1001. If Catholicism is a working-class
approach (of the Mother) to religion, then Social Theocracy is its classless
counterpart - the former phenomenally subjective (the Mass) and the latter noumenally subjective (meditation).
1002. The
artist is of the inner spirit and is, by definition, classless.
1003. The
critic is of the outer spirit and is, by definition, working class.
1004. The
agent is of the inner light and is, by definition, middle class.
1005. The
publisher is of the outer light and is, by definition, upper class.
1006. The
artist who submits his work for publication inevitably falls prey to the
vicious circle of agent - publisher - critic, as class-bound humanity read,
disseminate, and write about his work from their respective open-society points
of view.
1007. The
free artist is beyond publication by publishers, being too much of a God to
wish to do business with the Devil.
1008. The
true artist is only going to remain true to his self by publishing himself,
since only thus can the inner spirit be protected from the claims and demands
of the outer light.
1009. The
artist thinks his work into being through inner spirit, and then, in the
class-bound framework of open-society compromise, it is handed over to the
agents, publishers, and critics to do with as they consider best, irrespective
of his original intentions.
1010. In such open-society
fashion the inner spirit is passed through the filter of the inner light
(agent), the outer light (publisher), and the outer spirit (critic), and what
results bears little resemblance to the original conception!
1011. To
publishers, the artist is a 'bum' (classless person) who must be seduced from
his spiritual idealism and brought into the fold of commercial respectability.
1012. To
this end, the publisher has need of middle men (agents) who liaise between
artist and publisher, always with a view to selling the former down river to
the latter.
1013. Thus the artist falls
victim to a conspiracy between publisher and agent, who war on him from their
own necessarily philistine points of view.
1014. No true artist can
survive unscathed the war which agents and publishers wage against him in the
name of philistine, i.e. commercial, interests.
1015. All published artists
sooner or later - and most sooner than later - succumb to commercial pressures
and cease being artists in all but name.
1016. If the agent and
publisher conspiracy doesn't get to him, then the pointed barbs of critics
eventually will; for these latter creatures are generally in the pay of
publishers, their own journalistic ones not excepted.
1017. Ultimately, the only
way that art can survive as a vehicle for the truths of inner spirit is by
turning its back on the World and the World's paymasters, and doing its own
thing independently of them.
1018. Thus, liberated from
both the lights (inner and outer) and the outer spirit, art
can be true to itself and unequivocally serve the inner spirit, to the greater
glory of God.
1019. In the Social
Theocratic '
1020. Neither civilization
(agents), barbarism (publishers), nor nature (critics) would ever again
threaten, dominate, and vitiate culture, according to their respective bents.
1021. The
victory of culture over civilization, barbarism, and nature will only come
following its self-publication by the Second Coming.
1022. The Second Coming, who
is entirely independent of the Father (outer light) and beyond the Mother
(outer spirit), will not be one to seek publication via agents, but one who
transcends the class-bound vicious circle by publishing himself.
1023. Thus
will the Second Coming save culture from the damnation that would otherwise
befall it, were he indisposed to self-publication.
1024. Being the most
classless of artists, he knows, however, that no publisher or agent would
seriously consider his work anyway; for he was always too much 'beyond the
pale' of their lights to satisfy their commercial designs.
1025. It is precisely because
he was the most classless of artists that the Second Coming feels obliged to save
culture from the clutches of the uncultured, in order that it may serve as a
guide to that ultimate freedom of spirit which will only come to pass with the
'Kingdom of Heaven'.
1026. Where the perceptual is
objective, the conceptual is subjective.
1027. To contrast the noumenal objectivity of reading with the noumenal subjectivity of thinking - the absolute perceptual
with the absolute conceptual.
1028. To contrast the
phenomenal objectivity of writing with the phenomenal subjectivity of speaking
- the relative perceptual with the relative conceptual.
1029. Both reading and
writing are rooted in the perceptual - the former noumenally
and the latter phenomenally.
1030. Both speaking and
thinking are centred in the conceptual - the former phenomenally and the latter
noumenally.
1031. The poet is the
literary artist who most conforms to the category of reader.
1032. The novelist is the
literary artist who most conforms to the category of writer.
1033. The dramatist is the
literary artist who most conforms to the category of speaker.
1034. The philosopher is the
literary artist who most conforms to the category of thinker.
1035. The
phenomenal objectivity of the novelist can only be damned by the noumenal objectivity of the poet, as from writing to reading.
1036. The
phenomenal subjectivity of the dramatist can only be saved by the noumenal subjectivity of the philosopher, as from speaking
to thinking.
1037. It could be said that
whereas the poet is of the Father, the novelist, by comparison, is of the Son.
1038. Similarly, it could be
said that whereas the dramatist is of the Mother, the philosopher, by
comparison, is of the Holy Spirit.
1039. In
a People's society that was properly of the World, e.g. humanist, the reader and
the writer, viz. poet and novelist, would be on the rubbish heap of history.
1040. In a divine society
that was properly beyond the World, e.g. transcendentalist, even the dramatist
would be on the rubbish heap of history or, which amounts to the same, beneath
the pale of the philosophical ideal.
1041. When the 'true
philosopher', or theosophist, 'sits on the throne', there will be no literary
place for readers, writers, or speakers, but only for thinkers; for his
'throne' will be part of the 'Kingdom of Heaven', and in the 'heavenly Kingdom'
only contemplatives will prevail - for all Eternity.
1042. The
ultimate literary artist, who is a man of the inner spirit of thought, is
beyond the pale of readers, writers, and speakers in the 'contemplative Heaven'
of the ultimate thoughts.
1043. For
the absolutely true artist, the philosopher-king, the 'art' of the dramatist is
a beautiful half-truth, while the 'art' of the novelist is a good half-lie, and
the 'art' of the poet a strong absolute lie.
1044. The lie must perish if
the truth is to live, and live in the cultural fullness of the Holy Spirit of
Heaven.
1045. By contrast to the true
philosopher, the poet, or reader, is a literary philistine whose noumenal objectivity places him in a completely devilish
light - the outer light of his poetic perceptions.
1046. Whereas the thinker
writes after he has thought, the poet thinks after he has written.
1047. Because the poet is the
most false, i.e. philistine, of literary artists, he is also the most sought-after
(commissioned) by publishers.
1048. Absolute falsities hang
together, and the outer-light falsity of publishers and poets corresponds to an
upper-class conspiracy against the World.
1049. Because the novelist is
the least false, i.e. most civilized, of literary artists, he is closest in
practice to agents.
1050. Relative falsities hang
together, and the inner-light falsity of agents and novelists corresponds to a
middle-class conspiracy against the World.
1051. Because the dramatist
is the least true (in relation to philosophers) i.e. most natural, of literary
artists, he is also the most keenly watched by critics.
1052. Relative truths hang
together, and the outer-spirit truths of critics and dramatists correspond to a
working-class reflection of the World.
1053. Beyond
the relative truths, however, of critics and dramatists is the absolute truth
of the philosopher-king, the literary artist who is most true and therefore
truly cultural in his classless affirmation of the Divine.
1054. Such a man, knowing
only the absolute truth of his noumenal subjectivity,
can never be published by others (for God and the Devil are incommensurate),
but must seek his own classless solution to the dilemma of cultural vitiation,
and thereby proclaim himself!
1055. He who proclaims
himself or, rather, his self cannot be published by others; for he is of the
inner spirit, and is thus beyond the outer light and everything that stems, in
open-society fashion, from the publishing Hell of the Father.
1056. Only the Second Coming
can be self-proclaiming to the extent that he is 'beyond the pale' of what can
be published, and therefore an implicit refutation of publishers, agents, and
critics.
1057. In truth, publishers,
agents, and critics (not to mention poets/readers, novelists/writers, and
dramatists/speakers) are 'beneath the pale'; for he is neither of the World nor
of that which precedes and dominates it, but distinctly beyond the World in the
classless Heaven of his philosophical truth.
1058. The particle is
extrinsically centrifugal, while the wavicle is
intrinsically centripetal - the one stemming from alpha and the other aspiring
towards omega.
1059. Marxism stands to
Transcendentalism as alpha divine to omega divine.
1060. Lenin stands to Marx as
Moses to Jehovah - the law-giving figure of an alpha-stemming ideology.
1061. As
Royalism to the upper class, so Liberalism to the
middle class - the objective in its noumenal and
phenomenal manifestations.
1062. As
Socialism to the working class, so (Social Theocratic) Communism to the
classless - the subjective in its phenomenal and noumenal
manifestations.
1063. Whereas Royalism is fundamentalist, Liberalism is nonconformist -
the light in its outer and inner manifestations.
1064. Whereas Socialism is
humanist, Communism is transcendentalist - the spirit in its outer and inner
manifestations.
1065. Socialism
and Communism are not symptomatic of the Devil and God, but of the World and
God.
1066. Royalism and Liberalism are not symptomatic of the World
and Purgatory, but of the Devil and Purgatory.
1067. God has his throne in Communism, and the Devil in Royalism.
1068. Man has his throne in Liberalism, and Woman in Socialism.
1069. Whereas Communism is corporate
and Royalism feudal, Liberalism is capitalist and
Socialism syndicalist.
1070. From
the feudal public to the corporate individual via the capitalist private and
the syndicalist collective.
1071. Royalism
strives to maintain Fundamentalism (the Father), Liberalism to maintain Nonconformism (the Son).
1072. Socialism strives to
advance Humanism (the Mother), Communism to advance Transcendentalism (the Holy
Ghost).
1073. The
historical struggle between Monarchism/Royalism and
Parliamentarianism/Liberalism was superseded, in the twentieth century, by a
struggle between Republicanism/Socialism and Millennialism/Communism.
1074. The former struggle is
analogous to one between the Devil and Man (or the sun and the moon), while the
latter struggle is analogous to one between Woman and God (or the earth and the
Beyond).
1075. Just as
Parliamentarianism eventually got the better of Monarchism, so Millennialism
must eventually triumph over Republicanism, if God is to save the World from
its collective sin, in the name of individual grace.
1076. To
go beyond the corporeal World to the ethereal Heaven, leaving socialist
Humanism for the blessed pastures of a heavenly future which leads, via Social
Transcendentalism, to the (post-human) Millennium.
1077. Man is indeed, as
Nietzsche taught, 'Something that should be overcome', though not merely in
terms of the Superman (of the coming Social Transcendentalist culture) but,
more radically, in terms of the Superbeings,
Supra-beings, and, finally, Ultra-beings of the millennial Beyond which will
follow the Superman, Supra-man, and, finally, Ultra-man (cyborg)
stages of the culture to come.
1078. From contemplating
Supermen to meditating Supra-men, with a cyborg
transition leading to the hypercontemplative Superbeings and to the hypermeditative
Supra-beings of the Millennium-proper, followed, thereafter, by the completely
saved Ultra-beings of the transcendent Beyond.
1079. From brain collectivizations to new-brain collectivizations,
followed, with the transcendence of the left midbrain, by the forebrain collectivizations of the ultra-beingful
Beyond, a true classlessness set in space centres.
1080. Transcend the old brain
(of backbrain and right midbrain) and one has a
supra-beingful context of relative transcendence.
1081. Transcend the new brain
(of left midbrain and forebrain) and one has an ultra-beingful
context of absolute transcendence.
1082. This ultra-beingful context of absolute transcendence, set in space
centres, will signify the maximum 'Christogenesis'
(de Chardin) of which evolving post-human life is
capable, and thereby bring it to the Omega Point - the definitive manifestation
of Eternal Life in the forebrain collectivizations of
the Holy Spirit of Heaven's final end.
1083. The 'art' of Royalism, as of the upper class, is painting.
1084. The 'art' of
Liberalism, as of the middle class, is literature.
1085. The 'art' of Socialism,
as of the working class, is sculpture.
1086. The 'art' of Communism,
as of the classless, is music.
1087. Where Royalism is militarist, Liberalism is imperialist.
1088. Where Socialism is
police-ist, Communism is pacifist.
1089. Royalism
is the ideology of doing, Liberalism the ideology of taking.
1090. Socialism is the
ideology of giving, Communism the ideology of being.
1091. To
contrast the absolute devility of doing with the
absolute divinity of being, thereby effectively contrasting Royalism
with Communism.
1092. To contrast the
relative devility (purgatorial) of taking with the relative
divinity (worldly) of giving, thereby effectively contrasting Liberalism with
Socialism.
1093. Man takes and Woman
gives, but the Devil does and God is.
1094. Taking can only be
overcome (damned) by doing, as Hell eclipses Purgatory.
1095. Giving can only be
overcome (saved) by being, as Heaven redeems the World.
1096. When the atom is ripped
asunder, the neutron is damned by the proton and the electron saved by the
photon.
1097. When the phenomenal is
ripped asunder, the intellect is damned to soul and the will saved to spirit.
1098. The
phenomenal First shall be noumenal Last, and the
phenomenal Last shall be noumenal First, as the
relative is claimed by the absolute, and Hell and Heaven replace Purgatory and
the World.
1099. So long as the Father
continues to hog Heaven, the Holy Spirit (of Heaven) will remain peripheral to
the class-bound dominating God(s) of Christian tradition.
1100. Only
when, through the Second Coming, the Father is cast upon the rubbish heap of
ecclesiastical history ... will the Holy Spirit of Heaven reign supreme.