801. Further
to my theories of musical parallels to divine alpha and omega, viz. wind and
pipes, I should like to add the two intermediate categories of singing and
whistle-playing, classifying the former as commensurate with omega-in-the-alpha
and the latter as commensurate with alpha-in-the-omega.
802. Hence
the distinction between singing and whistle-playing is less extreme than that
between wind instrumentality and piping.
803. Whereas
wind instrumentality is musically equivalent to the Clear Light of the Void, singing,
by contrast, is musically equivalent to the Unholy Spirit of the Void.
804. And
whereas piping is musically equivalent to the Holy Spirit of Heaven,
whistle-playing, by contrast, is musically equivalent to the Unclear Light of
Heaven.
805. What
truly distinguishes alpha from omega in divine musical terms is the fact of a
vacuum vis-à-vis the truth of a plenum.
806. Because
alpha is light and omega spirit, we are therefore distinguishing what passes,
as wind, through a vacuum from what issues, as air, from a plenum.
807. The
vacuum is characterized, in instrumental terms, by wind instruments like the
saxophone and the trumpet, together with tin whistles and harmonicas.
808. The
plenum is characterized, in musical/instrumental terms, by what issues, as air,
from either lungs (singing) or the bag of pipes.
809. Where there is a tubular vacuum, as in wind
instruments, one has a musical parallel with light, and therefore the alpha.
810. Where
there is an air-filled plenum, as in the bag of pipes and in lungs, one has a
musical parallel with spirit, and therefore the omega.
811. The
distinction between alpha and alpha-in-the-omega, the Clear Light of the Void
and the Unclear Light of Heaven, is between the centrifugal and the
centripetal, outer and inner.
812. Likewise
the distinction between omega-in-the-alpha and omega, the Unholy Spirit of the
Void and the Holy Spirit of Heaven, is between the centrifugal and the
centripetal, outer and inner.
813. Wind instruments,
like saxophones, are centrifugal by comparison with tin whistles and even
harmonicas, and therefore correspond to the outer as opposed to the inner
light.
814. Singing, rooted in the lungs, is centrifugal by comparison
with piping, and therefore corresponds to the outer as opposed to the inner
spirit.
815. Hence
from the outer light of wind instrumentality to the inner spirit of pipes via
the outer spirit of songs and the inner light of whistles/harmonicas.
816. For a civilization centred in the inner, whether in light or
spirit, that which was outer would be beneath the pale.
817. For a civilization rooted in the outer, whether in light or
spirit, that which was inner would be beyond the pale.
818. A
civilization centred in the inner is a good civilization.
819. A
civilization rooted in the outer is a bad civilization.
820. Both
the outer light of wind and the inner light of whistles are rooted in the
supra-unconscious.
821. Both
the outer spirit of songs and the inner spirit of pipes are centred in the
supra-conscious.
822. If
the conscious is masculine and the unconscious feminine, then the
supra-conscious is supra-masculine and the supra-unconscious supra-feminine.
823. The
improvisational character of much jazzy wind-playing confirms the
fundamentalist essence of Jazz as an art form rooted in the supra-unconscious.
824. To
distinguish the 'spatial' essence of wind/whistle playing from the 'spaced'
essence of singing/piping, as between fundamentalist and transcendentalist
approaches to divinity, the former supra-unconscious and the latter
supra-conscious, both outer and inner.
825. A
woman blows her conscious credibility from the moment she becomes pregnant and
enters motherhood.
826. Motherhood
confirms woman in her femininity, as a creature for whom the unconscious takes
precedence over the conscious.
827. There
are so many aspects of motherhood which are of the unconscious, from gestation
to lactation, that active mothers can only be regarded as conscious in a
subordinate and secondary way.
828. A
woman who wishes to affirm the conscious self over the unconscious not-self has
to disavow motherhood and either remain celibate or take every precaution
against becoming pregnant.
829. It
should be the inalienable right of every woman to avoid pregnancy and even to
terminate pregnancy, if it is her sincere wish to develop the conscious self at
the expense of the unconscious not-self.
830. Without such a right, women will remain the slaves of nature,
virtual creatures of nature, with no real prospects of conscious
self-determination.
831. Making
a god out of nature and natural processes is an unchristian failing which
simply enslaves women to the World, making for natural reproduction
world-without-heathen-end.
832. That
woman who succumbs, through pregnancy, to the World parts company with the
Blessed Virgin and effectively damns herself to the unconscious Hell of the
Cursed Whore.
833. The objective of moral progress is to overcome and transcend
the World, moving, via artificial alternatives, to a supra-natural salvation in
God ... the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
834. Women who wish to defend worldly power can have
no place in building God's Kingdom, which will only come properly to pass when
the World has been democratically overcome and mankind elects to substitute,
under religious sovereignty, artificial for natural methods of reproduction,
increasingly entering life via science rather than sex.
835. Every
gain that consciousness makes at the expense of the unconscious hastens the day
when the supra-conscious will come to pass, ushering in the salvation of the
self in and by the universal self, consciousness at one with the air upon which
it is internally focused.
836. The
divine Father (Creator) is commensurate with the Clear Light of the Void.
837. The divine Son, who sits on the right-hand side of the
Father, so to speak, in the spectrum of divine alternatives, is commensurate
with the Unholy Spirit of the Void.
838. The divine Mother, who ascended into Heaven, is commensurate
with the Unclear Light of Heaven.
839. The
Divine per se is commensurate
with the Holy Spirit of Heaven, which is beyond all else and alone the one,
true, and ultimate God, of which I am but a servant.
840. Those
who side with the unconscious tend to a comic view of life, which contrasts
with the tragic view of those who, following in Christ's moral footsteps, side
with the conscious.
841. Like Jazz, classical music is generally rooted in the
supra-unconscious, from which starting-point everything beyond wind stems.
842. It
could generally be said of Jazz and Classical alike that they are rooted in
wind and are thus, at best, negatively divine.
843. The
sun is both supermasculine and superfeminine
- the former when rising and the latter when setting.
844. Likewise
the moon is both masculine and feminine - the former in its waxing and the
latter in its waning.
845. If
the supra-unconscious is supra-feminine, then the personal unconscious is superfeminine, and hence absolutely immoral.
846. If
the supra-conscious is supra-masculine, then the collective conscious (superconscious) is supermasculine,
and hence absolutely moral.
847. In
between the absolutely immoral personal unconscious and the absolutely moral
collective conscious come the relatively immoral collective unconscious and the
relatively moral personal conscious - the former feminine and the latter
masculine.
848. The road back leads from the collective unconscious to the
personal unconscious and, finally, to the supra-unconscious of primal divinity.
849. The road forward leads from the personal conscious to the
collective conscious and, finally, to the supra-conscious of ultimate divinity.
850. To be relatively damned is to pass from the personal conscious
to the collective unconscious, which is phenomenally evil.
851. To be relatively saved is to pass from the collective
unconscious to the personal conscious, which is phenomenally good.
852. To be absolutely damned is to pass from the collective unconscious
to the personal unconscious, which is noumenally
evil.
853. To be absolutely saved is to pass from the personal
conscious to the collective conscious, which is noumenally
good.
854. To pass
from the personal unconscious to the supra-unconscious is to become negatively
divine.
855. To
pass from the collective conscious to the supra-conscious is to become
positively divine.
856. Negative
divinity is behind good and evil, salvation and damnation, and is therefore
supra-immoral.
857. Positive
divinity is beyond good and evil, salvation and damnation, and is therefore
supra-moral.
858. There
is nothing anterior to the negative divinity of the supra-unconscious Clear
Light of the Void.
859. There
is nothing posterior to the positive divinity of the supra-conscious Holy
Spirit of Heaven.
860. It is
on account of its inherently unsatisfactory, because woeful, nature that there
were a series of ever-more devolved falls from the Clear Light of the Void,
viz. spatial illusion.
861. It is
on account of its intrinsically satisfactory, because joyful, nature that there
will be a series of ever-more evolved rises to the Holy Spirit of Heaven, viz.
spaced truth.
862. The
feminine devolves from what is or was supra-feminine, whereas the masculine
evolves towards what is or will be supra-masculine - the former everlastingly
woeful and the latter eternally joyful.
863. To
distinguish the phenomenal selfishness of the personal conscious from the
phenomenal selflessness of the collective unconscious.
864. Likewise
to distinguish the noumenal selfishness of the
collective conscious (superconscious) from the noumenal selflessness of the personal unconscious.
865. Finally,
to distinguish the supra-selfishness of the supra-conscious from the
supra-selflessness of the supra-unconscious.
866. The personal conscious does not transcend the collective
unconscious, but exists in relation to it, as man to woman.
867. Only the superconscious transcends
the collective unconscious, since there can be no relationship between the
collective conscious and the collective unconscious.
868. The superconscious paves the way,
as already noted, for the supra-conscious, and hence salvation from the self in
and through the universal self of airy Heaven.
869. The superconscious ties-in with all that is synthetic,
including LSD, synthesizers, and computer erotica, whereas the supra-conscious
transcends the synthetic in and through the air, whether manifesting in meditation,
uilleann pipes, or plastic inflatables.
870. Alpha-stemming
people tend to wear duffel coats, overcoats, and raincoats, whereas
omega-aspiring people favour zipper jackets taken-in at the waist in a
closed-society opposition to open-society 'untransvaluated'
norms.
871. The
man who is 'born again', or 'transvaluated', will not
be one to wear duffel coats, overcoats, or raincoats, but may well prefer short
zipper-jackets such that begin in the World and open towards Eternity.
872. By
contrast to zipper jackets, which are closed (taken-in) at the waist and
effectively open to Eternity (at the neck), duffel coats, overcoats, and
raincoats are open at the hem and effectively closed (buttoned-up) at the neck,
as though open to the Cosmos but closed to the Beyond.
873. Duffel
coats precede overcoats as the central star of the Galaxy precedes the sun -
their hood an indication of alpha-divine allegiance.
874. This
contrasts with the omega-oriented allegiance of hooded zipper-jackets, whereby
a convergence towards ultimate divinity is symbolized in and by the hood.
875. Hence
where duffel coats may be said, in their openness, to reflect a tending away
from the hood (of primal divinity), hooded zippers reflect
(in their closed construction) a convergence towards the hood (of ultimate
divinity).
876. There
is thus all the difference in regard to the Clear Light of the Void and the
Holy Spirit of Heaven between the person who wears a duffel coat and the one
dressed in a waist-length hooded-zipper: the former open society and the latter
closed.
877. Whereas
short zipper-jackets are 'beyond the pale' of those who dress in open-society
fashion, duffel coats, overcoats, and raincoats tend to be 'beneath the pale',
so to speak, of those whose sartorial preference is closed society.
878. One
might cite a Heathen/Christian or, rather, Heathen/Superchristian
distinction between the alpha stemming and the omega orientated, the 'untransvaluated' and the 'transvaluated'.
879. Such
an antithesis as exists, for example, between duffel coats and hooded zippers
is paralleled, in musical-instrument terms, by that between, say, the saxophone
and uilleann pipes - the one alpha and the other
omega, vacuum and plenum of instrumental extremes.
880. One would
have to be into duffel coats to take wind-based music seriously - at any rate,
this is the logical inference that can be made when we seek to establish
parallels between the contexts in question.
881. From the alpha of chanting to the omega of humming via the
relative omega (omega-in-the-alpha) of singing and the relative alpha
(alpha-in-the-omega) of whistling.
882. Belief
in a universal Creator, or Creator of the Universe, is only credible during an
objective age, when the majority of people pay deference to authoritarian
power.
883. Anyone
who is in any degree evolved enough to have a subjective view of life will tend
to regard the Universe and everything in it as being self-creating, with God
(the Holy Spirit of Heaven) as the ultimate Creation rather than, as in the
past, primal Creator.
884. In
fact, being able to distinguish between the Universe as alpha and Heaven as
omega will only be possible to a person who is evolved enough to have a
subjective view of life, so that God (the Holy Spirit of Heaven) is apperceived
as being at the opposite extreme from the Cosmos (the Clear Light of the Void).
885. Hence where the Universe is devolutionary
because objective, Heaven is evolutionary because subjective - all the
difference between science and religion, or philosophy and theosophy.
886. Whereas
science and religion are practical, philosophy and theosophy are theoretical,
the theoretical bases, respectively, of science and religion.
887. That
man who is saved will be no less beyond philosophy than beyond science; he
lives for religion (God) based on sound theosophical speculations (doctrine).
888. As illogical to speak of philosophy as scientific theosophy,
as to regard theosophy as religious philosophy.
889. Scientific
theosophy is to theosophy-proper what religious philosophy is to
philosophy-proper: a paradoxical relativity found in-between the philosophical
and theosophical extremes.
890. If
philosophy-proper corresponds to the Clear Light of the Void, then religious
philosophy (theology) corresponds to the Unholy Spirit of the Void.
891. If
theosophy-proper corresponds to the Holy Spirit of Heaven, then scientific
theosophy (philology) corresponds to the Unclear Light of Heaven.
892. Philosophy
and philology are two sides of the same objective coin - the one corresponding
to the outer light, the other to the inner light.
893. Theology
and theosophy are two sides of the same subjective coin - the one corresponding
to the outer spirit, the other to the inner spirit.
894. From the outer light of philosophy to the inner spirit of
theosophy via the outer spirit of theology and the inner light of philology.
895. Whereas
the outer light (the Clear Light of the Void) is centrifugally objective, the
inner light (the Unclear Light of Heaven) is centripetally objective.
896. Whereas
the outer spirit (the Unholy Spirit of the Void) is centrifugally subjective,
the inner spirit (the Holy Spirit of Heaven) is centripetally subjective.
897. The centrifugal objectivity of the outer light is explosive,
while the centripetal objectivity of the inner light is implosive.
898. The
centrifugal subjectivity of the outer spirit is expressive, while the
centripetal subjectivity of the inner spirit is impressive.
899. Outer
light, being explosive, is evil light, whereas inner light, being implosive, is
good light.
900. Outer
spirit, being expressive, is evil spirit, whereas inner spirit, being
impressive, is good spirit.
901. Hence
whereas evil, whether objective or subjective, is centrifugal, goodness,
whether objective or subjective, is centripetal.
902. The
outer light stands to the inner light as the barbarous to the civilized, since
civilization is implosive whereas barbarism is explosive.
903. The
outer spirit stands to the inner spirit as the natural to the cultural, since
culture is impressive whereas nature is expressive.
904. Hence
science is barbarous when explosive, as in the outer light, but civilized when
implosive, as in the inner light.
905. Likewise religion is natural when expressive,
as in the outer spirit, but cultural when impressive, as in the inner spirit.
906. Strictly
speaking, religion can no more be barbarous or civilized than science natural
or cultural.
907. Similarly,
theosophy can no more be explosive or implosive than philosophy expressive or
impressive.
908. Civilization
may be the redemption of barbarism, but it cannot lead to the cultural; for the
light is an end-in-itself, not a means to the spirit.
909. Light thrives in a vacuum, whether that vacuum
is explosive or implosive, whereas spirit can only thrive in a plenum, whether
that plenum be expressive or impressive.
910. Civilization
is thus an end-in-itself and not a means to cultural salvation, an end that will
erect fences around itself to protect the inner light
from its barbarous and/or natural enemies.
911. Because
light and spirit are antithetical, the one objective and the other subjective,
they must remain forever apart, incapable of being reconciled to the same goal.
912. In
fact, light is a beginning and spirit an ending, the outer light a barbarous
beginning and the inner light a civilized end-of-the-beginning, in contrast to
which the outer spirit is a natural beginning-of-the-end and the inner spirit a
cultural ending.
913. Only
the natural can be redeemed in and by the cultural, passing from outer to inner
spirit as the plenum evolves from collective expression to individual
impression.
914. By
contrast, the vacuum of light devolves from public explosion to private
implosion, as it passes from barbarism to civilization.
915. Civilization
is thus, paradoxically, the 'salvation' of the light from public to private, noumenal to phenomenal; culture, by contrast, the salvation
of the spirit from collective to individual, phenomenal to noumenal.
916. Whereas
the outer light is superheathen and the inner light
heathen, the outer spirit is Christian and the inner spirit Superchristian.
917. Thus
from the noumenal objectivity of the outer light
(explosive) to the phenomenal objectivity of the inner light (implosive), as
from elemental to molecular photon particles.
918. Thus
from the phenomenal subjectivity of the outer spirit (expressive) to the noumenal subjectivity of the inner spirit (impressive), as
from molecular to elemental photon wavicles.
919. To
devolve from wind instruments, e.g. saxophones, to whistles, as from barbarism
to civilization, but to evolve from singing to piping, e.g. uilleann
pipes, as from nature to culture.
920. Impression
is the spirit's quest and ultimate goal, the journey's end which will only come
fully to pass when the light has been eclipsed and spirit can turn from
expression to its own impressive Heaven in the classless salvation of a
centripetal subjectivity, enrapt in the inner supra-selfish beatitude of the
Holy Spirit of Heaven for all Eternity.
921. Poetry,
being a discipline of the spirit, can be expressionistic or impressionistic,
expressive or impressive, but the best and most evolved poetry will always be
impressionistic, seeking to create an impression of the Divine.
922. The highest poetry can only be spiritual, not emotional,
intellectual, or instinctual, since the spirit is closer to the Divine than are
the soul, the intellect, or the will.
923. When
poetry is truly spiritual it is abstract, corresponding to the noumenal subjectivity/subjectivism of Heaven.
924. When
abstract poetry is readerly it is expressive, and
therefore subjective in a relative way, though when such poetry is non-readerly, e.g. when it can only be contemplated (as a
patterned entity), it is impressive, and therefore absolutely subjective.
925. Relative
abstract poetry is the poetry of noumenal
individuality, whilst absolute abstract poetry is the poetry of noumenal individualism.
926. When
poetry is emotional it is lyrical, corresponding to the noumenal
objectivity/objectivism of Hell.
927. When
lyric poetry is rhymed it is expressive, and therefore objective in a relative
way, though when such poetry is non-rhymed it is impressive, and therefore
absolutely objective.
928. Relative
lyric poetry is the poetry of noumenal collectivity, whilst absolute lyric poetry is the poetry of
noumenal collectivism.
929. When
poetry is intellectual it is narrative, corresponding to the phenomenal
objectivity/objectivism of Purgatory.
930. When
narrative poetry is rhymed it is expressive, and therefore objective in a
relative way, though when such poetry is non-rhymed it is impressive, and
therefore absolutely objective.
931. Relative
narrative poetry is the poetry of phenomenal individuality, whilst absolute
narrative poetry is the poetry of phenomenal individualism.
932. When
poetry is instinctual it is dramatic, corresponding to the phenomenal
subjectivity/subjectivism of the World.
933. When
dramatic poetry is rhymed it is expressive, and therefore subjective in a
relative way, though when such poetry is non-rhymed it is impressive, and
therefore absolutely subjective.
934. Relative
dramatic poetry is the poetry of phenomenal collectivity,
whilst absolute dramatic poetry is the poetry of phenomenal collectivism.
935. Just
as abstract poetry is intended to be contemplated, so dramatic poetry is
intended to be acted.
936. Just
as lyric poetry is intended to be sung, so narrative poetry is intended to be
narrated.
937. The
heavenly poetry of the contemplator/thinker contrasts with the hellish poetry
of the singer/hearer.
938. The
purgatorial poetry of the narrator/reader contrasts with the mundane poetry of
the actor/speaker.
939. Both
dramatic and abstract poetry are, as we have seen,
subjective kinds of poetry - the former of the World and the latter of Heaven.
940. Both
lyric and narrative poetry are, as we have seen,
objective kinds of poetry - the former of Hell and the latter of Purgatory.
941. When
prayer is sung we get hymns.
942. When
lyric poetry is sung we get songs.
943. When
narrative poetry is sung we get musicals.
944. When
dramatic poetry is sung we get operas.
945. Civilization
stands to barbarism as a good Devil to an evil Devil, or as phenomenal
objectivity to noumenal objectivism.
946. Culture
stands to nature as a good God to an evil God, or as noumenal
subjectivism to phenomenal subjectivity.
947. Better
an evil God than a good Devil, since an evil God can at least be saved to and
by a good God, whereas a good Devil can only be damned to and by an evil Devil.
948. The outer spirit of an evil God can only be superseded by
the inner spirit of a good God, as nature is saved by culture.
949. The inner light of a good Devil can only be eclipsed by the
outer light of an evil Devil, as civilization is damned by barbarism.
950. Purgatory
is a good Hell, which contrasts with the evil Heaven of the World.
951. Hell
is evil when absolute (noumenal) but good when
relative (phenomenal), while Heaven is evil when relative (phenomenal) but good
when absolute (noumenal).
952. Christ
contrasts with the Mother as the 'God' of good Hell (Purgatory) with the God(dess) of evil Heaven (the
World).
953. The
Holy Spirit contrasts with the Father as the God of good Heaven (air) with the
'God' of evil Hell (blood).
954. The
only difference between Christ (the Son) and the Antichrist is that whereas the
former is a positive (neutron-wavicle) 'God' of good
Hell, the latter is a negative (neutron-particle) 'God' of good Antihell.
955. The
only difference between the Mother (the Blessed Virgin) and the Antimother (the Cursed Whore) is that whereas the former is
a positive (electron-wavicle) God(dess)
of evil Heaven, the latter is a negative (electron-particle) God(dess) of evil Antiheaven.
956. The
only difference between the Holy Spirit and the Antispirit
(Jehovah/Clear Light of the Void) is that whereas the former is a positive (photon-wavicle) God of good Heaven, the latter is a negative
(photon-particle) God of good Antiheaven.
957. The
only difference between the Father and the Antifather
(Satan) is that whereas the former is a positive (proton-wavicle)
'God' of evil Hell, the latter is a negative (proton-particle) 'God' of evil Antihell.
958. The
coldness of water (antimind) contrasts with the
dullness of mind (intellect).
959. The
darkness of earth (antiwill) contrasts with the
heaviness of flesh (will).
960. The
light of space (cosmic antispirit) contrasts with the
lightness of air (universal spirit).
961. The
heat of fire (antisoul) contrasts with the brightness
of blood (soul).
962. All
spirit, whether outer or inner, is positive, i.e. subjective, while all light, whether
outer or inner, is negative, i.e. objective.
963. The
inner light of classical music contrasts with the outer spirit of pop music.
964. The
inner spirit of folk music contrasts with the outer light of jazz music.
965. The
inner light of Classical is damned to and by the outer light of Jazz.
966. The
outer spirit of Pop is saved to and by the inner spirit of Folk.
967. The
inner light of Classical is confirmed by the use of comparatively (in relation
to Jazz) centripetal wind instruments like oboes, flutes, clarinets, etc.
968. The
outer light of Jazz is confirmed by the use of comparatively (in relation to
Classical) centrifugal wind instruments like saxophones, trumpets, trombones,
etc.
969. The inner spirit of Folk is confirmed by recourse to
centripetal instruments like harmoniums, uilleann
pipes, accordions, etc.
970. The outer spirit of Pop is confirmed by recourse to the
human voice, in song.
971. The
instrumental light is a tubular vacuum and the instrumental spirit an
air-filled plenum.
972. Classical
civilization is damned by Jazz barbarism, whereas Pop nature is saved by Folk
culture.
973. From
the outer light - relative to materialism - of television to the inner spirit
of computers via the outer spirit of radio and the inner light of video.
974. From
the outer light - relative to realism - of magazines to the inner spirit of
books (i.e. paperbacks) via the outer spirit of newspapers and the inner light
of co-mags (comic books).
975. From the
outer light - relative to naturalism - of cinema to the inner spirit of games
machines via the outer spirit of jukeboxes and the inner light of film slides.
976. From
the outer light - relative to idealism - of dreams to the inner spirit of LSD
trips via the outer spirit of visions and the inner light of fantasies.
977. Terrestrial
television is a sort of realistic outer light which was destined to be
partially eclipsed by the materialistic inner light of video - barbarism,
losing ground to civilization.
978. But barbarism fights back in the naturalistic guise of
satellite television, a more absolute outer light which is the effective
damnation of video - civilization losing ground to superbarbarism.
979. Were
satellite television the end of the story, there would be no hope for video;
but, inevitably, the emergence of video from the shadows of satellite TV
presupposes the development of computer-accessed videos, thereby bringing video
to the idealistic inner light of a multi-option accessibility - superbarbarism losing ground, in all probability, to supercivilization.
980. From the realistic barbarism of a natural age to the
idealistic civilization of a cultural age via the materialistic civilization of
a civilized age and the naturalistic barbarism of a barbarous age - Man against
Woman, the Devil against Man, and, finally, God against the Devil, with God
ultimately destined to triumph.
981. The backbrain and the right
midbrain appertain to the old brain, while the left midbrain and the forebrain
appertain to the new brain.
982. A
humanist society, rooted in the World, is effectively of the left midbrain,
whereas that which, as a transcendentalist society, goes beyond the World is
effectively of the forebrain.
983. A
nonconformist society, centred in Purgatory, is effectively of the right
midbrain, whereas that which, as a fundamentalist society, goes behind
Purgatory is effectively of the backbrain.
984. When
'the subjective' are sovereign, whether politically (republican) or religiously
(transcendentalist), the new brain is free of the old brain.
985. When
'the objective' are sovereign, whether politically (parliamentary) or
religiously (fundamentalist), the old brain is bound to oppress the new brain.
986. The backbrain is akin to the sun
and the right midbrain to the moon, the former given to the outer light and the
latter to the inner light.
987. By
contrast, the left midbrain is akin to the earth and the forebrain to the airy
Beyond, the former given to the outer spirit and the latter to the inner
spirit.
988. The new brain stretches, in its subjectivity, beyond the old
brain in much the same way that the World and Heaven stretch beyond the
objectivity of Hell and Purgatory.
989. A
secret society is no less the shadow side of a public lifestyle than a debating
society the bright side of a private lifestyle.
990. Since public lifestyles tend to be upper class and private
ones middle class, it need not surprise us that secret societies and debating
societies are especially favoured by the upper and middle classes respectively.
991. Whereas
the public lifestyle is Satanic, the secret society is effectively of the
Father.
992. Whereas
the private lifestyle is Antichristic, the debating
society is effectively of the Son.
993. Hence
the fundamentalist nature of Freemasonry, as compared with the nonconformist
nature of Puritanism.
994. If
Freemasonry is an upper-class approach (of the Father) to religion, then
Puritanism is arguably its middle-class counterpart - the former noumenally objective and the latter phenomenally objective.
995. A
humanist society can only be free of both secret and debating societies in the
interests of impersonal/transpersonal subjectivity.
996. An
impersonal service is no less the converse side of a collective lifestyle than
a transpersonal service the converse side of an individual lifestyle.
997. Since
collective lifestyles tend to be working class and individual ones classless,
it won't surprise us that impersonal services and transpersonal services are
especially favoured by the working class and the classless respectively.
998. Whereas
the collective lifestyle is of the Antimother, the
impersonal service is effectively of the Mother.
999. Whereas
the individual lifestyle is of the Antispirit, the
transpersonal service is effectively of the Holy Spirit.
1000. Hence
the humanist nature of Catholicism, as compared with the transcendentalist
nature of Social Theocracy.