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New Templar States, New Jerusalems, New Atlantean Dreams

There is a myth that refuses to stay buried.

It rises under different names, different flags, different gods — but it always carries the same promise:

A purified world.
A restored order.
A people chosen to build it.

Atlantis.
The New Jerusalem.
The Templar State.
The United States.

Different eras. Same archetype. 🌒

🌊 Atlantis: The First Dream

Plato’s Atlantis was not just a lost civilization. It was a warning myth.

Atlantis represented a society that believed it had aligned itself with divine order — technologically advanced, spiritually endowed, favored by the gods. And yet, it collapsed.

Not because knowledge is dangerous…
…but because power divorced from humility always is.

Atlantis sinks when wisdom fails to keep pace with capacity.

This is the first fracture in the myth.

✝️ The New Jerusalem: Heaven Externalized

The New Jerusalem descends from the heavens in the Book of Revelation — a perfect city, measured and ordered, where God dwells among humanity.

This vision is often treated as future fact.

But symbolically, it reveals something deeper:
A longing to externalize wholeness.
To build perfection outside the human psyche.

When the city becomes literal instead of symbolic, the myth hardens.
Heaven becomes architecture.
Salvation becomes location.
And anyone outside the city becomes suspect.

This is where devotion quietly turns into control.

🗡️ The Templars: Sacred Geometry Meets Power

The Knights Templar attempted something radical:
To fuse spirituality, military force, economic power, and sacred geometry into a living system.

They built.
They guarded.
They initiated.

And they were annihilated — not because they were false, but because no myth survives once it competes with centralized authority.

Every time spiritual power tries to stabilize itself into an institution, it becomes visible.
Every time it becomes visible, it becomes targetable.
Every time it becomes defended, it begins to rot.

This is the myth’s second fracture.

🇺🇸 The United States: The Political New Jerusalem

The United States inherited the myth almost wholesale.

A “City on a Hill.”
A chosen nation.
A moral experiment under divine favor.

Sacred geometry embedded into capital cities.
Enlightenment philosophy fused with religious destiny.
Freedom framed as covenant.

And yet — the same tension emerges.

When a nation believes it is the myth instead of a participant within it, humility disappears.
Shadow is denied.
Violence becomes justified in the name of virtue.

This is not a moral indictment.
It’s a psychological inevitability.

🧠 The Pattern Beneath the Pattern

Every version of this myth carries the same inner contradiction:

✨ Divine order
🌓 Human ego

✨ Sacred calling
🌓 Chosen superiority

✨ Unity
🌓 Control

The myth doesn’t fail because it is wrong.
It fails because it is taken literally instead of inwardly.

🔥 The Shift We Are Living Through

Here is the quiet truth many are sensing but few can name:

The age of external New Jerusalems is ending.

No more holy empires.
No more chosen nations.
No more spotless institutions.

What is emerging instead is harder — and far more demanding:

The work of internal integration.
The willingness to hold paradox.
The courage to refuse moral spectacle.
The discipline to live without outsourcing authority.

In Jungian terms, the Self replaces the empire.

🕯️ What Comes After the Myth

The next iteration of this archetype is not a state, a church, or a movement.

It is individuals who can carry the pattern without weaponizing it.

People who:

• Refuse purity narratives
• Integrate shadow
• Act ethically without needing supremacy
• Build meaning without claiming divine exemption

This is not disillusionment.
It is maturation.

🌱 Closing Thoughts

Atlantis had to sink.
Jerusalem had to fall inward.
The Templars had to dissolve.

And it is my humble opinion that America is being invited to release the fantasy of chosenness and enter ethical adulthood.

Not because the dream was wrong —
but because the dream must grow up.

The myth no longer wants builders of perfect cities.

It wants witnesses who can live without needing one.

🔔 Invitation

Where do you still look for wholeness outside yourself?
Where have you mistaken order for control?
And what becomes possible when you stop trying to build heaven — and start embodying coherence instead?

Sit with that. Let it unsettle you gently. 🌒

With devotion and wonder,
The Inspired Imaginative | The Devoted Mystic

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