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1. The noumenal imperfection of the superstar contrasts absolutely
with the noumenal perfection of the supercross, while the phenomenal perfection of the cross
contrasts relatively with the phenomenal imperfection of the star.
2. If man and woman were merely different from
each other rather than morally antithetical, with the intellectual perfection
of the one contrasting, phenomenally, with the instinctual imperfection of the
other, then we would have to accept that, on the noumenal
axis of spiritual and emotional antitheses, God and the Devil were merely
different and not morally antithetical.
Only an idiot or a scoundrel would in fact do so, since it should be
plain to even the least intelligent of people that God and the Devil are
morally antithetical, with the former synonymous with culture and the latter
with barbarism. Hence we should have no
logical difficulty in contending that man and woman are likewise morally
antithetical to each other, with the former synonymous with civilization and
the latter with nature. To claim that
they are merely different would be to take an
amoral stance relative to the sort of liberalism which is the born enemy of
truth. Yet to admit, as I have, that
they are morally antithetical is not, as some would suppose, to say that men
are morally superior to women, any more than one could reasonably argue that
God is morally superior to the Devil. For one cannot be morally superior to someone or something which is
not moral in the first place, but fundamentally and essentially immoral. Man is no more morally superior to woman than
God ... to the Devil. Man is morally
inferior to God, and woman immorally inferior to the Devil. Or, conversely, God is morally superior to
man, and the Devil immorally superior to woman.
One can only be superior or inferior to that which is of a like
persuasion, not to what is antithetically ranged against one!
3. Man is no less of a 'fall' from God than
woman is a 'fall' from the Devil. Adam
was One with God until, tasting of the 'forbidden fruit', he fell from grace
and entered into carnal relations with Eve, who was tempted by the Devil. Thenceforth, knowing good and evil, he would
wander the world as man. Even on the
primitive level of negative God and Devil, viz. Jehovah and Satan, we can see
that man is closer to God and woman, by contrast, closer to the Devil. How much more so is this the case in regard
to positive God and Devil, viz. the Holy Spirit of Heaven and the Holy Soul of
Hell, or, in common parlance, the Holy Ghost and the Father! Even in Christian terms, the Mother is closer
to the Father, and the Son to the Holy Ghost.
4. The noumenal objectivity of the superstar stands in an
absolutely immoral relationship to the phenomenal objectivity of the star,
while the noumenal subjectivity of the supercross stands in an absolutely moral relationship to
the phenomenal subjectivity of the cross.
From extreme left-wing Communism to left-wing
Socialism on the one hand, and from right-wing Capitalism to extreme right-wing
Corporatism on the other hand. Fundamentalism to humanism; nonconformism
to transcendentalism. Authoritarianism to republicanism; parliamentarianism to
totalitarianism.
5. Woman is cursed by the harmony of her flesh,
and man blessed by the melody of his brain.
Similarly, the Devil is cursed by the pulse of his heart and God blessed
by the pitch of His lungs.
6. The Devil rides out discarnately
(in noumenal terms) on the objectivity of emotion,
and incarnately (in phenomenal terms) on the
objectivity of sensations. The Love
Devil, who is generally male, becomes One with the
Flesh Devil, who is generally female.
Superstar and star react in complementary fashion to their respective
modes of objectivity.
7. To contrast the extreme left-wing essence of
naturalism, which is emotional, with the extreme right-wing essence of
idealism, which is spiritual. Likewise
to contrast the left-wing essence of realism, which is sensual, with the
right-wing essence of materialism, which is intellectual. Hence where God is an idealist and the Devil
a naturalist, woman is a realist and man a
materialist.
8. Usually I think of will as synonymous with
the World, and hence sensuality, but, in reality, will is awareness, and
awareness can be emotional, sensual, intellectual, or spiritual. In fact, awareness is another word for life,
and life, as we have seen, can be emotional, sensual, intellectual, or
spiritual. Will or life or awareness is
therefore manifold in its division into emotion, sensation, intellect, and
spirit, corresponding, so I contend, to protons, electrons, neutrons, and
photons - the elemental substrata, so to speak, which metaphysically underlie
life. Will is therefore the essence of
each element, its life-force or consciousness, and in the will of emotional
life, will manifests, through protons, as feeling/doing; in the will of sensual
life it manifests, through electrons, as sensing/giving; in the will of
intellectual life it manifests, through neutrons, as knowing/taking; and in the
will of spiritual life it manifests, through photons, as breathing/being. Hence we can no more speak of one will than of one element. The world, as we generally understand it, is
subject to the clash of diverse wills, as, up to a point, is each person,
whether he/she be predominantly diabolic, feminine,
masculine, or divine, which is to say, emotional, sensual, intellectual, or
spiritual.
