...thanks for the post / obvious effort. I do agree with a lot of what you've written. But, I can tell you that one thing really stuck out. You mention religions being about control and conditioning, and, you're 100% correct. The base teachings of religions is that man should 'satisfy the inner condition' of translating outward sexual expressions to 'inner' expressions. This, imo, is a path toward being a human vs. an intellectual animal. So yes, religion is about control and conditioning (of man's sexual potency, so may reach a place of peace - "shambhala" or something like that).
Ok, now, the sun is not egalitarian. In the mundane world, yes it is, but the psychology of religion speaks to an 'inner' sun / son and that sun / son is not expressed without satisfying those conditions I mentioned. Of course, these are my own observations - but they are supported and not just random blurts.
Here, I apologize for the c&p but it spells this out better than I can:
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mothers womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. - John 3:1-6
"In Gnosticism and Esotericism, one understands as Second Birth the fabrication of the
Solar Bodies and the Incarnation of the Being."
- The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
"To incarnate the Divine Immortal Triad (Atman-Buddhi-Manas) signifies the Second Birth, which means to come out of the Ninth Sphere. The child who is born comes out from the womb. Whosoever is born within the Superior Worlds comes out of the Ninth Sphere (Sex)."
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*no real teaching (of anything) is about money. All the crystals and that kind of stuff has it's place, as 'symbols'. Symbols often represent potentialities. They're meant to be neutral. And, a sucker is born every minute