From the December 2001 Idaho Observer:

Slavery and the Eight Veils
                   by Don Harkins

Over the last several years I have evolved and discarded several theories in an attempt to explain
why it is that most people cannot see truth -- even when it smacks them in the face. Those of us
who can see “the conspiracy” have participated in countless conversations amongst ourselves that
address the frustration of most peoples' inability to comprehend the extremely well-documented
arguments which we use to describe the process of our collective enslavement and exploitation. The
most common explanation to be arrived at is that most people just “don't want to see” what is
really going on. Extremely evil men and women who make up the world's power-elite have cleverly 
cultivated a virtual pasture so grass green that few people seldom, if ever, bother to look up from
 where they are grazing long enough to notice the brightly colored tags stapled to their ears.

The same people who cannot see their enslavement for the pasture grass have a tendency to view as
insane “conspiracy theorists” those of us who can see the past the farm and into the parlor of his
feudal lordship's castle. - Finally, I understand why.

It's not that those who don't see that their freedom is vanishing under the leadership of the
power-elite “don't want to see it” -- they simply can't see what is happening to them because of
the unpierced veils that block their view.

All human endeavors are a filtration process. Sports is one of the best examples. We play specific
sports until we get kicked off the playground. The pro athletes we pay big bucks to watch just
never got kicked off the playground. Where millions of kids play little league each spring, they
are filtered out until there are about 50 guys who go to the World Series in October.

Behind the first veil:

There are over six billion people on the planet. Most of them live and die without having seriously
contemplated anything other than what it takes to keep their lives together. Ninety percent of all
humanity will live and die without having pierced the first veil.

The first veil:

Ten percent of us will pierce the first veil and find the world of politics. We will vote, be
active and have an opinion. Our opinions are shaped by the physical world around us; we have a
tendency to accept that government officials, network media personalities and other “experts” are
voices of authority. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having
pierced the second veil.

The second veil:

Ten percent of us will pierce the second veil to explore the world of history, the relationship
between man and government and the meaning of self-government through constitutional and common
law. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced the third veil.

The third veil:

Ten percent of us will pierce the third veil to find that the resources of the world, including
people, are controlled by extremely wealthy and powerful families whose incorporated old world
assets have, with modern extortion strategies, become the foundation upon which the world's economy
is currently indebted. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having
pierced the fourth veil.

The fourth veil:

Ten percent of us will pierce the fourth veil to discover the Illuminati, Freemasonry and the other
secret societies. These societies use symbols and perform ceremonies that perpetuate the
generational transfers of arcane knowledge that is used to keep the ordinary people in political,
economic and spiritual bondage to the oldest bloodlines on earth. Ninety percent of the people in
this group will live and die without having pierced the fifth veil.

The fifth veil:

Ten percent of us will pierce the fifth veil to learn that the secret societies are so far advanced
technologically that time travel and interstellar communications have no boundaries and controlling
the actions of people is what their members do as offhandedly as we tell our children when they
must go to bed. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without having pierced
the sixth veil.

The sixth veil:

Ten percent of us will pierce the sixth veil where the dragons and lizards and aliens we thought
were the fictional monsters of childhood literature are real and are the controlling forces behind
the secret societies. Ninety percent of the people in this group will live and die without piercing
the seventh veil.

The seventh veil:

I do not know what is behind the seventh veil. I think it is where your soul is evolved to the
point you can exist on earth and be the man Ghandi was, or the woman Peace Pilgrim was-people so
enlightened they brighten the world around them no matter what.

The eighth veil?

Piercing the eighth veil probably reveals God and the pure energy that is the life force in all
living things-which are, I think, one and the same. [ A very few analytical prodigies will
understand that Lucifer is behind the Great Conspiracy to destroy mens' souls. The UFOs are
actually fallen angels and angels of light in seraphic transporters. They are still engaged in the
"GREAT WAR IN HEAVEN" for the souls of man. The ultimate victory is a foregone conclusion.--btw]

If my math is accurate there are only about 60,000 people on the planet who have pierced the sixth
veil. The irony here is too incredible: Those who are stuck behind veils one through five have
little choice but to view the people who have pierced the veils beyond them as insane. With each
veil pierced, exponentially shrinking numbers of increasingly enlightened people are deemed insane
by exponentially increasing masses of decreasingly enlightened people.

Adding to the irony, the harder a “sixth or better veiler” tries to explain what he is able to see
to those who can't, the more insane he appears to them.

Our enemy, the state

Behind the first two veils we find the great majority of people on the planet. They are tools of
the state: Second veilers are the gullible voters whose ignorance justify the actions of
politicians who send first veilers off to die in foreign lands as cannon fodder -- their combined
stations in life are to believe that the self-serving machinations of the power-elite are matters
of national security worth dying for.

Third, fourth, fifth and sixth veilers are of increasing liability to the state because of their
decreasing ability to be used as tools to consolidate power and wealth of the many into the hands
of the power-elite. It is common for these people to sacrifice more of their relationships with
friends and family, their professional careers and personal freedom with each veil they pierce.
Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945), author of “Our Enemy, the State” (1935), explained what happens to
those who find the seventh and eighth veils: “What was the best that the state could find to do
with an actual Socrates and an actual Jesus when it had them? Merely to poison one and crucify the
other, for no reason but that they were too intolerably embarrassing to be allowed to live any longer.”

Conclusions

And so now we know that it's not that our countrymen are so committed to their lives that, “they
don't want to see,” the mechanisms of their enslavement and exploitation. They simply “can't see”
it as surely as I cannot see what's on the other side of a closed curtain.
The purpose of this essay is threefold: To help the handful of people in the latter veils to
understand why the masses have little choice but to interpret their clarity as insanity; 2. To help
people behind the first two veils understand that living, breathing and thinking are just the
beginning and; 3. Show people that the greatest adventure of our life is behind the next veil
because that is just one less veil between ourselves and God.