51. To perceive an alpha/omega antithesis between
cinema and virtual reality on the idealistic spectrum of divine modernity; an
alpha/omega antithesis between television and computers on the naturalistic
spectrum of diabolic modernity; an alpha/omega antithesis between radio and
radio-cassette players on the materialistic spectrum of purgatorial modernity;
and, finally, an alpha/omega antithesis between video-recorders and
audio-recorders on the realistic spectrum of worldly modernity. Hence a descent from cinema to video via
television and radio on the one hand, and an ascent from audio to virtual reality
via radio-cassette players and computers on the other hand, the hand of
evolutionary as opposed to devolutionary phenomena, with centripetal rather
than centrifugal implications.
52. To see dreams as appertaining not to the
subconscious, as convention would have us believe, but to the alpha superconscious, the old-brain superconscious
of alpha transcendentalism, which stands to the old-brain subconscious of alpha
fundamentalism ... as Jehovah to Satan, or God to the Devil. Hence a superconscious/subconscious
distinction between dreams and, say, hard drug-induced visions, which parallels
that between the central star of the Galaxy (alpha transcendentalism) and the
sun (alpha fundamentalism). Likewise, between cinema and television in regard to the new-brain superconscious on the one hand and to the new-brain
subconscious on the other, with parallel transcendentalist and fundamentalist
implications. For, by comparison
with cinema, television is distinctly fundamentalist, a fall from the 'inner
light' of cinema to the 'outer light', beamed from afar, of broadcasting. Conversely, an old-brain superconscious/subconscious
dichotomy between omega transcendentalism and omega fundamentalism could be
inferred to exist on the basis of contemplation vis-à-vis soft drug-induced
visions, whilst its new-brain equivalence would take the guise of virtual
reality vis-à-vis personal computing.
However, limiting the brain to just two such divisions is rather
constricting, since it is more shorthand, with me, for the fourfold division of
the brain into backbrain/forebrain and
left-midbrain/right-midbrain distinctions, with corresponding psychological
distinctions between the subconscious/superconscious
and the unconscious/conscious. Hence
when we speak of the alpha transcendentalism of old-brain superconsciousness,
we are alluding to the particle forebrain, whereas the alpha transcendentalism
of new-brain superconsciousness implies an allusion
to the wavicle forebrain. Conversely, reference to the alpha
fundamentalism of old-brain subconsciousness is an
allusion to the particle backbrain, whereas reference
to the omega fundamentalism of new-brain subconsciousness
implies an allusion to the wavicle backbrain.
53. The Devil is a fall from God. Consequently, God is supernatural and the
Devil subnatural, with transcendentalist and
fundamentalist implications. But if Hell
is subnatural, then the world is natural and
purgatory antinatural or, what amounts to the same,
artificial. Therefore we can infer
psychological parallels, both alpha and omega, with the superconscious,
the subconscious, the unconscious, and the conscious (or that which, being artificial, is conscious artificially, which is to say,
through the intellect). Likewise,
physiological parallels, both alpha and omega, can be inferred, from the above,
on the basis of forebrain, backbrain, left midbrain,
and right midbrain, with the forebrain correlating with the superconscious,
the backbrain with the subconscious, the left
midbrain with the unconscious, and the right midbrain with the conscious or, in
plain terms, the intellect, an intellect which is informed by unconscious will
but which, if left to itself, becomes lunatic, and hence adrift in a
purgatorial limbo. Hence from the
forebrain/superconscious to the left
midbrain/unconscious via the backbrain/subconscious
and the right midbrain/conscious - a particle/wavicle
dichotomy which, though never complete, signifies a fourfold division of the
brain/mind along objective and subjective lines, with, broadly, idealistic,
naturalistic, materialistic, and realistic distinctions on both alpha and omega
terms.
54i. If alpha transcendentalism is more forebrain
than superconscious, whether absolute or relative, it
is correspondingly more particles than wavicles, the
particles, in this case, of an electron negative supernaturalism. Conversely, if omega transcendentalism is
more superconscious than forebrain, whether relative
or absolute, it is correspondingly more wavicles than
particles, the wavicles, in its case, of an electron
positive supernaturalism.
ii. Similarly, if alpha
fundamentalism is more backbrain than subconscious,
whether absolute or relative, it is correspondingly more particles than wavicles, the particles, namely, of a proton negative subnaturalism. Conversely,
if omega fundamentalism is more subconscious than backbrain,
whether relative or absolute, it is correspondingly more wavicles
than particles, the wavicles, namely, of a proton
positive subnaturalism.
iii. Likewise, if alpha
humanism is more left midbrain than unconscious, whether absolute or relative,
it is correspondingly more particles than wavicles,
the particles, in this case, of an atomic negative naturalism. Conversely, if omega humanism is more
unconscious than left midbrain, whether relative or absolute, it is
correspondingly more wavicles than particles, the wavicles, in its case, of an atomic positive naturalism.
iv. Finally, if alpha
liberalism (antihumanism) is more right midbrain than
conscious, it is correspondingly more particles than wavicles,
the particles, namely, of a neutron negative artificiality. Conversely, if omega liberalism (puritanism) is more conscious than right midbrain, it is
correspondingly more wavicles than particles, the wavicles, namely, of a neutron positive artificiality.
55i. Consequently, we have absolute/relative
forebrain distinctions between, say, Judaism and Marxism, but relative/absolute
superconscious distinctions between, say, Taoism and Social Transcendentalism (or
Super-transcendentalism).
ii. Likewise, we have
absolute/relative backbrain distinctions between,
say, Oriental Despotism and Communism, but relative/absolute subconscious
distinctions between, say, Mohammedanism and Neo-Islam (or Islam in its modern,
militant guise).
iii. Similarly, we have
absolute/relative left midbrain distinctions between, say, Royalism
and Republicanism, but relative/absolute unconscious distinctions between, say, Roman Catholicism and Neo-Catholicism (or Catholicism
in its modern, ecumenical guise).
iv. Finally, we have
absolute/relative right midbrain distinctions between, say, Parliamentarianism
and Liberalism, but relative/absolute conscious distinctions between, say, Puritanism and Protestantism (or Puritanism in its
nonconformist and non-ecumenical guise).
56. To see, therefore, a forebrain/superconscious distinction in both the old brain, or
left-hand division of the brain in toto, and the
new brain, or right-hand division of the total brain, as against a backbrain/subconscious division in both the old brain and
the new brain, a right midbrain/conscious division in both the old brain and
the new brain, and, finally, a left midbrain/unconscious division in both the
old brain and the new brain, so that the alpha/omega dichotomy between
particles and wavicles extends across both major
divisions on fourfold terms in each case.
57i. Spirit is the presiding element of the
forebrain/superconscious, whether negatively or
positively, in electron-particle or electron-wavicle guise.
ii. Soul is the presiding
element of the backbrain/subconscious, whether
negatively or positively, in proton-particle or proton-wavicle
guise.
iii. Intellect is the
presiding element of the right midbrain/conscious, whether negatively or
positively, in neutron-particle or neutron-wavicle
guise.
iv. Will is the presiding
element of the left midbrain/unconscious, whether negatively or positively, in
atom-particle or atom-wavicle guise.
58i. Spirit is a bright element that shines in
Heaven.
ii. Soul is a hot element
that burns in Hell.
iii. Intellect is a cold
element that freezes in purgatory.
iv. Will is a dark element
that fades in the world.
59. To distinguish contexts like
record-players/compact-disc players, televisions/computers, radios/radio-cassette
players, and video-cassette recorders/audio-cassette recorders from contexts
like albums/compact discs, newspapers/magazines, hardbacks/softbacks,
and video tapes/audio tapes ... on the basis of a materialistic/realistic
dichotomy which indicates the affinity of those in the first category with
intellect (technology) and those in the second category with will (art),
thereby affirming a lunar/planar polarity or, more correctly, series of
polarities having both alpha and omega options, viz. record-players vis-à-vis
albums and compact-disc players
vis-à-vis compact discs for the
idealistic spectrum, but televisions vis-à-vis newspapers and computers
vis-à-vis magazines for the naturalistic spectrum; radios vis-à-vis hardbacks
and radio-cassette players vis-à-vis softbacks for
the materialistic spectrum, but video-recorders vis-à-vis video tapes and
audio-recorders vis-à-vis audio tapes for the realistic spectrum. All such spectra are of course relative to
the overall distinctions drawn above between technological materialism and
artistic realism, the two principal categories, and should therefore be
regarded in a subordinate relationship to them.
60. If radios constitute a materialistic parallel
to hardbacks ... and radio-cassette players a materialistic parallel to softbacks, then it seems not implausible that
radio/compact-disc players constitute a materialistic parallel to picturebooks, with those which embrace a tape-deck
corresponding to photographic softbacks and those
that are only compact disc ...
corresponding to photographic hardbacks - a sort of untermensch/übermensch distinction relative
to what I regard as an extreme form of materialism which may well suggest
political analogies of the Nazi or 'burning-cross' varieties, as germane to the
lunar Extreme Right.
61. One should always distinguish between the
democratic Extreme Right, which is Nazi, and the theocratic Extreme Right,
which is transcendentalist. For,
strictly speaking, the theocratic Extreme Right is both anterior (stellar theocracy)
and posterior (superstellar theocracy) to the world,
whereas the democratic Extreme Right is contemptuous of the democratic Right
and hostile to both the autocratic Extreme Left, viz. Communism, and the
democratic or, more correctly, bureaucratic Left, viz. Socialism, by which I of
course mean socialist republicanism as opposed to the democratic socialism of
the parliamentary left - in reality, a subdivision, overall, of the democratic
Right, viz. the context of parliamentary democracy in general. Hence whereas the democratic Extreme Right is
necessarily a more radical offshoot of the democratic Right, the theocratic
Extreme Right is no mere lunar extension but an outright stellar extremism
which is either anterior (Marxism) or posterior (Super-transcendentalism) to
the socialistic world, the former naturally precluding the latter, and the
latter, when it comes to pass, excluding the former, since there can be no
co-existence of alpha and omega forms of theocracy. But if the theocratic Extreme Right is
transcendentalist, whether alpha or omega, then the autocratic Extreme Left is
fundamentalist, since Communism is a sort of Satanic fall from Marxian 'grace',
i.e. theory, into the diabolical practicalities of authoritarian politics. However, just as there can be an 'Extreme
Right' relative to the lunar, viz. Nazism, so there is an 'Extreme Left'
relative to the planar, viz. hard-line socialist republicanism, which is yet
distinctly not solar, and hence autocratic, but effectively bureaucratic in essence,
and thus pertinent to the world. But if
it is worldly, it is no less peripheral to the world, with its bureaucratic
pluralism, than Nazism is peripheral to the Antiworld
of democratic pluralism, since both the planar and lunar contexts, corresponding
to the Left and to the Right respectively, are phenomenal, or middle ground,
and therefore inherently relative - the former, as already noted,
bureaucratically, and the latter democratically - Socialism and Capitalism,
Republicanism and Liberalism, the People (particularly of a Catholic ethnicity)
and the bourgeoisie (though inclusive of Protestant proletarians). Such extreme manifestations of planar and
lunar contexts are fated to remain subordinate to the more moderate
manifestations which properly typify the relativity of the contexts in
question, just as they must remain subordinate to the more authentic extremism
of both the solar and stellar contexts which, having a noumenal
and therefore absolute basis, will remain representative of what is Extreme
Left and Extreme Right per se, viz. the Devil and God. Thus it could be said that whereas Nazism,
affiliated to the lunar limbo, is the absolute mode of Antichrist (Hitler),
Communism, rooted in the solar hell, is the absolute mode of the Devil per
se, viz. Satan (Stalin). If it is
possible to speak of a relative mode of the Devil per se, then one would
have to cite hard-line socialist republicanism, given its extreme-left standing
vis-à-vis the Left in general, i.e. social democracy. Conversely, if one could speak of a relative
mode of God per se, it would have to bear witness to an ideological
allegiance which, though 'Extreme Right', was in the world, and hence party to
social democratic pluralism, but decidedly not of the world, or socialism per
se. Such an ideological allegiance,
being affiliated to the Second Coming, may well take the form of Social
Transcendentalism, and it would be in some sense the ideological precondition
of a more absolute mode of God per se ... such that took a
Super-transcendentalist form the essence of which was completely beyond the
world and therefore One, in its divine purism, with Heaven. Then and only then would the Extreme Right per
se have come into being, and it would signal an evolutionary climax to God
and the end not only of the world but, ultimately, the remnants of Hell,
purgatory and the alpha heaven as well, bringing the Saved to the
super-transcendence of the Omega Point.
62. To distinguish the Bolshevik nature (absolutely
autocratic) of solo singing from the communistic nature (relatively autocratic)
of solo-singing within a group format ... on the basis of a sort of
Lenin-Stalin/Khrushchev-Gorbachev division, with singing that is not
free-standing but pursued while playing a guitar, for example, being
comparatively socialistic and, hence, bureaucratic ... in the Yeltsinite mode of social democracy. Hence while free-standing solo singing is
absolutely diabolic (solar) and free-standing singing within a group format
relatively diabolic, accompanied singing within the latter format is decidedly
worldly, if on rather absolute, and hence
quasi-authoritarian, terms. It is
the difference between pop and rock. Pop in the one context, that of solo singing, with the other
context akin to pop-rock.
63. Beyond pop-rock there is rock (rock with
keyboards bias) and jazz-rock (instrumental rock without wind), and beyond
jazz-rock there is rock-jazz (fusion jazz with wind) and jazz, followed,
ultimately, by funk, the antithesis, on the top or wind spectrum, to the blues,
which is where, after all, modern music really began ... in a sort of Marxian
revolt against poverty and exploitation, the alpha-divine inception of
contemporary music.
64. To perceive a Judaic/Marxist distinction
between, say, acoustic blues and electric blues, i.e. naturalistic alpha and
artificial alpha, as relative, it would seem, to an old-brain/new-brain
dichotomy. Likewise, to perceive a Mohammedan/Neo-Islamic distinction between, say, trad jazz (which is acoustic) and modern jazz (which, by
contrast, is usually electric), so that we have a naturalistic omega and an
artificial omega relative, once again, to an old-brain/new-brain
distinction. However, where the blues is
alpha divine, jazz is omega diabolic, irrespective, in each case, of the
cerebral parallel. Doubtless, such
natural/artificial, or acoustic/electric, distinctions apply just as much to
pop and funk respectively, except that with these alpha diabolic and omega
divine modes of music we shall be thinking rather more in terms of, say, folk
and gospel than of a literal trad equivalence.
65. It is to be hoped that the liberation of
women from domestic slavery will result in more women becoming architects, so
that, increasingly, buildings will be designed on a curvilinear, as opposed to
a rectilinear, basis. Then the world
will be less square than round, as befitting a subjective transvaluation.
66. The swastika could,
with reason, be described as an anticross, while the
unbounded star could likewise be described as an anti-supercross:
anti-supercross succeeding anticross
until, following a worldly transvaluation, we move
towards the supercross, and hence the eclipse of all
stars.
67. Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter; brightness
- hotness - darkness - coldness; stellar - solar - planar - lunar; heaven -
hell - world - purgatory; electrons - protons - atoms - neutrons; idealism -
naturalism - realism - materialism; Greece - Rome - England - America.
68. If Greece was the Spring of Western civilization,
then America is very much its Winter, while Rome and England come in-between as
its Summer and Autumn respectively - the Summer of a late-pagan (stoic) sun and
the Autumn of an early-Christian (Catholic) earth, in contrast to the Spring of
an early-pagan (hedonistic) star and the Winter of a late-Christian
(Protestant) moon.
69. Hence Hedonism - Stoicism - Catholicism -
Protestantism; spirit - soul - will - intellect; truth - strength - beauty -
goodness; joy - pride - pleasure - love; religion - science - economics -
politics.
70. It is doubtless a reflection of the wintry
aridity of America that it lacks any respect for Greek or Latin, those
spiritual and soulful languages of the spring and summer of Western
civilization. Like a tree whose winter
branches are bereft of blossom, fruit, and leaves, America is bereft of Greek,
Latin, and even English ... to the extent that it rejects the leaves of its
English heritage in deference to what is uniquely or strictly American, and
hence germane to the bare branches of its wintry coldness. Where England is 'mate', America is 'man';
where England is feminine, it is masculine; where England is realism, it is
materialism; where England is Anglican, is it Puritan; where England is will,
it is intellect. And this intellect,
increasingly given-up to the development of artificial intelligence, is ever
'the winter of our discontent'.
71. From Graeco-Roman
paganism to Anglo-American Christianity - the development of Western
civilization, with Persia, Carthage, France, and Germany confined to the shadow
roles of military opposition - Persia against Greece; Carthage against Rome;
France against England; Germany against America. Hence the shadow Western
civilization of
72. It could be said of classical music that it
stands in a realistic relationship to pop music, the music of contemporary
materialism, and is therefore less an art form of the city than of the country
or, at any rate, provincial suburbia.
Thus it does not follow that classical music (including opera, ballet,
symphonies, and concertos), is inherently inferior to pop music (including the
blues, dance, rock, and jazz), but that it is rather more planar than lunar,
and hence English than American. It is
more the music of the feminine autumn of Western civilization than its
masculine winter, more the music of the naturalistic past than of the
artificial present.
73. If hardware is masculine and software
feminine, then it must follow that the male serves the female (or her 'program'
of having and raising children) rather than vice
versa, insofar as he corresponds to the hardware, and hardware, as we all know,
exists in the service of software. A
computer is of no more use without a software program to run ... than would be
a video-recorder without a video cassette to play. Hence it should follow that a man is no use
without a woman to serve, although, in practice, this is not invariably the
case, since men cannot be reduced to computers or video-recorders but may also
correspond to televisions or radios, to name but two alternative possibilities,
which are less dependent on 'software' ... to the extent that they exist or
function independently of newspapers and books - the two categories of
'software' most correlative with television and radio. Rather, it seems that, to a large extent,
newspapers and books, not to mention magazines, exist in the service of
television and radio, as in the programme guide, so that, in some contexts and
with certain categories of people, it would appear that the feminine exists in
the service of the masculine, and by implication females in the service of
males, rather than vice versa. Broadly,
I would argue that where idealistic and realistic contexts (like computers and
video- and/or audio-recorders) are concerned, the male exists in the service of
the female, since these are contexts corresponding to Heaven and the world
(which are both subjective), but that where, by contrast, naturalistic and
materialistic contexts (like television and radio) are concerned, the female
exists in the service of the male, since those contexts correspond to Hell and
purgatory (which are both objective).
Thus whether the male exists to serve the female, or vice versa, will
depend on the nature of the context.
Where God and the world are in the ascendant, the male will serve the
female and subjectivism/subjectivity accordingly prevail. But where, by contrast, the Devil and purgatory
are in the ascendant, the female will serve the male, and objectivism/objectivity
accordingly prevail, depending on whether noumenal or phenomenal criteria are the principal
issues. Hence the
subjectivism of computing vis-à-vis the subjectivity of
video-recording/audio-recording; but the objectivism of television vis-à-vis the
objectivity of radio.
74. The Father is the deity of religious
barbarism, viz. ritual; the Mother is the deity of religious nature, viz. art;
the Son is the deity of religious civilization, viz. ethics; and the Holy
Spirit is the deity of religious culture, viz. devotion. Hence from the naturalism, relative to
religion, of ritual to the idealism of culture via the materialism, again
relative to religion, of ethics and the realism of art.
75. Books parallel the Catholic Christ, having a lunar
standing relative to the world, viz. realism, whereas radios parallel the
Protestant Christ, having a lunar standing relative to the Antiworld,
viz. materialism. Similarly, albeit in a
different context, symphonies parallel the Catholic Christ, having a lunar
standing relative to the world, viz. realism, whereas rock music parallels the
Protestant Christ, having a lunar standing relative to the Antiworld,
viz. materialism. Hence whereas the four
principal modes of classical music, viz. opera, ballet, the symphony, and the
concerto, are of the world, the four principal modes of pop music, viz. soul,
dance, rock, and jazz, are of the Antiworld, with
naturalistic, realistic, materialistic, and idealistic distinctions relative to
each context, the former broadly 'naturalistic', and hence acoustic, but the
latter broadly 'synthetic', and hence electric.
Consequently one could, in general, speak of classical as the music of
nature, in contrast to which we shall find pop as the music of civilization,
with, broadly, planar and lunar distinctions between the two contexts, as I
have shown, which are subdivisible along both
elemental and ideological lines. As, of
course, are the rather more extreme solar and stellar contexts of barbarous and
cultural music, the former overly percussive, which is the nature of a noumenal objectivism, and the latter overly sustained,
which is the nature of a noumenal subjectivism -
Devil and God of scientific and religious kinds of music respectively, which
may be regarded as flanking, on an alpha/omega basis, the political and
economic kinds of music that we have broadly characterized in terms of pop and
classical. Such a percussive/sustain
antithesis is rather more extreme than, say, the rhythm/pitch antithesis, for
example, of the extremes of pop and classical music, viz. soul and jazz in the
one case, and opera and concertos in the other, though rhythm is obviously a
quality of percussive music, e.g. steel-drum orchestras, no less than pitch a
quality of religious music, e.g. church-choir ensembles. These qualities, however, are affiliated to
musical modes which, as already noted, are noumenal
and thereby flank the phenomenal modes of music to which they more properly
pertain by dint of the greater dependence of such music on instrumental means
and techniques ... on account of their phenomenal essence. These means and techniques include, besides
rhythm and pitch, both melody and harmony, and thus contrast with the more
absolutist nature of scientific and religious music, the former flanking the
pop/classical dichotomy in a fundamentalist way, the latter flanking it in a
transcendentalist way - the musical hell and heaven of protonic
autocracy and electronic theocracy, as against the neutronic
democracy and atomic bureaucracy of purgatorial pop and worldly classical
respectively. If fundamentalist music,
being percussive, is reactive, then transcendentalist music, being sustained,
is attractive - a particle/wavicle distinction which
finds its musical manifestation in the antithesis between centrifugal
objectivism and centripetal subjectivism, the collectivism of discord and the
individualism of unison.
76. In the twentieth century classical music was
largely eclipsed by pop music, and pop music was itself undergoing a
degenerative collapse into percussive music, as the 'burning cross' of the
Antichrist found itself being eclipsed by the flaming star of the Diabolic per se. Such a degenerative collapse could only lead
to the triumph of musical hell, and thus to the eclipse of lunar pop by solar
primitivism. Yet one extreme engenders,
or calls forth, another, and it is with the full emergence of the Devil that
God will rally his faithful to the cause of musical heaven, the harmonic
sustains of 'Kingdom Come', so that, ultimately, the solar hell will be refuted
by the stellar heaven of the ultimate music, the sustained supermusic
of a transcendence divine, and the world accordingly be saved from both
classical music and the threat of percussive music, that super-antimusic which even now is eclipsing the antimusic of pop to a degree which makes that threat very
real indeed.
77. A particle/wavicle
distinction between the kicked ball (football) and the thrown ball (rugby) ...
analogous to the distinctions between republicanism and catholicism,
guitars and violins, video and audio, with reactive and attractive implications
relative to the nature of each game - the former (football) a man's game, and
the latter (rugby) a gentleman's one.
78. A spiritual/soulful distinction, in cricket,
between the bowling transcendentalism of the slow ball spinning through the
air, and the bowling fundamentalism of the fast ball cutting through it; the
former comparatively divine and the latter comparatively diabolic.
79. Dracula epitomizes our age's fascination with
evil, its almost morbid obsession with blood and violence, death and decay,
negative power and status. Dracula is
the modern form of Satan, the contemporary mythical manifestation of the Devil par excellence. Since the Nietzschean
'death of God', it is the Devil who is the focus of popular worship, and in the
late-twentieth century the Devil was very much alive-and-well in the
personification of Count Dracula, whose lust for blood aptly reflected the
bloodlust of the age. Only with the
Second Coming can the Devil be killed off once-and-for-all; for the return of
God to the world will leave no room for the Devil in it. Nor, indeed, for anything
upper class.
80. The Mother (Blessed Virgin) saves the will
but ignores the intellect; the Son (Christ) saves the intellect but ignores the
soul; the Father (Creator) saves the soul but ignores the spirit; the Holy
Ghost (ultimate Creation) saves the spirit but ignores everything else. Conversely, the Antimother
(Cursed Whore) damns the will but ignores the intellect; the Antichrist
(Hitler) damns the intellect but ignores the soul; the Antifather
(Satan) damns the soul but ignores the spirit; the Antispirit
(Jehovah) damns the spirit to worshipful enslavement but ignores everything
else. Such is the pattern of damnation
and salvation in regard to planar, lunar, solar, and stellar alternatives ...
roughly corresponding to working-class, middle-class, upper-class, and
classless divisions of human society.
81. Ultimate salvation is of the spirit, and applies
to the Holy Ghost alone, as championed by the intellect-exploiting Second
Coming equivalence, who is effectively an intellectual of the spirit because he
uses intellect in the service of the spirit, and uses it, moreover, in the most
spiritual of contexts, viz. the inner light, relative to technology, of
computer VDU screens, thereby bringing the intellect to spiritual perfection.
82. Truth, in the spiritual sense to which I
apply the term in my philosophy, is not something that is understood or desired
by all people or peoples. There are
people and peoples who reject such truth in their concern, primarily if not
exclusively, with beauty, goodness, or strength, not to mention illusion (if
negatively divine), ugliness (if negatively worldly), badness (if negatively
purgatorial), or weakness (if negatively diabolic). Some people and peoples are congenitally
incapable of coming-to-grips with spiritual truth, and accordingly shy away
from it as from a refutation of their very essence, the ideals or anti-ideals
by which they live. If all mankind were
the same, or shared the same goals, this would not be the case. But mankind are ethnically and ideologically
heterogeneous, and therefore divisible between different ideals and/or
anti-ideals. God, in the messianic sense
of the term, knows this, and that is why he cares only for those who are like
himself and will not fail them in his design to bring the world to religious
truth. Whatever he does is done for his
people or peoples (in contrast to what was done against other people or peoples
by the illusory primal God, viz. Jehovah).
83. Schopenhauer was wrong about the will coming
from the father and the intellect from the mother ... where the psychic
composition of offspring is concerned, since, as I have shown, the will is
feminine and the intellect masculine, the one planar and the other lunar. Hence any inheritance of this nature from
one's parents has to be premised on the acknowledgement of a correlation
between intellect and one's male progenitor, but will and one's female
progenitor, making it as unlikely that the father was responsible for will as
that the mother was responsible for intellect.
84. When there is little respect for strength,
there will be greater respect for truth; for strength and truth are as
incommensurate as goodness and beauty, and a society that respects truth will
have little time or inclination for strength.
(Hence the acceptance of truth presupposes an atheistic rejection of
'the Almighty', the strength-oriented implications of which correlate more
naturally with the Diabolic than with the Divine.)
85. The idealism of
truth, as against the naturalism of strength.
Likewise, the realism of beauty, as against the
materialism of goodness. Religion as opposed to science; economics as opposed to politics. Or, alternatively, art as
opposed to music; architecture as opposed to literature. Or, again, religious music
as opposed to percussive music; classical music as opposed to pop music. And so on.
86. Acoustic pianos stand to electric pianos as
hardbacks to radios, whereas acoustic organs stand to electric organs as softbacks to radio-cassette players. A distinction, in other words, between the
materialism (as opposed to realism, naturalism, or idealism) of the world and
the materialism of the Antiworld (lunar) on both
particle (reactive) and wavicle (attractive)
terms. 'Dickheads' and
'arseholes' - both effectively (within the feminine framework of worldly
realism) and specifically (within the rather more masculine framework of antiworldly materialism).
87. Acoustic guitars stand to electric guitars as
video tapes to video-recorders, whereas acoustic violins stand to electric
violins as audio tapes to audio-cassette players. A distinction, in other
words, between the realism (as opposed to naturalism, materialism, or idealism)
of the world and the realism of the Antiworld on both
particle (reactive) and wavicle (attractive) terms. 'Pricks' and 'cunts' - both specifically (within the feminine framework
of worldly realism) and effectively (within the masculine framework of antiworldly materialism).
88. To distinguish the devolutionary objectivism
(noumenal) of stellar superconsciousness
and solar subconsciousness from the devolutionary
objectivity (phenomenal) of lunar consciousness and planar
unconsciousness. Conversely,
to distinguish the evolutionary subjectivity (phenomenal) of superplanar unconsciousness and superlunar
consciousness from the evolutionary subjectivism (noumenal)
of supersolar subconsciousness
and superstellar superconsciousness. A particle/wavicle distinction between the devolutionary and the
evolutionary on both noumenal and phenomenal terms.
89. Thus to distinguish, on the above devolutionary
basis, Judaic transcendentalism and despotic fundamentalism from parliamentary
liberalism and republican humanism; while distinguishing, on an evolutionary
basis similar to the above, Catholic humanism and Protestant liberalism from
Islamic fundamentalism and Taoist transcendentalism.
90. Forebrain - backbrain
- right midbrain - left midbrain; superconscious -
subconscious - conscious - unconscious; transcendentalism - fundamentalism -
liberalism - humanism; electrons - protons - neutrons - atoms; spirit - soul -
intellect - will; heaven - hell - purgatory - the world; truth - strength -
goodness - beauty; illusion - weakness - evil - ugliness. Hence a particle devolution
from illusion and weakness to evil and ugliness; but a wavicle
evolution from beauty and goodness to strength and truth.
