A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS OF PERSONALITY AND/OR IMPERIAL CULTS AND SYNDICATES
An introduction to imperial cults can be found here and here. A brief introduction to cults of personality can be found here.
Briefly, when people with certain overlapping mental illnesses (narcissistic personality disorder, sadistic personality disorder, socipathy, Machiavellism, kleptomania, and/or obsessive compulsive hoarding disorder) network with one another to further ongoing organized crime, and then kleptocracy, to eventually overthrow democratic governments, to manufacture oligarchies, and then illegitimate monarchies and empires -- the illegitimate leaders of those monarchies and empires, and/or their families, and/or their proxies will require those they oppress to worship the illegitimate monarchs and emperors, their families, their friends, and/or their proxies as God(s), divine, the "ear of God", the "hand of God", the defenders of the faith, et cetera -- as part of full-spectrum dominance of the imperial cult over those they need to oppress to remain in and expand their illegitimate power.
By at least the early Greek philosophers, three realms were identified as existing, the physical world, the mental world or world of the mind, and the spiritual world. Though the Egyptian pharaohs practiced imperial cult by way of full-spectrum dominance of the three realms, where briefly they, their family members, their friends, and/or their proxies directly and/or indirectly controlled each of the three realms -- the Greeks, specifically Alexander the Great, is the first attributed to the "divine right of kings", though it has also been proposed that Zoroastrians (Persian Empire, modern day Iran), also taught the divine right of kings via Khvarenah.[2][3]
All that said, divine heroes and hero temples/shrines date back to time immemorial, and the same could be argued to date back to the dominant alpha hierarchies in the animal "kingdom", whereby the most deceptive and/or vicious animals are the ones who are most feared and/or respected.
Early examples of imperial cults can be found among the Egyptian pharaohs, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, but not limited to the same.[1][2][3]
In the case of Julius Caesar and Octavian (also known as Octavius Gaius and Augustus), according to Syme (1939), "On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity (God) of the Roman state, divus Iulius. Octavian was able to further his cause by emphasizing the fact that he was divi filius, "Son of the Divine". [1]
From a psychological, social theory, political theory, and/or historical perspective -- theocracies and imperial cults are the end-game of networked narcissists, kleptocrats, sociopaths, sadists, and/or obsessive hoarders -- so that they, their families, their friends, and/or their proxies can be worshiped during their lifetimes, and after their deaths -- likely based on a feeling or fear of becoming irrelevant, unimportant, obsolete, and/or being forgotten. This and/or these mental illness(es) may result from perceived neglect, poor self-esteem, abandonment, and/or abuse in early childhood and/or thereafter.
A different perspective recognizes that short of creativity, most people don't give credence or thought to those things they have not been taught. More simply, some people are born and raised within and/or affected by imperial cults, and the same forms their worldview or existential paradigm, which then becomes a filter for the information trees their minds are allowed to construct thereafter.
This result in a spectrum of belief, where at one end of the spectrum there is total devotion to the teachings or elements of the imperial cult, and/or cult of personality -- and at the other end of the spectrum, those who are born and grow up in the same are exposed to enough evidence or experience that refutes the teachings of the empirical cult and/or cult of personality to be able to exit the same.
In more recent times, Nazi-era Germanic Nazi cult researcher, A. Vereide, came to the United States and helped teach imperial cult full-spectrum dominance, teaching leaders and future leaders how to weaponize the faith of others, by wrapping propaganda in faith-based language or "triggers", when he taught these leaders of America and future leaders of America "Jesus + 0", which has many interpretations, including add Jesus or religious language to any propaganda, where "0" means fill-in-the-blank with the propaganda or messaging meant to influence others, even if the same harms them in an ongoing manner, to make the propaganda or messaging more likely to influence others.
Vereide came immediately before WWII to America, and began networking politicians, and high wealth individuals, who were men and women of faith, and held prayer groups with them, while influencing them, revealed in the Netflix series The Family, and eventually resulted in one of the largest political lobbyist and lobbying events in the world, the National Prayer Breakfast.
This is also known as the "sandwich technique" for providing feedback, where prior to providing a person feedback regarding an opportunity to improve, which can be hard for some people to accept, a compliment regarding something they are doing well is first employed, then the opportunity to improve, followed by a second compliment meant to end the conversation on a "sweet note".
Similarly, the same is also known as "behavioral mirroring" or mimicry, where a deceiver will pretend to have a common interest that others have in order to influence or manipulate them. This technique is widely-employed by cult of personality leaders, and where they often fail, when enough of their followers come to understand that they often embrace or violate the basic foundational teachings of the religions they claim to adhere to.
UpRights News will explore the weaponization of religion, in particular the weaponization of Christianity within the United States and Eurasia, by deceivers and manipulators who pretend to adhere to Christian values or the teachings of Jesus Christ, but who almost always violate those teachings, for which there is a huge amount of evidence for.
We'll be exploring political leaders who have claimed that they are the "second coming" of Jesus, the "chosen one", and/or "defenders of the faith", and yet who have violated some to all of the 10 Commandments, all of the seven deadly Sins, and who have violated all of the teachings of Jesus Christ -- specifically by weaponizing the faith of Christians employing the techniques of Vereide, behavioral mirroring, and mimicry, in order to deceive others into (1) abandoning the love for others Christ taught, replacing the same with hate for others; and (2) to deceive others into abandoning the charity for others Christ taught, replacing the same with the exploitation, violence, and murder of others; and (3) to deceive others into abandoning the forgiveness of others Christ taught, replacing the same with revenge upon others -- as agents of the opposite of Christ or Greater Deceiver would -- and as examples of cult of personality leaders seeking to further and/or to resurrect impirical cults to serve their own needs, and the needs of their ongoing organized crime syndicate.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES AND ATTRIBUTES
[1] Syme 1939, p. 202.
[2] Green 2007, pp. 23–24.
[3] Arrian 1976, VII, 11
[4] Photo attributes found at our former photo attributes page.