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STRESSING
THE
ESSENTIAL
Poems
Copyright
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2011 John O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
1.
The
Trinity
2.
Evolution
3.
No
God
4.
The
Leaders
5.
The
People
6.
Man
7.
Transcendental
Man
8.
The
Superman
9.
The
Superbeing
10.
Spiritual
Globes
11.
Stressing
the Essential
12.
Why
the State Withers
13.
Making
More Equal
14.
Post-Atomic
15.
Points
1-10
16.
Evolutionary
Pressures
17.
The
Higher Poet
18.
Electron
Freedom
19.
Either/Or
20.
Self-Judgement
21.
The
Ultimate Essence
22.
Bright
and Dark
23.
More
God than Man
24.
Synthesized
Voice
25.
Dispelling
a Futuristic Myth
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THE
TRINITY
The
Trinity
isn't blessed,
As
traditionally
believed;
The
first
part is cursed,
And
pertains
to the Devil.
The
second
part is a mixture
Of
the
Devil and God,
Since
Christ
isn't pure
But
both
cursed and blessed,
Who,
as
the 'Three in One',
Is
a
man, like us.
But
the
third, which has still to come,
Will
be
the blessed outcome of the
others.
EVOLUTION
What
began
in the fire
Must
conclude
with the light.
What
arose
in the daytime
Must
decline
with the night.
The
advent
of man
Had
its
roots in the apes,
Who
preceded
the pagans
As
a
vine precedes grapes.
Yet
man
isn't static
But
proceeds
to evolve,
And
from
pagan to Christian
Shows
greater
resolve.
Now
the
Christian has passed
The
transcendent
has begun,
And
man
stands a stage closer
To
the
Nietzschean
superman.
The
Superman
is post-human
And
towards
him man will tend.
But
his
future successor
Is
by
no means the end.
For
from
there to the Superbeing
Is
the
stage on the threshold
Of
eventual
transcendence
And
escape
from the flesh-hold.
Then
globes
of pure spirit
Will
expand
into space,
Leaving
planets
behind them
With
never
a trace.
And
expansion
will lead
To
the
merging of separateness.
Where
once
they were many,
They
will
end-up in oneness.
NO
GOD
Even
if
more advanced civilizations
Than
the
Earth's had attained to transcendence
And
thereby
established
Spiritual
Globes
in the Universe,
Those
globes
of pure spirit wouldn't be God,
Any
more
than planets are the Devil,
But
only
what precedes God.
Even
if
every civilization but man's
Had
attained
to transcendence,
The
resulting
globes of pure spirit
In
the
Universe still wouldn't be God,
Irrespective
of
whether they had all merged
Into
one
another and formed an indivisible whole.
The
absence
of man's contribution
And
its
eventual expansion
Towards
the
larger globe of pure spirit
Would
preclude
the formation
Of
Ultimate
Oneness, which is the Omega
Absolute,
In
complete
contrast
To
the
separate, manifold nature
Of
the
Alpha Absolute(s), or stars.
Only
with
the eventual establishment
Of
the
Omega Absolute would God
Actually
exist
as Ultimate Oneness,
Whereas,
in
the meantime, He would be
In
the
process of formation,
Like
a
foetus in the womb,
Struggling
to
be born.
Just
as
one should never confound planets
With
the
Alpha Absolute(s),
So
one
should never imagine
That
God
is established, following transcendence.
The
Spiritual
Globes which emerge
From
superbeings, in various parts of
the Universe,
Would
be
but the final stage
On
the
road to Ultimate Oneness,
Expanding
towards
one another in response
To
the
mutual attraction of Being.
THE
LEADERS
The
leaders
aren't themselves led
But
supervise
the evolutionary progress
Of
the
People. They don't live
Like
the
People, but in their own separate
And
rather
conservative worlds.
They
understand
evolution
But
don't
actively participate in it,
Since
directors
rather than directed.
They
don't
personally enter the 'promised land',
For
such
is not their fate.
They
make
personal sacrifices
On
behalf
of the People,
Standing
aside
while the latter
move ahead.
Their
main
task is to ensure that the People
Are
set
on course for the transcendental Beyond,
Never
to
deviate from it.
They
aren't
of
the People
And
therefore
they're not with
the
People.
They
must
always remain separate,
Opposed
to
whatever regressive tendencies
The
People
may display.
They
are
the guardians of evolutionary progress,
Who
serve
the People's best interests.
They
lead
the People towards salvation
But
can
never be saved themselves.
THE
PEOPLE
The
People
are often hardworking,
But
sometimes
lazy,
Often
spiritual
but sometimes
sensual.
They
are
the crude clay from which
The
highest
humanity can be formed,
The
crucible
in which
A
new
human type can be forged,
Superior
to
anything that preceded it.
They
often
live in the city
But
sometimes
in the country,
Are
often
artificial but sometimes
natural.
They
are
more paradoxical
Than
might
at first appear,
For
they
show an aptitude for the artificial
Without
desiring
to suppress
What
naturalness
they possess.
They
often
bless but sometimes curse,
Often
praise
but sometimes swear.
Their
choice
of language
Is
offensive
to cultivated ears,
Since
it
betrays a contempt for sex
Which,
in
living closer to nature,
The
older
classes tend to reject.
They
often
live close together
But
sometimes
far apart,
Are
often
quiet but sometimes
noisy.
They
signify
a closer approximation
To
the
Ultimate Oneness of God
Than
do
their rulers and masters,
And,
if
they aren't particularly considerate,
Are
at
least tolerant!
MAN
Man
isn't
static, like the animals,
But
free
to evolve.
His
pagan
beginnings in
A
pre-dualistic
context of lopsided sensuality
Eventually
led
to a Christian climax
Of
dualistic
balance between
The
flesh
and the spirit,
In
which
man assumed the mantle of God.
Modern
man,
however, is lopsided
On
the
side of the spirit
In
the
post-dualistic context
Of
transcendentalism,
And
is
accordingly drawing near his
end.
The
Superman
will be as different
From
modern
man as primitive man was
From
his
ape-like ancestor,
A
species
towards which
Transcendental
man
aspires.
We
need
not regret the passing of our own.
TRANSCENDENTAL
MAN
He
no
longer lives in a dualistic world
And
therefore
isn't partial to
Sexual
discrimination,
which he regards
As
a
regrettable anachronism.
He
doesn't
recognize females as women
But
increasingly
as 'lesser men',
And
expects
them both to behave
And
dress
like himself.
He
isn't
entirely averse to sex with women
But
prefers
plastic inflatables
Or
pornographic
models,
Regarding
marriage
as 'square'.
He
prefers
television to books
And
contemplation
to meditation,
Since
a
cross between man and
superman.
He
lives
in the city and substitutes
An
occasional
stroll through the park
For
life
in the country.
He
isn't
averse to essence
But
can
only approach it by degrees,
Availing
himself of spiritualized
appearance.
THE
SUPERMAN
The
Superman
isn't the thing
That
Nietzsche's
'great noontide'
Might
lead
one to believe,
But
a
life form superior to man
And
inferior
to the Superbeing.
The
Superman
won't be God but godly,
For
the
Holy Spirit will be transcendent,
While
the
Superman
Will
be
partly mundane
And
therefore
tied to the beastly.
But
he
will be far less sensual than man,
Because
freed
from the natural body
And
thereby
elevated
To
the
post-human heights of
A
brain
artificially ran.
Having
an
old brain
Will
keep
him inferior to the Superbeing
Of
the
millennial communes
Which
are
destined to supplant him
With
the
termination of all pain.
But
the
old brain will be
Kept
under
tight control
As
he
expands the new brain
With
the
aid of such synthetic drugs
As
the
leaders may extol.
And
thus
he will know a superior form
Of
upward
self-transcendence
To
transcendental
man,
Whose
television
spirituality in appearance
Is
the
contemporary norm.
THE
SUPERBEING
Man
stands
between ape and superman,
But
the
Superbeing will stand between
The
latter
and the Spiritual Globes,
Devoid
of
ego.
The
Superbeing won't require
The
assistance
of synthetic drugs
To
expand
consciousness upwards,
For
it
will be beyond the visionary.
Living
in
the light of superconscious
mind,
The
Superbeing will be solely concerned
With
the
cultivation of spirit, as a means
To
the
attainment of transcendence.
The
new
brains of the Superbeing
Will
be
fused together
Into
a
collective entity transcending
The
communal
separateness of supermen,
Each
new
brain being a component of
the whole.
And,
like
a tree whose leaves
Are
packed
closely together
And
significant
of sensual communalism,
The
Superbeing will signify
The
spiritual
communalism of
The
highest
phase of millennial
life.
There
will
be many such Superbeings
Throughout
the
planet,
And
they
will eventually
Attain
to
transcendence, becoming
Spiritual
Globes
which will merge
Into
one
another in the
transcendental Beyond.
SPIRITUAL
GLOBES
There
will
be many Spiritual Globes
Throughout
the
Universe, following
The
attainment
to transcendence by
The
Superbeings, but they will merge
With
those
nearest to themselves
And
thus
form progressively larger wholes.
These
Spiritual
Globes won't be things
But
metaphysical
states-of-mind,
And
because
they'll represent
Being
at
its purest, will be attracted
Towards
one
another in the
transcendental Beyond.
Doubtless
those
within the vicinity
Of
this
part of the Galaxy will merge
Into
wholes
which may in turn be attracted
Towards
those
in remoter parts of it,
So
that,
eventually, all
Spiritual
Globes there
Will
become
unified.
And
as
the attraction of other Spiritual Globes
From
other
galaxies is felt, so will those
Which
exert
the strongest attraction,
Presumably
because
they are larger,
Exert
the
most influence.
Thus
they
will attract
The
smaller
Spiritual Globes to themselves,
To
some
extent being pulled
But
to
a greater extent pulling,
Until
Spiritual
Globes from separate galaxies
Duly
become
merged.
And
with
the gradual merging
Of
these
'galactic globes' of pure spirit,
The
convergence
to the Omega Absolute
Will
be
nearer completion, requiring
Only
the
merging of more distant globes
To
form
the ultimate 'universal globe' ...
Of
God
... the Supreme Oneness.
STRESSING
THE
ESSENTIAL
Considered
in
its ultimate manifestation
Supreme
being would be
Antithetical
in
constitution to the stars,
And
therefore
it wouldn't shine
With
a
star-like radiance.
Rather,
this
supreme state-of-being
Would
be
all but invisible to sight,
Since
essence
rather than appearance
Is
the
attribute of an ultimate life.
Supreme
being could only be
Noumenally
experienced, never phenomenally seen,
And
it
would amount to a density
Of
pure
spirit glowing in the void
of space.
Such
a
density, if detectable, could
More
resemble
a Black Hole than a star.
Indeed,
it
might well constitute
What
are
now regarded as Black Holes
From
the
viewpoint of the optical
sense.
If
this
were so, then terms like
The
'Clear
Light of the Void' are
inadequate
For
describing
Ultimate Reality, since stressing
The
apparent
rather than the
essential.
God
as
supreme being wouldn't possess
The
apparent
attributes of a star,
But
would
be inner light - the opposite
Of
outer
light, whether clear or not.
The
Holy
Ghost is a better term for approaching
The
noumenal essence of Ultimate
Reality,
But
'pure
spirit' is better again,
Since
more
noumenally
specific.
A
bias
for any traditional world religion
Would
be
inappropriate to
The
ultimate
world religion.
We
must
adopt new terminology for
A
fresh
religious perspective.
WHY
THE
STATE WITHERS
If
the
State 'withers away',
In
Engels' oft-quoted phrase,
It
is
because religion flourishes.
The
State
cannot 'wither away' by itself,
But
only
in relation to the
flourishing of religion.
If
religion
doesn't flourish,
The
State
has no business 'withering away'.
It
cannot
abandon the world to chaos,
But
must
protect religious
progress.
The
Christian
religion, being dualistic,
Caused
the
State to 'wither away'
partially.
The
transcendental
religion of the future,
Being
post-dualistic,
will cause it
To
'wither
away' completely. And after
The
State
has
disappeared
There
will
only be religion, the religion
Of
the
supermen-superbeing phases
Of
the
post-Human Millennium, tending ever nearer
To
the
culmination of spiritual evolution
In
the
post-Millennial Beyond. Eventually
There
will
be no religion at all, but only God.
For
God
is the outcome of all striving
Towards
divine
transcendence.
MAKING
MORE
EQUAL
It
is
easier to treat woman as the equal of man
When
she
makes a determined attempt to be equal
Than
when
she insists on her
womanhood.
A
woman
with short hair and fingernails,
No
make-up,
dressed in pants and low-heels,
Is
more
likely to strike men as equal
Than
one
whose appearance is
traditionally feminine.
If
she
is well-educated and cultured to boot,
That
is
an even better reason
To
regard
her as an equal.
But
too
many women insist on being considered
The
equals
of men
When
they
make no real effort to be
so.
This
is
wrong; for a woman
Will
only
be treated as a 'lesser man'
When
she
looks and behaves like one.
At
present
sexual equality
Still
has
a long way to go,
Especially
when
women insist on taking
The
seats
offered them by well-intentioned,
Though
fundamentally
deluded, males
In
crowded
buses or trains.
A
truly
liberated woman, or 'lesser man',
Would
refuse
such an offer,
Deeming
it
unnecessary for one man
To
abandon
his seat for another.
And
so
it is, though
Only
equals
would know that!
A
woman
who doesn't look like an equal
Is
likely
to be treated unequally.
If,
in
future, women are treated more equally,
It
will
be because they'll be
More
masculinized
than at present.
A
post-dualistic
society should never
Think
dualistically,
though there will, of course,
Be
occasional
lapses, not least of all
In
regard
to propagation!
POST-ATOMIC
In
the
post-atomic society
There
will
be no particles,
For
the
proton aspect of the atom
Will
be
taboo to minds
Accustomed
to
electron freedom.
There
will
be only wavicles,
And
so
'matter' will have been de-materialized,
In
accordance
with the transcendental bias of
A
post-atomic
society.
As
nuclear
fission split the atom,
So
republicanism
wrenched man away from
The
galactic-world-order
in which
The
atomic
integrity at the basis of life prevailed.
No
longer
would proton humans
Lord
it
over an electron majority,
As
stars
dominate planets.
For
in
the post-atomic age
Such
a
majority must be
Free
from
diabolic constraint
In
order
that it may be set on
A
direct
course for transcendence, and hence
The
attainment
of life to the
transcendental Beyond.
POINTS
1-10
Evolution
begins
with the gaseous mass of stars
And
proceeds
from point 1 to
The
formation
of planets at point
2.
Then
comes
the development of life
On
the
planets that, at the lowest level,
We
can
designate as plants
Which,
at
point 3, are subconsciously-dominated.
With
point
4, however, we arrive
At
the
autonomous life forms
Of
the
beasts (whether bird, fish, insect, animal,
Or
reptile),
and evolution then proceeds
To
point
5, which is pagan man,
Who
is
also subconsciously-dominated,
Though
capable
of further
development.
This
leads
to the dualistic stage
Of
human
evolution at points 5/6,
When
the
subconscious and the superconscious
Are
approximately
in balance,
And
with
the further development
Of
the
superconscious we proceed from
there
To
transcendental
man at point 6 -
The
opposite
of point 5. Transcendental man
Is
then
superseded by the Superman who,
As
a
brain artificially supported
And
sustained
in communal contexts, signifies
A
further
development of the superconscious,
And
stands
at point 7,
The
opposite
of the beasts at point
4.
With
the
removal of the old brain
From
the
superman's stage of evolution,
And
the
intensified communization
Of
artificially
supported and sustained new-brains,
We
arrive
at point 8, when
A
life
form antithetical in constitution
To
the
plants (and particularly to trees)
At
point
3 is established,
Which
has
been called the Superbeing.
Now
evolutionary
progress has only to attain
To
a
point antithetical to the planets
For
the
Spiritual Globes of point 9
To
bring
it closer to its ultimate
consummation.
From
there,
these separate globes of pure spirit
Have
only
to merge into one another
In
the
transcendental Beyond to form, at point 10,
The
Omega
Absolute, antithetical in every respect
To
the
Alpha Absolute(s) ... of the
infernal stars.
EVOLUTIONARY
PRESSURES
Every
human
being stems from the Diabolic Alpha
And
also
aspires towards the Divine Omega,
But
no
two human beings stem from
Or
aspire
towards to exactly the same extent.
The
higher
the man, the more will he
Aspire
towards
the Divine Omega.
The
lower
the man, the more he will
Stem
from
the Diabolic Alpha.
Generally
speaking,
babies, children, youths,
Women,
and
tyrants stem from the Diabolic Alpha
To
a
greater extent than they aspire
Towards
its
antithesis in transcendent spirit,
And
for
this reason such creatures
Will
rarely
be popular with higher men,
Who
as
often as not lead a saint-like existence,
Scorning
all
but the minimum of sensuality
In
allegiance
to their spiritual
aspirations.
But
higher
men are comparatively rare
Even
in
this ostensibly advanced age,
And
are
generally regarded as cranks or perverts
By
the
vulgar majority.
Nevertheless
evolutionary
progress requires
That
an
aspiration towards the Divine Omega
Be
stepped-up
at the expense of
A
stemming
from the Diabolic Alpha,
And
therefore
that mankind become
More
spiritual
the higher they evolve.
Doubtless
babies,
children, youths, women,
And
tyrants
will remain victims
Of
a
certain inescapable level of sensuality
For
as
long as they exist.
Nonetheless
the
pressure will be on adults
To
improve
their level of commitment
To
the
Divine Omega over the coming
centuries.
Eventually
there
will be no human beings at all
But
only
Supermen, and so man
Will
have
been 'overcome' in the interests
Of
a
greater spiritual commitment
Than
ever
he could manage, what with
His
natural
body and sensual
obligations.
Only
a
brain artificially supported and sustained
Would
really
be in an evolutionary position
To
expand
spirit to any radical extent,
An
expansion
which could only presuppose
Subsequent
transformations
... as appertaining
To
still
higher stages of post-human
life.
But
there
will be fools and ignoramuses among
The
People
who will persist
In
trying
to thwart evolutionary progress
And
prevent
such an eventuality
From
finally
coming to pass.
These
fools
and ignoramuses will stem
From
the
Diabolic Alpha to a greater extent
Than
they
aspire towards the Divine Omega,
Opposing
those
who are morally
above them.
Life
is
often a struggle between
These
two
opposing tendencies,
Which
respectively
reflect 'the bad' and 'the good'.
No
matter
what the situation 'the good'
Must
continue
their struggle against 'the bad'
In
order
to improve the quality of life
In
this
world, and should eventually
Triumph
over
them altogether, bringing
Higher
life
on earth closer
To
salvation
in spiritual
transcendence.
To
the
extent that the world is natural
It
is
bad, because barbarous.
To
the
extent that the world is artificial
It
is
good, because civilized.
The
world
only becomes better to the extent
That
the
artificial predominates
over the natural.
For
the
more artificial it becomes,
The
closer
it draws to the Supernatural, and thus
To
the
attainment of the highest life form,
In
the
guise of collectivized new-brains
Artificially
supported
and sustained, to
The
transcendental
Beyond in which, ultimately,
Only
the
Omega Absolute
Of
undifferentiated
transcendent spirit
Will
prevail
for all eternity.
THE
HIGHER
POET
The
transcendental
poet
Will
die
to the outer world
The
better
to create
The
superior
poetry of the inner
one.
Essence
will
supplant appearance
In
his
creative rebirth
As
a
transcendentalist.
ELECTRON
FREEDOM
Not
like
a bourgeois,
Bound
victim
of an atomic integrity
In
his
enslavement to grammatical determinism,
But
as
a proletarian,
Free
creator
of a free-electron poetry
In
pursuit
of post-atomic freedom.
EITHER
OR
The
lower
philosopher leans towards science,
The
higher
one towards literature.
The
higher
novelist leans towards poetry,
The
lower
one towards philosophy.
The
lower
poet leans towards literature,
The
higher
one - towards the
Infinite.
SELF-JUDGEMENT
Not
everyone
can come to my work
With
an
open mind.
There
are
many who will
Shy
away
from it,
Like
Dracula
from the Cross,
In
fear
of what it reveals.
THE
ULTIMATE
ESSENCE
What
began
externally must end internally.
Transcendent
spirit
won't shine
In
the
transcendental Beyond, like a star, but will entail
A
deeper
depth within the depths of space -
The
ultimate
essence,
Not
the
primal appearance.
BRIGHT
AND
DARK
People
who
dress garishly,
In
ostentatious
colours,
Approximate
more
to the Diabolic Alpha
Than
to
the Divine Omega.
Those
who
dress in dark clothes
Are
usually
of a constitution
More
spiritual
than sensual.
The
former
are generally
The
most
ignoble females,
The
latter
more often the noblest males;
The
former
more often young than old,
The
latter
generally old.
MORE
GOD
THAN MAN
A
genius
is made, not born.
There
is
no such thing as a natural genius.
Men
of
genius are the most artificial people,
The
ones
furthest removed from nature
In
their
conduct of life.
Circumstances
and
effort have combined
To
make
them what they are -
The
nearest
human beings to the
Divine Omega.
SYNTHESIZED
VOICE
Musician,
if
you must sing,
Put
your
voice through a synthesizer,
In
order
that it may be rendered
Artificial
in
tone and produce sounds
At
a
transcendent remove from the
natural.
You
will
create the most civilized singing!
DISPELLING
A
FUTURISTIC MYTH
The
Universe
is assuredly very vast
But
there's
no reason for us to attempt exploring it all.
Exploring
the
Solar System
To
which
our planet belongs is no mean task,
And
should
suffice to satisfy the curiosity
Of
space-oriented
adventurers for some time to come!
Eventually
man
may extend his curiosity
To
other
solar systems in the Galaxy;
Though
there
is no guarantee of the fact,
And
I
rather doubt that such an extension
Would
serve
him much good.
It
is
more probable that the nearest solar systems
Won't
differ
too greatly from our own than
The
converse
and, that being the case, there can be
Scant
justification
for man's exploring them,
Since
they
won't have all that much
to teach him.
The
idea
that he will come into contact
With
creatures
from outer space is also suspect,
Especially
when
such creatures are envisaged
As
being
superior to him
In
intelligence
and evolutionary
sophistication.
For
a
life form superior to man,
And
particularly
to the transcendental men
Of
the
ultimate human civilization, could only be
At
the
Superman's stage of evolution - assuming
It
wasn't
a Superbeing - and to be at
such a stage
Is
to
have the human brain artificially supported
And
sustained
in communal contexts
For
purposes
of spiritual
expansion.
No
life
form superior to man
Would
therefore
be inclined to explore space,
After
the
fashion of transitional or transcendental men,
And
risk
contact, for better or worse,
With
space-exploring
humans.
Beyond
man,
the pattern of evolution
Would
seem
to lead, via the post-Human Millennium,
To
the
transcendental Beyond, which is space considered
As
the
setting for separate globes
Of
transcendent
spirit to converge and expand,
Tending,
all
the while, towards definitive unity
In
the
omega point ... of the
ultimate spiritual globe.
The
transcendental
Beyond is synonymous with Heaven;
Though
beneath
this there is also
The
earthly
Beyond ... of the post-Human
Millennium,
Here
we
are, men tending towards
The
transcendental
civilization,
And
ahead
of us we glimpse the post-Human Millennium,
Which,
as
its name suggests, is
beyond
The
human
stages of evolution.
But
the
transcendental Beyond ... of
Heaven
Is
beyond
even the post-Human Millennium,
And
thus
isn't set on earth but in space,
So
that
evolution will attain to a culmination
With
the
establishment of the Omega Absolute
In
the
same setting as the Alpha Absolute(s) ...
Of
the
stars are now in
And
have
always been in - namely space.
So
what
began in space will also end there,
Though
on
the most antithetical terms conceivable.
We,
however,
exist on the planet Earth
And
therefore
can look in two ways:
Either
'back'
to the stars or 'forward' towards
The
future
attainment of spirit to
the transcendental Beyond.
We
are
already a bit transcendent on the Earth;
For
the
stars are akin to the roots of evolution
And
accordingly
set in space on the most basic terms.
Christian
theology
wasn't mistaken to posit Hell as 'below';
For,
indeed,
in looking at the sun
And
other
nearby stars we are effectively
Looking
back
and down, as it were,
To
the
diabolic roots of evolution,
Even
if
our heads happen to be inclined-up
At
an
acute angle in the process.
Sensual
indulgence
of one form or another
Was
punishable,
at death, by banishment from Heaven,
And
artists
valiantly strove to depict
The
Damned being pitchforked
down towards Hell,
Where
fire
was the cardinal
element.
Theology
exaggerated,
but it did so with reason,
Since
the
man who is more sensual than spiritual
Stems
from
the Diabolic Alpha
To
a
greater extent than he aspires
Towards
the
Divine Omega, and,
When
his
respective predilections have been added-up
And
weighed
in the theological balance
At
the
conclusion of his earthly life,
May
well
be more qualified for
damnation than salvation.
In
the
Christian schema most people
Of
early-Christian
times were
Foregone
candidates
for damnation; since
The
ratio
of sensuality to spirituality can only be greater
The
lower
the stage of human
evolution.
Damnation
scenes
rightly preponderate
Over
salvation
ones in medieval
iconography.
Saints
were
then, as now, the exception to the rule.
But
we
of a post-Christian age
Should
be
struggling more towards Heaven
Than
sliding
or falling back
towards Hell.
We
may
look at the stars,
But
few
of us would desire to embrace them!
We
prefer
them where they are
And
to
distance ourselves from
them.
Our
aspirations
tend towards the transcendental Beyond,
Even
if
unconsciously and without
fanaticism.
Evolution
continues
whether or not we know why.
It
happens
all around us and we are caught-up in it.
Even
when
we don't directly participate
In
a
particular aspect of evolutionary progress,
We
read
or hear about it or see a recording of it
And
are
influenced by it.
Spacemen
are
a part of our mental universe,
Just
as
we are a part of the
physical one.
For
the
Universe isn't just stars and
planets
With
space
in-between, but also (at higher levels),
Plants,
animals,
and humans,
And
so
evolves from a physical to a spiritual level
Via
intermediate
life forms.
Eventually
the
Universe will culminate
In
pure
spirit, or one vast globe of transcendence,
But
it
cannot get to that ultimate stage
Without
the
interim life forms struggling up
Towards
the
goal of evolution in supreme being.
Transcendental
men
of the coming world civilization
Will
continue
the struggle
From
where
Christian men left off,
And
then
be superseded by Supermen,
Who
in
turn will be superseded by Superbeings,
Before
spiritual
globes emerge from the Earth.
Only
on
the higher human levels,
The
transitional
and transcendental ones,
Is
there
any possibility of contact being established
With
aliens
from other solar systems;
For
no
superman would desire to waste time
Exploring
farther
afield in space
When
there
was spirit to cultivate in his psyche on Earth.
As
evolution
progresses, so life becomes
Increasingly
interiorized,
rendering
External
adventure
of progressively less importance,
Until,
with
the Supermen, it ceases to play any role at all.
The
space-research
programmes
Of
both
the Americans and the Russians
Of
contemporary
transitional civilization
May
well
constitute a kind of
Human
peak
of space exploration,
Since
men
of the future transcendental civilization
Will
generally
be more interiorized than contemporary men,
And
correspondingly
less inclined
To
indulge
in external adventure.
Doubtless,
some
space research will continue;
But
there
is no reason for us to suppose
That
it
will bring transcendental man
Into
contact
with aliens from outer space
Or
extend
very far beyond this solar system.
There
shouldn't
be any space wars
Between
humans
and aliens, at any rate,
Because
the
most advanced stage of human life
Should
be
categorically above war,
And
would
not have put an end to war
Between
human
beings simply in order
To
start
it up with aliens
On
a
much wider and possibly more
horrific scale.
As
men
progress to higher levels of civilization,
So
they
become more spiritual, and hence passive,
Not
given
to historical levels of violence.
We
needn't
expect transcendental men
To
go
looking for trouble with their alien counterparts
In
the
farthest reaches of the
Galaxy.
Such
men
may initially have cause
To
rage
space conflict between themselves
(Or,
more
specifically, between advocates of
Transcendentalism
and
upholders of materialism), but
With
the
advent of the post-Human Millennium on earth
All
possibility
of such wars should cease.
For
the
Supermen will be beings of peace in the truest sense -
Dedicated
to
the contemplation
Of
internal
visionary experience, and hence
The
expansion
of the superconscious mind.
Space,
fortunately,
would be beneath them!
