48 Laws of Power, a book

[souldiver]

Have you owned one or have seen it? What do some people from different beliefs think about it? Should it be avoided? Or is useful? It’s about worldly wisdom, it similar to Machiavellian philosophy. Here’s a sample excerpt from it, and below you can check out other chapters.

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[PGFrassati]

Cracking read. A very unreliable history guide though. And pretty biased.

There is some valuable advice in the book, but most of the time, it’s frankly evil. All about how to get the best for Number One. Also, con-artists, quacks and warlords are presented as role models. Yes, it’s fascinating to read about their exploits, but follow them?

Mind, some advice is good. The chapter about people whose personalities are like flypaper (eg Lola Montez)… I wish I knew that when I needed to know that… sigh. Parts of it are remarkably good, but it’s a curate’s egg.

“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?”

“Be cunning as serpents, but gentle as doves.”

“…they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master” Dr. Johnson, commenting on Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

 

[souldiver]

Cracking read. A very unreliable history guide though. And pretty biased.

There is some valuable advice in the book, but most of the time, it’s frankly evil. All about how to get the best for Number One. Also, con-artists, quacks and warlords are presented as role models. Yes, it’s fascinating to read about their exploits, but follow them?

Mind, some advice is good. The chapter about people whose personalities are like flypaper (eg Lola Montez)… I wish I knew that when I needed to know that… sigh. Parts of it are remarkably good, but it’s a curate’s egg.

“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?”

“Be cunning as serpents, but gentle as doves.”

“…they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master” Dr. Johnson, commenting on Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

Good post.

 

[cjforJesus]

New Age spirituality relies heavily on the revelations of the Brotherhood of Masters channeled through Helena Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, Muller, Marx Hubbard, and Neale Donald Walsh. Penn notes that all together they form a comprehensive anti-Gospel setting forth a progressive vision of spiritualized totalitarianism that includes: worship of Lucifer as the light-bearer and giver of wisdom; man as god; death is not real; extreme population control including abortion, eugenics and euthanasia; hatred of faithful Christians and Jews; Luciferian initiation of all who enter the New Age; and forecasting a pending ‘selection’ of mankind in which initiates enter the New Age and reactionaries face extinction:

“For the New Age Apostles of “progressive” Social Darwinism, these casualties are a necessary price to pay for human evolution.” (ibid, p. 7)

When a critical mass of humanity have succumbed to satanic subjection, infestation and possession, the New Age will commence when the Brotherhood of Masters bring to an end,

“…the long silence which has persisted since Atlantean days,” and “renew an ancient sharing of secrets.” Thus “in the immediate future…Masters will walk openly among men…openly guiding and directing the affairs of humanity.” (Djwhal Khul speaking through Alice Bailey, False Dawn, Lee Penn, p. 262)

While denying Jesus Christ God incarnate, the Creator Who spoke all things into existence ex nihilo and made man in His spiritual image, thus the true and only source of Light and life, the Brotherhood of Masters are succeeding with the methods of false light among the many travelers of the broad way toward the building of Lucifer’s kingdom of “God” here on earth…a unified Global Church of their god Lucifer - Linda kimball

 

[seagal]

Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies

Didn’t even have to go past the first line to know that this book doesn’t follow Christian principles. It’s all about how to get worldly power. 1John 2:15-17

15 Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone does love the world, the love of the Father finds no place in him,
16 because everything there is in the world – disordered bodily desires, disordered desires of the eyes, pride in possession – is not from the Father but is from the world.
17 And the world, with all its disordered desires, is passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains for ever.