Genuine and Pseudo
Axial Antitheses. Having distinguished between genuine and
pseudo modes of the noumenal and the phenomenal in
the previous entry, not least in respect of the distinction between worldly and
post-worldly ages, I should add that this is in no way identical to the more
intrinsic distinctions between genuine and pseudo which exist on an axial basis
between church-hegemonic/state-subordinate criteria and, conversely,
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate criteria, where, irrespective of era, a
fundamental distinction between genuine sin and grace in relation, somatically,
to genuine folly and wisdom has to be distinguished from its pseudo counterpart
within the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis, just as, conversely, the
fundamental distinction between genuine evil and good in relation, psychically,
to genuine crime and punishment has to be distinguished from its pseudo
counterpart within the church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis. For what
is true of the one axis is manifestly not true of the other. In other
words, what is genuine on the one axis will be pseudo on the other, the
distinctions between genuine sin and genuine grace and pseudo-sin and pseudo-grace
where church-hegemonic and church-subordinate axial criteria are respectively
concerned being a case in point, as, to reverse the axial standpoint, are the
distinctions between genuine evil and genuine good and pseudo-evil and
pseudo-good in relation to state-hegemonic and state-subordinate axial criteria
respectively, neither axis being compatible with the other because antithetical
in virtually every respect. Therefore much as we have to allow for
worldly and post-worldly distinctions between the genuine and the pseudo, these
still exist in conjunction with the rather more fundamental distinctions
inhering to either axis which are simply a reflection, after all, of the
dichotomy between a genuine church coupled to a pseudo state and a genuine
state coupled to a pseudo church, whether in the phenomenal or in the noumenal. But, of course, the positions of the
respective axes are modified by epochal or historical factors, as described in
some detail in several of the mature texts in Opera D’Oeuvre,
my collected writings. For instance, the establishment of pseudo-chemical
and pseudo-antiphysical positions at the expense of
traditional chemical and antiphysical positions at
the southwest point of the axial compass is due in large part to the
impositions, from the northwest point of the compass in question, of metachemical and antimetaphysical
liberties of a somatic nature which ensure that what was formerly antiphysically sinful and foolish becomes, under antimetaphysical pressure, quasi-pseudo-sinful and quasi-pseudo-foolish,
pseudo-sin and pseudo-folly typifying the antimetaphysical
position in respect of bound psyche and free soma, while likewise ensuring that
was what formerly chemically pseudo-criminal and pseudo-evil becomes, under metachemical pressure, quasi-criminal and quasi-evil or, in
quasi-state-hegemonic/church-subordinate vein, quasi-evil and quasi-criminal,
evil and crime typifying the metachemical position in
respect of free soma and bound psyche. Therefore while the genuine
sensually phenomenal positions at the southwest point of the axial compass have
effectively been overhauled and eclipsed by their post-worldly pseudo
successors, they are still distinct from anything either pseudo-foolish and
pseudo-sinful in antimetaphysics or genuinely evil
and genuinely criminal in metachemistry, being simply
the quasi-state-hegemonic/church-subordinate transmutation of genuinely
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate criteria which, ever distinct from metachemistry and antimetaphysics,
will be merely quasi-evil and quasi-criminal in relation to pseudo-chemistry,
and quasi-pseudo-foolish and quasi-pseudo-sinful in relation to pseudo-antiphysics. Yet it is precisely in that paradoxical
straining towards the northwest point of the axial compass that the transmuted
southwest point, now more democratically and somatically free than ever before,
finds itself in a pseudo-worldly situation which requires to be delivered from
its paradoxical predicament via an equally paradoxical utilization of those
very same democratic freedoms which are not germane to
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate criteria but a consequence, in large
measure, of state-hegemonic/church-subordinate cultural imperialism from
without, in order that the people concerned may be returned, progressively, to
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate criteria in the event of a majority mandate
for religious sovereignty and be delivered, in terms of salvation (males) and
counter-damnation (females), from those who now prey upon them in such
unabashedly metachemical and antimetaphysical
vein, twisting them from the path of righteousness and, for females,
counter-justice to the pit of vanity and, for males, pseudo-meekness or, in
other words, to all that is unjust and unrighteous. Only the application,
within countries like the