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 'Kingdom of Heaven' there would be neither agents, publishers, nor critics, but only self-publishing artists, classlessly beyond the class-bound loyalties (and tyrannies) of open societies.

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.

1101. There is a sense in which Dracula corresponds to the Father, inasmuch as he is a blood-sucking diabolic omega rather than a fire-belching diabolic alpha, like Satan.

1102. In fact, the strength which Dracula acquires through sucking blood is logically vitiated by sunlight, as the weakness of flame detracts from his soulful essence, hogging the diabolic 'limelight' at his expense.

1103. When the diabolic alpha is to the fore, then the diabolic omega must withdraw, else risk being undermined and even destroyed by that which, as flame, is contrary to the blood.

1104. It could therefore be said that, in the mythology of twentieth-century paganism, the Father walked abroad in the person of Count Dracula, personification of emotional strength.

1105. With its Orthodox traditions, Eastern Europe is better qualified to do justice to the Father than the more Mother-oriented (Catholic) and Son-oriented (Protestant) West, which is why, I suppose, Count Dracula is a creature of the East, viz. Transylvania.

1106. As, from a more hard-line standpoint, is Allah, who is no more consanguineous with Jehovah than (is) the Father, since relative to a diabolic omega (in strength) rather than to a divine alpha (in illusion) - all the difference between the Holy Soul of Hell and the Clear Light of the Void.

1107. Woman is essentially a critic by nature, whereas Man is an agent of civilization.

1108. God, in his cultural richness, is essentially an artist, while the Devil is fundamentally a publisher of barbarism.

1109. The being of God can be either positive or negative, depending whether we are concerned with God the Holy Spirit of Heaven (the true spirit of the omega) or God the Clear Light of the Void (the illusory, or false, spirit [antispirit] of alpha, viz. Jehovah).

1110. The doing of the Devil can be either positive or negative, depending whether we are dealing with Devil the Holy Soul of Hell (the Father) or Devil the Clear Heat of Time (the antisoul of Satan).

1111. The taking of Man can be either positive or negative, depending whether we are considering Man the Holy Mind of Purgatory (Christ) or Man the Clear Coldness of Volume (Antichrist).

1112. The giving of Woman can be either positive or negative, depending whether we are concerned with Woman the Holy Will of the World (the Blessed Virgin) or Woman the Clear Darkness of Mass (the Cursed Whore).

1113. What applies to the above-listed alpha/omega extremes also applies to the intermediate positions of omega-in-the-alpha and alpha-in-the-omega.

1114. Hence a distinction between the outer negative being of the Clear Light of the Void and the inner negative being of the Unclear Light of Heaven.

1115. Likewise a distinction between the outer positive being of the Unholy Spirit of the Void and the inner positive being of the Holy Spirit of Heaven.

1116. Whereas outer negative being is an elemental photon particle, inner negative being is its molecular counterpart.

1117. Whereas outer positive being is a molecular photon wavicle, inner positive being is its elemental counterpart.

1118. To distinguish, similarly, between the outer negative doing of the Clear Heat of Time and the inner negative doing of the Unclear Heat of Hell.

1119. Likewise a distinction between the outer positive doing of the Unholy Soul of Time and the inner positive doing of the Holy Soul of Hell.

1120. Whereas outer negative doing is an elemental proton particle, inner negative doing is its molecular counterpart.

1121. Whereas outer positive doing is a molecular proton wavicle, inner positive doing is its elemental counterpart.

1122. Similarly, to distinguish between the outer negative taking of the Clear Coldness of Volume and the inner negative taking of the Unclear Coldness of Purgatory.

1123. Likewise, a distinction between the outer positive taking of the Unholy Mind of Volume and the inner positive taking of the Holy Mind of Purgatory.

1124. Whereas outer negative taking is an elemental neutron particle, inner negative taking is its molecular counterpart.

1125. Whereas outer positive taking is a molecular neutron wavicle, inner positive taking is its elemental counterpart.

1126. To distinguish, finally, between the outer negative giving of the Clear Darkness of Mass and the inner negative giving of the Unclear Darkness of the World.

1127. Likewise a distinction between the outer positive giving of the Unholy Will of Mass and the inner positive giving of the Holy Will of the World.

1128. Whereas outer negative giving is an elemental electron particle, inner negative giving is its molecular counterpart.

1129. Whereas outer positive giving is a molecular electron wavicle, inner positive giving is its elemental counterpart.

1130. When both doing and taking are effectively on the rubbish heap of history, then and only then will giving be ripe for beingful salvation.

1131. The salvation of giving by being is the end of the World and the true beginning of the 'Kingdom of Heaven', which is its joyful reward.

1132. The being of the Holy Spirit of Heaven, which is joy, will last for ever in ever-more refined contexts, becoming progressively purer the further Eternal Life evolves.

1133. Such an evolution, from the inceptive level of Supermen to the final level of Ultra-beings, will pass through six stages before it culminates, like this aphoristic project, in the ultimate purity of the most beingful essence - the pure essence of ultra-beingful forebrain collectivizations in the definitive salvation of the omega Beyond.

LONDON 1993 (Revised 2011)

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