24-26/05/13
When the noise next-door is especially
obnoxious in its crude persistence, as it was this morning, I find the best way
to deal with it is to 'get even' by hitting back with a Black Label Society
album, which usually has sufficient density of texture and intensity of
virtuosity to enable one to smother the kinds of noise, in this particular
instance the low drilling which has persisted in more or less the same spot for
several months now. Besides, Black Label Society, alias Zakk Wylde and co, are
one of the few bands whose lyrics have any applicability, especially on an
album like Mafia, to
the kind of hateful situation one finds oneself in, and one is only too
relieved that such albums exist to enable one to seek sanctuary – admittedly
not, with due respect to Zakk, as one would ideally like – from the infernal
racket right next to my attic flat, where it is not so much a case of
'neighbours from hell' as of workers from hell. But if these
barbarous swine think that can drive me out of here, as from the first flat
I've ever had the dubious privilege of renting, then they've got another thing
coming, not least from the great Zakk Wylde and co!
Surfing or, rather, navigating through the
choppy seas of internet sharks and trying not to fall in, fall for, fall over,
or fall off one's surf bar (or is that 'board'?). Only suckers fall.
Some, not least the internet sharks themselves,
would consider me anti-social. Good, let them! If being social is to fall to
sharks, even at social networking sites, then social is something I am most
reluctant to be, especially when the cost would be so high as to leave one's
soul dangling in the wake of whatever money-hungry internet shark had ripped
one off whilst promising one, in classically Satanic fashion, the earth.
Outside, the rain hurtles down from yet another
leaden sky evidently anxious to disgorge its watery burden in the hope of
cheering up, as though after a puke – or does it? What matter! The fact remains
that the weather has gone from windy bad to rainy worse, and I am sick and
tired of living in this place – meine wohnung ist hell remember,
but not as you might think - , this area, this borough, this city, this county,
this country, this.... But there you are, sick and tired as you may be you have
no option but to persevere with whatever life throws at you because, short of
giving up, giving in, and taking your own life, there is nothing else.
At least I have not been partly responsible for
putting anybody else into this world, this kind of situation, so that,
I suppose, is something, even something, in a perverse sort of way, to be proud
of, since it proves your moral superiority over those who – ostensibly
mastering life and in full control of everything (even the weather or, more
specifically, of how to handle it) – would have you seduced, as from cravings
not unconnected with reproductive ends.
I, however, continue, in spite of everything,
to cling to metaphysics whilst others are victims if not exponents of
metachemistry. That, in a way, is my philosophical duty as one who expounds
Truth and leaves the worship or exploitation of Beauty to those whom it
concerns.
Whatever stems, in a manner of speaking, from
the Devil can have no truck with whatever aspires or even appertains, after a
fashion, to God. For they are incompatible realities, as incompatible as alpha
and omega, and incompatible they remain, come what may!
That which stems from the Devil, though is not
actually of the Devil, usually feels satisfied to have someone, or to have
produced someone, who is capable of, though not necessarily given to, God. In
other words, a mainstream worldly situation in between netherworldly and otherworldly
extremes.
There are also others who, whilst stemming from
the Devil, are satisfied enough if such a person, such a product of their
reproductive urges, were to turn into a man.
Henry VIII was the English king who dissolved
the monasteries of his realm, thereby destroying those institutions dedicated
to the service of God or to the possibility, in the case of the more devout
monks, of realizing godliness and bearing witness to the soul.
To claim that such a man was godly is, frankly,
an insult to God. He was driven not by devotion but by pragmatic necessity, not
least in respect of the need for a male heir and the urge to remarry, the very
thing which got him excommunicated in the first place. Unless you have a
twisted concept of God, or godliness, which, alas, many people still do, you
are never going to equate the actions of such a man, a man who became unduly
corpulent and subject to uncontrollable rages, with anything godly, much less
heavenly. Superstitious he may have been, but religion and superstition are two
entirely different things.
Axially speaking, Christianity allows
practising Christians – notwithstanding the nebulously ambivalent role of the
Holy Ghost - a choice of some eight deities (four hegemonic and four gender
subordinate): the Marian deity presiding over the Christ Child of mass Catholic
devotion; the Crucified deity presiding over the prone or kneeling Virgin of
confessional Catholic devotion; the Father-esque deity effectively subordinate
to the state-hegemonic Virgin of High Protestant (Anglican) devotion; and a New
Testament-oriented so-called 'Son of Man' presiding over the pseudo-Virgin of
Low Protestant (Nonconformist) devotion.
Although the devotees of all these hegemonic
and subordinate Christian devotions might claim to be devoted to the same
deity, viz. Christ, they would in fact be biased towards one or another of the
aforementioned deities according to class and gender within either axis.
That even Protestants have different if not
polar approaches to devotion, not least in respect of a bias favouring either
the Old Testament (Anglicans) or the New Testament (Nonconformists), makes the
fact that they would also differ, in their various if not polar ways, from
Catholics all the more inevitable, much as Catholics are themselves torn
between a Christmas-like and an Easter-like polarity which renders even them susceptible to a bias for this
or that approach to devotion, with many if not a majority preferring, in mass
spirit, to identify with a Marian-oriented 'Mother Church' and others, far
fewer in number and of a higher disposition (relative to Catholicism),
preferring to kneel before the Cross of the crucified Saviour as though it held
some clue to the Resurrection and the prospect, through messianic intervention
(Second Coming), of 'Kingdom Come'.
If this latter predilection is not the faith of
the Catholic majority but of an eschatological elite, it would hardly figure at
all in the Protestant estimation, where one is either closer, through the
Father or some such equivalence, to the God of Old Testament Creator-ism or,
alternatively, biased towards a humanistic Christ who, as the 'Son of Man',
induces one to be more susceptible to the New Testament, even to a Gideon New
Testament exclusivity at the expense of the King James Bible, and thus to a
scriptural devotion necessarily averse from mystical ceremony, as from anything
religiously dramatic or theatrical or in some way suggestive of a spectacle.
To worship one way or another, according to one
devotional pattern or another, is to worship or be devoted to a different
deity, which may be closer to or further from what is actually godly, but will
always be symptomatic of a refusal, almost liberal in character and certainly
worldly, to be tied down to just one deity, like the 'One God' traditions of
the Middle East which tend to reflect a more authoritarian or autocratic
approach to religion than would the Christian preference for such effectively
pluralistic concepts as the Trinity, with its 'Three in One', coupled, one way or
another, to the Virgin, the so-called 'Mother of God', the Marian deity whose
'Son' can be engineered to veer in this or that direction, depending on
circumstance and, as noted above, denominational bias which, as we have seen,
is not unconnected with factors such as gender and class, not to mention race
and country, even, in a loose sense, nationality.
The atomic relativity of the Christian
tradition may differ from the pre-atomic absolutism of non-Christian traditions
like the Judaic and the Islamic, but it will take a truly post-atomic
civilization, beyond even Buddhism, to overcome both netherworldly and worldly
traditions in the interests of what is properly otherworldly and thus germane
to 'Kingdom Come' as against any other – and anterior – type of kingdom closer
in bias to either the Devil, woman, or man than to what appertains to God as
(merely) the outer manifestation of Heaven, to the possibility, with God
in Heaven, of the 'One Heaven', religious Omega Point eternally
without end.
From Hell in the Devil (of love in beauty) to
God in Heaven (of truth in joy) via Woman in Purgatory (of strength in pride)
and Earth in Man (of pleasure in knowledge), as from metachemistry to
metaphysics via chemistry and physics, or will to soul via spirit and ego.
Hell in the Devil (love in beauty) and Earth in
Man (pleasure in knowledge) are axially aligned on state-hegemonic polar terms,
whereas Woman in Purgatory (strength in pride) and God in Heaven (truth in joy)
are axially aligned on church-hegemonic polar terms.
Generally speaking, you are young when you can
walk with ease and old when you can't.
A civilization like that of the Christian West
traditionally, which is in any degree morally evolved, attains to its height
with discrimination between males and females that favours the former, and goes
into decline the more gender equalitarian it becomes.
When degenerative civilization is eclipsed by
barbarism, you get a gender inequality favouring females, no matter how this
may be disguised by equalitarian rhetoric as the legacy, by and large, of
degenerative civilization.
When and if the female-dominated
barbarity/philistinism of the 'concrete jungle' of contemporary cosmopolitanism
is superseded by civilization of a new and higher – perhaps definitive – order,
you will see a return to gender discrimination favouring males, as psyche takes
precedence over soma, the mind (soul) over the body (will), and something along
the lines of the proverbial Saint and (neutralized) Dragon accordingly becomes
the structural or social norm.
We have not as yet, alas, reached that
juncture, but it would be commensurate, I feel confident, with the
transformation of globalization into 'Kingdom Come', that 'open stretch of
realization', etc.
It would be logically difficult if not impossible
to contend that no correlation exists between gender equalitarianism morphing,
with the global divide from Western degeneration, into female-dominated
inequality and the other forms of equalitarianism busily morphing into other
forms of inequality in our own time, a time dominated not by the mind but by
the body.
The twentieth century was, in all probability,
the heyday, so to speak, of bodily barbarism, as exemplified by two world wars
and a plethora of other wars all over the world.
I believe paedophilia is to republican
socialism what homosexuality is to radical social democracy – evidence of
degeneration from a traditional norm, in the case of paedophilia less liberal
bourgeois than mass Catholic in character.
Devotion to the Christ Child is replaced by
molestation of children, which seems to be the nadir of church-hegemonic axial
degeneration, as from ecclesiastic to pseudo-secular values, the very
antithesis, it seems to me, of the degeneration of state-hegemonic society from
secular to pseudo-ecclesiastic values with the onset of Communism, or radically
social democratic criteria favouring the exemplification of unisexual trends.
If you box you wouldn't have a problem, in all
probability, with heading the football or with so-called footballers applying
their head or, more precisely, their brow to it either defensively or, more to
a boxer's liking, offensively.
The Devil above pseudo-God as metachemistry
above pseudo-metaphysics at the northwest point of the intercardinal axial
compass is equivalent, using Christian terminology, to the Virgin above the
pseudo-Father. Contrariwise, God above the pseudo-Devil as metaphysics above
pseudo-metachemistry at the northeast point of the said compass is equivalent
to the Father above the pseudo-Virgin.
Thus the alpha/pseudo-omega and
omega/pseudo-alpha antitheses of the noumenal, or ethereal, planes of space and
time, with space/pseudo-time equivalent to the Virgin/pseudo-Father, and
time/pseudo-space equivalent to the Father/pseudo-Virgin.
Woman above pseudo-Man as chemistry above
pseudo-physics at the southwest point of the intercardinal axial compass is
equivalent, again using Christian terminology, to the Mother above the
pseudo-Son. Contrariwise, Man above pseudo-Woman as physics above
pseudo-chemistry at the southeast point of the said compass is equivalent to
the Son above the pseudo-Mother.
Thus the alpha/pseudo-omega and
omega/pseudo-alpha antitheses of the phenomenal, or corporeal, planes of volume
and mass, with volume/pseudo-mass equivalent to the Mother/pseudo-Son, and
mass/pseudo-volume equivalent to the Son/pseudo-Mother.
Hence whether Virgin or pseudo-Virgin,
pseudo-Father or Father, these (Christian or Christian-derived) terms are of
the noumenal heights, the planes of space and time, whereas terms like Mother
and pseudo-Mother, pseudo-Son and Son are very much their phenomenal
counterparts on the planes of volume and mass 'down below' in the 'worldly'
contexts of effectively mass catholic (Mother/pseudo-Son) and mass protestant
(Son/pseudo-Mother) reference, to use but a relatively simplistic fourfold
structure, a logical structure that necessarily excludes philosophical
complications of the sort to which I have dedicated my pen on several previous
occasions in a series of elementally complex publications, whereby each element
and/or pseudo-element has been divided into four attributes (two somatic and
two psychic) with but one fulcrum in each case, like free will in metachemistry
corresponding to Devil the Mother or free spirit in chemistry to Purgatory the
Clear Spirit, and so on.
One thing the above findings (great to
distinguish between 'Virgin' and 'Mother' in such fashion) would make me
reluctant to confess, though confess it I must, is that the term 'Devil the
Mother', when not used specifically in connection with free will as the fulcrum
of metachemistry, as I have often used it in the past to describe the hype of
the Creator-esque 'First Mover' to the status of God (the Father) in
conventional or traditional Judeo-Christian usage, could be replaced, in
overall metachemical terms, by Devil the Virgin (with its vacuous
implications), again reserving to chemistry the general term 'Mother' (with its
maternal connotations of having acquired a surrogate plenum) for the
phenomenal, or corporeal, realm below what can only be a noumenal, or ethereal,
realm appropriate to a 'first mover', who or which evidently has a lot to do
(not least in regard to the exploitation of beauty and love) in order to arrive
at that female resolution in maternity.
For the condition of virginity, or of being a
virgin, is not actually a female ideal but, rather, a vacuous predicament in
search of a solution in the form of a surrogate plenum, and therefore only
finding its resolution, through the acquirement of a child, as 'mother',
whether as the mainstream worldly mother of mass catholic reference down at the
southwest point of the intercardinal axial compass, where chemistry is
hegemonic over pseudo-physics, or as a pseudo-mother subject to constraints
under male hegemonic pressure of nonconformist reference across the axial
divide at the southeast point of the aforementioned compass where, in contrast
to the southwest, physics is hegemonic over pseudo-chemistry in an order of
worldly complementarity not only at axial variance with anything mass catholic,
but polar to the Virgin/pseudo-Father apparent complementarity, in
metachemistry/pseudo-metaphysics, existing at the northwest point of our
intercardinal axial compass as ruling principle of the
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis.
If, in a Christian-inspired general
terminology, the pseudo-Son (of pseudo-physics) is to be saved to the Father
(of metaphysics), then the Mother (of chemistry) will have to be counter-damned
to the pseudo-Virgin (of pseudo-metachemistry).
And if, in the event of the salvation and
counter-damnation, corresponding to a rise and a counter-fall, of these
reference points on the church-hegemonic axis, the state-hegemonic axis finds
itself deprived of prey, of a captive audience for the exemplification of and
profiteering from somatic licence, then the knock-on consequence will be
damnation of the (metachemical) Virgin to the (pseudo-chemical) pseudo-Mother,
and, correlatively, counter-salvation of the (pseudo-metaphysical)
pseudo-Father to the (physical) Son, the son of physics in what would be, with
a fall of the one and a counter-rise of the other, the collapse, or general
dissolution, of the state-hegemonic axis and, hence, of state-hegemonic axial
criteria in general, as ordained by divine righteousness existing in tandem
with pseudo-diabolic (pseudo-Virginal) pseudo-justice, the time/pseudo-space
complementarity of metaphysics/pseudo-metachemistry at the northeast point of
the intercardinal axial compass on what would have to be a stepped-up, or 'resurrected',
church-hegemonic axis commensurate with 'Kingdom Come' and thus, as I teach,
the coming triumph of Social Theocracy.
I'm way past the age when I'd want to sit out
in public for any length of time, even if there wasn't an almost constant gale
blowing across a land ravaged by prolonged winter and the want of warming
sunshine. How much of a part has human greed and folly played in creating these
conditions, I wonder?
Other people – usually complete strangers or,
in the case of neighbours, as good as such – being wise for you. Why don't you
grow up? Why don't you do this? Why don't you get a job? Why don't you get a
girlfriend? Why don't you go back to
Little do they realize just how little I care
for their opinions or admonitions or suggestions or whatever. If only people
would mind their own business! But, alas, we live in a world and, in the case
of England, a country where, possibly as a corollary of having ruled over the
world's largest Empire, minding other people's business is pretty much the rule
rather than, as with self-centred outsiders like me, the exception. And even if
Empire had nothing to do with it (which I doubt), you'd still have the
basically objective nature of women to deal with which, hailing from a vacuum,
is simply what it is and never or rarely changes. After all, do they not
exemplify will and spirit to a degree way beyond the capacities of most men,
who, confronted by such a double-barrelled objective onslaught, are more likely
to retreat into their egos or, in exceptional cases, souls rather than strive
to emulate – though strive to emulate many still do – what cannot be emulated
from a male standpoint.
