Gotta Serve Somebody

I am not dead, you may be pleased to hear. I have been busy finishing my latest book, as well as watching the early stages of the English Civil War 2025-2045. These two matters are, of course, related.

The new book is called The Divine Compass and it's all about how to make better decisions, something which the British political establishment seem incapable of doing.

Britain is a country which has always had a very loose relationship with the truth, with a great deal of what really goes on taking decades to find its way into the public domain. This has never been truer than today, for all the things going wrong in this country could be fixed tomorrow, if those in charge wanted to.

The British Prime Minister is unique among world leaders because the strange multi-layered British Constitution endows the holder of the office of Prime Minister with enormous power. Relatively speaking whoever sits in Number 10 is far more powerful than whoever sits in the White House, the Elysee Palace or even the Kremlin. This is because the Prime Minister is, effectively, the King-in-Parliament, with prerogative power over large areas of life. Ordinary ministers or secretaries of state have very little executive power, but the Prime Minister, through control of the machinery of government, including that of the intelligence services, and especially through such things as Orders in Council, effectively has almost dictatorial powers. It is just that they mostly choose not to use them.

The current inhabitant of Downing Street (however long he may last) is particularly fearful of exercising any real power at all, preferring instead that decisions be taken by unelected quangos, alongside international and supranational bodies, which of course are all stacked to the gills with people just like him. This is commonly called something like the rules-based-international-order, which people don't question because it is adorned with all sorts of things like human rights which, we are told, never existed before 1997. This is of course quite aside from the fact that the first charter of human rights was produced in this country in 1215, and called the Magna Carta - there's that loose relationship with truth again you see, a lot of British people just don't know about any of this, and those who do are accused of spreading mis-information.

But it is all real and, make no mistake, it is a spiritual matter. The Prime Minister of the UK, so long as they have parliamentary support, can, within reason, pretty much do anything they like. The Iraq War hinted at it. Covid-19 lockdowns proved it, although the powers existed long before that. The conclusion is unavoidable, bad things are happening because the Prime Minister wants them to happen.

This matters because the same abdication, or distortion, of will has occurred among the people. There are all sorts of things that the ordinary person, in their regular everyday life, could simply say no to, yet they do not. This is partly to do with the fact that we have been brainwashed to believe that we have no real power at all, that life is just one wave after another of unstoppable forces to which we must always and forever adapt and can never refuse. Though we are empowered, a thousand times a day, to choose between trivialities - Big Mac or Whopper, jeans or trousers, latte or espresso, Radio 2 or Heart FM - we have forgotten that we can choose the big things too.

And this is what the forthcoming book, The Divine Compass, is all about - how and what to choose, day to day, in your own life.

Now, many people will frame this as a matter of Free Will - how can I make the decisions that give me more of what I want? But here's the thing, and it's really important - you can either have happiness, or you can have Free Will, but you can't have both.

Correct decisions are downstream from Source, from God. There is Your Will, and then there is God's Will, they are often not the same, and no amount of non-duality-waffle will ever change that.

The current British Prime Minister does not have a will of his own, and he therefore bends to the will of others, taking the knee - literally and metaphorically - ten times every day, to global capital, international courts, the EU, the UN and the WEF, as well as to his own deeply flawed progressive ideology. Many previous Prime Ministers have done similar; Wilson operated at the behest of the trade unions (and, if you really want to go full conspiracy, the KGB), Callaghan surrendered to the demands of international bankers, Major twisted and turned as his backbenchers called the shots and Blair never had a thought that hadn’t previously been placed into his head by either George W Bush, Alastair Campbell or Rupert Murdoch. Of course, there were Prime Ministers who did exercise their own will, people like Churchill and Thatcher, but that was not necessarily a good thing because none of them, not a single one, were implementing God's Will, because that is not who the holder of that office works for.

A big change is coming though, in ways that will surprise a lot of people. Once the penny drops in Westminster that there are all sorts of things that a Prime Minister can just do, almost at the stroke of a pen, then someone will move to resurrect that power and use it. Of course it will be controversial, it will ‘break precedent’ and ‘defy convention’, so whoever does it will have to be intensely unbothered about the volume of screaming and shouting that will result. But it's only a matter of time now until such a person emerges; he or she will do whatever they want to get what they want, and the word democracy will find new meanings overnight. I believe that the person who will do this is not yet in parliament. But when they arrive a lot of seemingly intractable problems will get fixed, pretty fast. But - and this is the point - there will be nothing divine, or spiritual, about it. Few will care about that though, mark my words.

If you, on the other hand, as the Prime Minister of your own life, would like to make decisions which do divinely align then I hope you will consider reading my soon to be released book, The Divine Compass. It won’t be long now, and I will let you know when it's on sale. Hermitage Hub Members will get first dibs.

Making better decisions in the arena of your own life is going to be very important in the new world that is coming, because as we move, haphazardly, into an era of much more authoritarian government, vocal and visible dissent will simply be outlawed. In Britain the political direction of travel is now to the extremes and that old-fashioned British tolerance thing is dead. Navigating this is going to require much more than intuition, much more than emotional intelligence, much more than rational logic or reason. It is going to require total and complete surrender to the one force who beats all Prime Ministers into the ground, God. Because, at the end of the day it is as the great spiritual teacher Bob Dylan told us:

“You may be an ambassador to England or France
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you’re going to have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re going to have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re going to have to serve somebody…”

I’ll write again when we get a New Caesar in Downing Street or when the book is even more ‘nearly-ready’.

This has been a very Britain-centered piece, because that’s where I live. But I don’t think anywhere is immune from the same forces. It’s just that the world is going a get a show bigger than Trump 2016, bigger than Covid-19 when it really starts kicking off in the UK. It will have global ramifications and there will not be a person alive on the planet who will be untouched by it. If this generates fear or anxiety please stop for a moment and flip the whole thing round, because it might just be the catalyst, that everyone has been waiting for, that installs a New World.