ETERNAL LIFE

1. The notion of God dying or of the 'death of God', whether conceived of from a Christian or a Nietzschean standpoint, is, if taken literally, something of a contradiction in terms. For nothing defies the idea of death more than that which, as God, is identifiable with Eternal Life.

2. It is not God Who dies, but an outworn concept of God, a traditional or conventional way of conceiving of God, or godliness.

3. God is the One who defies death in the interests of Eternity, of life lived beyond the mortality of the flesh.

4. Eternal Life is the life of God, the life that is attuned to the Heaven of metaphysical being.

5. That, on the contrary, which dies eternally, being synonymous with Eternal Death, is the Devil, and an age or society obsessed by death, particularly of an immortal character, is necessarily ruled by the Devil, as by the will and the ego of noumenal objectivity, wherein the hells of metachemical spirit and soul have their life-denying throne.

6. An age or society ruled by the Devil worships beauty and rejects truth. In such a context the poet is sovereign, not the philosopher!

7. God may be absent from such an age or society, as from that in which woman is amorally sovereign, but godliness as such is not identifiable with death. On the contrary, it is man who must die (to the flesh) if God, or godliness, is to come into its rightful 'high estate' in Eternity.

8. In ideological terms, I have identified this death with the abandonment of political sovereignty following the assumption, democratically mandated, of religious sovereignty through the Messianic Second Coming, that is to say, through the will of he who corresponds, in his life and teachings, to the bringer of 'Kingdom Come'.

9. As the reader may know from previous texts by this author, I effectively identify with that destiny on the basis of my Social Transcendentalist ideology, including, not least of all, its doctrine of deistic deliverance from theism, and the concomitant acceptance of religious self-determination in a 'triadic Beyond' (relative to the present), wherein Eternal Life will come more fully and lastingly to pass.