Deep Pockets and Shallow Souls..
By Mike Rashid King
PART I: THE SHIFT: IS MONEY YOUR MASTER
There was a time when men were weighed not by what they wore… but what they withstood.
A time when the most valuable thing a man could offer wasn’t a number in a bank… but the depth of his soul..
But in this age…
Men have made money their master…
Money has become the altar… and too many have laid their identity upon it..
In Book III: The Alchemy of Wisdom in The Divine Quintessence, it says:
“In the absence of purpose, man becomes programmable. Wealth without alignment creates a slave with expensive chains.”
We were never meant to worship the currency…
We were meant to conduct it..
Because when money becomes the master,
Everything becomes a transaction…
Love becomes leverage…
Faith becomes fashion…
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan once said:
“You are not truly free until you are free from the need to be approved by your oppressor… freedom begins when you value yourself more than you value their validation.” you value their valid
And that’s the trap…
Validation…
When your sense of value is externalized, you become a beggar…
Even if you drive the most expensive car.. Even if you got followers in the millions.
Because inside? You starving…
So you must ask yourself this..
“If all your money disappeared tomorrow… what would be left of you?”
Not your job…
Not your lifestyle…
You…
If that question shakes you, good. That’s the beginning of freedom…
PART II: SIGNS OF DECAY: THE FIVE COLLAPSES OF A DYING CIVILIZATION
Every fallen empire leaves behind a pattern… a footprint in the ash…
And if you study it with the right lens you’ll see it clear….
Babylon fell this way…
Rome fell this way…
And America's decline is imminent…
Because when the people stop honoring principle…
They start accelerating their own extinction…
So let’s walk through these 5 collapses…
1. The Death of Meaning
Collapse begins when language is hijacked..
Words once sacred, truth, love, manhood, womanhood, freedom, family… They get stripped away, painted over, and sold back to you in digital packaging…
Like Rome before it fell…
They used to speak with conviction. Then came the poets who twisted meanings… Then the orators who performed instead of led…
And when the people forgot the power of their words…
The Empire fell silently…
In Book IX, “Unveiling the Q”, From the Divine Quintessence it states:
“When man forgets the divine frequency behind his speech, he becomes a noise machine… Loud… but hollow.”
Listen….
A child once asked a father, “What’s love?”
The father replied: “It’s something you earn, something you give, something you fight to protect.”
Later that night, the child saw “love” trending… next to betrayal, lies, and lust…
He never asked again…
Because the world gave him a cheaper answer…
So ask yourself this….
Do your words build… or do they just perform?
Coded Warning:
The moment a society forgets the true meaning of its words…
It no longer needs bars and chains…
Its prison is semantic……
2. Next is The Collapse of Identity
When people no longer know who they are… they become anything the world pays them to be….
Babylon did this….
They stripped people of names, history, language…(sound familiar?)
And gave them titles based on service, not essence…
Now today? Same trick. Just with Wi-Fi.
Instead of “Sons and Daughters of God” all we got are usernames….
Clout tags. Avatars….
From my new book, 77, Passage (18)XVIII:
“Don’t ever forget, you were named in the unseen long before the world knew your face. No algorithm can override what God stamped into your soul.”
A lion cub raised among dogs forgot how to roar.
Until one day, it saw its reflection in the river
Not barking… but burning with royalty.
That day, it remembered who it was…
That day, it rose…
The Divine Quintessence is that mirror reflection waiting for you to stare into it to see who you are…
Are you who you are… or who you were taught to be?
3. The Fracturing of Relationships
When value becomes numerical…
People become disposable..
Rome had orgies… Babylon had temples of lust…
Today, we got subscriptions to people’s bodies…
Love is transactional…
Friendship is seasonal…
Marriage is a merger…
From Divine Quintessence (Book V: The Power of Decisions):
“When decisions are made from appetite instead of alignment, we create partnerships that feed our urges… but starve our souls.”
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “A man who cannot be faithful in relationships, cannot be trusted to lead”
Ask yourself this:
Do you truely invest in people… or do you just use them for when you need/want or is convenient for you….
Warning:
A civilization that cannot build strong families…
Will be raised by who’s most poppin on tik tok or the gram….
4. The Rot of Institutions
Most systems are infected..
They’ve traded vision for vanity… Mission for marketing…
They no longer serve the people, they only sell to them…
Schools dumb you down…
Churches pacify…
Governments polarize…
Corporations hypnotize…
From 77, Passage XXXI:
“Don’t ever forget: institutions are not gods. They are tools. And if the tool stops building the people… it becomes a weapon of their enslavement.”
Do you trust systems more than your soul’s compass?
The final stage is the:
5. The Rebellion of the Soul
When the people know something’s wrong… but they can’t name it…
They check out….
Through pills, porn, parties…
This is an internal civil unrest…. A silent riot…
Rome was burning while the people were being entertained by the games in the arena…
Babylon was falling… but the people were drunk with power…
Today?
We’re overdosing on dopamine…
But malnourished in purpose…
From Divine Quintessence (Book XII: Holistic Health & Wellness):
“The soul doesn’t scream when it’s lost… it whispers. And if you don’t listen, it will shut down… in your body, your mind, or your destiny.”
Are you distracted… or are you deployed?
Remember, when the soul rebels, society collapses…
This modern society is collapsing… and it ain’t collapsing because of revolution, it’s collapsing because of resignation….. everyone is checked out…
