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SCRIBBLER: Master, how do you think universal religion will appear?

THALES: Empirical religion will develop locally and individually, worldwide, in a totally de-centralized way. People interested in such things will get together in people's homes, read the books, practice making mandalas, do hypnotic regression, and meditation, and practice all the occult sciences. They will make ceremonial robes and wands and swords and cups and candles and they will celebrate rites of a Neo-pagan sort in woods and on hilltops, by moonrise and sunrise.

SCRIBBLER: Master, do you think the transition to the new age will come quickly or slowly?

THALES: That depends on the heart of man. The immediate future (the next hundred years) depends greatly on the degree of flexibility and tolerance of dominant people. If they are very repressive, the dying World-Machine can be prolonged for hundreds of years to be followed by a collapse and a dark age and a slow return to civilization a thousand years from now. The Roman experience again. If so, we must not lose hope, and must be prepared to go underground and develop ourselves. But I think it is much more likely that we shall sail smoothly into the new age, perhaps in our lifetime.

SCRIBBLER: Master, I hope you have some reason for that optimism?

THALES: Our civilization differs from the Roman in several crucial respects. Unlike the Romans, the World-Machine developed genuine sciences. The new intellectual basis provided by empirical religion, value sciences, and mythic sciences is simply an extension of the same method, applied to a wider range of problems and experiences. Secondly, our society is more vital and does not cling to the past. The barbarism of the present is thus a temporarily healthy thing. Thus, we are neither as exhausted and world-weary as the Romans, nor do they have to reject the old basis quite so thoroughly as did the early Christians.

SCRIBBLER: Master, what will the new age be like?

THALES: Life will be both more local and more global. Fantasy and magic will become everyday reality. Serious things will be done playfully (war, religion) and playful things will be done seriously (the arts). Gradually the harsher aspects of human personality will disappear and the supernal light of all things will be apparent to all. Love will replace strife and we will lift our eyes to the stars. The time of strength and the Hermit may be very long, but eventually we will resume our role as cosmic citizens and star travelers.

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Interstellar Travellers:

SCRIBBLER:		Master, how do you think universal religion will appear?
THALES:		Empirical religion will develop locally and individually, worldwide, in a totally de-centralized way. People interested in such things will get together in people's homes, read the books, practice making mandalas, do hypnotic regression, and meditation, and practice all the occult sciences. They will make ceremonial robes and wands and swords and cups and candles and they will celebrate rites of a Neo-pagan sort in woods and on hilltops, by moonrise and sunrise.

SCRIBBLER:		Master, do you think the transition to the new age will come quickly or slowly?
THALES:		That depends on the heart of man. The immediate future (the next hundred years) depends greatly on the degree of flexibility and tolerance of dominant people. If they are very repressive, the dying World-Machine can be prolonged for hundreds of years to be followed by a collapse and a dark age and a slow return to civilization a thousand years from now. The Roman experience again. If so, we must not lose hope, and must be prepared to go underground and develop ourselves. But I think it is much more likely that we shall sail smoothly into the new age, perhaps in our lifetime.

SCRIBBLER:		Master, I hope you have some reason for that optimism?
THALES:		Our civilization differs from the Roman in several crucial respects. Unlike the Romans, the World-Machine developed genuine sciences. The new intellectual basis provided by empirical religion, value sciences, and mythic sciences is simply an extension of the same method, applied to a wider range of problems and experiences. Secondly, our society is more vital and does not cling to the past. The barbarism of the present is thus a temporarily healthy thing. Thus, we are neither as exhausted and world-weary as the Romans, nor do they have to reject the old basis quite so thoroughly as did the early Christians.

SCRIBBLER:		Master, what will the new age be like?
THALES:		Life will be both more local and more global. Fantasy and magic will become everyday reality. Serious things will be done playfully (war, religion) and playful things will be done seriously (the arts). Gradually the harsher aspects of human personality will disappear and the supernal light of all things will be apparent to all. Love will replace strife and we will lift our eyes to the stars. The time of strength and the Hermit may be very long, but eventually we will resume our role as cosmic citizens and star travelers.