Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Twenty-One
Impressions on Iron Gates Chapter Twenty-One
Britta leaves, the field marshal is briefed
A transitioning and information adding section of the story, the present chapter consists solely of nine-year-old Britta leaving the field marshal’s tent, taken away by a female cult member, and boarding a black organization van, after which the field marshal takes a meeting with other organization leaders, a meeting during which he gets briefed on the general plans the commander has for a future ‘experimental zone’.
Most interesting for the field marshal, as we are told, is that the commander does not want to take over the zone, nor does he want to exterminate the people there. Instead, he wishes to purposely create feelings of animosity for the organization, and then use it as test ground. A test ground for what is not, we are not told, but he gets a first picture when he is shown a gas mask.
That is the end of the chapter.
So far, we have only engaged in discussions of Iron Gates on the plane of the accusatory nature of its contents, of how it unveils the workings of our world, the dark ones at any rate, in a way entirely divested of euphemisms and propaganda.
We have missed the opportunity to discuss the Jungian aspects. The archetypes that each of the characters represents as parts not just of a cosmos, but as deeply sequestered elements of your personality.
The practice of facing each of the characters as parts of yourself, engaging them instead of looking away, and incorporating not the actions or attitudes they display, but going to the root of the malaise that creates such projections, remains an entirely individual affair.
We leave it here, however, as a way for you to explore.
Back to the story, the experimental area, and so on. Do you doubt we have such things on this earth, this earth upon which the leaders negotiate and meet with each other face-to-face all the time?
What about North Korea? What about each Communist state? What about National Socialist Germany itself and the events that unfolded as the beast was created, propped up, and then goaded through economic and political harassment? What about the state of Israel—the creation of an offensive, enemy state right in the middle of people who have no love for them? What about the planned oppression and subjugation that many other specific places have endured?
Sure, some of these things have come to be created through happenstance. Others have not. And even when they come to be through some sort of evil serendipity, sooner or later their situation is taken advantage of, utilized to create some manner of profit, to test a theory, to gather human slave resources, to dump the unwanted, or to simply hold for the sole purpose of infusing terror.
Some say this is the way of the world. Certainly, the minds behind this work may think this way. There are others, however, that, while acknowledging the reality of these possibilities, understand life and global development to be a choice. We get what we focus on. No Apocalypse or Vedic forecast is inevitable. They are all self-fulfilling prophecies. They come to be through the collective fears and obsessions that get funneled into their previously designed vessels. To think otherwise is willful obscurantism and addiction to strong negative emotions not entirely dissimilar to heroin addiction.
There are many among us who oppose such futures.
Read this novel as a fantasy of darkness that we can avoid by understanding where it goes wrong, where the blood is spilt and wasted, where the individual is forgotten, and the illusory collective propped up for dreams of madness. Read and understand that there are great forces at work that will remove the ground upon which evil stands.
The solution lies not in obsessing about the news, but in obsessing about the futures that take humanity forward. Look, and you shall find. Learn to engineer strong emotions toward the future you choose, and you shall evade the grip of fear and death, grow stronger, and reap from the tree of life the most abundant fruits.