CYCLE TWENTY-ONE
1. If the nineteenth century could be said to have
reflected a North/South axis, as between Europe and Africa, then the twentieth
century took the concept of an East/West axis to heart, not simply in terms of,
say, Asia vis-à-vis America but, more comprehensively, in terms of Asia
vis-à-vis Western civilization in general.
2. We think rather more in terms of East and
West than of North and South, but, in actuality, the age is far from being one
in which their elemental equivalents, air and fire, are the principal elements,
with water and vegetation of a comparatively subordinate status.
3. Western democracy is a distinctly phenomenal
ideology in its worldly relativity, not a noumenal
one, and consequently water and vegetation are the prevailing elements, with
4. Fire and air are less characteristic of
Western civilization, with its feminine/masculine distinction between watery
bureaucracy (parliamentarianism) and vegetative democracy (republicanism).
5. The lower class
elements rule the age, and it could be said that 'the meek' have accordingly
'inherited the earth'.
6. Of course, this is not true of the whole
earth, since there are still examples of autocracy and, for want of a better
word, theocracy even now, not least of all in so-called Third World countries
and in some traditionally Second World ones, like Russia. It is doubtful that all of the earth could be
brought to an ideology which is demonstrably lower class (and, for that matter,
lower case) in its volume/mass phenomenality; for, at
the end of the day, fire and air, loosely corresponding to the Devil and God,
are still factors to be reckoned with, and there is no reason why either of
them should necessarily wish to 'sell out' to water or vegetation, and
accordingly make the earth 'safe' for the 'little people' down below for ever
more.
7. Even on a racial basis, it is hardly likely
that Reds and Yellows will opt to become or change places with Whites and
Blacks respectively, quite apart from cultural or ideological factors. The world is a more complex place than some
people would have us believe, and we underestimate this at our peril!
8. Hence when hard-line democrats seek to
democratize the entire world, the whole earth, they are being as meddlesome and
unreasonable as those committed Christians who would like to reduce the planet
to Christianity, riding roughshod, with crusader-like zeal, over Hinduism,
Buddhism, Judaism, and Mohammedanism, as if such religions didn't matter or
were somehow inferior to 'the true religion' which some Christians foolishly
imagine Christianity to be!
9. Meddling where one doesn't belong is not only
insulting to those who are meddled with in this way; it is counter-productive
and apt to backfire on one, reducing one's own self-esteem in proportion.
10. Were democracy to triumph over the whole
world, it would be as monstrously incredible as if Christianity had just done
so. The world cannot be reduced to black
and white, neither racially or on any other basis. Its comprehensiveness requires a correspondingly
comprehensive approach.
11. Liberal democracy is not the consummation of
history. Rather, religion of a
non-theistic persuasion is, a sort of personal
transcendentalism in which people turn inwards and away from all worshipful
deference to Creators or Fathers or cosmic First Movers, in the interests of
self-realization.
12. The 'love of God' theism is simply the
fundamentalism that lies barbarously behind and/or contrary to all
civilization, nature, culture, in what is the most basic and primitive approach
to religion, a religion that, being more barbarous than cultural, lives in the
shadow of science, and is no more than a propagator of superstitious delusion.
13. We need to get clear of this pseudo-religion, though
not of religion itself, since religion is one of those disciplines that, like
science, politics, and economics, can be constantly renewed to suit the
changing times and in response, more particularly, to the development of fresh
insights.
14. There is a big difference between burying an
old religion and burying religion altogether, and only
a devil would want to do the latter.
15. But then there are devils who
cling to pseudo-religion, with its Creator-based primitivity,
and fob the Devil off as God, so that what is genuinely divine remains 'beyond
the pale', and more likely to be regarded as evil or devilish in consequence!
16. This is not only a West/East thing, a sort of
barbarous/cultural division, but also fundamentally a gender problem, with females
more given, as a rule, to a divine view of themselves than to the contrary, so
that their delusional criteria are likely to - and in the West actually do -
subvert the truth, or what, at any rate, would be factually nearer the mark.
17. Thus the wand-brandishing fairy at the top of
the Christmas tree 'cuts it' as God or as the symbol of angelic divinity, as,
needless to say, does the Statue of Liberty, the Columbia Broadcasting Pictures
icon, and a host of other cultural manifestations of superfeminine
primacy, not excepting the paradoxical concept of the Risen Virgin, complete
with stars behind Her head, Who rules the cosmic roost and can only be
synonymous with Jehovah, the Creator, the First Mover, and other such concepts
of noumenal objectivity, with particular reference,
in this instance, to spatial space, the outer manifestation of space-time
materialism in which the metachemical flight of
Cupid's arrow has its optical origin.
18. It is this Cupidian
axis of space-time objectivity which is commensurate with theism, with the
worship of the Devil as God; for fire is its prevailing element and such a
basic element, falling female-wise from eyes to heart in sensuality and
sensibility, is at cross-purposes with the divine element of air, the transcendental
element that rises, in male evolution, from ears to lungs, and which can only
be fully and properly deferred to when there is little or no respect for its
evil antithesis, and no official place, in consequence, for the metachemical flight of Cupid's arrow.
19. Atheism is noble when it is committed to the
pursuit of joy through truth, for then it is truly godly in its rejection,
implicitly or explicitly, of Devil-mongering fundamentalism, the space-time
'God' Whose fire would barbarously stand in the way of the path to true
culture.
