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Essay / Claudius' Reflection - 528
The island was finally at peace and reunited under a unity government that had no real power. Nevertheless, he was hailed as an effective peacemaker in a skeptical world. A forced peace was better than no peace at all. The man Claudius had strange appetites and seemed to survive on very little sleep, and did not keep women company, he was quite different. and unlike any other man. Claudius was heavily involved in funding genetic research and believed that humanity was master of its own destiny. Claudius was a strong supporter of transhumanism and believed that human beings had the ability to alter their existence and move beyond the constraints of the current human form. Claudius rejected religion as nonsense and certainly did not believe in the divine character of Yahweh, the God of his Jewish ancestors, and dismissed it as a Jewish fable based on the teachings of uneducated elders. Claudius recognized an illuminated presence within human existence and strove for occult knowledge. I followed the writings of Alistair Crowley when he attended elite colleges. In college, he ...