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ALPHA
AND
OMEGA -
Diabolic Beginning
and Divine End
Cyclic
Philosophy
Copyright
©
2011 John O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
PART
ONE
1.
Who
Precedes What or What precedes
Whom?
2.
Returning
to One's 'Maker'
3.
Fathers
and Sons vis-à-vis Mothers and Daughters
4.
The
Dualities of both Soma and Psyche
5.
Posthumous
Fates of the Genders in relation to Class
6.
The
Gender Basis of Conflicting Freedoms
7.
The
Relationships between Work and Play
8.
As in the Beginning, so Not Quite in
the End
PART
TWO
1.
Devolution
and Evolution in Perspective
2.
The
Subversion of Knowledge
3.
Alternative
Afterdeath and Afterlife
Experiences
4.
State
Soma and Church Psyche
5.
Contrasting
Freedoms of Barbarism and Culture
6.
Empiricism
and Rationalism Reviewed
7.
Failed
Alternatives to the Liberal World
8.
Returning
to Self
PART
THREE
1.
Concrete
and Abstract Revaluated
2.
Fictional
Knowledge and True Knowledge
3.
Factual
Primacy vis-à-vis Truthful Supremacy
4.
Primacy
and Supremacy in the Elements
5.
Divisions
in both the Self and the Not-Self
6.
The
Many and the One
7.
The
Tune and Dance of the Many
8.
Returning
(progressively) to the One
PART
FOUR
1.
Contrary
types of Virtue and Vice
2.
Psychic
Virtue vis-à-vis Somatic Vice
3.
Fictional
and Illusory Hegemonies
4.
Evil
or Wisdom, the Gender Choice
5.
Sin
and Punishment
6.
The
Virtue of Self-promotion
7.
The
Prerogative of Man
8.
The
Prerogative of God
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PART
ONE
WHO
PRECEDES
WHAT OR WHAT PRECEDES WHOM?
1. Soma and psyche, the nature and nurture,
the
not-self and self of life as it devolves on the female, or objective,
side of things
from most soma and least psyche, most particles and least wavicles,
in the Cosmos to more (relative to most) soma and less (relative to
least)
psyche, more particles and less wavicles,
in Nature,
and evolves on the male, or subjective, side of things from more
(relative to
most) psyche and less (relative to least) soma, more wavicles
and less particles, in Man to most psyche and least soma, most
particles and
least wavicles, in the Cyborg;
which is to say, regresses from the Devil to Woman in fire and water,
but
progresses from Man to God in vegetation (earth) and air, as we plot an
overall
elemental chronology, both within and without historical time, from the
noumenal objectivity of metachemistry
in space-time devolution and the phenomenal objectivity of chemistry in
volume-mass devolution to the phenomenal subjectivity of physics in
mass-volume
evolution and the noumenal subjectivity of
metaphysics in time-space evolution, as from the somatic freedoms of
will and
spirit to the psychic freedoms of ego and soul.
2. Hence things could be said to proceed,
whether regressively or progressively, in devolutionary descent or
evolutionary
ascent, from the metachemical context of
appearances
to the metaphysical context of essences par
excellence via the chemical
context of quantities and the physical context of qualities par
excellence,
as from power to content(ment) via glory
and form,
doing to being via giving and taking, will to soul via spirit and ego,
though
always with 'everything within everything' in different ratios and with
different emphases according to the gender and/or class status of the
element
concerned, be it fiery, watery, vegetative, or airy.
3. In literary terms, this would be like
plotting a regression from poetry to drama on the one hand, that of a
female
objectivity necessarily affiliated to or stemming from a vacuum, and
plotting a
progression from fiction to philosophy on the other hand, that of a
male
subjectivity necessarily centred in or appertaining to a plenum, the
context in
which, contrary to vacuums, psyche precedes soma rather than vice versa.
4. For when we ask ourselves, in somewhat Wildean fashion, whether matter precedes mind or
mind
precedes matter, we are obliged to answer, if wise and truly
insightful, that
the distinction which Wilde himself drew between matter over mind in
relation
to females and mind over matter (or, rather, morals, but unlike him we
shan't
be facetious!) in relation to males obliges us to concede a place to
both
tendencies, since a somatic predominance, as in the Cosmos and Nature,
is only
possible on the objective basis of particles preceding wavicles,
whereas a psychic predominance, as in Man and (to anticipate the
future) the Cyborg, is only possible on
the subjective basis of wavicles preceding
particles, so that the answer to the
age-old question as to whether matter precedes mind or mind precedes
matter can
only be accurately answered on the basis of the precedence of mind by
matter,
of psyche by soma, in regard to the objective, or female, elements of
fire and
water, in contrast to the precedence of matter by mind, of soma by
psyche, in
regard to the subjective, or male, elements of vegetation and air.
5. Hence the ability to draw a gender
distinction on the above objective/subjective, vacuum/plenum, particle/wavicle basis is the beginning of all wisdom and
guarantor
of philosophical truth, of a more comprehensively exacting and credible
perspective, since it saves one from projecting, consciously or
unconsciously,
a single gender perspective on to the answer and, indeed, question in
the first
place, thereby enabling one to distinguish between those contexts,
necessarily
vacuously objective, in which soma precedes psyche, the not-self the
self, and
those contexts, by contrast, in which, due to subjective attributes
deriving
from a plenum, psyche precedes soma, the self the not-self, which gives
us a
clear-cut gender-based distinction between the femaleness, in metachemistry and chemistry, of those elements by which, on the basis of a particle hegemony,
it can be categorically maintained that matter precedes mind, and the
maleness,
in physics and metaphysics, of those elements by which, on the basis of
a wavicle hegemony, it can be maintained
with equal
categorical assurance that mind precedes matter, although the use of
such
facile terms as 'matter' and 'mind' is of less value, philosophically,
than the
more clinical distinction between soma and psyche, not-self and self,
will
and/or spirit and ego and/or soul, since mind is less purely psychic
than a
consequence of what happens when egocentric psyche is free, in male
vein, to
condition and modify the will of the relevant subjective order of soma
towards
consciousness, thereby establishing conscious will, which is the
somatic
counterpart to the modification of spirit by soul in such contexts,
which I
have hitherto - and I believe correctly - characterized as 'subspirit',
or subconscious spirit.
6. For will, spirit, ego, and soul do not
exist
as equal components in every element, be it female objective or male
subjective, but either will and spirit condition ego and soul, as in
those
female contexts where soma is free, in hegemonic particles, to maintain
the
psychic determinism of id and superego, instinctualized
soul and spiritualized ego, or, by gender contrast, ego and soul
condition will
and spirit, as in those male contexts where psyche is free, in
hegemonic wavicles, to maintain the
somatic determinism of mind and subspirit,
intellectualized (conscious) will and
emotionalized spirit.
7. Therefore whilst will and spirit are
very
much factors of a somatic predominance, ego and soul are only genuinely
possible in relation to a psychic predominance, the sort of
predominance which
follows from a plenum, in due subjective vein, and enables us to infer
the
precedence of soma by psyche, of not-self by self, the former of which
is
accordingly modified by the latter in relation to a male hegemony.
8. But when psyche is modified by soma, as
in
the objective contexts of a female hegemony, we have to infer the
precedence of
psyche by soma, of self by not-self, since particle hegemonies are only
authentically possible in relation to a vacuum, and such a vacuum
characterizes
both the most particle and least wavicle
absolutism
of the Cosmos and the more (relative to most) particle and less
(relative to
least) wavicle relativity of Nature,
conceiving of
the former in a mainly metachemical light
and the
latter in a mainly chemical one, so that the elements of fire and water
are
respectively preponderant.
9. Therefore it can only be said that 'God
created matter' in relation to the metaphysical self and its
association with
the metaphysical not-self, the 'matter', or soma, of the airy context
in
question, be it sensual or sensible, foolish or wise, of the ears or of
the
lungs. It cannot even be said of the
physical self and its association with the physical not-self, the soma
of a
vegetative mean, be it phallic or cerebral, since that is not a context
of God
but, more phenomenally, of Man, even though the notion that 'Man
created
physical matter' is logically valid, and follows from the tendency of a
free
psyche centred in ego to fashion things in its formal image in respect
to the
development of civilization through knowledge, the masculine equivalent
of the
development, by the godly, of culture through truth.
10. But when we turn to the other side of the
gender fence, the objective side of a vacuous predilection for a
particle
hegemony, it cannot be said that either God or Man created or preceded
'matter', meaning the not-self or soma, since neither God nor Man are
relevant
there, but either the Devil or Woman, of whom it has to be said that in
neither
case did they create matter but that, judged in relation to the self,
matter
created or preceded them, though, in contrast to the primacy of God and
Man in
relation to the self on the male side of life, it is not the self which
is
primarily identifiable with either the Devil or Woman, even though
secondary
manifestations of each most certainly apply, but the not-self, which is
the
soma from out of which psyche emerged, albeit on a subordinate basis,
given the
vacuously-conditioned objective bias of the female gender for not-self
over
self or, in Wilde's proverbial phrase, 'matter over mind', viz. soma
over psyche.
11. Therefore if it could be said - and this
contrary to how I used to think - that
the Father takes precedence over the Son with both Man and God, physics
and
metaphysics, it would also have to be the case that, in parallel terms,
the
Mother takes precedence over the Daughter with both the Devil and
Woman, metachemistry and chemistry, since
the Daughter is the
subordinate psychic factor in contexts where soma, and hence the
Mother, must
predominate in view of their objective nature and consequent tendency
to put
the not-self above the self.
12. Consequently the Daughter stems from the
Mother, psyche from soma, in regard to both the metachemical
fieriness of the Devil and the chemical wateriness of Woman, while the
Son
stems from the Father, soma from psyche, in regard to both the physical
vegetativeness of Man and the metaphysical
airiness of God,
who, for us, is less a bona
fide contemporary reality, higher-man
exceptions to the general rule notwithstanding, than something or,
rather,
someone who will only come properly into his own in the more
metaphysical
future, when history moves beyond the dominion over the earth of Man
and
embraces the dominion beyond the earth of the Cyborg,
who
will
bring godliness to a more authentic pitch than that at which it
has
ever existed in the past.
13. For God is not in the Beginning, with the
Cosmos, but in the End, with the Cyborg,
and until we
officially embrace the coming age of the Cyborg
through 'Kingdom Come', as defined by me in previous texts, we shall
continue
to live with either the hype of Man as God, as in the Christian
tradition, the
hype of Woman as God, as in the Marian and Heathen traditions, or the
hype,
worse again, of the Devil as God, as in all those Creator-worshipping paganistic traditions which, in their
identification of God
with a fiery 'First Mover', unwittingly accord divinity to that context
in
which the diabolism of most particle and least wavicle,
most
soma
and least psyche, is scientifically uppermost - namely, the Cosmos.
14. We have a lot to do, especially those of us
who are less than partial to any of the three false traditions noted
above,
before proper justice can be done to God and the concept thereof! We have to reject the hype, the falsehoods,
the subversions of Godliness by Cosmos-slavering devils,
Nature-worshipping
women, and Man-affirming men, before any prospect of Cyborg-oriented
gods can be expected to come to pass in heavenly contrast to both Hell
and the
World. Whereof
'Judgement' has its place as the electoral pathway to 'Kingdom Come'.
RETURNING
TO
ONE'S 'MAKER'
1. There is a sense in which 'As in the
Beginning, so in the End' has some relevance to life, though not, I
contend, in
relation to the distinction between the alpha and omega of things, the
Cosmos
and the Cyborg, since we hold with the
view that the
former is more characteristic of the Devil and the latter of God, and
that no
greater distinction, amounting to a noumenal
(absolute) antithesis in time and space between objectivity and
subjectivity,
could be imagined.
2. No, rather the worth of this biblical
proverb
is to be discerned in the distinction between psyche-out-of-soma on the
one
hand, and soma-out-of-psyche on the other, as between that which is
female in
its particle-hegemonic objectivity and that, by contrast, which is male
in its wavicle-hegemonic subjectivity, so
that both the Devil and
Woman, the Cosmos and Nature, could be said to represent a tendency to
return
to soma in the end, whereas both Man and God, Civilization and the Cyborg, could be said to represent the contrary
tendency to
return to psyche in the end, since what began in soma must return to
soma no
less surely than what began in psyche must return to psyche.
3. There is even a biblical saying about
'ashes
to ashes and dust to dust', and if I am not mistaken in my
interpretation of
this, it would seem to reflect acknowledgement of a gender distinction
between
female 'dust' and male 'ashes', between soma and psyche, primacy and
supremacy,
objectivity and subjectivity, whether in relation to devils and women
in the
case of females, or in relation to men and gods in the case of males,
given the
class distinctions which exist between those whose principal
affiliation is to
time and space, viz. devils and gods, and those, by contrast, whose
principal
affiliation is to volume and mass, viz. women and men.
4. Therefore whether one is primarily of
the metachemical objectivity of space-time
devolution, like
upper-class females, or primarily of the chemical objectivity of
volume-mass
devolution, like lower-class females, dresses and skirts of
respectively
eyes-to-heart devils and tongue-to-womb women, one will return to soma
in the
end, as 'dust to dust', since females represent the triumph of matter
over
mind, of soma over psyche, whether scientifically, as it were, in
relation to
the most particles and least wavicles of metachemistry or politically ... in relation to
the more
(relative to most) particles and less (relative to least) wavicles
of chemistry, with apparent and quantitative distinctions between
upper-class
doing and lower-class giving, the will and the spirit, with only a
subordinate
psyche characterized by the id and the superego, respectively, of the
Daughter.
5. Conversely, whether one is primarily of
the physical
subjectivity of mass-volume evolution, like lower-class males, or
primarily of
the metaphysical subjectivity of time-space evolution, like upper-class
males,
trousers (or pants/jeans) and zippersuits
of
respectively phallus-to-brain men and ears-to-lungs gods, one will
return to
psyche in the end, as 'ashes to ashes', since males represent the
triumph of
mind over matter, of psyche over soma, whether economically, as it
were, in
relation to the more (relative to most) wavicles
and
less (relative to least) particles of physics or religiously ... in
relation to
the most wavicles and least particles of
metaphysics,
with qualitative and essential distinctions between lower-class taking
and
upper-class being, the ego and the soul, with only a subordinate soma
characterized by the mind and the subspirit,
respectively,
of
the Son.
6. Consequently it takes no great stretch
of the
imagination to see that what returns, having begun in soma, to soma in
the end
is unlikely to have much by way of afterlife experience, whereas what
returns,
having begun in psyche, to psyche in the end is almost sure to
experience an
afterlife, since such experience is only possible in relation to
psyche, to the
self, and never more so than in regard to that self which was partial,
in
upper-class male vein, to metaphysics in life and therefore primarily
concerned
with the well-being of the soul. For it
is in the context of most wavicles and
least
particles, most psyche and least soma, that
the soul
comes most alive and lives the life eternal through metaphysics.
7. In almost absolute contrast to that
context
of most particles and least wavicles, most
soma and
least psyche, in which the will is predominant and one has a sort of
eternal
death through metachemistry, through the
darkness of
soma which, no matter how superficially bright the psychic surface may
appear
in its id-like radiance, is chiefly characteristic of the context in
question.
8. Therefore while gods can expect to go
into
the light of a metaphysical eternity in the Afterlife, devils can
expect
nothing more than the darkness of a metachemical
eternity, since what began in soma must return via a brief flare-up of instinctualized soul, viz. the id, to soma and
fade-out
into nothingness, whereas what began in psyche must return via
the
giving-up of emotionalized spirit, viz. the subspirit,
to
psyche
and rise up into somethingness,
the somethingness that owes its being to a
soulful plenum as
opposed, like the somatic nothingness of eternal death, to a wilful
vacuum.
9. But what applies to devils and gods,
genuinely upper-class females and males of a space/time highness, also
applies,
if to a lesser extent, to women and men, genuinely lower-class females
and
males of a volume/mass lowness, whose soma-over-psyche in the feminine
case and
psyche-over-soma in the masculine case means that, in the comparative
relativity of their phenomenal integrities, soma returns to soma as, in
some
sense, 'maternal dust to dust' less quickly and completely with women
while,
conversely, psyche returns to psyche as 'paternal ashes to ashes' less
quickly
and completely with men, as each gender rots away in relatively
intermediate
afterlife states which we may characterize as purgatorial in the one
case and
earthly in the other, since neither women nor men are so somatic or
psychic as
to warrant either the hellish extreme of virtually total darkness or
the
heavenly extreme of virtually total light, psychic extinction or
somatic
irrelevance, but must needs fade-out via the extinction of superego or
flare-up
via the extinction of mind more modestly in the contexts of a temporal
death.
10. Of course, the afterlives or afterdeaths of the respective genders and
classes are
really somewhat limited in duration, since extensive decomposition of
the
corpse does not accord with infinite duration of either somatic
negativity or
psychic positivity, whether on an absolute
or a
relative basis. I believe I have dealt
adequately with this subject in previous texts, and the reader familiar
with my
work should recall that the prospects for a Christian-type burial these
days
are not what they used to be, and are hardly likely to improve in the
course of
time.
11. Neither, of course, is Christianity as
relevant as was formerly the case, and many people would choose not to
be
buried but, rather, incinerated at their local crematorium. In view of the female-dominated nature of the
age, of the sensual hegemonies that owe more to objectivity than to
subjectivity, including the prevalence of cathode-ray-tube popular
culture,
this need not surprise us, even though it may be cause for alarm as far
as
males are concerned, since if, as I believe, they are more likely to
experience
an afterlife than females, given their psychic predominance, then they
must
surely be the ones who would have most to lose by opting for cremation
instead
of burial.
12. And yet, one cannot reverse time and undo
existing technologies (though modify and overhaul them one assuredly
can), nor
expect most people to return to criteria more relevant to a suburban
and even
town-like culture than to what is chiefly characteristic, in our
cosmopolitan metropolises, of the
age,
as though Christianity was still more applicable than the patently heathenistic and even paganistic
parallels which underlie so much contemporary secular culture. The solution to this dilemma has, I believe,
already been posed, and it will require that the cities - and therefore
the
majority of people - take full responsibility for their religious
future and
opt, democratically and urbanely, for an alternative to crematorial
perdition in which, by degrees, the cyborgization
of
life, commensurate with a more evolved age, will provide the means by
which
life may continue virtually indefinitely and reach peaks of eternity
that not
even posthumous eternal life could provide or rival, thereby swinging
things
back in the male's favour and allowing him to dictate the terms not
merely of
psychic survival but of the enhancement of psyche in relation to a
variety of
synthetic and yogic practises.
FATHERS
AND
SONS VIS-À-VIS MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
1. Genuine philosophy can
be a wonderful thing, a marvellously liberating and mentally enriching
procedure. But it can also be a real
problem when one is obliged, through enhanced logic, to review and even
revise
a long-held position, no matter how justified it may have seemed in the
past. My own recent rethink in relation
to the respective positions of the Father and the Son is a case in
point, for I
have long been arguing in favour of the identification of the Son with
the self
and of the Father with the not-self, thereby according pride of place,
so to
speak, to the former.
2. How wrong and misguided I was! For as psyche precedes soma with males, so it
must follow that the Father precedes the Son, that the Father is what
comes
first and the Son afterwards, since fathers and sons are like that, and
this
whether in physics, where we can distinguish between manly modes of
each, or in
metaphysics, where the distinction between them is rather more godly.
3. Granted, further, a distinction between
foolish and wise, sensual and sensible manifestations of both the manly
and
godly modes of the Father and the Son, we should also allow for their
earthly
and heavenly counterparts in unholiness
and holiness,
sensuality and sensibility, with respect to both the spirit and the
soul, as
before.
4. Hence, in sensible metaphysics, which is
the
salvation of the godly from the folly of its sensual counterpart, we
must allow,
contrary to how I used to think, for a distinction between
God-the-Wise-Father
and Heaven-the-Holy-Soul in relation to the self, to psyche, on the one
hand,
and God-the-Wise-Son and Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit in relation to the
not-self, to
soma, on the other hand, so that it is the Father and not the Son of
the
context in question which should be identified with the ego, with
ego-through-spirit-via-will equalling soulful recoil, as one
consciously
plunges, as God-the-Wise-Father, into the will of the lungs to breathe
(as
God-the-Wise-Son) and is borne aloft on the out-breath (of
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit) only to recoil, in self-preservation, to self
more
profoundly, as Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, wherein one's redemption, or
resurrection
from ego to soul, is complete, and one achieves a state of joy, the
reward of
truth.
5. But both God-the-Wise-Father and
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul are graceful in their different ways, the former
in
relation to the more (relative to most) wavicles
and
less (relative to least) particles, more psyche and less soma, of the
relevant
ego, the latter in relation to the most wavicles
and
least particles, most psyche and least soma, of the relevant soul,
since the
metaphysical self is, in contrast to the metaphysical not-self, alone
graceful in
its psychic predominance, and to the self in question is granted the
sacredness
of truth and joy, which contrasts with the falsity and woe of the
not-self
wherein profanity has its sinful throne in a somatic predominance, in
the most
particles and least wavicles, most soma
and least
psyche, of God-the-Wise-Son, and in the more (relative to most)
particles and
less (relative to least) wavicles, more
soma and less
psyche, of Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit, both of which, existing in relation
to a
particle hegemony, are always negative, even in the inner metaphysical
context
in question where, of course, they have reference to the lungs and the
breath.
6. Therefore even in the saved context of
Godliness and Heavenliness, wherein absolute wisdom and holiness have
their
respective places, we have to distinguish between the gracefulness of
God-the-Wise-Father and Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, and the sinfulness of
God-the-Wise-Son and Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit, psyche and soma, sanctity
and
profanity, primary and secondary orders of God and Heaven, since only
in
contexts of a wavicle hegemony is there
anything
positive, whether in relation to ego or to soul, the qualitative and
essential
manifestations of a quadruplicity
dependent upon the
utilization of wilful appearances and spiritual quantities.
7. Hence, in inner metaphysical psyche, the
sensible truth of God-the-Wise-Father and the sensible joy of
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, as opposed, in the inner metaphysical soma of
lungs and
breath, to the sensible falsity of God-the-Wise-Son and the sensible
woe of
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit, all of which contrast, in absolute salvation,
with the
sensual truth, in outer metaphysical psyche, of God-the-Unwise-Father
and the
sensual joy of Heaven-the-Unholy-Soul vis-à-vis the sensual falsity, in
outer
metaphysical soma, of God-the-Unwise-Son and the sensual woe of
Heaven-the-Unholy-Spirit, viz. ears and airwaves.
8. But hence, too, in inner physical
psyche, the
sensible knowledge of Man-the-Wise-Father and the sensible pleasure of
Earth-the-Holy-Soul, as opposed, in the inner physical soma of brain
and
thought, to the sensible ignorance of Man-the-Wise-Son and the sensible
pain of
Earth-the-Holy-Spirit, all of which contrast, in relative salvation,
with the
sensual knowledge, in outer physical psyche, of Man-the-Unwise-Father
and the
sensual pleasure of Earth-the-Unholy-Soul vis-à-vis the sensual
ignorance, in
outer physical soma, of Man-the-Unwise-Son and the sensual pain of
Earth-the-Unholy-Spirit, viz. phallus and sperm.
9. But then, too, on the opposite side of
the
gender fence, in contexts where soma takes precedence over psyche, with
the
inner chemical soma of womb and amniotic fluid the sensible weakness of
Woman-the-Good-Mother and the sensible humility of
Purgatory-the-Unclear-Spirit, as opposed, in inner chemical psyche, to
the
sensible strength of Woman-the-Good-Daughter and the sensible pride of
Purgatory-the-Unclear-Soul, all of which contrast, in relative
damnation, with
the sensual weakness, in the tongue and saliva of outer chemical soma,
of
Woman-the-Evil-Mother and the sensual humility of
Purgatory-the-Clear-Spirit
vis-à-vis the sensual strength, in outer chemical psyche, of
Woman-the-Evil-Daughter and the sensual pride of
Purgatory-the-Clear-Soul.
10. And last and, from a divine standpoint,
avowedly least, in the inner metachemical
soma of
heart and blood, the sensible ugliness of Devil-the-Good-Mother and the
sensible hatred of Hell-the-Unclear-Spirit, as opposed, in inner metachemical psyche, to the sensible beauty of
Devil-the-Good-Daughter and the sensible love of Hell-the-Unclear-Soul,
all of
which contrast, in absolute damnation, with the sensual ugliness, in
the eyes
and optical light of outer metachemical
soma, of
Devil-the-Evil-Mother and the sensual hatred of Hell-the-Clear-Spirit
vis-à-vis
the sensual beauty, in outer metachemical
psyche, of
Devil-the-Evil-Daughter and the sensual love of Hell-the-Clear-Soul.
THE
DUALITIES
OF BOTH SOMA AND PSYCHE
1. We have argued that soma returns to soma
and
psyche to psyche, so that 'as in the beginning, so in the end', but
this is not
invariably in terms of Mother to Mother or Father to Father, since
while such a
return can and does happen, one must also allow for the spiritual
manifestation
of soma and the soulful manifestation of psyche, neither of which have
anything
to do with mothers or fathers, the former of which appertains to the
will and
the latter to the ego.
2. Therefore one can no more argue
exclusively
in favour of a return of soma to soma in the instinctual terms of the
Mother
than argue exclusively in favour of a return of psyche to psyche in the
egocentric terms of the Father, for
each element has a different fulcrum, or most characteristic attribute,
and no
two elements - and therefore class or gender parallels to them - are
the
same.
3. That which, as metachemistry,
is
almost
absolutely somatic in its most particle/least wavicle
subatomic ratio, is also, on that account, most wilful, most of the
will,
whereas that which, as chemistry, is only relatively somatic in its
more
(relative to most) particle/less (relative to least) wavicle
ratio is also, on that account, most spiritual, or most of the spirit. Consequently, females whose principal
affiliation, in upper-class fashion, is to the former will be
predestined to return
to soma primarily in terms of will, and hence the Mother, while those
whose
principal affiliation, in lower-class fashion, is to the latter will be
predestined to return to soma primarily in terms of spirit, and hence
some
purgatorial parallel.
4. Conversely, that which, as physics, is
only
relatively psychic in its more (relative to most) wavicle/less
(relative
to
least) particle subatomic ratio is also, on that account, most
egocentric, or most of the ego, whereas that which, as metaphysics, is
almost
absolutely psychic in its most wavicle/least
particle
ratio
is also, on that account, most soulful, or most of the soul. Consequently, males whose principal
affiliation, in lower-class fashion, is to the former will be
predestined to
return to psyche primarily in terms of ego, and hence the Father, while
those
whose principal affiliation, in upper-class fashion, is to the latter
will be
predestined to return to psyche primarily in terms of soul, and hence
some
heavenly parallel.
5. But even if we have to distinguish
between
two types of somatic return and two types of psychic return at death,
with due
class distinctions between the ethereal eternality of the somatic and
psychic
absolutisms on the one hand, and the corporeal temporality of the
somatic and
psychic relativities on the other hand, the former the extremes of afterdeath and afterlife experience, the latter
their more
moderate counterparts, we cannot leave the matter there, as though the
distinction between sensuality and sensibility were of no account in
determining the nature, as it were, of each type of posthumous
experience.
6. On the contrary, such a distinction is
crucial in determining whether the somatic afterdeath
for females and the psychic afterlife for males will be, as it were,
perceptual
or conceptual, outer or inner, superficial or profound.
For, in truth, the scales of posthumous
judgement tip in favour of either sensuality or sensibility according
to how
one, as an individual, had lived one's life, whether predominantly in
the
sensual contexts of evil and folly, clearness and unholiness,
or
predominantly
in the sensible contexts of wisdom and goodness, holiness
and
unclearness, so that justice will be done accordingly on both a class
and
gender basis.
7. Let us take the metaphysical context of
truth
and joy in the self, in psyche, as against falsity and woe in the
not-self, in
soma, which is the prevailing element for upper-class males of a godly
disposition. Such a disposition can be
sensual or sensible, primarily affiliated to the ears/airwaves or
primarily
affiliated to the lungs/breath, which means that the metaphysical self,
the
self that identifies with either type of not-self, can be unwise/unholy
or
wise/holy, though not usually both at once!
How, in that event, does one distinguish the one type of truth
from the
other, or the one type of joy from the other, not to mention their
somatic
counterparts?
8. Clearly, the answer to that vexed
question
must be based on an understanding of the fact that truth attaches to
the
metaphysical ego, to the self as ego, and therefore to what, in
subatomic
terms, will have reference to more (relative to most) wavicles
and less (relative to least) particles, in short to a molecular as
opposed to
an elemental integrity especially germane, so I have contended, to God
the
Father. Therefore one cannot speak of
truth in elemental, or absolutist, terms, as being most or least, but
only in
molecular, or relative, terms, as being more (relative to most) or less
(relative to least). Only joy, which is
a soulful reality having reference to most wavicles
and least particles, permits of an absolutist approach, and therefore
allows us
to distinguish the sensual from the sensible on the basis of least joy
and most
joy.
9. Consequently, the metaphysical psyche
permits
of a sensible/sensual distinction between the more (relative to most)
truth of
God-the-Wise-Father and the most joy of Heaven-the-Holy-Soul as against
the
less (relative to least) truth of God-the-Unwise-Father and the least
joy of
Heaven-the-Unholy-Soul. But neither
truth nor joy can really exist independently of falsity and woe, the
falsity
and woe of God the Son and Heaven the Spirit, and therefore we need to
distinguish, in metaphysical soma, between the elemental absolutism of
the will
and the molecular relativity of the spirit, before we can arrive at a
proper
estimate of either in relation to both sensuality and sensibility.
10. Clearly, since the will of metaphysical soma
is elemental in its most particle/least wavicle
absolutism,
we may distinguish the one type of falsity from the other on a
like-absolutist
basis, as between most and least false, while reserving to the
molecular
relativity of metaphysical spirit in more (relative to most)
particles/less
(relative to least) wavicles a more
(relative to
most) and less (relative to least) woeful distinction in respect of its
sensual
and sensible alternatives.
11. Consequently metaphysical soma permits of a
sensual/sensible distinction between the most falsity of
God-the-Unwise-Son and
the more (relative to most) woe of Heaven-the-Unholy-Spirit as against
the
least falsity of God-the-Wise-Son and the less (relative to least) woe
of
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit.
12. Therefore when we combine the psyche and soma
of metaphysics we shall find that the sensible, or inner, context
provides us
with an overall distinction between more (relative to most) truth and
most joy
in God-the-Wise-Father and Heaven-the-Holy-Soul and least falsity and
less
(relative to least) woe in God-the-Wise-Son and Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit,
whereas
the sensual, or outer, context provides us with an overall distinction
between
less (relative to least) truth and least joy in God-the-Unwise-Father
and
Heaven-the-Unholy-Soul and most falsity and more (relative to most) woe
in
God-the-Unwise-Son and Heaven-the-Unholy-Spirit.
13. Consequently, those metaphysical types who
have lived predominantly sensually in relation to the ears and the
airwaves can
expect their afterlife experience in the metaphysical soul to be least
joyful,
while, conversely, those who have lived predominantly sensibly in
relation to
the lungs and the breath can expect their afterlife experience in the
metaphysical soul to be most joyful, since the metaphysical self is
drawn
rather more to the soul than to the ego, to joy than to truth, and will
have
either a perceptual or a conceptual, a sensual or a sensible bias
according to
how one had lived. Folly attaches no
less to the self than wisdom to the not-self, but we have a duty, if
wise, to
live as much as possible in sensible truth in order that our joy may be
the
deeper.
14. For 'most joy' is only possible on the basis
of 'more (relative to most) truth', and truth is only truly wise when
it
utilizes contexts of 'least falsity' and 'less (relative to least) woe'
in
order to achieve its heavenly resurrection, not when, in the folly of
'less
(relative to least) truth', it utilizes contexts of 'most falsity' and
'more
(relative to most) woe' to a least joyful end.
15. There are, in truth, three primary gods, or
godly orders of male: there is the god who lives in the folly of
God-the-Unwise-Father vis-à-vis God-the-Unwise-Son, the latter of whom
is, of
course, sinfully most false and not at all true. There
is
the god who lives in the wisdom of
God-the-Wise-Father vis-à-vis God-the-Wise-Son, the latter of whom is
sinfully
least false though still far from true.
And, in between, there is the abraxas-like
dualistic
god
who lives in both folly and wisdom by turns, now metaphysically
sensual in relation to the ears and airwaves of outer metaphysical
soma, now
metaphysically sensible in relation to the lungs and breath of inner
metaphysical soma, alternating, it might be, between music and
meditation,
perhaps more in terms of some intermediate paradox like piping or
chanting than
strictly in either metaphysical extreme.
16. One might consider such a dualistic god, such
an upper-class male, metaphysically amoral rather than either immoral
or
moral. However that may be, he would not
be the best of the three, nor even the least, but simply intermediate
between
the other two, a sort of 'worldly' god who fights shy of foolish and
wise,
sensual and sensible, divine extremes. I
shall not judge this god too harshly, but I maintain that ultimate
godhead,
short of complete cyborgization, resides
in the meditator, who is alone of the
divinely Saved
and truly virtuous.
POSTHUMOUS
FATES
OF THE GENDERS IN RELATION TO CLASS
1. Truth and joy are no more equivalent
than primary
God and Heaven, the Father and the Soul, more (relative to most) wavicles/less (relative to least) particles and
most wavicles/least particles of a
metaphysical psychic
predominance, while, conversely, falsity and woe are no more equivalent
than secondary
God and Heaven, the Son and the Spirit, most particles/least wavicles and more (relative to most)
particles/less
(relative to least) wavicles of a
metaphysical
somatic predominance. But truth precedes
falsity and woe as joy succeeds them, since psyche precedes soma in
this
context and then succeeds it in returning to itself as soul, whether
least
gracefully in sensuality or most gracefully in sensibility. And in desiring to succeed falsity and woe,
the Son and the Spirit, that which precedes them is obliged, in truth,
to
forgive them, since grace depends upon sin for its well-being - indeed,
for its
very existence. As in life, so in death,
the soul would not long be without a surrounding somatic layer,
even
though more independent of the body than ever before.
2. But if the Metaphysical return in
contentment
to the soul at death, then the Physical must surely return, after their
more
formal natures, to the ego, viz. the Father, albeit it is Man the
Father rather
than God the Father which typifies that mode of ego corresponding to
knowledge
rather than truth, and which is really the principal manifestation of
ego, as
germane to physical form.
3. Let us, at any rate, distinguish here,
as
above, between the more (relative to most) knowledgeable ego of
Man-the-Wise-Father and the most pleasurable soul of
Earth-the-Holy-Soul
vis-à-vis the least ignorant will of Man-the-Wise-Son and the less
(relative to
least) painful spirit of Earth-the-Holy-Spirit in relation to a
sensible
predilection, and contrast this with the less (relative to least)
knowledgeable
ego of Man-the-Unwise-Father and the least pleasurable soul of
Earth-the-Unholy-Soul vis-à-vis the most ignorant will of
Man-the-Unwise-Son
and the more (relative to most) painful spirit of
Earth-the-Unholy-Spirit in
relation to a sensual predilection, with corresponding somatic
distinctions
between the brain and its capacity for thought on the one hand, and the
phallus
and its capacity for orgasm on the other hand.
4. Psyche nevertheless still precedes soma
where
men (as opposed, in this instance, to gods) are concerned, but what
stems from
an egocentric fulcrum should return to an egocentric fulcrum, as Father
to
Father, and such a return is much less psychically significant, in
afterlife
terms, than the soulful resolution characterizing the Metaphysical,
since
appertaining to the brain stem rather than to the spinal cord.
5. When we turn from males to females,
however,
we find the somatic distinction between spirit and will, Purgatory and
the
Mother, which is no less distinctive, in its own particle-based duality
between
feminine and diabolic females, than that between ego and soul, the
Father and
Heaven of masculine and divine males.
Now if the Physical return to the ego at death, then the
Chemical are
likely to return, after their more glorious nature as feminine females,
to the
spirit, viz. Purgatory.
6. Let us therefore distinguish here,
contrary
to the above, between the most weak will of Woman-the-Evil-Mother and
the more
(relative to most) humble spirit of Purgatory-the-Clear-Spirit
vis-à-vis the
less (relative to least) strong ego of Woman-the-Evil-Daughter and the
least
proud soul of Purgatory-the-Clear-Soul in relation to a sensual
predilection,
and contrast this with the least weak will of Woman-the-Good-Mother and
the
less (relative to least) humble spirit of Purgatory-the-Unclear-Spirit
vis-à-vis the more (relative to most) strong ego of
Woman-the-Good-Daughter and
the most proud soul of Purgatory-the-Unclear-Soul in relation to a
sensible
predilection, with corresponding somatic distinctions between the
tongue and
its salivary capacity for speech on the one hand, and the womb and its
amniotic
capacity for conception on the other hand.
7. But if the Chemical return to the spirit
at
death, then the Metachemical must surely
return,
after their more wilful nature as diabolic females, to the will, viz.
the
Mother, albeit it is Devil the Mother rather than Woman the Mother
which
typifies that mode of will corresponding to ugliness rather than to
weakness.
8. Let us then distinguish here, similarly
to
the above, between the most ugly will of Devil-the-Evil-Mother and the
more
(relative to most) hateful spirit of Hell-the-Clear-Spirit vis-à-vis
the less
(relative to least) beautiful ego of Devil-the-Evil-Daughter and the
least
loving soul of Hell-the-Clear-Soul in relation to a sensual
predilection, and
contrast this with the least ugly will of Devil-the-Good-Mother and the
less
(relative to least) hateful spirit of Hell-the-Unclear-Spirit vis-à-vis
the
more (relative to most) beautiful ego of Devil-the-Good-Daughter and
the most
loving soul of Hell-the-Unclear-Soul in relation to a sensible
predilection,
with corresponding somatic distinctions between the eyes and their
optical
capacity for sight on the one hand, and the heart and its sanguine
capacity for
deception on the other hand.
9. Soma nevertheless still precedes psyche
where
devils (as opposed, in this instance, to women) are concerned, but what
stems
from an instinctual fulcrum in the will should return to an instinctual
fulcrum
in that aspect of soma, as Mother to Mother, and such a return is much
more
somatically significant, in afterdeath
terms, than
the spiritual resolution characterizing the Chemical, given the greater
significance of will to spirit on the female side of life which
contrasts, in
most particles/least wavicles and more
(relative to
most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
with
the
correspondingly greater significance attaching to soul than to ego
on
the male side of life, wherein most wavicles/least
particles
is
the ne
plus ultra
of psychic reality, and that which is merely more (relative to most) wavicles/less (relative to least) particles no
more than a
temporal counterpart, in masculine egocentricity, to the spiritual
purgatory of
women, viz. those females of a feminine, and therefore lower-class,
disposition.
10. Yet all females, whatever their class, share a
common origin in soma, and the precedence of psyche by soma and
correspondingly
correlative predominance of soma over psyche ensures that, whether in
sensuality or sensibility, the primary Woman/Purgatory and Devil/Hell
will
always be somatic and the secondary Woman/Purgatory and Devil/Hell
psychic,
which is to say, of psyche as opposed to soma, of punishment as opposed
to
crime, positive as opposed to negative, in complete contrast to how the
primary
factors of males, whether in relation to Man and the Earth or to God
and
Heaven, are always psychic and the secondary factors alone somatic, so
that
psyche takes precedence over soma, grace over sin, and positivity
over negativity.
11. The genders, in fact, are completely opposite,
though both stand to gain more, in the long run, by sensibility than by
sensuality, since wisdom and goodness are preferable to evil and folly,
and
attest to the reigns, in primary male and secondary female terms, of
plenums
rather than vacuums, the source of all or most evil and folly.
THE
GENDER
BASIS OF CONFLICTING FREEDOMS
1. Female soma is the alpha and male psyche
the
omega of life, though there is also what could be called the
omega-in-the-alpha
of female psyche and the alpha-in-the-omega of male soma, since psyche
is
secondary to soma in females and soma, by contrast, secondary to psyche
in
males - the former attesting to the triumph, in Wilde's proverbial
phrase, of
matter over mind, the latter, discarding Wildean
facetiousness, to the triumph of mind over matter.
2. But when soma is free, psyche will be
bound,
or determined by somatic factors - in the case of females by the will
and
spirit of what makes in the one instance for instinctualized
soul, viz. the id, and in the other instance for spiritualized ego,
viz. the
superego, neither of which are properly airy or vegetative but
effectively
transmuted by fire and water to such an extent that they become the
accomplices, as omega-in-the-alpha, of free soma, of will and spirit,
and never
more so than in sensuality, where the female aspect of things is, of
course,
hegemonic in both upper- and lower-class contexts, viz. with respect to
both metachemistry and chemistry, fire and
water, eyes and
tongue.
3. When psyche is free, on the other hand,
soma
will be bound, or determined by psychic factors - in the case of males
by the ego
and soul of what makes in the one instance for intellectualized will,
viz. the
mind, and in the other instance for emotionalized spirit, viz. the subspirit, neither of which are properly fiery
or watery
but effectively transmuted by vegetation and air to such an extent that
they
become the accomplices, as alpha-in-the-omega, of free psyche, of ego
and soul,
and never more so than in sensibility, where the male aspect of things
is, of
course, hegemonic in both lower- and upper-class contexts, viz. with
respect to
both physics and metaphysics, vegetation and air, brain and lungs.
4. Thus when soma is free, psyche will be
bound,
and even male psyche becomes subject to a quasi-binding as the soul is
outflanked by the id of metachemical
objectivity and
the ego by the superego of chemical objectivity, thereby ceasing to
condition
soma in deterministic vein, but acquiescing in somatic freedom in
secondary
fashion to females.
5. But when, by contrast, psyche is free,
then
soma will be bound, and even female soma becomes subject to a
quasi-binding as
the will is undermined by the mind of physical subjectivity and the
spirit by
the subspirit of metaphysical
subjectivity, thereby
ceasing to condition psyche in deterministic vein, but acquiescing in
psychic
freedom in secondary fashion to males.
6. In general, one might say that the
relationships of upper-class females and males are more characterized
by either
the id in sensuality or the subspirit in
sensibility
than by either the superego or the mind, whereas the relationships of
lower-class females and males will be more characterized by either the
superego
in sensuality or the mind in sensibility, since metachemistry
and metaphysics interpenetrate on the one level, and chemistry and
physics on
the other.
7. Obviously whether females condition
males or
males their female counterparts will depend on the circumstances, not
least of
all in relation to the nature of the society in which males and females
happen
to live on any given class basis; but it can be said, quite
categorically, that
societies characterized by a hegemonic soma, whether cosmic or natural,
most
particle/least wavicle or more (relative
to most)
particle/less (relative to least) wavicle,
will
attest to a female dominion in which the negativity of free soma must
prevail
at the expense of free psyche, and precisely in relation to the
undermined positivity of a bound psyche
such that sets science and
politics free to do and/or give in somatic deference to
hegemonic
female criteria.
8. On the other hand, societies
characterized by
a hegemonic psyche, whether civilized or cultural, more (relative to
most) wavicle/less (relative to least)
particle or most wavicle/least particle,
will attest to a male dominion in
which the positivity of free psyche should
prevail at
the expense of free soma, and precisely in relation to the undermined
negativity of a bound soma such that sets economics and religion free
to take
and/or be in psychic deference to hegemonic male criteria.
9. Therefore the decision for societies is,
if
we allow a class distinction, effectively between science and religion
or
politics and economics; for if science is somatically free then
religion will
be psychically bound and in no position to be its true or,
rather,
joyful best, and if politics is somatically free then economics will be
psychically bound and in no position to take its knowledgeable
best,
whereas if religion, by contrast, is psychically free than science will
be
somatically bound and in no position to do its ugly worst, and
if economics
is psychically free then politics will be somatically bound and in no
position
to give its weak or, rather, humbling worst.
10. For the distinction between free soma and free
psyche, free science or politics on the one hand, and free economics or
religion
on the other hand, is nothing less than that between the negativity of
the
Devil or Woman and the positivity of Man
or God, as
between the Mother or Purgatory and the Father or Heaven, the Will or
the
Spirit and the Ego or the Soul, Power or Glory and Form or Content(ment), and such a distinction is very
significant in
determining the nature of societies and how they should be judged -
judged,
that is, in relation to the dichotomy between sensuality and
sensibility, vice
and virtue, immorality and morality, the darkness of soma and the light
of
psyche, the evil of free soma coupled to the folly of bound psyche or
the
wisdom of free psyche coupled to the goodness of bound soma, crime and
sin on
the one hand, or grace and punishment on the other.
11. Life is certainly a gender tug-of-war, but if
we are sensible we shall see the desirability of male hegemonies and do
everything in our powers to maintain or advance them, so that economics
and
religion, and hopefully one day soon religion more than economics, will
be
uppermost in people's loyalties and the darkness of free soma
officially
consigned to the rubbish heap of antiquated history, where it can rot
away in
parallel to the Cosmos and Nature, to the free philistinism and
barbarism of
the Devil and Woman that is the enemy of civilized and cultural
freedom, and
thus of Man and God (the Cyborg).
12. But Man is, if not the enemy of God, then
certainly his chief rival for representation of the male side of
things; for so
long as Man sits knowledgeably on the throne of life there will be no
place for
God to sit truthfully on it in the interests of heavenly joy, and
therefore no
place for free religion so long as economics continues to remain
paramount, and
even to defer, paradoxically, to politics and science, as to the
imposition of
female glory and power.
13. For Man, one is obliged to confess, is not
quite convinced, in his more worldly manifestation, of the precedence
of psyche
over soma but continues to live the lie of soma over psyche in
deference to
female realities, especially in relation to a religious tradition in
which the
Son takes precedence - perhaps for that very reason - over the Father,
like
falsity over truth or, more pertinently to a physical mean, ignorance
over knowledge. Did not Christ himself ask
what truth
was? For what can falsity know about
truth, about the Father of a metaphysical ego, whether unwise in
sensuality or
wise in sensibility? And what can
ignorance know about knowledge, about the Father of a physical ego who
is the
actual fulcrum of the vegetative context of Man, meaning principally
that christianly and bourgeois order of
mankind which,
appertaining to a largely suburban environment, fights shy of criteria
more
applicable to the city and to those who, whether strictly proletarian
or not,
are potentially cyborg, are in effect
already beyond
Man in their environmentally-conditioned yearning for something else,
for
something better and, like the city to the town, higher, such that
would return
life to the noumenal heights from which it
fell with
Nature, albeit on diametrically opposite terms to the Cosmos and its
Devil-slavering somatic absolutism.
14. It is not from Man but from that greater
proportion of mankind who are literally or effectively urban that the
will to
the Beyond, to 'Kingdom Come', to the Cyborg,
and
to
the overcoming of human limitations, including unrestrained economic
freedom,
emerges; for it is the will to
self-overcoming in joyful soul out of truthful ego, not of
egocentric self-affirmation
in knowledge which tends to subsume pleasurable soul into itself and to
subordinate it, in keeping with the vegetative nature of physics, a
nature that
sinfully fights shy of the airy nature, or rather subnature,
of
metaphysics,
wherein not form but contentment is the principal
attribute.
15. Only when the urban majority come to vote -
being in a position to vote paradoxically in deliverance from political
sovereignty - for religious sovereignty, the sovereignty beyond the
world of
mundane freedoms, whether psychic or somatic, will there be any
possibility of
progress towards the sort of society described above, one in which
godly
criteria take precedence over any other, and the overcoming of Man in
terms of
the Cyborg can accordingly get properly
under way,
and the Cyborg become the chief
representative of the
male side of life for all eternity.
16. For the Cyborg will be capable of an eternity that Man,
in his
twisted Son-affirming temporal nature, could only dream about, and then
imperfectly. Only the Cyborg
can
lead beyond the earth to the heavenly bliss of a paradise more
artificial and
synthetic than even Baudelaire ever imagined - a paradise not of this
world,
nor of anything which preceded it, but fashioned by progressive
humanity in the
interests of their deliverance from the death-in-life, not to mention
life-in-death and eternal death, of the ungodly.
THE
RELATIONSHIPS
BETWEEN WORK AND PLAY
1. We have argued that life proceeds from a
context of most soma and least psyche in the somatic absolutism of
cosmic death
to one of more (relative to most) soma and less (relative to least)
psyche in
the somatic relativity of natural life-in-death, as from the Cosmos to
Nature,
and thence, on the male side of the gender fence, that it proceeds from
a
context of more (relative to most) psyche and less (relative to least)
soma in
the psychic relativity of civilized death-in-life to one of most psyche
and
least soma in the psychic absolutism of cultural life, in short of the
Life
Eternal which we have equated with the desirability of a godly supersession of Man by the Cyborg,
as,
in
some sense, of civilization by culture, knowledge by truth.
2. Therefore we have maintained that life
devolves, on its objective or female side, from the most
particles/least wavicles of absolute
somatic freedom/psychic determinism to
the more (relative to most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles of relative somatic freedom/psychic
determinism,
and evolves, on its subjective or male side, from the more (relative to
most) wavicles/less (relative to least)
particles of relative
psychic freedom/somatic determinism to the possibility of most wavicles/least particles of absolute psychic
freedom/somatic determinism, though the struggle between devolution and
evolution
is complicated by class and ethnic factors deriving from different
gender
standpoints.
3. When we contrast soma with psyche, we
are in
effect contrasting work with play and, in another context, the State
with the
Church, however broadly or narrowly we might interpret each. For work is no less an aspect of soma in its
overall negativity than play is an aspect of psyche in the overall positivity of what accrues, when genuine, to a wavicle hegemony, be it molecular or elemental,
of the ego
or the soul, and when we contrast state and church we find a like
distinction
between that which affirms and supports work and that, by contrast,
which - at
any rate theoretically - affirms and supports play, meaning the
rejection of
bodily negativity in favour of some psychic positivity,
be
it
punishing to females or graceful to males.
4. On a similar pattern to the above, it
could
be said that life devolves from a context of maximum work to one in
which there
is more work than play, and then evolves from a context in which there
is more
play than work to one in which play is maximized, as from an age of
death to
one of life-in-death, and from an age of death-in-life to one of life.
5. Let us put it this way: that life
proceeds
from an age of death to an age of life via the intermediate
relativities of
life-in-death and death-in-life, as from an age of effective state
absolutism
to one of near church absolutism via the intermediate relativities of
church-in-state and state-in-church, which is equivalent to saying from
an age
of work to an age of play via the intermediate relativities of
play-in-work and
work-in-play, as from devils to gods via women and men.
6. For what began in most soma and least
psyche was
that in which such religion as existed, or was permitted to exist, was
subsumed
into a scientifically-based state absolutism, whereas what may end in
most
psyche and least soma will be that in which such science as continues
to exist
will be subsumed into a religiously-centred church absolutism, while
'down
below' and 'in between' one may distinguish the politically-biased
church-in-state relativity in more (relative to most) soma and less
(relative
to least) psyche from the economically-biased state-in-church relativity in more (relative to most) psyche
and less (relative to least) soma, as befitting a descent from netherworldly hell into worldly purgatory, the
philistine
Cosmos into barbarous Nature, and an ascent, on the opposite side of
the gender
fence, from worldly earth towards otherworldly heaven, civilized Man
towards
the cultural Cyborg and the possibility,
thereby, of
genuine Godliness.
7. In truth, work or, more correctly,
objective
work, by which is meant working for others, is actually against the
grain of
men and gods and only really acceptable, as a primary commitment, to
devils and
women, since those in whom psyche predominates over soma will naturally
be more
disposed to play, whether egocentrically or soulfully, in civilized or
cultural
vein, while their work will be correspondingly subjective and thus
reflective
of some kind of self-employment, be it in business or, higher up, in
the
arts.
8. Not for nothing was the age of state
absolutism, of cosmic death, one of slavery, for not only must males be
compelled to work against their psychic and even somatically subjective
grains,
but work becomes all-important in an overly philistine age and society,
with a
near-absolutist somatic freedom of death and darkness, ugliness and
hatred, which
enslaves psyche to its devil-worshipping evil.
9. Obviously one cannot advance a more
enlightened society on the basis of selfless work, whether compulsory
or
otherwise, but only in relation to self-oriented play and, as a
subordinate
corollary to this, the more subjective kinds of work, and for that to
be given
maximum encouragement, give and take the allowances that have to be
made for
females, free work must be curbed as free psyche conditions somatic
determinism
and keeps work within certain carefully prescribed bounds such that
will remain
subservient to play and even capable, at the utmost stage of
evolutionary
development, of being subsumed into and eclipsed by play, as the Church
becomes
near absolutist in most psyche and least soma, most particles and least
wavicles, and society accordingly comes, at
its highest
level, to reflect not merely a play/work relativity, as with Man, but a
well-nigh playful absolutism in which being, for those who are 'up to
it', is
maximized in truth and, especially, joy, compliments of a religious
lead.
10. That which seeks to advance the skilled worker
at the expense of the skilled player simply sets the clocks back to a
darker
and more scientific age, an age characterized not by air, as with
ethereal
play, but by fire; while, down below space and time in the more mundane
realms
of mass and volume, that which seeks to advance the manual worker at
the
expense of the manual player simply sets the clocks back to a darker
and more
political age, an age characterized not by vegetation, as with
corporeal play,
but by water, and while the first is avowedly philistine, the second is
simply
barbarous.
11. Neither Communism nor Socialism can have any
part to play in the advancement of humanity beyond Capitalism to a
world centred
in play, in short a world led by genuine religion and putting the
welfare of
the soul above every other concern, including that of the ego.
12. I look forward to such an otherworldly
prospect, for I believe I can be instrumental, through the ideological
philosophy of Social Transcendentalism, in helping to bring it about
and thus
delivering the greater proportion of humanity from the somatic burden
of work,
a burden which, in all too many cases, tends to outweigh their capacity
for and
enjoyment of play.
13. For there is nothing higher, in truth, than
play, and the sooner we advance towards the maximizing of play in terms
of a
sort of church absolutism, as previously defined by me in relation to
'the
Centre' of 'Kingdom Come', the sooner will we abandon evil and folly
for
goodness and wisdom, and thus come to live in or under, directly or
indirectly,
the light of God, according to one's class and gender status.
AS
IN
THE BEGINNING, SO NOT QUITE IN THE END
1. Christianity has erred, all along, in
placing
undue emphasis on the Son at the expense of the Father, on soma at the
expense
of psyche, the not-self at the expense of the self, ignorance and/or
falsity at
the expense of knowledge and/or truth.
Would one normally place ignorance above knowledge, or falsity
above
truth? - Few sane people would, and the fact that the Church has
condoned,
wittingly or unwittingly, such a procedure, in its adherence to and
emphasis
upon a Son who knew not what truth was and probably had little idea
about
knowledge either, is regrettably not the least of reasons for its moral
failure
and lack of credibility in an age which puts knowledge above all else
and may
soon, in moving beyond the information technology (IT) boom, come to a
greater
understanding of truth and the true nature and status of God.
2. Unfortunately the Christian emphasis
upon the
Son at the expense of the Father, soma at the expense of psyche, led to
a
situation in which ignorance and falsity, and ignorance more than
falsity,
could be paradoxically regarded as being in some sense preferable, if
not
superior, to knowledge and truth, the former in relation to
sensibility, the
latter, it has to be said, in relation to sensuality, since the Church,
and the
Catholic Church most especially, tended to encourage a situation in
which
sensible physics was anchored diagonally back and up to sensual
metaphysics,
the brain to the ears, so to speak, with the Word tending to be
eclipsed or
coloured, more often than not, by music, with a consequence that such
wisdom and
holiness as existed in the sensible context of physics was merely
relative, of
man and the earth, whereas what existed more absolutely in the sensual
context
of metaphysics was not wisdom and holiness but folly and unholiness,
as germane to God and Heaven in their 'once born' as opposed to
'reborn', outer
as opposed to inner, manifestations.
3. For the metaphysical manifestations of
wisdom
and holiness in relation to sensible modes of God and Heaven, one
requires the
coming to pass of a new messiah, a new religious leader, call him
Second Coming
if you like, who can offer salvation from metaphysical sensuality to
sensibility, sequential time to spaced space, ears to lungs, on a
parallel if
higher basis, for those who are entitled to it (see previous texts), to
the
Christian salvation from massive mass to voluminous volume, phallus to
brain,
physical sensuality to sensibility.
4. Therefore when the Church speaks of God
the
Son in connection with the Holy Spirit it is speaking falsely, since God
the Son can only exist in relation to holy Spirit in the inner
or
sensible metaphysical context of lungs and breath, where His falsity is
the
means for the truth of God-the-Wise-Father to achieve redemption in
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul via the out-breath woe of Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit
in what
amounts to a process of transcendental meditation, in which one is
solely
conscious, as a saved god, of the breath and the breathing process in
the
interests of the enhancement of psychic grace from ego to soul, truth
to joy, and
thereby acquiesces in a metaphysical order of somatic sin for purposes
of
self-transcendence, of the transmutation of self from ego into soul,
God-the-Wise-Father into Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, something that doesn't
obtain at
all in the Christian context where, as we all know, prayer, and thus
the
utilization of the brain and its capacity for thought, is the focus and
principal manifestation of religious devotion, a kind of vegetative, or
cerebral, sensibility which owes more to the knowledge of
Man-the-Wise-Father
and the ignorance of Man-the-Wise-Son, viz. Christ, coupled to holy
manifestations of spiritual and soulful Earth, than ever it does to the
inner
truth of God-the-Wise-Father and the inner falsity of God-the-Wise-Son
coupled
to their spiritual and soulful manifestations of Heaven.
5. And if, fleeing Christian physics, you
go
back up diagonally to what could be called, somewhat paradoxically,
Christian
metaphysics, you find yourself in an ear/airwaves context where God and
Heaven do
actually obtain, but in relation to the folly and unholiness
of sensuality, as in the outer truth of God-the-Unwise-Father and the
outer
falsity of God-the-Unwise-Son, in connection with the latter of which
there
emerges the outer woe of Heaven-the-Unholy-Spirit from which the former
(the
Father) may recoil to the outer joy of Heaven-the-Unholy-Soul, the
redemption
of egocentric self in that soulful self-transcendence which, in
contrast to the
conceptual redemption which follows from a sensible
metaphysical
disposition in transcendental meditation, can only be of a perceptual
order,
and thus comparatively shallow or superficial.
6. No, quite apart from the fact that there
is
no God the Holy Spirit, there is no God-the-Wise-Son in
relation to
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit in Christianity, but only either
Man-the-Wise-Son in
relation to Earth-the-Holy-Spirit in physical sensibility or,
diagonally back
upwards to sensual metaphysics, God-the-Unwise-Son in relation to
Heaven-the-Unholy-Spirit, and then, on both counts, one is alluding to
somatic
factors which have no bearing on sensible knowledge/pleasure or sensual
truth/joy but are their negative counterparts, as in sensible
ignorance/pain
and sensual falsity/woe.
7. What a lie the Church was and, in some
sense,
still continues to be! The Church fights
shy of God-the-Wise-Father and Heaven-the-Holy-Soul even as it
effectively
proclaims its allegiance, falsely, to God-the-Wise-Son and
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit through its equation of God the Son with holy Spirit. But, in
truth, the only holy Spirit it relates to is premised upon Man, upon
Man-the-Wise-Son, and is accordingly of the Earth rather than Heaven, a
giver
of pain.
8. The Church hypes itself even as it
denies, in
practice, the terms and procedures by means of which God-the-Wise-Son
and
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit come into play, namely as secondary factors, in
somatic
falsity and woe, to the psychic grace of God-the-Wise-Father and
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, the latter of which is only possible in relation
to the
utilization by the former, by God-the-Wise-Father, of both the lungs
and the
breath, the inner metaphysical will and spirit, to a transcendent end,
and
precisely through the practice of transcendental meditation.
9. Therefore it behoves us to move beyond
the
lie and the hype and all the other shortcomings of the Christian
Church, as
outlined by me in previous texts, and opt for the inner truth of
God-the-Wise-Father as the salvation of the self from the outer truth,
necessarily constrained to psychic
determinism by a female hegemony in eye-based metachemistry,
of
God-the-Unwise-Father,
though when I say 'us' I don't of course mean
everyone, irrespective of gender or class or ethnicity, but only those
who,
whatever the fate of others, would be capable of such a salvation in
the first
place, and largely because they had been more metaphysical than
physical, more
ears than brain, and thus, in Christian terms, significant of a
triangular
decadence such that resulted in the ears being upstaged by the eyes as
the
Father was eclipsed, in effect, by the Risen Virgin coupled, in metachemical sensibility, to the Sacred Heart of
the
so-called Risen Christ, the guarantor, in that context, of
perpendicular triangularity.
10. However that may be, salvation and/or
damnation, according to gender, from triangles, whether perpendicular
in space
and time (Catholic) or inverted in volume and mass (Protestant) is what
will
return humanity to sensibility, as to their rightful senses, and the
possibility of wisdom and goodness to a greater extent, in direct
relation to
what I have customarily termed (see previous texts) the triadic Beyond
of
'Kingdom Come', than was ever possible in the Christian past, given the
paradoxes and delusions of the Church, not the least of which was to
adhere to
the Old Testament concept of some cosmic 'First Mover' as God!
11. We cannot accept or continue to condone such a
gross delusion! For we know that cosmic
'First Movers', being metachemical, tend
to be
characterized by a near somatic absolutism, and thus by what I have
called
Devil-the-Evil-Mother, which of course exists in relation to
Hell-the-Clear-Spirit (Light), and out of which there eventually
emerges, in
secondary vein, the psychic realities of Devil-the-Evil-Daughter and
Hell-the-Clear-Soul, neither of which commend themselves to truth or
joy, but
rather to beauty and love, and then in effectively subordinate standing
to
ugliness and hatred, the more characteristic attributes of the particle
hegemony which, in metachemistry, typifies
a near
somatic absolutism, i.e. most particles/least wavicles,
as
germane
to the stellar aspect, in particular, of the Cosmos.
12. People need to move, via a democratically
mandated assumption of religious sovereignty, beyond the restrictions
and
delusions of religious tradition, and for that they will require the
assistance
of one who does
speak for truth and joy, albeit in the wise and holy terms of
metaphysical sensibility, and who would save and/or damn them, in
consequence,
from all unwise/unholy and, in the female case, evil/clear obstacles to
religious and moral progress.
13. Is this man truly a Second Coming, a second
Son, or is he not rather one who, centred in the inner truth of
God-the-Wise-Father, is effectively antithetical, in his
metaphysically-biased
psyche, to the Son, albeit to a Son who, unlike Christ, appertains, in
the
lungs, to metaphysical wisdom, and thereby equates with sensible
falsity as
opposed to either sensual falsity in the ears or sensible ignorance in
the
brain, the latter of which is not even godly in unwise terms but manly
wise,
and therefore merely physical.
14. I identify, in short, with sensible truth, not
sensible falsity, and therefore I am antithetical to what appertains,
as
God-the-Wise-Son, to the latter, a sort of sensible antison
or, as some would have it, sensible antichrist who, correctly in male
terms,
upholds the primacy, in metaphysics, of psyche over soma, of self over
not-self, of grace over sin, of play over work, of 'church' over
'state', of
truth/joy over falsity/woe, of noumenal
over
phenomenal, of transcendentalism over idealism, of positivity
over negativity, of nurture over nature, of ego/soul over will/spirit,
of brain
stem/spinal cord over lungs/breath, and therefore I uphold the
inorganic or
incorporeal or infinite sanctity of God-the-Wise-Father, with Whom I
now
identify, over the organic or corporeal or finite profanity of
God-the-Wise-Son, Who is for me but an untruthful means to a joyful end
in
self-respecting recoil from the out-breath of His woeful spirit.
15. Let this end be the end of my teachings, and
may my teachings be instrumental in bringing to pass, for those who are
especially entitled to it, that bliss which is commensurate with the
return of
metaphysical psyche to psyche, of God-the-Wise-Father to
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul
via the metaphysical soma of God-the-Wise-Son and
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit, the
lungs and the breath, so that the return in the end is not quite to
what was in
the beginning, but is as to a higher manifestation of metaphysical
self, a
deeper omega point, as it were, of the psyche such that, in the joyful
purity
of its turned-on spinal cord, redeems the brain-stem truth of
God-the-Wise-Father for all eternity. So
may it be!
PART
TWO
DEVOLUTION
AND
EVOLUTION IN PERSPECTIVE
1. I outlined in PART ONE a theory of
stages of
life on both devolutionary and evolutionary terms which reflects the
fourfold
natures/nurtures of the Elements and can be said to proceed from the
fieriness
of the Cosmos to the airiness of the (hypothetically future) Cyborg via the wateriness of Nature and the vegetativeness of Man, as from the Cosmos to the
Cyborg via Nature and Man, or,
alternatively, from the
Devil to God via Woman and Man, or even from the
unnaturalness/unconsciousness
of metachemistry to the subconsciousness/subnaturalness
of metaphysics via the supernaturalness/superconsciousness
of chemistry and the consciousness/naturalness of physics.
2. However that may be, we can distinguish,
as
before, the most particles/least wavicles
of the metachemical context par
excellence, as
between photons in sensuality and photinos
in
sensibility, from the more (relative to most) particles/less (relative
to
least) wavicles of the chemical context par
excellence, as between electrons in sensuality and electrinos
in sensibility, and both of these objective, or female, contexts from
the more
(relative to most) wavicles/less (relative
to least)
particles of the physical context par excellence, as between
neutrons in
sensuality and neutrinos in sensibility, and the most wavicles/least
particles of the metaphysical context par excellence, as
between protons
in sensuality and protinos in sensibility,
both of
which latter contexts, being male, are rather more subjective and,
hence,
conditioned by plenums rather than vacuums, thereby proceeding in
curved rather
than straight lines.
3. The contexts of the Cosmos and Nature,
to
return to our original categorization, are therefore ones in which soma
predominates over psyche, as in relation to particle hegemonies, and to
which,
in general terms, one can ascribe a basis in soma, as in the not-self
or nature
(with specific reference to its unnatural and supernatural
manifestations). On the other hand, the
contexts of Man and the Cyborg are ones in
which
psyche predominates over soma, as in relation to wavicle
hegemonies, and to which, again in general terms, one can ascribe a
basis in
psyche, as in the self or nurture (with specific reference to its
conscious and
subconscious manifestations), so that, in contrast to the objective, or
female,
contexts, psyche precedes soma and things revert to psyche in the end,
as, in
biblical parlance, from ashes to ashes rather than from dust to dust,
presuming
upon a psychic - and therefore male - correlation for the former and a
somatic
correlation, avowedly female, for the latter.
4. However that may be, one can
distinguish, on
a broad gender-conditioned basis, between the most devolution/least
evolution
of the Cosmos and the more (relative to most) devolution/less (relative
to
least) evolution of Nature on the objective side of things, and between
the
more (relative to most) evolution/less (relative to least) devolution
of Man
and the most evolution/least devolution of the Cyborg
on the subjective side of things, the side not of the Devil and Woman
but,
beyond philistinism and barbarism, of Man and God, civilization and
culture.
5. For the cosmic reality of most particles
and
least wavicles is indeed commensurate with
most
devolution and least evolution, most somatic negativity and least
psychic positivity, while the coming cyborg
reality, as it were, of most wavicles and
least
particles will correlate, no less absolutely, with most evolution and
least
devolution, most psychic positivity and
least somatic
negativity, while 'down below' and 'in between', the natural reality of
more
(relative to most) particles and less (relative to least) wavicles
correlates with more (relative to most) devolution and less (relative
to least)
evolution, more (relative to most) somatic negativity and less
(relative to
least) psychic positivity, to be
contrasted, in
no-less relative vein, with the more (relative to most) wavicles
and less (relative to least) particles, more (relative to most)
evolution and
less (relative to least) devolution, of that phase of things
proceeding, in
more (relative to most) psychic positivity
and less
(relative to least) somatic negativity, from the triumph of Man as a
creature
for whom knowledge, and self-knowledge above all, is the key to his
existence
and opposition, through civilization, to Nature, meaning that which
'fell', in
watery fashion, out of the fiery inception of life in the Cosmos.
6. Most of what was said in PART ONE still
stands here, since the categorizations outlined above had their reasons
and
boundaries which it would be difficult if not impossible to refute or
deny,
neither refutation nor denial being on my current agenda!
Life is a struggle, to repeat, between
objective and subjective, female and male forces, and whether the
particle
predominates over the wavicle or the wavicle over the particle, soma and psyche are
the twin
alternatives, with soma preceding psyche in the female cases of the
Cosmos and
Nature, but psyche preceding soma in the male cases of Man and the Cyborg, the latter of whom will be the means by
which, in Nietzschean parlance, man should
be 'overcome' and
superseded by that which is no mere precondition of a rise to God and
antithesis to the diabolic Cosmos, like Man, but the fulfilment of that
precondition in the utmost psychic absolutism of most wavicles
and least particles, most evolution and least devolution - in sum, most
psychic
positivity and least somatic negativity.
7. Soma and psyche are no more equivalent
than
not-self and self, nature and nurture, sanctity and profanity, play and
work, noumenal and phenomenal, 'matter'
and 'mind', body or, more
correctly, will and/or spirit and soul or, more correctly, ego and/or
soul; for
the one is only possible on the basis of a particle hegemony, whereas
the other
presupposes a wavicle hegemony in which
either ego or
soul is the principal protagonist of psychic grace, and such grace
differs not
merely from somatic sin, duly constrained by free psyche to the
determinism of
mind (conscious will) and/or subspirit
(subconscious
spirit), but also from the punishment, or punishing nurture, of the
female
forms of psyche whereby free soma conditions psychic determinism in
terms of
the id (unconscious soul) and the superego (superconscious
ego), and the instinctualized soul of the
one and the
spiritualized ego of the other are as subordinate to the will and
spirit of
free soma ... as the intellectualized will and emotionalized spirit of
bound
soma are subordinate, on the male side of the gender fence, to the ego
and soul
of free psyche.
8. Therefore the real antithesis between
soma
and psyche is less within the context of either gender, where one or
the other
is modified by the predominating factor, than across the gender
division
between free soma on the one hand and free psyche on the other, the
former
issuing in objective vein from a vacuous precondition in either fire or
water, metachemistry or chemistry, and the
other issuing in
subjective vein from a plenumous
precondition in
either vegetation or air, physics or metaphysics.
9. I have said it before and I shall say it
again: sexism, or the ability to think on a basis allowing for opposite
gender
standpoints, is the beginning of all wisdom.
For that man who is insufficiently aware of the extent to which
gender
factors-in to the way in which we think or, worse, who believes that
there is
no distinction between how the genders think or what they think, will
be a
self-deceiving fool and hypocrite, from whom nothing demonstrably true
or
knowledgeably credible can be expected.
10. Before females
entered
into letters in a major way, statements made by males could often be
taken as
implicitly expressing, when genuine, a male standpoint.
Nowadays, nothing of the sort can be taken
for granted! The plethora of
objectively-oriented ideas flowing from female authors makes it
imperative that
male writers explicitly state their positions in relation to gender,
and that,
assuming a degree of knowledge as to what constitutes their rightful
gender
position, they refrain from allowing female minds to deceive them into
taking
for authentic truth or knowledge that which, in reality, owes its
origins not
to free psyche, in properly male vein, but to free soma, and which will
not, in
the nature of things, even approximate to the innate rationality of
genuine
knowledge or truth but be reflective of the intrusion, to varying
extents, of
either beauty and strength or, more probably, ugliness and weakness,
their
negative - and somatic - counterparts.
THE
SUBVERSION
OF KNOWLEDGE
1. In fact, genuine knowledge about
sensible
truth is not, and has rarely if ever been, characteristic of the West,
or of
Western civilization in general, since such truth as has existed or
been
permitted to exist has been of the sensual, and therefore, foolish
variety of
metaphysics, while, more prevalently in relation to Christian
criteria-proper,
knowledge has claimed truth to itself and been hyped out of all
proportion to
its real worth which, though considerable, is nowhere near as ne
plus ultra as intellectuals and churchmen of a certain stamp might
lead one to believe.
2. In fact, ever since the victory of
Christianity over the West, Man has usurped the domain of Truth to
himself and
effectively subsumed it, or something approximating to it, into
knowledge, so
that Man has become the necessarily restricted measure of all things,
and all
things have had to bow to his limitations and pretensions, meaning to
that
category of humanity, in particular, which has a self-assured image of
itself
in relation to knowledge as the product of egotistical or egocentric
form,
whether sensually or, more prevalently in the Christian past, sensibly.
3. Therefore, excepting the sensual
metaphysics
of 'the Father', with the Christian concept of 'Creator', God has had
to bow to
Man, and Man has assumed the mantle of God in the 'Person' of the Son,
Who has
tended to act for Christians as the principal focus and manifestation
of
Godhead. But this has meant that
knowledge has eclipsed truth, that religion has come to be primarily
identified
with knowledge, of which prayer is a form, at the expense of any
possibility,
barring aural sensuality, of Truth, conceiving the latter in relation
to
transcendental meditation and thus consciousness of the breath or
breathing
process as the methodology of psychic redemption in the soul. Manliness, not Godliness, has remained the
measure of all things sensibly religious, and therefore the masculine
'meek'
could indeed be said to have inherited the earth and to have squeezed
out of it
all that nobly threatened or exposed the limitations of their
egocentric
perspectives.
4. At least this was the case until,
following
the Reformation, Protestantism burst on to the European scene and,
before long,
knowledge itself came under threat and was duly eclipsed by, first,
strength
and then beauty, as the masculine sensibility of Catholicism found
itself
eclipsed, in various countries, by the feminine - and chemical -
sensuality of
Protestantism, particularly in its Nonconformist guise, and this in
turn
underwent further female modification towards the diabolic, or metachemical, sensuality of those more extreme
Protestant
sects largely associated, like Jehovah Witnesses, with the New World,
and thus
the American offshoot of European civilization.
Knowledge might still be there, but it is less the
truth-subsuming and
corrupting knowledge of the Catholic tradition with these radical, and
even
moderate, Protestant denominations than strength and/or beauty, if not
in the
ongoing secularization of Western decadence, weakness and/or ugliness
posing as
knowledge and claiming to itself, in typically female vein, virtues
more
becoming genuine knowledge and/or truth, which of course owe more to
the innate
archetypes of psychic precedence.
5. In short, even knowledge has fallen on
bad
times, and such knowledge as survives in the Western world is
increasingly
informed by factors owing more, in female vein, to strength and/or
beauty, and
thus to an outright denial of Truth, than to self-respecting egocentric
assertions of knowledge such that derive from a more masculine, and
even
Catholic, tradition, in typically Old-World vein. Man
has
himself fallen on hard times, and the
only winners in this ongoing decadence or degeneration or refutation of
sensible values are females of one persuasion or another, be it
feminine or
diabolic, strong and/or weak or beautiful and/or ugly, with all due
Feminist
consequences and implications which, equivocally if not unequivocally,
add-up
to the worst of all possible worlds - a world dominated by all that is
somatically free and therefore evil or foolish, with nonconformism
subordinate, in bound psyche, to realism, like strength to weakness,
and
fundamentalism no less subordinate to materialism, like beauty to
ugliness. And all because of that
fateful split in Western civilization that led to Protestantism and
worse.
6. Clearly, I believe in a different,
indeed
vastly different type of civilization from that which still casts its
somatic
shadow over the greater part of the West at the present time, a
civilization
led by Truth, genuinely sensible truth, and subordinating both
knowledge and
strength, man and woman, to its godly resolve, as it leads the way
towards a
brighter future in which, in complete contrast to the Christian
tradition, Man
or, at any rate, mankind are taken up to God rather than God being
brought down
to, if not low by, mankind or, rather, Man, as that manifestation of
humanity
for whom egocentric form, and hence knowledge, is the cornerstone of
authenticity and self-justification - call it bourgeois or suburban, if
you
will.
7. But such a
civilization has little in common with that in which the masses,
mankind
dominated by Man, the bourgeois, the middle-class businessman or
politician or
professional, is sovereign and effectively the ne
plus ultra
of things. For when 'the meek' inherit
the earth, be it in relation to masculine or to feminine criteria, the
earth
becomes an end-in-itself and all higher values, the values that alone
have the
power to elevate the common man or woman beyond their humble station to
one in
which they are capable of participating in Truth, to the extent that a
knowledgeable or strong disposition permits, are necessarily denied or
subverted and corrupted, so that either the wrong sort of truth,
effectively
sensual and foolish, or, worse again, beauty posing as truth and often
showing
her real, and therefore ugly, face tends to take its place, and
consequences
not unlike those outlined above inevitably come to pass, to the
detriment of
even 'the meek' and the earth of which they are indubitably a mundane
part.
8. For in the end, as in the beginning, it
is
not God but the Devil posing as God, the Devil upheld by the
powers-that-be, as
God ... that becomes the representative of 'higher values', and from
being
sovereign in itself the earth becomes but the idolatrous worshipper and
slave,
whether on civilized or natural, masculine or feminine, vegetative or
watery
terms, of the Cosmos.
9. No people who are enslaved to the
somatic
freedoms and psychic determinisms of the Cosmos can possibly advance
towards
the Cyborg and the 'overcoming' of Man in
terms of
what is truly and more authentically godly.
Even Man is not quite as in control of the situation as he might
like to
think but is subsumed into the glorification of both Woman and, worse,
the
Devil, whose dances he must pander to with all the entrepreneurial
flair at his
morally bankrupt disposal. No wonder
that the People, that great majority of urban-dwelling humanity who
yearn for a
better future, grow restive and disillusioned with their predicament as
every
promise of salvation or deliverance from the World is hijacked by their
opportunistic adversaries and used to baser ends, ends which only
enslave them
the more to ungodly powers and render them all the more cynical towards
and
despairing of the future.
10. But things can be different!
For, ultimately, the People, the great masses
of masculine and feminine males and females, have more to gain from
what
trickles down from the heights of a godly dispensation in the way of
authentic
truth than from either undue freedom for themselves in knowledge and
strength
or the gradual subversion and erosion of that knowledge and strength
from a
standpoint that is effectively closer to the Devil and to Her cosmic
fundamentalism and materialism, the latter of which, in ugliness and
hatred, is
always likely to be more prevalent than the former, and to an extent
somewhat
in the ratio of 3:1, given the subatomic facticity,
for
metachemical reality, of most
particles/least wavicles, most
devolution/least evolution, most
negativity/least positivity, most
soma/least psyche.
11. The World is bad, but what reigns over it, in
the absence of authentic Godhead premised upon a cyborgian
resolve, is far worse, and emblematic of the worst of all possible
elemental worlds
or categories or situations. Such is the
situation in which the West, whether on ecclesiastic or secular
grounds, still
finds itself in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
ALTERNATIVE
AFTERDEATH
AND AFTERLIFE EXPERIENCES
1. I wrote in PART ONE about the
distinction
between a female afterdeath characterized
by the
return of soma to soma, or 'dust to dust', and a male afterlife
characterized
by the return of psyche to psyche, or 'ashes to ashes', since the
precedence of
psyche by soma in the one case, that of females, and the precedence of
soma by
psyche in the other case, that of males, inevitably led to the
conclusion that
'as in the beginning, so in the end', that which was particle-hegemonic
would
duly return to soma and that, by contrast, which was wavicle-hegemonic
duly return to psyche.
2. It is interesting that in Heaven
and
Hell, Aldous Huxley distinguishes
between what he
calls visionary and mystical afterlife experiences, the former being
more
earthly and the latter more heavenly, since in the one case one is
dealing with
the fruits of human knowledge and in the other case with pure truth,
which is
to say, unitive knowledge, as he puts it,
of the
Godhead rather than with visionary experience at one or other of the
mind's
antipodes.
3. Such visionary experience is, in a
sense,
less elevated or profound or pure than the mystical experience of unitive knowledge, and Huxley's contention here
is
certainly commensurate with my distinction between self-absorption in
the brain
stem at a sort of egocentric level of afterlife experience and
self-absorption
in the spinal cord at the deeper level of the soul, wherein one has
passed
beyond visionary symbolism into the pure light of inner truth or,
rather, joy,
as commensurate with Heaven, and thus the redemption of godly selfhood
in the
peace that surpasses all conscious understanding, the subconscious
justification of God in heavenly bliss.
4. Huxley was, in a sense, crudely
foreshadowing
my own contentions and beliefs in relation to afterlife experience,
with a
distinction, rather more implicit in his case, between a masculine
afterlife in
visionary experience (wherein the brain stem, avowedly more physical
than
metaphysical, is virtually an end-in-itself) and a divine afterlife in
mystical
union with the Godhead; though, in fact, I tend to believe that, at the
metaphysical level, the brain-stem self is the Godhead, is
commensurate with God, and that such union with the deeper self, or
spinal
cord, as may occur is more to be conceived of in terms of heavenly
redemption
and fulfilment of the Godhead, viz. the metaphysical brain stem, than
of unitive knowledge of God as such, so
that truth leads to
joy and is not an end-in-itself but, rather, the means whereby, through
metaphysical self-knowledge, full soulfulness may be achieved.
5. Granted, then, a class distinction
between
physical and metaphysical males, the latter of whom have a capacity to
pass
joyfully beyond the brain stem into the spinal cord, Huxley further
distinguishes positive afterlife experience from its negative
counterpart,
citing the possibility of a visionary hell for those who fall short, as
it
were, of positive visionary experience or who are unable to abide the
purity of
mystical union with the Godhead, meaning soul.
That got me thinking again. For I
had simply distinguished, in PART ONE, between the afterdeath
experience of females in a return to soma, and the afterlife experience
of
males in a return to psyche, the former commensurate with either hell
or
purgatory, depending on the class of female, i.e. whether diabolic or
feminine,
devilish or womanly, metachemical or
chemical, and
the latter commensurate with either the earth or heaven, again
depending on the
class of male, i.e. whether masculine or divine, manly or godly,
physical or
metaphysical.
6. Huxley, of course, makes no such gender
distinctions, but that is only to be expected from a major British
author,
since the British are among the most androgynous, if not
gender-neutral, people
on earth and rarely bother to consider things from a specific gender
standpoint, least of all male. Also he
is less than logically consistent in his equation of negative visionary
experience with hell, since the visionary in general is less than that
which
transcends visions in unitive knowledge of
the divine
Ground and therefore cannot be other than purgatorial if negative or
earthly if
positive, which is to say, beneath either Hell or Heaven in the more
mundane
realms habitually frequented by masculine males and feminine females,
viz. men
and women.
7. However that may be, I was obliged to
rethink
my own position in relation to such afterlife contentions, and to see
whether
it wasn't possible to come to some kind of accommodation with the
plurality of
afterlife experiences outlined by Huxley in Heaven
and
Hell, barring
those which suggested the continuation of normal consciousness in the
Other
World and the possibility of some ghost-like haunting of the world or
susceptibility to being discovered or uncovered by mediums and the like. Frankly I have no desire to go down that
road, unlike the poet W.B. Yeats, but I do think that the afterdeath/afterlife
dichotomy between somatic nothingness for females on the one
hand, and
psychic somethingness for males on
the other
hand, affords a wider solution, as John Cowper Powys would say, than
what I had
offered myself to the vexing question of posthumous fate.
8. Now, in general, I stick by what I said
in
PART ONE, i.e. that hell and purgatory are to be conceived of in terms
of different
class approaches by females to somatic perdition, whereas their male
counterparts would seem destined for either earthly or heavenly
afterlife
experiences on the basis of psychic redemption, and a return, in
consequence,
to either egocentric or soulful, visionary or unitive,
manifestations
of
the self - a thing, incidentally, which Huxley failed, in his
paradoxical obsession with the not-self, to grasp as that which is of
the very
essence of male psyche in relation to either the brain stem or the
spinal cord.
9. But if there is also the possibility of
negative afterlife experience, it must mean that males are the people
who would
suffer it, not, however, in terms of purgatory or hell, outright
somatic
perdition, but in terms of quasi-purgatorial or quasi-hellish
experiences
attendant upon the subversion of psyche, whether physical or
metaphysical,
egocentric or soulful, by soma, and not just by vegetative or airy,
physical or
metaphysical soma, which are germane to the male side of things anyway
and would
quickly be subordinated by psyche in the course of its return to
source, but,
rather, in gender-bender fashion, by either watery or fiery orders of
somatic
influence carried over, into posthumous experience, by dint of the
extents to
which, contrary to one's gender interests or norms as a male, they had
obtained
in life, and which now undermined such psychic positivity
as should, by rights, accrue to what is properly male, whether from the
standpoint of physical ego or, deeper and higher, the standpoint of
metaphysical soul.
10. Thus the intrusion, if you will, of chemical
soma into physical psyche on the one hand, that of a quasi-purgatorial
negative
afterlife experience, and of metachemical
soma into
metaphysical psyche on the other hand, that of a quasi-hellish negative
afterlife experience, in both instances of which the light of male
psyche,
whether visionary or pure, egocentric or soulful, is eclipsed or, at
the very
least, undermined by the darkness of female soma, whether spiritual or
wilful,
chemical or metachemical, to extents which
result in
what I have described as either quasi-purgatorial or quasi-hellish
subversions
of afterlife experience.
11. Therefore if, as a male, whether manly or
godly, lower class or upper class, one had been insufficiently true to
one's
self, or loyal to one's gender in life, one can expect to suffer
consequences
in an afterlife which will be less than either earthly or heavenly but
quasi-purgatorial or quasi-hellish, as the elemental case may be! Consequently the sensual male, who is much
the more likely than his sensible counterpart to be 'bent' from his
gender
position by dint, in sensuality, of the female hegemonies in chemistry
and metachemistry over physics and
metaphysics, can expect
nothing less than the subversion of psychic predominance in the
afterlife, as
posthumous judgement goes against him in consequence of the extents to
which he
had lived life on the wrong side of the gender fence from that to which
he was
psychologically and physiologically entitled, as a male.
For him, the crematorium may well be the
solution, if rather paradoxically, to the likelihood of negative
judgement in
consequence of a consistently foolish life.
12. But if males can, contrary to their gender
entitlements,
experience negative afterlife experience, is it not likely that females
can
experience positive experiences if not in an afterlife then certainly,
according to their gender predestination, in an afterdeath,
so
that
we would have the logical right to speak of a positive afterdeath experience for those categories of
female who,
contrary to their somatic grain, had lived to a greater extent than the
generality of females on the male side of the gender fence, as it were,
and
were accordingly more given to psyche of either a vegetative or an airy
type
than simply to the more prevalent somatic freedoms conditioning psychic
determinism in relation to chemistry and metachemistry,
water
and
fire, women and devils.
13. Therefore the heathenistic
'bent' male has to be contrasted, presumably as the exception to a
general
rule, with the christianly 'bent' female,
whose
sensible orientation, in living under the sway of a male hegemony in
either
physics or metaphysics, marks her out as a female exception with an
entitlement
to or, at the very least, likelihood of some kind of quasi-earthly or
even
quasi-heavenly afterdeath experience such
that would
logically follow from the informing of soma, whether chemical or metachemical, by the relevant kind of male
psyche, be it
physical and egocentric or metaphysical and soulful, in consequence of
which
the inevitable return by females to soma was, as it were, coloured by
and
infused with a lingering of male psyche to an extent whereby somatic perdition was nowhere near as
categorical or swift as with un-Christian females, so to speak, but
became
subject to psychic intrusion to a degree which would permit us to
speak, as
above, of either quasi-earthly or quasi-heavenly afterdeath
experience, thereby justifying the burial of such females in
traditionally
Christian fashion.
14. Yet both positive afterdeath
experience for females and negative afterlife experience for males
would, I
maintain, be - and always have been to greater or lesser extents,
depending on
the age or society - more the exception than the rule, since females
are by
nature soma over psyche, 'matter over mind' in Oscar Wilde's proverbial
phrase,
and males, by contrast, mind over matter or, in more philosophical
language,
psyche over soma, given the physiological and psychological differences
which
indubitably characterize each gender, making for what I believe the
Bible calls
the 'friction of the seeds', or the virtual immutability of gender, and
its
principal role in historical change.
STATE
SOMA
AND CHURCH PSYCHE
1. Certainly nurture can be brought to bear
on
nature, and more in the male cases of men and gods than in those of
their
female counterparts where, no matter how determined or earnest the
civilizing
or cultural endeavour, nature, in the sense of soma, still tends to get
the
better of psyche and to condition psyche from a free somatic basis
towards a 'bovaryized' and subordinate
image of itself in terms of the
id and the superego, instinctive emotion and spiritualized intellect,
with a
foaming up, in porter-like vein, of psychic determinism from the dark
depths of
somatic freedom below, a freedom that will continue to wreak havoc with
the
male psyche so long as it is insufficiently free in either physical or
metaphysical sensibility to resist succumbing to female dominion in
hegemonic
sensuality and suffer the outflanking consequences of being undermined
by
either the id or the superego, if not, in paradoxical instances, by
both at
once, in craic-like
vein.
2. For what is the much-vaunted Irish craic,
after
all, but a porter-inspired license for
dance and speech, jig and yap, to do their blessed most, and enslave
the male
to female dominion through metachemistry
and
chemistry, fire and water, and this contrary to the teachings of the
Church,
with its emphasis upon salvation from the World and hope and promise of
otherworldly redemption.
3. Clearly the Church is one thing -
imperfectly
at that - and the State quite another, and rarely if ever do they pull
in the
same direction, except, of course, when the Church is so weak as to be
little
more than an adjunct to the State and the concept of state religion
takes on a
whole new meaning, or, alternatively, when the State is so weak as to
be little
more than an adjunct to the Church and the concept of church politics
likewise
takes on a completely new dimension.
4. But state and church are pretty much
gender
opposites when, like work and play, genuinely themselves, and can
hardly exist
in a balanced relationship when a people are either predominantly
female and,
hence, objective, or predominantly male and, hence, subjective, with
the
inevitability of modifications to the subordinate factor, be it state
or
church.
5. I do not, myself, believe in the
desirability
of a people being predominantly female and thus characterized by a
somatic
hegemony; for that leads to a genuine state and a 'bovaryized',
or
corrupted
church. Neither am I much
given to the idea of a balance between female and male alternatives in
worldly
amoral fashion, since both state and church will be androgynously other
than
what each of them should be if genuine.
I believe, quite categorically, in the moral desirability of a
people
being predominantly male and thus characterized by a psychic hegemony;
for that
entails a genuine church and a 'bovaryized',
or
emasculated,
state, the sort of state that will not go against the
interests of
the Church, be it Christian or more than Christian, but serve it and
thus serve
the People's moral interests in relation to the protection and
advancement,
through environmental and cultural conditioning, of sensibility, with
the
inevitability of male hegemonies in both physical and metaphysical
contexts
over the chemical and metachemical
dispositions of
females.
6. Such is my blueprint for 'Kingdom Come',
and
it takes religion, and thus morality, to the absolutist heights of
sensible
metaphysics, wherein Truth is enthroned and Godliness is elevated over
both men
and women to their mutual advantage, since both knowledge and strength
can only
profit from the infusion of Truth, and when all alike are served from
the
profoundest beauty of the most good devil, so to speak, in an
administrative
aside, the aside of a transmuted state such that takes statecraft to a
new and
unprecedented level of devolved existence, then
religion will be enabled to expand as never before, and thus to
evolve
beyond the parameters of the Christian Church towards the Centrist
freedom, the
freedom of the Social Transcendentalist Centre, of a transcendent
eternity,
wherein the 'Kingdom of God' becomes manifest.
7. Truly, 'Kingdom Come' would be beyond
both
state and church as we have known them in the World; for that which
emerges out
of them is akin to the synthetic transmutation of a dialectic between
female
and male, somatic and psychic elements, and in that transmutation
something
more and better than each will come to light - namely, the Cyborg,
who will be the offspring of the Centre, and thus of that which,
through Social
Transcendentalism, transcends the World and its paradoxical dialectics,
consigning not only Man, as we have knowledgeably known him, but Woman
and the
Devil, Nature and the Cosmos, to the rubbish heap of both human and
pre-human
history, insofar as their masculine, feminine, and diabolic successors
would be
subordinate to the divine lead and in no position to represent, govern,
or rule
independently of the prevailing ethic.
CONTRASTING
FREEDOMS
OF BARBARISM AND CULTURE
1. I have stated that there is a sense in
which the
devolutionary regression from the Cosmos to Nature is equivalent to
philistinism devolving to barbarism, the Devil to Woman, and that the
evolutionary progression which emerges in opposition to this, as from
Man to
the Cyborg, is equivalent to civilization
evolving to
culture, and thus to that which, in genuine Godliness, would be
antithetical to
the Cosmos. Therefore I have identified,
in general terms, the Cosmos with philistinism, Nature with barbarism,
Man with
civilization, and the Cyborg with culture.
2. There is
nothing, so
far as I am aware, wrong with this theory.
But it is only one, and not necessarily the best or most
credible in all
instances! For it occurs to me that it
would also be possible to distinguish culture from philistinism on the
basis of
grace and sin, psyche and soma, self and not-self, the Father and the
Son, and
this whether in relation to physics or metaphysics, Man or God, and no
less
possible, on the other side of the gender fence, to distinguish
barbarism from
civilization, or barbarity from civility, on the basis of crime and
punishment,
soma and psyche, not-self and self, the Mother and the Daughter,
equally
whether in relation to chemistry or metachemistry,
Woman
or
the Devil.
3. If so, then we have a gender-based
distinction
between the crime and punishment, barbarity and civility, of a female
disposition or reality on the one hand, and the grace and sin, culture
and
philistinism, of a male disposition or reality on the other hand, with
the
former vacuously characterized by free soma and bound psyche, but the
latter,
issuing from a plenum, characterized by free psyche and bound soma, so
that
while civility, or civilization, and culture are both psychic, or of
the
psyche, they are unequally so, the one being secondary to the
prevailing
barbarity, or barbarism, of free soma, and the other being primary in
relation
to the philistinism, or undue naturalism, of bound soma, its secondary
complement.
4. Therefore, regarded in this light,
civilization and culture would be the female and male approaches,
respectively,
to psyche, the one bound, or determined by somatic freedom, and the
other free,
while barbarism and philistinism would be their somatic counterparts,
the one
free and the other bound, or determined by psychic freedom.
5. Hence whereas civilization, or civility
or
civic duty, would be secondary to barbarism or barbarity or barbarous
freedom,
like bound psyche to free soma, philistinism, by contrast, would be
secondary
to culture, like bound soma to free psyche, and we would have a right
to
distinguish that society which was somatically free, and therefore
barbarous,
from any society that was psychically free, and therefore cultural,
with an
emphasis on grace and sin rather than, in female vein, on crime and
punishment.
6. No society would, of course, be entirely
the
one thing or the other, but there is still a sense in which a bias
towards one
or the other options, according with the prevailing gender of a given
people,
can be discerned, and we can note a distinction, once again, between
free state
and bound church on the one hand, that of a female-oriented society, or
matriarchy, and free church and bound state on the other hand, that of
a
male-oriented society, or patriarchy.
7. Short of an androgynous, or very
neutral,
compromise between female and male alternatives, it is difficult to
imagine a
society in which the State was free one moment and bound the next, or,
conversely, that the Church was bound one moment and free the next,
since one
would not be referring to one type of state or church but either to a
state and
a church which changed its integrity, like a chameleon its colours, as
and when
expedient, or, no less paradoxically, to the co-existence, in mutual
rivalry,
of two types of state and two types of church, neither of which had any
desire
to compromise with the other.
8. Clearly, states and societies tend to be
one
thing or the other, either free or bound, whether in relation to the
State or
to the Church, and states are established and maintained, more usually,
on the
basis of the prevalence of one type of state and corresponding type of
church,
irrespective of whether this means that a minority who might happen to
belong
to a different type of church or even to relate to a different type of
state in
relation to that are denied sovereignty and the official endorsement of
their
sense of freedom.
9. In philosophical terms, one might say
that
societies advocating and upholding the reality of a free state, with a
correspondingly bound church, are more prone, in Protestant fashion, to
empiricism, while those upholding the reality of a free church, with a
correspondingly bound state, are more likely, in Catholic fashion, to
favour
rationalism, as demonstrated by the historical division between British
and
Continental philosophy, since empiricism thrives in a somatically free
environment, where science and politics are barbarously free, and
sensuality
tends to take precedence, in avowedly female vein, over sensibility,
whereas
rationalism only really thrives in a psychically free environment,
where
economics and religion are culturally free, and sensibility tends to
take
precedence, in typical male vein, over sensuality.
For the distinction here is not between
freedom and binding, but between contrasting types of freedom and their
correlative orders of determinism, whether psychic or somatic.
10. Societies in which the State is free and the
Church bound, being of the not-self and therefore notself-consciously
female,
will
maintain a situation in which civility is secondary to barbarity,
punishment to crime, since, in the very nature of things, punishment,
and
therefore civility, can only be secondary to crime, and therefore the
barbarous
pursuit of somatic freedom at the expense, on the other side of the
gender
fence, of psychic freedom.
11. Societies, on the contrary, in which the
church is free and the state bound, being of the self and therefore
self-consciously male, will uphold a situation in which philistinism is
secondary to culture, sin to grace, since, in the very nature of these
things,
sin, and therefore philistinism, can only be secondary to grace, and
therefore
the cultural pursuit of psychic freedom at the expense, on the opposite
side of
the gender fence, of somatic freedom.
12. I will not say that empiricism is wrong or
that rationalism is alone right; for such a reductionist
claim would hardly do justice to the legitimacy of sensuality from a
hegemonic
female standpoint in the free state or to the legitimacy of sensibility
from a
hegemonic male standpoint in the free church, but, rather, that, as the
evidence suggests, empiricism will not take precedence over rationalism
from a
properly male standpoint in psychic freedom, while rationalism can
hardly be
expected to take precedence over empiricism from a properly female
standpoint
in somatic freedom.
13. Either a society opts for observation in
female vein or it opts for reason in male vein, for, at the end of the
day, you
cannot have a state that is free one moment and bound the next, or a
church
that is bound one moment and free the next, but either a stable polity
or a
stable religiosity, the former based in somatic barbarism but allowing
for
civilized constraints, the latter based in psychic culture but allowing
for
philistine alternatives, since one cannot have punishment without crime
nor,
conversely, sin without grace. Just as
crime is the somatic precondition of punishment, its psychic corollary,
so
grace, by gender contrast, is the psychic precondition of sin, its
somatic
corollary. The Mother precedes the
Daughter no less surely than the Father precedes the Son.
14. Obviously, societies in which either a female
bias or a male bias obtain are incompatible and incommensurate. You can't blend that which won't mix but
reacts
against any such compromise. You can
either carry on, in the well-worn tracks of secular or ecclesiastic
tradition,
or you can forge a new society in which such a dichotomy, and in some
limited
sense dialectic, no longer obtains, because one has found a way to
transcend it
via some kind of synthetic transmutation of the antagonists such that
does away
with the ethnic and political rivalry and establishes a fresh basis for
society
to develop from, a basis, I mean, which is neither Protestant nor
Catholic,
Parliamentary nor Republican, Loyalist nor Nationalist, but doggedly
Social
Transcendentalist in its design to forge a supra-national union of the
peoples
concerned in what I have described, in previous texts, as 'Kingdom
Come', as
instanced by the concept of a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales
as the means whereby lasting peace can be brought to the British Isles,
and the
hideous division of Ireland between Protestant North and Catholic South
be
consigned, democratically and peaceably, to the rubbish heap of
schismatic
history.
15. For until the Gaelic peoples, in particular of
Ireland, Scotland, and hopefully even Wales, opt for some kind of
federal unity
within the supra-national context of such a 'Kingdom' as that to which
I have
dedicated a considerable period of my vocational time, it is hard to
envisage
any substantial progress being made in the way of a united Ireland and
an end
to centuries of sectarian and political rivalry. Such
a
rivalry can only be ended, I contend,
by Social Transcendentalism, and thus by the synthetic transcendence of
Catholic/Protestant sectarianism and an end, in consequence, to the
Christian
religion, that great failure of Western civilization.
EMPIRICISM
AND
RATIONALISM REVIEWED
1. It is not usually true that the Father
takes
precedence over the Son in regard to Christianity, for all too often
the Son,
in response to the Christian emphasis upon Christ, takes precedence
over the
Father, and somatic philistinism rides out at the expense not only of
psychic
culture but in cahoots, seemingly, with that somatic barbarism
conditioning
psychic civility, so that, contrary to the societal divisions that
afflict the
British Isles, the Son turns upon the Daughter and transforms Her into
the
Mother, though not without the Daughter's express wish and consent!
2. I shall not elaborate, but it is clear
to me
that Christianity has not always or even regularly been true to the
self, even
in relation to cerebral knowledge, which is the context par
excellence of the Catholic Church, but has allowed the philistine
ignorance
of the physical not-self to take on a position of prominence due to a
Messianic
emphasis upon the Son and the culturally undermining effect this has
had upon
the self, and hence the Father, as the source from which all physical,
not to
mention metaphysical, soma flows, in response to a wavicle
hegemony.
3. But He is not, of course, the source
from
which all chemical, not to mention metachemical,
soma
flows,
for soma does not follow from psyche on the female side of the
gender
divide but, on the contrary, psyche follows from soma in response to a
particle
hegemony, whether elemental or molecular, so that the Mother, as it
were, is
the source from which all metachemical
and/or
chemical psyche flows, this latter of course being deterministic and
therefore
no less secondary to the free soma of the Mother, whether the Mother be
devilish or womanly, fiery or watery, than the bound soma of the Son is
secondary to the free psyche of the Father, whether the Father be manly
or
godly, vegetative or airy.
4. Therefore God has not created 'matter'
except
insofar as metaphysical 'matter', or soma, is concerned, and then we
would have
to allow for two different orders of paternalistic deity, one foolish
and prone
to aural soma, the other wise and prone to respiratory soma, as well as
to
their corresponding secondary deities in the aural or respiratory types
of
metaphysical soma itself, whom we have identified with the concept of
'Son' and
believe to be either foolish or wise, sensual or sensible, in like
manner, with
a distinction between immorality in the one and morality in the other.
5. Even where physical 'matter', or soma,
is
concerned, we have no right to speak of God the Father, but only of Man
the
Father; for the metaphysical self cannot be accorded responsibility for
the
physical self, which pertains to a different element and presupposes a
different order of will or, rather, ego, one less truthful than
knowledgeable
in its vegetative rather than airy nature, and thus more properly
germane to
the brain stem and thus to the ego per
se.
6. God is a term that can only apply to the
metaphysical self and its corresponding order of not-self, in the one
case
primarily in relation to the Father and in the other case secondarily
in
relation to the Son. For the physical
self and not-self, whether sensual or sensible, we have to allow, by
contrast,
for manly orders of father and son, while on the opposite side of the
gender
divide, 'matter' is not created by 'mind', soma by psyche, but psyche
is
created and modified by soma, and therefore we have to allow for both metachemical and chemical orders of the Mother
and the
Daughter, as described, with a like distinction, albeit more to do with
evil
and good than folly and wisdom, between their sensual and sensible
manifestations - the former directly immoral and the latter,
subordinate to a
male hegemony, indirectly moral.
7. However that may be, the distinction in
philosophy
between empiricism and rationalism, so long the basis of philosophical
conflict
between contrasting worldly agendas, is clearly deducible to the gender
distinction between societies upholding free soma and bound psyche in
typically
female vein, and those, on the contrary, for which free psyche and
bound soma
is the desired mean in typically male vein, a vein which
correspondingly allows
for a free church and a bound state, for cultural grace and philistine
sin, as
opposed, on the female - and sensual - side of the gender fence, to the
upholding of a free state and a bound church, in which barbarous crime
necessarily takes precedence, in somatic freedom, over the punishing
civility
of psychic determinism.
8. Empiricism, of which the British
tradition of
Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume is second to none, is simply a
reflection, in
largely Protestant fashion, of the sensual rule of female criteria in
which
soma, and hence the State, is barbarously free and psyche, and hence
the
Church, civilly bound, in consequence of which the psychic, or
intellectual,
findings of philosophy must be derived from somatic material lying
without the
self, and observation and classification of material data form the
basis of
philosophical enquiry and the guarantor through experience, for
empiricists, of
its knowledgeable authenticity - in reality an egotistical shortfall
from
anything innate and more genuinely, or egocentrically,
knowledgeable.
9. For on the female side of life, wherein metachemistry and chemistry,
fire and water, are the prevailing elements,
soma takes precedence over psyche, and such psyche as fictitiously
derives from
a somatic precondition must reflect, in deterministic vein, the
hegemonic
freedom of soma and be subservient to it, not rationalistically
independent of
sense data in truthful vein. Reason of a
sort can, of course, obtain in empiricism; for even protestant
Englishmen are
not entirely bereft of male subjectivity, least of all when Anglican,
but it is
constrained by the prevailing sensuality from being true to itself in
self, and
is accordingly subverted, in id- or superego-like vein, by the metachemical and chemical powers-that-be from
egocentrically drawing knowledgeable conclusions that assert
rationalistic
independence of Nature, as though from a psychic subversion, through
conscious
will, or mind, and subconscious spirit, or subspirit,
of
soma.
10. But such a subversion and subordination of
soma by free psyche is only really germane to contexts in which the
male
elements of physics and metaphysics, vegetation and air, are in
contention, not
to their female - and objective - counterparts, and so we cannot
maintain that
rationalism, striving for psychic independence and/or overlordship
of Nature, is valid right across the elemental board irrespective of
gender
factors or elemental differences. It is
only really valid in contexts, so often conditioned in the past by the
Catholic
Church, where sensibility is hegemonic in male vein, with respect to
both
physics and (to a much lesser extent traditionally) metaphysics, and
therefore
it would be as much out of place and ineffectual in contexts of metachemistry and chemistry, fire and water, as
empiricism
is or would be out of place on the male side of the gender fence, where
the
subjective treatment of the male orders of soma from a freely psychic
basis is
perfectly legitimate, and one expects nothing less than a principled
commitment
to rationalism, whether equivocally in physics or unequivocally in
metaphysics,
its more absolutist male counterpart.
11. Therefore, from a strictly philosophical
standpoint, which is concerned with the pursuit of knowledge and,
especially,
truth, that guarantor of maximum beingfulness,
rationalism
will
always be superior to empiricism, since philosophy is less
concerned
with metachemistry and chemistry than with
physics
and, especially, metaphysics, and any attempt to broaden its scope to
embrace
the female - and objective - elements of fire and water simply vitiates
and
subverts it, making it akin to some kind of science wherein facts
established on the basis of empirical evidence relating to apparent and
quantitative phenomena, more usually metachemical
in
the one and chemical in the other, should be categorically
differentiated from truths
established on the basis of rational cogitation relating to qualitative
and
essential noumena, more usually physical
in the one
and metaphysical in the other, and we have, in the latter case, that
which,
when genuine, should stand closer to religion, even as the logical and
theoretical
guide to the development of religious praxis, or devotion, through an
enhanced
concept of Truth founded upon the mastery, through somatic determinism,
of
Illusion.
12. For on the male side of life the self takes
precedence over the not-self, psyche over soma, truth over illusion,
grace over
sin, sanctity over profanity, play over work, and anything that
advances the
freedom of psyche at the expense of somatic freedom, constraining soma,
especially when male, to deterministic subordination in relation to
either mind
(conscious will) or subspirit
(subconscious spirit),
advances the cause of rational enlightenment, and never more so than in
relation to the properly philosophical sphere of metaphysics, wherein
the ratio
of psyche to soma is somewhat in the region of 3:1, as in most wavicles/least particles, and an unequivocal
commitment to
rationalism announces the presence not of Man, the developer through
equivocal
reason of physical knowledge, but God, of the godly human being who
portends
the Cyborg and the cultural victory of
metaphysical
truth, which is equivalent to the Truth.
FAILED
ALTERNATIVES
TO THE LIBERAL WORLD
1. But Truth, as I have argued, isn't to be
found on the female, or objective, side of life, but only Beauty, where
metachemical psychic appearances are
concerned, or
strength, its chemical counterpart. In
fact, so much does psyche stand in the shadow of soma, when the female
side of
life is free, that one has a right to distinguish, as intimated above,
between
the facticity of soma premised upon a
particle
hegemony and the fiction of psyche, since the latter derives its
principal
attributes in the id and the superego from the free will and spirit of
the
former and would have virtually no objective significance or reality
without them. Female psyche is not - I
repeat, not - the
same as male psyche, and therefore its existence in quasi-essential
(id) and
quasi-qualitative (superego) terms is very much dependent upon and
subordinate
to the factual existence in apparent (wilful) and quantitative
(spiritual)
terms of free soma, both metachemical and
chemical.
2. Therefore just as bound psyche is
subordinate
and secondary to free soma within the objective contexts of metachemistry
and chemistry, so civility is secondary to barbarity, as punishment to
crime,
or, in institutional terms, the Church to the State, the latter of
which, when
genuinely free, is the barbarous source of all crime.
Verily, the relationship of bound psyche to
free soma is one of psychic fiction to somatic fact, and those who,
whether
literally female or twisted male, uphold the primacy of somatic freedom
invariably condemn themselves to a plethora of psychic fictions, of
which the
punishment of crime is not the least salient in a situation where,
whether metachemical or chemical, crime is
primary and punishment
secondary, and such civility as is brought to bear on the facticity
of barbarism is not a solution to but a symptom of objective reality.
3. Verily, one does not stamp out crime
through
punishment, any more than the bound church can eradicate the free
state. The two go hand in glove,
and so long as female criteria persist hegemonically
in sensual vein there can be no end to the reality of crime and
punishment,
barbarity and civility, and no appreciable change in the relationship
of the
one to the other. The fictional civility
of bound psyche trailing along in the factual wake of somatic barbarity
will
persist in society as, empirically, in philosophy, and no amount of
wishful
thinking or subversive arrogation of truth by fact will do a jot to
demonstratively change or ameliorate the situation.
Heathenistic
criteria will simply persist, shutting out the possibility of male
liberation
and deliverance from sensuality to sensibility, immorality to morality,
which
is commensurate with salvation.
4. But where such sensibility does
obtain, as
traditionally within the purview of the Catholic Church, and all those
societies, not least of all on the Continent, for whom the precedence
of psyche
over soma, of church over state, of
culture over philistinism, is a Man- or God-given right, confirmed by
the
nature, in vegetation and air, of physical and metaphysical
orientations,
matters can and have been different, as evidenced by the emphasis upon
grace
and sin, the Father and the Son, psychic freedom and somatic
determinism, and
the correlative development of rationalism at the expense of both
scholastic
tradition, heavily compromised by Aristotelianism,
and,
more
contemporaneously, empiricism.
5. Yet the Continental emphasis upon
rationalism, as evidenced by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, et
al,
equivocally rationalistic as it was, was insufficiently rationalistic
to avoid
the scorn of Rousseau and the German Romantics, beginning with Kant,
who sought
a rapprochement between rationalism and empiricism, and one
must look to
the underlining weakness or inability of the Church to remain
sufficiently
faithful to the male reality of psyche over soma, as a cause in the
growth, in
opposition to rationalism, of that philosophy of feeling and ultimately
will
which was to characterize much of the nineteenth century and lead to
devastating consequences in the twentieth, not least of all in relation
to two
world wars.
6. In fact, both empiricism and
rationalism, the
alpha and omega of the world, inspired non-liberal offshoots in the
respective
extremes of Communism and Fascism, and both were guilty, if unequally
so, of an
undue emphasis upon soma at the expense of psyche - Communism in terms
of
materialism, Fascism in terms of idealism, neither of which owe
anything to
psyche but, rather, to those absolutist orders of criminality and
philistinism
which derived, in no small part, from the importance attaching to soma
in the
World.
7. For the liberal opposition of empiricism
and
rationalism, feminine objectivity and
masculine subjectivity, was rarely a clear-cut distinction between free
soma on
the one hand and free psyche on the other, since the worldly fatality
of the
Christian Church itself ensured that, for all but a minority of
privileged
elite, the male reality of psyche over soma could not be guaranteed
outside the
purview of the Church, and that the majority of males, ever subject to
female
pressures within and without the family, and obliged to earn a living
in manners
often dependent upon a somatic predominance, were fated, then as
before, to
exist in the shadow of females, with a greater emphasis, especially
within
physics, on soma than on psyche, on the not-self than on the self, on
the Son
than on the Father.
8. Small wonder, then, if, in
contradistinction
to male reality, naturalism came to take precedence over humanism for
the
generality of Catholic rationalists, the ignorance of the Son over the
knowledge of the Father, and thus to level, albeit on the paradoxical
terms of
bound soma, with the female context, within the world of liberal
objectivity,
in which realism took precedence over nonconformism,
as
free
soma over bound psyche, and the negativity of weakness and
humility, if
not humiliation, accordingly prevailed over the positivity,
ever
secondary,
of strength and pride.
9. Accustomed to deferring, outside the
narrow
confines of the Church, to the hegemony of female soma, which is ever
negative,
the majority of males would have granted more substance to their own
somatic
attributes and become conditioned to a context in which, contrary to
their
gender interests, soma took precedence, to all practical intents and
purposes,
over psyche.
10. Therefore instead of humanism leading to
transcendentalism, as physical psyche to metaphysical psyche, the
change, when
it came, was of the order of naturalism leading to idealism, as from
Rousseau
through the German Romantics, particularly Fichte,
Hegel,
and
Nietzsche, to Hitlerian Fascism. For the Romantic revolt against rationalism
had to lead somewhere, and if materialism was ruled out because of its
derivation, through Marx and subsequent Marxian Socialists, from
liberal
realism, with its empirical traditions, then the only alternative
course of
development led logically beyond naturalism, and the filial emphasis of
the
Church, to idealism, which is precisely the context in which
metaphysical
negativity, whether in falsity or woe, becomes somatically predominant.
11. But that is perhaps too facile a progression. The revolt against reason was not above
seeing in any grand passion or emotional outburst the key to liberation
from
the fetters of intellectualism and egocentric rationality.
The will to soul as opposed to the
continuation of ego is, of course, a noble one, since it can bring one
to the
peaks of metaphysical beatitude. But
when the notion of soul is corrupted, as the Western one has always
been, by
appeals to the heart as the 'seat of the soul', a metaphor for the
self, or
brain stem/spinal cord, and thus the core of life, then the resulting
emphasis
upon love which accrues to this metachemical
not-self
or, rather, to the psychic extrapolation from somatic materialism,
leads to the
opposite effect of what was expected, namely to the triumph of the will
and to
the advocacy of will as the means whereby divine redemption may be
achieved.
12. Nothing, however, could be further from the
truth! For the Western tradition is
rooted in the Lie of the Old Testament, wherein the cosmic First Mover
is
identified with God, and the First Mover, whether stellar or Venusian, sensual or sensible, is in reality
anything but
divine, being a female reality whose diabolic nature, in metachemical
objectivity, ensures that not only does the will take precedence over
the soul,
but that soul is itself undermined or conditioned by will to such an
extent
that it has nothing in common with genuine soul, which in any case is a
subconscious rather than unconscious essence, but is the wilful product
of
somatic intrusion.
13. For cosmic metachemistry,
no
less
than the universal metachemistry in
which the
eyes and the heart have their space-time devolutionary throne on what
could be
regarded as the Cupidian axis, is that in
which soma
predominates over psyche in the ratio of 3:1, as most particles/least wavicles, and in such an unnatural/unconscious
context it
is impossible for the soul, or what passes for soul, in reality the id,
to be
anything but a fourth-rate order of feeling commensurate with the
utmost 'bovaryization' of the concept
'soul' in relation not to
essence, as with metaphysics, but to appearance, the principal
attribute, in
will, of metachemistry.
14. Therefore not only is any appeal to the heart
bound to lead, sooner or later, to the substitution of fourth-rate
emotion,
namely love, for the reality or potential of any higher emotion, such
as joy;
it is a context associated, through metachemistry,
with
a
situation in which psyche is least prevalent and soma most prevalent,
so
that the prospects for even love are 1:3 compared with the more
prevalent
emotion, in general terms, of hate, which characterizes both the
sensual and
sensible manifestations of the soma in question, as are the prospects
for
beauty compared to the more prevalent reality, ever somatic, of
ugliness.
15. Therefore Romanticism ends up glorifying that
which is most inimical to the soul, to all noble feelings, to enhanced
emotional positivity.
It plays into the hands of the Devil and ends-up forfeiting its
claim to
emotional sovereignty as first the psychic fiction of love and then the
somatic
facticity of ugliness brutally intrude to
sweep away
psychic freedom and subordinate the resulting puppet to its wilful and
spiritual machinations, turning what was once a graceful concerto into
an
infernal dance, a danse
macabre.
16. And all because the heart is not 'the seat of
the soul' but the seat, par
excellence, of the will in its sensible
mode, in relation to which the somatic negativity of ugliness and
hatred take
precedence over the psychic positivity of
beauty and
love in the ratio of at least 3:1, which is to say, in relation to a
context,
necessarily metachemical, in which the
particle
hegemony of somatic predominance is of the order of most
particles/least wavicles.
No-one in
his right mind would wish for an outcome like that!
17. Yet, at the same time, the retreat from
liberal realism to socialist materialism, to the dialectical
materialism of
Marxian Communism, is no great improvement on matters either, but a
degeneration from more (relative to most) particles/less (relative to
least) wavicles to most particles/least wavicles,
as from Nature to the Cosmos, and thus to an outright metachemical
absolutism untempered by idealism but
having ugliness
and hatred, the ugliness of the industrial proletariat and their hatred
of the
bourgeoisie, as it prime motivation and principal characteristic, and
more, in
contrast to Romantic materialism, from a sensual basis in the stellar
cosmos
and/or eyes than from a sensible one in the Venusian
cosmos and/or heart.
18. Romanticism may be the tragically paradoxical
failure of a noble urge to transcend liberal rationalism, but the
Classical
Communism, as it were, of dialectical materialism is simply the
degenerate
offspring of liberal empiricism, and thus the worst possible form of
empiricism
such that accrues rather more, in metachemical
soma,
to the Cosmos than to Nature, and thus to the Devil than to Woman, to
radically
hegemonic unnatural factors than to moderately hegemonic supernatural
ones.
19. Even sensible idealism tempered by sensible
materialism is less morally objectionable than outright sensual
materialism,
whether or not tempered, in paradoxical Marxist vein, by sensual
idealism. It is rather more a corrupted
wisdom than a
straightforward evil, since, with the metaphysical will untempered
by metaphysical ego, it has unregeneratively
embraced, in its mindless state, the unnatural context of metachemistry
via the idiotic 'unconscious', or unnaturally-tempered subconscious,
rather
than subordinated itself, in properly male vein, to the metaphysical
subconscious, the context of soul per
se.
RETURNING
TO
SELF
1. Clearly before any progress beyond
liberal
rationalism can be made, one has to be capable of respecting the male
reality
of psyche over soma, of a cultural precedence over philistinism, as
grace over
sin, and thus of understanding that feelings which lead to the
aggrandizement
of will are strictly undesirable from a higher, or post-liberal,
standpoint. One needs to be capable of
respecting one's self, the self that is a combination, for males, of
brain stem
and spinal cord, the former the effective seat of the ego, the latter
the seat
of the soul, and thus have come to an accommodation with either
humanism
primarily in relation to physical ego or with transcendentalism
primarily in
relation to metaphysical soul, notwithstanding the lesser soulful and
egocentric counterparts to each which, though deriving from the same
sources,
stand in a subordinate relationship to the prevailing attribute of the
self, be
it egocentric or emotional.
2. In fact, such a prevalence is so
determined
by the nature of one's class as a male, whether manly or godly, that
one cannot
simply imagine a man, say, opting to become a god or vice versa, since
those
who are predominantly self-oriented in relation to the brain stem, and
hence
ego, are ever distinct from those whose psychic orientation is closer
to the
spinal cord, and hence the soul. One is
either masculine or divine, as a rule, not both at once or by turns,
although
alternations between sensual and sensible masculinity and/or divinity
are not
uncommon, as witness those Catholic males who subscribe, prayerfully,
to
physical sensibility one moment and, audibly or musically, to
metaphysical
sensuality the next.
3. Readers familiar with my texts will know
enough, by now, about my projected theories concerning the structural
pluralism
of the triadic Beyond and its tier subsections to realize how the
divine is to
be distinguished from the masculine, or the soulful from the
intellectual, even
within any given tier, quite apart from the position of feminine
females in
each of the tiers, with due distinctions between persons of
Nonconformist,
Anglican, and Catholic denominational background, presuming, with
'Judgement',
upon a majority mandate for religious sovereignty and their
deliverance, in
consequence, from the schismatic dialectics of inverted and/or
perpendicular triangularity to the Social
Transcendentalist synthesis of
the triadic Beyond.
4. Certainly the patterns for salvation and
damnation that I have outlined in previous texts need no apologetics or
further
mention here, so I shall content myself with reminding the reader that
the
development of Truth in 'Kingdom Come' is not anti-rationalistic but an
enhancement
of rationalism beyond the liberal or equivocal traditions, especially
those of
the Catholic Continent, to the level of an unequivocal endorsement of
the
possibility, for those who are 'up to it' and have been earmarked for
such a
destiny, of unitive knowledge of God and,
more
especially, experience of Heaven through transcendental meditation,
which of
course presupposes the acceptance of a psychic predominance in the
region of
most wavicles/least particles, and
therefore of a
pretty absolutist commitment to transcendentalism and the right of
transcendental psyche to utilize somatic idealism for purposes of its
graceful
enhancement from metaphysical ego to soul, as from the metaphysical
consciousness of God-the-Wise-Father to the metaphysical subconsciousness
of Heaven-the-Holy-Soul via the metaphysically mindful 'naturalness',
or
consciously-tempered unnaturalness, viz. bound will, of
God-the-Wise-Son and
the metaphysically emotionalized 'subnaturalness',
or
subconsciously-tempered
supernaturalness,
viz. bound
spirit, of Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit, the latter two of which orders of
not-self,
appertaining in metaphysical sensibility to the lungs and the breath,
stand in
a secondary relationship to the prevailing primacy of the metaphysical
self,
which is alone free.
5. For one cannot, as a self-respecting
male,
tolerate or condone a situation in which the Son takes precedence over
the
Father, in somatic subversion of the male reality of psyche over soma,
whether
in the absolutist context of idealism, as witness the drift of German
Romanticism towards Hitlerian Fascism
(Hitler a kind,
I have to say, of Second Coming who stands closer to the Son than to
the
Father, to the negative profanity of metaphysical soma in falsity and
woe,
tempered, and further corrupted, as it indubitably was, by, first,
fundamentalism and, then, materialism), or in the relativistic context
of
liberal rationalism wherein humanism loses ground to naturalism as the
generality of masculine Christians, or Christian males, increasingly
find
themselves identifying with soma at the expense of psyche, not only in
consequence of the fatality of Christianity to emphasize the Son at the
expense
of the Father, nor even solely in relation to wives and family, and
thus to
somatic precedence of psyche by females, but also in response to the
growth of
Protestant criteria and influence throughout society, and Europe in
particular,
with its more openly somatic hegemonies, as evidenced by the
subordination of nonconformism to realism
and, ultimately, of fundamentalism
to materialism in the 'march of history' towards ever more secular
freedoms,
for which read: somatic predominance.
6. Whatever the reasons, the failure of
Christianity to sufficiently uphold the male reality of psyche over
soma, of
the precedence of soma by psyche, or to prevail against Nature and the
brute
sexual realities of life, has led to the somatic freedoms, with all due
attendant barbarities and crimes, of the contemporary world, and it is
from the
pit of that crime-ruled barbarous world that we must now climb,
Protestant and
Catholic alike, back to sanity and thus the sensible lead of culture,
with an
emphasis upon grace and sin, not, as before, upon sin at the expense of
grace,
in all too paradoxically Christian and lower-class fashion, but upon
grace at
the expense of sin, upon culture utilizing philistinism for its own
enhancement
of sanctity.
7. I have outlined the ways and methods by
means
of which this may be achieved, and therefore it requires the
authorization, at
some future date, of a paradoxical kind of election in which the
electorates of
the relevant countries, particularly Ireland (North and South) and
Scotland, are granted the opportunity to
elect for religious sovereignty and thus for deliverance from the 'sins
and/or
crimes' of the somatic World in which, through political sovereignty of
one
liberal persuasion or another, they still remain bogged down at the
time of
writing.
8. So much does the criminal reality of
soma
over psyche, of free soma conditioning bound psyche, currently prevail,
that
even males have been, for the most part, twisted against their gender
and
gender interests and brought to a sinful and even quasi-criminal low
which,
unlike in the past, cannot even depend upon the tenuous consolations of
Catholic
grace or, for that matter, of Protestant punishment, in primary or
secondary
psyche. For the churches, both
truthfully free and fictitiously bound, have been further compromised
or
undermined by the reluctantly subordinate illusory bindings and
frantically
galloping factual freedoms of state soma, and cannot even pretend to
offer
mankind a way out of the dilemma in which the greater proportion of it
now
languishes, irrespective of denomination.
9. The only way out, as I have taught, can
come
via 'Kingdom Come', and therefore through the rejection of political
sovereignty, and its scientific and even economic corollaries, in
favour of the
religious sovereignty, the enhanced commitment to self, which Social
Transcendentalism has to offer the World, and not really through the
Second
Coming of Christ, through another Son, but in relation to an
understanding of
the primacy of the Father over the Son, of psyche over soma, of culture
over
philistinism, taken to an unprecedentedly
sensible
level of metaphysical development. Call
me Anti-Son, or Anti-Christ, if you like, but I am one who offers a
truthful
alternative to the Lies of both the New Testament personal Son and the
Old
Testament cosmic Father, the so-called First Mover (Jehovah) as God.
10. I offer you the prospect, through salvation,
of the universal Father, whether in relation to God (for Catholic
males) or in
relation to Man (for Protestant males), and I tell you that as the
Germanic
equivalent of the Second Coming acted
physically, as a sort of Son, upon what was considered irrelevant to
and even
dangerously subversive of any prospects for the growth and development
of
Western civilization from a somatic standpoint, so will the Gaelic
equivalent
of the Second Coming, a higher order of Messianic deliverer
commensurate with
the Father, be obliged to act metaphysically upon the psychic
manifestations,
so to speak, of that same irrelevance and subversive threat - namely,
the
Bible, and have it removed from the sphere of our daily life.
11. For until we - and by 'we' I mean Gaels in
particular - are free of that cultural irrelevance, we shall not be
able to
grow into our full stature as free beings for whom the culture of
Social
Transcendentalism is the Final Solution to all subversive underminings
of Truth.
12. Verily a higher phase, characterized by the
enhancement of Gaelic religiosity, of the European evolutionary
struggle is
about to begin, and out of it will emerge a new human being, a godly
being who
leads, and elevates, the generality of men and women to pastures new
and even,
ultimately, to the overcoming of mankind in the Cyborg,
the
meaning
and justification of the heavenly Beyond.
PART
THREE
CONCRETE
AND
ABSTRACT REVALUATED
1. In the previous two parts of Alpha
and
Omega I have drawn distinctions between the absolute alpha, so to
speak, of
most particles/least wavicles and the
relative alpha
of more (relative to most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles, and contrasted both of these
objective, or
female, realities with the relative omega, as it were, of more
(relative to
most) wavicles/less (relative to least)
particles and
the absolute omega of most wavicles/least
particles,
contending that a struggle is discernible in history between devolution
of the
objective and evolution of the subjective, as between the Cosmos and
Nature on
the one hand, and Man and (to anticipate the future) the Cyborg
on the other - the former pair female and the latter pair their male
counterparts.
2. Assuming one can speak of an overall
progression
or, rather, gradual development from alpha to omega, as from a
devolutionary
regression from the Cosmos to Nature on the one hand, and an
evolutionary progression from Man to the Cyborg on the other hand (the latter of which is
still only
potential), it must transpire that life is a gender-based struggle
between
objectivity and subjectivity, in which, though neither side is totally
victorious or totally vanquished, things will favour the one side or
the other
according to whether sensual or sensible, female or male, criteria are
hegemonic at any given time, both in society generally and the
individual
members of which it is composed.
3. Therefore whilst all the elements, from
fire
and water on the objective, or female, side of the gender fence to
vegetation
(earth) and air on its subjective, or male, side, will be present to
greater or
lesser extents in the world, a situation must nevertheless be possible
for
societies or ages in which one element is especially prominent and the
others
are subordinate, in different degrees, to it, with an overall
distinction, in
consequence, between upper-class female criteria, lower-class female
criteria,
lower-class male criteria, and upper-class male criteria, as between
most
particles/least wavicles, more (relative
to most)
particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
more
(relative
to most) wavicles/less (relative
to least)
particles, and most wavicles/least
particles, or, in
historical terms, the Cosmos, Nature, Civilization, and the Cyborg,
or the Devil, Woman, Man, and God.
4. In the past I have tended to equate
particles
with soma and wavicles with psyche,
contending a
distinction to exist between the 'matter' of the one and the 'mind' of
the
other, as between phenomenal and noumenal,
corporeal
and ethereal, concrete and abstract. In
general terms, this is a fair distinction to draw, since soma and
psyche are
neither identical on the one side of the gender fence nor on the other,
but
reflect a gender differential between the objectivity of most
particles/least wavicles and more
(relative to most) particles/less
(relative to least) wavicles on the one
hand, and the
subjectivity of more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative
to
least) particles and most wavicles/least
particles
on the other hand, the hand in which, with a wavicle
hegemony, psyche could be said to precede soma and soma is accordingly
conditioned by psyche in terms of what has been called somatic
determinism, the
opposite, in effect, of that psychic determinism stemming from the
precedence
of psyche by soma on the female side of life, where soma will be free
to
condition psyche in the manner described.
5. But this can
only
happen when the female side of life is free, in sensuality, to be loyal
to
itself or, rather, to its not-self, in soma, and females are
accordingly
hegemonic over males. In sensibility, on
the other hand, no such freedom is generally possible to females, and
consequently male hegemonies in vegetation and/or air, physics and/or
metaphysics, over the female sensibilities of water and/or fire,
chemistry
and/or metachemistry, will ensure that
males are in a
position to remain loyal to their selves, their psyches, and to
condition soma
in the best interests of that freedom, which is to say, in relation to
somatic
determinism, both directly in relation to themselves and indirectly in
relation
to the undermining of female somatic freedom through the hegemonic
influence of
bound soma.
6. All this has been stated before, but the
fact
that soma corresponds to the corporeal and psyche to the ethereal, to
'matter'
and 'mind', the phenomenal and the noumenal,
does
not
mean, as I was formerly apt to suppose, that this is equivalent to the
concrete
on the one hand and to the abstract on the other, as though concretism,
or the fact of something's being concrete, was equivalent to somatic corporealism, so to speak, and the fact, by
contrast, of
its being abstract equivalent to psychic etherealism. On the contrary, that which is abstract has
been abstracted from a concrete basis or precondition, and therefore
can exist
in relation to either the corporeal or the ethereal, soma or psyche.
7. Let me explain. The
female,
or objective, side of life, we
have found, bears testimony to the precedence of psyche by soma, of wavicles by particles, since it exists either
absolutely in
objective time and space, viz. space-time devolution, in relation to
most
particles/least wavicles or relatively in
objective
volume and mass, viz. volume-mass devolution, in relation to more
(relative to
most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
and
therefore
in contexts where either the somatic predominance is absolute
(metachemical) or relative (chemical), in
consequence of
which one can argue that psyche has been abstracted, or extrapolated,
from a
concrete basis in soma, which, being free, has conditioned psyche from
its own
somatic standpoint, the standpoint or, rather, standpoints of will and
spirit,
the former of which has its principal manifestation in fire, the latter
in
water.
8. Therefore, in relation to free females,
it
can certainly be said that psyche has been abstracted from soma, and
precisely
in terms of a fiction extrapolated from a fact, the fact of either metachemical soma in the absolute case or
chemical soma in
the relative case; for facts are ever objective and germane to the
sensuality
of a particle hegemony, be that hegemony absolute or relative. Facts condition fictions, which are
abstracted, in psychic determinism, from free soma.
So much for the relationship of concrete to
abstract on the female side of life!
9. On the male side of life, by contrast,
no
such abstraction of psyche from soma can be properly said to apply,
since
psyche, as we have found, precedes soma in terms of a wavicle
hegemony, be that hegemony relative or absolute, physical or
metaphysical, and
consequently in contexts of more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative to least) particles, viz. those of subjective mass and
volume, or
mass-volume evolution, and most wavicles/least
particles,
viz.
those of subjective time and space, or time-space evolution,
one should speak of soma abstracted from psyche, so that, contrary to
the
female elements, psyche is concrete and soma abstract, in consequence
of which
one can argue that soma has been extrapolated from a concrete basis, or
precondition, in psyche which, being free, has conditioned soma from
its own
psychic standpoints, the standpoints of ego and soul, the former of
which has
its principal manifestation in vegetation, the latter in air.
10. Therefore, in relation to free males, it can
certainly be maintained that soma has been abstracted from psyche, and
precisely in terms of an illusion extrapolated from a truth, the truth
of
either physical psyche in the relative case or metaphysical psyche in
the
absolute case; for truths are ever subjective and germane to the
sensibility of
a wavicle hegemony, be that hegemony
relative or
absolute. Truths condition illusions,
which are abstracted, in somatic determinism, from free psyche.
11. How different, then, is the relationship of
concrete and abstract on the male side of life from its female
counterpart! Fact conditioning fiction
makes for empiricism, or the binding of
psyche to the
corporeal freedom of somatic fact. Truth
conditioning illusion makes for rationalism,
or the
binding of soma to the ethereal freedom of psychic truth.
In the one case, the rule
of corporeal reality. In the other case, the rule of ethereal reality. A free state and a bound
church, as against a bound state and a free church.
12. Hence the concrete is no more invariably
equivalent to the corporeal, or phenomenal, than the abstract to the
ethereal,
or noumenal.
Fictions are ethereal abstractions, in bound psyche, from the
corporeal
facts of somatic concretion, whereas illusions are corporeal
abstractions, in
bound soma, from the ethereal truths of psychic concretion. The psychic determinism of the bound church
extrapolated from the
FICTIONAL
KNOWLEDGE
AND TRUE KNOWLEDGE
1. Empiricism is a slave of fact, but what
is
fact? Simply the metachemical
and/or chemical manifestations of the not-self, which is to say, of
free soma
as that which issues from a vacuum in relation to a
particle
hegemony, be it absolute and unequivocal or relative and equivocal, of
the
Cosmos or Nature, or some modern artificial equivalents thereof. Empiricism is the psychic fiction of
'knowledge' that follows from the precedence of psyche by somatic fact
in metachemical and/or chemical elemental
contexts. But such 'knowledge', avowedly
objective, is
really antithetical to genuine knowledge, its subjective psychic
counterpart,
and therefore false by any authentic standards of what constitutes
genuine
knowledge.
2. In fact, such 'knowledge' as empiricism
boasts of has been conditioned and subverted by somatic facts stemming
from a
particle-hegemonic vacuum to such an extent that one cannot even
mention it in
the same breath as rational knowledge, which is a product of concrete etherealism operating in the wavicle-hegemonic
plenum of free psyche, whether physical or metaphysical, but must allot
to its
concern with predominantly ugly or weak realities a measure of beauty
or
strength which attests to the subversion of psyche by free soma and
underlines
the fiction of knowledge to which it empirically subscribes,
complements of a
female hegemony in sensual objectivity.
3. But metachemistry
attests to a context in which somatic freedom is well-nigh absolute in
most
particles/least wavicles, and therefore to
that in
which the negativity of soma predominates over the positivity
of psyche somewhat in the region of 3:1, which is to say, three parts
materialism to one part fundamentalism, or three parts ugliness and
hatred to
one part beauty and love. One would
expect, in such a context, considerably more ugliness than beauty, and
therefore the further undermining of knowledge in terms not merely of
ignorance, or the much-vaunted scientific humility before the facts of
experience, but of ugliness, or recourse to metachemically-inspired
experimentation,
which
does not a jot to enhance male self-esteem, but simply
renders what residue of self-respect may still cling to the empirical
male all
the more vulnerable to female subversion in the overall experimental
scheme of
things.
4. However, if the unequivocal empiricism
of a metachemical disposition is as bad as
it gets from a male
standpoint or, rather, from a standpoint which is effectively female in
diabolic terms, then at least the equivocal empiricism of chemistry,
hitherto
the more prevalent form of empiricism in Europe, attests to a context
in which
somatic freedom is merely relative in more (relative to most)
particles/less
(relative to least) wavicles, and
therefore to that
in which the negativity of soma predominates over the positivity
of psyche in the feminine region of 2½:1½, which is to say,
two-and-a-half
parts realism to one-and-a-half parts nonconformism,
or
two-and-a-half
parts weakness and humility to one-and-a-half parts
strength
and pride. Consequently one would, in such
a context, expect substantially more weakness than strength, and
therefore the
chemical undermining of knowledge by weakness, or chemically-inspired
experiments, with consequences similar to those noted above.
5. Whatever the exact ratio of factors,
depending
on the extent to which empiricism is really empirical and not still, to
some
extent, paradoxically rationalistic, knowledge is the only real loser
in this
erroneous approach to philosophy, to the enhancement of knowledge not
only in
terms of physics but, more significantly, of metaphysics, the context
of
infinite knowledge and, hence, Truth, and those who empirically shout
the
loudest are bound to be among the principal denigrators of genuine
knowledge,
which is to say, of knowledge conceived as subjectively innate and
having
reference to the self in its psychically free mode, a mode which is
either
equivocal in relation to the physicality of finite knowledge or
unequivocal in
relation to the metaphysicality, as it
were, of
infinite knowledge, the knowledge not of egocentric reason but of
soulful or,
rather, psychocentric reason, of the
utmost
rationality in terms of the maximizing of positive being through the
truthful
pursuit of joy.
6. But if the equivocal rationalism of
physics,
hitherto the more prevalent form of rationalism (prior to the
naturalistic
decadence) in Europe, attests to a context in which psychic freedom is
merely
relative in more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative
to
least) particles, and therefore to that in which the positivity of psyche predominates over the
negativity of
soma more in the region of 2½:1½, which is to say, two-and-a-half parts
humanism to one-and-a-half parts naturalism, or two-and-a-half parts
finite
knowledge and pleasure to one-and-a-half parts ignorance and pain, no
knowledge
can compare to the metaphysical or unequivocal variety which, when
properly
wise in sensibility, attests to a context in which psychic freedom is
well-nigh
absolute in most wavicles/least particles,
and
therefore to that in which the positivity
of psyche
predominates over the negativity of soma somewhat in the region of 3:1,
which
is to say, three parts transcendentalism to one part idealism, or three
parts
truth and joy to one part illusion (infinite ignorance) and woe. One would expect, in such a context,
considerably more positivity than
negativity, and
therefore the further enhancement of self-esteem in relation to the
utmost free
psyche - a psyche not of Man, but of God; not of the brain-stem in its
physical
mode, but of the spinal cord as the more properly metaphysical
manifestation of
selfhood.
7. Certainly there is no concretism
to compare with the ethereal variety of metaphysical psyche, for even
the
ethereal concretism of physical psyche
must reckon
with the finite limitations of physics, as of a vegetative elemental
context,
and thus with a ratio of positivity to
negativity
which is anything but absolute, even in the best, or least decadent, of
masculine circumstances. Nevertheless
even the finite knowledge of a physically free psyche is preferable,
from a
male standpoint, to the empirical corruptions of knowledge which accrue
to both
the chemical and metachemical fictions of
that psyche
which, punishingly bound in subconscious
(where
applicable) and conscious manifestations of self by instinctual and
spiritual
factors emanating from free soma, as from the not-self, is ever
enslaved to
corporeal fact and in no position to do justice to finite knowledge,
much less
Truth (or infinite knowledge), by dint of the sheer pressure of
predominantly
weak and ugly phenomena criminally raining down on it from the
particle-hegemonic sensual vacuums of a female objectivity, be it
feminine and
equivocal, or diabolic and unequivocal.
8. To sum up, the absolute corporeal concretism of the metachemical
context of space-time devolution, corresponding to most particles/least
wavicles, is that in which soma is
maximized and psyche
minimized or, as stated above, in which soma both precedes psyche and
exists in
a ratio to it of 3:1, which is to say, three parts materialism and one
part
fundamentalism. Therefore it is a
context in which ugliness and hatred considerably predominate over
beauty and
love, and in which psychic positivity
should be regarded
as the absolute ethereal exception to the general rule of somatic
negativity.
9. Within the 'fallen' context of Nature,
however, the relative corporeal concretism
of the
chemical context of volume-mass devolution, corresponding to more
(relative to
most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
is
that
in which soma both precedes psyche and exists in a ratio to it of
approximately 2½:1½, which is to say, two-and-a-half parts realism to
one-and-a-half parts nonconformism. Therefore it is a context in which weakness
and humility substantially predominate over strength and pride, and in
which
psychic positivity should be regarded as
the relative
ethereal exception to the general rule of somatic negativity.
10. By contrast to this, the relative ethereal concretism of the physical context of
mass-volume
evolution, corresponding to more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative to least) particles, is that in which psyche both precedes
soma and
exists in a ratio to it of approximately 2½:1½, which is to say,
two-and-a-half
parts humanism to one-and-a-half parts naturalism.
Therefore it is a context in which knowledge
and pleasure substantially predominate over ignorance and pain, and in
which
somatic negativity should be regarded as the relative corporeal
exception to
the general rule of psychic positivity.
11. Conceived as a godly 'rise' from Man, the
absolute ethereal concretism of the
metaphysical
context of time-space evolution, corresponding to most wavicles/least
particles, is that in which psyche both precedes soma and exists in a
ratio to
it of 3:1, which is to say, three parts transcendentalism to one part
idealism. Therefore it is a context in
which truth and joy considerably predominate over falsity and woe, and
in which
somatic negativity should be regarded as the absolute corporeal
exception to
the general rule of psychic positivity.
FACTUAL
PRIMACY
VIS-À-VIS TRUTHFUL SUPREMACY
1. The distinction between devolution and
evolution, objective and subjective realities, broadly divisible
between the
Cosmos and Nature on the one hand, and Man and the Cyborg
on the other, is one in which things devolve from the absolute to the
relative
and evolve, on the opposite side of the gender fence, from the relative
to the
absolute, as from pre-worldly alpha to worldly alpha, and, in
evolutionary
opposition to this, from worldly omega to post-worldly omega.
2. But such a distinction is also one
between
primacy and supremacy, between the primacy of soma preceding psyche in
corporeal concretism, and the supremacy of
psyche
preceding soma in ethereal concretism, and
therefore
between fact, accompanied by an abstracted fiction, on the one hand,
and truth,
accompanied by an abstracted illusion, on the other hand.
3. Thus facts and fictions correspond to
primacy
in their respective ways, with regard to a primary order of soma and a
secondary order of psyche, while truths and illusions correspond to
supremacy
in their respective ways, as regarding a primary order of psyche and a
secondary order of soma. For illusion
can only be secondary, in soma, to fact, while, conversely, fiction can
only be
secondary, in psyche, to truth. The
primary adversaries in each context are fact and truth, which is to
say, free soma as a metachemical
and/or
chemical sensual reality, and free psyche as a physical and/or
metaphysical
sensible reality.
4. For in sensibility fact, together with
its
fictional abstraction, is likely to come under the hegemonic sway of
males and
accordingly be undermined, assuming a quasi-rationalistic stance,
whereas in
sensuality, by contrast, truth, together with its illusory abstraction,
is
likely to come under the hegemonic sway of females and accordingly be
undermined - as in the cases of equivocal and unequivocal empiricism.
5. But just as the psychic positivity
of 'truth' implies knowledge, whether finite or infinite, physical or
metaphysical, so the somatic negativity of ‘fact’ implies weakness,
whether
infinite or finite, metachemical or
chemical.
6. Finite truth is knowledge, and is
generally
so regarded, whereas infinite knowledge is truth,
or
truth per
se, and therefore that which has been more usually
conceived in terms peculiar to itself. A
distinction between knowledge and truth is nevertheless one between man
and
God, between physical and metaphysical orders of male, the former
effectively
lower class, the latter their upper-class counterparts, for whom the
element of
air is more significant than that of vegetation (earth), and who can
accordingly
be identified with a transcendental as opposed to a humanistic order of
psychic
concretism, one which is essential rather
than
qualitative and therefore of the soul rather than the ego.
7. On the female side of the gender fence,
however, infinite weakness is ugliness, and is generally so regarded,
whereas
finite ugliness is weakness, or weakness per
se, and therefore
that which has been more usually perceived in terms peculiar to itself. A distinction between ugliness and
weakness
is nevertheless one between the Devil and woman, between metachemical
and chemical orders of female, the former effectively upper class, the
latter
their lower-class counterparts, for whom the element of water is more
significant than that of fire, and who
can accordingly be identified with a realistic as opposed to a
materialistic
order of somatic concretism, one which is
quantitative rather than apparent and therefore of the spirit rather
than the
will.
8. Therefore the gender contrast between
the
primacy of free soma on the one hand and the supremacy of free psyche
on the
other, of the sensual hegemony of somatic negativity and the sensible
hegemony
of psychic positivity, is effectively
between the
weakness of things female and the knowledge of things male, as between
will and
spirit in relation to free soma, whether metachemical
or chemical, and ego and soul in relation to free psyche, whether
physical or
metaphysical. That which, when
objectively loyal to itself, is somatically free will always be weak,
whether
infinitely in ugliness or finitely in weakness per
se,
whereas that which, when subjectively loyal to itself, is psychically
free will
always be knowledgeable, whether finitely in knowledge per se
or
infinitely in truth.
9. Clearly the ugliness of infinite
weakness and
the truth of infinite knowledge will tend to be less prevalent, in the
World,
than the weakness of finite ugliness and the knowledge of finite truth,
since
the World, conceived in mass/volume terms, is by and large revelatory
of a
finite dichotomy between the relativity of corporeal concretism
on the one hand, that of feminine females, and the relativity of
ethereal concretism on the other hand,
that of masculine males, who
correspond to the Many as opposed to the Few and thus continue to be
reflective,
in different ways and to differing extents, of a lower-class bias,
whether for
spirit or for ego, as the watery or vegetative case may be.
10. Devils and gods can only, in the time/space
nature of things hellish or heavenly, be exceptions to the general
mass/volume
rule, for the World, of women and men; though play a part in the nature
and
direction of the World at any given time they most assuredly can,
whether in
terms of its rulership by the former or of
its
leadership by the latter, neither of whom can prevail in equal measure
within
any given society or age.
11. My sympathy, as a philosopher, is and always
will be with gods, since only divine males can lead the greater
proportion of
mankind from a standpoint based in truth, in the ethereal concretism
of absolute psychic freedom, as germane to a metaphysical disposition,
with
especial applicability, as far as wisdom and holiness are concerned, to
the
sensible context of spaced space, wherein transcendental meditation has
its
godly throne, and the institutional development of such
transcendentalism would
require nothing less than the establishment, with general consent, of
'Kingdom
Come', and thus of the subordination of worldly criteria, in 'world
overcoming', to godly truth, as described in previous texts.
12. Certainly, criteria appertaining to the World
will continue to exist, but more in relation to sensibility than to
sensuality,
given the need, justified by urban environmental conditioning, of male
hegemonies in knowledge, both finite and, especially, infinite, in
order to
ensure that the negativity of somatic facts can never again dominate
society
after the fashion of secular modernity, but is undermined and
effectively cast
down upon the rubbish heap of alpha-slavering history, to be replaced,
where
females are concerned, by a greater respect for psychic positivity,
if only in relation to the informing - and undermining - of sensible
beauty and
strength by knowledge in quasi-rationalistic vein - the opposite, in
effect, of
that informing - and corrupting - of knowledge by sensual strength and
beauty
or more usually, in relation to soma, by weakness and ugliness which
typifies
the experiences of empirical philosophers in those societies where
somatic
freedom was the only concept of freedom that really mattered, to the
lasting
detriment of male self-respect and the supremacy of moral sensibility.
PRIMACY
AND
SUPREMACY IN THE ELEMENTS
1. The metachemical
axis of space-time, devolving from the photonic sensuality of spatial
space to
the photonic sensibility of repetitive time, as from photons to photinos, the metachemical
elements and elementinos par
excellence, is not only that in which materialism predominates, in
soma,
over fundamentalism, its psychic abstraction, in the most
particle/least wavicle ratio of 3:1,
making for a very negative overall
situation, but also that in which the will of absolute primal doing,
being
paramount in infinite weakness, or ugliness, and the spirit of absolute
primal
giving that issues, in infinite humility, or hatred, from this will
together
constitute the corporeal concreteness of metachemically
free soma from whose power and glory flows, in ethereal abstraction,
the bound
psyche characterized by the instinctualized
contentment of the absolute primal being of love on the one hand, that
of the metachemical id, or metachemically
unconscious soul, and the spiritualized form of the absolute primal
taking of
beauty on the other hand, that of the metachemical
superego, or metachemically superconscious
ego.
2. The chemical axis of volume-mass,
devolving
from the electronic sensuality of volumetric volume to the electronic
sensibility of massed mass, as from electrons to electrinos,
the
chemical
elements and elememtinos par
excellence, is not only that in which realism predominates, in soma,
over nonconformism, its psychic
abstraction, in the more
(relative to most) particle/less (relative to least) wavicle
ratio of approximately 2½:1½, making for a pretty negative overall
situation,
but also that in which the spirit of relative primal giving, being
paramount in
finite hatred, or humility, and the will of relative primal doing that
precedes, in finite ugliness, or weakness, this spirit together
constitute the
corporeal concreteness of chemically free soma from whose glory and
power
flows, in ethereal abstraction, the bound psyche characterized by the
spiritualized form of the relative primal taking of strength on the one
hand,
that of the chemical superego, or chemically superconscious
ego, and the instinctualized contentment
of the
relative primal being of pride on the other hand, that of the chemical
id, or
chemically unconscious soul.
3. The physical axis of mass-volume,
evolving
from the neutronic if not deuteronic
sensuality of massive mass to the neutronic
if not deuteronic sensibility of
voluminous volume, as from
neutrons and/or deuterons to neutrinos and/or deuterinos,
the
physical
elements and elementinos par
excellence, is not only that in which humanism
predominates or can predominate, in psyche,
over naturalism, its somatic abstraction, in the more (relative to
most) wavicle/less (relative to least)
particle ratio of
approximately 2½:1½, making for a pretty positive overall situation
(especially, one could argue, in relation to a sensibly deuteronic
bias), but also that in which the ego of relative supreme taking, being
paramount in finite truth, or knowledge, and the soul of relative
supreme being
that accompanies, in finite joy, or pleasure, this ego together
constitute the
ethereal concreteness of physically free psyche from whose form and
contentment
flows, in corporeal abstraction, the bound soma characterized by the
intellectualized power of the relative supreme doing of ignorance on
the one
hand, that of the physical will, or physically natural will, and the
emotionalized glory of the relative supreme giving of pain on the other
hand,
that of the physical subspirit, or
physically subnatural spirit.
4. The metaphysical axis of time-space,
evolving
from the protonic sensuality of sequential
time to
the protonic sensibility of spaced space,
as from
protons to protinos, the metaphysical
elements and elementinos par
excellence, is not only that
in which transcendentalism predominates, in psyche, over idealism, its
somatic
abstraction, in the most wavicle/least
particle ratio
of 3:1, making for a very positive overall situation, but also that in
which
the soul of absolute supreme being, being paramount in infinite
pleasure, or
joy, and the ego of absolute supreme taking that precedes, in infinite
knowledge, or truth, this soul together constitute the ethereal
concreteness of
metaphysically free psyche from whose contentment and form flows, in
corporeal
abstraction, the bound soma characterized by the emotionalized glory of
the
absolute supreme giving of woe on the one hand, that of the
metaphysical subspirit, or metaphysically subnatural
spirit, and the intellectualized power of the absolute supreme doing of
illusory falsity on the other hand, that of the metaphysical will, or
metaphysically natural will.
5. Consequently, in overall female terms, metachemistry provides evidence of an elemental
context
(fiery) in which absolute primal doing and giving precede and
considerably
predominate over absolute primal being and taking, as metachemical
will and spirit over metachemical soul
(id, or
unconscious soul) and ego (superego, or superconscious
ego), or ugliness and hatred over love and beauty, whereas chemistry
provides
evidence of an elemental context (watery) in which relative primal
giving and
doing precede and substantially predominate over relative primal taking
and
being, as chemical spirit and will over chemical ego (superego, or superconscious ego) and soul (id, or unconscious
soul), or
humility and weakness over strength and pride.
6. In overall male terms, by contrast,
physics
provides evidence of an elemental context (vegetative) in which
relative
supreme taking and being precede and substantially predominate over
relative
supreme doing and giving, as physical ego and soul over physical will
(conscious or, rather, natural will) and spirit (subconscious or,
rather, subnatural spirit), or knowledge
and pleasure over
ignorance and pain, whereas metaphysics provides evidence of an
elemental
context (airy) in which absolute supreme being and taking precede and
considerably predominate over absolute supreme giving and doing, as
metaphysical soul and ego over metaphysical spirit (subnatural
spirit) and will (natural will), or joy and truth over woe and falsity.
7. Just as metachemistry
is the elemental context of absolute primal doing par
excellence and chemistry the elemental context of relative primal
giving par
excellence, so physics is the elemental context of relative supreme
taking par
excellence and metaphysics the elemental context of absolute supreme being par excellence.
8. Absolute primal doing has reference to
the
Devil conceived in primary terms as the will per
se, whether with
regard to the sensual metachemical context
of spatial
space, wherein one can speak of Devil-the-Evil-Mother, or with regard
to the
sensible metachemical context of
repetitive time,
wherein one can speak of Devil-the-Good-Mother.
9. Relative primal giving has reference to
Purgatory conceived in primary terms as spirit per
se,
whether with regard to the sensual chemical context of volumetric
volume,
wherein one can speak of the Clear Spirit of Purgatory, or with regard
to the
sensible chemical context of massed mass, wherein one can speak of the
Unclear
Spirit of Purgatory.
10. Relative supreme taking has reference to Man
conceived in primary terms as ego per
se, whether with regard to
the sensual physical context of massive mass, wherein one can speak of
Man-the-Unwise-Father, or with regard to the sensible physical context
of
voluminous volume, wherein one can speak of Man-the-Wise-Father.
11. Absolute supreme being
has reference to Heaven conceived in primary terms as soul per
se,
whether with regard to the sensual metaphysical context of sequential
time,
wherein one can speak of Heaven the Unholy Soul, or with regard to the
sensible
metaphysical context of spaced space, wherein one can speak of
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul.
12. Metachemistry
affords evidence, in the corporeal objectivity of space-time
devolution, of an
absolutely primal elemental context in which the ugliness of a primary
devil
and the hatred of a primary hell considerably prevail over the love of
a
secondary hell and the beauty of a secondary devil, whereas chemistry
affords
evidence, in the corporeal objectivity of volume-mass devolution, of a
relatively primal elemental context in which the humility of a primary
purgatory and the weakness of a primary woman substantially prevail
over the
strength of a secondary woman and the pride of a secondary purgatory.
13. Physics affords evidence, in the ethereal
subjectivity of mass-volume evolution, of a relatively supreme
elemental
context in which the knowledge of a primary man and the pleasure of a
primary
earth substantially prevail over the ignorance of a secondary man and
the pain
of a secondary earth, whereas metaphysics affords evidence, in the
ethereal
subjectivity of time-space evolution, of an absolutely supreme
elemental
context in which the joy of a primary heaven and the truth of a primary
god
considerably prevail over the woe of a secondary heaven and the falsity
of a
secondary god.
14. Therefore, in overall terms, metachemistry is the elemental context of the
will, and
hence of the Devil, par
excellence; chemistry is the elemental context of the
spirit, and hence of purgatory, par excellence; physics is the
elemental
context of the ego, and hence of man, par excellence; and
metaphysics is
the elemental context of the soul, and hence of Heaven, par
excellence.
15. The objective elements, being female, attest
to a somatic predominance due to a particle hegemony in both will and
spirit,
the apparent and quantitative attributes of free soma, in which
corporeal
primacy precedes ethereal primacy as the factually concrete
precondition of a
fictionally abstract extrapolation.
16. The subjective elements, being male, attest to
a psychic predominance due to a wavicle
hegemony in
both ego and soul, the qualitative and essential attributes of free
psyche, in
which ethereal supremacy precedes corporeal supremacy as the truthfully
concrete precondition of an illusory abstract extrapolation.
DIVISIONS
IN
BOTH THE SELF AND THE NOT-SELF
1. The male self, as we have seen, is both
physical and metaphysical, qualitative in egocentric form and essential
in psychocentric contentment, and
therefore divisible between
the brain stem and the spinal cord, the former of which corresponds to
its
physical aspect and the latter of which to its metaphysical aspect, so
that
even in terms of the self we can distinguish if not between 'matter'
and
'mind', as between soma and psyche, then certainly between 'mind' that
is less
psychic and 'mind' that is more psychic, as between ego and soul, with
the one
more dependent on the physiology of the self than the other, given its
correlation with more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative
to
least) particles as opposed, in the metaphysical self, to most wavicles/least particles.
2. Therefore even the male self has a
physiological dimension, which accords with both the brain stem and the
spinal
cord, except that it is structured in such a way as to be the seat of
psyche
and subordinate, in consequence, to psychological functioning, whether
in the
molecular relativity of egocentric form or in the elemental absolutism,
as it
were, of psychocentric contentment,
wherein the ratio
of psychic to somatic, or quasi-somatic, factors is so one-sided as to
permit
of a 3:1 inference in terms of most wavicles/least
particles,
and
therefore most transcendental joy and least idealistic woe.
3. But if the self is so structured that
complete psychic independence of some kind or degree of somatic support
is
inconceivable, then what can prevent us from conceiving of some such
division,
stopping short of an outright dichotomy between soma and psyche, as
existing in
the not-self, with specific reference, in this instance, to the
metaphysical
not-self, be it sensual and aural or sensible and respiratory. There must be a sense in which even soma
contains at least some degree of quasi-psychic functioning or capacity,
and
never more so than in the context which we have equated with most wavicles/least particles, even if the wavicle
aspect of it has been identified primarily with psyche proper and the
particle
aspect of it with soma proper - namely with either the ears/airwaves or
the
lungs/breath.
4. Therefore metaphysics would seem to be
that
context in which the 'most wavicles'
accords with the
spiritual aspect of metaphysical soma, viz. airwaves and/or breath, and
the
'least particles' with the wilful or instinctual aspect of it, viz. the
ears
and/or lungs, allowing for the fact that no one elemental context is
exclusively the property, in organic reality, of only one subatomic
element,
even if what it is exists as such primarily because of the predominance
of a particular
subatomic element, be it protonic, as
here, or neutronic or even deuteronic, as
in the relatively less psychic context of physics.
5. Be that as it may, we can conclude, I
think,
that the soma and the psyche of a given elemental context tend to
mirror each
other, and that as psyche proper is divisible between particles and wavicles, somatic and psychic factors, so soma
proper is
likewise divisible on a similar basis, in consequence of which neither
psyche
nor soma is ever - not even in comparatively absolutist contexts like
metaphysics - exclusively any one thing but a combination, to greater
or lesser
extents, of both somatic and psychic factors - soma proper and what
might be
called quasi-psyche being characteristic of the not-self and,
conversely,
psyche proper and quasi-soma characterizing the self.
6. For soma proper will always be primarily
of
the not-self and psyche proper of the self.
Yet without degrees, proportionate to their elemental integrity,
be it
physical or metaphysical, of both quasi-psychic and quasi-somatic
factors,
neither would be able to relate to or communicate with the other, since
while
soma may support psyche in the self, the psychic predominance of that
self
would be unable to prevail either egocentrically or psychocentrically
upon the corresponding not-self without some intermediate channel which
enabled
soma proper to respond to the commands coming down 'from above', i.e.
from
psyche proper. And that intermediate
channel is precisely the quasi-psyche of the not-self, which acts as a
liaison
agent or channel between psyche and soma, allowing the latter to carry
out the
conscious or subconscious instructions, duly transmuted along natural
or subnatural lines, which the former has
authorized.
7. And in relaying such information, be it
qualitative or essential, formal or contented, the quasi-psyche of soma
proper
transforms that soma into a mirror image of the psyche, endowing the
will with
a conscious-like capacity which we have equated with natural will, or natwill, and the spirit with a subconscious-like
capacity
which has been equated with subnatural
spirit, or subspirit, so that in neither
the physical nor the
metaphysical contexts is soma free to be either unnatural or
supernatural,
properly instinctual or properly spiritual, but is conditioned by both
the ego
and the soul of free psyche to function along lines which mirror, from
a bound
standpoint, that freedom and maintain a wavicle
hegemony, be it relative in physics or absolute in metaphysics, more
(relative
to less) wavicles/less (relative to least)
particles
or most wavicles/least particles.
8. Now obviously, in the physical context
of
masculine vegetativeness, it is the ego
which humanistically prevails upon somatic
will, molecular wavicles upon elemental
particles, quality upon appearance,
knowledge upon ignorance, maintaining naturalistic determinism, since
physics
is characterized by an egocentric hegemony or fulcrum of selfhood in
which the
brain stem takes precedence over the spinal cord, even to the extent of
effectively excluding or at least minimizing the latter, such joy or
happiness
as is soulfully experienced usually being finite and therefore more
intimately
associated, through pleasure, with the physiology of the self than
would
otherwise, as in the metaphysical course of psychocentric
selfhood, be the case.
9. With the metaphysical context of divine
or,
rather, sublime airiness, however, it is the soul which
transcendentally
prevails upon somatic spirit, elemental wavicles
upon
molecular particles, essence upon quantity, joy upon woe, maintaining
idealistic determinism, since metaphysics is characterized by a psychocentric, or soulful, hegemony or fulcrum
of selfhood
in which the spinal cord takes precedence over the brain stem, even to
the
extent of effectively excluding or at least minimizing the latter, such
consciousness as is egocentrically experienced being proportionately
infinite
and therefore more intimately associated, through truth, or infinite
knowledge,
with the psychology of the self than would otherwise, as in the
physical course
of egocentric selfhood, be the case.
10. The distinction between the Physical and the
Metaphysical, to the extent that we allow ourselves the categorical
luxury of
upholding one in the first place, is effectively between manly, or
masculine,
males and godly, or divine, males, which is equivalent to one between
lower-
and upper-class males - the former, for reasons of environmental and
social
conditioning, generally more prevalent than the latter both now and
traditionally,
and therefore enabling us to distinguish, somewhat academically,
between the
mass-volume Many and the time-space Few, as, in psychic terms, between
humanism
and transcendentalism.
11. Whether this would continue to be the case in
a post-worldly and even otherworldly social environment like 'Kingdom
Come'
must remain subject to dispute; though I, for one, would anticipate the
development of fewer men and more gods, whether this resulted in a
different
relationship of 'many' to 'few' or, indeed, in the transformation of
life to
such an extent that there were more transcendentalists than humanists
and
therefore a new order, paradoxically, of the Many.
12. Doubtless the cyborgization
of life, as I think I described it earlier on, would permit of an
enhancement
of godly potential to an extent whereby distinctions between men and
gods no
longer obtained, all or most men having become gods.
For if equality, or the concept thereof, can
come down from the alpha heavens to the alpha earth, there is certainly
no
reason, short of technological or ideological incompetence, why it
should not
rise up from the omega earth to the omega heavens, as indeed it would
surely
have to do in the event of world-overcoming in 'Kingdom Come' and a
whole new
emphasis upon space as opposed to volume or mass, even given the case
that
genuine equalitarianism is only possible between those in any given
context, be
it godly or manly, rather than across either class or gender divisions,
and
that even this specific qualification relating to equality should be
distinguished from notions like equality of opportunity, which have
little or
no bearing on the outcome of things, like who wins a race or reaches
the top in
any given profession, but simply provide a common starting point for
people
who, in the class/gender nature of things, will have diverse motives
and
abilities.
13. I do not propose to suggest that everyone
should become as gods, for that would strike me as overly utopian and
much too
partisan to satisfy the requirements of a viable social structure,
which my
concept of a triadic Beyond has all along been intended to advance, but
rather
that even with the inevitability of some social - not to mention gender
-
distinctions in the future, we become more aware of the extent to which
distinctions between the Many and the Few are not set in an eternal
mould but
subject to flux and redefinition, according to both environmental and
ideological circumstances.
14. Certainly, Social Transcendentalism would not
be true to its otherworldly mission if it failed to envisage a
situation in
which more people were given the opportunity to become gods or godly in
the
context of 'Kingdom Come' than could ever obtain, or indeed ever has
obtained,
in the World, meaning the context in which democratic sovereignty was
the
sovereign norm and the People were left, by and large, to their own
mass/volume
devices. Social Transcendentalism, by
contrast, holds out the prospect of religious sovereignty, and
religious
sovereignty would confer a whole new pattern of rights and
responsibilities
from what currently still exists in the so-called 'free world'.
THE
MANY
AND THE ONE
1. I distinguished above, if rather
sketchily,
between devolution from the alpha heavens to the alpha earth and
evolution from
the omega earth to the omega heavens, and it seems to me that such a
contention, amounting to our old dichotomy between the Cosmos and
Nature on the
one hand, that of female objectivity, and Man and the Cyborg,
or Civilization and God on the other hand, that of male subjectivity,
lends
itself to notions if not of the Few and the Many, then arguably of the
One and
the Many, since the former distinction would appear to have a
specifically
human correlation, as for instance between a privileged elite and an
underprivileged or exploited generality, whereas the latter distinction
seems
to be wider in scope, even to the extent of embracing the as yet
theoretical
entirety of devolutionary and evolutionary possibilities.
2. However, even with a distinction between
the
Few and the Many, we have to allow that such a concept is not static
but
subject to flux, so that privilege does not necessarily or invariably
attach to
the one category and want of privilege, or exploitation, to the other. Each category can be privileged or
underprivileged according to environmental or social circumstances, and
we may
well find instances, such as war, in which the generality is more in
time/space, if with regard to the diabolism of space-time devolution,
than in
mass/volume.
3. In worldly contexts, however, it is
usually
the case that the generality will be in mass/volume, whether with
regard to the
femininity of volume-mass devolution or, alternatively, the masculinity
of
mass-volume evolution, and that such a generality may well, in the
democratic
nature of things worldly, constitute a privileged class in terms of the
prevailing standards of the day.
4. When we come, on the other hand, to
distinctions between the One and the Many, it is a different matter,
for this
is not simply how society is arranged in social or opportunistic terms,
but
rather a more elementally-conditioned reality, or series of realities,
that
would seem to proceed on a devolutionary basis from the Many to the
One, as
from the fiery Cosmos to watery Nature, alpha heavens to alpha earth,
and
thence, in contradistinction to this, on an evolutionary basis from the
Many to
the One, as from vegetative nurtures, or civilizations, to the airy
Universe,
or universal omnipresence of air, omega earths to the omega heaven.
5. Therefore from the alpha heavens to the
alpha
earth, as from fiery pluralism to watery monism, and from the omega
earths to
the omega heaven, as from vegetative pluralism to airy monism - a
devolutionary/evolutionary duality between female objectivity on the
one hand
and male subjectivity on the other, the competitive pluralism of fiery
crime
leading to the co-operative monism of watery punishment, as from the
objective
Many to the objective One, and the collectivistic pluralism of
vegetative sin
leading to the individualistic monism of airy grace, as from the
subjective
Many to the subjective One, call it the Omega Point or Heaven or God or
'Kingdom Come', or what you will.
6. Contrary therefore to the 'Big Bang'
concept
of the origins of the Universe or, rather, Cosmos (which, in
conjunction with
words like 'universe', seems to me all too indicative of a tendency,
especially
prominent among female-dominated peoples, or matriarchies, to divinize
the
diabolic), we should rather allow for a pluralistic explanation of the
Cosmos,
both initially and subsequently, and perceive in the development from
polytheism to monotheism a corollary of the 'fall' from the Cosmos to
Nature,
as from the metachemical Many to the
chemical One,
stellar pluralism to oceanic monism, with the latter inevitably pulling
rank on
the former as the earth began to supplant the heavens in the overall
hierarchy
of things, and the punishment of crime came to take feminine precedence
over
the criminal punishments or punishing criminality of the diabolic.
7. But the myth of the Adamic
revolt against the taboo of the forbidden 'tree of knowledge' in the
'Garden of
Eden' would suggest that, whatever the motive, a split from the
chemical
Oneness of watery Nature was in the offing, and thenceforward a
pluralistic
alternative to that Oneness signalled, in some worldly sense, a new
fall, as
from watery monism to vegetative pluralism, from a context dominated,
in
somatic vein, by finite ugliness, or weakness, to one that would
increasingly
become associated with the development of knowledge and, hence, the
search for
truth, and thus of an evolutionary alternative, in male subjectivity,
to the
devolutionary punishments of objective Nature.
8. Such an earthly fall from watery monism
into
vegetative pluralism we can characterize as sinful, though the
preconditions of
sin in airy grace would already have been in place, given the
precedence of
soma by psyche on the male, or subjective, side of life and the
inevitability
of graceful redemption for those who repented of their sins and sought
an
accommodation with God, meaning ultimately the airy context of sensible
metaphysics, but more usually embracing, in Western civilization, the
vegetative context of sensible physics in its psychic mode, and
therefore what
I would call Man-the-Wise-Father.
9. For if the vegetative pluralism of Man
is
sinful and a fall not only from the airy monism of God but, in worldly
terms,
from the punishing watery monism of Woman, as of objective Nature, then
the
struggle for civilization and knowledge in the face of natural and weak
conventions or traditions can only be an uphill one, constantly
thwarted by
reactionary currents that strive to drag Man back and down towards the
earthly
dominion of watery monism from which, in post-Adamic vegetativeness, he
had revolted in the interests of knowledge and self-discovery.
10. The evolutionary endeavour is beset with
devolutionary constraints and oppositions which it must vanquish if it
is to
prevail and make the world safe for civilization and the triumph,
through
knowledge, of Man, who yet continues to exist, by and large, in a
sinful
shortfall from the grace of true Godliness, no matter how much his
opposition
to the punishing monism of traditional Woman may have been shored up by
such
manly grace as, through Christianity, he could muster in the teeth of
his own
pluralistic shortcomings.
11. But Woman is no longer quite the monistic
threat to his earthly pluralism as was formerly the case, but is
herself being
pulled over the earthly dividing line, as it were, between monistic
tradition,
exemplified by maternal duty, and pluralistic modernity, exemplified by
career,
so that, pseudo-cosmic exceptions to the general rule notwithstanding,
she
increasingly acts like Man in his pluralistic defiance, through
civilization,
of monistic traditions.
12. The male side of life is gradually gaining the
upper hand, it would appear, over its female adversary, traditionally
given to
the objective monism of watery weakness, and what could be called the polydeism of masculine knowledge, as of Man,
standing
defiantly aloof, as it must, from both polytheistic and monotheistic
traditions, would seem ready to rise towards the monodeism,
as
it
were, of God, as of the Cyborg, and the
supersession of vegetative pluralism by
airy monism, of the
subjective Many by the subjective One, the Omega Point and goal of all
evolutionary striving, in which the universal replaces or, at any rate,
upstages the personal, as psychic freedom comes to an absolutist
consummation.
13. For psychic freedom is what evolution is all
about, freedom for the male from being tyrannized over, contrary to his
gender
interests, by female criteria owing more, in the objective precedence
of psyche
by soma, to somatic freedom and the correlative enslavement of psyche
to the
corporeal dominion of both will and spirit, power and glory, to the
lasting
detriment of 'mind', which is to say, of free ego and free soul,
knowledge and
joy, form and contentment, ethereally independent of somatic dominion.
14. The time has at last come, with the progress
of free thought to Messianic extents, for male-oriented mankind to rise
up,
democratically and rationalistically, from the subjective Many to the
subjective One, Man to the Cyborg,
physical
collectivism to metaphysical individualism, ego to soul, and thus
return to the
heavenly heights from which their female counterparts objectively fell
as from
the objective Many to the objective One, the Cosmos to Nature, metachemical competitiveness to chemical co-operativeness, will to spirit.
15. The evolutionary struggle would now seem to be
entering its most crucial and critical stage, a stage which will
determine
whether grace ultimately prevails over sin and godliness over
manliness, or
whether, in all-too-humanistic fashion, Man will continue to remain the
measure
of all things and all things accordingly bow to his physical
limitations, as to
vegetative pluralism and the reign of democracy, of worldly sinfulness
still
beset by the twin evils of punishment and crime, natural and cosmic
objectivity, if arguably to a lesser naturalistic and/or more
transmutably
artificial extent than in the more corporeal past.
16. Only the reign of airy monism can restore life
to the eternal heights, albeit to a universal grace which will be as
far
removed from the cosmic criminality of polytheistic pluralism as is
possible
for any evolutionary reality - the omega point of Eternal Life as
opposed to
the alpha points of Eternal Death, psychic absolutism as opposed to
somatic
absolutism, most wavicles/least particles
as opposed
to most particles/least wavicles, God or,
rather,
Heaven as opposed to Hell or, rather, the Devil.
17. For the alpha-most reality is characterized by
corporeal absolutism, which is of the Devil, whereas the omega-most
reality is
characterized by ethereal absolutism, which is of Heaven, and between
the
somatic freedom of the former and the psychic freedom of the latter,
between
infinite weakness and infinite happiness, ugliness and joy, there is
absolutely
nothing in common.
18. Verily, what began in the corporeal Many must
end in the ethereal One, having passed
through and
beyond both the corporeal One and the ethereal Many.
In between materialism and transcendentalism,
realism and humanism run their diurnal course, but the redemption of
Man is set
on course for Eternity, and only Social Transcendentalism can lead free
psyche
beyond the finite limitations of physics to the infinity of
metaphysics,
wherein the saved self of the metaphysically Elect will find its joyful
redemption in the beingful supremacy of
the One,
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, for all eternity, and even those who, for class
or gender
reasons, are less than metaphysical will find a new lease of life or
death in
the lower tiers of the triadic Beyond.
19. For the triadic Beyond lies beyond the World
as the guarantor of deliverance from crimes or sins to the punishments
or
graces of 'Kingdom Come', should the People opt, in some paradoxical
future
election, for religious sovereignty and thus for that which would
deliver them
from the reign of Man to the reign of God, whose 'Kingdom' is not of
this world
but otherworldly in its ethereal dedication to the One.
THE
TUNE
AND DANCE OF THE MANY
1. At the beginning of PART THREE
I gave the impression that terms like noumenal
and phenomenal were equivalent to ethereal and corporeal, whereas the
abstract
and the concrete had to be regarded in a different light.
On reconsideration, however, it seems to me
that a distinction should continue to be drawn between the noumenal
nature of time/space, whether in relation to space-time devolution or
to
time-space evolution, metachemistry or
metaphysics,
and the phenomenal nature of volume/mass, whether in relation to
volume-mass
devolution or to mass-volume evolution, chemistry or physics.
2. Therefore my customary use, going back
several years, of the terms 'noumenal' and
'phenomenal' should be reinstated to enable us to distinguish contexts
in time
and space from their counterparts in mass and volume, irrespective of
whether
those contexts happen to be primarily corporeal or primarily ethereal,
and
regardless of whether they happen to coincide with concrete or abstract
standings.
3. For if we proceed on this basis we shall
have
terms which enable us to distinguish planes and axes from subatomic
structures,
as well as each of these from the female gender precedence, as it were,
of
psyche by soma or, in male contexts, of soma by psyche, as we proceed
on
devolutionary terms from the noumenal
corporeal
concretion and ethereal abstraction of metachemistry
to the phenomenal corporeal concretion and ethereal abstraction of
chemistry,
as from most particles/least wavicles to
more (relative
to most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
and
thence,
on an evolutionary basis, from the phenomenal ethereal
concretion
and corporeal abstraction of physics to the noumenal
ethereal concretion and corporeal abstraction of metaphysics, as from
more
(relative to most) wavicles/less (relative
to least)
particles to most wavicles/least particles.
4. And as we proceed on this elemental
basis
from alpha absolutism to omega absolutism via alpha relativity and
omega
relativity, we shall find a devolutionary descent from the Many to the
One, metachemical pluralism to chemical
monism, and an
evolutionary ascent from the Many to the One, physical pluralism to
metaphysical monism, as from crime to punishment on the objective, or
female,
side of the historical gender divide, and from sin to grace on its
subjective,
or male, side, the side not of doing and giving par
excellence, power and glory, but of taking and being par
excellence,
form and contentment.
5. Yet, in general terms, one can speak of
a devolution
from evil to good, as from competitiveness to co-operativeness,
crime
to
punishment, and of an evolution, by contrast, from folly to wisdom,
as
from collectivism to individualism, sin to grace, as fire is superseded
by
water, and vegetation by air, the latter of which has still to come
properly to
pass in terms of the overcoming of Man by God, of vegetative pluralism
by airy
monism, and the triumph of metaphysics over the physical world as the
guarantor
of otherworldly redemption in grace. For
as long as Man remains sinfully in the driving seat of life, physical
collectivism will continue to have its way at the expense of
metaphysical
individualism, and economics continue to take precedence over religion.
6. Certainly it is appropriate to
evolutionary
progress that neither science nor politics, metachemical
competitiveness nor chemical co-operativeness,
should
remain
chiefly representative of the age or characteristic of a given
society,
since neither are proper to the male side of life, but indicative of
devolutionary regression from noumenal
objectivity to
phenomenal objectivity, crime to punishment, and therefore of corporeal
hegemonies in which soma precedes psyche and the State is accordingly
free.
7. Only contexts in which the Church is
free,
complements of ethereal hegemonies in either physical collectivism or
metaphysical individualism, can deliver the prospect of evolutionary
progress
from phenomenal subjectivity to noumenal
subjectivity, sin to grace, and thus the overcoming of Man in the godly
Cyborg, as Man previously overcame Woman
and Woman
overcame, through corporeal monism, the corporeal pluralism of the
Devil, for
which read: the criminal audacities of cosmic science.
8. But Man did not overcome Woman without
paying
a heavy price, part of which was a deal with the Devil and the
technological
rejuvenation of science in terms of artificial manifestations of metachemical pluralism, so that while economics
may have
progressed at the expense of politics, it did so in cahoots with
science, which
continues even now to call the infernal tune to which Man must dance,
complements of the money to be made from its act.
9. Vegetative pluralism did a deal with
fiery
pluralism at the expense of watery monism, and for those who especially
relate
to and periodically renew this deal, who would traditionally be more
Protestant
than Catholic, and contemporaneously more American than European, the
prospects
for airy monism are virtually non-existent, since vegetative pluralism
is not
exactly in a position to be redeemed from sin to grace, folly to
wisdom, when
contractually bound to the fiery pluralism of the Devil, the criminal
evil of
which, unrestrained by the punishing goodness of watery monism, viz.
Woman, is
freer than ever before and all the more lucrative to Man in consequence.
10. I believe it was Faust who conducted a similar
deal with the Devil in Goethe's classic work of the same name, and
Faust came
to grief in view of the extent to which he had sold his soul and thrown
away
his birthright as a man, a male, to defer to God and be elevated by God
beyond
the sinfulness of the vegetative world towards the gracefulness of the
airy
Other World.
11. When one turns one's back on God or Godliness,
one has to make one's own masculine way in the world, and it is not
long before
that way, caught up in a struggle with Woman, is obliged to sell out to
the
Devil, since Woman can only be mastered by Man if he makes a pact with
the
Devil and, between them, they outmanoeuvre politics and make the world
safe for
science and economics, for crime and sin, for the Many, both evil and
foolish. The good, divided and ruled by
Man and the Devil, are no longer in a position to punish either the one
or the
other, but become active, if reluctant, participants in the rule of
crime and
sin, science and economics, while the wise are marginalized and
excluded, as a
religiously anachronistic threat to the secular status quo.
12. Small wonder that the world becomes the
plaything of the Devil, as of the noumenally
corporeal
concretion of metachemical pluralism. For this is highly profitable to a physical
pluralism which no longer defers to humanistic grace, much less
metaphysical
monism but, having turned away many centuries ago from any such
pretensions,
finds itself in a position to undermine and defeat chemical monism in
the
interests of economic freedom, which is to say, freedom for economics
to dance
to the latest tune which science comes up with from the criminally free
vantage-point of metachemical evil. The tune, needless to say, is completely
soulless in its materialistic structures, its rhythmic intensities, and
the
dance is the impulsive behaviouristic reactions of godless automata. We need, and deserve, a better world!
RETURNING
(PROGRESSIVELY)
TO THE ONE
1. I have maintained all along that such a
better world, veritably otherworldly in its metaphysical bias, is
possible and can be developed, although it will require the
repudiation,
democratically and peaceably, of the morally bankrupt one which wears
an economic
face and bows down only to the money-generating power of the Devil, as
to metachemical pluralism.
For the worship of materialism (science) has replaced the
worship of
realism (politics) and even of naturalism (economics), and history has
shown
that the worship of idealism (the false religion of fascism), which
stemmed
from classical economics and an unduly naturalistic inversion of
physics, is no
solution to the dilemma in which mankind finds itself, complements of
the
Faustian pact between Man and the Devil at the expense of Woman and God.
2. Worship of any description is proof of a
somatic hegemony to which psyche defers in the absence of faith in
itself, a
faith which is all the more lacking in contexts where soma is, in any
case,
hegemonic over psyche, as in those elemental contexts characterized by
corporeal concretism, and where the ratio
of negative
to positive factors is always either considerably or substantially in
favour of
the former, with predictably materialistic or realistic results!
3. It is not the worship of the State by
the
Church, of state freedom by church determinism, that is required, if
society is
to escape the clutches of the Devil and mankind be set on course for an
accommodation, directly or indirectly, with God, but the subordination
of the
State to the Church, and not in the traditional Christian context of
Roman
Catholicism, wherein naturalism deferred, if rather imperfectly, to
humanism,
and humanistic devotion entailed not so much the forgiveness of
physical sins
(naturalism) as the cultivation of physical grace, if only in terms of
the
egocentric sensibility of humanistic cogitation. Rather
is
it in the revolutionary Messianic
context of Social Transcendentalism that 'the State' should bow to 'the
Church', wherein idealism will defer to transcendentalism, and
transcendental
devotion entail not so much the forgiveness of metaphysical sins
(idealism) as
the cultivation of metaphysical grace, the grace that revolves around
the psychocentric, or soulful, sensibility
of transcendental
meditation, and in which the victory of soul over ego is proclaimed
through the
lasting presence of heavenly joy, through the Oneness, in sum, of
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul.
4. Man has, it is true, got the upper hand
over
Woman, meaning of that chemical monism typifying objective Nature, but
the
majority of females are not of the metachemical
persuasion which has been set free in the course of the general
co-option of
females to vegetative pluralism and would not, in the nature of things
feminine, relish the spectacle or reality of that freedom criminally
raining
down from above over the generality of males and females alike, but
would want,
I feel confident, to use the gains accruing to vegetative pluralism to
join
with the generality of non- or even anti-capitalist men in voting, at
the
opportune moment, for religious sovereignty and the right to religious
self-determination in what has been described as the triadic Beyond of
'Kingdom
Come'.
5. For denied ample scope for punishing
crime,
the majority of females, or women proper, have little to gain from the
sinful
folly of vegetative pluralism, but would be better off in a society
structured
in such a way that a new order of chemical monism was possible on the
basis of
the subordination of physical pluralism to metaphysical monism, and the
relegation of metachemical pluralism,
sensibly
transmuted, to the administrative aside of the triadic structure in
question. For in such a society it would
not be vegetation and fire that were 'calling the shots', to the
exclusion or
marginalization of water and air, but, on the contrary, these latter
elements
to the marginalization of vegetation (within the triadic Beyond) and
the
exclusion of fire (from the triadic Beyond), so that monism rather than
pluralism was hegemonic, and the Many had returned to the One ... if
not
directly, in chemical or metaphysical terms, then indirectly in
physical
deference towards it.
6. Yet this time it would not be the
phenomenally corporeal Oneness of chemical monism that was hegemonic in
overall
terms, but the noumenally ethereal Oneness
of
metaphysical monism, the Oneness, in sum, of heavenly soul which lies
beyond
the worldly One and its purgatorial spirit, a Oneness in which the
ethereal is
concrete and predominates over its corporeal abstraction in the ratio
of 3:1,
making for a very positive outcome, one centred in joy and vindicating
truth.
7. The purgatorial spirit of the worldly
Oneness
of chemical monism was always rather humble, and this humility was the
source
of its own undoing and subsequent humiliation at the hands of
triumphant
knowledge, since knowledge could - and did initially - boast positive
correlations which spirit per
se was unable to match, being
quantitatively somatic and therefore germane to corporeal concretion in
its
chemical mode.
8. But knowledge itself presently 'went to
the
dogs' of somatic negativity, both within the physical pluralism of
vegetative
naturalism, wherein ignorance began to rear its quasi-empirical head in
paradoxically naturalistic vein, and, across the gender divide, in the
chemical
monism of watery realism, wherein weakness proclaimed the phenomenal
manifestation of empiricism, and in the metachemical
pluralism of fiery materialism, wherein ugliness rode out of its
somatic
darkness to proclaim the noumenal
manifestation of
empiricism, the unequivocally empirical absolutism which wears a
scientific
mask and still plays havoc with the contemporary world as it dances to
the
Devil's evil tune.
9. Knowledge, patently, can no longer be
trusted
to lead anywhere godly, least of all on sensibly metaphysical terms,
but has
both corrupted itself through naturalism (not to mention its romantic
and
fascist offshoots in idealism) and been corrupted and vitiated through,
first,
realism and, then, materialism, which currently has what passes for
knowledge
firmly in its diabolic grasp, so that there is nowhere else for
knowledge to go
and nothing else for it to do than defer, in worshipful slavery, to the
hate-inspiring ugliness of industrial and technological materialism.
10. Obviously something better and higher than
such knowledge is required, if mankind are to be released from this
sorry state
of pluralistic affairs and granted the opportunity to rise to a new
monism,
superior to that which Man dethroned in his hell-bent
obsession with earthly riches. And that
something, needless to say, is Truth, is the infinite knowledge which
pertains
not to Man but to God, to God-the-Wise-Father, whose spokesperson
proclaims it
through the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism and
offers
mankind the prospect of a new society based around religious
sovereignty and
the rejection of worldly sin and crime, of the pluralistic conspiracy
in
physical collectivism and metachemical
competitiveness of that sinfulness and criminality which, between them,
have
squeezed the chemical co-operativeness of
goodly
punishment out of the worldly frame and reduced life to the foolish
dance of an
evil tune which, in the audacity of its scientific liberties, is the
sworn
enemy of otherworldly wisdom and whatever leads beyond the
competitive-oriented
collectivism of worldly folly to the monistic heights of metaphysical
individualism.
11. God's ways are not the ways of Man but
infinitely superior, in the wisdom of a noumenally
ethereal concretion, to those ways, not least in terms of the
subordination of
metaphysical soma to metaphysical psyche, of idealism to
transcendentalism, and
the consequent development of truth in the interests of joy, of
infinite
knowledge in the interests of infinite pleasure, and the psychocentric
redemption of the godly ego through that self-enhancement which is
commensurate
with the heavenly soul, the raison
d'etre
of genuine religion.
12. There are enough people in the world now who
would want an alternative to what Man, in money-grubbing partnership
with the
Devil, has to offer, and they include, besides the generality of women
who have
been co-opted to - and corrupted by - the sinfulness of vegetative
pluralism,
the generality of the Dispossessed and Exploited in all walks and
shades of
life, for whom the prospect of a democratically-mandated deliverance
from both
the crimes and sins of the pluralistic world to the punishments and
graces of
'Kingdom Come' would be the monistic redemption which they have been
hoping and
praying for all along, the guarantee that, with the institutional
development
of the triadic Beyond, neither evil nor folly, violence nor greed,
would ever
again play a major role in life, to the detriment of all that is most
precious,
both spiritually and, above all, soulfully.
13. Therefore I say unto you, join with me in
bringing to pass this new order of society which can only happen on the
basis,
come judgement, of a majority mandate for religious sovereignty, and
together
we can triumph over the forces of pluralistic shame and all who would
hold us
back from the metaphysical One, from the goal and destiny of the
Righteous in
the joyful resurrection of Heaven-the-Holy-Soul. Join
with
me, and even if your predestined
place in the triadic Beyond is not sensibly metaphysical but sensibly
physical
or chemical, still you will know a new order of wisdom or goodness
commensurate
with Eternity and the elevation and leadership of mankind in general by
the noumenally ethereal concrete monism of
primary God and
Heaven, which is both the beginning and the end of metaphysical psyche,
of
omega absolutism, in the truth and joy of ultimate wisdom and holiness.
PART
FOUR
CONTRARY
TYPES
OF VIRTUE AND VICE
1. The distinction between virtue and vice
is
really between soma and psyche, matter and mind, the not-self and the
self,
since that which is virtuous corresponds to the positivity
of psyche, be it metachemical, chemical,
physical, or
metaphysical, whereas that which is vicious can only correspond to the
negativity of soma, whatever the element.
2. Since we have distinguished, in PARTS
ONE-THREE, between the somatic absolutism of most particles/least wavicles and the somatic relativity of more
(relative to
most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles
on
the objective, or female, side of life, and contrasted this to the
psychic
relativity of more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative
to
least) particles and the psychic absolutism of most wavicles/least particles on its subjective, or
male, side,
the side not of metachemistry and
chemistry, fire and
water, but of physics and metaphysics, vegetation (earth) and air, we
may now
distinguish what I shall call primary vice from secondary vice in
connection
with those contexts where soma predominates and those where, on the
basis of
what is strictly male, it doesn't, while likewise distinguishing what
shall be
called primary virtue from secondary virtue in connection with those
contexts
where psyche predominates and those where, on the basis of what is
strictly
female, it doesn't, so that we shall have an overall distinction
between
primary vice and secondary virtue in relation to metachemistry
and chemistry, but primary virtue and secondary vice in relation to
physics and
metaphysics.
3. The objective elements of metachemistry
and chemistry, fire and water, will therefore be those to which we can
ascribe
a primary order of vice and a secondary order of virtue, since they
will
correspond to crime and punishment, evil and good, whereas the
subjective
elements of physics and metaphysics, vegetation and air, will be those
to which
a primary order of virtue and a secondary order of vice can be ascribed
in view
of their correspondence to grace and sin, wisdom and folly.
4. But if vice corresponds to soma, to
matter,
and virtue to psyche, to mind, then to what are we alluding when we
draw such a
distinction? - Quite simply to power and glory on the one hand, that of
soma,
and to form and contentment on the other hand, that of psyche. In other words, vice will always be
associated, no matter what the element, with power and glory, the will
and the
spirit, whereas virtue can only be associated, in whatever element,
with form and
contentment, the ego and the soul.
5. Therefore because the objective elements
of metachemistry and chemistry are that in
which soma
predominates over psyche, the not-self over the self, in terms of most
particles/least wavicles in the one case
and more
(relative to most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles
in the other, they are the contexts in which vice is hegemonic over
virtue,
negativity over positivity, in absolute or
relative
ratios corresponding to the above particle/wavicle
dichotomies, so that we have a right to speak of the primary nature of
vice and
the secondary nature of virtue in relation to those contexts, as
between the
crime of somatic negativity and the punishment of psychic positivity,
the former corresponding to evil and the latter to good.
6. Because the subjective elements of
physics
and metaphysics are that, by contrast, in which psyche predominates
over soma,
the self over the not-self, in terms of more (relative to most) wavicles/less (relative to least) particles in
the one case
and most wavicles/least particles in the
other, they
are the contexts in which virtue is hegemonic over vice, positivity
over negativity, in relative and absolute ratios corresponding to the
above wavicle/particle dichotomies, so
that we have a right to
speak of the primary nature of virtue and the secondary nature of vice
in
relation to these contexts, as between the grace of psychic positivity
and the sin of somatic negativity, the former corresponding to wisdom
and the
latter to folly.
7. Consequently whereas the female side of
life,
being objective in its vacuous origins, provides us with evidence of
the
precedence of virtue by vice, as of psyche by soma, the male side of
life,
being subjective in its plenumous origins,
provides
us with evidence to the contrary, namely the precedence of vice by
virtue, as
of soma by psyche, so that we have a distinction, in effect, between
the
primary viciousness and secondary virtuousness, crime and punishment,
of the
one, and the primary virtuousness and secondary viciousness, grace and
sin, of
the other, a distinction which corresponds to what in PART THREE I have called the free state and the bound
church on the one hand, and to the free church and the bound state on
the other
- the hand not of an objective, or female, disposition but of a
subjective, or
male, one.
8. Societies and peoples in which virtue
predominates over vice will be those for whom the Church takes
precedence over
the State, pretty much as psyche over soma, and in which positivity
will accordingly prevail over negativity in ratios of either 2½:1½ or
3:1, viz.
more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative to
least) particles or most wavicles/least
particles,
depending whether they can be characterized as offering allegiance, in
subjective lower-class vein, primarily to humanism/naturalism or, in
subjective
upper-class vein, primarily to transcendentalism/idealism, physics or
metaphysics.
9. Societies and peoples in which vice
predominates over virtue, on the other hand, will be those for whom the
State
takes precedence over the Church, pretty much as soma over psyche, and
in which
negativity will accordingly prevail over positivity
in ratios of either 3:1 or 2½:1½, viz. most particles/least wavicles
or more (relative to most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles, depending whether they can be
characterized as
offering allegiance, in objective upper-class vein, primarily to
materialism/fundamentalism or, in objective lower-class vein, primarily
to
realism/nonconformism, metachemistry
or chemistry.
10. It could be said that those societies
upholding the primacy of virtue will testify to a primary order of
morality and
a secondary order of immorality, since with them the Church takes
precedence
over the State and, hence, grace over sin.
For grace corresponds to free psyche and sin to the bound, or
determined, soma which issues from psychic precedence, bearing ample
testimony
to the natural and subnatural informing of
will and
spirit by the consciousness of ego and the subconsciousness
of soul.
11. Those societies which uphold the primacy of
vice, on the other hand, will attest to a primary order of immorality
and a
secondary order of morality, since with them the State takes precedence
over
the Church and, hence, crime over punishment.
For crime corresponds to free soma and punishment to the bound,
or
determined, psyche which issues from somatic precedence, bearing ample
testimony to the unconscious and superconscious
informing of soul and ego by the unnaturalness of will and the supernaturalness of spirit.
12. With objective societies morality is secondary
to immorality, and consequently virtue will play second fiddle to vice,
as
punishment to crime, whereas with subjective societies, by contrast,
immorality
can only be secondary to morality, and consequently vice will play
second
fiddle to virtue, as sin to grace. The
former types of society will be characterized by somatic freedom in heathenistic fashion, the latter types of
society by
psychic freedom in Christian fashion.
The former will be female and objective, the latter male and
subjective. The former ones in which
evil dominates good, the latter ones in
which wisdom
dominates or, rather, liberates from folly.
These are the gender antipodes of life, whether on the noumenal terms of time/space or, lower down, on
the
phenomenal terms of volume/mass.
13. Societies that are primarily characterized by
immorality will be those in which the negativity of soma takes
precedence over
the positivity of psyche, and precisely
because soma
is free and psyche bound, the former the factual precondition of a
fictional
extrapolation, whether in the metachemical
absolutism
of materialism/fundamentalism or in the chemical relativity of realism/nonconformism.
14. Societies, on the other hand, whose primary
characteristic
is morality will be those in which the positivity
of
psyche takes precedence over the negativity of soma, and precisely
because
psyche is free and soma bound, the former the truthful precondition of
an
illusory extrapolation, whether in the physical relativity of
humanism/naturalism or in the metaphysical absolutism of
transcendentalism/idealism.
15. In societies primarily characterized, in heathenistic fashion, by crime and punishment,
somatic
freedom and psychic determinism, such grace and sin as continues to
exist in
relation to psychic freedom and somatic determinism will normally be
undermined
by the prevailing ethic, even to an extent whereby both humanism and
transcendentalism are lost sight of in a greater concern with
naturalism and/or
idealism in mirror-like reflection of the predominance of materialism
and/or
realism over fundamentalism and/or nonconformism.
16. In societies primarily characterized, in
Christian vein, by grace and sin, psychic freedom and somatic
determinism, such
crime and punishment as continues to exist in relation to somatic
freedom and
psychic determinism will normally be undermined by the prevailing
ethic, even
to an extent whereby both materialism and realism are lost sight of in
a
greater concern with fundamentalism and/or nonconformism
in mirror-like reflection of the predominance of humanism and/or
transcendentalism over naturalism and/or idealism.
17. The somatic freedoms of secular societies are
only possible in relation to a sensual bias, in which female criteria
are
hegemonic, in metachemistry and/or
chemistry, over
their male counterparts, whereas the psychic freedoms of religious
societies
are only possible in relation to a sensible bias, in which male
criteria are
hegemonic, in physics and/or metaphysics, over their female
counterparts. The former societies
devolve, in outer sense
(sensuality), from crime to punishment, evil to good, the Devil to
woman. The latter societies evolve, in
inner sense
(sensibility), from sin to grace, folly to wisdom, man
to God. The former societies are
primarily vicious, the latter ones primarily virtuous.
PSYCHIC
VIRTUE
VIS-À-VIS SOMATIC VICE
1. There are, as we have seen, four types
of
virtue - metachemical, chemical, physical,
and
metaphysical, which therefore range across the elements from fire and
water on
the objective, or female, side of life to vegetation and air on its
subjective,
or male, side, the side in which virtue is primary.
All virtue, however, is of the psyche,
whether that psyche be secondary and female or primary and male,
fictional or
truthful.
2. Thus virtue is
invariably divisible between form and contentment, ego and/or superego,
viz.
conscious and/or superconscious ego, and
soul and/or
id, viz. subconscious and/or unconscious soul. In those contexts where psyche is secondary
to soma, form will be spiritualized as superego and contentment instinctualized as id, and accordingly be
characterized by soma to an extent which renders them subordinate to
the
prevailing conditioning factors. In
those contexts, by contrast, where soma is secondary to psyche, both
form and
contentment will be immune from any such conditioning and accordingly
be free
to take and/or be as ego and/or soul, since there it
will be soma
which is conditioned by psyche.
3. Therefore the secondary virtues of metachemistry, viz. beauty and love, and of
chemistry, viz.
strength and pride, will always be less virtuous than the primary
virtues of
physics, viz. knowledge and pleasure, and of metaphysics, viz. truth
and joy -
less virtuous, that is, in terms of their accruing to subverted types
of form
and contentment and accordingly being that which, in overall terms, is
least
content and less (relative to least) formal as opposed to more
(relative to
most) formal and most content. For metachemistry is that in which there is least
contentment
(love) and less (relative to least) form (beauty), and chemistry that
in which
there is less (relative to least) contentment (pride) and least form
(strength), whereas physics is that in which there is most form
(knowledge) and
more (relative to most) contentment (pleasure), and metaphysics that in
which
there is most contentment (joy) and more (relative to most) form
(truth).
4. In general progressive terms, therefore,
formal virtue can be said to proceed from the least form (in strength)
of
chemistry to the most form (in knowledge) of physics via the less
(relative to
least) form (in beauty) of metachemistry
and the more
(relative to most) form (in truth) of metaphysics, as from the
fourth-rate form
of strength to the first-rate form of knowledge via the third-rate form
of
beauty and the second-rate form of truth, while, in contrast to this,
contented
virtue can be said to proceed from the least contentment (in love) of metachemistry to the most contentment (in joy)
of
metaphysics via the less (relative to least) contentment (in pride) of
chemistry and the more (relative to most) contentment (in pleasure) of
physics,
as from the fourth-rate contentment of love to the first-rate
contentment of
joy via the third-rate contentment of pride and the second-rate
contentment of
pleasure.
5. Therefore while form and contentment are
never more than third-rate in the secondary psychic contexts of metachemistry and chemistry, wherein psyche is
informed,
and consequently determined, by free soma, they are never less than
second-rate
in the primary psychic contexts of physics and metaphysics, wherein
psyche is
free from somatic conditioning and able to be loyal to itself as ego
and soul
in the interests of maximum psychic positivity,
the
sort
of positivity that accords with
knowledge and
pleasure, or finite truth and joy, in relation to physics, and with
truth and
joy, or infinite knowledge and pleasure, in relation to metaphysics -
the
former being that in which form and, hence, the ego is consummate, the
latter
that in which contentment and, hence, the soul is consummate.
6. Contrary to all this, however, there
are, as
we have seen, four types of vice - metachemical,
chemical,
physical,
and metaphysical, which therefore range across the elements
from fire and water on the objective, or female, side of life to
vegetation and
air on its subjective, or male, side, the side in which vice is
secondary. All vice, however, is of soma,
whether that
soma be primary and female or secondary and male, factual or illusory.
7. Thus vice is invariably divisible
between
power and glory, will and/or natwill, viz.
unnatural
and/or natural will, and spirit and/or subspirit,
viz.
supernatural
and/or subnatural spirit.
In those contexts where soma is secondary to
psyche, power will be intellectualized as natwill
and
glory emotionalized as subspirit, and
accordingly be characterized by psyche to
an extent which renders them
subordinate to the prevailing conditioning factors.
In those contexts, by contrast, where psyche
is secondary to soma, both power and glory will be immune from any such
conditioning and accordingly be free to do and/or give
as will
and/or spirit, since there it will be psyche which is conditioned by
soma.
8. Therefore the secondary vices of
physics,
viz. ignorance and pain, and of metaphysics, viz. falsity and woe, will
always
be less vicious than the primary vices of metachemistry,
viz.
ugliness
and hatred, and of chemistry, viz. weakness and humility -
less
vicious, that is, in terms of their accruing to subverted types of
power and
glory and accordingly being that which, in overall terms, is least
powerful and
less (relative to least) glorious as opposed to more (relative to most)
glorious and most powerful. For physics
is that in which there is least glory (pain) and less (relative to
least) power
(ignorance), and metaphysics that in which there is less (relative to
least) glory
(woe) and least power (falsity), whereas metachemistry
is that in which there is most power (ugliness) and more (relative to
most)
glory (hatred), and chemistry that in which there is most glory
(humility) and
more (relative to most) power (weakness).
9. In general regressive terms, therefore,
powerful vice can be said to proceed or, rather, recede from the most
power (in
ugliness) of metachemistry to the least
power (in
falsity) of metaphysics via the more (relative to most) power (in
weakness) of
chemistry and the less (relative to least) power (in ignorance) of
physics, as
from the first-rate power of ugliness to the fourth-rate power of
falsity via
the second-rate power of weakness and the third-rate power of
ignorance, while,
in contrast to this, glorious vice can be said to recede from the most
glory
(in humility) of chemistry to the least glory (in pain) of physics via
the more
(relative to most) glory (in hatred) of metachemistry
and the less (relative to least) glory (in woe) of metaphysics, as from
the
first-rate glory of humility to the fourth-rate glory of pain via the
second-rate glory of hatred and the third-rate glory of woe.
10. Therefore while power and glory are never more
than third-rate in the secondary somatic contexts of physics and
metaphysics,
wherein soma is informed, and consequently determined, by free psyche,
they are
never less than second-rate in the primary somatic contexts of metachemistry and chemistry, wherein soma is
free from
psychic conditioning and able to be
loyal to itself as will and spirit in the interests of maximum somatic
negativity, the sort of negativity that accords with ugliness and
hatred, or
infinite weakness and humility, in relation to metachemistry,
and
with
weakness and humility, or finite ugliness and hatred, in relation
to
chemistry - the former being that in which power and, hence, the will
is
consummate, the latter that in which glory and, hence, the spirit is
consummate.
FICTIONAL
AND
ILLUSORY HEGEMONIES
1. Virtue is ever subordinate to vice in
the metachemical and chemical contexts of noumenal
and phenomenal objectivity, since the somatic predominance over psyche
of most
particles/least wavicles in metachemistry
ensures a three-to-one ratio in favour of somatic negativity, and thus
of
ugliness and hatred, at the expense of the beauty and love of psychic positivity, while the two-and-a-half to
one-and-a-half
ratio of more (relative to most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles in chemistry ensures that weakness and
humility
remain substantially predominant over strength and pride, their psychic
counterparts.
2. Consequently fundamentalism is
subordinated
to materialism in the metachemical
context, and nonconformism to realism in
the chemical context, factors
which, in those countries characterized by Protestantism, inevitably
led to the
triumph of secular freedom over ecclesiastic determinism, and thus to
state
freedom at the expense of church binding, the State representing all
that is
secular and prone to somatic negativity.
In fact, despite appearances to the contrary, it is really the
State, as
the representative of soma, which precedes the Church in contexts
characterized
by metachemistry and/or chemistry, since
the one is
somatically factual and the other psychically fictional, the fiction of
hegemonic beauty and love and/or strength and pride in contexts which,
conditioned by somatic precedence, can only be subordinate, in reality,
to
factual ugliness and hatred and/or weakness and humility, as germane to
the
most particle/least wavicle and more
(relative to
most) particle/less (relative to least) wavicle
ratios of metachemistry and chemistry.
3. Therefore, to repeat, fundamentalism
remains
under the shadow of materialism and nonconformism
under the shadow of realism, neither of which are ever in a position to
be
genuinely hegemonic in view of the secondary nature of psyche and,
hence,
virtue vis-à-vis the primacy of soma and, hence, vice in the objective
contexts
in question, and never more so, needless to say, than in relation to
sensuality, where the somatic aspect of things is invariably, in female
vein,
hegemonic.
4. Contrary to which, vice is ever
subordinate
to virtue in the physical and metaphysical contexts of phenomenal and noumenal subjectivity, since the psychic
predominance -
when not undermined by objective pressures - over soma of more
(relative to
most) wavicles/less (relative to least)
particles in
physics ensures a two-and-a-half to one-and-a-half ratio in favour of
psychic positivity, and thus of knowledge
and pleasure at the
expense of the ignorance and pain of somatic negativity, while the
three-to-one
ratio of most wavicles/least particles in
metaphysics
ensures that truth and joy remain considerably predominant over falsity
(illusion) and woe, their somatic counterparts.
5. Consequently naturalism is upstaged by
humanism in the physical context, and
idealism by transcendentalism in the metaphysical context, factors
which, when
properly understood, inevitably lead to the triumph of ecclesiastic
freedom
over secular determinism, and thus to church freedom at the expense of
state
binding, the Church representing all that is ecclesiastical and prone
to
psychic positivity.
In fact, despite appearances to the contrary, it is really the
Church,
as the representative of psyche, which precedes the State in contexts
characterized by physics and/or metaphysics, since the one is
psychically
truthful and the other somatically illusory, the illusion of hegemonic
ignorance
and pain and/or falsity and woe in contexts which, conditioned by
psychic
precedence, can only be subordinate, in reality, to knowledge and
pleasure
and/or truth and joy, as germane to the more (relative to most) wavicle/less (relative to least) particle and
most wavicle/least particle ratios of
physics and metaphysics.
6. Therefore, to repeat, naturalism remains
under the guiding light of humanism and idealism under the guiding
light of
transcendentalism, neither of which are ever in a position to be
genuinely
hegemonic in view of the secondary nature of soma and, hence, vice
vis-à-vis
the primacy of psyche and, hence, virtue in the subjective contexts in
question, and never more so, needless to say, than in relation to
sensibility,
where the psychic aspect of things is invariably, in male vein,
hegemonic.
7. As was noted in PART THREE, the factual
hegemony of free soma in female sensuality is commensurate with crime
and the
fictional hegemony of bound psyche commensurate with punishment, so
that
primary vice is always criminal and secondary virtue punishing, whether
in the noumenal context of metachemistry
or in the phenomenal context of chemistry, albeit the evil of crime
stands to
the goodness of punishment on a three-to-one ratio of most
particles/least wavicles in the one
context and on a two-and-a-half to
one-and-a-half ratio of more (relative to most) particles/less
(relative to
least) wavicles in the other context, in
neither of
which, however, is goodness hegemonic over evil.
8. In contrast to which, the truthful
hegemony
of free psyche in male sensibility is commensurate with grace and the
illusory
hegemony of bound soma commensurate with sin, so that primary virtue is
always
graceful and secondary vice sinful, whether in the phenomenal context
of physics
or in the noumenal context of metaphysics,
albeit the
wisdom of grace stands to the folly of sin on a two-and-a-half to
one-and-a-half ratio of more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative
to
least) particles in the one context and on a three-to-one ratio of
most wavicles/least particles in the other
context,
in neither of which, however, is folly hegemonic over wisdom.
9. Consequently whereas the male fool is
characterized by adherence to a society in which evil is hegemonic over
goodness, as the free state over the bound church, whether in terms of metachemistry or, less foolishly, of chemistry,
the wise
male, by contrast, is characterized by adherence to a society in which
wisdom
is hegemonic over folly, as the free church over the bound state,
whether in
terms of physics or, more wisely, of metaphysics. The
former
type of society is heathenistic in
its sensual, or 'once born', bias; the
latter type of society Christian in its sensible, or 'reborn', bias -
all the
difference, in a phrase, between alpha and omega, female objectivity
and male
subjectivity, the predominance of vice and the predominance of virtue.
10. Criminal vice can only take precedence over
punishing virtue, evil over goodness, in metachemical
and chemical contexts, since soma precedes psyche on the female side of
life,
as fact precedes fiction, in relation to particle hegemonies. By contrast, graceful virtue can only take
precedence over sinful vice, wisdom over folly, in physics and
metaphysics,
since psyche precedes soma on the male side of life, as truth precedes
illusion, in relation to wavicle
hegemonies.
11. That which is beyond good and evil is only so
in relation to wisdom and folly, and such a psychic/somatic beyondness
of things female and objective is the mark not of a devolutionary but
of an
evolutionary society, a society that has the capacity, in
omega-oriented
fashion, to evolve from physics to metaphysics, as from the subjective
Many to
the subjective One, and thus to depart from under the shadow of the
objective
One to which the objective Many devolved in the course of an
alpha-stemming
history.
EVIL
OR
WISDOM, THE GENDER CHOICE
1. Although one can generalize across the
elements on the basis of the evil of metachemistry
and the goodness of chemistry vis-à-vis the folly of physics and the
wisdom of
metaphysics, as regards a 'fall' from the cosmic, or polyversal,
Many in fieriness to the natural, or impersonal, One
in
wateriness, and a 'rise' from the
civilized, or personal, Many in vegetativeness
to the
beatific, or universal, One in airiness, with
devolutionary/evolutionary
implications, in reality the objective side of life is primarily
characterized
by evil irrespective of the element, given the ratio of particles to wavicles in both noumenal
and
phenomenal, metachemical and chemical,
contexts,
while the subjective side of life is primarily characterized by wisdom
irrespective of the element, given the ratio of wavicles
to particles in both phenomenal and noumenal,
physical
and
metaphysical, contexts.
2. Therefore goodness is secondary to evil
even
in the chemical context of the natural One, where, as we have seen,
soma stands
to psyche in a two-and-a-half to one-and-a-half ratio of more (relative
to
most) particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
and
negativity
accordingly predominates over positivity
in terms of more (relative to most) weakness and humility vis-à-vis
less
(relative to least) strength and pride, a situation that still favours
the evil
of somatic negativity, albeit to a lesser extent than in the metachemical context of the cosmic Many, since
one is
dealing with the impersonality of women rather than with the polyversality of devils.
3. But if evil is still hegemonic over
goodness
in chemistry, then it is so on different terms from those applying to metachemistry, namely with an emphasis on spirit
as opposed
to will, so that we can speak of a humble approach to somatic
negativity as
opposed to an ugly one, an approach that normally takes place in a
co-operative
rather than a competitive environmental framework.
Conversely, the approach to psychic positivity
in chemistry will favour the superego as
opposed, in metachemistry, to the id,
although I
would guess that punishment arises in psyche less in relation to what
has been conditioned
by free soma to behave as a kind of accomplice to its evil than by more
basic
factors accruing to the self which, in reinstating some degree of ego
and/or
soul, turn against the somatic impositions upon psyche and freely
contest the
rule of evil from a less deterministic vantage-point, call it
pseudo-wise or
freely good.
4. For even females have a self, a brain
stem
and spinal cord, with capacities for ego and soul that are simply
undermined
and even temporarily eclipsed by the predominance of somatic factors
owing more
to the not-self, such that twist ego towards the spirit in spiritual
subversion
through superego of consciousness or, in metachemical
evil, twist the soul towards the will in instinctual subversion through
the id
of subconsciousness, with effectively superconscious and unconscious consequences,
neither of
which are properly germane to the self but quasi-somatic in their
enslavement
to the supernaturalism and/or unnaturalism
of somatic
freedom.
5. However that may be, if goodness is
secondary
to evil on the female side of life, then folly can only be secondary to
wisdom
on its male side, the side of physics and metaphysics.
Therefore folly is secondary to wisdom even
in the physical context of the civilized Many, where, as we have seen,
psyche
stands to soma in a two-and-a-half to one-and-a-half ratio of more
(relative to
most) wavicles/less (relative to least)
particles,
and positivity accordingly predominates
over
negativity in terms of more (relative to most) knowledge and pleasure
vis-à-vis
less (relative to least) ignorance and pain, a situation that still
favours the
wisdom of psychic positivity, albeit to a
lesser
extent than in the metaphysical context of the beatific One, since one
is
dealing with the personality of men rather than with the universality
of gods.
6. But if wisdom is still hegemonic over
folly
in physics, then it is so on different terms from those applying to
metaphysics, namely with an emphasis on ego as opposed to soul, so that
we can
speak of a knowledgeable approach to psychic positivity
as opposed to a joyful one, an approach that normally takes place in a
collectivistic rather than an individualistic environmental framework. Conversely, the approach to somatic
negativity in physics will favour natural will (natwill)
as
opposed,
in metaphysics, to subnatural
spirit (subspirit), although I would guess
that sin arises in soma
less in relation to what has been conditioned by free psyche to behave
as a
kind of accomplice to its wisdom than by more basic factors accruing to
the
not-self which, in reinstating some degree of will and/or spirit, turn
against
the psychic impositions upon soma and freely contest the rule of wisdom
from a
less deterministic vantage-point, call it pseudo-evil or freely foolish.
7. For even males have a not-self, a
physical
and/or metaphysical order of soma more usually associated, in sensual
fashion,
with the phallus and/or ears, with capacities for will and spirit that
are
simply undermined and even temporarily eclipsed by the predominance of
psychic
factors owing more to the self, such that twist the will towards the
ego in
intellectual subversion through natwill of
unnaturalness or, in metaphysical wisdom, twist the spirit towards the
soul in
emotional subversion through subspirit of supernaturalness, with effectively natural and subnatural consequences, neither of which are
properly
germane to the not-self but quasi-psychic in their enslavement to the
consciousness and/or subconsciousness of
psychic
freedom.
8. However that may be, the goodness of
punishment is as much the exception to the female rule of somatic evil
as the
folly of sin to the male rule of psychic wisdom; for females are
structured in
terms of the somatic precedence of psyche and males, by contrast, in
terms of the
psychic precedence of soma, neither of whom approach life on identical
terms
but either in relation to a sensual hegemony, wherein soma is free and
psyche
bound, or in relation to a sensible hegemony, wherein psyche is free
and soma
bound, the punishing and sinful exceptions to the respective criminal
and
graceful rules more usually occurring when females come under male
hegemonies
in sensibility and, conversely, when males come under female hegemonies
in
sensuality, so that, in the one instance, punishment joins forces with
grace to
thwart crime, and, in the other instance, sin joins forces with crime
to thwart
grace, with contrary types of society the inevitable result. Either goodness links with wisdom to diminish
evil, or folly links with evil to diminish wisdom, the net results
being a
sensible society, in the one case, that upholds the sovereignty of
wisdom in
phenomenal or noumenal subjectivity, and a
sensual
society, in the other case, that upholds the sovereignty of evil in noumenal or phenomenal objectivity, depending on
the class
bias of the society in question.
9. In the case of sensible
societies, the relative grace of knowledge and pleasure in phenomenal
subjectivity or the absolute grace of truth and joy in noumenal
subjectivity. In the case of sensual
societies, by contrast, the absolute crime
of ugliness and hatred in noumenal
objectivity or the
relative crime of weakness and humility in phenomenal objectivity. The freedoms of the former are strictly
incompatible with those of the latter, for the distinction between
psychic
freedom and somatic freedom permits of little or no compromise. Either one is free in grace, in wisdom, or
one is free in crime, in evil. Evil is
as much diminished and even excluded through goodness from the wise
society as
wisdom is diminished and even excluded through folly from the evil
society. Either grace triumphs in male
sensibility, or crime triumphs in female sensuality.
That is the overall reality!
SIN
AND
PUNISHMENT
1. What we can learn from the above is that
free
soma conditioning psychic determinism in metachemical
or chemical contexts tends to diminish if not preclude the prospect of
punishment as a just retort, by psyche, to the criminal impositions of
free
soma, so that crime is able to have its way aided and abetted by a
quasi-somatic subversion of psyche, and thus not merely to dominate but
effectively exclude the possibility of goodness, bound psyche being
quasi-evil
in its eccentric acquiescence, through unconscious soul and superconscious
ego, in the instinctual and spiritual freedoms of somatic negativity.
2. Conversely, free psyche conditioning
somatic
determinism in physical or metaphysical contexts tends to diminish if
not
preclude the prospect of sin as a foolish rejection, by soma, of the
graceful
impositions of free psyche, so that grace is able to have its way aided
and
abetted by a quasi-psychic subversion of soma, and thus not merely to
dominate
but effectively exclude the possibility of folly, bound soma being
quasi-wise
in its concentric acquiescence, through natural will and subnatural
spirit, in the intellectual and emotional freedoms of psychic positivity.
3. Thus in society generally, the free
state and
the bound church of metachemical and/or
chemical
objectivity attest to the predominance of evil on both somatic and
psychic
terms, the former primarily evil in will and/or spirit, the latter
secondarily
evil in id and/or superego, neither of which can have any bearing on
the
punishment of crime by goodness, but simply attest to the
neutralization and
co-option of psyche, in quasi-somatic vein, to the rule of somatic
negativity
in power and/or glory, depending whether metachemistry
or chemistry is the prevailing element.
4. By contrast to this pattern of heathenistic freedom, the free church and the
bound state
of physical and/or metaphysical subjectivity attest to the predominance
of
wisdom on both psychic and somatic terms, the former primarily wise in
ego
and/or soul, the latter secondarily wise in natwill
and/or subspirit, neither of which can
have any
bearing on the sinful rejection of grace, but simply attest to the
neutralization and co-option of soma, in quasi-psychic vein, to the
rule of
psychic positivity in form and/or
contentment,
depending whether physics or metaphysics is the prevailing element.
5. The pseudo-wisdom of punishment only
comes
properly to pass in relation to the subordination of female elements,
whether metachemical or chemical, to their
male counterparts in
sensibility, since it is only in sensibility that the male side of life
can be
hegemonic and able, in consequence, to maintain psychic freedom and its
corollary of somatic determinism, such freedom as psychically exists
either in
relation to the ego of physics or to the soul of metaphysics compelling
quasi-psychic deference on the part of bound soma in both will and
spirit so
that, duly modified, they become concentric accomplices to the rule or,
rather,
lead of grace and contribute to the undermining of the objective modes
of
somatic freedom which, being female, are no longer able to condition
psyche
towards quasi-evil acquiescence in their criminal undertakings, but
become
subject to punishing constraints emanating from the pseudo-wisdom of a
psyche
liberated from determinism and exposed to the more authentic wisdoms of
free
psyche. Such pseudo-wisdom, however, is
called goodness, and goodness is primarily determined to clamp-down on
the evils
of somatic freedom wherever and whenever they might arise.
6. On the other hand, what could be called
the
pseudo-evil of sin only comes properly to pass in relation to the
subordination
of male elements, whether physical or metaphysical, to their female
counterparts in sensuality, since it is only in sensuality that the
female side
of life can be hegemonic and able, in consequence, to maintain somatic
freedom
and its corollary of psychic determinism, such freedom as somatically
exists
either in relation to the will of metachemistry
or to
the spirit of chemistry compelling quasi-somatic deference on the part
of bound
psyche in both soul and ego so that, duly modified, they become
eccentric
accomplices to the rule of crime and contribute to the undermining of
the
subjective modes of psychic binding which, being male, are no longer
able to
condition soma towards quasi-wise acquiescence in their graceful
undertakings,
but become subject to foolish freedoms emanating from the pseudo-evil
of a soma
liberated from determinism and exposed to the more authentic evils of
free
soma. Such pseudo-evil, however, is
called folly, and folly is primarily concerned to acquiesce in the
evils of
somatic freedom wherever and whenever they might arise.
7. Therefore just as sin is the result of
the
subservience of males to a female hegemony in sensuality, so
punishment, by
contrast, is the result of the subservience of females to a male
hegemony in
sensibility. The former only exists for
want of sensible grace, the latter in consequence of the compelling of
goodness
by a hegemonic wisdom which can be viewed in terms of the salvation of
males
from sensuality to sensibility, folly to wisdom, sin to grace; though,
in
actual fact, they are so structured that sensibility is more congenial
to them
in any case, given the subjective realities, in physics and
metaphysics, of the
precedence of soma by psyche and thus of a psychic predominance on the
basis of
either more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative
to
least) particles or most wavicles/least
particles.
8. Nevertheless, a male humanity far gone
in
sensual subservience to female hegemonies in the evils of free soma
could be
regarded as requiring moral guidance and, hence, salvation from
sensuality to
sensibility, rising diagonally either in the vegetativeness
of mass-volume physics, as from phallus to brain, or in the airiness of
time-space metaphysics, as from ears to lungs, so that the possibility
of male
hegemonies is once again on the sensible agenda, and the correlative
damnation
of females from sensuality to sensibility, falling diagonally either in
the
fieriness of space-time metachemistry, as
from eyes
to heart, or in the wateriness of volume-mass chemistry, as from tongue
to
womb, ensures that the goodness of punishment comes to replace the evil
of
crime as the prevailing female characteristic, in deference to the
wisdom of
grace for hegemonic males.
9. In such fashion will crime and sin be
consigned, to all intents and purposes, to the rubbish heap of immoral
history,
the history to which the triangular structures of secular modernity,
both
phenomenally inverted and noumenally
perpendicular,
Protestant and Catholic, so grossly attest ... as the sensual vegetativeness of massive mass languishes under
the sensual
wateriness of volumetric volume in the one case, and the sensual
airiness of
sequential time languishes under the sensual fieriness of spatial space
in the
other case, with predictably sinful and criminal, foolish and evil,
consequences!
10. Only when males and females duly elect, come
judgement (and the paradoxical utilization of worldly democracy to the
otherworldly end of religious sovereignty), for deliverance from
sensuality to
sensibility, can there be an end to the rule of evil over folly and any
prospect, thereafter, for the rule or, rather, lead of wisdom over
goodness, in
which the sensible wateriness of massed mass will take its place under
the
sensible vegetativeness of voluminous
volume, and the
sensible fieriness of repetitive time take its place under or, rather,
down to
one side of the sensible airiness of spaced space, though more, in my
philosophy, as the administrative aside to a triadic Beyond in which
mass,
volume, and space are served by time, and transmuted spirituality, free
intellectuality, and free emotionality accordingly find themselves
encouraged
and supported by a consciously transmuted instinctuality
the natural will of which can only be to protect and advance the
triadic Beyond
through all Eternity, as spirit (duly modified), ego, and soul are
developed as
never before, developed, that is, to their sensible extents.
THE
VIRTUE
OF SELF-PROMOTION
1. If grace and punishment only really
accrue to
sensibility, where the predominance of psyche over soma for males tends
to have
a positively influential effect upon the female reality of soma over
psyche and
to encourage a psychic emphasis, if not exactly preponderance, in
consequence,
then the graceful virtues of knowledge and pleasure in physics and of
truth and
joy in metaphysics, coupled to the punishing virtues of beauty and love
in metachemistry and of strength and pride
in chemistry, will
only really come to light in sensibility, not in sensuality.
2. For in sensuality, by contrast, it will
be
the free soma conditioning psychic determinism of females that
prevails, this
in turn undermining the psychic freedom of males and rendering their
soma
quasi-free in sinful parallel to a criminal hegemony.
Therefore the vices of free soma will be
chiefly characteristic of the sensual contexts, enabling us to infer,
in
contrast to the noumenally punishing
virtues of
beauty and love in sensible metachemistry,
the noumenally criminal vices of ugliness
and hatred in sensual
metachemistry; and in contrast to the
phenomenally
punishing virtues of strength and pride in sensible chemistry, the
phenomenally
criminal vices of weakness and humility, if not humiliation, in sensual
chemistry; and in contrast to the phenomenally graceful virtues of
knowledge
and pleasure in sensible physics, the phenomenally sinful vices of
ignorance
and pain in sensual physics; and in contrast to the noumenally
graceful virtues of truth and joy in sensible metaphysics, the noumenally sinful vices of falsity and woe in
sensual
metaphysics.
3. Consequently while even sensible soma
will be
quasi-psychic in its deference to free psyche, with the inevitability
of a
positive outcome, sensual psyche will be quasi-somatic in its deference
to free
soma, with negative consequences inevitably accruing.
In the former case, grace and punishment will
prevail in relation to free psyche, while, in the latter case, crime
and sin
will be the prevailing factors in relation to free soma.
The virtues of form and contentment will
contrast, as morality to immorality, with the vices of power and glory,
for
just as all psychic positivity is either
intellectual
or emotional, of the ego or of the soul, so all somatic negativity is
either
instinctual or spiritual, of the will or of the spirit, and the freedom
of the
former necessarily precludes that of the latter, and vice versa.
4. Therefore either the self has its way,
in
male vein, at the expense of the not-self, with positive rather than
negative
consequences, consequences that proclaim the moral triumph of virtue,
or,
conversely, the not-self has its way, in female vein, at the expense of
the
self, with negative rather than positive consequences, consequences
that
proclaim the immoral triumph of vice. If
the self has its way, then knowledge/pleasure and truth/joy coupled, in
female
contexts, to strength/pride and beauty/love will be the prevailing
factors. If, however, the not-self has
its way, then ugliness/hatred and weakness/humility coupled, in male
contexts,
to falsity/woe and ignorance/pain will prevail, to the detriment of all
that is
morally most desirable because incontrovertibly positive and
self-promoting. I call this
self-promotion virtue, and it is primary in relation to the pleasurable
knowledge and/or truthful joy, in psychic grace, of males, but
secondary in
relation to the strong pride and/or loving beauty, in psychic
punishment, of
females. Virtue is not an option but a
necessity to the well-being of life.
Without it, life degenerates towards the not-life, which is to
say,
towards all that is somatic and dark.
5. Life only thrives in the
light, because life and light are one and the same in their psychic
freedom. Take away the light and there is only the
darkness of somatic freedom, which is death to life, not death in the
posthumous context of an afterlife for, in particular, males, whether
positively or negatively, but symptomatic of the life-defying
preconditions for
an afterdeath, for psychic perdition in
somatic dust
and nothingness such that attends those females, in particular, who
were
insufficiently sensible in life to lead a punishing rather than
criminal
existence, and whose heathenistic
dispositions
foredoom them to posthumous annihilation.
6. But I teach a higher afterlife, after
all,
than the grave or tomb of Christian tradition, one that would enable
those who
were mindful of sensibility and virtue to avoid the self-annihilating
fate of
fiery cremation and not blandly subscribe to it like some evil female
whose
primary somatic predisposition in crime was such that there could be
little
prospect of psychic survival anyway or, worse, like some foolish male
whose
secondary somatic predisposition in sin was such that there could be
little
prospect of positive psychic experience and he might just as well seek
the
premature termination of its negative counterpart through crematorial
annihilation as go through with its supernaturally-subverted conscious
and/or
unnaturally-subverted subconscious prolongation in the grave, the
opposite, in
effect, of those good females whose consciously-subverted unnature
and/or subconsciously-subverted supernature
permitted
them a positive afterdeath experience, so
to speak,
such that rendered burial or entombment, according to class, morally
justifiable.
7. However that may be, the positive
afterlife
for males and even positive afterdeath for
females that
I teach will require, in 'Kingdom Come', the development of an
alternative both
to the Christian tradition of a largely suburban or town culture and to
the
un-Christian and even blatantly heathenistic
crematoria of secular modernity such that strike this writer as owing
more to a
fiery retreat from water and vegetation than to any airy advance beyond
these
elements that would prove more compatible with an urban or city
culture, the
windy cosmopolitanism of which owes more than a little to the
universality of
air and its transcendence of national and/or regional boundaries.
8. Such an alternative would necessitate
the
gradual sustaining of life by increasingly artificial and synthetic
means which
eventually culminated in full-fledged cyborgization,
as
it
were, and thus in the defiance of death as we know it and the
extension
of eternity, or the concept thereof, to a life not subject to death
though
capable of living positive afterlife- and even afterdeath-type
experiences
by
dint of its capacity to absorb their synthetic equivalents and
actually live as though posthumously in eternity, whether with an
emphasis,
according to class, on the egocentric aspect of the self in relation to
the
brain stem or on the psychocentric, or
soulful,
aspect of the self in relation to the spinal cord.
9. Such freely psychic aspects of the self,
however, would have comparatively less applicability to females in view
of
their somatic predilections in the precedence of psyche by soma and
requirement
of a more somatically-oriented order of synthetic transmutation in
consequence,
wherein punishment rather than grace, goodness rather than wisdom,
continued to
be the sensible alternative to their male counterparts, and a
pseudo-wise
psyche was accordingly directed towards the curtailment of evil,
whether of the
instinctual or spiritual varieties of free soma, from a standpoint in
goodness
rather than towards its own graceful enhancement, as with genuinely
wise
psyche, in relation to a deferential soma.
10. But a deferential soma in respect of males,
naturalism physically deferring to humanism and idealism metaphysically
deferring to transcendentalism, is analogous to the metaphor of the
Crucifixion
and the binding of, in Christ's case, physical soma to the freedom of
physical
psyche, as symbolized by the Father, that personification of the self,
whether
in knowledge or, higher, in truth, wherein one is conceiving of a
metaphysical
rather than physical order of selfhood, with its own attendant not-self
(the
lungs) that can be adequately personified in terms of God-the-Wise-Son,
the
secondary factor to God-the-Wise-Father, which enables the latter to
consciously exploit the lungs and the breath for purposes of
self-transcendence, ego-into-soul, and therefore truth-into-joy, as,
utilizing
God-the-Wise-Son, God-the-Wise-Father recoils from the out-breath of
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit in self-preservation to self more profoundly as
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, the context of joy and redemption of truth.
11. To be sure, the somatic context of sensible
metaphysics may still be one characterized by falsity and woe, after
the
particle-oriented negativity of soma, but coloured and modified by free
psyche
it is as though it were quasi-true and quasi-joyful, quasi-egocentric
and
quasi-psychocentric rather than simply
falsely
instinctual or woefully spiritual - as it would be in the outright
sinfulness
of sensual metaphysics, where Godliness, whether primary in self or
secondary
in not-self, is foolish, and Heavenliness, whether primary or
secondary, unholy,
and we have a right to speak, in consequence, of Antigods
and Antiheavens.
12. Just so, the somatic context of sensible
physics may still be characterized by ignorance and pain, after the
particle-oriented negativity of soma, but coloured and modified by free
psyche
it is as though it were quasi-knowledgeable and quasi-pleasurable,
quasi-egocentric and quasi-psychocentric
rather than
simply ignorantly instinctual or painfully spiritual - as it would be
in the
outright sinfulness of sensual physics, where manliness, whether
primary in
self or secondary in not-self, is foolish, and earthiness, whether
primary or
secondary, unholy, and we have a right to speak, in consequence, of antimen and anti-earths.
13. Therefore the Son, whether manly in physics or
godly in metaphysics, is quasi-graceful vis-à-vis the more authentic,
or
self-oriented, grace of the Father as germane to either context in male
sensibility, whereas the Father or, rather, Antifather,
whether
manly
in physics or godly in metaphysics, is quasi-sinful vis-à-vis the
more authentic, or notself-oriented, sin
of the Antison - call him Antichrist - as
germane to either
context in male sensuality, since in the former contexts it is psyche
conditioning soma after its own image, wisdom to wisdom and grace to
grace,
whereas in the latter contexts it is the inability, due to the
pressures of
psychic determinism accruing to a female hegemony in either metachemistry
or chemistry, of psyche to condition soma from a free vantage-point
which
results in the loosening of somatic determinism and a quasi-sinful
acquiescence
in physical and/or metaphysical sin, in ignorance/pain and/or
falsity/woe, the
foolish counterparts, for phallus- and ear-besotted males, to the
quasi-criminal acquiescence of psychic determinism on the part of
sensual
females in the more authentically criminal somatic freedoms in either
ugliness/hatred or weakness/humility of the metachemical
and chemical not-selves, viz. eyes and tongue.
14. However that may be, free soma is ever
negative and free psyche alone positive, so that only when soma is
bound, or
determined by free psyche, does one have a right to speak of its being
quasi-positive and, conversely, only when psyche is bound, or
determined by
free soma, will the result be akin to a quasi-negative and, hence,
quasi-somatic subversion of psyche.
No-one in his right mind, least of all male, would prefer a
situation in
which psyche was quasi-somatic in bound deference to free soma, and yet
that is
precisely what the secular modernity of contemporary societies, whether
sensually phenomenal or noumenal,
encourage and
uphold as a sort of perverse ideal!
Surely therefore the time has now come for us to challenge this
ideal
and to stand up for truth and knowledge, beauty and strength, together
with
their emotional concomitants, in the face of the insane parade of
somatic
freedoms which, in their criminal or sinful negativity, are the
converse of
anything positive and life-enhancing!
Surely the time has now come for us to reject the vices of this
base
world in the interests of the psychic heights of otherworldly virtue! Surely the time has now come for morality to
displace immorality from its somatic throne by liberating the foolish
from its
evil dominion and setting up the rule of wisdom over goodness on a more
comprehensive and truth-affirming basis than ever before!
Surely the time for judgement is at hand!
THE
PREROGATIVE
OF MAN
1. As the Father precedes the Son with
males, psyche
entitled to precedence, in wavicle
hegemonies, over
soma, its illusory offshoot, so transcendentalism can be said to
precede
idealism in metaphysics, and humanism to precede naturalism in physics,
so that
truth and knowledge, coupled to joy and pleasure, should be conceived
as
preceding falsity and ignorance, coupled to woe and pain, and these
latter
factors simply regarded as testifying to the rejection, perversely and
insensibly, of innate positivity in
relation to
psychic freedom, whether physically in ego or metaphysically in soul. But such a rejection must necessarily be due
to a want of sensible resolve and thus to a lack of faith or trust in
one's
maleness, in the order of priorities properly attending the male
realities of
psyche over soma and the precedence, on the basis of wavicle
hegemonies in both phenomenal and noumenal
contexts,
of soma by psyche.
2. Strictly speaking, both genuine
knowledge and
truth, or finite truth and infinite knowledge, are innate, since they
correspond to the psychic attributes, in ego and soul, of the self
conceived in
terms of the brain stem and spinal cord, as that which can be
originally held
to have 'made' the body or, at any rate, those parts of the body, in
particular, which are specifically male, like the brain and the lungs,
corresponding to physics and metaphysics, as against those parts of it
which
would seem to have been more inherited from the female side of life, if
not
from females, like the heart and the tongue, corresponding to metachemistry and chemistry.
3. However that may be, because genuine
knowledge and truth are innate, or intrinsic to the subjectivity of
physical
and metaphysical psyche, which must be held to precede soma on the
basis of the
more (relative to most) wavicles/less
(relative to
least) particles of physics and the most wavicles/least
particles
of
metaphysics, the somatic extrapolations from them will attest, in
naturalism and idealism, to secondary orders of knowledge and truth,
pleasure
and joy, which owe their existence to the influence of free psyche
conditioning
somatic determinism in quasi-psychic vein, the reality, in effect, of
the Son
vis-à-vis the Father in both the manly contexts of physics, wherein the
Father
corresponds to humanism and the Son to naturalism, and the godly
contexts of
metaphysics, wherein the Father corresponds to transcendentalism and
the Son to
idealism.
4. But such quasi-knowledge and quasi-truth
as
characterizes the Son in either of the illusory contexts can revert to
somatic
negativity in ignorance and falsity, with their spiritual concomitants
of pain
and woe, if the truth of psychic freedom and precedence is rejected in
consequence, more usually, of female pressures stemming from the
contrary
realities of the precedence of psyche by soma and of a somatic
predominance in
relation to the particle hegemonies of metachemistry
and chemistry, wherein the most particles/least wavicles
of the one and the more (relative to most) particles/less (relative to
least) wavicles of the other will ensure
that somatic negativity
is paramount and the factual basis from which to extrapolate the
quasi-negativity of bound psyche, with consequences that mirror, in
secondary
fashion, the prevailing ugliness/hatred of metachemical
soma and weakness/humility of chemical soma.
5. Consequently, in coming under the
baneful
influence of somatic hegemonies in sensuality, males forfeit their
birthright
to knowledge or truth and, instead, become the ignorant or false
playthings, in
the sinfulness of negative soma, who paradoxically dance to the
criminal tunes
of metachemical or chemical freedom. For, in sensuality, it is the female who
'calls the tune', and such a tune can only be somatically free of moral
scruple
and factually ascendant over both the fictional extrapolation of bound
psyche
and the quasi-fictional subversion of male psyche which, succumbing to
a degree
of psychic determinism in relation to the eccentricity of either
superego-subverted ego or id-subverted soul, relaxes its grip on soma
and
permits the latter to slide into the negativity of physical ignorance
or
metaphysical falsity, according to the elemental situation.
6. It is as though, in philosophical terms,
empiricism has replaced rationalism, and now all that the male can do
is to
self-effacingly shadow the criminal facticity
of free
soma from a pseudo-evil, or sinful, disadvantage-point in ignorance or
falsity,
pain or woe, with scant prospect of authentic knowledge or truth,
pleasure or
joy. For just as the virtues of psychic positivity are innate to the male, provided he
remains
loyal to his gender in sensibility, so the vices of somatic negativity
are
innate to the female so long as she remains loyal to her gender in
sensuality,
which is the acknowledgement of the precedence of psyche by soma and of
the
corresponding inevitability of particle hegemonies in both noumenal
and phenomenal, metachemical and chemical,
contexts -
the former most particles/least wavicles,
and
therefore one in which soma precedes psyche, after the fashion of the
stellar
Cosmos, on a near absolute basis, with reference to a diabolic
distinction
between materialism and fundamentalism, and the latter more (relative
to most)
particles/less (relative to least) wavicles,
and
therefore
that in which soma precedes psyche, after the fashion of
oceanic
Nature, on a comparatively relative basis, with reference to a feminine
distinction between realism and nonconformism.
7. For, in a sense, woman is a rejection of
the
Devil, less in terms of the rejection of fundamentalism by nonconformism
- although this can and does apply - than in terms of the rejection of
materialism by realism, given the somatic hegemonies of both the metachemical and chemical elements, and whilst
it is
incontrovertibly the case that the Devil fears woman, as fire could be
said to
fear water, the feminine corollary of that is scepticism regarding the
validity
of the Devil. In either case,
however,
we have to allow that soma precedes and predominates over psyche, and
that
scepticism concerning the value of absolute evil is not a guarantor of
good
but, rather, a substitution of one mode of evil for another, in this
case of
watery monism for fiery pluralism, the co-operative One for the
competitive
Many, realistic quantities for materialistic appearances.
8. Goodness, properly so-considered, only
comes
significantly to pass for a female, whether metachemical
or chemical, in relation to the sensible wisdom of male hegemonies in
physics
or metaphysics, and then as a punishing retort to the criminality of
free soma
attendant upon the male proximity of somatic determinism issuing from a
free
psyche in which knowledge and truth, pleasure and joy, are not merely
quasi-psychic but as authentically innate as is possible for either of
them to
be, with consequences for moral virtue that gracefully leave the
pseudo-wisdom
of punishment firmly in the shade of that secondary morality alluded to
above. But such goodness is much
preferable, from a male standpoint, to evil, just as wisdom is much
preferable,
from such a standpoint, to the folly of ignorance and falsity, those
secular
vices identifiable with sin, and thus not with the Son but, rather,
with his
sensual counterpart, the Antison, or
Antichrist.
9. For goodness is punishing, and therefore
of
psyche, of a quasi-free psyche that no longer acquiesces, in sensual
vein, in
the criminal rule of somatic freedom but clamps down on it in
pseudo-wise
proscription, after the fashion of a psychically positive Daughter
curtailing
the somatic negativity of the Mother, the female counterparts, after
all, to
the Father and Son of male psyche and soma.
But if, in sensuality, the Mother or, rather, what could be
called the Antimother, precedes her
secondary counterpart, the Antidaughter,
as somatic freedom factually preceding
psychic determinism, its fictional extrapolation, then in sensibility,
under
hegemonic male pressures in physics and metaphysics, it is as though
this
reality, which indubitably still obtains, were reversed, so much is the
emphasis now upon psyche conditioning soma, of a quasi-free psyche
clamping
down upon such evidence of somatic freedom as still pokes its ugly or
weak head
out of the dark depths of the metachemical
or
chemical not-selves, at the risk of being ticked or even lopped off in
the
names of beauty and strength, love and pride, and the quasi-psychic
subversion
of that order of soma in consequence.
10. Then it is rather the Daughter of punishment
informing - and chastising - the Mother of crime, now rendered
maternally
respectable in quasi-beautiful or quasi-strong deference to the
prevailing
virtues of beauty and strength, love and pride, and entitled, in
consequence,
to some paradoxical acknowledgement of her submission before the throne
of
properly fundamentalist or nonconformist psyche, call it a daughterized
Mother or, in traditional Catholic terms, the Virgin, the Virgin
Mother, or
some other such indication of a punishing emphasis, for females, upon
psyche at
the expense of soma, upon that which, in reality, is secondary to soma
taking,
under pressure of male hegemonies in sensibility, precedence over it in
a
paradoxical focus upon goodness, both psychically primary and
somatically
secondary.
11. For the bound, or quasi-bound, soma which
results from greater psychic freedom can only be acquiescent in and,
after a
manner of speaking, deferential towards the rule of goodness from a
punishing
fulcrum. It is no longer in a position,
as Antimother, to be freely somatic and
criminally
dismissive, in consequence, of psychic freedom.
It is submissive both to the Daughter and to the Son, Who is in
turn
submissive to the Father in that more authentically free order of
psyche which
is either knowledgeable or true, of man in physics or of God in
metaphysics. And because it is submissive
both to the Daughter and, indirectly, to the Son, it does not stand in
the way
of man's faith in God, nor undermine God's hope for the faith of man in
Himself
and the coming of man, at Judgement, into His 'Kingdom', as customarily
interpreted by me in terms of a majority democratic mandate for
religious
sovereignty and the establishment, thereafter, of both the
administrative aside
to and triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come', as explained in previous texts.
12. For it is the prerogative of physics, and thus
of man, whether paternal or filial, but especially paternal, to defer
to the
subjective superiority, in Godliness, of metaphysics, and to wish to
live under
the leadership of that which is universal as opposed to personal, airy
as
opposed to vegetative, urban as opposed to suburban, monist as opposed
to
pluralist, religious as opposed to economic, true as opposed to
knowledgeable,
joyful as opposed to pleasurable, noumenal
as opposed
to phenomenal, individualist as opposed to collectivist, psychocentric
as opposed to egocentric, of the spinal cord as opposed to the brain
stem, and
eternal as opposed to temporal.
13. God's hope for man's faith in Him is the
obverse of man's faith in God; for without it man would be lost to
woman and/or
the Devil, and in no position to redeem himself as a creature who,
while he may
be of the collectivistic Many, has yet to prove himself worthy of the
individualistic One, if only in terms of that deferential
acknowledgement which
would allow what was strictly manly to take its new humanistic place
beneath
the new transcendentalism of the godly and above the new nonconformism
of the womanly in the triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come', to which the
administrative aside of a new fundamentalism would dutifully subscribe.
THE
PREROGATIVE
OF GOD
1. Man, when loyal to and respectful of his
self, has faith in God, for the coming of God's 'Kingdom', and thus for
the
overcoming and transcending of humanist limitations in an otherworldly
context
where truth is not only acknowledged to exist, but enthroned, with God,
as that
order of knowledge, necessarily infinite in relation to the
universality of
air, which correlates with divinity and has as its primary objective
the
attainment of joy or, in religious terms, Heaven, which is its sublime
redemption and vindication.
2. For Godliness is of little avail if it
is not
directed towards a self-transcending end in Heavenliness, and such
Heavenliness
is only possible to God-the-Wise-Father on the basis of the utilization
of the
quasi-truth and quasi-joy of the lungs and the breath of, respectively,
God-the-Wise-Son and Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit in order to achieve,
through
transcendental meditation, the very authentic joy of
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul on
the recoil from not-self to self more profoundly, which is to say, in
relation
to the eclipse of egocentricity by psychocentricity
via the concentricity of psychically modified will and spirit, as
God-the-Wise-Father attains to Heaven-the-Holy-Soul via
God-the-Wise-Son and
Heaven-the-Holy-Spirit, before plunging anew, in a kind of cyclic
recurrence,
from primary Godhead into secondary Godhead, molecular metaphysical
self into
elemental metaphysical not-self, to be borne aloft on the breathy wings
of
secondary Heaven and to recoil, in self-preservation, from the
molecular
metaphysical not-self to the elemental metaphysical self of primary
Heaven, the
raison
d'être of transcendental meditation.
3. Thus conscious form into the 'natural'
quasi-form of modified power and the 'subnatural'
quasi-contentment
of
modified glory equals subconscious contentment, the
soulful redemption in universal selfhood of the fundamentally personal
- if to
a much lesser extent than its physical counterpart - metaphysical ego,
as it
seeks the transcendence of brain-stem selfhood in spinal-cord selfhood
via the
respective metaphysical not-selfhoods of the lungs and the breath -
such it is
for the truly Godly in transcendental meditation!
4. God, then, except in the provisional
sense of
He Who reveals metaphysical truth, or Truth per
se, and stands as the
exemplar of metaphysical wisdom and holiness, the Messianic figure long
anticipated by the Faithful, Who stands above them in His more than
human(ist) capacity for transcendentalism
and ability to reveal
knowledge that, in its metaphysical infinitude, would be beyond the
capacities
of ordinary mortals or, more specifically, of physical males to
conceive, is
primarily of the self and, hence, the Father, but secondarily of the
not-self
and, hence, the Son, so that we have a psychic God Who precedes, in his
graceful transcendentalism, the somatic God rendered quasi-psychic
through
somatic determinism and deferential, in modified idealism, to the rule
or,
rather, lead and precedence of His transcendent Father Who, in the
context of
sensible metaphysics, is God-the-Wise-Father, the originator of all
truth that
is in any way infinite and associated, in consequence, with the
universality of
the metaphysical element, viz. air.
5. Now because truth is universal when
infinite,
and therefore that which is only possible on the basis of a consciously
metaphysical commitment to airiness conceived in sensibly organic terms
as the
process of breathing, anyone who freely meditates upon the breath in
the
interests of self-transcendence is or becomes God the Father, and
therefore the
primary order of God Whose prerogative is to utilize the secondary
order of God
Whom we have identified with the Son for the purpose stated. Neither God-the-Wise-Father nor
God-the-Wise-Son really and fully exist except in relation to
the
process of transcendental meditation, and therefore to a conscious
awareness,
for purposes of subconscious transmutation, of quasi-conscious
unnatural
('natural') and quasi-subconscious supernatural ('subnatural')
procedures
-
in short, to the breathing of the lungs and the flow, particularly
outwards, of the breath, both of which are then constitutive of the
not-self in
modified guise and are not simply somatic and organic but, rather,
quasi-psychic and quasi-inorganic, which is to say, germane to
universal
infinity.
6. They become, through transcendental
meditation, the quasi-psychic witnesses to the redemption of the self,
and thus
to the elevation of God in Heaven, of the resurrection, as it were, of
God the
Father as His self, recoiling from the threat of annihilation posed by
the
not-self in its out-breath mode, the mode of holy spirit, enters into
profounder unity with itself in the contentment of
Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, the
brain stem eclipsed, as it were, by the spinal cord, which is the seat
of the
soul and thus the context of Heaven par
excellence. Therefore anyone, to
repeat, who seriously
and properly meditates, freely and without thought, upon the breathing
process
becomes God, both primarily in his self (brain stem) and secondarily in
the
relevant not-self (lungs), and, more importantly, he experiences
Heaven, both
secondarily in the relevant not-self (breath) and primarily in his self
(spinal
cord), which is the ultimate mode of psychic freedom and thus of grace.
7. For Godliness, like the air upon which
it
depends, is universal, not confined to any one person, even though
society has
need of a singular individual who in his enlightened commitment to
universal
values becomes universally acknowledged and recognized as one who
stands
closest to the universal in his truth and who can accordingly be
trusted as a
guide to what is true and as an example to be followed where following
is
possible, whether directly or, as in the case of mankind in general,
indirectly, bearing in mind both class and gender differentials, and
the sort
of structural hierarchies that have to be honoured in the interests of
social
stability and cultural viability.
8. But the universal should not be
confounded
with the cosmic, as has too long and often been the case, with what I
earlier
described as the divinizing of the diabolic, or investing of
predominantly metachemical contexts with
metaphysical attributes for want
of an unequivocal omega-oriented alternative.
That which permits, in transcendental meditation, of
universality only
does so on the basis of the universal nature of air, and thus of its
breathy
transmutation, so that one identifies with the breath and becomes more
universalized in relation to the self, with specific reference to the
spinal
cord, the seat of the soul, since the most essential element, namely
the air
or, in this context, breath can only correlate with the most essential
aspect
of life, namely the spinal cord or, in this context, the soul, as the
one plays
off and enhances the other, to their mutual satisfaction.
9. Therefore if, as an upper-class or
metaphysical male, you want to live that which is most essential in
you, namely
your soul, you have to cultivate the element which is least apparent
and/or
most essential, which, duly transmuted into breath, becomes the means
to
soulful self-enhancement, as already described.
But the Cosmos is hardly the context of air or airiness but, on
the
contrary, that in which the prevailing element would appear to be
stellar fire or
fieriness, and therefore the setting for what is furthest removed from
essence,
the context of appearances, and therefore of will, par
excellence.
10. Nothing could be further from the truth than
to
confuse airy universality with fiery polyversality,
the
beatific
with the cosmic! Indeed,
the Cosmos is not even a setting in which beauty, the psychic opposite
of
truth, can flourish but, rather, that in which, due to a near absolute
somatic
predominance, ugliness has its metachemical
throne,
and never more so than in relation to those specifically sensual
aspects of the
Cosmos which tend to reflect, in their divergent negativity, a stellar
primacy,
the sort of primacy which has been equated, in primitive religion, with
cosmic
'First Movers' and thus, in effect, with godly Creation.
Yet such metachemical
'First Movers', whether sensual or sensible, are in reality as far
removed from
anything genuinely godly, or metaphysically divine, as it is possible
to get,
and people do themselves a grace disservice when they invest the
stellar cosmos
with divine properties!
11. No, the Cosmic corresponds, by and large, to
fiery pluralism, and thus to the Many conceived in wilfully competitive
terms,
as that which is as far removed from the airy monism of the universal
One and
its soulful individualism as the alpha-most female from the omega-most
male, or
noumenal objectivity from noumenal
subjectivity, or ugliness and hatred from truth and joy, or, quite
simply, the
primary Devil and Hell of materialism from the primary God and Heaven
of
transcendentalism, secondary fundamentalist and idealist concomitants
notwithstanding.
12. Therefore to identify the universal with the
cosmic and allow transcendentalism to be subsumed into a context which
is not
even fundamentalist, primarily, but somatically absolutist in the
materialist
hegemony of most particles/least wavicles,
is the
last thing that an enlightened person or
god would wish to do! Fundamentalism
may, in the ratio of the 3:1 subatomic nature of things metachemical,
wind-up worshipping or deferring to materialism, but transcendentalism,
duly
subverting idealism to its psychic satisfaction in the transcendental hegemony of most wavicles/least
particles,
is
its own master and guarantor of holy redemption, such that
stands, in Heaven-the-Holy-Soul, at the furthest possible remove from
contemplation of the Clear Light of the Void or any such cosmic primitivity, which can only owe more to the eyes
than to
the lungs, and thus to the outer fire of sight than to the inner air of
the
breath.
13. The alpha-most reality of metachemical
objectivity is not there to be worshipped by the enlightened being, a
god, nay
one of many possible manifestations of God-the-Wise-Father Who is the
same
paternalistic God - and thus One and Universal - no matter how many
people may
happen to be meditating transcendentally, but simply ignored ... as he
gets on
with the more sensible business of cultivating the omega-most reality
of metaphysical
subjectivity in the realization that what is in the airy End is
or will
be so different from what was in the fiery Beginning that there
is no,
absolutely no, connection between them.
The one is simply absolutely immoral and vicious in its somatic
negativity,
the other ... absolutely moral and virtuous in its psychic positivity.
14. And in the future, quite apart from the need
to match and level with the inevitable centro-complexifying
advancement of machines to ever greater feats of technological
sophistication,
the cyborgization of both human and divine
life will
ensure not only that machines won't get the better of mankind, but that
its own
advance towards enhanced self-respect and/or reduced self-disrespect,
according
to gender, is given every encouragement and that, ultimately, the self
will
have greater protection against the threat or prospect of death than
would
otherwise be the case, even to the extent of living for ever.
15. For who, after all,
really wants to die? The afterlives and afterdeaths as people, according to gender, have
known them
are, I contend, scant compensation for the mortality of the body and
the
inevitability of bodily cessation with death.
The self, properly considered as brain stem and spinal cord,
does not
really wish to die and to have a sort of cannibalistic
self-illumination of
visionary and/or unitary knowledge, as Huxley would say, inflicted upon
it; for
disillusionment with the sufferings of the body and a desire to be rid
of them
owes more to the body than to the self, with the positivity
- especially in the case of self-respecting males - of its wavicle
hegemonies, and although the afterdeath
(for females)
or afterlife (for males) could be comparatively blissful, depending on
the
individual, it would not last for ever, but only until such time as
extensive
decomposition and/or fading self-illumination puts an end to it, with
implications of 'dust to dust' or 'ashes to ashes', as the gender case
may
be.
16. All that is really a consequence, I contend,
of shortcomings which lie elsewhere and which the self, way back in the
mists
of time, was obliged to make do with, having to construct a bodily end
and/or
means for itself - soma preceding
psyche in females, psyche preceding soma in males, the alpha and omega
of life
- with whatever materials and aptitudes lay to-hand in the necessarily
more
primitive conditions and circumstances of the very distant past.
17. We, on the other hand, can construct a new
means and/or end for our selves, both male and female, and although it
may take
centuries to perfect and bring to an advanced stage of cyborgization,
still, the technological prospect is there and, with the moral need to
transcend the collectivistic pluralism of the subjective Many in the
individualistic monism of the subjective One, the personal in the
universal
(which is similar, though distinct, from the co-operative monism of the
objective One of impersonal tradition which revolted against the
competitive
pluralism in the Cosmos of the objective Many), we would be unworthy of
our
evolutionary heritage to deny ourselves the solution to the problem of
bodily
temporality in the psychic eternality of ultimate self-respect.
18. Therefore let us go forward to the omega point
of universal Oneness in one mind, a mind that, irrespective of gender,
defers,
no matter how indirectly in many cases, to man's overcoming in and
subordination to God. For it is God's
prerogative to deliver man from himself and bring a better world to
pass, a
world without death and suffering, but pledged, with every means and
end at its
disposal, to the promotion of psychic life and moral happiness for all
eternity.
19. Such a deliverance of man from himself and of
woman from herself, not to mention of gods and devils from themselves,
from the
triangular realities of sensual modernity, can only be effected, I
contend, via
the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism, and it is as a
Social
Transcendentalist that I conclude PART FOUR of my e-scroll of
aphoristic notes
in the hope that mankind will one day come to its sensibilities and
democratically affirm religious sovereignty as the formal means to the
contented end of 'Kingdom Come'.
LONDON
2002
(Revised 2011)