CYCLE SIXTY-NINE
1. The ideal weather
for spirituality is an overcast day, the sort of day when the lure of Folk
music is all the stronger, and one can turn to the breath with renewed
calmness.
2. To contrast the
spirituality of an overcast day with the emotionality of a sunny day, the
latter being the sort of day to encourage heart-based activities and perhaps -
who knows? - horn-based Jazz.
3. To contrast the intellectuality of a rainy
day with the sensuality of a sultry day, or a day of mixed cloud and sunshine -
the former being the kind of weather to encourage brain-based activity and the
latter the kind of weather to encourage flesh-based activity, with, I would
guess, Classical and Pop correlations respectively.
4. Regarding the weather in an ideological light,
one could speak of the parliamentarianism of rainy weather but the Nazism of
hailstones, given the more extreme nature, relevant to the lunar limbo, of the
latter.
5. If sunny weather has a sort of fundamentalist
or communist correlation by dint of its emotional bias, then behind the heat of
the sun lies the light of the central star of the Galaxy, the alpha
transcendentalism of the Clear Light of Space, and I wager that the type of
weather most correlative with this ideological position would be a snowstorm,
snow being analogous, in its crystallinity, to light,
so that it is as though flakes of light were falling from the sky.
6. Thus it should be
possible to argue that there is a type of weather for every ideological
position, a correlation, if you like, between any given weather pattern and the
kind of ideology most applicable to the weather in question. We cannot overlook or underestimate the
extent to which ideology and, for that matter, ethnic
distinctions are conditioned by climate!
A stable climate is likely to encourage a specific ideological
allegiance, an unstable climate a variety of alternative allegiances which may
well be institutionalized in terms of liberal pluralism.
7. Politically speaking, Britain is given to a
three-party system of parliamentary democracy which to some extent reflects
allegiances corresponding to the sun (Labour), the moon (Conservatives), and
the earth (Liberal Democrats), but nothing corresponding to the heavenly Beyond
of a Saturn-oriented transcendentalism. Although this may be to some extent
conditioned by the climate, the fact that Britain is a superstate
precludes any such transcendental allegiance, since that which is rooted in
political fundamentalism, and hence a monarchy, cannot extend towards political
transcendentalism, which must necessarily remain 'beyond the pale'. Only in the
8. If the sun is a context of noumenal objectivity by dint of its fiery essence, then the
earth must surely be a context of phenomenal objectivity by dint of the heliotropic bias of nature.
A fiery core, a mineral crust, and then an organic
soil in which plants strain, objectively, towards the sun. Women, likewise, tend to be heliotropic, not just in the crude sense of being prone to
sunbathing, but with regard to their love of men, the man of any given woman
functioning as a sort of sun whose emotional rays lovingly envelop her the way
the sun's rays envelop the earth. Thus
woman is phenomenally objective in her physical generosity towards man, while
man is noumenally objective in his emotional
generosity towards woman. Men and women
join together, as father and mother, superstar and star, and their offspring is
analogous to the moon in terms of its development, throughout childhood, of
phenomenal subjectivity or, in plain parlance, the intellect. For, unlike the earth, which has plants and
things sticking out of it in objective fashion, the moon is a compact entity
which is correspondingly subjective, and just as it is embraced by and revolves
around the earth, so children revolve around their mother, who is especially
sensitive towards them in her phenomenal objectivity. In climatic terms, father, mother, and
offspring are akin to a sunny day, a sultry day, and a rainy day respectively,
and their basic correspondence to the sun, the earth, and the moon necessarily
places them beneath the possibility of divine redemption in and through the noumenal subjectivity of the transcendental Beyond. For, as Christ well knew, such a redemption
can only come when one turns one's back on family and ceases to behave in a
heathen manner, the kind of manner which is dominated by the superstar and star
not only to the detriment of the cross but, most especially, to the exclusion
of the supercross, and hence freedom from the World
in and through the spirit.
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