CYCLE TWENTY-FIVE
1. The Word is not only a tool to enable one to
express truth (or a specific ideology); it is also a weapon to strike fear into
the hearts and minds of pharisees!
2. Although relatively good for their
practitioners, the Arts tend to be bad for the general public, the reason being
that they force people back upon their senses, thereby enslaving them to
appearances.
3. It is much less rewarding to view a painting
than to paint one; much less rewarding to listen to music than to compose it;
much less rewarding to develop a taste for literature than to write it; much
less rewarding to touch sculpture than to sculpt it. In fact, if truth be told, it is effectively
self-defeating.
4. While there may be some
moral justification for people actively to pursue some art form, there is
little or no moral justification for selling the resultant product on a
commercial basis, and thereby inducing people to 'suck-up' in an orgy of
sensual self-immolation.
5. The more commercialized art products become
the less bearing they have on the service and/or development of beauty (much
less truth), in consequence of which the public are degraded by the paradoxical
spectacle of science posing as art.
6. There is no art in commercially ripping
people off; rather, it is a science which panders to the senses and reaps its
due material rewards.
7. Just as the Arts are corrupted by commerce
and reduced, despite all the glare of publicity, to a mere shadow of their
genuine manifestations, so religion is likewise corrupted by it and transformed
into a mystical science.
8. 'God' for the average heliotropic
devotee of commercial religion is not 'in the self', but most assuredly 'out
there' ... in the celluloid and platinum 'stars'.
9. 'God', too, has been 'brought low' by
commerce and transformed into a concept that hides behind films, like a
director pulling strings.
10. Basically, there is nothing Christian about
the Anglo-American West; Christ died before the birth of
11. In celluloid terms,
cinematic monotheism is monochromatic and cinematic polytheism ...
polychromatic.
12. Preaching Christianity through film is a
contradiction in terms which simply results in the Christian message of
spiritual rebirth (from light to air) being subverted and subsumed within the
overall neo-pagan culture of light-dominated media.
13. Television evangelism, so prevalent in the
USA, is a form of Christian paganism which testifies to the moral bankruptcy of
religion in the modern age.
14. Even churches are now run as a business, with
strict financial accountability (to the State) with regard, for instance, to
tourism and trade in religious artefacts!
15. Not the least sacrilegious of modern trends is
the increasing prevalence with which cameras of one kind or another are free to
poke their lenses around the interiors of churches and record, for the cultural
bewitchment of the occult-slavering masses, a variety of ungodly goings-on -
from vandalism and theft to outright murder.
16. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, Christian
about the contemporary Anglo-American West.
Only a rampant commercial neo-paganism which holds the
masses in thrall to its 'star'-worshipping idolatry.
17. A product is worth as much, or as little, as
the price that is attached to it, and no more!
18. Any intrinsic value a product may have is soon
compromised, and even eclipsed, by the commercial value which is attached to
it, like a millstone around its moral neck.
19. Few products can survive unscathed the price tag
that is attached to them; most are killed off by it as a matter of commercial
necessity.
