CYCLE TWENTY
1. Just as there are four elements, viz. fire,
water, vegetation (earth), and air, so there are four general racial divisions
on the planet, viz. red, white, black, and yellow, traditionally corresponding
to the American
2. There are also, I believe, four afterlife Beyonds germane to each of these elemental/racial
divisions, viz. Beyonds of fiery emotionality, watery
instinctuality, vegetative intellectuality, and airy
spirituality, the first Afterlife corresponding to funeral pyres and/or
cremation of the Dead; the second and third Afterlives corresponding to
visionary and verbally-conditioned forms of cerebral contemplation; and the
fourth Afterlife corresponding to ethereal transcendence.
3. Briefly, the fiery Afterlife corresponds to
Hell, the watery Afterlife to Purgatory, the vegetative Afterlife to Earth, and
the airy Afterlife to Heaven. The first
is diabolic, the second feminine; the third is masculine, the fourth divine.
4. In general terms, I would argue that the red
man is culturally more prone to the fiery Afterlife than to any other, that the
white man is culturally more prone to the watery Afterlife, the black man to
the vegetative Afterlife, and the yellow man to the airy Afterlife.
5. The European West,
under Christianity, has traditionally placed more emphasis on the watery and/or
vegetative types of Afterlife than on either fiery or airy kinds of afterlife
experience.
6. The watery
Afterlife, characterized by monolithic visionary experience, is effectively
Marian and hence pseudo-Heathen (humanist).
7. The vegetative
Afterlife, characterized by verbally-conditioned imagery, is effectively Christic and hence properly Christian (nonconformist).
8. In culturally
technological terms, one could argue that television is a watery parallel to
the feminine, or Marian, Afterlife, whereas computing is a vegetative parallel
to the masculine, or Christic, Afterlife.
9. This is because
television is largely visionary, since based around images, whereas the imagery
of computers is largely based on verbal concepts. There is therefore a kind of
feminine/masculine distinction between televisions and computers.
10. Most Christians, being habituated to phenomenal
criteria in Volume and Mass, would have experienced one or other of the
contemplative forms of afterlife experience traditionally, and thus have
effectively seen Mary or Jesus 'face to face', so to speak, in the grave.
11. Comparatively few Christians or, at any rate,
Western people would have experienced either the fiery afterlife of Hell or the
airy afterlife of Heaven, since Hell and Heaven pertain to noumenal
criteria, not to the phenomenal criteria to which Christianity, centred in
Christ, relatively defers in due purgatorial (if humanist) or earthly (if
nonconformist) manner.
12. The notion of
ancestral spirits is much more germane to the
13. Conversely, the West's avoidance or neglect of
transcendental meditation and insistence, instead, upon verbally-conditioned
prayer ... has kept most people pegged down to the phenomenal planes, and thus
to the likelihood of a contemplative Afterlife in the grave.
14. If one cannot consciously make it out of the
body at death as spirit, one will simply remain welled-up in the body at either
instinctual or intellectual removes from the possibility of true spirituality.
15. Christ Himself would not have 'arisen from the
tomb on the Third Day' after having died and been buried. You either arise on the threshold of death
and make it out into the air as spirit or succumb to phenomenal selfhood in one
or other forms of inner contemplation, which is then more fully experienced,
barring cremation, in the grave. Thus if
Christ arose, it would have been long before they buried Him, not three days
later!
16. My own feeling about Christ is that, being
more partial to 'the word' than to the breath, He would have been less likely
to achieve spiritual liberation from the phenomenal plane than to remain in
cerebral identification with it, and thus succumb to a contemplative Afterlife
in the tomb: the sort of prospect with which the majority of Christian males
identify when they look forward to seeing Christ 'face to face' in the
Afterlife, i.e. to experiencing verbally-conditioned inner light for
themselves.
17. No, Christ gives one no grounds for any great
optimism that He became a ghost at death, particularly in view of the woeful
absence of true spiritual instruction from Him with regard, for example, to
transcendental meditation and the necessity, in consequence, of regular and
sustained periods of conscious breathing exercises.
18. It is precisely because of His intellectual
commitment to 'the word', to His teachings, that Christ is remembered and
honoured by Christians, who likewise 'fight shy' of true spirituality in
relation to the breath.
19. Neither are they
given any encouragement by the Pope to meditate instead of to pray.
20. Christianity remains a phenomenal and
therefore lower-class religion that bogs down in Volume and Mass to the
detriment, if not exclusion, of Time and Space.
People can pray, because praying is intellectual or, at any rate, a
religious mode of cogitation, but meditation would be buddhistically
'beyond the pale' and somewhat atheistic in its indifference to, if not
rejection of, the sort of Cosmos-based primitive Godhead more usually
associated with the notion of 'Creator'.
21. Thus the Church, beholden to Biblical
convention, will grant transcendental meditation scant approval, preferring to
keep people enslaved to the false divinity of 'the Creator' than to encourage
their liberation, beyond Christ, through true divinity.
22. The Church is stuck with Christ and His
Father-oriented fundamentalism, beholden to 'the word' which twists
spirituality, to the limited extent that it recognizes any, back and away from
the air towards the fire, making a pact with the Devil its cornerstone and
guarantor of institutional survival.
23. Even the cassocks so beloved by the clergy are
patently a reflection of the extent to which the Church remains rooted in
space-time metachemistry, the noumenal
objectivity of which, directly diverging and/or converging, is therein
symbolized in dress-like fashion.
24. The water of Western civilization defers,
through Christ, to the fire of the Middle-Eastern barbarism from which it sprang,
and the Mid-Eastern barbarism of the Old Testament was itself derived, in no
small part, from the Eastern barbarism of Hindu precedence, wherein the Cosmos
was more blatantly worshipped and even aspired towards, with stellar dominion
over the solar realm accepted at a grosser level than even the Jews were
prepared to countenance, come the Davidian
reformation of Mosaic fundamentalism.
25. Yet the Far East was to develop Buddhist
airiness in contrast to Hindu fieriness, and went on to cultivate the true
spirituality which made the achievement of ancestral spirits so much more
characteristic of its Afterlife than of the West's or, for that matter, the Aryan
East's.
26. Doubtless, environment as a product of climate
was, and still is, a major contributory factor in the development of one
elemental bias, religion, or Afterlife rather than another. People are not necessarily to blame for their
various conditions, which is why the compassionate toleration of differences
remains of crucial significance.
