Slick Dissident | The Public vs. The Private: Deconstructing the Two Pillars To Live In Sovereignty
InnerVerse is back in 2022 with the return of the ever-reliable Slick Dissident, AKA Gabriel, for a conversation about living in two worlds. What is the difference between the public and private spheres? How has this dichotomy been used against the people? And what can we do to correct our standing so that we stay in sovereignty? These are the questions on the table for today's episode.
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In this episode
Core themes
Unam Sanctam and the captured spiritual realm
Gabe roots the whole conversation in the Hermetic maxim as above, so below, and in the papal bull Unam Sanctam, which he reads as declaring the spiritual realm preeminent over the material and handing the Vatican a claim over all things spiritual. His example is light: defined as both particle and wave, yet in his view science must still explain it in materialist terms, which he calls regulatory capture of the spirit. Chance adds that papal authority rests on belief in a literal historical Jesus, while Gabe senses that old paradigm now collapsing, visible in the germ versus terrain debate.
What public and private mean in law
Asked to define the two spheres, the conversation casts the public as regulated, a place where standing and sovereignty are diminished, and the private as so loosely defined that it becomes an anything goes space for anyone seeking to live without rulers. Gabe describes handing an ID through a car window as giving joinder, and argues the key to staying private is to remain unknown and never do an officer's job for them. Chance wonders whether accepting gifts and services pulls people into the public, then uses Spider-Man: No Way Home, where one friend demands a lawyer and the other talks freely, as a parable.
Stars, towers and the analemma as pillars
Gabe maps the two pillars onto the sky: Polaris, visible most of the year, as the public and masculine, and Sigma Octantis, hidden below the horizon for much of it, as the private and feminine. In his three part video series he ties the South Tower of 9/11 to the private star and the North Tower to Polaris, reading their order of collapse as Unam Sanctam inverted and driven into the earth. He then traces the analemma, whose crossing points he places at tax day on April 15 and near Vulcanalia, a festival he links to Pompeii, Etna and Krakatoa, while Chance connects both dates to coins and blacksmiths.
Language, names and debt
Gabe calls English angelese, a duplicitous tongue whose everyday words carry different meanings once Black's Law Dictionary defines them as terms of art, and treats the Bible as public notice, a program written before, on which he says law is founded. He offers that the bank is the bench a judge sits on and that sin stands for standing in negative, meaning debt. Chance adds sin as synthetic, contrasting a full legal name, which he says lets the system identify people, with a Christian name and with nature, where a deer is simply self existing. They trade tactics like answering that your name is private.
Standing, preparation and nobody in charge
Stressing that this is philosophy, not legal advice, Chance asks whether people need to correct their standing on paper. Gabe favors dozens of lines of defense, starting with conversation that is cordial but difficult, conditional acceptance, and a declaration of status filed with the county clerk in advance, plus knowing the local sheriff. He reads FDR's proclamations 2039 and 2040 as casting civilians as belligerents, and says being organized is the answer. Chance argues nobody is truly in charge, likening the system to a game of Monopoly whose masters do not know all their own rules, while Gabe sees an overwhelming Aquarian deluge of truth anyone can master.
Quotes
“A mask is a perfect screen for other people to project their insecurities onto.”
“People are much more afraid of what I think the truth is, which is that actually nobody's in charge.”
“I do believe that we're coming to a time where there is a collapsing of that paradigm, and we are almost being given permission to come to things with a new approach.”
“The investigation of law is a very spiritual matter whenever you go beyond just the mundane aspects of it and look at these dualities as representatives of your own inner pillars.”
“The key to staying private is to remain unknown. If an officer or public servant doesn't have your name on a piece of paper already in advance, then there's no reason for you to even work with them.”
“In nature, a deer is not named Jeff. It's not even called a deer. It just is what it is, it's self-existing.”
“My favorite definition of sin is an acronym, it's standing in negative. To stand in the negative is to be in debt, and if you're in debt, then you are not calling the shots.”
“The truth is overwhelming, but it's there to have and it's there for us to master, and you don't gotta pay some school to access it anymore.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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