Svetislav Basara - The Cyclist Conspiracy

The Technologists do not have the power to stop the collapse of the system — they can only impotently observe the shattering of the mirror and wait for the Person who is going to kill them.

There is no power in that pinnacle, in that inductive mirror . Events occur according to the very logic of disintegration , without any sort of possibility of affecting them. Is it not clear, the system is collapsing but the federal dispatcher, the only one who can actually see it, can just observe that multitude of varying images of one and the same figure.

The theory of mirrors in the interpretation of the journal Vidici is not original. As early as the 19 thcentury, anarchism was born as a desire to destroy the capitalist states and the state in general. Likewise, the teachings about “the Will” and “the Person” are just a variation of Nietzsche’s theory of the Übermensch/Superman. The division of people into Persons and Boys, into individuals of greater or lesser value, likewise has its parallel in the racist theories of Chamberlain, Godineau, Hitler and Rosenberg. The influence of psychoanalysis and anti-psychiatry is also present (the separation of the personality, the mirror is equated with the system), along with the influence of the works of Huxley and Castaneda. The philosophy of Punk and the New Wave also have their place in this conceptual mélange, especially that part of them that deals with forms of de-construction (anarchism and ludism). The influence of Bazeley and Negri can also be noticed (neo-anarchism, the theoreticians of the Red Brigade), and anarcho-syndicalism (the theory of horizontal structures by the Polish author Lamentovič).

Therefore this ideology is a compilation — “a meta-goulash of various ideologies,” mainly “radical” and “anarchic” (destructive of society), especially developed and applied to concrete socio-political and economic conditions.

We live in a time of mystification, a time of disorientation caused by the loss of a center and by desacralization. Such a time is ripe for the appearance of false messiahs, a flood of no less false spirituality and the flourishing of fake mystics. Deceit often takes on the illusion of truth. Christian Rosenkreuz comes to mind who, in his leisure, composed the fantastic tale of the company of the Rose Cross. Readers of that nebulous, syncretistic prose — without the author’s knowledge — founded an order and played their part in the all-encompassing disorder and moral chaos that is shaking the very foundations of European civilization.

In recent times, the legend of the Evangelical Bicyclists of the Rose Cross has been circulating among the “esotericians.” This mystification, a simple mishmash of the mystification that came before it, has found champions, unfortunately, even among authors of pristine reputation. This is one more proof in support of the thesis that no one — if one leaves the solid ground of science and the credibility of the experimental method — is immune to error. And the error, in this particular case, is more than obvious. Already at first sight we notice the almost naïve diversity in the documents of the so-called Bicyclists; they are nothing more than a heap of completely contradictory concepts forcibly connected into a vague theory. What a fabulous mixture: iconoclasm, theology, psychoanalysis, scholastics, astrology, mechanics, dubious poetry, falsified biographies, misrepresented history, and unconvincing, obviously construed, symbolism. With near certainty it can be claimed that such a fraternity, such a gathering of people, does not exist in reality. It is more likely that the fama birotarorium is the product of a few liars with too much time on their hands.

Before we denounce and unmask the sources and documents, let us look at the goals of these infamous Bicyclists. The sect, or so it is claimed, originated in a secret society of blacksmiths from Antioch, scattered about the world with aim of spreading a secret from one generation to the next, a secret which can be reduced to approximately this: there are two kinds of craftsmen, masons and blacksmiths; the first are sons of the earth, in collusion with the Devil. These Archaitektones (as they call them) have one single goal: to build a tower that will reach into Heaven. Their first attempt, the construction of the Tower of Babylon, was foiled, but the fraternity of masons did not give up on its plans. The first tower was only a prototype of the final, perfect, upside-down tower that is to be built beneath the earth as a system sufficient in itself — a complete city. On the other hand, the blacksmiths of Antioch, as sons of fire, are the guardians of the ancient Covenant between God and man; they are the sons of Heaven. Supposedly the task of these preservers of the tradition of the Antioch blacksmiths, the Evangelical Bicyclists, is indeed to change the direction of history and to thwart the plans of the masons. In Tatlin’s plan for the monument of the 2 ndInternational, the Bicyclists purportedly recognized the sign of the last days and, after centuries of silence, decided to discretely publish their teachings. From the existing “documents” it turns out that the Bicyclists are battling against the intentions of the architects with the synergy of the dead, living and future brothers ( sic! ). To make the farce even greater, they do so by having the dead members (since they observe time integrally from their otherworldly position) teach the unborn how to have an influence on events. Living members, the earthly camp of the brotherhood, only exist so that the unbroken thread will have a material basis. Otherwise, everything would just be an illusion. Which, in fact, it is. At the same time, this also explains the this-worldly passivity of the Evangelical Bicyclists. The central place in the Bicyclists mysticism is certainly the plan to outsmart the architects by having the Bicyclists themselves do the planning for the ultimate tower; they are to slip the apparently completed plans of the structure to the architects, and after being built the structure will destroy itself at a given time.

How utterly charming!

Let us now look at the documents of the Evangelical Bicyclists. First is the Basel Parchment, a charter of undetermined age, a collection of absolute nonsense in which certain interpreters find hidden material. Even if the parchment is authentic, it says nothing. The text is not even worthwhile citing. We can comfortably say that it is the most commonplace of farces.

The second document is A TALE OF MY KINGDOM , the authorship of which is ascribed to a certain King Charles the Hideous. Historical sources make no mention of such a king. Not a single mention. To be honest, Charles the Hideous himself in the TALE announces his disappearance from the historical scene together with his fictitious kingdom. We can perhaps recognize the hand of the falsifiers who, knowing that they are deceiving everyone, are preparing an exit strategy for themselves using purely literary devices. In any case, the third supposed document, THE DIABOLICAL TWO-WHEELER , attributed to the majordomo of King Hideous, is reprinted completely from the novel The Cyclist Conspiracy by a little known author, published by “Prosveta Publishers,” although the champions of the Evangelical Bicyclists have launched the thesis that the writer is the one who reproduced the majordomo’s text.