ON GOD AND EVOLUTION
1. 'All men are equal before God' - what does
this really mean? Precisely that, so far
as the central star of the Galaxy is concerned, one man is pretty much the same
as another, and simply because that star isn't in the least aware of the
existence of human beings.
2. To imagine that the Creator, conceived as
the theological, or figurative, aspect of the central star of the Galaxy,
wishes to see men fulfil a divine purpose ... is the height of nonsense! The subatomic absolute has no desire to
encourage the formation of a supra-atomic absolute, for it exists within the
strict confines of its own subatomic integrity.
3. Progress towards a Supreme Creation only
happens in spite of and without the consent of the Primal Creator. Man struggles towards the supra-atomic
absolutism of 'the Holy Spirit' by pitting himself against the subatomic
absolutism of 'the Father' and what stems, as nature, from it.
4. To the extent that the subatomic absolute
may be said to have a plan for man, that plan would never extend beyond sensual
indulgence in adherence to naturalistic criteria.
5. Fulfilling the Creator's plan would simply
mean living in harmony with nature in pursuit of sensual ends.
6. But there is a superior plan to that, which may
be described as fulfilling atomic man's (Christ's) plan and intermittently
transcending nature by rebelling against it and aspiring towards the
supernatural at least as much or as often as one lives in harmony with it.
7. Yet there is a superior plan to that, which
may be described as fulfilling post-atomic man's (the Second Coming's) plan and
transcending nature by rebelling against it and aspiring towards the
supernatural as much or as often as possible, until, in one degree or another,
one actually attains to the supernatural!
8. This plan would be transcendentalist as
opposed to Christian, a plan in which man turns exclusively towards creating
the supra-atomic absolute, as signified by transcendent spirit.
9. Man, however, couldn't directly attain to
the full-blown Supernaturalism of the supra-atomic absolute, but only to the
lesser Supernaturalism of the Superman in the first phase of the post-Human
Millennium - a time in which, if all goes according to plan, human brains will
be artificially supported and sustained in communal contexts.
10. The ensuing new-brain collectivizations
of the second phase of the post-Human Millennium - the transcendental
phase-proper - will constitute an evolutionary stage immediately preceding
transcendence, and thus the attainment of the superbeingful
life of the Superbeings to the supra-atomic absolute
of ... Spiritual Globes converging towards total unity in the heavenly Beyond.
11. Thus it is the Superbeing
rather than man who attains to definitive salvation in the supra-atomic
absolute, man being but a link in the evolutionary chain stretching from alpha
to omega, or the cosmos to transcendent spirit.
12. Evolution begins with the numerous beauties
of the alpha absolute
and culminates in the one truth of the omega absolute. It progresses from maximum appearance to
maximum essence, from the proton-proton reactions of stars to the
electron-electron attractions of transcendent spirit.
13. Post-atomic man does not cease being atomic,
that is to say, a largely materialistic entity.
He simply ceases to regard an atomic integrity with complacency and
aspires, instead, more keenly towards the supra-atomic.
14. Pre-atomic, or Judaic, man was conscious of a
'fall' (from the absolute beauty of the stars to the relative beauty of man),
but not of an aspiration towards the absolute truth of transcendent
spirit. He lived negatively - in guilt.
15. Atomic, or Christian, man remained conscious
of a 'fall' (from the absolute beauty of the stars to the relative beauty of
man), but also became conscious of an aspiration towards the absolute truth of
transcendent spirit. He lived both
negatively and positively - in dualistic compromise.
16. Post-atomic, or transcendental, man will not
be conscious of a 'fall' (from the absolute beauty of the stars to the relative
beauty of man), but only of an aspiration towards the absolute truth of
transcendent spirit. He will live
positively - in joy.
17. The pre-atomic
mentality of the Judaic mind persists into the modern age in many Jews who, not
having converted to Christianity, are still more conscious of a 'fall' (from
absolute beauty) than of anything else. Witness Kafka, who affords us a poignant example of Judaic guilt in
the face of baffling and potentially hostile societal changes.
18. Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish symphony provides us, in both libretto and
music, with a no-less poignant example of Judaic guilt and bemusement in a
world turning against the Creator, in defiance of natural beauty.
19. But the post-atomic man of the third and
final level of human civilization will not be concerned with beauty, either in
its absolute or relative manifestations, but solely with the cultivation of
truth, and so much so that, should he have a girlfriend or female companion,
she will be at best ugly, at worst merely attractive. A beautiful woman would not appeal to him -
assuming any such women were still to be found in the world.
20. For it cannot be denied that beauty
appertains, in the main, to the bourgeois and aristocratic classes, who
directly stem from the beauty of the stars in largely natural environments ...
rather than indirectly aspire towards the truth of transcendent spirit from an
artificial environment, such as the city.
21. The fact that the proletariat only indirectly
aspire towards the truth of transcendent spirit in the twentieth century has to
do with their being less civilized than barbarous, and therefore beneath
conscious transcendental commitment.
This is so in both the capitalist West, where they constitute an
'internal proletariat' (Toynbee), and the socialist East where, from the
Western viewpoint, they exist in the context of an 'external proletariat'.
22. Only when the proletariat are made conscious
of Transcendentalism (not to be confounded with petty-bourgeois Orientalism), and thus become truly civilized, will they
directly aspire towards the truth of transcendent spirit. But that won't be before the next and
ultimate human civilization gets properly under way.
