Kings and Merchants
The whore in the Biblical Book of Revelation is a symbol for the human race created by the Fallen. In Revelation, the whore bears a name on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, the mother of all the prostitutes and all the filthy practices on the earth”.
Whores sell their bodies in exchange for money from the people who exploit and abuse those whores for personal pleasure. The term “whore” can also refer to a person who sacrifices personal principles in an immoral or unworthy manner, usually for money. For clarity, both men and women can be whores.
The earthly system of Babylon the Great exactly reflects the act of whoring. We humans, created in the image and likeness of the beautiful splendour of our “gods” (the Fallen angels), take our beauty (our body and mind) and give it up for exploitation and abuse by the “power brokers” in the earthly system so that we can receive money, which we use to promote ourselves with the aim of someday becoming “power brokers”.
In our constant endeavours for more money we detach from our souls and identify with our flesh, and we use our flesh to play and win in the commercial world of the Fallen. In this world, we cannot live without money; if we want anything, we basically have to buy it. The only way we can get money is to give something of ours in exchange for that money. Our abilities and “talents” come from our flesh. We receive the amazing “miracle of life” and the best we can do with it is trade it for personal fame and fortune.
We are not to blame for this. Our Fallen creators condemned us to a life of hard labour (Genesis 3: 17-19).
In the Biblical Book of Ezekiel, chapter 16 describes how the human race was created by the Fallen and how humans used their “splendour” to behave like a whore:
At birth, the very day you were born, there was no one to cut your navel-string, or wash you in cleansing water, or rub you with salt, or wrap you in napkins. No one leaned kindly over you to do anything like that for you. You were exposed in the open fields; you were as unloved as on the day you were born. I saw you struggling in your blood as I was passing, and I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live, and grow like the grass of the fields. You developed, you grew, you reached marriageable age. Your breasts and your hair both grew, but you were quite naked. Then I saw you as I was passing. Your time had come, the time for love. I spread part of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness; I bound myself by oath, I made a covenant with you…and you became mine. I bathed you in water, I washed the blood off you, I anointed you with oil. I gave you embroidered dresses, fine leather shoes, a linen headband and a cloak of silk. I loaded you with jewels, gave you bracelets for your wrists and a necklace for your throat. I gave you nose-ring and earrings; I put a beautiful diadem on your head. You were loaded with gold and silver, and dressed in fine linen and embroidered silks. Your food was the finest flour, honey and oil. You grew more and more beautiful; and you rose to be queen. The fame of your beauty spread through the nations, since it was perfect, because I had clothed you with my own splendour… You have become infatuated with your own beauty; you have used your fame to make yourself a prostitute; you have offered your services to all comers… (Ezekiel 16: 4-15).
A prostitute is paid. But you, in your whoring, have given your presents away to all your lovers; you have offered them gifts to attract them from everywhere. In your whoring you have done the exact opposite from other women; no one was running after you, so you went and paid them; they did not pay you since your behaviour was so outrageous. (Ezekiel 16: 33-34).
The symbolism above can be translated thus: humans were given soul and life from the Fallen, as well as education (to act for and on behalf of the Fallen in their earthly system), and the best we could do with that “endowment” was engage in indiscriminate trade and exploitation for personal advantage.
NOTE: Parallels to the above text from Ezekiel can be found in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 2:7 to Genesis 2: 27; Genesis 3:7 to Genesis 3:22), as well as in the extra-biblical Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 6 – 8; 1 Enoch 15; 1 Enoch 39:1; 1 Enoch 64:2).
In my previous article I presented a diagram illustrating a “pyramid of power” with the “power brokers” (corporations and governments) at the top, and the “unskilled” and “untouchable” humans, and natural environment (raped of all commercial value) at the bottom. That diagram showed how the minority (in terms of masses of people) rule the world, while the majority (in terms of masses) are exploited by the minority. Now consider the situation in terms of the following diagram:
The pyramid is now inverted. What it illustrates (in terms of the world of the Fallen in which we live) is that resource hoarding, especially money or capital value, is concentrated with the “power brokers”, while the people / entities further down the inverted structure have less money and capital value. The natural environment, raped of its commercial resources, has the least value, hence the wanton destruction we see towards that part of our world.
In the process of us being whores and selling ourselves for whatever commercial value we can gain so that we can climb the structure towards becoming “god-like power brokers”, we turn our world upside-down. The notion of what is truly valuable becomes totally corrupted. In essence, we abandon our souls – our conscience – and we sell ourselves for nothing more than money. As beings with soul, we become totally devalued; we become nothing more than soul-less commercial instruments. In the world of the Fallen we sacrifice our personal principles in an immoral or unworthy manner for money and fame (which is temporary – at best, it lasts until we die).
In the previous article I asked: are we doomed to live like this – as whores – or can we transcend the system?
It is possible for us to transcend the system, but living in a transcendent way is not easy. That will be the topic of the next article.
In parting, I leave you with the following thought (a saying attributed to Jesus Christ):
No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money. (Matthew 6: 24)
Image: "Broadgate Venus", Broadgate, London, UK. Copyright - Michael Beaton
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