The old US Dollar is on a lot of people's minds lately. _How many dollars will I need today, this week, this month?_ How many times an hour does that theme play through our minds, every single day?
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It's as if a potent and terrible drug had overcome our wills, a lethal habit so strong, an addiction so acute, that we would gladly trade our very lives for another paycheck full of that critical substance: MONEY.

<center><h2>Modern Sorcery</h2></center>

To be precise, the US Dollar is essentially a magical device, easily enchanting those who hold it, and through the use of ancient symbols for us to see, and by the repetition and spelling of ancient words for us to hear, a hypnotic trance has been cast upon an entire society. 
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<center><h2>A Brilliant Disguise</h2></center>

If we can back away from money for a moment, looking at it from afar, we might be able to observe how money has managed to slip past the guards at the doorways of our logic, making itself lord of our attention. Then, with a closer look at the details, we might see that the sneaky US Dollar has effectively masqueraded as humanity's true _God_ in order to be so readily accepted into our minds. By so crowning the Dollar as our God, we invite it to then rule and preside over our individual and internal priesthoods. 

To become part of our mind, money has mimicked _us_-- copying the best parts of us-- and in a catastrophic case of mistaken identity, we blindly empower the talisman of money, treating it as our one and only GOD.

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<center>_"The One"_</center>


<h3>When imagining a god's qualities, we might suppose that a god would be complex and intricate, mysterious and powerful, just like us.</h3> 

We should expect a god to be able to produce joy at will, to be a capable healer and giver of life. We might even suppose that a true and well-balanced god possesses both masculine and feminine qualities, merged and centered into a perfect union.

<center><h3>Money- The Imposter God</h3></center> 

A decent god, being seen as a generative creator of great abundance, a breather of endless spirals of cosmos, etc, is apparently not that hard to fake. It is through a few neat, ancient psychological tricks that the old US Dollar is able to wear such an elaborate mask, to comfortably take the throne as our God, day upon day, and year after grueling year, right there in the middle of our very heads. 
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<center><h3>The Sorcery of Money</h3></center>

- Magic- The term 'magic' ultimately means _psychology and science that is not yet understood._ 
- Sorcery- The word _Sorcery_ would describe the deliberate use of that same science in the manipulation of the minds of others, and in the management of entire populations and their collective beliefs.

_It is through a daily barrage of images, symbols and colors, as well as through our interpretation of sounds and words, that many of our decisions and beliefs are nourished in our minds._

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Behold-- the US Dollar; a magical talisman that enchants those who carry it, and that enchantment begins upon naming the spell with a familiar ring, while spelling the name in a way which conjures a powerful image. That name, in the case of money, is MON-EY, and the image that the word conjures is the mysterious 'One Eye'.
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<center><h3>One Eye Referenced in the Bible</h3></center> 



**_"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."_** Matthew 6:22 (King James Version)

 As seen above in the King James Bible quote, _the light of the body is the eye,_ with the word 'eye' written in a singular sense, and we shouldn't presume that Sir Francis Bacon was mistaken when he scribed it that way, but we should rather suppose that there was a reason that he referred to just _one_ eye in that biblical verse.

The sorcerers who designed this talisman in our likeness must have known that our mind's eye-- where our imaginations dwell-- is one of our most potent god-like features, and would be thereby be a useful thing for the dollar to magically steal from us. As if nothing can be imagined if not by way of money, and as if the dollar were the true magi, able to imagine for us the things we may pray for.


<center><h3>Old _MOON_-Eye</h3></center>

There is another meaning for the prefix 'mon': aside from meaning 'one', it also means _moon._ How is money like the moon?

The moon circles the Earth 13 times in a year, while the specific length of that foundational year is dictated by the Earth's own dance with the sun. Coincidentally, the US Dollar is _teeming_ with 13's, as if money is unable to hide its true identity as a false light under our certain and perpetual glare.

 Like money, the moon has no light of its own, and indeed, our moon gets all of its light from the sun, and can only reflect that light, never producing even the slightest glow on its own. 

That relationship does sound familiar, like me and a Dollar that I know; it's a dollar that is illuminated by us, and therefore is spectacular only by proxy. WE are that bright sun, and _we are that one infinite source of light._
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<center><sub>_mimicking the center color, the color in the middle of everything- as if being the destination of our med-itation, and source of all med-icine_</sub></center>

Deep and mysterious-- just like a real god-- the Dollar speaks quietly to our subconscious mind using color, pictures, and archetypal storylines, and through our resulting astro-theological interpretation of that language, we might be inclined to delegate all of our power to such an external device, just as ancient cultures might have willfully offered their worship to the sun, the moon, or Saturn.

The symbols are planted in our heads, then those images are seeded and nurtured in our mind's eye, tended daily, and given plenty of light. Indeed, through our single mind's eye, we have great creative power, but then we often attribute that power to money, and while our whole body might now be full of light, the Dollar gets all the credit.

<center><h3>To Free the Mind of Money's Spell</h3></center>

Money looks authentic, and moves freely among us as our lord and master. It's just an elaborate disguise though, a spell, and without our own willful lapse in reason, money would be exposed as the false god that it is. Instead of seeing our One god in money, we might see the elaborate mask instead, and were we not so enchanted, even the little cheap rubber band that holds that 'God' mask on would be laughably obvious to us all.

Through pictures and color, numbers and sound, the US Dollar has made itself as a deity among mortals, and has found a way into the mirky shadows of our individual minds through a collective spell, but in that dollar we might see the best of ourselves being mimicked, and these parts of ourselves we can reclaim easily with a little bit of imagination and comprehension of the spell that we might have fallen into. Lets!

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<center>_art above is mine, 'The One', 2003. All photos above taken 2018 with iPhone_</center>
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