Impressions on Iron Gates Chapters Thirty and Thirty-One
Impressions on Iron Gates Chapters Thirty and Thirty-One
Psychic Matriarchy Rules Systematically Traumatized Population
Nadezhda and Bonn are introduced. Nadezhda has only seen the beginning of her deprivation and long-term drug inducement. Private Bonn has had months of torture, punctuated by the final few weeks under the charge of sadistic Britta. The girls here, Bluebird and Britta, twelve and nine years of age, respectively, are portrayed in latex suits, sexually explicit, even vulgar.
They are both cruel agents made even crueler by the training at the hands of cult handlers, working under the will and direction of the commandant. Bonn and Nadezhda are their ‘pets’.
The scene is presented quite theatrically in the chapter before the end.
The real message is in the very last chapter, in a scene worthy of a large painting, and its place upon a tarot. It is, like most Iron Gates world episodes, more of an archetype, an image with a meaning, with small story embedded but mostly made to deliver a kind of gnosis as a punch, or to establish a link through a tendril to a deep repository of experience delivered through intense emotionality.
The commandant sits upon the throne. On cages are naked children, surrounded by children who wear the cult’s robes. The children in the cage are afraid and wailing. The children in robes are cruel and trained in the methods of the cult.
The commandant is surrounded by elite shock troops, the most dedicated and capable of all.
In come also Bluebird and Britta, with the further tortured Nadezhda and Bonn, who are made to copulate while they are beaten with whips. We are told they are meant to father the generations that will populate the experimental area. Generations subject to trauma, trauma encoded into the parents, that will then be inherited by the children.
A note here. It is interesting that while in the last few years it has risen to the mainstream that epigenetics can enable the acquisition of certain nervous system dispositions within a generation and pass them on to the offspring, even ten years ago to suggest such a thing was rather controversial. Nevertheless, the Tempel ov Blood, from which comes the Iron Gates horror dystopian fiction series, clearly stated such thing in its 2013 compendium Liber 333 of essays that went back ten years prior. Namely, that you can change your genetic composition through self-training.
Sure, there is a difference between genetics and epigenetics. But humanity has in the last twenty years come to understand that most of what we used to call genetic was in fact epigenetic, giving credence to the old ideas which used the word genetic for everything. Giving credence to all those who at some point or other said that one could acquire traits and pass them on to children.
Upon this is also based the idea of generational trauma.
A traumatized, highly stressed mother will give birth to a child predisposed to chronic nervous system illnesses. A child prone towards insecurity, and the need for reassurance from its environment.
Now, as explicit and exaggerated as this may seem, the Tarot-like image we receive, we could say, accurately depicts both the bent and intent behind the rushed, punishment-based, breakneck speed of both the standard industrial educational model in schools, and the way the 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday credit-based kill-yourself-for-nothing modern life, which ultimately only benefits the ghost of material enlargement, and inhuman elements sitting at the top, whose names are well-known, and perhaps others who are less known, others who sit on thrones unseen, perhaps, or who are imagined so, but those who are the true agents of the collective delusion, and who project such things onto the subjective plane, and think their own twisted mind reflects a higher reality.
We have chosen, ourselves, not someone else, not an evil lurking goddess, except the one we have made into a very real, very powerful manifestation, to live these lives, to uphold such a system, to debase the blessing of the physical realm, in a complete entrancement with something other than what goes on now, and rather in search of something that is never here, never in this present moment, through actions that are called and pulled into a void that is perceived as ever-growing, never-relenting, and driving the mind to increasingly psychotic states.
You choose, and you can choose now, to go down that road, to be entranced by war, and politics, and all that comes up in the news, or to look toward and contribute to that which will eventually push us over the limit, that which will take us to the point of singularity and beyond simple organic physicality.
For more on inherited trauma and general environmental trauma and its impact on the individual and subsequent generations, make sure you investigate the writings and interviews of Gabor Maté.
In tandem with the work of Peter Levine and Stephen Porges, you should get a complete picture of how we are coming to understand the nervous system as a repository of individual experience.
For more on the post-humanist (“transhumanist”) idea of the singularity, look at the ideas of Ray Kurzweil, especially in the context of the propositions of K. Eric Drexler.