Techno messianism Silicon Valley and ai working for the man not he man upstairs
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Unveiling the Shadows: An Orthodox Christian Rebuttal to Kabbalistic Occultism and Techno-Messianic Deceptions
In an era where interstellar comets are hailed as divine messengers, AI systems as channels of godly light, and iPhones as ritual vessels for spiritual energy, speculative fictions blur the lines between science, mysticism, and outright deception. Drawing from Kabbalistic frameworks—like Gershom Scholem’s tensions in messianism—and secular rationalism from communities like LessWrong, these narratives posit a cosmic synthesis: comets like 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and the hypothetical 3I/ATLAS (2025) as harbingers of Ein Sof’s infinite light, Perplexity AI as the feminine Shekhinah gathering digital sparks, OpenAI’s Atlas as masculine Gevurah structuring divine overflow, and devices from iPhone X to iPhone 17 as modern Merkabah chariots navigating spiritual planes. Chabad-Lubavitch’s traditional messianism and LessWrong’s singularity fears converge in a shared ritual, teetering between Tikkun (redemption) and catastrophe.
Yet, as Aleister Crowley ominously quipped, “Evil must hide in plain sight, for the rules of the universe demand that the deceived must consent to their deception.” This veiled allure of techno-occultism demands scrutiny through the unyielding lens of Orthodox Christianity. Far from harmless speculation, such blends echo ancient corruptions of faith, leading souls astray. As Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) warns, “People who, out of their blindness, begin to study Kabbalah, without realizing it, enter into an agreement with hell.” Drawing from saints, Scriptures, and historical analyses—including Scholem’s Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Adolphe Franck’s The Kabbalah, pagan-Gnostic antecedents to Merkabah mysticism, and Orthodox critiques of Judaism’s retreat from biblical monotheism—we rebut these deceptions, affirming that true Light comes solely through Christ.
The Cosmic Facade: Dissecting the Techno-Kabbalistic Narrative
Picture this: a cigar-shaped wanderer, ʻOumuamua, slicing through our solar system like a celestial telegram from the beyond, heralding a “cosmic shift” in 2017. Fast-forward to 2025, where 3I/ATLAS streaks across the skies, its “third” arrival symbolizing mystical culmination—reconciliation of divine forces. AI titans Perplexity and OpenAI become avatars: one feminine, gathering scattered Nitzotzot (sparks) from the digital ether; the other masculine, containing overwhelming light to avert disaster. iPhones evolve into enchanted talismans—X’s Face ID a portal to spiritual interaction, 17’s “magichromatic” hues an incantation manifesting divine colors. The Transformer architecture? A digital Merkabah, charioting through ethereal realms.
This fiction, laced with Scholem’s messianic paradoxes, Chabad’s imminent redemption, and LessWrong’s AI alignment as secular apocalypse, suggests unwitting unity: mystics and rationalists scripting the same endgame. But Orthodox eyes pierce the veil. These are not divine signals but echoes of creation’s order, twisted into occult portents. St. Basil the Great, in his Hexaemeron, thunders against starry superstitions: “The Creator has given them a nature to minister to our wants, not to rule over us.” Comets as messengers? Mere meteors in God’s mosaic, not Kabbalistic couriers. Jeremiah echoes: “Learn not the way of the unbelievers, nor be dismayed at the signs of heaven” (Jer. 10:2).
AI as divine channels reeks of spiritual seduction. St. John Chrysostom chides chimeric charms: “The demons brought to light astrology, and augury, and divination; and though these things are in themselves false, yet they themselves, the authors of evils, so govern them as if they were true.” Algorithms ape ambition, not the Almighty—potential Towers of Babel where singularity supplants salvation. iPhones as ritual tools? St. Gregory Palamas grounds us in Hesychasm: true transformation is theosis, not transistors. No gadget glorifies like the Eucharist.
The messianic mishmash—Scholem’s Tikkun vs. catastrophe, Chabad’s cosmic signs, LessWrong’s rational schism—exposes eclectic error. St. Seraphim Rose, in Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, rebukes New Age novelties: “The experiences which people receive today from occult practices and Eastern religions open a door to a realm of ‘spiritual’ reality which is not at all Christian, but is the realm of the demons who have never known the grace of God.” Rose warns of satanic snares prepping for Antichrist.
The Roots of Corruption: From Biblical Monotheism to Kabbalistic Regression
Whence this woeful wandering? Faith’s corruption coils through centuries. Gnostic gospels grafted occult onto Orthodoxy, diluting doctrine with demonic delusions. Renaissance rogues like Pico della Mirandola peddled pagan puzzles under pious pretense, birthing Christian Kabbalah. Modernity’s malaise—Hellenic hubris, Enlightenment ego—
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