told others. Think about it. That’s why we love to tell others about our lives. Even mundane things.

I really need to cut the grass today after work. Tonight I’m making my special dinner that is a secret family recipe. I’m going to see that new movie this weekend. We recite these things to ourselves and to others and by doing so the story becomes more real.

What if you could change the story? What if you could con yourself into believing a new story? Perform the ultimate grift….on yourself?

Could you change your life?

Over the past few years we have been performing this kind of experiment to see if this could be done. Small things mostly. Nothing to extreme. And it’s worked.

We told ourselves we didn’t like certain foods anymore. It disgusted us. Taste buds change. We’re grossed out by it. And over time this story became reality. We told others. And by so doing we have convinced ourselves it is true.

And it became true. The bond we had with certain actions or foods loosened until we were no longer bound by them at all. The story became real.

As we enter into this years western gate, where the sun goes to die, we will speak more about this process. About the stories we tell, the stories we believe, and how to suspend your disbelief.

Religions teach blind faith. We teach the deliberate suspension of disbelief.

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

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