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].

06/16/2026

Late night bitching with the Illuminated Society

Lots of mega churches preach prosperity gospel messages and use the preacher as an example of prosperity. Cept old preachy boy getting paid by the donors while hard working people throw in their last $20 hoping God will multiply that s**t 100 fold, as they say. Preacher gets fatter working people get leaner. Or conned into pyramid schemes.

Someone once told me if the preacher isn’t driving a new Benz he isn’t worth listening to. Lmao.

Likewise, teachers of so called illumination, enlightenment, magick and new agey woo woo sell you their books, podcasts, seminars, makeshift spells, or whatever. Just head on over to Etsy and you can rent a witch to cast a spell on someone.

Prosperity Magick. Prosperity gospel. Same thing, different names.

Believe me. I’m not knocking your magick rituals to be prosperous. Do it. Conjure a demon and have it unlock doors for you. But you see what I’m saying right? Preachers and magicians alike tell us we too can be prosperous by following their particular way of doing things. And usually, that comes with a price tag. Give to the preacher and god will bless you. Pay the magician money and you’ll learn how to perform the right kind of magick to get rich.

Has any of the above worked for you? One thing I’ve learned is whats worked for one person doesn’t always work for another. Sometimes coming up with your own rituals, spells, magick, whatever works better. I know someone who sung a song about having a specific amount of money and damn sure he got it.

Like a magical bard.

I know another person who was in a desperate situation and simply said this is what is going to happen, down to colors, types and actions of individuals and it happened that way.

Like some matrix s**t.

Having fu***ng fun with it. We take s**t too seriously. Robert Anton Wilson spoke about the absurdity of it all. But the absurdity was the fun stuff. Crowley spoke about just going along with your day. Working, doing your chores and not obsessing over what you lack. What you need will find its way to you. According to him. Start a project just as an experiment and see how it works out. Don’t spend a s**t ton of money on it. Just see if things come to you. Like that movie said, “if you build it they will come.”

Lastly, if you’re feeling stuck you’re probably obsessing over something, or living like a hermit. You need to break that cycle. Get out, meet people, hang out, have some fun. The magick of life will return.

There. I gave you all of that for free. And you didn’t have to read 15 chapters or 20 different books to know how to do it.

Ps - I’m not encouraging you not to read. Read as much or as little as you want. But take what you’ve learned and make it your own. That’s how real artists work. Inspired by other artists, but making your own art. Or magick. Or whatever.

Pps - a library card is usually free.

- your’s truly
Reuben

“Faith is a good thing, perhaps even a noble thing; faith in one another, faith in life, faith in something above and be...
06/02/2026

“Faith is a good thing, perhaps even a noble thing; faith in one another, faith in life, faith in something above and beyond. Yet, there is something larger than faith. Knowing; as the Glowing Green Children know. A knowing as I have been told, that is a knowing that cannot be known unless it is known. It is hard to explain these things to the world of measurement, as they do not know. For knowing, is the knowing of the unknown; knowing what is unknown in our world, yet known in their world. “

Where the Green Glowing Children Play - Terash Myoflin

05/31/2026

Sunday reflections with the Illuminated Society

“Naturally, society has an indisputable right to protect itself against arrant subjectivisms, but, in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes-it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so readily to a dictator. A million zeroes joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one.”

Carl Jung, the Undiscovered Self

05/29/2026

Late Night Reflections with the Illuminated Society

“Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?”
— From Hell, Alan Moore

The main plot of our modern story is that there is no plot.

The stories we tell ourselves revolve around the latest episode of whatever the f**k Netflix dumped onto our screens this week. The lives of fictional characters. The victories of celebrities. The scandals of people we have never met.

Same story. Different faces.

Meanwhile, our own lives become reduced to the daily grind. Our greatest achievement becomes what we got done at work today.

But when’s the last time someone told an amazing story about what they accomplished in a meeting?

A thousand years ago, tribes gathered around fires while storytellers spoke of the one who slew the lion, crossed the mountains, survived the storm, or stood against the enemy. The hero was local. Human. Someone not unlike the people listening. Someone who inspired others to believe they too were capable of greatness.

Now?

We talk about sports teams as if we ourselves stepped onto the field. We dissect television shows written by some half-awake writer in a studio room and filmed in three months. We consume story after story after story…

Then clock back in.

Another day passes while our own adventures slip quietly by.

And that becomes our story.

The one repeated to us since childhood:
Get a job.
Work hard.
Be on time.
Maybe one day you too can become a middle-management goon.

Maybe.

Truth is, most people ache for something authentic. To become who they were actually meant to be. To feel alive. To be the heroes of their own stories instead of background characters in someone else’s.

I think that’s one reason role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons exploded back into popularity. At least there, people get to adventure. They get to explore mystery, danger, courage, sacrifice, magic, brotherhood. Even if it’s make-believe, it feeds something starving in the soul far better than passively watching another person live.

But here’s the real question:

Can you role-play in real life?

Try it.

Go hunt a mystery.
Explore abandoned places.
Learn forgotten history.
Start a secret society with your friends.
Camp in strange woods.
Chase legends.
Write stories.
Build things.
Train your body.
Learn ancient languages.
Follow synchronicities.
Create rituals that make life feel meaningful again.

Become the main character in your own existence.

Who knows?
Maybe along the way you’ll encounter enemies guarding the mystery.
Maybe you’ll fight monsters.

And maybe the monsters won’t be metaphorical.

05/22/2026

Late night reflections with The Illuminated Society.

Will the religion of the future be centered around…aliens?

Perhaps it already is.

For thousands of years our conception of the divine was shaped by spiritual beings existing beyond our world, occasionally breaking through the veil to offer humanity glimpses of something greater. There were angels and demons, prophets and messengers, and one True God. Though the Abrahamic traditions have caused suffering in many ways, they have also propelled humanity forward in others.

While ordinary people were often forbidden from exploring ideas outside accepted doctrine, clergy and mystics frequently did. Through Islamic scholarship, the works of Plato and Aristotle survived and returned to the West. Jewish and Christian mystics gave us the Kabbalah—an intricate map of the heavens and perhaps of the human psyche itself. From these currents came psychology, and later thinkers like Carl Jung, who pushed humanity toward understanding symbols, archetypes, and the hidden structures beneath consciousness.

Inadvertently, institutions like the Catholic Church also helped give rise to material science. For all their faults, they contributed to humanity’s survival and advancement. Nothing is wholly good or wholly evil. Nearly everything carries both.

But what of the religion taking shape now?

This emerging faith may have its own entities: extraterrestrials, ultraterrestrials, interdimensional beings. Its own angels and demons. Its own heavens. Spacecraft and flying saucers become sacred symbols. Advanced technologies become objects of fascination and reverence. We imagine civilizations capable of harnessing stars while remaining peaceful. Intelligences that understand the universe from microcosm to macrocosm. Collective forms of AI or consciousness transmitting knowledge faster than thought itself, freeing humanity from the mundane.

And as belief grows, experience follows.

Eventually enough people may witness something—lights, encounters, synchronicities, abductions, visions—that the phenomenon becomes inseparable from reality itself. Not because all beliefs are true, but because belief changes perception, culture, expectation, and perhaps something deeper.

Jacques Vallee suggested something similar. In his book, The Invisible College, he proposed that UFO phenomena may become the basis for the religion of the future.

But perhaps it is not the religion of the future.

Perhaps it is becoming the religion of the present.

Like older religions, this one has its prophets: experiencers, abductees, witnesses, those who claim contact with something beyond ordinary understanding. Testimony spreads. Belief spreads. Encounters spread. The cycle reinforces itself.

And perhaps these beings—if they exist in any form—will tell us less about distant galaxies and more about ourselves than any ancient religion ever attempted.

In the future, people may not invoke angels.

They may invoke intelligences.

They may summon not spirits, but orbs, UAPs, impossible lights in the sky.

They may ask the heavens for a sign—

and something will answer.

Or wink.

05/17/2026

Reflections of light with the Illuminated Society

Previously, we discussed briefly a fictional novel titled The Solitudes by John Crowley. Wherein the main character discovers the work of an historical fictional writer named Fellows Craft, who relays the story of how the world changed with the murder of Giordano Bruno by the Catholic Inquisition. The story seems to hint that the world shifted from a more living, meaningful right brain led mindset to a cold, dead, mechanical left brain mindset.

We further spoke about the work The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by British Psychiatrist, Philosopher and Neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist. Wherein he presents the case that at some point the western world placed the emissary (the left hemisphere) on the throne above his master (the right hemisphere) and by doing so created a cold,
Dead meaningless universe.

Today, for reflection we would like to present you with a reading from the compiled work of Carl Jung titled The Undiscovered Self, chapter 1 The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society.

“Judged scientifically, the individual is nothing but a unit which repeats itself ad infinitum and could just as well be designated with a letter of the alphabet. For understanding, on the other hand, it is just the unique individual human being who, when stripped of all those conformities and regularities so dear to the heart of the scientist, is the supreme and only real object of investigation.”

“Scientific education is based in the main on statistical truths and abstract knowledge and therefore imparts an unrealistic, rational picture of the world, in which the individual, as a merely marginal phenomenon, plays no role. The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or ‘normal’ man to whom scientific statements refer.”

05/03/2026

The Light

We are a plethora of paradox. A tree of life with its three pillars all our own. Severe and graceful. Intelligent and base. Mindful and thoughtless. Rebellious and sacred.
Each a star in a unique orbit yet intricately connected to everything else.

To those who wish to become isolationists, to become national hermits we say let them. For, it is often in isolation that we ultimately discover the interconnectedness of all things. To the rest of us we will remain violently optimistic as we act upon our sacred rebellion.

To be violently optimistic is to say no to those who do nothing but promote doom and gloom. Who fervently inform us of how terrible and s**tty our lives and communities are. Who only point out the doom and gloom and offer no solutions whatsoever.

Our act of sacred rebellion will be to discover the beauty around us and harness that strength, wisdom and power and move, act and do despite being told it is not possible.

Have you ever been told one person cannot change the world? Most of us have. Usually these disastrous words were spoken over us by some authority figure in our lives. A parent, grandparent, teacher, or religious leader. IT IS TIME TO REBEL AGAINST THOSE CHAINS.

A singular person can change the world in some meaningful way, and history is full of those who have. We encourage you to find those people in the obscure pages of our history. Alexander Fleming is one such person.

But first we must start with ourselves. We are a plethora of paradox, full of the stories others have told us. A garbage heap of can’t and shouldn’t or because. As Crowley said;

“Enough of because! Be he damned for a dog.”

Violent optimism should begin with the self. We should sacredly rebel against our own can’ts and shouldn’ts. When others or ourselves say, Thou shalt not we should shout back,

I CERTAINLY SHALL.

On this May 1st, as the light and warmth of the spring returns let us reflect on the stories we tell ourselves. That as ...
05/01/2026

On this May 1st, as the light and warmth of the spring returns let us reflect on the stories we tell ourselves. That as the writers of these stories we can change the narrative.

Author Rob Brezney says the world has suffered a genocide of the imagination. But to us it’s more than a genocide that has simply limited our capacity to day dream and think of cool imaginary worlds. The imagination is a powerful tool. Without it where would humanity be? It was the imagination that ultimately created every single modern convenience humans take for granted. From the water bottles we take on hikes to the profound medical equipment that can detect disease. The imagination created it all.

But alone the imagination cannot do this. There has been another genocide if you will. A genocide of action, of movement of doing. People get stuck in a rut. They have tons of ideas but these rarely turn into actions. Often this is because the system we live in only allows for us to go to work, raise our families, cook dinner, bathe ourselves, go to bed and do it all again the next day.

We liken the innovative process to a large sphere of bright light hovering in space. From the sphere of light tiny sparks emerge. Little cells or flickers of light spark from the larger sphere. These are ideas. They are thoughts, intentions, wishes, desires etc.

Most of these never find grounding in the manifested world. These little sparks never condense into form, so, they bypass the earth and settle in a hell like world, where they lay dormant and useless and form the very hell in which they come to rest.

Imagination + action = manifestation. Imagination alone cannot accomplish this. Action without an imaginative intention is just chaos.

So, today, May 1st, Beltane, as the rising sun hits your eyes and the warmth caresses your skin, we invite you to reflect on these things. To meditate upon the stories we have told ourselves. How by using the imagination we can change the narrative and how we as characters in that story perform actions that move the story forward.

04/05/2026

In a previous post we talked about the stories we tell ourselves and how these stories have shaped our lives. But what about the stories others have told us, that have also impacted our lives? From the movies and television shows we have watched, books we have read to the preacher in a pulpit shoveling s**t down our throats.

Tomorrow, Christian’s around the world will celebrate a story they have been told. For many, they have suspended their disbelief and have believed that the son of god was resurrected from the dead. For them, the words of Jesus matter little, only this story for some reason. As it invokes a sense of hope that they too will one day be resurrected from the grave, while the unbelieving heathens will be cast into hell.

A story. One that has shaped the lives of billions of people.

Stories are usually easy to believe because most people are trusting to some degree, especially toward
People they know. For those billions of Christian’s how many were told these stories by those who raised them? The same goes for those raised by people of other religious beliefs. Most Muslims don’t leave their faith.

But then there is a small sect of highly suspicious people. Those who know the difference between subjective truths and objective reality. Those who question stories all the way around. Whether it’s a simple story of some minor event in one’s life to the grandest story of them all, that a man, called the son of god, rose from the dead. These are people who can look past the belief of some kind of objective reality of the dying and resurrecting god to the meaning behind the story.

To those people the truthfulness of the story matters little, but the meaning of the story is what matters the most.

03/06/2026

The light

There is often an imbalance in people who practice one thing to the exclusion of another. For instance, most of us are aware of the imbalance in a person addicted to drugs or alcohol. Rarely do we note an imbalance in a person extremely disciplined, for instance, someone who avoids any kind of release and focuses solely on their goals and routines. We often nod our heads in approval at such people.

Routine is fine. It can be healthy. But it can also become an addiction. People utilize routine to hide from actually having to face themselves. Similar to how an addict would. Both groups of people tend to avoid actual meaningful relationships with people.

It is this last thing we wish to speak about. We all need meaningful relationships and people we can trust to unburden ourselves with. People we can be vulnerable with and who wont judge us as weak simply because we have a day or so where we need to let some things go. Or express how we’re feeling.

Doing so is not a sign of weakness. It is actually a sign of strength. It takes courage to be vulnerable. And usually by doing so, meaning itself emerges.

Most of us contemplate the meaning of the world. Rarely, do we actually practice meaning in our everyday normal lives. This can actually lead to nihilism. But nihilism itself can be a useful tool. If nothing has meaning, then I myself must create it. But this doesn’t begin on a large scale. It should begin with baby steps. Like initiating a small conversation with someone.

Meaning is ultimately the goal of this years posts. We will speak more about these things as the year progresses.

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