Never Underestimate Philosophy! It has always been the authority that decides what is TRUE

Never underestimate philosophy – it raised your children, rewrote your laws, changed your language, and convinced you that your freedom of thought is, in fact, “hate speech.”

When we say religion, everyone instantly thinks of: temples, priests, dogmas, rituals and masses of people following the “truth” of a spiritual authority.
But when we say philosophy, most people imagine isolated thinkers lost in abstract ideas with no practical power.
That image is completely false.
The historical truth is that philosophy has been – and still is – one of the greatest powers in the world, a religion with altogether special features:

• the religion of the elite,
• the religion that decides what truth is,
• the religion that rules without acknowledging itself as religion.

1. Philosophy is not a mere “idea”
Philosophy is not vapour. It is not a thought suspended in a void.
It is a real structure with real people, visible institutions and concrete influence. Exactly like organised religion.
It has:

• Academies and schools: Plato’s Academy, Aristotle’s Lyceum, the Library of Alexandria, medieval and modern universities.
• “Priests” and supreme authorities: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotin, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Hegel, Kant, Marx etc.
• Philosophical dogmas: “reason is sovereign”, “reality is material”, “truth is relative”, “death is the absolute end”.
• Initiation and hierarchy: disciples, students, professors, doctors of philosophy, academic councils.
• Rites and rituals: exams, colloquia, conferences, “disputes” in medieval or modern style.
• Centres of power: Athens, Alexandria, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Oxford, Harvard – all are capitals of philosophy, not only of science or culture.

Philosophy is a living institution that has survived millennia because it adapted and influenced all other structures – religious, scientific, political.
Today the visible centres have multiplied: international press newsrooms, Hollywood, Big Tech giants, billionaire foundations, the UN. Yet even these are only the interface. The real philosophy is formulated in far more restricted circles, and all of them only execute and amplify what was decided above them – exactly like prompter-readers who read the text written by someone else.

2. Philosophy has always been the authority that decides TRUTH
Regardless of age or civilisation, truth has been established by a philosophical system. There has never been a single moment in history when truth was discovered or accepted outside a philosophical framework.
Even the religions “based on revelation” used philosophy to define, justify and defend what they called “Truth”.
Clear examples:

• Christianity was defined through Greek philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) → concepts such as “ousia”, “nature”, “logos” come from philosophy, not from the Bible.
• Islamic theology was built by philosophers such as Avicenna and Averroes, who thought in Aristotelian terms.
• Rabbinic Judaism, after the destruction of the Temple, reorganised itself as a juridical-philosophical system.

When the Enlightenment came, it was not a “overthrow” of religion by scientists, but a change of direction within philosophy: syncretic philosophy (Alexandria) was abandoned and autonomous philosophy (Athens – Aristotle reactivated) was imposed.

3. Philosophy has more power than the classic religions
Classic religions were:

• regional,
• ethnic, hierarchically priestly.

Philosophy, on the other hand, was:

• global (from India to Greece, from Rome to France),
• transnational, hierarchically academic.

Most importantly: philosophy was able to influence all religions and then to surpass them. Today, when the world says “I no longer have a religion”, it does not mean it no longer has dogmas.
The dogmas have simply been replaced with philosophical truths: about man, life, death, the universe, science, morality.
A banal and brutal example: in the 1990s–2000s, in a few gender-studies departments of top American universities, the dogma was formulated «gender is only social construction and performance». 25 years later, that philosophy written by a few dozen professors became compulsory law in dozens of countries, internal policy in every major corporation and reason for social excommunication or even imprisonment if you contradict it. Who decided that? Not the people. The philosophers at the highest level decided. The rest only applied it.

4. Philosophy has ruled the world in two major stages
A. Stage I: Syncretic Philosophy (Alexandria) – 280 BC until the French Revolution

• It forms after the death of one of the four Greek kingdoms (Lysimachus).
• The Library of Alexandria becomes the absolute centre of religio-philosophical synthesis.
• Platonic thought, combined with Eastern elements, produces what we now call: dogmatic theology, imperial religions, mystical and “secret” thinking.
• Philosophy defines Truth through religion.

B. Stage II: Autonomous Philosophy (Athens reactivated) – after 1789

• Represented by Aristotle and his modern successors (Descartes, Newton, Kant etc.).
• It frees itself from religion and takes direct control of truth through: autonomous reason, modern science, secular ideologies.
• Philosophy defines Truth without religion.

5. Philosophy is the “beast rising out of the abyss” in Revelation 17
In the prophetic vision:

• The little horn of Daniel 8 symbolises the syncretic philosophy raised in Alexandria.
• The beast from the abyss in Revelation 17 symbolises the autonomous philosophy that emerges from silence in the modern era.
• Both forms rule the world in different eras, but they have the same nature: a global ideological force that imposes “truth” through intellectual authority.

Conclusion
Philosophy is not vapour. It is not a simple abstract “thought”. It is a concrete historical actor:

• with schools, authorities, decision-making power,
• that has influenced religions, sciences, governments and empires,
• and continues to decide what is “true”, what is “normal” and what is “forbidden”.

To ignore it means going to war without knowing who the enemy is.
When you hear “I no longer believe in God, I believe in Science, Progress and Human Rights”,
remember that precisely those three “saints” were the very first to be suspended in 2020 – without right of appeal.