A 117 year old book written by three anonymous authors just
explained Bitcoin better than anything I've ever read.
And the crazy part is that it was published 100 years before
Bitcoin even existed. That sentence should make no
sense. But by the end of this episode,
I think you're going to agree with me, and I think you're
going to see Bitcoin in a different light than you've ever
seen it before. Hey everyone, I'm Bram Gonstein,
and this is Bitcoin for millennials.
In a previous episode, I talked about the trap, how Fiat money
hijacks your consciousness. And in this episode, I'll be
building on these initial ideas and mapping Bitcoin against the
seven fundamental laws of reality laid out in a book
called The Kibalia, published in 1908 by three anonymous authors
who called themselves The Tree Initiates.
No names, No publicity. They claim to be passing down
the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.
The book lays out seven principles that supposedly
govern all of reality. Not some of it, but all of it.
And when I started mapping these principles onto money, something
clicked that I couldn't Unsee. If you're enjoying my content,
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Principle one is mentalism. The all is mind, the universe is
mental. The first principle says
everything begins in the mind. Reality is mental, and
consciousness precedes creation. And money is the ultimate mental
construct, right? A dollar bill is a piece of
paper. Your bank balance is electrons
arranged in a pattern on a third party database.
The value exists entirely in the shared mental space of everyone
who agrees to honour it. That's it.
There's nothing else underneath. Now where it gets interesting is
that central banks understand the principle of mentalism
better than anyone else. They call it managing
expectations. They know that if they change
what people believe about money, they change its effective value.
A single press conference from the Federal Reserve literally
moves trillions. Not because physical reality
change. Because the collective mental
state shifted. I call this dark mental alchemy,
manipulating belief to manipulate value.
Now Bitcoin takes a completely different approach.
It says you do not have to believe anything.
You don't need to trust anyone's words.
You just run a note, verify the supply, and check the code.
The mental construct of Bitcoin's value is grounded in
mathematical proof, not institutional promises.
It makes the hallucination honest, and that distinction
matters more than you think, because it connects directly to
the next principle. Principle 2 is about
correspondence. As above, so below.
As below, so above. This one says patterns repeat at
every level. What happens at the top mirrors
at the bottom. What's true in one domain
corresponds to truth in another. And when you apply this to
money, it hits hard, because when your monetary base is
corrupted, everything built on top of it corrupts.
Since President Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, wages have
stagnated relative to productivity, wealth inequality
has exploded, and household debt became normal.
Above all, social trust declined dramatically.
Corrupt the money, and the corruption ripples through every
system that touches it, which is everything.
Everything is downstream from the money.
Now flip that. Because Bitcoin's base layer is
radically transparent, every transaction is verifiable, and
rules apply equally to everyone. There's no special access,
there's no cantaloupe advantage, and there's no hidden
manipulation. And as above, so below, when the
foundation is honest, all the systems built on top of it trend
toward honesty. And people can still try to play
manipulative games, but they won't get as far as with Fiat
money. And I think this is one of
Bitcoin's most underappreciated features.
People focus on the price, but the principle of correspondence
says the real revolution is what happens to every system built on
honest money. And that's basically
civilization itself. Now, those first two principles,
Lady Foundation money is a mental construct, and that
construct shapes everything built on top of it.
But the next principle contains an insight that really reframed
how I see every financial rescue that's ever happened.
And once you hear it, you won't be able to watch the news the
same way, because principle tree is about polarity.
Everything is dual, everything has poles, everything has its
pair of opposites. Like and unlike are the same.
Opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree.
The Kabbalion says opposites aren't different things.
They're the same thing at different degrees.
Hot and cold are both temperatures.
Light and dark are both illumination.
Love and hate are both emotion. So field and Bitcoin aren't
different categories. They're both money at opposite
poles. Centrally controlled versus
decentralized, infinitely expandable versus absolutely
scarce, opaque versus transparent, trust based versus
verification based, Depreciating versus appreciating.
Same thing, different degree. And the real insight here is
that the bailout and the bubble are the same force.
Quantitative easing and currency debasement are identical in
nature. The rescue and the crisis are
the same phenomenon at different poles.
Every time someone tells you we had to print money to save the
economy, the principle of polarity reveals that the saving
and the destroying are the same act.
Viewed from different angles. Every bailout is a debasement.
Every rescue is a theft. Same force, different pole.
Now let that sink in for a second.
Because Bitcoin resolves this by removing the spectrum entirely.
There is no dial, there's no discretion, there are no polls
to swing between 21,000,000 is 21 million Bitcoin.
Whether the economy is booming or crashing, whether it's an
election year or not, whether Jerome Powell woke up or not,
whether the committee decides to act or not.
The protocol doesn't have polls because it doesn't have
opinions. Now polarity shows you that the
so-called opposites are connected, but the next
principle makes you feel it, because this one explains why
your entire financial life feels like chaos and why bitcoiners
seem to carry an entire different energy.
And Principle 4 is all about vibration.
The Kabbalion says nothing rests, everything moves and
everything vibrates. It says differences between
matter, energy and consciousness come down to frequency,
different rates of vibration, and whoever understands
vibration has grasped the sector of power.
Think about money as a frequency signal.
Sound money that holds its value is predictable.
That cannot be the best, and it sends a clean signal.
You can tune your life to it, you can plan against it, and it
creates A coherence. The signal of Fiat money is pure
noise. And two, money supply expended
40% in two years during COVID peak year over year growth hit
26.9% in February 2021 in the US, the highest ever recorded.
Every time the Federal Reserve meets the frequency shifts,
every press conference, every dot plot, every transitionary
becomes persistent. Is that recognizable?
I think so. Static noise.
You cannot build your life on noise.
Every time the Federal Reserve meets the frequency shifts,
every press conference, every dot plot, every transitionary
becoming a persistent flip. That is just static noise and
you cannot build your life on noise.
Bitcoin vibrates at a frequency set at its creation.
That has never changed. Every 10 minutes a block, every
210,000 blocks a having, and after the 2028 having, annual
inflation drops to about 0.39%, roughly 1/5 that of the rate of
gold. It's all known from now until
approximately the year 2140. I call this the fixed frequency,
not monetary policy. It's monetary physics, a
reliable, predictable rhythm you can attune your entire financial
life to. And I think that's why
bitcoiners seem calmer about the future.
They've tuned into a signal that doesn't shift based on who's in
charge. While everyone else is trying to
build on noise, they're building on a frequency that was set in
stone 17 years ago and hasn't moved once.
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So far we've seen that money is a mental construct that shapes
everything above it, that opposites are the same force,
and that Fiat sends a chaotic frequency while Bitcoin sends a
clean one. But those are all somewhat
abstract. And the next principle is the
one that made me quite angry actually, because it names
exactly who benefits from the chaos and how.
Principle 5 is about cause and effect.
Every cause has its effect, every effect has its 'cause
everything happens according to law.
Chance is but a name for law not recognized.
And then there's this line from the book.
The masses of people are carried along, obedient to environment,
the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves, moving
them about like pawns on the chess board of life.
But the masters become movers instead of pawns.
They help to play the game of life instead of being played and
moved about by others wills. We are pawns on a chess board
moved by wills stronger than our own.
And that's the Catalan effect, written in philosophical
language. New money is created by central
and commercial banks, and it enters through primary dealer
banks. They deploy it into financial
assets, asset prices rise, and by the time it reaches ordinary
wages, prices have already risen.
The masses are moved and they don't even know the game is
being played. They experience inflation as bad
luck, as an unexplained force making everything harder.
I can hear Christine Lagarde say in my mind, the beast of
inflation came out of nowhere, right?
But it is not chance. Chance is but a name for a law
not recognized right. It's the direct, predictable
effect of a specific cause monetary expansion that benefits
insiders. First, During the pandemic, the
world's billionaires gained over $2 trillion.
The top 1% captured 63% of all new wealth created, and
meanwhile, 50 to 67% of Americans still live paycheck to
paycheck. That's definitely not chance.
That is cause and effect. Those closest to the cause get
the effect. Those furthest away get the
opposite. Now Bitcoin makes this causation
transparent. There's a public supply
schedule, there's a known issuance rate, there is a
verifiable transaction history. There are no hidden causes, no
secret meetings deciding who gets access first.
When you understand bitcoins causal structure, you're no
longer a pawn. You understand the board on
which the game is played. And so basically you move from a
pawn to a player, from effect to cause, from being moved to being
a mover. Now 5 principles in and you can
kind of see the architecture. Money shapes reality, corruption
cascades downwards, and opposites are the same force.
Fiat sends noise while Bitcoin sends signal.
And the system moves you like a pawn without you knowing.
But the 6th principle is the one that hit me the hardest because
it's not about the system, it's about you.
About what you feel every single day but haven't been able to
name. And once I name it, I think
you'll recognize it immediately. Principle 6 is about gender.
Gender is in everything. Everything has its masculine and
feminine principles. Gender manifests on all planes.
The Kibalian is very clear. This isn't about biological sex.
It's about two complementary energies present in everything.
You have masculine energy, which is active, projective, and
initiating. And you have feminine energy,
which is receptive, nurturing, and sustaining.
Both are essential and necessary.
Creation requires both in balance and here's the
connection that I think nobody has made before.
And once you hear it, you're going to see it everywhere.
In economics, the masculine principle is spending,
investing, deploying, and acting the active, outward directed
energy. The feminine principle is
saving, preserving, accumulating and building slowly the
receptive, inward directed energy.
Fiat money systematically suppresses the feminine
principle. When inflation punishes saving,
the system screams at you to act.
You need to spend, you need to invest, you need to leverage,
deploy, always do everything outward, always be active, never
holding, never preserving, never patiently accumulating.
The entire culture shifts to match short term, competitive,
extractive, and restlessness. I mean, we cannot deny that this
is the place and time that we're in, right?
There's this constant pressure to hustle, to optimize, and to
grind, and the guilt around rest.
The inability to just hold still and let things grow.
There's this nagging voice that's telling everyone that
sitting still means falling behind.
And that is not just hustle culture.
That's a monetary system that punishes the feminine principle
and rewards only the masculine. The imbalance isn't in you, it's
in the money, and Bitcoin restores this balance when
savings appreciate instead of depreciate.
Patience becomes power. Holding is a valid strategy and
not acting is rational. The feminine energy of
preservation, of long term nurturing, of slowly building
something that is real becomes economically viable again on a
Bitcoin standard. And I think that's why so many
bitcoiners report changes that go way beyond money.
They consume less, they think longer term, they invest in
health and relationships and skills instead of stuff.
They feel calmer, less frantic, and more patient.
That's not a personality change. That's the rebalancing of
masculine and feminine economic energy.
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And now 6 principles, 6 violations by Fiat money, and
six alignments by Bitcoin. And I've saved the last one on
purpose, because the 7th principle doesn't just describe
another problem, it describes the problem, the solution, and
the transformation all in one. And I think it contains the most
elegant description of what Bitcoin offers that I've ever
encountered from anyone. Principle 7 is about rhythm.
Everything flows out and in. Everything has its tides.
All things rise and fall, and the measure of the swing to the
right is the measure of the swing to the left.
Rhythm compensates. Every artificial boom stores
energy for an equal bust. That is the boom bust cycle
described in a single sentence written over a century ago.
And the Federal Reserve's entire project, their whole reason for
existing, is essentially to fight the principle of rhythm,
to have booms without busts, to swing the pendulum right without
it ever swinging back left. And every time the principal
winsthe.com bubble, the housing crisis, the COVID crash, each
bust proportional to the preceding artificial boom rhythm
compensates. Always.
But here's the part that really got me, the part that changed
how I see Bitcoin forever. The Kibalion doesn't just
describe the problem, it teaches the solution.
It says the master of hermetics polarizes himself at the point
at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the rhythmic
swing of the pendulum. The Master doesn't fight the
swing. The master steps off the
pendulum. Think about what that means.
You don't beat the boom and bust cycle by timing it better.
You don't win by being smarter about when to buy and when to
sell. You step off entirely.
You find the still point and you opt out of the swing.
Bitcoin is this still point. It's rhythm is embedded, natural
and predictable. Every 10 minutes there's a
block. Every four years there's a
halving. No surprise interventions, no
emergency rate cuts, no transitionary becoming permanent
overnight, no committee meetings, no press conferences
and no dot plots. The Kibbalion says the masses
are swung backward and forward like a pendulum, but the master
finds the point of rest. I know I want to be that master,
and I think you do too. And that's what this is really
about. Not just better money, not just
better economics. It's about stepping off the
swing, finding the frequency, rebalancing the energy, and
moving from pawn to player, from noise to signal, from being
swung to sitting still. 7 principles, 7 violations by Fiat
money, 7 alignments by Bitcoin. The Kibalion opens with a
promise. It says he who knows these
principles understandingly possesses the magic key before
whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open.
I think Bitcoin is that not because it's better technology,
not just because it's better economics, but because it's
aligned with something way, way deeper, with the way reality
itself is structured, with principles that have been
understood for millennia and are only now finding their monetary
expression. Fiat money fights reality and
Bitcoin aligns with it and anything that aligns with the
fundamental architecture of reality that endures.
The Kibalion has endured for over a century.
The Hermetic tradition it draws from has endured for millennia
and I believe Bitcoin will endure 2 for the exact same
reason. Because truth has a frequency
and when you tune into it, you know stay humble, stack sets and
align with the principles. Thanks for listening to Bitcoin
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copy of the Kibaleon. After this episode, I think you
will read it entirely differently.
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