DOUBLETHINK

doublethink: "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again : and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed." -- quoted from George Orwell's "1984"

DOUBLETHINK AS MASONIC MIND CONTROL

Thus, so defined, doublethink is a state of mind that epitomizes the Kabbalistic mindset, which is symbolized by the hexagram, where the triangles, one black and one white, interlocked, represent the co-mingling of opposite principles of truth and falsehood, morality and imorality, irony and cynicism with sincerity, etc., and according to Orwell himself, it entails a sort of hypnotism or systematically induced dissociatiative disorder. The black and white mosaic checkered floor tile of the Masonic lodge and the black-white Seal of Solomon, symbolically signify this paradigm and process. Orwell:

"The key word here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction to the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demmands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continous alteration of the past [on an individual level, forgetfulness, i.e., hypnotism, dissociative identify disorder, or simply repression] made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink." -- 1984, pg 212, George Orwell [brackets mine]

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simlutaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellecual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it must also be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essencial act of the Party is to use cnscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty." (pg. 214, Orwell, 1984)