401. There
can be no free literature while journalistic freedom continues to be the norm!
402. The
Second Coming, being partial to heavenly evaluations, would not endorse a free
press, but would strive, with all the means at his disposal, to curb and muzzle
it!
403. Societies
which struggle towards Heaven will have scant regard for journalistic freedoms,
preferring to curtail and transmute them in accordance with their
omega-oriented subjectivity.
404. When
journalists invade literature, as they frequently do in open societies, the
result tends to be a crude subversion of fiction along tediously factual lines.
405. A
society dominated by the philistine can only produce a correspondingly
philistine literature, in which the journalist poses as an artist.
406. The bulk of modern British literature, both fictional and nonfictional, is journalism-in-disguise, the journalist,
and often enough his political and/or professorial counterpart, decked out as
an artist.
407. When
philistinism passes for art, as it often does in Britain, the possibility of
genuine literature is rendered all the more remote, since its subversion is
everywhere manifest, and the bogus article will be taken for the 'real McCoy'.
408. It is
not that genuine literature cannot be written in a philistine age or society;
rather is it a case of such literature not being published by the philistine
powers-that-be.
409. No self-respecting
artist would ever deign to become a journalist, much less a professor of
literature, just to secure himself, or some publisher, a guaranteed reading
public.
410. One
is either an artist, and moral, or a journalist, and immoral, and the one can
no more become the other than God and the Devil can change places.
411. The great thing about fiction is that it is subjective, not
dependent on factual objectivity, like science (or, for that matter,
journalism), but an art form purely and simply.
412. The
finest and most genuine artists are not only subjective, but celibate moreover.
413. When
subjective beauty is stepped up to its full we get the finest art; but when
such beauty is transcended by and in the truth we get philosophy, which is more
than the product of celibates: it is the product, effectively, of literary
saints.
414. The artist, no matter how celibate, does not entirely
abandon the World; for to do so would be to abandon beauty, and hence art.
415. Only
the philosopher-saint can truly be said to have abandoned the World (assuming
he was ever partial to it in the first place); for his genius operates on the
level of God, and thus in relation to the heavenly Beyond.
416. The Second Coming is the ultimate philosopher, the
'philosopher-king', whose conceptualized perception of truth is so profound
that he has become effectively omniscient, and hence divine.
417. In England, which has no respect for the pursuit of truth,
only the pursuit of power or, rather, of power through wealth is admired.
418. America
has even more respect for the pursuit of power through wealth than Britain,
outdoing even the old imperial powers in immorality.
419.
420. Bad
societies do not become good and holy just because one would like them to; on
the contrary, they tend to become progressively worse.
421. When freedom
is interpreted not in terms of release from sin but, rather, in regard to
unrestrained freedom-of-action in whatever sphere, then such freedom breeds not
morality but the grossest immorality, and the corruption that is its sordid
corollary.
422. A
society which upholds the 'freedom' of the individual to pursue wealth and
power is fundamentally immoral, since rooted not in Christ, still less in the
Holy Spirit, but in the Antichrist of capitalist materialism.
423. Such
'freedoms' tend to corrupt the individual from the path of righteousness, which
is deliverance from sin and the attainment, thereby, of spiritual salvation.
424. The
pursuit of wealth may not be rooted in the Devil as such, but it can quickly
degenerate from the negative God of Antichrist capitalism to either the
negative Devil of Antimother debauchery or the
negative Superdevil of Antifather
tyranny, or both.
425. Hence
wealth, corresponding to a purgatorial alpha, blocks one off from the omega and
exposes its victims to the alphas of contiguous spectra, including power and
fame.
426. Fame
is power in the World rather than power over or above it, in the contexts of
wealth and political influence.
427. Because
fame is worldly power, it has close associations with debauchery and other
kinds of mortal sin, being fundamentally feminine.
428. Fame
is merely apparent, but glory is essential, being the prerogative of men of
genius, whether artistic or holy.
429. Christ
rose up in transcendent glory and is accordingly worshipped (rather than simply
admired) by his faithful followers.
430. Devotion
to art is the worldly equivalent of religious worship, and such devotion is
never more justified than when the art is genuine and the artist worthy of
respect in consequence.
431. From devotion to beautiful things to worship of the truth,
whether through beauty or, preferably, in spiritual contemplation.
432. When
the truth is actually lived rather than simply respected, worship is
transcended by self-realization in the joyful salvation of the Holy Spirit of
Heaven.
433. The
difference between worshipping Christ for his divine achievement and being free
to be the Holy Spirit of Heaven is nothing less than that between Christianity
and Social Transcendentalism.
434. It is
the will of the Second Coming to liberate the World from its worship of the
truth and grant it the privilege, through Social Transcendentalism, of actually
experiencing truth.
435. Hence
the Second Coming desires nothing less than to set the Christianity of the World,
viz. Catholicism, free from its worship of Christ in order that the Holy Spirit
of Heaven may come absolutely to pass.
436. When
philosophy is most true to itself it is aphoristic, because aphorisms, being
subjective, are the best means of conveying space.
437. When
philosophy is least true to itself it is monologuistic,
because monologues, though still subjective, are quasi-prosodic, and hence
closer to mass.
438. When
philosophy is most false to itself it is dialoguistic,
because dialogues, being objective, are
quasi-dramatic, and hence closer to time.
439. When philosophy is least false to itself it is essayistic,
because essays, though still objective, are quasi-poetic, and hence closer to
volume.
440. Hence one could speak of the division of philosophy between
the most and least true genres of aphorisms and monologues on the one hand, and
between the least and most false genres of essays and dialogues on the other
hand.
441. This
division effectively establishes a subjective/objective distinction in which
true philosophy, whether noumenal and divine or
phenomenal and feminine, has to struggle against false philosophy, whether
phenomenal and masculine or noumenal and diabolic.
442. Such
a struggle is effectively two-fold, with aphorisms against dialogues in the noumenal context, and monologues against essays in the
phenomenal one.
443. The
aphorism is essentially a classless approach to philosophy which mirrors the
heavenly.
444. The
dialogue is fundamentally an upper-class approach to philosophy which mirrors
the hellish.
445. The
essay is essentially a middle-class approach to philosophy which mirrors the
purgatorial.
446. The
monologue is fundamentally a lower-class approach to philosophy which mirrors
the mundane.
447. When
the '
448. To
distinguish the absolutely heathen from the relatively heathen on the basis of a
cosmic/worldly dichotomy, with the former noumenal
and the latter phenomenal.
449. Hence
the noumenal objectivity (objectivism) of the
absolutely heathen vis-à-vis the phenomenal subjectivity of the relatively
heathen.
450. To
distinguish the relatively Christian from the absolutely Christian on the basis
of a purgatorial/heavenly dichotomy, with the former phenomenal and the latter noumenal.
451. Hence
the phenomenal objectivity of the relatively Christian vis-à-vis the noumenal subjectivity (subjectivism) of the absolutely
Christian.
452. Absolute
heathens are rooted in the Clear Light of the Void, whereas absolute Christians
are centred in the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
453. Relative
heathens are rooted in the Clear Darkness of Mass, whereas relative Christians
are centred in the Holy Mind of Purgatory.
454. There is a sense in which, while Protestantism
is relative Christianity, Catholicism is both heathen and absolute
Christianity, the World and an aspiration towards the heavenly Beyond.
455. When absolute Christianity is liberated from heathen
Christianity, the result will be Social Theocracy.
456. Social
Theocracy is the absolute Christianity of the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
457. Hence
Social Theocracy is the next logical step beyond Roman Catholicism, the
deliverance of the World from its sin and correlative elevation to perfect
grace.
458. Such
perfect grace can also be achieved within the divine spectrum itself, when Jews
are delivered from Judaic guilt and abandon the light for the lightness of air.
459. Abandoning
fundamentalist transcendentalism, Jews will achieve Social Transcendentalism,
which is their equivalent of Social Theocracy.
460. Social
Theocracy and Social Transcendentalism are thus two approaches to the same
divine end - the indirect approach of Catholics and the direct approach of
Judaists.
461. Either way, one is not dealing with the absolute heathenism
of the Clear Light of the Void, but with the absolute Christianity/Judaism of
the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
462. Heathen
peoples live under the star, whether the star is absolute, and unbounded, or
relative, and bounded.
463. The absolute star is noumenally
objective, and the relative star phenomenally subjective.
464. Hence
a distinction between diabolic fundamentalism and feminine humanism.
465. Christian
peoples live under the cross, whether the cross be
relative, and unbounded, or absolute, and bounded.
466. The relative cross is phenomenally objective, and the
absolute cross noumenally subjective.
467. Hence
a distinction between masculine nonconformism and
divine transcendentalism.
468. To distinguish between the hell of diabolic fundamentalism
and the heaven of divine transcendentalism, as between the Devil and God.
469. To distinguish between the purgatory of masculine nonconformism and the world of feminine humanism, as
between man and woman.
470. It is
always harder to 'take up' the cross than to follow the star.
471. The relative cross was established at the expense of the
absolute star, the Son against the Father.
472. The absolute cross will be established at the expense of the
relative star, the Holy Spirit against the Mother.
473. The absolute cross, or supercross,
will replace the cross, as Christian humanity gravitate from Christ to the Holy
Spirit of Heaven via the Second Coming.
474. With the coming of the supercross,
the absolute star, or superstar, will finally be cast down from the world, as
God advances at the Devil's expense.
475. For the world of the supercross,
which is the '
476. The
Holy Spirit of Heaven can only come into its universal glory at the expense of
the Clear Light of the Void, which is its fundamentalist enemy.
477. The
'Star of David' is no superstar but a sort of paradoxical supercross
formed by the crossing of two triangles.
478. Such a paradoxical supercross
reflects the fundamentalist transcendentalism of Judaism, whose God is not the
Clear Light of the Void, but Jehovah.
479. When
480. Likewise,
when Ireland achieves Social Theocracy through the Second Coming, it will
abandon Christ for the Holy Spirit of Heaven, modifying its emblem (the cross)
accordingly.
481. The
achievement of salvation can only come with the will of the respective peoples
expressed democratically.
482. What
applies to the above-mentioned countries also applies to a host of others,
whose entitlement to salvation warrants democratic approval.
483. When
democracy 'gives way' to the ultimate theocracy, then and only then will the '
484. What
the Second Coming offers his 'chosen people(s)' is the option on religious
sovereignty, and thus the 'right' to self-realization.
485. Institutionalized
self-realization is only possible for a people who have democratically opted to
become the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
486. In democratically opting for religious sovereignty, the
People would be delivered from their political sovereignty, and thus from
republican 'sins of the World'.
487. The
deliverance of the People from their 'republican sins' is only possible through
the Second Coming, who will take such sins upon himself in a Christ-like
sacrifice.
488. And taking worldly sins upon himself, the Second Coming
would be politically empowered to serve the religiously-sovereign People(s) in
the interests of their salvation.
489. The '
490. This centralized
service will of course embrace economic and judicial as well as political
matters, since it is imperative that the religiously-sovereign People, viz. the
Holy Spirit of Heaven, are not compromised by such 'sins of the World'
themselves.
491. Were
the Irish people to vote for religious sovereignty, Ireland would cease to be a
Catholic Republic and become, instead, a Social Theocratic Centre.
492. The
use of the term 'Centre' implies a context of religious sovereignty, and
thereby contrasts, as Heaven to the World, with the context of political
sovereignty generically termed a republic.
493. Unlike republicans, the Second Coming would not be hamstrung
by a tricolour in his approach to
494. The
Second Coming knows that there can only be one solution to
495. This
context of religious sovereignty which I have termed a Centre would have its
own emblem in the form of a supercross (Y), and not
therefore be partial to republican emblems, like the tricolour.
496. For
the tricolour symbolizes secular unity between Catholics and Protestants
(Anglicans and Presbyterians), and is therefore irrelevant to the context of
religious sovereignty.
497. Those
entitled to religious sovereignty are either of alpha Heaven (Jews) or the
World (Catholics), and are therefore effectively subjective.
498. Objective
peoples, whether of Purgatory (Protestants) or Hell (fundamentalists), would
not be entitled to religious sovereignty (short of converting to Catholicism if
Protestant or to Judaism if fundamentalist), and would therefore be excluded
from the scope of Social Theocracy and its emblematic supercross.
499. One
can no more turn a God's people into a secular people than a Devil's people
into a religious people.
500. The religious wheat will have to be divided from the secular
chaff, in order that the '