401. Conversely,
that which utilizes the lower-unnatural will of the inner chemical body
(of the
womb) to achieve a redemptive transmutation in relation to inner
chemical
spirit ... is the lower unego, which
accordingly
becomes the lower unconscious.
402. Similarly
that which, being phenomenally subjective, utilizes the lower-natural
will of
the outer physical body (of the phallus) to achieve redemptive
transmutation in
relation to outer physical spirit ... is the lower ego, which
accordingly
becomes the lower conscious.
403. Conversely,
that which utilizes the upper-natural will of the inner physical body
(of the
brain) to achieve redemptive transmutation in relation to inner
physical spirit
... is the upper ego, which accordingly becomes the upper conscious.
404. Finally
(to return to metaphysics), that which, being noumenally
subjective, utilizes the subnatural will
of the outer
metaphysical body (of the ears) to achieve redemptive transmutation in
relation
to outer metaphysical spirit ... is the subego,
which
accordingly
becomes the subconscious.
405. Conversely,
that which utilizes the supernatural will of the inner metaphysical
body (of
the lungs) to achieve redemptive transmutation in relation to inner
metaphysical spirit ... is the superego, which accordingly becomes the superconscious.
406. To
contrast the outer metachemical will of
seeing with
the outer metachemical spirit of what is
seen in
relation to the super-unego/super-unconscious,
but
the
inner metachemical will of feeling
with the inner
metachemical spirit of what is felt in
relation to
the sub-unego/sub-unconscious.
407. To
contrast the outer chemical will of speaking with the outer chemical
spirit of
what is spoken in relation to the upper-unego/unconscious,
but
the
inner chemical will of breeding with the inner chemical spirit of
what
is bred in relation to the lower-unego/unconscious.
408. To
contrast the outer physical will of touching with the outer physical
spirit of
what is touched in relation to the lower-ego/conscious, but the inner
physical
will of thinking with the inner physical spirit of what is thought in
relation
to the upper-ego/conscious.
409. To contrast
the outer metaphysical will of hearing with the outer metaphysical
spirit of
what is heard in relation to the subego/subconscious,
but
the
inner metaphysical will of breathing with the inner metaphysical
spirit
of what is breathed in relation to the superego/superconscious.
410. Broadly,
the intention of what may be called positive metachemical
mind is to proceed from strength to love, whereas negative metachemical
mind tends to proceed from weakness to hatred.
411. Broadly,
the intention of positive chemical mind is to proceed from beauty to
pride,
whereas negative chemical mind tends to proceed from ugliness to
humility.
412. Broadly,
the intention of positive physical mind is to proceed from knowledge to
pleasure, whereas negative physical mind tends to proceed from
ignorance to
pain.
413. Broadly,
the intention of positive metaphysical mind is to proceed from truth to
joy,
whereas negative metaphysical mind tends to proceed from illusion to
woe.
414. Negative
mind differs from positive mind in each and every axis or plane by
being that
which is most 'particular' and least 'wavicular' and/or more (relative to most) 'particular'
and less (relative to least) 'wavicular' in
its
subatomic structure - the former absolutely negative, the latter
relatively so.
415. Positive
mind differs from negative mind in each and every axis or plane by
being that
which is more (relative to most) 'wavicular'
and
less
(relative to least) 'particular' and/or most 'wavicular'
and
least
'particular' in its subatomic structure - the former relatively
positive, the latter absolutely so.
416. Hence
the distinction between negative and positive orders of mind is
deducible to
the basic particle/wavicle oscillations
that
characterize the subdivisions of each and every element and/or elementino.
417. Generally
speaking, science and politics are characterized by negative mind, in
that they
appertain to particle-dominated elements/elementinos
in respectively absolute and relative terms.
418. By
contrast, economics and religion are chiefly characterized by positive
mind, in
that they appertain to wavicle-oriented
elements/elementinos in respectively
relative and absolute terms.
419. Objective
kinds of mind will, as a rule, be more extensively negative and less
intensively positive, whereas their subjective counterparts will be
less
extensively negative and more intensively positive ... in keeping with
the
female/male gender distinction that exists between objectivity and
subjectivity
in relation to rectilinear (angular) and curvilinear (circular) modes
of
divergence or convergence, depending on the axis.
420. Negative
mind should be distinguished from positive mind in terms of the prefix
'anti',
as in antisuper-unego or antisub-unego,
where the outer and inner metachemical
selves are
concerned.
421. Concerning
the metachemical antiselves,
the
antisuper-unego will be utilizing the outer
metachemical body/will to achieve an antisuper-unconscious
redemption or, rather, condemnation (anti-redemption) of itself in
relation to
negative visionary experience, whereas the antisub-unego
will be utilizing the inner metachemical
body/will to
achieve an antisub-unconscious
condemnation of itself
in relation to negative emotional experience, both of which contrast
with the
redemptive experiences of their positive counterparts.
422. Concerning
the chemical antiselves, the upper anti-unego will be utilizing the outer chemical
body/will to
achieve an upper anti-unconscious condemnation of itself in relation to
negative verbal experience, whereas the lower anti-unego
will be utilizing the inner chemical body/will to achieve a lower
anti-unconscious condemnation of itself in relation to negative
maternal
experience, both of which contrast with the redemptive experiences of
their
positive counterparts.
423. Concerning
the physical antiselves, the lower
anti-ego will be
utilizing the outer physical body/will to achieve a lower
anti-conscious
condemnation of itself in relation to negative coital experience,
whereas the
upper anti-ego will be utilizing the upper physical body/will to
achieve an
upper anti-conscious condemnation of itself in relation to negative
intellectual experience, both of which contrast with the redemptive
experiences
of their positive counterparts.
424. Concerning
the metaphysical antiselves, the anti-subego will be utilizing the outer metaphysical
body/will
to achieve an anti-subconscious condemnation of itself in relation to
negative
aural experience, whereas the anti-superego will be utilizing the inner
metaphysical body/will to achieve an anti-superconscious
condemnation of itself in relation to negative spiritual experience,
both of
which contrast with the redemptive experiences of their positive
counterparts.
425. Negative
mind differs from positive mind on any given axis or plane in terms of
the
degree to which particles predominate over wavicles
or, conversely, wavicles over particles,
not in terms
of actually being or appertaining to a completely separate mind. For, in truth, the self can be negative or
positive in both external and internal contexts.
426. The
self of the scientific person, or scientist, being characterized by an
elemental-particle bias, will reflect the least self-esteem in relation
to the
materialistic extent to which particles predominate over wavicles
in his subatomic integrity - probably by as much as 3:1.
427. The
self of the political person, or politician, being characterized by a
molecular-particle bias, will reflect more self-esteem than the
scientist but
less self-esteem than the economist in relation to the realistic extent
to
which particles predominate over wavicles
in his
subatomic integrity - probably by as much as 2:1.
428. The
self of the economic person, or economist, being characterized by a
molecular-wavicle bias, will reflect less
self-esteem than the priest
but more self-esteem than the politician in relation to the
naturalistic extent
to which wavicles preponderate over
particles in his
subatomic integrity - probably by as much as 2:1.
429. The
self of the religious person, or priest, being characterized by an
elemental-wavicle bias, will reflect the
most self-esteem in relation
to the idealistic extent to which wavicles
preponderate over particles in his subatomic integrity - probably by as
much as
3:1.
430. Hence
there is a definite correlation, I contend, between the nature of a
person's
professional or vocational interests and the degree of his self-esteem,
since
the extent of self-cultivation will determine the suitability of any
given
discipline to one.
431. One
can be too evolved or, depending on one's gender, too devolved ... to
be
content with a scientific and/or political destiny, for which the
requirement
of negative mind is a prerequisite, if one is to pass muster and be
resigned to
one's fate.
432. Conversely,
one can be insufficiently evolved and/or devolved to be capable of an
economic
and/or religious destiny, for which the requirement of positive mind is
a
prerequisite, if one is to pass muster and be resigned to one's fate.
433. The
male side of life evolves, within subjectivity, from particles to wavicles, whereas the female side of life
devolves, within
objectivity, from particles to wavicles.
434. This
is also borne out by the fact, by now a long-established tenet of my
philosophy, that whereas males 'rise' from, for instance, massive mass
to
voluminous volume in masculinity, and from sequential time to spaced
space in
divinity (submasculine to supermasculine),
females 'fall' from spatial space to repetitive time in devility
(superfeminine to subfeminine),
and
from
volumetric volume to massed mass in femininity.
435. Equally,
this would be to say that whereas males evolve from foolish id to
foolish
intellect in masculinity, and from wise soul to wise spirit in
divinity,
females devolve from evil spirit to evil soul in devility,
and
from
good intellect to good id in femininity.
436. Thus
the likelihood that men evolve from particles to wavicles
on any given axis, whether externally or internally, is confirmed, it
seems to
me, by the subjective pressures which accrue to the male side of life
by dint
of its plenumous basis in, for example,
the solar
cosmos.
437. Conversely,
the likelihood that women devolve from particles to wavicles
on any given axis, whether externally or internally, is confirmed by
the
objective pressures which accrue to the female side of life by dint of
its
vacuous basis in, for example, the stellar cosmos.
438. This
is generally reflected, in phenomenal terms, by the plenumous/vacuous
distinction which normally exists between scrotum and womb, the former spermatically self-contained, the latter foetally other-dependent.
439. Outer
negative metachemical mind extends from
the
scientific absolutism in elemental-particle photons of that which,
being most
'particular' and least 'wavicular', is most
weak and
least strong ... to the political relativity in molecular-particle
photons of
that which, being more (relative to most) 'particular' and less
(relative to
least) 'wavicular', is more (relative to
most) weak
and less (relative to least) strong.
440. Outer
positive metachemical mind extends from
the economic
relativity in molecular-wavicle photons of
that
which, being less (relative to least) 'particular' and more (relative
to most)
'wavicular', is less (relative to least)
weak and
more (relative to most) strong ... to the religious absolutism in
elemental-wavicle photons of that which,
being least 'particular' and
most 'wavicular', is least weak and most
strong.
441. Inner
negative metachemical mind extends from
the scientific
absolutism in elemental-particle photinos
of that
which, being most 'particular' and least 'wavicular',
is
most
hate and least love ... to the political relativity in
molecular-particle photinos of that which,
being more
(relative to most) 'particular' and less (relative to least) 'wavicular', is more (relative to most) hate and
less
(relative to least) love.
442. Inner
positive metachemical mind extends from
the economic
relativity in molecular-wavicle photinos
of that which, being less (relative to least) 'particular' and more
(relative
to most) 'wavicular', is less (relative to
least)
hate and more (relative to most) love ... to the religious absolutism
in
elemental-wavicle photinos
of that which, being least 'particular' and most 'wavicular',
is
least
hate and most love.
443. Outer
negative chemical mind extends from the scientific absolutism in
elemental-particle electrons and/or positrons of that which, being most
'particular' and least 'wavicular', is most
ugly and
least beautiful ... to the political relativity in molecular-particle
electrons
and/or positrons of that which, being more (relative to most)
'particular' and
less (relative to least) 'wavicular', is
more
(relative to most) ugly and less (relative to least) beautiful.
444. Outer
positive chemical mind extends from the economic relativity in
molecular-wavicle electrons and/or
positrons of that which, being
less (relative to least) 'particular' and more (relative to most) 'wavicular', is less (relative to least) ugly and
more (relative
to most) beautiful ... to the religious absolutism in elemental-wavicle electrons and/or positrons of that
which, being
least 'particular' and most 'wavicular', is
least
ugly and most beautiful.
445. Inner
negative chemical mind extends from the scientific absolutism in
elemental-particle electrinos and/or positrinos of that which, being most
'particular' and least
'wavicular', is most humble and least proud
... to
the political relativity in molecular-particle electrinos
and/or positrinos of that which, being
more (relative
to most) 'particular' and less (relative to least) 'wavicular',
is
more
(relative to most) humble and less (relative to least) proud.
446. Inner
positive chemical mind extends from the economic relativity in
molecular-wavicle electrinos
and/or positrinos of that which, being
less (relative to least)
'particular' and more (relative to most) 'wavicular',
is
less
(relative to least) humble and more (relative to most) proud ...
to the
religious absolutism in elemental-wavicle electrinos and/or positrinos
of
that which, being least 'particular' and most 'wavicular',
is
least
humble and most proud.
447. Outer
negative physical mind extends from the scientific absolutism in
elemental-particle neutrons and/or deuterons of that which, being most
'particular' and least 'wavicular', is most
ignorant
and least knowledgeable ... to the political relativity in
molecular-particle
neutrons and/or deuterons of that which, being more (relative to most)
'particular' and less (relative to least) 'wavicular',
is
more
(relative to most) ignorant and less (relative to least)
knowledgeable.
448. Outer
positive physical mind extends from the economic relativity in
molecular-wavicle neutrons and/or deuterons
of that which, being less
(relative to least) 'particular' and more (relative to most) 'wavicular', is less (relative to least) ignorant
and more
(relative to most) knowledgeable ... to the religious absolutism in
elemental-wavicle neutrons and/or deuterons
of that which, being
least 'particular' and most 'wavicular', is
least
ignorant and most knowledgeable.
449. Inner
negative physical mind extends from the scientific absolutism in
elemental-particle neutrinos and/or deuterinos
of
that which, being most 'particular' and least 'wavicular',
is
most
painful and least pleasurable ... to the political relativity in
molecular-particle neutrinos and/or deuterinos
of
that which, being more (relative to most) 'particular' and less
(relative to
least) 'wavicular', is more (relative to
most)
painful and less (relative to least) pleasurable.
450. Inner
positive physical mind extends from the economic relativity in
molecular-wavicle neutrinos and/or deuterinos
of that which, being less (relative to least) 'particular' and more
(relative
to most) 'wavicular', is less (relative to
least)
painful and more (relative to most) pleasurable ... to the religious
absolutism
in elemental-wavicle neutrinos and/or deuterinos of that which, being least
'particular' and most
'wavicular', is least painful and most
pleasurable.
451. Outer
negative metaphysical mind extends from the scientific absolutism in
elemental-particle protons of that which, being most 'particular' and
least 'wavicular', is most illusory and
least truthful ... to the
political relativity in molecular-particle protons of that which, being
more
(relative to most) 'particular' and less (relative to least) 'wavicular', is more (relative to most) illusory
and less
(relative to least) truthful.
452. Outer
positive metaphysical mind extends from the economic relativity in
molecular-wavicle protons of that which,
being less (relative to
least) 'particular' and more (relative to most) 'wavicular',
is
less
(relative to least) illusory and more (relative to most) truthful
...
to the religious absolutism in elemental-wavicle
protons of that which, being least 'particular' and most 'wavicular',
is least illusory and most truthful.
453. Inner
negative metaphysical mind extends from the scientific absolutism in
elemental-particle protinos of that which,
being most
'particular' and least 'wavicular', is most
woeful
and least joyful ... to the political relativity in molecular-particle protinos of that which, being more (relative to
most)
'particular' and less (relative to least) 'wavicular',
is
more
(relative to most) woeful and less (relative to least) joyful.
454. Inner
positive metaphysical mind extends from the economic relativity in
molecular-wavicle protinos
of that which,
being less (relative to least) 'particular' and more (relative to most)
'wavicular', is less (relative to least)
woeful and more
(relative to most) joyful ... to the religious absolutism in elemental-wavicle protinos of
that which,
being least 'particular' and most 'wavicular',
is
least
woeful and most joyful.
455. To
avoid undue repetition in the above aphorisms, I have emphasized will
at the
expense of spirit in the external contexts (of the elements), and
spirit at the
expense of will in the internal contexts (of the elementinos),
thereby
contrasting
truth, for example, with joy, and illusion with woe in
regard to metaphysics. In reality,
however, will and spirit adhere to both external and internal contexts,
the
only difference being that, in view of the larger particle basis of
elements,
will tends to predominate over spirit in external contexts, whereas, in
view of
the smaller particle basis of elementinos,
spirit
tends to preponderate over will in internal contexts, so that one can
generalize from the one to the other in the biased manner outlined
above.
456. Yet
the general preponderance of spirit over will in the internal contexts
is the
main reason why they are preferable to the external ones, given the
enhanced
redemption that, in particular, accrues to positive mind in the guise
of
sensibility, thereby leaving sensuality severely in its 're-born' wake. Even negative mind will not suffer
condemnation to anything like the same extent internally as must
characterize
its external counterpart in relation to sensuality, where the cruder
nature of
elements has necessarily to be reckoned with from the viewpoint of a
centrifugal base.
457. Still,
the distinction between the condemnation of negative mind to antispirit and the redemption of positive mind
by holy
spirit is one in which the self is either damned or saved, whether in
external
or internal contexts, and this, as we have argued, depends upon the
degree of
self-esteem to which the self, in whatever guise, has attained.
458. External
damnation will of course be more extensive for the relevant negative
self than
internal damnation, whilst internal salvation will be more intensive
for the
relevant positive self than external salvation, bearing in mind that
the
internal contexts taper to a centripetal point, in complete contrast to
the
centrifugal origins of the external ones.
459. The
scientific and/or political damnation of the external negative self
will
accordingly be worse, in its will-dominated constitution, than the
correlative
damnation of its internal counterpart, whereas the economic and/or
religious
salvation of the internal positive self will be better, in its
spirit-oriented
constitution, than the correlative salvation of its external
counterpart. Frankly, it pays to be
're-born'.
460. Granted
that the self is mind, and that there are as many selves as there are
minds
vis-à-vis the different bodily organs to which we have given due
consideration
throughout this text, the relationship between mind and will, on the
one hand,
and between mind (duly transported) and spirit, on the other hand, is
what
makes for the powerful and glorious attributes of our metachemical,
chemical, physical, and metaphysical axes.
Will does not, by itself, equal weakness or strength, ugliness
or
beauty, ignorance or knowledge, illusion or truth, since these
descriptions are
not attributes of willing but of the relationship between mind and will.
461. Hence
there can be no truth, for example, where there is no application of
the
relevant mind, in this case the positive superego, to the inner
metaphysical
body/will. Ultimate truth is an
expression of the application of mind to will on the inner metaphysical
plane,
not an isolated attribute of either the superego or the superwill! (Although
the
context of intellectual truth
or, rather, of metaphysical insight achieved via the intellect does not
necessarily require the simultaneous application of such a superwill,
even though it presupposes a knowledge of the desirability of true
spirituality
and may well serve as a vehicle for encouraging it, in due course.)
462. But
if truth is neither mind nor will alone, then neither is joy, since
this also
requires the application of mind to spirit, the superego becoming superconscious in the process of identifying
with the
latter, and would exist neither for the mind alone nor even for the
spirit,
whose essence is lightness, not joy. Joy
is what contact with the spirit, the airy lightness of outflowing
breath, does for the mind, the superego-become-superconscious,
and
therefore
joy cannot exist independently of the spirit but only in
relation
to it, being an expression or, rather, impression of spirit upon the
mind.
463. Thus
as mind was empowered by the will, so it is glorified by the spirit,
becoming
joyous. In fact, one could speak of the
assumption of joy by the mind, the superconscious
of
inner positive metaphysical self, in terms of an oversoul,
since
it
is a feeling of such refinement and sublimity
as to be beyond the base level of the soul merely conceived in
fundamentalist
and therefore effectively diabolic terms.
Rather, it is the divine soul of self-realization.
464. If
God equals truth and Heaven equals joy, then God and Heaven can no more
be
conceived of independently of the mind, the superegocentric
mind, shall we say, of inner metaphysical selfhood, than truth and joy,
since
God as truth will be a combination of metaphysical self and will,
whilst Heaven
as joy will be a combination of metaphysical self and spirit, the
latter of
which lifts the redeemed selfhood of superconscious
mind to the heavenly heights of joyful self-realization.
465. Hence,
ultimately, God is not the lungs (though they will suffice in terms of
a crude
approximation), but that superegocentric
awareness of
their will (to breathe) which carries the inner metaphysical self
towards the
Holy Spirit (of exhaled breath), wherein it is saved to the Heaven of
joy by
being lifted up on the latter's lightness.
God is more than inner metaphysical will, and Heaven, likewise,
more
than inner metaphysical spirit, since God is what is known by the inner
metaphysical self, and Heaven what is experienced by it once it
abandons itself
to their keeping, so to speak, thereby passing from lungs to breath.
466. Admittedly,
without the lungs and the breath there would be no possibility of
either God or
Heaven, but they are not divine or sublime in themselves, independently
of the
inner metaphysical self. In fact,
without the spark of self-enlightenment, they are merely functions of
the
body. It is the awareness of the inner
metaphysical self which creates God and Heaven for itself by
co-operating with
the lungs and the breath in the interests of self-fulfilment. For only through such co-operation can the
superego come fully alive, achieving superconscious
deliverance from itself. Only then is
its existence completely justified.
467. Of
course, what applies to the inner metaphysical self applies no less to
the
outer metaphysical self, the subego of
that which is
mindfully attuned to the aural willing of the outer metaphysical body,
the
ears, and subconsciously receptive, in consequence, to such outer
metaphysical
spirit as may be at large on the airwaves in the guise, for instance,
of
music. Such truth and joy as exist here,
in this external context, exist for it in relation to outer
metaphysical will
and spirit, not independently of them, and we may be confident that
there will
be more truth than joy in this sensual context of metaphysics than vice
versa,
and therefore more God than Heaven with regard to the subego's
relation to a cycle in which subnatural
will
predominates, as aural willing, over outer metaphysical spirit, and it
is more
logical, in consequence, to adopt an attitude of worshipful deference
to God
than self-realization in Heaven.
468. In
fact, this is what characterizes 'once born' religion, where the
relationship
of self to will is more important than the relationship of self to
spirit, in
view of the greater predominance, externally, of will over spirit, and
where
submission of self to God is accordingly deemed to be the principal
requirement. The emphasis here is on
God, not Heaven, and although a degree of heavenly experience is
possible, it will be subordinate, overall, to the predominating
will, to which the outer metaphysical self inevitably defers in due
worshipful
vein. Only in the 're-born' context of
internal metaphysics will the emphasis be on spirit, and hence Heaven,
for the
experiencing self. As self and will
combined, God is then a means to a heavenly end, not a divine beginning
to be
deferred to from a spiritual end.
469. Now,
obviously, what has been said above of metaphysics, the per
se of religion, applies no less to
physics, chemistry, and metachemistry, as
we tend
away from genuine religion to increasingly 'bovaryized'
forms
of
religion which effectively defer to some alternative disciplinary per
se, be it economic in the case of physics, political in the case of
chemistry, or scientific in the case of metachemistry. In all cases, the connection between the
relevant self and its correlative will and spirit is what makes for the
respective attributes, both powerful and glorious, of the axes or
planes in
question, and in all cases will predominates over spirit in the
external
contexts, but spirit preponderates over will in the internal ones. Thus the emphasis is transferred from man to
the earth in physics, from woman to purgatory in chemistry, and from
the Devil
to Hell in metachemistry, as one moves
from 'once
born' to 're-born' religion.
470. Since
metaphysics can be negative or positive in both external and internal
manifestations, the same of course applies to physics, chemistry, and metachemistry, which means that not only is
there a
positive man/earth but also a negative man/earth, not only a positive
woman/purgatory but also a negative woman/purgatory, not only a
positive
Devil/Hell but also a negative Devil/Hell ... which complements the
negative
God/Heaven of the metaphysical selves when there is insufficient
self-esteem to
lift them beyond scientific and/or political condemnation to an
economic and/or
religious redemption. For, in all
contexts, one is still dealing with the relationship of self to will
and
spirit, whether that self be negative (and particle-dominated) or
positive (and
wavicle-liberated), with due regard to the
contrary
emphases on will or spirit which typify external and internal contexts.
471. Of
course, no-one is completely neutral in their stance before life, least
of all
I. For as a more evolved male, I regard
things from a metaphysical standpoint primarily, which is why I do not
hesitate
to centre my thought in religion and apply religious descriptions or
parallels
to other axes, both lower and contrary, than that to which I
preponderantly
pertain.
472. Yet I
am aware that terms like negative Devil/Hell may not be so forthcoming
to
someone with a predominantly scientific bias, and that his terminology
may
reject religious references altogether in its purely materialistic
concern with
life. In fact, the more scientific the
person, the less likely is he to endorse religious concepts and
definitions
anyway, since he will be rooted in appearances and thus be at the
furthest
possible terminological remove from essences, scarcely even aware, in
the more
extreme cases of scientific partiality, of empirical objectivity, of
their
existence or legitimacy.
473. For
appearance and essence are not, after all, the best of friends, the one
tending, more often than not, to exclude the other as they go about
either
dominating (in appearance's case) or liberating (in essence's case) the
quantitative and qualitative intermediate disciplines that may be
associated,
by and large in worldly fashion, with politics and economics. Now even these more relativistic disciplines
will have a terminological bias and preference of their own which will
tend to
exclude the scientific and/or religious extremes, evaluating life
according to
specifically political or economic descriptions when they are free to
do so,
which is to say, when society is characterized by either a political or
an
economic hegemony, rather than by science and religion instead.
474. Such
a society, it hardly needs emphasizing, will be phenomenal and worldly,
scornful or suspicious of the noumenal and
otherworldly extremes that would subordinate politics and economics to
either a
scientific or a religious hegemony, as the case may be.
At least this would appear to be so in
practice, although, in theory, it is of course fair to say that the
more
masculine type of worldly society, centred in economics, will be
hopeful of
religious salvation in 'Kingdom Come', and thus be open to the
possibility of
otherworldly persuasion. For how else
can the World be honourably overcome ... except through religious
salvation in
'Kingdom Come'? Only those who are too
'bogged down' in worldly interests would be against such an
otherworldly
prospect.
475. When
we examine terms like 'humanism' and 'nonconformism'
in
more
detail, it soon becomes clear that we have a gender distinction
here in
which feminine and masculine alternatives co-exist in uneasy symbiosis,
unequal
partners, so to speak, in a worldly arrangement. There
is
between these terms a
watery/vegetative gulf which makes of the one a finished product and of
the
other a quite unfinished and even demonstrably imperfect product. Humanism conforms, but to what?
The answer, in a nutshell, is to the
punishment of crime, to the maternal nurturing and rearing of
offspring, to the
just condemnation of cruelty, and thus to an opposition of feminine
good to
diabolic (superfeminine to subfeminine)
evil.
476. Humanism
is a finished product compared to nonconformism,
and
I
believe that one can characterize its relationship to the latter as
one of
virtuous immorality vis-à-vis vicious morality.
For even if nonconformism is not as
vicious,
being subjective, as fundamentalism, or crime, nevertheless it is far
from
virtuous, standing in an inferior moral relationship to the grace of
transcendentalism.
477. For
what is
nonconformism, after
all, but the folly of sin, the stupidity of phenomenally subjective
self-indulgence, which we can characterize in masculine terms by dint
of its
vegetative nature. The Nonconformist is,
to put it bluntly, a fool, and thus he can seem to be quite inferior to
the
just punisher of fundamentalist evil, the respectable woman whose
virtuous
immorality, in phenomenal objectivity, is apt to put him in the sinful
shade,
as it proclaims its goodness in due humanist fashion.
478. Ah,
but that is only from the feminine point of view! From
what
might be called the divine
standpoint, however, such a fool has this advantage over 'the good': he
is
closer to wisdom or, at any rate, to the possibility thereof, since
wisdom has
nothing to do with the punishment of evil, but everything to do with
the
forgiveness of folly and the attainment of grace.
479. Transcendentalist
grace it is that stands above nonconformist folly, even unto 'rebirth',
and
this is what gives to the Nonconformist, the sinful man of vegetative
self-indulgence, a hope of better things to come, of a 'better world'
which, in
its otherworldly kindness, would redeem him and deliver him from sin. At least it will if he is not too great a
fool, and thus bereft of any shame for what wisdom calls sin. He must be at least to some extent a
Christian, this Nonconformist, if he is to have any hope of
transcendentalist
redemption and not be all the more vulnerable, by contrast, to the
dominance of
'the good' in their struggle with evil, being effectively roped-in to a
subordinate and self-denigratory position
in relation
to such a struggle.
480. Obviously,
this does happen, and it happens where there is insufficient respect
for or
acknowledgement of wisdom (no matter how imperfectly realized) to
permit 'the
foolish' to turn their back on goodness/evil in pursuance of greater
wisdom or,
at the very least, a reduction of folly.
It happens, in short, to the Nonconformist who, not having
institutionalized access to confession/absolution, is obliged to live
with his
sins and more or less take them for granted.
Such a Nonconformist is more likely to be Anglican than Roman
Catholic.
481. Of
course, there is humanism in Roman Catholicism as in Anglicanism, since
both
denominations pander to womanly goodness in the Marian context of the
'Madonna
and Child', and thus reserve a place for women with regard to the
immoral virtue
of justness, without which they would be more vulnerable to the immoral
vice of
cruelty, and thus be of more trouble to their husbands or menfolk
in general. One cannot blame the Church
for reserving a place for women, even if such a place, necessarily
humanist,
falls short of that which is properly Christian, and hence,
nonconformist,
concerned less with 'an eye for an eye' than with 'turning the other
cheek'.
482. For
Christianity is, of course, fundamentally masculine in its
Christ-centred
devotion to Christian teachings, not the least applicable of which is
the
advice to men to leave women or, at the very least, reduce their
commitments to
women in order to take up the Cross and follow Christ.
For it is folly that leads to wisdom, not
goodness, and nonconformism is thus the
precondition
of transcendentalism and the 'peace that surpasses understanding', the
spirituality, in short, that lies beyond (and above) 'the word'.
483. Christ
offers an alternative to the heathen dominance of men by female powers,
both
good and evil, and this alternative requires a certain awareness by
'the
foolish' of the advantage of wisdom, even if it doesn't absolve them
from folly
but, for the majority of men at all times everywhere in Christendom,
merely
saves them from sensual folly in the phallus to sensible folly in the
brain, of
which 'the word' (of Christ) is an adjunct, the word 'made flesh'
through
Christ.
484. For,
at the end of the day, the cerebral sphere of 're-born' vegetativeness
is still folly, and hence sinful, being a phenomenally subjective
shortfall
from the noumenal subjectivity of
authentic grace in
the spirit of transcendentalist wisdom, the so-called 'peace' that
surpasses
the cerebral understanding. Even
Christian nonconformism is sinful and
hence stupidly
bereft of the spirit. But the 're-born'
Nonconformist can be one who has effectively turned his back on women
to the
extent that he has embraced the higher nonconformism
of 'the word'. And that is significant
in itself!
485. Since
nonconformism within Christianity
appertains, through
Christ, to the vegetative and thus properly masculine aspect of things,
it
follows that bodily representations of Christ on the Cross are
effectively
nonconformist in their vegetative integrity with regard to the flesh,
and that
rejection of the flesh through Christ is what makes one Christian,
inasmuch as
the substitution of cerebral for carnal, or coital, vegetation delivers
one
from 'once born' to 're-born' nature, from sensuality to sensibility,
and
thereby makes possible (though only where there is sufficient supermasculine will) subsequent elevation from
'the word'
to the spirit, the 'peace' that surpasses intellectual 'understanding',
in what
is, compared to aural grace, a 're-born' supernature.
486. However,
in practice, few if any Christians, or Nonconformists, actually achieve
this
supernatural elevation beyond the 're-born' vegetativeness
of the brain, since, as we have found, verbal absolution of sins tends
to be
the word-centred norm, a norm falling demonstrably short of authentic
grace in
what would have to be meditative praxis of an overly transcendentalist
nature
or, rather, supernature ... in due
Buddhist
fashion. The Church remains, for the
most part, 'bogged down' in Christ, in the 'word made flesh', and
cerebral
'rebirth' is accordingly as much as can be expected in terms of
so-called
'salvation from sin', meaning, principally, 'sins of the (phallic)
flesh'. The fact that such a 'rebirth' is
in itself
sinful ... generally passes unnoticed or, at any rate, unremarked
upon.
487. Rather
than get drawn back into that subject again, I should prefer to draw
attention
to the fact that physical representations of Christ on the Cross
confirm a
nonconformist bias in due masculine deference to the vegetative, or
fleshy,
aspect of things - as, incidentally, does celebration of the Mass, in
which the
'body of Christ' is symbolized through recourse to the Eucharistic
wafer.
488. Thus
in both Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism there is ample evidence of
nonconformist
factors such as one would expect from the Christian religion, a
religion in
which folly is apt to get the better of wisdom, sin of grace, if to a
greater
extent in Anglicanism, with its non-confessional habits, than in Roman
Catholicism.
489. But
what, we may wonder, is the case when there is a noticeable absence of
nonconformist factors from religion, as in those denominations which
reject
bodily representations of Christ on the Cross in favour of symbolical
abstraction, the bare Cross itself, and which reject, moreover, the
Mass as
something almost superstitiously beneath them?
490. Is it
not the case that such denominations, paradoxically regarded as
nonconformist
in relation to the Established Church (Anglican in England), are less
disposed to
the vegetative aspect of things and more disposed, by contrast, to
either
watery or fiery alternatives, in due humanist and fundamentalist vein?
491. Are
they not that which has fallen away from masculine folly towards and
actually
into an over-realm, so to speak, of feminine goodness and even, to some
albeit
phenomenally limited extent compared to the noumenal
objectivity of the Behind per
se,
diabolical evil, much as though they were the denominational
equivalents of
Rugby League and Rugby Union vis-à-vis Association Football.
492. Why
is it that their abstract Cross, their fleshless Cross, lends itself in
imagination to one of two suggestions, depending on the denomination
overall -
either to the suggestion of a superimposed feminine figure bearing the
scales
of justice in due process of weighing punishment against crime or, in
the other
case, to the suggestion of a burning Cross, the flames of which
correlate, in
due emotional fashion, with that greater conflagration that would
typify the
fundamentalist Behind, where not the Cross but the Star reigns
diabolically
supreme.
493. Clearly,
the distinction we are drawing between watery and fiery modes of
Protestantism
here is one between Puritanism, in the widest denominational sense of
that
term, and Dissenterism; between Christian
or, more
correctly, pseudo-Christian forms of humanism and fundamentalism that
reflect
quasi-feminine and quasi-diabolic departures from masculine
'straightness'
which, in other contexts, we have characterized as 'bent', and which
suggest a
falling away from Christ towards maternal and paternal or, at any rate,
Creatoresque alternatives, in due heathenistic
vein.
494. Certainly,
it must follow that when water and fire take over from vegetation in
what has,
erroneously in my opinion, become associated with nonconformist
practices, the
result is less than Christian in what amounts to a greater concern with
good
and evil, punishment and crime, at the expense of folly, and thus of
the
nonconformist preoccupation with sin.
The female side of life will predominate at the expense of the
male
side, with effectively anti-Christian (Heathen) consequences. Not only will Nonconformists be trodden
underfoot, but any aspiration towards transcendentalism will likewise
be
opposed, resulting in a situation in which the former, as Anglicans,
are
oppressed, and the latter, as Roman Catholics, excluded from
participation in
what its apologists are fond of identifying with British and, in
particular,
Protestant interests, whether or not under the ruse of solidarity in
each case.
495. So
that which began as a Christian civilization gradually fell away into
schism,
until, by and by, Protestant secularity, founded upon Heathen criteria
of
watery and fiery freedoms, came to dominate society and, where
necessary,
exclude those elements that were still recognizably Christian, and
hence
nonconformist. The male was pissed and
spat upon from more openly humanist and fundamentalist vantage-points,
and he
would either learn to accept the situation in meek submission to
Heathen will,
or continue to oppose it, in defiance of good and evil, with hope of a
better
world to come, paying the penalty of his defiance through
discrimination and
exclusion.
496. Considering
that Anglicanism is nowhere near as Protestant, and therefore
objectively heathenistic in anti-Christian
humanism/fundamentalism, as
Puritanism and Dissenterism in their
separate ways,
it makes sense to regard it as Anglo-Catholicism, since there can be no
question that nonconformist tendencies, in fleshy masculinity,
preponderate
over humanist and fundamentalist ones where this denomination of the
overall
Church is concerned, in consequence of which it adheres to the male and
Christian side of the world, the side we have identified with
vegetation and air,
though especially vegetation, given its preponderantly sinful, and
hence
foolish, nature. Fire and water would be
less elementally characteristic of both Anglican and Roman forms of
Catholicism, which is why they are more genuinely Christian in their
avoidance
or minimization of female objectivity.
The average Anglican may be a bigger fool than the average Roman
Catholic, but at least he is more likely to be a fool than either good
or evil,
in punishing or criminal terms.
497. Consequently,
there can be no doubt that his position as an Anglican in relation to
what I
have customarily described as the triadic Beyond ... of Social
Transcendentalist futurity in 'Kingdom Come' ... should entitle him to
a lower
place than the Roman Catholic but to a higher place than the Puritan,
inasmuch
as we are distinguishing between water, vegetation, and air, or
punishment,
sin, and grace, or humanism, nonconformism,
and
transcendentalism. If I was formerly apt
to regard the Anglican as humanist and subject, in consequence, to a
lowly
status in the triadic hierarchy of 'Kingdom Come' (as I, a
self-professed
Social Transcendentalist, conceived of it), then recent logical
procedures have
since obliged me to modify my perspective and regard him as
predestined,
through denominational conditioning, for a more elevated status than
the
Puritan, given his vegetative nonconformism.
498. Thus,
while the feminine should be brought low, the masculine must be
encouraged to
rise up, rising above watery humanism in nonconformist support of the
airy
transcendentalism that would characterize the top tier of our projected
triadic
Beyond, a tier reserved for persons of Roman Catholic descent, bearing
in mind
that such phenomenalized grace as had
imperfectly,
through verbal absolution of confessed sins, accrued to Roman
Catholicism ...
would entitle its traditional devotees to the benefit, where
applicable, of
authentic grace in the full-blown transcendentalism, as it were, of the
third
and highest tier of the Beyond in question, subdivisible,
as
with
the other tiers, into supermasculine,
masculine, and feminine sections, according to aptitude and gender.
499. For
just as there must be quasi-nonconformist and quasi-humanist
subdivisions of
the transcendentalist tier (reserved to persons of Roman Catholic
descent), so
there should be quasi-transcendentalist and quasi-humanist subdivisions
of the
nonconformist tier (reserved to persons of Anglican descent), and
quasi-transcendentalist and quasi-nonconformist subdivisions
of the humanist tier (reserved to persons of Puritan descent, as well
as to
repentant Dissenters), in order to ensure that everyone is religiously
served
according to his/her capacities and predispositions.
500. Hence,
we may now establish, with enhanced logical certitude, that the triadic
Beyond
of 'Kingdom Come', if and when it finally comes to pass, will ascend
from
persons of Protestant descent to persons of Roman Catholic descent via
persons
of Anglo-Catholic descent in due humanist, nonconformist, and
transcendentalist
vein overall. There will be no fiery
fundamentalism in this triadic Beyond, but only watery, vegetative, and
airy
parallels, as befitting the attainment of Eternity (by Mass, Volume,
and Space)
at Time's predatory expense.