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Engineering Evolution: The Alchemy of Eugenics | Phillip D. Collins
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- by Phillip D. Collins, Jan. 10th, 2005
In the dark past of human civilization, the ruling class controlled
humanity largely through religious institutions and mysticism.
However, the turn of the century witnessed the epistemic
transformation of the elite's religious power structure into a
"scientific dictatorship." The history and background of this
"scientific dictatorship" is a conspiracy, created and micro-managed
through the historical tide of Darwinism, which has its foundations in
Freemasonry. In this article, we shall examine the evolutionary
alchemy of eugenics, from Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood to
William Sims Bainbridge's Transhumanism.
The Alchemical Transformation of Man
A common misnomer that has been circulated by academia's anointed
historians is that the alchemists of antiquity were attempting to
transform lead into gold. In truth, this was a fiction promulgated by
the alchemists themselves to conceal their ultimate objectives . .
.the transformation of man into a god. Among one of the various occult
organizations that aspired to complete this alchemical mission was
Freemasonry. Providing a summation of Masonry's supreme goal, Masonic
scholar W.L. Wilmshurst writes:
"This - the evolution of man into superman [emphasis - ADDED] - was
always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose
of modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to
which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the
spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature
and transform it into a more god-like quality. And this is a
definite science, a royal art, which it is possible for each of us
to put into practice; whilst to join the Craft for any other
purpose than to study and pursue this science is to misunderstand
its meaning." (Wilmshurst, p. 47, 1980)
According to this alchemical mandate, humanity is a gradually
developing deity requiring scientific assistance in its evolution. In
Mystic Masonry, 32nd degree Mason J.D. Buck reiterates this theme of
man as a progressively apotheosizing organism: "Humanity, 'in-toto',
then, is the only Personal God" (Buck, p. 136, 1990). Of course, the
concept of evolution would later be disseminated on the popular level
as Darwinism and become the veritable cornerstone of contemporary
science.
Before its popularization, evolutionary theory was the intellectual
property of Masonry. Freemason Erasmus Darwin, Charles' grandfather,
"originated almost every important idea that has since appeared in
evolutionary theory" (Darlington, p. 62, 1959). It is hardly a
coincidence that many of Charles Darwin's chief promoters were
Freemasons, not the least of which being T.H. Huxley. It is even less
of a coincidence that Charles Darwin's cousin, Sir Francis Galton,
would become one of the early expediters of Masonry's alchemical
agenda.
Eugenics: Alchemically Engineered Apotheosis
Sir Francis Galton could be considered an early evolutionary
alchemist. His own cousin's theory of evolution was one of his chief
inspirations. In Memories of My Life, Galton wrote:
"The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that
of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude
of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of
rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and
unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science."
(Galton, Memories of My Life, p. 287)
Viewing evolutionary theory in conjunction with the alchemical mandate
for man's consciously engineered apotheosis, one inevitably recognizes
a belief system that exhibits all of the characteristics of a
religion. This revelation is most clearly illustrated by Galton's
statements in Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development:
"The chief result of these Inquiries has been to elicit the
religious significance of the doctrine of evolution. It suggests an
alteration in our mental attitude, and imposes a new moral duty.
The new mental attitude is one of a greater sense of moral freedom,
responsibility, and opportunity; the new duty which is supposed to
be exercised concurrently with, and not in opposition to the old
ones upon which the social fabric depends, is an endeavor to
further evolution, especially that of the human race." (Galton,
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, p. 337, 1883)
That Galton recognized the "religious significance of evolution" is no
accident. Throughout the years, this Masonically inspired religion of
emergent deities has resurfaced under various appellations. Wagar
enumerates its numerous manifestations:
"Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century thought teems with
time-bound emergent deities. Scores of thinkers preached some sort
of faith in what is potential in time, in place of the traditional
Christian and mystical faith in a power outside of time. Hegel's
Weltgeist, Comte's Humanite, Spencer's organismic humanity
inevitably improving itself by the laws of evolution, Nietzsche's
doctrine of superhumanity, the conception of a finite God given
currency by J.S. Mill, Hastings Rashdall, and William James, the
vitalism of Bergson and Shaw, the emergent evolutionism of Samuel
Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, the theories of divine immanence in the
liberal movement in Protestant theology, and du Nouy's telefinalism
- all are exhibits in evidence of the influence chiefly of
evolutionary thinking, both before and after Darwin, in Western
intellectual history. The faith of progress itself - especially the
idea of progress as built into the evolutionary scheme of things -
is in every way the psychological equivalent of religion." (Wagar,
pp. 106 - 7, 1961)
This emergent deity, Man (spelled with a capitalized M to denote his
purported divinity), would be fully enthroned through the efforts of
alchemists themselves. Galton would reintroduce the concept of alchemy
under the appellation of eugenics, a term derived from Greek for "well
born." The basic precepts of eugenics were delineated in Galton's
Hereditary Genius, a racist polemic advocating a system of selective
breeding for the purposes of providing "more suitable races or strains
of blood a better chance of prevailing over the less suitable"
(Galton, Hereditary Genius, p. 24, 1869). According to Galton, society
should be eugenically regimented. The framework of such a society
would be a caste system where status was assigned according to genetic
superiority. In an article in the January 1873 edition of Fraser's
Magazine, Galton stated:
"I do not see why any insolence of caste should prevent the gifted
class, when they had the power, from treating their [lower caste]
compatriots with all kindness, as long as they maintained celibacy.
But if these continued to procreate children, inferior in moral,
intellectual, and physical qualities, it is easy to believe that
the time may come when such persons would be considered as enemies
to the State, and to have forfeited all claims to kindness." (qutd.
in Chase, pp. 100, 1977)
Galton hoped that such societal regimentation would promote
"eugenically sound" breeding amongst the citizenry. Summarizing
Galton's objectives, Allan Chase explains: "What Galton was talking
about here was the power to breed people as we breed pigs" (Chase, p.
101, 1977). Of course, as George Orwell opined in Animal Farm, some
pigs are more equal than others. According to Galton's cousin and
racialist progenitor, Charles Darwin, the pigs of higher stock were
the Anglo-Saxons. This becomes evident in Darwinian Josiah Strong's
manifesto, America's Destiny. Quoting Darwin, Strong wrote:
"'At the present day,' says Mr. Darwin, 'civilized nations are
everywhere supplanting barbarous nations, excepting, where the
climate opposes a deadly barrier; and they succeed mainly, though
exclusively, through their arts, which are the products of the
intellect.' He continues: 'Whether the extinction of inferior races
before the advancing Anglo-Saxon seems to the reader sad or
otherwise, it certainly appears probable...Is there room for
reasonable doubt that this race, unless devitalized by alcohol and
tobacco, is destined to dispossess many weaker races, assimilate
others, and mold the remainder, until, in a very true and important
sense, it has Anglo-Saxonized mankind?'." (Strong, pp. 165 - 80,
1885)
Of course, it comes as no real surprise that such thinking underpinned
the racialist policies of Nazi Germany, which was a scientific
dictatorship edified by Darwinian evolution. It comes as even less a
surprise that Leonard Darwin, son of Charles, was vice-president of
both the 1912 and 1921 International Eugenics Congresses. The first of
these two meetings was the outgrowth of a 1911 gathering of the
International Society for Racial Hygiene, a predominantly German
organization. That Germany would see the full enactment of eugenical
policies is hardly a coincidence.
Planned Parenthood: The Racist Legacy of Margaret Sanger
Although the Nazis' eugenical Holocaust of WWII constituted an
enormous public relations disaster for proponents of eugenics, the
movement would later resurface under the banner of population control
and radical environmentalism. Researchers Tarpley and Chaitkin
document this transmogrification:
"The population control or zero population growth movement, which
grew rapidly in the late 1960s thanks to free media exposure and
foundation grants for a stream of pseudoscientific propaganda about
the alleged 'population bomb' and the 'limits to growth,' was a
continuation of the old prewar, protofascist eugenics movement,
which had been forced to go into temporary eclipse when the world
recoiled in horror at the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the
name of eugenics. By mid-1960s, the same old crackpot eugenicists
had resurrected themselves as the population-control and
environmentalist movement. Planned Parenthood was a perfect example
of the transmogrification. Now, instead of demanding the
sterilization of the inferior races, the newly packaged eugenicists
talked about the population bomb, giving the poor 'equal access' to
birth control, and 'freedom of choice'." (Tarpley & Chaitkin, p.
203, 1992)
Indeed, Planned Parenthood successfully carried the banner of eugenics
into the post-WWII era. Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret
Sanger, a virulently racist woman who touted the slogan: "Birth
Control: to create a race of thoroughbreds." Her manifesto, entitled
The Pivot of Civilization, thoroughly delineates the mission of
Planned Parenthood and its allied organizations in the eugenics
movement. In this treatise, which featured an introduction written by
Freemason and Fabian socialist H.G. Wells, Sanger reveals the true
motives underpinning the promotion of birth control:
"Birth Control, which has been criticized as negative and
destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method,
and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would
immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science...
as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial
health." (Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, p. 189, 1922)
Sanger believed that society's tolerance of "morons," "human weeds,"
and the "feeble-minded' was encouraging dysgenics. To remedy this
purported genetic threat, Sanger unabashedly promoted the
implementation of authoritarian measures:
"The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be
faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the
hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be
segregated during the reproductive period.... we prefer the policy
of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is
absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded." (Sanger, The Pivot of
Civilization, pp. 101 - 102, 1922)
Understand, these are the words of a so-called "proponent of
reproductive rights." Moreover, Sanger desired to see the
establishment of a gulag system within America for the internment of
the "feeble-minded." In an issue of Birth Control Review, she wrote:
"To apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation
to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted... to
apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons
where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for
the period of their entire lives.... " (Sanger, "Plan of Peace,"
Birth Control Review, pp. 107-8, 1932)
Although Sanger's gulag system was not formally enacted in the United
States, her vision saw horrible fulfillment in Nazi Germany. It comes
as little surprise that Planned Parenthood's board of directors
included Nazi supporters such as Dr. Lothrop Stoddard, author of a
racist tract entitled The Rising Tide of Color Against White
Supremacy. In fact, Birth Control Review acted as a conduit for the
dissemination of Nazi propaganda in America. In April of 1933, Dr.
Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and a founder
of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene, published an article in Birth
Control Review. Entitled "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need," the
article presented the following appeal:
"The danger to the community of the unsegregated feeble-minded
woman is more evident. Most dangerous are the middle and high
grades living at large who, despite the fact that their defect is
not easily recognizable, should nevertheless be prevented from
procreation.... In my view we should act without delay." (Rudin,
"Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need," Birth Control Review, pp.
102-4, 1933)
Of course, in Rudin's native country, the "feeble-minded" did not
remain "unsegregrated" for very long. The same year that Sanger's
publication printed Rudin's article, Ernst collaborated with Heinrich
Himmler on Germany's 1933 sterilization law. This genocidal edict
stipulated the sterilization of all Jews and "colored" German
children. Eventually, the "undesirables" were collected, segregated,
and systematically murdered. The final result of the Nazi eugenics
program was the Holocaust, which claimed six million lives.
Yet, how many people would have been segregated for orderly disposal
according to Sanger's vision? Upon examination of army statistics,
Sanger concluded that:
"...nearly half - 47.3 per cent - of the population had the
mentality of twelve-year-old children or less - in other words that
they are morons." (Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, p. 263, 1922)
Sanger expressed dismal hopes for a vast segment of the population,
declaring that: "only 13,500,000 will ever show superior intelligence"
(Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, p. 264, 1922). Thus, only a meager
13.5% of the population would be permitted to procreate. The rest
would be segregated for orderly disposal. Evidently, Sanger's
holocaust would have even dwarfed Hitler's Final Solution.
In typical Darwinian fashion, Sanger showed little mercy towards the
weak. In fact, Margaret expressed a distinct aversion towards the
poor. Chapter Five of her book is entitled "The Cruelty of Charity."
Reiterating Malthus' proposal to "disclaim the right of the poor to
support," she wrote:
"Organized charity itself is....the surest sign that our
civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly
increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents."
(Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, p. 108, 1922)
Sanger particularly loathed:
"...a special type of philanthropy or benevolence,....which strikes
me as being more insidiously injurious than any other.... to supply
gratis medical and nursing facilities to slum mothers." (Sanger,
The Pivot of Civilization, p. 114, 1922)
According to Margaret, such an investment of time, effort, resources,
and love represented the height of futility:
".... we are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an
ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who
never should have been born at all....." (Sanger, The Pivot of
Civilization, p. 187, 1922)
Planned Parenthood retains an active role in the scientific
dictatorship's project of eugenical regimentation today. Despite
revelations of Nazi atrocities constituted a public relations disaster
for the organization, Planned Parenthood survived and continues to
tangibly enact Sanger's vision. In fact, so-called "conservative,
pro-life, pro-family, Christian" President George Bush Sr. pledged his
whole-hearted support to the group. Researchers Tarpley and Chaitkin
explain:
"Although Planned Parenthood was forced, during the fascist era and
immediately thereafter, to tone down Sanger's racist rhetoric from
'race betterment' to 'family planning' for the benefit of the poor
and racial minorities, the organization's basic goal of curbing the
population growth rate among 'undesirables' never really changed.
Bush publicly asserted that he agreed '1,000 percent' with Planned
Parenthood." (Tarpley & Chaitkin, p. 195, 1992)
Transhumanism: Techno-Eugenics and the End of Humanity
Today, Galton's agenda of biological totalitarianism has resurfaced as
the World Transhumanist Association. However, equipped with
nanotechnology and genetic engineering, this movement presents a
technologically augmented form of eugenics. Richard Hayes, executive
director of the Center for Genetics and Society, elaborates:
"Last June at Yale University, the World Transhumanist Association
held its first national conference. The Transhumanists have
chapters in more than 20 countries and advocate the breeding of
'genetically enriched' forms of 'post-human' beings. Other
advocates of the new techno-eugenics, such as Princeton University
professor Lee Silver, predict that by the end of this century, 'All
aspects of the economy, the media, the entertainment industry, and
the knowledge industry [will be] controlled by members of the
GenRich class... Naturals [will] work as low-paid service providers
or as laborers...'" (Hayes, 2004)
Here is the vision of the Transhumanist movement... Huxley's Brave New
World where the new class distinction is genetic. Yet, just how long
shall the GenRich class tolerate the existence of its biological
subordinates? Hayes continues:
"What happens then? Here's Dr. Richard Lynn, emeritus professor at
the University of Ulster, who, like Silver, supports human genetic
modification: 'What is called for here is not genocide, the killing
off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to
think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such
peoples....Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less
competent'." (Hayes, 2004)
This is a frightening proposition indeed. C. Christopher Hook
delineates the philosophy underpinning Transhumanism:
That we are biological creatures is simply our current status,
transhumanists believe, but it is not necessary for defining who we
are or who we should be. Bart Kosko, a professor of electrical
engineering at the University of Southern California, puts it more
bluntly in his book Heaven in a Chip (2002): "Biology is not
destiny. It was never more than tendency. It was just nature's
first quick and dirty way to compute with meat. Chips are destiny."
British roboticist Kevin Warwick put it this way: "I was born
human. But this was an accident of fate-a condition merely of time
and place." This sounds startingly reminiscent of what nihilist
Frederick Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "I teach you
the overman. Man is something to be overcome" (Hook, 2004).
Like Nietzsche's overman, the roboman of Warwick and Kosko represents
yet another incarnation of Adam Weishaupt's "inner Areopagites: man
made perfect as a god-without-God" (Billington, p. 97, 1980).
A central feature of Darwinism has been the belief in great
extinctions. That belief remains firmly embedded within the crusade of
the Transhumanist movement. Hook elaborates:
"Katherine Hayles, a professor of English at the University of
California, Los Angeles, says in How We Became Posthuman (1999)
that 'in the posthuman, there are no essential differences, or
absolute demarcations, between bodily existence and computer
simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot
technology and human goals.' She concludes her book with a warning:
'Humans can either go gently into that good night, joining the
dinosaurs as a species that once ruled the earth but is now
obsolete, or hang on for a while longer by becoming machines
themselves. In either case ... the age of the human is drawing to a
close'." (Hook, 2004)
According to the Darwinian doctrine of the Transhumanist movement,
mankind is the next species slated for extinction. How does the
GenRich class intend to regulate the rest of the "dysgenics" until
their ultimate extinction? Transhumanist ideologue and Deputy Director
of the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems William Sims Bainbridge provides the answer:
"Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and
electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of
the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms."
(Bainbridge, 1982)
In other words, the pharmacological totalitarianism of Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World. Chemically numbed and anesthetized, the "dysgenics"
will resign themselves to extinction in the posthuman era. Meanwhile,
the eugenical alchemists of the elite continue to write the final
chapter of the evolutionary script and they have left no room for
humanity in the last pages.
Sources Cited
* Bainbridge, William Sims, "[11] Religions for a Galactic
Civilization," excerpted from Science Fiction and Space Futures,
edited by Eugene M. Emme. San Diego: American Astronautical
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* Billington, James H, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the
Revolutionary Faith, Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1980.
* Chase, Allan, The Legacy of Malthus, Knopf: distributed by Random
House, 1977.
* Darlington, "The Origin of Darwinism," Scientific American, May
1959
* Galton, Francis, Hereditary Genius, Macmillan, London, 1869.
* Galton, Francis, Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development,
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* Hayes, Richard, "[12]Selective Science," February 12, 2004.
* Hook, C. Christopher, "[13]The Techno Sapiens Are Coming," January
2004.
* Huxley, Thomas, Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays, New York:
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* Rudin, Ernst, "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need," Birth
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* Sagan, Carl, Cosmos, Random House, New York, 1980.
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* Wagar, W. Warren, H.G. Wells and the World State, Yale University
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* Wilmshurst, W.L., The Meaning of Masonry, Gramercy Books, New York
1980.
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About the Author
Phillip D. Collins acted as the editor for The Hidden Face of
Terrorism. He has an Associate of Arts and Science. Currently, he is
studying for a bachelor's degree in Communications at Wright State
University. During the course of his seven-year college career,
Phillip has studied philosophy, religion, and classic literature. He
co-authored the book, The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship:
An Examination of Epistemic Autocracy, From the 19th to the 21st
Century, is [15]available online here.
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