BRINGING THE JUDGEMENT
(With Social Transcendentalism)
Cyclic Philosophy
Copyright © 2000–12 John O'Loughlin
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CYCLE ONE
1. Whereas the Irish are socially extrovert and
culturally introvert, the British - and in particular the English - are
socially introvert and culturally extrovert.
2. Hard to escape the impression that the
expression 'go to hell' is all too applicable to what one does when one turns
on the television.
3. Except for stanza-divisible poetry and
aphoristic philosophy, all other literary genres - including free verse and
essays - are lower class, i.e. phenomenal.
4. Drama and fiction stand in between poetry and
philosophy like water and vegetation (earth) in between fire and air.
5. In such fashion they are akin to strength
and knowledge in between beauty and truth.
6. One can divide the day, which, as everyone
will know, is composed of twenty-four hours, into four distinct periods,
corresponding to the elements, of six hours, viz. from midnight till six
o'clock, the fiery period of beauty; from six o'clock till noon, the watery
period of strength; from noon till six o'clock in the evening, the vegetative period
of knowledge; and from six o'clock till midnight, the airy period of truth.
7. Since I conceive of fire and water as
corresponding, on account of their objectivity, to the female side of life, and
of vegetation and air, their subjective counterparts, as corresponding to its
male side, it behoves me to consider the first half of the day, viz. from
midnight till noon as in some sense female, and the second half of the day,
viz. from noon till midnight, as in some sense male, since it is then that not beauty
and strength but knowledge and truth are more in their element, or so it seems
to me.
CYCLE TWO
1. What is truth? Such a question has been raised before, and
few if any persons have answered it truthfully.
Here, to be best of my knowledge, is my answer. Truth is metaphysical knowledge, and
metaphysical knowledge is knowledge about God and the means whereby God can be
redeemed and/or resurrected in relation to what has been called Heaven.
2. Truth can be sensual (and 'once born') or
sensible (and 'reborn'), outer or inner, but the best, most definitive truth
will be sensible, standing as metaphysical salvation (from sensuality to
sensibility). Inner metaphysical truth,
as we shall call the sensible variety, centres on the ego that is aware of the
importance of the breath - and particularly the out-breath - in enabling it to
transcend itself in relation to the soul, specifically the inner metaphysical
soul, which is its redemption. Such an
ego, the ego, I have argued in the past, of a primary deity - call it 'the Son'
for convenience's sake - must needs utilize the will of the relevant not-self,
in this case inner metaphysical, in order not only to identify with the breath,
self with selflessness, but to be borne out by it in due process of so identifying. Therefore the relevant not-self (to the inner
metaphysical context) being the lungs, the ego-self of the primary deity
plunges its awareness into the wilful, or will-based, not-self of the lungs -
the secondary deity whom, again for convenience's sake, we shall call 'the
Father' - and allows this awareness to be transported on the wings, so to
speak, of the breath, the secondary heaven of the Holy Spirit. But at some point in its outward-tending
transportation the ego-self must recoil from the threat of self-destruction
which the selflessness of the Holy Spirit, issuing from the not-self, poses to
it, and in such recoil, as from one extreme to another, it achieves a
profounder experience of self than would otherwise have been possible. This profounder experience we call the soul,
and in the elemental context in question, that of metaphysical sensibility, it
becomes the holy soul of a primary heaven, the redemption - and resurrection -
of the primary God, viz. the ego-self.
3. Thus truth teaches us that not only is God
someone to be redeemed in something, namely Heaven, but that 'the Son', being
primary, can only be redeemed via the secondary God and Heaven of 'the Father'
and the 'Holy Spirit'. For without
recoil from the out-flowing breath which issues from the lungs, there can be no
profounder experience of self, as soul, for the ego in question. Such is the logic of inner metaphysical
truth, and it is this knowledge which paves the way for religious praxis, as
self returns to ego, its fulcrum, and plunges anew into inner metaphysical
spirit via the relevant will, thereby sustaining a cyclical procedure for the
duration of what can be called transcendental meditation.
4. Thus the man of truth, a philosopher, will
know that truth is of no consequence until it is redeemed in joy, and that the
redemption of truth in joy is the raison d'être of truth, as of
philosophy, without which there could be no metaphysical joy. Philosophy theorizes, religion, if true, puts
the theory into practice, so that what results is surely God and Heaven, the
practical fulfilment or realization of truth and joy. How few religions there are, or have been,
which do as much justice to God and Heaven!
Most remain lamentably moored to some primitive concept of God and
Heaven which is not even truthful in an outer and sensual sense but merely
illusory, having reference to cosmic Creation.
They mistake the primal for the supreme, the negative for the positive,
the inorganic for the organic, and science for religion, in consequence of
which people come to regard religion as something pertaining to the beginning
of things rather than to their end or most evolved manifestation! They remain tied to the Cosmos as to the
apron strings of a grandmother long after they should have grown up to full
independence of such craven servility!
Yet full independence can only come through such truth as I have
outlined in this text, not via some intermediate avatar, some half-way house,
so to speak, who, besides not knowing what truth is, has been all too often
identified with a guide to falling in line with the Creator, or Cosmos, rather
than as a bridge to some higher, more advanced devotion still to come. Small wonder that intelligent people find
little or nothing to console them in the Church that bears the name of Christ!
5. Christianity speaks of the 'Three in One',
the three 'Persons' of the Trinity, but really there are only two, since the
Holy Spirit is not a God but a state of Heaven, a secondary mode of Heaven
which stands to the primary mode, the Holy Soul, as the breath to the soul,
metaphysical selflessness to the essence of metaphysical self. Thus the concept of Gods the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit is deeply flawed, as, in a sense, is the identification of
the components of the so-called Blessed Trinity with 'Persons'. For, quite apart from the fact that Heaven is
not God but the redemption of God, the resurrection of God in the primary
context, God is not personal, or of the person, but universal, which is to say,
noumenal rather than phenomenal, of space and/or time as opposed to volume
and/or mass. Which does not preclude, however, the identification of God,
whether in primary or in secondary terms, with a higher kind of man -
necessarily upper-class and ... metaphysical.
For ‘universal’ is not synonymous with 'cosmic', as though germane to
the Universe. On the contrary, it is
that which stands to the cosmic as supremacy to primacy, positivity to
negativity, and the organic to the inorganic.
6. Ultimately, God depends on Heaven for his
redemption. Without Heaven, God would be
pointless. Hence only the Holy Soul (of
Heaven) redeems God the Son, viz. the metaphysical ego, just as only the Holy
Spirit (of Heaven) redeems God the Father, viz. the metaphysical will. Lungs would be pointless without the
breath. Just so, the metaphysical
knowledge (truth) of the primary god would be pointless without the
metaphysical happiness (joy) of the primary heaven. In fact, metaphysical soul is the resurrection
of metaphysical ego, the resurrection, in other words, of ‘the Son'.
7. Christianity is a religion of the People, a
religion that would seem to be expressly designed for the lower classes, who
can have just so much religion, according to what the Church allows, but no
more! It is as if, being lower class,
the People don't need genuine religion, since it would be largely irrelevant to
them. What interest can the People
possibly have in religious truth, the truth-of-truths, when their lives
revolve, for the most part, around strength and knowledge?
8. Only a certain type of higher man, a godly
subman, who is deeper (and higher) than the People, will have any interest in
metaphysical truth. Such a man will tend
to be 'his own man', self-possessed and, to a large extent,
self-motivated. He will not be
accustomed to obeying others, to having a boss to tell him what to do, and
consequently he can take the concept and, indeed, actuality (within certain
devotional circumstances) of 'God within the self' seriously.
9. When, on the contrary, one is comparatively
selfless, dependent on external authority, then it stands to reason that the
nature of one's lifestyle, necessarily working class, will determine to a
greater or lesser extent one's susceptibility to 'external gods', to gods
corresponding, in no small degree, to the managers or governors who rule over
one. This suffices to explain the
People's susceptibility to state religion.
CYCLE THREE
1. The ego exists in all four elemental
contexts, where it is commensurate with form and thus knowledge. That ego which is metachemical will have
knowledge of the Devil, which is beauty.
2. That ego which is chemical will have
knowledge of woman, which is strength.
3. That ego which is physical will have knowledge
of man, which is knowledge per se.
4. That ego which is metaphysical will have
knowledge of God, which is truth.
5. Contrary to the above, that ego which is
negatively metachemical will have ignorance of the Devil, which is ugliness.
6. That ego which is negatively chemical will
have ignorance of woman, which is weakness.
7. That ego which is negatively physical will
have ignorance of man, which is ignorance per se.
8. That ego which is negatively metaphysical will
have ignorance of God, which is falsity (illusion).
9. Alternatively, one could differentiate
between the ignorance of the Antidevil, antiwoman, antiman, and the Antigod,
and the knowledge of the Devil, woman, man, and God.
10. It is important to understand that God and
the Devil (or the Antigod and the Antidevil) are higher types of persons,
upper-class persons, and not completely distinct from mankind. For mankind are divisible between the
lower-class commonality of men and women, and the upper-class nobility of
devils and gods.
11. Just so, the generality of people are
divisible between strength and knowledge (and/or weakness and ignorance), while
a smaller number of persons, corresponding to an elite, are divisible between
beauty and truth (and/or ugliness and falsity).
12. Generally speaking, beauty and strength are
female attributes, knowledge and truth male ones, since the female side of
life, rooted in a vacuum, is ever objective, whereas its male side, centred in
a plenum, is ever subjective, and therefore the division in question is between
appearance and quantity on the one hand, and quality and essence on the other
hand.
13. The female side of life, being objective, is
primary, like fire and water, whereas the male side of it, being subjective, is
secondary, like vegetation (earth) and air.
14. That which is objective diverges (in
sensuality) and/or converges (in sensibility) on a direct, or straight-line,
basis.
15. That which is subjective diverges (in
sensuality) and/or converges (in sensibility) on an indirect, or curved-line,
basis.
16. The female side of life, being primary, is
more aggressive than its male side, just as fire and water are more aggressive
than vegetation and air.
17. An aggressive country or people will have a
female bias, in which heathenistic criteria, properly appertaining to
sensuality, will be paramount.
18. An unaggressive country or people will have a
male bias, in which Christian or Christian-type criteria, properly appertaining
to sensibility, will be paramount.
CYCLE FOUR
1. Theory of smoking loosely based on the
elements, viz. the noumenal objectivity of pipe smoking as that mode of smoking
which most correlates with fire; the phenomenal objectivity of roll-up smoking as
that mode of smoking which most correlates with water; the phenomenal
subjectivity of cigarette smoking as that mode of smoking which most correlates
with vegetation; the noumenal subjectivity of cigar smoking as that mode of
smoking which most correlates with air.
2. Hence a distinction between a female
approach to smoking, in which a certain objective looseness is demonstrable,
and a male approach to smoking in which, by contrast, subjective binding is
chiefly characteristic. Pipes and
roll-ups vis-à-vis cigarettes and cigars.
3. It may also be possible to distinguish,
comparatively speaking, between sensuality and sensibility in every elemental
context, with, say, straight pipes and drop-bowl pipes characterizing what may
be called the metachemical approach to smoking; plain roll-ups and 'joints'
typifying the chemical approach to smoking;
untipped cigarettes and filter cigarettes characterizing the physical
approach to smoking; squat cigars and thin cigars typifying the metaphysical
approach to smoking, and other such variations on a common theme.
4. One would, as a smoker, be saved from
sensuality to sensibility in the case of cigarettes and cigars, but damned from
sensuality to sensibility in the case of pipes and roll-ups, since the male
side of life tends to exemplify a sensible salvation (from the curse of
subjective sensuality), while the female side of life tends to confirm a
sensible damnation (from the blessing of objective sensuality), the male side
rising diagonally through two contiguous planes and the female side falling
diagonally through two such planes, albeit the planes in question be objective
rather than subjective.
5. All this is of course relative to the
context of smoking, which, no matter how sensible, or what the approximate elemental
correlation, remains fundamentally metachemical and, hence, fiery, not truly
watery, vegetative, or airy.
6. Making such comparative distinctions, it
would be feasible - if not particularly tasteful - to distinguish pipe-smoking
'jerks' from roll-up-smoking 'cunts' on the female, or objective, side of the
smoking divide, and to further distinguish these looser individuals from their
male-oriented counterparts, whose subjective binding induces one to rather
slangfully differentiate between cigarette-smoking 'pricks' and cigar-smoking
'bums'.
7. Hence an overall distinction between
pipe-smoking 'jerks'/roll-up-smoking 'cunts' and cigarette-smoking
'pricks'/cigar-smoking 'bums', as between noumenal and phenomenal
objectivity/phenomenal and noumenal subjectivity.
8. An approximate sartorial parallel to the
above would be dresses and skirts vis-à-vis trousers and zippersuits, the
objective looseness of the female attire contrasting with the subjective
binding of the male attire.
CYCLE FIVE
1. All the elements kill when they go on the
rampage. Fire kills in the form not
least of all of volcanic eruptions, spewing out molten lava from the turbulent
bowels of the earth. Water kills not
least of all in the form of floods, overflowing banks and carrying away
whatever stands in its path. Earth
(vegetation) kills not least of all in the form of earthquakes, bringing
civilization to its knees as it shatters the foundations of buildings and rips
infrastructures apart. Air kills not
least of all in the form of tornadoes or hurricanes, leaving a trail of havoc
in the wake of its devastating advance.
2. Nature kills indiscriminately when the world
is rocked by volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, and tornadoes. The violence of nature knows no bounds and
no-one is ever entirely safe from the threat or actuality of natural
violence. We live, believe it or not, on
a very dangerous planet, a planet which turns, from time to time, upon both
mankind and the animal kind with the full ferocity of its pent-up forces.
3. Yet still there are idiots and fools whose
basic concept of God is one derived from the Old Testament or equivalent
sources in which God is conceived, in typically primitive vein, as 'Creator', and
not just as Creator of this planet and all life on it but, more preposterously,
as Creator of the Universe, meaning the Cosmos in general! How much longer will we have to endure the
primitivity of these simple folk or, more insidiously, of the priests who rule
over them!
4. All that is cosmic, and therefore basic, is
grossly inferior to even the least of human beings. That which is organic has grown out of the
inorganic, whether on a devolved basis due to objectivity or, alternatively, on
an evolved basis due to subjectivity. Whereas the cosmic/geologic foundation is
primal in its negativity, the personal/universal offshoot is supreme in its
positivity. Hence the impossibility of
attributing supremacy to the Cosmos.
5. One can certainly attribute primal being to
that aspect of the Cosmos corresponding to a subjective orientation, like the
Sun and the planet Saturn, but anything corresponding, by contrast, to an
objective orientation would, in its female bias, equate with primal doing,
whether in terms of stellar sensuality or Venusian sensibility.
6. And it is the objective-oriented cosmic
noumena which precede the subjective-oriented noumena, primal doing preceding
primal being, not vice versa, so that, strictly speaking, it is a sort of
primitive, or negative, devil preceding an equally primitive god, the female
mode of cosmic noumena preceding its male mode.
7. In neither context would there be anything
supreme, and therefore all references to a so-called 'Supreme Being' behind
cosmic Creation are delusory and deserve to be both exposed and, more
importantly, rejected as unworthy of enlightened minds. Such references are in fact the fruit of
ignorance.
8. Even Voltaire, that in many ways truly
insightful philosopher, was a simple Creator-slavering deist or, more
correctly, theist whose woefully primitivistic and hyped notion of God as
Creator and Supreme Being could hardly ingratiate him to those of us who
identify with a post-Christian rather than a pre-Christian interpretation of
deity. In that respect, he was little
different from Hitler!
9. Sartre would not have been impressed with
Voltaire's deity, and although he didn't go particularly far in developing a
higher and truer concept of deity, he paved the way for those, such as I, who
were able to view his humanistic atheism as a springboard to better things.
10. Out of existentialist humanism I have
developed Social Transcendentalism, which takes man to God or, rather, brings
the concept of God to the level of the higher man, the man capable of
meditating and so of identifying his ego with metaphysics, becoming, in the
process, 'the Son', the primary deity whose redemption lies in the primary
heaven of the Holy Soul. I call this man
a subman, for he is beyond man in the mass and/or volume of vegetative physics.
CYCLE SIX
1. Before there can be metaphysical being, the
being-of-beings or soul-of-souls, there must firstly be metaphysical taking,
the second-rate taking of the subhuman ego, the primary deity, in short, of
'the Son'. For Heaven is dependent upon
God for its existence, no less than God is dependent upon Heaven for His
redemption and, in some sense, resurrection.
One can't have one without the other.
2. Nor can metaphysical taking get to
metaphysical being without the assistance of both metaphysical doing and
metaphysical giving, the fourth-rate doing of the subnatural will, the
secondary deity, in short, of 'the Father', and the third-rate giving of the
subastral spirit, the secondary heaven, in other words, of 'the Holy Spirit'. For the metaphysical taking that is not
stretched out on a kind of psychic limb by metaphysical giving will not recoil
to self more profoundly, and before such a taking can be stretched out it must
first pass through the metaphysical doing of that whose respiratory will powers
the breath in the first place.
3. Thus metaphysical taking achieves
metaphysical being for itself, whether in sensuality or sensibility, via the
assistance, consciously entered into, of both metaphysical doing and
metaphysical giving, and such metaphysical being is a first-rate order of soul,
the soul in its per se manifestation which is the goal and fulfilment of the
genuinely religious quest, as pursued by those higher men who are identifiable
with a primary order of divinity. Supreme
being exists as soulful experience in all positive elemental contexts, but only
in the metaphysical context will it be first-rate and therefore joyful.
4. In the physical context, the supreme being of
the soul will be second-rate and therefore pleasurable, while, across the other
side of the gender fence, the supreme being of the chemical context will be
third-rate and therefore proud, and the supreme being of the metachemical
context above and behind this will be fourth-rate and therefore loving, the
soul of love as opposed to the souls of pride, of pleasure, and of joy.
5. Likewise if the supreme taking of the
metaphysical context is second-rate, then the supreme taking, in ego, of the
physical context is first-rate, the supreme taking of the chemical context
fourth-rate, and the supreme taking of the metachemical context third-rate.
6. Conversely if the supreme giving of the
metaphysical context is third-rate, then the supreme giving, in spirit, of the
physical context is fourth-rate, the supreme giving of the chemical context
first-rate, and the supreme giving of the metachemical context second-rate.
7. Finally if the supreme doing of the
metaphysical context is fourth-rate, then the supreme doing, in will, of the
physical context is third-rate, the supreme doing of the chemical context
second-rate, and the supreme doing of the metachemical context first-rate.
8. Hence it transpires that, in metaphysics,
the achievement of first-rate being is only possible on the basis of
second-rate taking, third-rate giving, and fourth-rate doing; that, in physics,
the achievement or, rather, maintenance of first-rate taking is only possible
on the basis of second-rate being, third-rate doing, and fourth-rate giving;
that, in chemistry, the maintenance of first-rate giving is only possible on
the basis of second-rate doing, third-rate being, and fourth-rate taking; that,
in metachemistry, the maintenance of first-rate doing is only possible on the
basis of second-rate giving, third-rate taking, and fourth-rate being.
9. Only in metaphysics is being, and therefore
soul, an end. In physics, by comparison,
taking, and therefore ego, is an end or, rather, a mean (for the ego is not a
genuine end), while in chemistry, by contrast, giving, and therefore spirit, is
a mean, and in metachemistry doing, and therefore will, is a mean, the latter
of which, like spirit and particularly ego, tends to be turned into a false end
by dint of being falsely identified with an end.
10. A disciplinary parallel to the above would be
making science an end rather than a means to a political (yet still
comparatively false) end. Likewise
politics can become an end (necessarily false from a male standpoint) by dint
of the female criteria attaching to chemistry as a solution to the problem of
metachemistry and the extent to which, particularly in the West traditionally,
spirituality has been religiously hyped and virtually identified with the
religious mean.
11. Economics, too, can be falsely turned into an
end rather than used as a means to a religious end, particularly when religion
is falsely sealed off at the level of vegetative physics in what amounts to a
too Christ-centred orientation, and economic gain becomes virtually synonymous with
religious probity. But the physical ego
is a mean, not an end, and efforts to perpetuate it as an end only result in
the stunting and limiting of human potential to the level of taking, thereby
precluding the subhuman maturation, so to speak, of the human being.
12. Only religion can allow for the subhuman
maturation of the human being, who, when truly religious and therefore
metaphysical, becomes synonymous with deity, specifically the primary deity of
'the Son', whose privilege it is to transcend his ego-self via the wilful
not-self and the spiritual not-self in the interests of enhanced selfhood,
which is called the soul. Thus does the
primary God pass to primary Heaven, ego duly eclipsed by soul which, unlike the
ego, corresponds to a genuine end in the first-rate being of holy joy.
13. Therefore only in that context where the
soul, and hence being, is properly an end and subject to being recognized as
such, can the ego, the will, and the spirit be subordinated to that end rather
than maintained as ends, necessarily false, in themselves. Such a context, avowedly metaphysical, is
alone compatible with genuine religion.
14. The souls, or modes of being, that are not
ultimate but second-rate (pleasurable), third-rate (proud), or fourth-rate
(loving) will always be subordinated to the first-rate manifestation of the
element to which they are affiliated, be it physical (and economic), chemical
(and political), or metachemical (and scientific). For the soul cannot function as an end when
it is of an order that is subordinate to a prevailing mean which is either
egocentric (physical), spirtualistic (chemical), or wilful (metachemical).
15. Only in the metaphysical context does the
ego, the will, and the spirit function as a means to an end or, more correctly,
does the ego function as a means to a soulful end, and the will function as a
means to a spiritual end of which the latter is inclusively utilized by the ego
as part of its means to the soulful end we have identified with a primary
heaven.
16. Thus God is a means to the end of Heaven in
both primary (self) and secondary (not-self) contexts of metaphysics. How unlike the ego which falsely becomes an
end-in-itself, due to its first-rate status within the humanistic context of
physics!
CYCLE SEVEN
1. Philosophy treats of truth and joy, religion
of God and Heaven. For religion is in
many respects the practical fulfilment of a theoretical precondition. One does not live by philosophy: one thinks
by it. In the metaphysical context, what
one primarily lives by is religion. For
transcendental meditation, the praxis of metaphysical religion in its sensible
manifestation, is not a philosophy but the practical vindication of a
philosophy, which understands the nature, as it were, of truth and joy.
2. Being God and Heaven is obviously different
from theorizing about God and Heaven from the standpoint of truth and joy. One could say that being graceful and holy is
equally distinct from theorizing about grace and holiness from the standpoint
of calmness and peace. For calmness and
peace are arguably preconditions of grace and holiness, just as truth and joy
presuppose the possibility, through religious praxis, of God and Heaven or,
alternatively, of godliness and heavenliness.
3. Such pedantic distinctions notwithstanding,
it is certainly true that the metaphysical will is centred on calmness and the
metaphysical spirit on peace; for calmness delivers peace no less than the
lungs deliver the breath. Whether that calmness
is going to be transformed into grace and that peace into holiness, however,
will depend whether religious praxis takes over from philosophical theory,
whether, that is, an insight surrounding the nature of the metaphysical context
is turned into a consciously-determined principle of religious praxis. If so, then one is not just calm and
peaceful; one becomes graceful and holy.
4. For he who passes beyond the natural
metaphysical condition of calmness and peace through a philosophical theory of
truth and joy soon finds himself in the position of actually experiencing grace
and holiness through becoming God and Heaven.
He can move forward from metaphysical nature to philosophy (the
transcendent theory), from philosophy to religion (the meditative praxis), and
finally from religion to sublimity (which some have called theosophy, meaning
actual experience of godliness and heavenliness).
5. Hence a path of ascent, within metaphysical
nature, from subnature to subconsciousness via subhumanism and subastralism, as
from will to soul via ego and spirit, as, in general terms, from calmness and
peace to grace and holiness via truth and joy and God and Heaven.
6. Subnature is the base metal, so to speak,
that has to be transmuted into the refined gold of actual subconscious
fulfilment. For this purpose it is
necessary to have become subhuman in one's metaphysical philosophising, and to
have given oneself over to the subastral commitment of religious praxis.
7. For the subhuman becomes subconscious via
the subastral having once appreciated the significance and utilized to a
sublimated end the subnatural, 'the Son' becoming 'the Holy Soul of Heaven' via
'the Father' and 'the Holy Spirit of Heaven', ego duly transmuted into soul via
will and spirit.
8. Thus the taking of the metaphysical ego is
transcended by the being of the metaphysical soul as the God-Self achieves
self-transcendence in the Heaven-Self, and all because it partook of the doing
of the metaphysical will and the giving of the metaphysical spirit, the godly
not-self and the heavenly not-self of, for example, the lungs and the breath,
identifying with the out-breath only so far, which is to say, until
self-preservation induces the self in question to recoil from the threat of
self-annihilation posed by the heavenly not-self and rebound to selfhood more
profoundly (as soul) than would otherwise have been the case.
9. The God-Self, being primary, has been
identified with 'the Son' and the Heaven-Self with 'the Holy Soul', while the
godly not-self, or God-Not-Self, being secondary, has been identified with 'the
Father' and the heavenly not-self, or Heaven-Not-Self, with 'the Holy Spirit'.
10. There is no other raison
d'être to religion than the achievement of self-transcendence by the
metaphysical ego in the metaphysical soul, 'the Holy Soul of Heaven', which is
at the core of the self in question.
Anything that falls short of this is indicative of 'bovaryized'
religion, which is to say, of non-metaphysical religion, be it physical,
chemical, or metachemical. And
'bovaryized' religion is pretty much everywhere the rule rather than the
exception!
11. Whereas genuine religion is alone
transcendentalist, manifesting self-transcendence in relation to the
metaphysical soul, false religion either glorifies the physical self, the
ego-of-egos, or else, over on the female side of the gender fence, subordinates
the self, in due objective fashion, to one or other of the not-selves, with a
result that either the spirituality of the chemical not-self or the
instinctuality of the metachemical not-self becomes hegemonic.
12. Hence whereas what may be called humanist
religion glorifies the self in its per se manifestation in relation
to physics, nonconformist religion denies the self (which is not commensurate with
self-transcendence) in the interests of a spiritual per se in relation
to chemistry, and fundamentalist religion denies the self in the interests of
an instinctual per se in relation to metachemistry, with, in
consequence, a bias for will rather than spirit or, in the physical context,
ego.
13. For you cannot achieve self-transcendence in
a context where the self is either the mean, as in the vegetative realm of
physics, or fated to be subordinated to one or other of the not-selves in
typically chemical or metachemical fashion.
All that is achieved is a religion that is earmarked either to play
second-fiddle, so to speak, to economics (humanism), third-fiddle to politics
(nonconformism), or fourth-fiddle to science (fundamentalism).
14. Obviously, to judge by the world in general,
false religion suits the majority of people, for economics and politics are
more characteristically of the world, and science tends to hold a ruling, if
not dominating, position in relation to it.
Only world-denial sets one on course for the metaphysical
transcendentalism of genuine religion, and world-denial, as the world
adequately confirms, tends to be the exception to the rule!
15. Thus the Transcendentalist, as we may call
the devotee of genuine religion, is very much an elitist outsider in a world
where not religion but economics, politics, or science is destined to be
hegemonic. Many are called but few are
chosen ... by religion, as, indeed, by that other elitist discipline, science.
16. Therefore religion can only be of genuine
interest to the subjective Few, who, when being metaphysical, know themselves
as gods in pursuit of heavenly redemption, whether in sensuality or, more
profoundly, in sensibility.
17. As I have argued in the past, metaphysical
sensibility is the salvation of metaphysical sensuality; for the latter,
centred around ears and airwaves, tends to be surbordinate, in typically
'once-born' or sensual fashion, to the optical first-mover of things, as music
to art, whereas the former stands a plane above its metachemical counterpart in
what amounts to an ascendant position.
18. It is precisely the ascendant position of
metaphysical sensibility that constitutes metaphysical salvation, as from ears
to lungs, airwaves to the breath, music to meditation, sequential time to
spaced space. For salvation is a male
prerogative solely germane to the subjective axes of time-space (as here) and
of mass-volume, and constitutes deliverance from the under-plane curse, in
sensual contexts, of being 'fall guy for slag' and other-dependent, meaning
subordinate to the female aspect of things, and hence to females.
19. Being saved from time to space, as from ears
to lungs, is the noumenal and, in some sense, upper-class equivalent of being
phenomenally saved from mass to volume, as from phallus to brain. It is the salvation of gods as distinct from
the salvation of men, and would only appeal to those who were avowedly
metaphysical in the first place.
20. Hence metaphysical salvation is the
salvation-of-salvations, the ultimate 'kingdom within' that exposes the
Christian 'kingdom within' as penultimate and therefore as something germane to
a 'First Coming' as distinct from a 'Second Coming', the coming of an ultimate
Messiah whose destiny is to complete, in upper-class terms, what Christ started
or, at any rate, what the Church has continued to the effective exclusion of
metaphysical sensibility.
CYCLE EIGHT
1. To distinguish the tragic from the comic on
the basis of an objective/subjective dichotomy between that which, appertaining
to the female side of life, is rooted in a vacuum, and that which, appertaining
to its male side, is centred in a plenum.
2. Thus to distinguish the tragic from the
comic on a gender-conditioned basis in which that which is rooted in a vacuum
stands tragically aloof from whatever is centred in a plenum.
3. If the female side of life is tragic and its
male side comic, then tragedy is divisible, on a noumenal/phenomenal basis,
between evil and good, while comedy, by contrast, is divisible, on a
phenomenal/noumenal basis, between folly and wisdom.
4. Evil and good would therefore qualify as
tragic attributes of a female, or objective, disposition (with straight-line
divergence and/or convergence), whereas folly and wisdom would qualify as comic
attributes of a male, or subjective, disposition (in which divergence and/or
convergence was curved).
5. Hence the tragedy, relative to evil and
good, of crime and punishment, as against the comedy, relative to folly and
wisdom, of sin and grace.
6. Generally speaking, women seek deliverance
from evil in good, crime in punishment, whereas men seek deliverance from folly
in wisdom, sin in grace.
7. Either way, tragedy is a woman's lot and
comedy a man's, pretty much as if women were fated for work and men for play.
8. Neither can one escape the correlation
between work and the State on the one hand, and play and the Church on the
other hand, since the one is arguably female and the other male.
9. In literary terms, poetry and drama
correspond, when most genuine, to the tragic side of life, while fiction and
philosophy, their subjective counterparts, correspond to its comic side when
most genuine.
10. Just as the most genuine poetry will always
be tragic in relation to beauty and the most genuine drama tragic in relation
to strength, so the most genuine fiction will always be comic in relation to
knowledge and the most genuine philosophy comic in relation to truth.
11. Just as the Devil and woman share a tragic
disposition with regard to objectivity, which hails from a vacuum, so man and
God share a comic disposition with regard to subjectivity, which issues from a
plenum.
12. Likewise both science and politics are tragic
disciplines, whereas economics and religion are comparatively comic, as of
course are economists and priests in relation to scientists and politicians.
13. As an expression of comedy, laughing is
essentially a male prerogative; just as crying is basically a female one!
14. One could distinguish, in addition to the
above, between the smiling of gods in relation to wisdom and the laughing of
men in relation to folly, thereby distinguishing the noumenal from the
phenomenal, grace from sin, on the basis of an upper-class/lower-class male
dichotomy.
15. Similarly, if conversely, one could distinguish
the scowling of devils in relation to evil from the crying of women in relation
to good, thereby distinguishing the noumenal from the phenomenal, crime from
punishment, on the basis of an upper-class/lower-class female dichotomy.
16. Be that as it may, both smiling and laughing
are comic attributes, whereas scowling and crying are demonstrably tragic ones.
17. Just as smiling confirms wisdom and laughing
confirms folly, so scowling confirms evil and crying confirms good.
18. As inconceivable to conceive of a wise man
who doesn't smile as to conceive of a fool who doesn't laugh!
19. As inconceivable to conceive of an evil woman
who doesn't scowl as to conceive of a good one who doesn't cry!
20. No less than the wise man is a philosophic
god whose smile epitomises grace, so the evil woman is a poetic devil whose
scowl epitomises crime, the generality of men and women, however, approximating
to fiction and drama in their respective fixations upon folly and goodness, sin
and punishment.
CYCLE NINE
1. As the subjective stands in a secondary
relationship to the objective, as that which, in some sense, derives from it,
we may hold that fire and water are primary elements but vegetation and air
secondary ones, since the former are objective and the latter subjective.
2. Likewise the female aspect of life is
primary but the male aspect secondary, since men not only derive from women but
demonstrate a dependence on them, especially with regard to those objective
factors which it might be thought demeaning or somehow irrelevant for someone
with a subjective disposition to broach.
3. This is certainly true of the generality of
men or, rather, males, though independence of women has also been demonstrated
by a comparatively small number of higher males who, as gods, tend to function
beyond the confines of strict dependency.
4. Nevertheless even gods are secondary to
devils, since of a subjective disposition, and without the Devil it is doubtful
there would be God.
5. Of course what applies in sensuality has
less applicability to sensibility, since sensibility offers to the male side of
life, whether phenomenal or noumenal, the possibility of a higher degree of
independence of its female side than would characterize sensuality, where, in
cursed vein, males are under-plane subordinate to females.
6. For females are blessed with a hegemonic
position both in relation to spatial space and volumetric volume, eyes and
tongue, and both the corresponding male organs, viz. ears and penis, are fated to
remain under the shadow, so to speak, of an objective control.
7. Only deliverance from sensuality to
sensibility, which is called salvation, can release the male side of life from
such a subordinate position, making for a diagonal rise from ears to lungs, or
sequential time to spaced space in noumenal subjectivity, and from penis to
brain, or massive mass to voluminous volume in phenomenal subjectivity.
8. Then, and only then, is the female side of
life damned (from the hegemonic blessing in sensuality) to the under-plane
positions of repetitive time in noumenal objectivity, as from eyes to heart,
and massed mass in phenomenal objectivity, as from tongue to womb. But even then the male side of life is still
secondary, if not now subordinate, to the female side.
9. Obviously in a situation where there is both
sensuality and sensibility, the human situation, as it were, it is impossible
to cultivate one thing to the total exclusion of the other. Nor should one try. For too much emphasis on the one thing will
sooner or later result in a return to its opposite, be it in sensuality or in
sensibility.
10. However, a preponderating ratio favouring
sensuality or sensibility will tend to be reflective of both the individual's
personal and/or universal disposition and the nature of the society in which
he/she lives, be it one that emphasises objectivity, and hence freedom, or one,
on the contrary, for which subjectivity, and hence binding, is primarily
characteristic.
11. It would seem that the striking of a sort of
balance between sensuality and sensibility is also possible and indeed
characteristic of those societies, not to mention individuals, for whom both
freedom and binding have to be kept within moderate limits.
12. I call such societies, and the individuals of
which they are consciously composed, liberal and worldly, and they differ from
both the free societies of a pre- or nether-worldly disposition and the bound
societies of a post- or other-worldly disposition.
13. Such more extreme societies are less liberal,
or a balanced mixture, so far as possible, of libertarianism and conservatism,
than either ultra-libertarian in the free case or ultra-conservative in the
bound case, thereby approximating less to the world than to that which, as Hell
in the one case and Heaven in other, may be said to flank it above.
14. For the world is a combination, to varying
extents, of purgatory and the earth, water and vegetation, relative freedom and
relative binding, whereas that which stands in a sort of anterior position to
the world is absolutely free in its fiery hellishness, while that which stands
in a kind of posterior position to the world is absolutely bound in its airy
heavenliness.
15. Yet even extreme societies must grapple with
the problem and to some extent allow for the actuality of life as a
combination, in varying degrees, of sensuality and sensibility, not just one or
the other.
16. Know that in the world, which has a lot to do
with the planet Earth, liberalism is much more applicable than either ultra-libertarianism
or ultra-conservatism, but that extremes will nevertheless persist in existing,
especially in relation to those geographical extremities which have been
characterised as Far West on the one hand and Far East on the other.
17. We can no more build a world solely on the
basis of ultra-libertarianism than solely on the basis of ultra-conservatism;
for the world defies both extremes as it liberally perpetuates itself in
relation to both libertarianism and conservatism - the former female (and
primary) and the latter male (and secondary).
18. But we can certainly allow for the existence
of extremism, and if we are wise - and geographically favoured - we will prefer
ultra-conservatism to ultra-libertarianism, thereby offering mankind, the bulk
of whom will still prefer some kind of liberalism, i.e. libertarianism and/or
conservatism, the leadership of Heaven as against the rulership of Hell.
19. Ultra-libertarianism is sartorially akin to a
dress and libertarianism to a skirt, whether in sensuality or sensibility
(flounced or tapering), whereas conservatism is sartorially akin to trousers
and ultra-conservatism to zippersuits.
20. Hence a female distinction, elementally conditioned,
between the noumenal objectivity of ultra-libertarianism, i.e. dresses, and the
phenomenal objectivity of libertarianism, i.e. skirts, as against a male
distinction between the phenomenal subjectivity of conservatism, i.e. trousers,
and the noumenal subjectivity of ultra-conservatism, i.e. zippersuits, whereof
not fire and water but vegetation and air are the corresponding elements.
21. As illogical, on the female side of life, for
a libertarian person, a woman, to be dressed in a dress as for an
ultra-libertarian person, a devil, to be dressed in a skirt.
22. As illogical, on the male side of life, for a
conservative person, a man, to be dressed in a zippersuit as for an
ultra-conservative person, a god, to be dressed in pair of trousers and/or
jeans.
23. Life does not, of course, preclude people
from dressing in a manner incompatible with their ideological bent, whether in
terms of up- or down-dressing on one's own side of the gender fence or even, in
the more paradoxical cases, of cross-dressing, whereby females wear subjective
attire and males attire which, in its skirt- or dress-like cylindrical
looseness, is manifestly objective.
24. Personally, I find pants and/or zippersuits
on females as illogically objectionable as skirts and/or dresses on males.
25. Anything beyond a constrained objectivity,
and hence freedom, for females is symptomatic of sartorial hype and prolific of
gender subversion. One ends up with the
paradoxical situations of females either playing at being men or, in the more
extreme cases, playing at being gods!
26. This is as much the case with an overly
subjective hairstyle, hair brushed or combed back from the brow, as with the
wearing of male-oriented attire by females.
All honest and genuine women, by contrast, wear some kind or degree of
fringe. The rest, with few exceptions,
are hyped subversives.
CYCLE TEN
1. In the broadest terms Nature is divisible
between four elements - the fiery unnature of space-time devolution, which is
noumenally objective; the watery supernature of volume-mass devolution, which
is phenomenally objective; the vegetative nature of mass-volume evolution,
which is phenomenally subjective, and the airy subnature of time-space
evolution, which is noumenally subjective.
2. Hence Nature is divisible between an
apparent element par excellence which, as fire, can be identified with
metachemistry; a quantitative element par excellence which, as water,
can be identified with chemistry; a qualitative element par excellence
which, as vegetation (earth) can be identified with physics; and an essential
element par excellence which, as air, can be identified with
metaphysics.
3. Vegetation is the per se
manifestation of Nature, but Nature also demonstrates 'bovaryized'
manifestations of itself which are less natural than barbarous (fire),
civilized (water), or cultural (air).
4. Of the four elements, fire is the only one
in which one cannot live and in which, in consequence, life is not to be
found. Hence in identifying fire with unnature,
or the unnatural manifestation of Nature, one is distinguishing that which
effectively lies behind Nature or, rather, behind the life-enveloping kinds of
Nature from that which actually envelops life, whether in the guise of fish, of
animals, or of birds, and which can accordingly be identified with supernature
(water), nature (vegetation), and subnature (air).
5. The unnatural element of fire, which is
metachemical in its noumenal objectivity and space-time devolution, is not,
however, on that account anti-natural.
On the contrary, it is simply the unnatural manifestation of Nature.
6. Or, to be more precise, one can say that the
positive, or organic, manifestations of Nature differ from their negative and
inorganic counterparts as Nature from Antinature, the former having a supreme
correlation and the latter a primal one.
7. Hence that which is against Nature, being
negative and inorganic, is to be identified with the Antinatural, and, like its
Natural counterpart, the Antinatural can be unnatural, supernatural, natural,
or subnatural, which is to say negatively metachemical, chemical, physical, or
metaphysical.
8. Because the Antinatural is primal and the
Natural supreme, it follows that the former is everywhere the precondition of
the latter, being the effective blueprint, so to speak, for all that has been
raised on the back of an Antinatural base.
9. Therefore before we can speak of an
eyes-to-heart axis of organic metachemistry, we must allow for the prior
existence of a stellar-to-Venusian axis of inorganic metachemistry, which will
be the primal manifestation of noumenal objectivity (fire) in space-time
devolution.
10. Likewise before we can speak of a
tongue-to-womb axis of organic chemistry, we must allow for the prior existence
of a lunar-to-oceanic axis of inorganic chemistry, which will be the primal
manifestation of phenomenal objectivity (water) in volume-mass devolution.
11. Similarly, if conversely, before we can speak
of a penis-to-brain axis of organic physics, we must allow for the prior
existence of a terrestrial-to-Martian axis of inorganic physics, which will be
the primal manifestation of phenomenal subjectivity (vegetation) in mass-volume
evolution.
12. Finally before we can speak of an
ears-to-lungs axis of organic metaphysics, we must allow for the prior
existence of a solar-to-Saturnalian axis of inorganic metaphysics, which will
be the primal manifestation of noumenal subjectivity (air) in time-space
evolution.
13. In all cases, the inorganic preconditions of
an organic offshoot, no matter how modified, are Antinatural, which is to say,
contrary to that which, being organic, is Natural, be it metachemically so in
unnature, chemically so in supernature, physically so in nature, or
metaphysically so in subnature.
14. We are therefore entitled to distinguish
between metachemical anti-unnature and metachemical unnature, as between primal
and supreme manifestations of noumenal objectivity; between chemical
anti-supernature and chemical supernature, as between primal and supreme
manifestations of phenomenal objectivity; between physical antinature and
physical nature, as between primal and supreme manifestations of phenomenal
subjectivity; and between metaphysical anti-subnature and metaphysical
subnature, as between primal and supreme manifestations of noumenal
subjectivity.
15. Just as we have distinguished Antinatural
from Natural on the basis of a primal/supreme dichotomy, so we may further
distinguish the noumenal from the phenomenal manifestations of Antinature and
Nature on the basis of a cosmic/universal dichotomy for the noumenal and of a
geologic/personal dichotomy for the phenomenal.
16. For that which is cosmic and/or geologic,
being primal, is negative in its inorganic actuality, whereas whatever is
universal and/or personal, being supreme, is positive in its organic actuality.
17. Thus we may distinguish the cosmic noumenal
from the universal noumenal on the basis of an objective dichotomy between the
stellar-to-Venusian axis and the eyes-to-heart axis of space-time devolution,
and of a subjective dichotomy between the solar-to-Saturnalian axis and the
ears-to-lungs axis of time-space evolution.
18. Thus we may distinguish the geologic phenomenal
from the personal phenomenal on the basis of an objective dichotomy between the
lunar-to-oceanic axis and the tongue-to-womb axis of volume-mass devolution,
and of a subjective dichotomy between the terrestrial-to-Martian axis and the
penis-to-brain axis of mass-volume evolution.
19. That which falls, or diagonally descends,
through two planes does so from spatial space to repetitive time in space-time
devolution and from volumetric volume to massed mass in volume-mass devolution.
20. That which rises, or diagonally ascends,
through two planes does so from massive mass to voluminous volume in
mass-volume evolution and from sequential time to spaced space in time-space
evolution.
21. One may distinguish the descent of devils in
space-time devolution from the descent of women in volume-mass devolution, as
between noumenal and phenomenal manifestations of objectivity.
22. One may distinguish the ascent of men in
mass-volume evolution from the ascent of gods in time-space evolution, as
between phenomenal and noumenal manifestations of subjectivity.
CYCLE ELEVEN
1. Evil is the noumenal objectivity of
space-time devolution and it is divisible between the primal evil, in
anti-unnature, of ugliness and hatred and the supreme evil, in unnature, of beauty
and love.
2. Good is the phenomenal objectivity of
volume-mass devolution and it is divisible between the primal good, in
anti-supernature, of weakness and humility and the supreme good, in
supernature, of strength and pride.
3. Folly is the phenomenal subjectivity of
mass-volume evolution and it is divisible between the primal folly, in
antinature, of ignorance and pain and the supreme folly, in nature, of
knowledge and pleasure.
4. Wisdom is the noumenal subjectivity of
time-space evolution and it is divisible between the primal wisdom, in
anti-subnature, of falsity and woe and the supreme wisdom, in subnature, of
truth and joy.
5. Evil and good attach primarily to the
female, or objective, side of life and only secondarily to its male side,
whereas folly and wisdom attach primarily to the male, or subjective, side of
life and only secondarily to its female side.
6. One can only get beyond good and evil in
relation to either folly or wisdom.
7. In the female contexts of noumenal objectivity
and phenomenal objectivity, the attributes of evil and good, whether primal or
supreme, attach primarily to the not-self and secondarily to the self.
8. In the male contexts of phenomenal
subjectivity and noumenal subjectivity, the attributes of folly and wisdom,
whether primal or supreme, attach primarily to the self and secondarily to the
not-self.
9. This is because objectivity is always more
not-self-oriented than self-oriented, whereas subjectivity is always more
self-oriented than not-self-oriented.
10. Thus, taking the supreme manifestation of
evil alone, beauty and love are primary in the not-self and secondary in the
self, since will and spirit take precedence, in metachemistry, over ego and
soul.
11. Taking the supreme manifestation of good
alone, strength and pride are primary in the not-self and secondary in the
self, since will and spirit take precedence, in chemistry, over ego and soul.
12. Taking the supreme manifestation of folly
alone, knowledge and pleasure are primary in the self and secondary in the
not-self, since ego and soul take precedence, in physics, over will and spirit.
13. Taking the supreme manifestation of wisdom
alone, truth and joy are primary in the self and secondary in the not-self,
since ego and soul take precedence, in metaphysics, over will and spirit.
14. Since beauty and love are synonymous, in
supreme metachemistry, with the Devil and Hell, it follows that the Devil and
Hell are primary in the metachemical not-self and secondary in the metachemical
self, enabling us to symbolically distinguish the Mother and the Unclear Spirit
of Hell from the Daughter and the Unclear Soul of Hell.
15. Since strength and pride are synonymous, in
supreme chemistry, with woman and purgatory, it follows that woman and purgatory
are primary in the chemical not-self and secondary in the chemical self,
enabling us to symbolically distinguish the mother and the clear spirit of
purgatory from the daughter and the clear soul of purgatory.
16. Since knowledge and pleasure are synonymous,
in supreme physics, with man and the earth, it follows that man and the earth
are primary in the physical self and secondary in the physical not-self,
enabling us to symbolically distinguish the son and the unholy soul of the
earth from the father and the unholy spirit of the earth.
17. Since truth and joy are synonymous, in
supreme metaphysics, with God and Heaven, it follows that God and Heaven are
primary in the metaphysical self and secondary in the metaphysical not-self,
enabling us to symbolically distinguish the Son and the Holy Soul of Heaven
from the Father and the Holy Spirit of Heaven.
18. The self always attaches, in any elemental
context, to the brain stem and central nervous system, whereas the not-self
always attaches to whatever organ, in sensuality or sensibility, with which the
self happens to be actively engaged.
19. Just as the self can be transmuted from ego
to soul during the process of its engagement of the not-self, so the not-self
passes from will to spirit as it performs its duties.
20. Spirit is no less a redemption in the
not-self of the will than soul is a redemption in the self of the ego.
21. Whether the context is primary or secondary, the
Devil is redeemed in Hell (fire), woman is redeemed in purgatory (water), man
is redeemed in the earth (vegetation), and God is redeemed in Heaven (air).
CYCLE TWELVE
1. At bottom mankind are evil, for life is
rooted in metachemistry, but some are more evil than others, even on a gender
basis, and none are more evil than those who most approximate to a metachemical
lifestyle and/or status in space-time devolution, whereby the evil of noumenal
objectivity is the mean, and things are accordingly orientated towards a per se
order of will.
2. But if mankind are at bottom evil, they are
also capable of and variously given to goodness, folly, and wisdom, since life
is not just a matter of metachemistry but also of chemistry, physics, and
metaphysics, as it devolves away from the Devil in woman, and evolves away from
man in God.
3. Generally speaking, goodness is no less the
desired alternative to evil on the objective, or female, side of life than
wisdom the desired alternative to folly on its subjective, or male, side,
wherein wisdom is normally associated with an avoidance of folly and, hence, an
undue emphasis on the physical aspect of things.
4. Yet there will always be people who are
demonstrably more or most of one thing rather than another, and usually this
follows from a predetermined orientation in the self, the central nervous
system, towards one element as opposed to another, whether on not on the basis
of gender or class (which latter has intimate associations with build, i.e.
height, weight, and so on).
5. Certainly I do not agree with Nietzsche that
woman is at bottom base while man is only evil, or something to that effect,
for life tends to demonstrate the opposite - namely that man is at bottom base,
or physical (and hence foolish), while woman is fundamentally evil, or
metachemical (and hence cruel), even though the genders are capable of
elemental cross-overs, so to speak, to a comparatively limited degree.
6. There is much more gender immutability to
life than mutability, and gender is only one factor in an equation that needs
to consider class before one can reasonably distinguish 'the evil' and 'the
good' from 'the foolish' and 'the wise'.
7. Just as metachemistry and chemistry are
germane to the female, or objective, side of life, so physics and metaphysics
are germane to its male, or subjective, side, irrespective of the paradoxical
extents to which females strive to be physical or metaphysical and males, by
contrast, to be chemical or metachemical.
8. For fire and water, the primary elements,
are objectively distinct from the secondary elements of vegetation and air, and
it is as inconceivable that the primary elements could be male as that the
secondary elements, with their subjective bias, could be female. Males are very definitely the second sex,
whether as men in relation to women or, up above in the noumenal realms of
space and time, as gods in relation to devils.
9. In an age when sensuality rules the roost in
'once-born' and therefore outer terms, it follows that females will have the
upper hand over males, that the primary sex will take precedence over the
secondary sex, in what amounts to a heathenistic norm of objective domination,
whether negatively or positively.
10. The modern age, stemming from the nineteenth
and even, to some extent, the eighteenth century, clearly demonstrates the
hegemony of the female side of life over its male side, whether phenomenally in
relation to the hegemonic standing of volumetric volume over massive mass, or
noumenally in relation to the hegemonic standing of spatial space over
sequential time - the former tending to be symbolized by 'Britannia' and the
latter by 'the Liberty Belle'.
11. Such an age is clearly one in which chemistry
and metachemistry, water and fire, are hegemonic over physics and metaphysics,
vegetation and air, and it is also demonstrably the case that the mode of this
objective hegemony is less religious (and supreme) than secular (and primal),
so that negativity tends to overshadow positivity in the gradual drift, or
degeneration, of society from the organic to the inorganic, as from (in
objective terms) nonconformism and fundamentalism to realism and materialism.
12. Hence what could be identified, in broad
terms, with Anglo-American civilization, that dominant feature of the modern
West, has passed from an organic phase in which the hegemony of objectivity was
avowedly, if falsely, religious, to one in which, with the rapid increase of
technology and urbanization, the hegemony of objectivity, ever characteristic
of a female orientation, is in its inorganic phase, and the prevailing criteria
of sensual existence are accordingly primal rather than supreme.
13. It is as if the nonconformist domination of
humanism in the phenomenal case and the fundamentalist domination of
transcendentalism in the noumenal case have been eclipsed by the realist
domination of naturalism on the one hand and the materialist domination of
idealism on the other, making for a situation in which the personal and the
universal modes of sensuality stand in the more overly heathenistic shadow, so
to speak, of its geologic and cosmic modes.
14. Hence modern life, with its rampant
technological and urban expansion, signifies the sensual hegemony not so much,
in phenomenal terms, of strength and pride over knowledge and pleasure as of
weakness and humility (if not humiliation) over ignorance and pain, where this
gradual eclipse of heathenistic supremacy by heathenistic primacy is concerned,
the personal inexorably losing ground to the geologic.
15. Likewise, in the noumenal context above the
phenomenal one, which is more characteristic of America than, for instance, of
Britain, one finds that the sensual hegemony is not so much of beauty and love
over truth and joy as of ugliness and hatred over falsity (illusion) and woe,
as the eclipse of heathenistic supremacy by heathenistic primacy runs its
cosmic - and in some sense cosmic-slavering - course, to the detriment of
universality.
16. It is obvious that no mode of objective
hegemony, not even supreme, is conducive to a sensibly-run society, and that
Protestantism, as we may call the supreme manifestation of such a hegemony,
merely paved the way, in an ever-more technology- and urban-oriented fashion,
for the wholesale primacy which characterises the contemporary West, whereof
realism and materialism are the respective rulers of a secular roost.
17. I cannot myself endorse a society in which
negative values are paramount, and even the dominance of positive values is
objectionable to me when they so clearly manifest the hegemony, in female
fashion, of either chemistry over physics or, worse again, of metachemistry
over metaphysics. For such hegemony is
frankly anti-Christian and thus symptomatic of organic secularity, no matter
how much it may hide behind a mask of religion.
18. And whatever is anti-Christian is bad for the
male side of life, flies in the face of that sensible teaching which decrees a
male salvation from sensuality to sensibility as the only guarantor of release
from the curse of male subjection to female domination, whether in relation to
physics or, more wisely, to metaphysics.
19. Thus objectivity stands against subjectivity
as freedom against binding, freedom for the female side of life to be
objectively hegemonic over its male side, and to bear witness, in ever more
primacy-oriented terms, to the domination of realism over naturalism and of
materialism over idealism, of water, in simple elemental terms, over vegetation,
and of fire over air.
20. Such a domination does not come about without
the necessary technological and environmental preconditions, and once they are
there it is difficult, to the point of inconceivable, to imagine a return to
supremacy even on secular terms, Protestantism itself having succumbed to the
negative goodness and negative evil which geologically and cosmically
orientated societies so obviously demonstrate.
CYCLE THIRTEEN
1. As against those sensually supreme societies
which have gradually gone to the dogs of primacy, are to be found societies
which still retain a fair degree of sensible supremacy, either because they are
predominantly Catholic or because of some Buddhist-like commitment to
metaphysical sensibility. The former are
mostly to be found in the West, i.e. in countries like Ireland, while the
latter are more characteristic of certain parts of the Far East.
2. Indeed, Ireland is as good a Western example
as you are likely to find of a country which is still predominantly disposed to
physical sensibility despite the ubiquitous influence of Anglo-American
civilization, since in a Catholic country it is not volumetric volume over
massive mass so much as voluminous volume over massed mass which chiefly
characterizes the social disposition of the People, making for a situation in
which vegetative sensibility stands a plane above watery sensibility, as brain
above womb.
3. Hence a country which is sensibly supreme
will have either brain above womb or, if noumenal, lungs above heart, since
salvation for males is ever reflective of deliverance from the under-plane
position of sensuality to the over-plane position of sensibility, bringing
damnation to females as they fall diagonally from the over-plane position of
sensuality to the under-plane position of sensibility.
4. Hence a vegetative rise, in physics, from
penis to brain will engender a corresponding watery fall, in chemistry, from
tongue to womb, while an airy rise, in metaphysics, from ears to lungs will
engender a corresponding fiery fall, in metachemistry, from eyes to heart.
5. Catholicism upholds the Christic rise, in
physics, from penis to brain, as from vegetative sensuality to vegetative
sensibility, and the Marian fall, in chemistry, from tongue to womb, as from
watery sensuality to watery sensibility, and is thus symptomatic of a
phenomenal commitment to supremacy, whereby mass and volume are the principal
planes. It is therefore a religion of
the lower classes which, in its physical shortfall from metaphysical
sensibility, the respiratory sensibility of the ultimate 'kingdom within',
remains anchored, so to speak, to metaphysical sensuality, the aural
sensuality, so often manifesting in music, which remains the more genuinely
religious aspect of Catholicism even though it leaves something to be desired
from the standpoint, ever germane to a Second Coming, of metaphysical
sensibility.
6. For metaphysical sensibility is the
salvation from metaphysical sensuality, as lungs from ears, and until such a
salvation comes officially to pass, physical sensibility will be vulnerable not
only to the contrary disposition, in 'once-born' terms, of metaphysical
sensuality, but to the theological sleight-of-hand which, especially in
relation to Old Testament usage, tends to substitute metachemical sensuality
for metaphysical sensuality, as Jehovah for the Father or, in more concrete
terms, the eyes for the ears, if not, in the cosmic-oriented nature of
Creator-based scripture, the stellar plane for the solar one, thereby subverting
supremacy via the Christian backdoor of Old Testament primacy.
7. No, the Catholic position is far from a
final one in religious terms, and it is as the architect of a higher and more
definitive order of religion that I have advanced, within the ideological scope
of Social Transcendentalism, the concept of a triadic Beyond, as germane, so I
teach, to 'Kingdom Come'.
8. I am, if you will, the philosophical creator
of Social Transcendentalism and all it teaches, and I know that justice will
not be done to religion, and thus to the truth, until Social Transcendentalism
has its way with the People and they accordingly come to vote for religious
sovereignty not only as the means of deliverance from 'sins and/or punishments
of the world', meaning political sovereignty and its concomitants, but also
deliverance from the kind of cosmic-based religious primitivity which even now,
in the guise of some Old Testament 'Creator', bedevils the development of
supremacy to the level of metaphysical sensibility.
9. In fact, it would be truer to say that while
the New Testament 'Father' bedevils the development of supremacy to the level
of metaphysical sensibility simply by symbolizing metaphysical sensuality
standing behind physical sensibility, the sensibility, in effect, of ‘the Son',
the Old Testament Jehovah subverts supremacy through the cosmic-oriented
emphasis upon primacy which inevitably comes to light whenever the concept of
Creator turns, more retrogressively, upon cosmic Creation.
10. Either way, there can be no respiratory
sensibility, and hence no ultimate 'kingdom within', until the People
democratically opt, under Messianic auspices, for religious sovereignty and the
rights that such an ultimate sovereignty would confer.
11. Such rights would include meditation for
those who were most suited to it, whether in the transcendentalist per se
of the top tier of my projected triadic Beyond or in the
pseudo-transcendentalist 'bovaryizations' of transcendentalism that would
characterize (the top subsection of) each of its lower tiers.
12. Such rights would also include cogitation for
those who were most suited to it, whether in the humanist per se
of the middle tier of my projected triadic Beyond or in the pseudo-humanist
'bovaryizations' of humanism that would characterize (the middle subsection of)
each of its flanking tiers.
13. Such rights would also include contemplation
for those who were most suited to it, whether in the nonconformist per se of
the bottom tier of my projected triadic Beyond or in the pseudo-nonconformist
'bovaryizations' of nonconformism that would characterize (the bottom
subsection of) each of its higher tiers
14. Thus would the religiously sovereign People,
upper class and lower class alike, be empowered to meditate, to cogitate, and
to contemplate, after their several fashions; for meditation is alone
transcendentalist, while cogitation is humanist, and contemplation
nonconformist.
15. To meditate at one of three levels, depending
on one's denominational entitlement and elemental affinity, be it chemical,
physical, or metaphysical; that is to say watery, vegetative, or airy.
16. Likewise to cogitate at one of three levels,
whether in the chemical vein of the bottom tier, the physical vein of the
middle tier, or the metaphysical vein of the top tier.
17. Similarly to contemplate at one of three
levels, whether in the chemical vein of what, at the bottom, would be a watery
tier of massed mass overall; in the physical vein of what, in the middle, would
be a vegetative tier of voluminous volume overall; or in the metaphysical vein
of what, at the top, would be an airy tier of spaced space overall.
18. Contemplation is lower, on any tier, than
cogitation, while cogitation is lower, on any tier, than meditation, for things
proceed, on a gender basis, from chemical to physical, and thence, within the
male options, from physical to metaphysical.
19. A chemical lower tier, suitable to persons of
Puritan descent, would have a nonconformist per se in contemplation,
and 'bovaryized' orders of cogitation and meditation.
20. A physical middle tier, suitable to persons
of Anglican descent, would have a humanist per se in cogitation, and
'bovaryized' orders of contemplation and meditation.
21. A metaphysical upper tier, suitable to
persons of Roman Catholic descent, would have a transcendentalist per se
in meditation, and 'bovaryized' orders of contemplation and cogitation.
22. Meditation is 'bovaryized' when it is either
chemical, and watery, or physical, and vegetative, i.e. of an aerobic or a
yogic orientation. For only metaphysical
meditation accords with a transcendentalist per se, and in
sensibility this implies the breath.
Sweat-producing meditation (chemical) is a quasi-nonconformist mode of
transcendentalism, while body-oriented meditation (physical) is a
quasi-humanist mode of transcendentalism, both of which are accordingly
pseudo-transcendentalist.
23. Cogitation is 'bovaryized' when it is either
metaphysical, and airy, or chemical, and watery, i.e. of an aural or a spoken
orientation. For only physical
cogitation accords with a humanist per se, and in sensibility this
implies thought and/or prayer in the brain.
Airwaves-oriented cogitation (metaphysical), having to do with something
you listen to, is a quasi-transcendentalist mode of humanism, while
tongue-oriented cogitation (chemical), having to do with speech, is a
quasi-nonconformist mode of humanism,
both of which are accordingly pseudo-humanist.
24. Contemplation is 'bovaryized' when it is
either physical, and vegetative, or metaphysical, and airy, i.e. established as
the result of a mouth-ingested or a sniffed (snorted) drug-related
orientation. For only chemical
contemplation accords with a nonconformist per se, and in
sensibility this implies - or would imply in the dead-resurrecting,
'inner-light' context of 'Kingdom Come' - the injection of
contemplation-enhancing drugs.
Contemplation as a result of swallowing drugs (physical) is a
quasi-humanist mode of nonconformism, while contemplation as the result of
sniffing drugs (metaphysical) is a quasi-transcendentalist mode of
nonconformism, both of which are accordingly pseudo-nonconformist.
25. In general terms, I have tended, in the past,
to identify injected drugs like heroin with a chemical per se
status, ingested drugs like LSD or so-called 'magic mushrooms' with a
quasi-physical chemical status, and inhaled drugs like cocaine with a
quasi-metaphysical chemical status. But
all drugs, whatever their assumed elemental correlation or most typical method
of consumption, have been equated with the chemical overall, and thus with a
female bias that would make them especially applicable to women within the
hypothetical context, germane to 'Kingdom Come', of the triadic Beyond,
following a majority mandate for religious sovereignty.
26. To sum up, transcendentalism, which has to do
with meditation, can be chemical, physical, or metaphysical, but is only
genuine when metaphysical. Consequently metaphysical
transcendentalism is the per se mode of transcendentalism, and hence
of meditation.
27. Humanism, which has to do with cogitation,
can be chemical, physical, or metaphysical, but is only genuine when
physical. Consequently physical humanism
is the per se mode of humanism, and hence of cogitation.
28. Nonconformism, which has to do with
contemplation, can be chemical, physical, or metaphysical, but is only genuine
when chemical. Consequently chemical
nonconformism is the per se mode of nonconformism, and hence of contemplation.
29. Fundamentalism, which has to do with
worshipful devotion, would not be applicable to the traidic Beyond, least of
all in its genuinely fundamentalist manifestation, which happens to be
metachemical, and hence fiery.
30. Even metachemical transcendentalism, whether
in the form of jogging or boxing or some related meditative activity of a fiery
disposition, would not be applicable to religious praxis in the triadic Beyond.
CYCLE FOURTEEN
1. For me, 'Kingdom Come' is not a mere
abstraction but a politico-religious or ideological aspiration which I have
sought to concretise in relation to what, in previous texts, has been called a
Gaelic federation ... of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
2. Therefore 'Kingdom Come' will not have come
to pass on these islands until the Gaels democratically enter into a Social
Transcendentalist federation of their respective countries in the interests not
only of Irish unity on the island of Ireland but, even more importantly, of
independence from England in what would amount, under Social Transcendentalism,
to a new religion in which, through religious sovereignty, the People were
empowered to develop their respective meditative, cogitative, and contemplative
interests in what has been called a triadic Beyond.
3. In such a 'Kingdom', presided over by a
'God-King', or Messianic figurehead who also happened to be no mean
philosopher, there would be no Christianity, and therefore no deference to the
sort of Creator Worship which, in one degree or another, has always
characterized and even compromised Christianity, to the detriment of inner
development.
4. In such a 'Kingdom', the People would be
their own gods or men or women more sensibly and radically than ever before,
and even those who were not destined for godliness would know more about the
truth than persons of their masculine or feminine disposition had ever known in
the past.
5. They would also know, however, that knowing
more about the truth and actually living or being it were two entirely
different things, and that no-one need fear the imposition of criteria from
above that were too religiously demanding or exacting for mere mortals to
take. For the triadic Beyond would
ensure that only those who were 'up to' the truth would be expected or
encouraged to live it.
6. Class hierarchies are not unfair on the
lower orders so much as fair to the lower orders when they take into account
the differences between people and allot responsibilities or privileges
according to their deserts.
7. What would be unfair would be trying
to squeeze everybody, irrespective of class or gender, into the one mould, be
it upper class and metaphysical, or lower class and physical and/or
chemical. For then you are simply flying
in the face of reality and either trying to uniformly upgrade life to the
highest common denominator or, worse again, uniformly degrade life to the
lowest common denominator, to the detriment of those who have to live it.
8. In reality there are uncommon denominators
and common denominators, and while the former are upper class, whether
metachemical or metaphysical, the latter are demonstrably lower class, and
therefore chemical or physical.
9. Accepting hierarchical differences and
distinctions is being fair to life and thus to the people who have to live it,
whether 'on high' or 'down below'. You
avoid utopian chimeras and end-up with a viable plant-like entity which, with
roots, stalk, and blossom, can grow to its full capacity, provided it is being
adequately served from a sun-like aside.
10. Such a sun-like aside I have customarily
identified with the administrative aspect of 'Kingdom Come', viz. the
politico-economic structure of our hypothetical Gaelic Federation, and it would
come to pass - and in the nature of things could only come to pass - in
consequence of a majority mandate for religious sovereignty and the correlative
bearing of the old sovereignties, not least of all political, by the Messianic
advocate of 'Kingdom Come' in what would amount to a Christ-like sacrifice on
his part through which the People duly found deliverance, via religious
sovereignty, from 'sins and/or punishments of the world'.
11. Thus delivered from the bog of worldly sin
and/or punishment in which the People, whether republican or parliamentary, had
been sunk, they would be able to leave the political administration of 'Kingdom
Come' to the Messianic Saviour and, more practically, his closest followers,
while they concentrated their principal energies on religious self-development
(or, in the case of women, constrained not-self development) within the
framework of the triadic Beyond.
12. Simultaneously delivered from the old
theocratic religion, with its autocratic sleight-of-hand that substituted Old
Testament for New Testament, the People would never again have to defer to
primitive Godheads, whether cosmic or universal, and need not fear the
substitution of Messiah Worship, in what would amount to a 'cult-of-the-leader'
fundamentalism, when they had a structure in place, guaranteed by religious
sovereignty, which empowered them to get-on with the nonconformist and humanist
and transcendentalist modes of contemplation, cogitation, and meditation, to
the exclusion of worshipful devotion to an idol, be that idol living or dead
13. Certainly the Messianic Leader, or Second
Coming equivalent, would stand to them as the Creator of 'Kingdom Come', with
its triadic Beyond, and thus in a sense the foremost manifestation of the type
'Creator', who, in the event of the People's endorsement, would have supplanted
all previous 'Creators', including the most basic and cosmic-oriented one. But he would differ from those autocratic and
theocratic 'Creators' as one who was not there to be worshipped, but to
encourage the People to develop their respective sensible selves or, in the
case of women, sensible chemical not-self more profoundly than would otherwise
be the case.
14. For only then will the People be truly free
of tyranny and able to determine the scope and pace of their respective levels
and kinds of religious development to a point which will be completely beyond
religion as it has hitherto been understood, that is to say, at its topmost
level a truly religious religion which owed little or nothing to cosmic
science.
15. I desire nothing less than the liberation of
the People from their autocratic and theocratic and even democratic
attachments, that they may become all the more bound, in the case of males, to
their deepest self-interests and correspondingly less free, in the case of
females, to exploit not-self at the expense of self, particularly, it has to be
said, male self.
16. For an authentically religious society, which
is after all what 'Kingdom Come' would essentially be at its topmost level, is
one in which males are freer than ever before of enslavement to females and
more bound, in consequence, to their deeper self, be that self metaphysical or
physical, than would otherwise be possible, with beneficial consequences for
sensible knowledge and sensible truth.
17. For just as strength militates against
knowledge, so beauty militates against truth, and in either case it is not the
male side but the female side of life which is uppermost in due chemical or
metachemical fashions, to the detriment of man and God.
18. I happen to believe that the Gaels are
sufficiently subjective, when male, to want a society in which the male side of
life is hegemonic or ascendant over its female side, so that not science and
politics but economics and, especially, religion are uppermost, nature and
culture supplanting barbarism and civilization, and I also happen to believe
that only with a Gaelic federation of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales will a
united Ireland finally come to pass, since that should satisfy the requirements
of the majority of loyalists and nationalists alike.
19. Thus it is as a revolutionary Unionist that I
have put forward the concept of a Gaelic Federation, and I have no doubt that
such a union would be in the best interests of the great majority of Gaels both
in Ireland, north and south, and in Scotland, Wales, and even the Isle of Man.
20. For it would deliver them from the
Catholic/Protestant schism which is perhaps the second greatest failure of
Christianity after the Old Testament, and thus make possible, for the first time
in centuries, a new sense of nationhood, necessarily pan-Gaelic, via the new
religion of Social Transcendentalism.
CYCLE FIFTEEN
1. One can do negatively or positively,
competitively or co-operatively, and those who do negatively do such on
the basis of materialism in metachemical primacy, whereas those who do
positively do such on the basis of fundamentalism in metachemical supremacy.
2. One can give negatively or
positively, competitively or co-operatively, and those who give negatively
do such on the basis of realism in chemical primacy, whereas those who give
positively do such on the basis of nonconformism in chemical supremacy.
3. One can take negatively or
positively, competitively or co-operatively, and those who take
negatively do such on the basis of naturalism in physical primacy, whereas
those who take positively do such on the basis of humanism in physical
supremacy.
4. One can be negatively or positively,
competitively or co-operatively, and those who tend to be negatively are
such on the basis of idealism in metaphysical primacy, whereas those who tend
to be positively are such on the basis of transcendentalism in
metaphysical supremacy.
5. An age or society in which primacy has
eclipsed supremacy as the prevailing mean will be one in which competition,
founded upon negative values, takes precedence over co-operation, and success
is judged on the basis of competitive ascendancy, especially in relation to
materialism and realism.
6. Even before the slide from sensual supremacy
to sensual primacy, and the corresponding hegemony of materialism over idealism
and of realism over naturalism, societies in which sensible primacy had become
the mean would have demonstrated, in contrary terms, a competitive bias,
whether with regard to idealism over materialism or, down below in the
phenomenal realm, to naturalism over realism.
7. It is not inconceivable, but indeed all too
plausible, that the degeneration of sensibly-biased societies from supremacy to
primacy played a part in the Protestant Reformation and consequent entrenchment
of sensual supremacy.
8. Be that as it may, the contemporary
emphasis, in the Anglo-American West, on sensual primacy is indicative of a
society in which competition will be rather more objective than subjective,
with corresponding materialist and realist hegemonies.
9. Competitiveness thrives on negative values
like hatred, humility, pain, and woe, and these are precisely the most
characteristic values of societies in which primacy has eclipsed supremacy in
consequence of the ongoing entrenchment of inorganic factors at the organic's
expense.
10. Hence competition is something to regret from
an organic and therefore supreme standpoint which, due to its positive nature,
will prefer co-operation. No supreme taking,
much less supreme being, can be cultivated in societies which are in the grip
of primacy, whether in sensibility or, worse again from a male point-of-view,
in sensuality.
11. Even primal being, that characteristic of inorganic
godliness, will be subject to a subordinate position to primal doing in sensual
contexts, while primal taking will likewise be subordinate to primal giving in
those societies which are characterized by a sensual bias overall.
12. Hence the rule of metachemical primacy over
metaphysical primacy in the noumenal case of sensual competitiveness, and the
rule, or rather governance, of chemical primacy over physical primacy in the
phenomenal case of sensual competitiveness.
13. Which is equivalent to the rule of ugliness
and hatred over falsity and woe in the one case, and of weakness and humility
over ignorance and pain in the other case.
14. Societies in which sensible primacy had
eclipsed sensible supremacy would more signify the lead of ugliness and hatred
by falsity and woe in the noumenal case, and the lead or, rather,
representation of weakness and humility by ignorance and pain in the phenomenal
case.
15. Either way, we would not be able to speak of
the hegemony of positive values, neither objectively in sensuality, where
beauty and love would rule over truth and joy and, down below, strength and
pride have the upper hand over knowledge and pleasure, nor subjectively in
sensibility, where truth and joy would have the upper hand over beauty and love,
and knowledge and pleasure likewise have the upper hand over strength and
pride.
16. Societies which have 'gone to the dogs' of
primacy are ill-equipped to foster positive values, whether in relation to
doing, giving, taking, or to being. Only negative values thrive in them,
whether in relation to materialism, realism, naturalism, or to idealism. Everything fundamentalist, nonconformist,
humanist, and transcendentalist will be subject to ridicule from the standpoint
of a competitive edge.
CYCLE SIXTEEN
1. Materialism is the anti-unnatural mode of
primacy, which stands to the unnatural mode of supremacy, viz. fundamentalism,
as negative metachemistry to positive metachemistry.
2. Realism is the anti-supernatural mode of
primacy, which stands to the supernatural mode of supremacy, viz.
nonconformism, as negative chemistry to positive chemistry.
3. Naturalism is the antinatural mode of
primacy, which stands to the natural mode of supremacy, viz. humanism, as
negative physics to positive physics.
4. Idealism is the anti-subnatural mode of
primacy, which stands to the subnatural mode of supremacy, viz.
transcendentalism, as negative metaphysics to positive metaphysics.
5. One could speak of the materialism of the Antidevil
and/or Antihell as against the fundamentalism of the Devil and/or Hell, whether
in relation to primary or to secondary orders of the same.
6. One could speak of the realism of the
antiwoman and/or antipurgatory as against the nonconformism of woman and/or
purgatory, whether in relation to primary or to secondary orders of the same.
7. One could speak of the naturalism of the
antiman and/or anti-earth as against the humanism of man and/or the earth,
whether in relation to primary or to secondary orders of the same.
8. One could speak of the idealism of the
Antigod and/or Antiheaven as against the transcendentalism of God and/or
Heaven, whether in relation to primary or to secondary orders of the same.
9. Either way, primacy attaches to the inorganic
as a manifestation of Antinature, whereas supremacy attaches to the organic as
a manifestation of Nature, whether in terms of metachemical unnature, which is
fiery; of chemical supernature, which is watery; of physical nature, which is
vegetative; or of metaphysical subnature, which is airy.
10. All that is primal, whether cosmic or
geologic, noumenal or phenomenal, signifies in human life not merely a divided
self but that which is against the self, as though symptomatic
of iron in the soul. If the self is
positive in its organic supremacy, then what may be called the antiself is
negative in its inorganic primacy, and it is the eclipse of the self by the
antiself which causes negative values to prevail at the expense of their
positive counterparts
11. If the self is organic and the antiself
inorganic, then the antiself is not so much a part or aspect of the self as
something that runs contrary to it, like the cosmic to the universal or the
geologic to the personal. We do not have
divided selves in the sense of self being naturally both negative and
positive. On the contrary, the self is
structured in such a way as to be positive, whether in objective or in
subjective terms, depending by and large on gender.
12. When the self is eclipsed by antiself
negativity, it is as if the self were overcome by cosmic and/or geologic
influences which temporarily take possession of the self and render its
behaviour contrary to what it is normally, whether metachemically, chemically,
physically, or metaphysically.
13. One might say that the antiself is the self
acting under duress of inorganic factors which temporarily cripple its nature
and turn it upside down or inside out, shutting down positive tendencies as
negative ones take their place.
14. Thus whereas fundamentalism, nonconformism,
humanism, and transcendentalism are expressions of the self or of different
types of self being loyal to itself, materialism, realism, naturalism, and
idealism are the result of undue inorganic intrusions into the self which take
the place, no matter how temporarily, of what the self would normally be about
15. It is as though not the organic self as such,
but that same self under duress of inorganic pressures ceased being loyal to
itself and became quasi-inorganic in reflection of materialism, realism,
naturalism, or idealism, thereby behaving in a materialist, a realist, a
naturalist, or an idealist manner, to the detriment of fundamentalism,
nonconformism, humanism, and transcendentalism.
16. Thus a self that would normally, in the
course of natural organic events, have been loving or proud or pleasurable or
joyful becomes, all of a sudden, hateful or humble or pained or sad, and all
because it had been turned against itself by one or a number of inorganic
intrusions from without.
17. When such inorganic intrusions are so
frequent and powerful as to cause a lasting if not almost permanent eclipse of
organic selfhood by quasi-inorganic behaviour, whether because of a ubiquitous
negative environmental and/or technological influence, then whole societies
become deranged and subject to competitive urges as a matter of primal course.
18. The modern over-urbanized and industrialized
world is symptomatic of just such a primal derangement, making for wholesale
self-dissatisfactions as the self continues to be turned inorganically against
itself to the detriment of self-esteem and the peace, on any level, that such
esteem brings.
19. Instead of being loyal and/or of encouraged to
be loyal to self, whichever self, depending on the individual, that may happen
to be, people are constantly bombarded with a plethora of inorganic
distractions stemming from materialism or realism or naturalism or idealism,
and induced to seek satisfaction outside the self.
20. No such satisfaction is ultimately possible,
because the self that is at loggerheads with itself in consequence of the
ubiquitous influence of inorganic intrusions is bound to remain dissatisfied
with both itself and, correlatively, the society in which it has to live, since
that society, despite its brazen boasts to the contrary, cannot provide the
satisfaction that the self craves, but only perpetuates self-division in the
pursuit of its materialistic or realistic or naturalistic or idealistic
delusions.
21. A self that is permanently at war with
itself, trapped in a stressful predicament of self-division, cannot expect to
achieve, much less maintain, any degree of harmony and peace. On the contrary, it will continue to toss and
turn in a fitful pursuit of self-deceiving goals with which the negativity of
inorganic primacy has seduced it.
22. Only the rejection of such a society can lead
to inner harmony, either by the individual opting out of it or by whole
communities of people who happen to be favoured with less competitive societies
continuing to remain loyal to organic supremacy and its co-operative rewards.
CYCLE SEVENTEEN
1. Being in harmony with self in organic
supremacy, whether the self be objective and female or subjective and male,
requires that one be steeped in a lifestyle that respects the organic and is
not overly distracted from what is in the self's best interests by inorganic
primacy.
2. Whether the not-self be in the self's best
interests, as in the case of females, or the self be in the self's best
interests, as in the case of males, the important thing is to stay in touch
with the organic, so that positive supremacy is one's due reward.
3. Thus whether in terms of co-operation with
others or in terms of co-operation with oneself, whether in terms of supreme
doing and giving on the one hand or of supreme taking and being on the other,
organic supremacy is the only means of avoiding the competitive pitfalls
presented by inorganic primacy.
4. For competition is negative, and the
competitive individual or society does not have the self's best interests at
heart, neither in relation to oneself nor to others. On the contrary, the competitive individual
or society is ranged against self-esteem from the
standpoint, ever primal, of self-negation, so that selfhood is something to be
overcome.
5. Whence arises the competitive urge to
overcome selfhood and destroy inner harmony and peace, maintaining a situation
in which self-negation is ever prevalent and people are judged not according to
what they are, but according to what they are not.
6. This self-negation of inorganic primacy has
nothing to do with self-denial as a consequence of self-realization, as in the
case of those divine individuals who first of all understand who they are, in
relation to where they are metaphysically at, and then set about transcending
it in the interests of self-redemption.
7. On the contrary, self-negation rules out the
possibility of self-redemption, for it works against the self rather than
through it, and substitutes a false notion of success, based on competition,
for what is truly in the self's interests.
Instead of perpetuating fundamentalism or nonconformism or humanism or,
above all, transcendentalism, it perpetuates materialism or realism or
naturalism or idealism, to the detriment of self.
8. But the individual for whom self is neither
something to be denied in the interests of not-self nor something to be perpetuated
for its own sake but, rather, something to be transcended in the interests of
self-redemption is beyond even the utmost level of self-negation in what
amounts to the apex of self-realization.
He is more than a doing-oriented Fundamentalist, a giving-oriented
Nonconformist, or a taking-oriented Humanist.
He is a being-oriented Transcendentalist, and only in connection with
such an individual do we have the right to speak of first-rate supreme being.
9. For first-rate supreme being adheres to the
metaphysical Transcendentalist when he reaches an accommodation with his soul
via the will and spirit of his metaphysical not-selves and is able to transcend
his ego in the process. It is not
something characteristic of a 'Creator of the Universe' or anything so primal
and primitive. On the contrary, it is
purely characteristic of the subman, the godly individual, when he achieves a
heavenly redemption, in soul, of his self, and ceases for the moment to be God.
10. First-rate supreme being is the condition of
heaven that the self feels when it is of a metaphysical disposition and
accordingly joyful, whereas second-rate supreme being is the pleasurable being
of the redeemed physical self, third-rate supreme being the proud being of the
redeemed chemical self, and fourth-rate supreme being the loving being of the
redeemed metachemical self.
11. Were the chemical and metachemical selves
concerned primarily with self, they wouldn't have third- and fourth-rate orders
of being respectively, but something more akin to the second- and first-rate
orders of being that accrue to the physical and metaphysical selves
respectively of those people, usually male, for whom either ego or soul is
paramount.
12. When the not-self is paramount, however,
whether as will or spirit, then of course the order of self will be
correspondingly subordinate, as is usually the case for the ego and soul of
females, which, when not fourth-rate, are never more than third-rate.
13. But that which is most of the self, that self
which is most essential, the soul, will only be most soulful in the airy
context of metaphysics, and never more so than in sensibility, where one is
dealing with the metaphysics of the breath as against the metaphysics of the
airwaves, and is accordingly attuned to the lungs as opposed to the ears.
14. For this first-rate order of soul a certain
metaphysical disposition is required, without which one would be false to one's
'true' self, be that self metachemical, chemical, or physical, were one to
persist in pursuing a metaphysical course on the basis of transcendentalism.
15. Pursuing it on the basis of either humanism
or nonconformism, on the other hand, is certainly feasible for those
individuals who, whether for physical or chemical reasons, would be more suited
to the metaphysics of the ego or the spirit than of the soul, and who would, as
already outlined, constitute gender-divided alternatives to the top subsection
of what I have elsewhere described as the highest tier of the triadic Beyond,
as germane, so I teach, to 'Kingdom Come'.
16. Even though not identical with first-rate
supreme being in the metaphysical soul, such orders of supreme taking and
supreme giving would be conditioned by metaphysical criteria to a degree that
would distinguish them from properly physical and chemical orders of supreme
taking and supreme giving respectively, as germane, so I teach, to the per se
subsections of the lower tiers of the triadic Beyond.
17. For the metaphysical context is ever one that
panders to being, whether directly in transcendentalism or indirectly in
humanism and nonconformism, whereas the physical context will inevitably pander
to taking and the chemical context to giving, even when indirect approaches to
taking or giving, germane to subsectional 'bovaryizations', happen to apply, as
would be the case for the physical and chemical tiers of our projected triadic
Beyond.
18. Now being of a first-rate supreme order is
what follows from a metaphysical commitment, whether directly or, to slightly
lesser degrees, indirectly, in consequence of a subsectional 'bovaryization',
whereof both giving and taking are of a distinctly being-oriented order -
indeed are inseparable from a beingful approach, paradoxically, to giving and
taking.
CYCLE EIGHTEEN
1. Being 'true' to one's self in the sense of
knowing what kind of a self one has and adhering to it as much as possible,
whether in terms of metachemical objectivity, chemical objectivity, physical
subjectivity, or metaphysical subjectivity.
2. Thus knowing oneself not only in relation to
gender but also, and no less significantly, in relation to class, so that one
ceases to live either above or beneath oneself but lives in accordance with
one's nature, be that nature metachemically unnatural, chemically supernatural,
physically natural, or metaphysically subnatural.
3. That person who is 'untrue' to his/her self
will become false to others, who will be misled as to his true nature. But even devils have a right to existence and
to recognition as such, whether or not we share their disposition.
4. One can no more eliminate one or more of the
different types of self than eliminate one or more of the different types of
element. Life is a combination of all
elements in greater or lesser degrees, and one must find one's place in life as
the elements find theirs.
5. When once one has found one's rightful place
in life, no matter how often one may deviate from it in the course of diurnal
events, one will know oneself as a person of a given elemental disposition, be
that disposition metachemical and fiery, chemical and watery, physical and
vegetative, or metaphysical and airy.
6. One will know, in sum, whether one is a
devil, a woman, a man, or a god, and can live one's life accordingly. For many people think that they are simply
men or women without realizing that mankind are divisible between devils and
women on the one hand, and between men and gods on the other hand - devils and
gods being the noumenal counterparts to women and men.
7. I have maintained that, in sartorial terms,
the distinction between devils and women is of dresses and skirts, those
objective modes of attire, whereas the distinction between men and gods is of
trousers (or pants, jeans, etc.) and zippersuits, those subjective modes of
attire.
8. Hence an 'upper-class' distinction
(noumenal) between dresses and zippersuits, and a 'lower-class' distinction
(phenomenal) between skirts and trousers.
9. People who do not understand this are simply
guilty of ignorance, and ignorance is more often the fruit of inorganic primacy
than of organic supremacy, being rooted in the competitive negativity of
geologic naturalism.
10. It is more logical to hold ignorance against
a man than against a woman, because ignorance attaches to the physical as the
primal equivalent of knowledge.
11. Conversely, it is more logical to hold
weakness against a woman than against a man, because weakness attaches to the
chemical as the primal equivalent of strength.
12. From the standpoint of the noumenal options
however, it would be more logical to hold falsity against a god than against a
devil, because falsity attaches to the metaphysical as the primal equivalent of
truth.
13. Conversely, it would be more logical to hold ugliness
against a devil than against a god, because ugliness attaches to the
metachemical as the primal equivalent of beauty.
14. Few of us would logically esteem ignorance,
weakness, falsity, or ugliness, and yet most of us live in societies in which
precisely those primal values, those negative consequences of inorganic
primacy, are paramount, thanks to the ubiquitous spread of naturalism, realism,
idealism, and materialism.
15. Of course, ignorance may pass itself off as
knowledge, weakness as strength, falsity as truth, and ugliness as beauty, but
that would not pass muster in contexts, necessarily characterized by organic
supremacy, where genuine knowledge, strength, truth, and beauty were paramount,
and one knew, in consequence, that these attributes of the various elements
were of a co-operative rather than a competitive disposition.
16. Yet even now, in this seemingly 'godless',
meaning secular, age, genuine knowledge, strength, truth, and beauty are
possible and can be discovered to exist, both in individuals and the wider
community in general. We cannot help
being organic creatures even when we are under pressure of inorganic factors to
such an extent that we twist and turn in a fitful revolt against that which is
contrary to our nature and which causes us, in turning us against ourselves, so
much pain, humility, (if not humiliation), woe, and hatred.
17. Despite the manifestly competitive conditions
in which most people have to live these days, I remain quietly optimistic that
things can be reversed and that a better age is possible, that
'Kingdom Come' can come to pass, and that we should build on the sure
foundations of organic supremacy, which we carry within ourselves, a much less
competitive and more co-operative society, a society in which the individuals
who constitute it are in touch with their selves and know the peace that comes
from inner harmony.
18. Then and only then will godliness come back
into the picture, then and only then will the secular values of modernity,
rooted in inorganic primacy, be overthrown and 'the dead' accordingly be
'resurrected' to their respective organic capacities in what I have called the
triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come', meaning, initially, a Gaelic federation of
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, should a majority mandate for religious
sovereignty - the only guarantee, ultimately, of organic supremacy in its most
sensible modes - duly come to pass with the coming of 'Judgement', or the
People's decision whether or not to progress, democratically and officially,
from political sovereignty to religious sovereignty, thereby abandoning 'sins
and/or punishments of the world' for that which lies beyond it.
CYCLE NINETEEN
1. Fiery metachemistry, being apparent, is the
element of doing par excellence, wherein doing is alone - of the doing, giving,
taking, being options - in its per se manifestation.
2. Watery chemistry, being quantitative, is the
element of giving par excellence, wherein giving is alone - of the doing, giving,
taking, being options - in its per se manifestation.
3. Vegetative physics, being qualitative, is
the element of taking par excellence, wherein taking is alone - of
the doing, giving, taking, being options - in its per se manifestation.
4. Airy metaphysics, being essential, is the
element of being par excellence, wherein being is alone - of the doing, giving,
taking, being options - in its per se manifestation.
5. To contrast the apparent doing of
metachemistry with the quasi-quantitative doing of chemistry, the quasi-qualitative
doing of physics, and the quasi-essential doing of metaphysics.
6. To contrast the quantitative giving of
chemistry with the quasi-apparent giving of metachemistry, the quasi-essential
giving of metaphysics, and the quasi-qualitative giving of physics.
7. To contrast the qualitative taking of
physics with the quasi-essential taking of metaphysics, the quasi-apparent
taking of metachemistry, and the quasi-quantitative taking of chemistry.
8. To contrast the essential being of
metaphysics with the quasi-qualitative being of physics, the quasi-quantitative
being of chemistry, and the quasi-apparent being of metachemistry.
9. To contrast the apparent doing of
metachemistry with the essential being of metaphysics, as one would contrast
the most scientific with the most religious.
10. To contrast the quantitative giving of
chemistry with the qualitative taking of physics, as one would contrast the
most political with the most economic.
11. The fact that, in metachemistry, giving,
taking and being are quasi-apparent does not preclude them from being
pseudo-quantitative, pseudo-qualitative, and pseudo-essential, respectively, in
relation to the genuinely apparent standing of metachemical doing.
12. The fact that, in chemistry, doing, taking and
being are quasi-quantitative does not preclude them from being pseudo-apparent,
pseudo-qualitative, and pseudo-essential, respectively, in relation to the
genuinely quantitative standing of chemical giving.
13. The fact that, in physics, doing, giving and
being are quasi-qualitative does not preclude them from being pseudo-apparent,
pseudo-quantitative, and pseudo-essential, respectively, in relation to the
genuinely qualitative standing of physical taking.
14. The fact that, in metaphysics, doing, giving
and taking are quasi-essential does not preclude them from being
pseudo-apparent, pseudo-quantitative, and pseudo-qualitative, respectively, in
relation to the genuinely essential standing of metaphysical being.
15. Nothing can ever change the fact that fire is
the apparent element par excellence, water the quantitative element par
excellence, vegetation the qualitative element par excellence, and
air the essential element par excellence, with respective
correspondences to will, spirit, ego, and soul or, rather, in strictly
elemental terms, to power, glory, form, and contentment.
16. For will, spirit, ego, and soul tend to be
the organic manifestations of what, more basically, are power, glory, form, and
contentment.
17. From the metachemical power of will in its per se
manifestation to the metaphysical contentment of soul in its per se
manifestation via the chemical glory of spirit in its per se
manifestation and the physical form of ego in its per se manifestation.
18. From the metachemical power of first-rate
will to the metachemical contentment of fourth-rate soul via the metachemical
glory of second-rate spirit and the metachemical form of third-rate ego, all of
which are either apparent or quasi-apparent in relation to a doing per se.
19. From the chemical power of second-rate will
to the chemical contentment of third-rate soul via the chemical glory of
first-rate spirit and the chemical form of fourth-rate ego, all of which are
either quantitative or quasi-quantitative in relation to a giving per se.
20. From the physical power of third-rate will to
the physical contentment of second-rate soul via the physical glory of
fourth-rate spirit and the physical form of first-rate ego, all of which are
either qualitative or quasi-qualitative in relation to a taking per se.
21. From the metaphysical power of fourth-rate
will to the metaphysical contentment of first-rate soul via the metaphysical
glory of third-rate spirit and the metaphysical form of second-rate ego, all of
which are either essential or quasi-essential in relation to a being per se.
CYCLE TWENTY
1. Is there such a thing as a goddess? Yes, I guess you could say that the
metaphysical female is a goddess, because the metaphysical male is a god.
2. But she is not identical to the metaphysical
male, who is transcendentalist. On the
contrary, she is the nonconformist approach to metaphysics that follows from a
chemical bias, and would, in the event of 'Kingdom Come' actually coming to
pass, be eligible for metaphysics chemically, that is to say, through nasal
recourse to cocaine or some such powdered drug that is sniffed (snorted).
3. For females, being fundamentally
metachemical, cannot be expected to embrace metaphysics transcendentally, in
proper metaphysical terms, nor should one take seriously any female who does -
or appears to do so - but, rather, regard her as a liberal aberration and
subversive intrusion into a realm reserved for gods, i.e. male metaphysicians,
for whom respiratory sensibility would be properly metaphysical.
4. Thus the goddess does not meditate, at least
not in terms of transcendental meditation, but, rather, contemplates such
visionary experience as her chemical approach to metaphysics makes
possible. She stands on the lowest rung
of the top tier, so to speak, of the triadic Beyond, being metaphysically
inferior to both the cogitator and the meditator, those humanist and
transcendentalist approaches, on the male side of the gender divide, to
metaphysics.
5. Thus we can distinguish contemplative
goddesses from both cogitative gods and meditative gods, the latter of whom
would be the per se manifestation of divinity within the top tier of our
projected triadic Beyond.
6. Elsewhere, in the lower two tiers, there
would be neither gods nor goddesses but only men and women, whether physical or
chemical, in relation to volume and mass.
7. To save Catholic gods and goddesses up, from
time to space, within time-space subjectivity, as from ears to lungs, and
Anglican men and women up, from mass to volume, within mass-volume
subjectivity, as from penis (or the flesh) to brain, but to damn Puritan men
and women down, from volume to mass, within volume-mass objectivity, as from
tongue to womb, thereby achieving sensibility in mass, volume, and space for
all three tiers of the triadic Beyond.
8. Thus to save from sensuality or to damn to
sensibility those who, at present, are avowedly more sensual than sensible in
their overall religious stance as either Catholics (metaphysical) or Protestants
(both physical and chemical).
9. For Catholic degeneration into metaphysical
sensuality tends to parallel the Protestant adherence to both physical
sensuality (Anglicans) and chemical sensuality (Puritans).
10. Either way, there is scope for movement into
sensibility, whether up or down, such that the triadic Beyond of 'Kingdom Come'
would encourage, though only, of course, in response to a majority mandate for
religious sovereignty, come 'Judgement', or a paradoxical election which
embraced the possibility of religious sovereignty.
CYCLE TWENTY-ONE
1. That which is negative and primal is also,
by definition, malevolent, since it functions in relation to the inorganic on
the basis of competition.
2. That which is positive and supreme is also,
by definition, benevolent, since it functions in relation to the organic on the
basis of co-operation.
3. Competition is both extrinsically
(objective) and intrinsically (subjective) malevolent, since it works against
the self from the standpoint of the antiself, which is the self that has been
eclipsed by inorganic pressures to such an extent that it functions in relation
to primacy.
4. Co-operation is both extrinsically
(objective) and intrinsically (subjective) benevolent, since it works in
harmony with the self (whichever self that may happen to be) from the
standpoint of organic supremacy.
5. One can - and, I believe, should -
distinguish the malevolence of primal metachemistry from the benevolence of
supreme metachemistry, as one would distinguish ugliness and hatred from beauty
and love in both primary and secondary contexts.
6. One can - and, I believe, should -
distinguish the malevolence of primal chemistry from the benevolence of supreme
chemistry, as one would distinguish weakness and humility from strength and
pride in both primary and secondary contexts.
7. One can - and, I believe, should -
distinguish the malevolence of primal physics from the benevolence of supreme
physics, as one would distinguish ignorance and pain from knowledge and
pleasure in both primary and secondary contexts.
8. One can - and, I believe, should -
distinguish the malevolence of primal metaphysics from the benevolence of
supreme metaphysics, as one would distinguish falsity and woe from truth and
joy in both primary and secondary contexts.
9. Malevolence and benevolence are equally
applicable to both sensuality and sensibility in all the above elemental
contexts, since either can be 'once born' and outer or 'reborn' and inner.
10. Primacy is always malignant in its inorganic
negativity, whether with regard to metachemical materialism, chemical realism,
physical naturalism, or to metaphysical idealism.
11. Supremacy is always benign in its organic
positivity, whether with regard to metachemical fundamentalism, chemical
nonconformism, physical humanism, or to metaphysical transcendentalism.
12. The organic is benign to itself in relation
to the positivity of co-operative supremacy, whereas the inorganic is malignant
to the organic in relation to the negativity of its competitive primacy.
13. The inorganic is not malign to itself, for it
has no self to be malign towards, but tends, as iron in the soul, to undermine
the benignity of the organic.
14. That self which is benign towards itself
tends, by extrapolation, to be benevolent towards others, whether directly,
through extrinsic supremacy, or indirectly, through intrinsic supremacy.
15. That antiself, on the contrary, which is
malign towards the self tends, by extrapolation, to be malevolent towards
others, whether directly, through extrinsic primacy, or indirectly, through
intrinsic primacy.
CYCLE TWENTY-TWO
1. Most people would, in general terms, tend to
identify primacy with evil and supremacy with good, but that is really an over-simplification
of what is, in fact, a more comprehensive picture in which not simply evil and
good, but folly and wisdom are also to be found, and found, be it remembered,
as male complements, in subjectivity, to a female dichotomy between the aforementioned
objective terms.
2. In reality, primacy is no more evil than
supremacy is good. Primacy is simply
malevolent in both the objective contexts of negative metachemical evil and
chemical good, and the subjective contexts of negative physical folly and
metaphysical wisdom.
3. Likewise supremacy is no more good than
primacy is evil. Supremacy is simply
benevolent in both the positive objective contexts of metachemical evil and
chemical good, and the positive subjective contexts of physical folly and metaphysical
wisdom.
4. Thus there is negative evil (malevolent) and
positive evil (benevolent), negative good and positive good, negative folly and
positive folly, and negative wisdom and positive wisdom, with the negative options
ever attaching to primacy and the positive options to supremacy.
5. The principal differentiating factor between
primacy and supremacy is therefore not evil and good, still less folly and
wisdom, but negativity and positivity, either of which can be evil
(metachemical) or good (chemical), not to mention foolish (physical) or wise
(metaphysical) in relation to competitive malevolence or co-operative
benevolence, depending on the context.
6. Thus we arrive at the seemingly paradoxical
but in actuality logically incontrovertible conclusion that evil can be
malevolent or benevolent, apparent in an inorganic or an organic manifestation
according to how the will does, and the metachemical will most
especially.
7. Likewise we arrive at the conclusion that
good can be malevolent or benevolent, quantitative in an inorganic or an
organic manifestation according to how the spirit gives, and the
chemical spirit most especially.
8. Similarly we arrive at the conclusion that
folly can be malevolent or benevolent, qualitative in an inorganic or an
organic manifestation according to how the ego takes, and the physical
ego most especially.
9. Finally we arrive at the conclusion that
wisdom can be malevolent or benevolent, essential in an inorganic or an organic
manifestation according to how the soul is, and the metaphysical soul
most especially
10. It should not be forgotten, however, that the
doing of will is always evil, whether in the per se
context of metachemistry or in the pseudo-evil contexts of chemistry (quasi-good),
physics (quasi-foolish), or metaphysics (quasi-wise).
11. Nor should it be forgotten that the giving
of spirit is always good, whether in the per se context of
chemistry or in the pseudo-good contexts of metachemistry (quasi-evil),
metaphysics (quasi-wise), or physics (quasi-foolish).
12. Similarly the taking of ego is always
foolish, whether in the per se context of physics or in the
pseudo-foolish contexts of metaphysics (quasi-wise), metachemistry
(quasi-evil), or chemistry (quasi-good).
13. Likewise the being of soul is always
wise, whether in the per se context of metaphysics or in the pseudo-wise contexts of
physics (quasi-foolish), chemistry (quasi-good), or metachemistry (quasi-evil).
14. Thus whereas the doing of evil is
always apparent (genuine) or pseudo-apparent (non-metachemical 'bovaryizations'
of will), the giving of good is always quantitative (genuine) or
pseudo-quantitative (non-chemical 'bovarizations' of spirit).
15. Thus whereas the taking of folly is
always qualitative (genuine) or pseudo-qualitative (non-physical
'bovaryizations' of ego), the being of wisdom is always essential
(genuine) or pseudo-essential (non-metaphysical 'bovaryizations' of soul).
CYCLE TWENTY-THREE
1. Just as the metachemical person, a devil, is
primarily a doer and the chemical person, a woman, primarily a giver, so the
physical person, a man, is primarily a taker and the metaphysical person, a
god, primarily a be-er.
2. The apparent nature (unnature) of doing
contrasts with the essential nature (subnature) of being, no less than the
quantitative nature (supernature) of giving contrasts with the qualitative
nature (nature per se) of taking.
3. What applies to Nature in general is also
applicable to its Antinatural antagonist, wherein doing is less fundamentalist
than materialist, giving is less nonconformist than realist, taking less
humanist than naturalist, and being less transcendentalist than idealist.
4. Materialism could also be described as anti-fundamentalism,
realism as anti-nonconformism, naturalism as anti-humanism, and idealism as
anti-transcendentalism, since the Antinatural is everywhere contrary to the
Natural in its inorganic, and therefore primal, constitution.
5. People will think it odd that I have
described naturalism and idealism as antinatural, but, in actuality, the
Naturalist and the Idealist are as much antinatural, in the inorganic sense
implied, as the Materialist and the Realist, since they subscribe to conditions
which owe more to primacy than to supremacy, whether in the noumenal contexts
of cosmic malevolence (materialist and idealist) or in the phenomenal contexts
of geologic malevolence (realist and naturalist).
6. In this respect naturalism is not to be
confounded or equated with Nature, meaning the generality of organic options,
but applies solely to a physical manifestation of the Antinatural which has an
inorganic as opposed to an organic correlation.
7. Nature in general terms is of course
organic, but it is organic on the basis of fundamentalism, nonconformism,
humanism, and transcendentalism, with humanism being its physical manifestation
and therefore that which organically parallels naturalism.
8. Life struggles away from naturalism in
plant, animal, and especially human terms, but naturalism itself remains rooted
in the core of the earth, which is inorganic in its geologic formations.
9. Like idealism, its fellow subjective mode of
primacy, naturalism is more competitive, and hence malevolent, than co-operative,
if on a phenomenal rather than a noumenal basis.
10. If idealism equates with antibeing and
naturalism with antitaking, then materialism equates with antidoing and realism
with antigiving, the negative modes of being, taking, doing, and giving.
11. Whereas materialism is rooted in the antiwill
and realism in the antispirit, naturalism is rooted or, rather, centred in the
anti-ego and idealism in the antisoul.
12. Hence the negative modes of metachemistry,
chemistry, physics, and metaphysics, to which we have given the names of
materialism, realism, naturalism, and idealism.
13. Primacy, based in the inorganic, makes
malevolent competitors out of people who were organically intended to be benevolently
co-operative, turning the self against itself, and thus against other selves,
in what has been described as the antiself.
14. Not simply a doing devil of beauty and love,
a giving woman of strength and pride, a taking man of knowledge and pleasure,
or a being god of truth and joy, but an antidoing antidevil of ugliness and
hatred, an antigiving antiwoman of weakness and humility, an antitaking antiman
of ignorance and pain, or an antibeing antigod of falsity and woe.
15. Which is to say, not simply a Fundamentalist,
a Nonconformist, a Humanist, or a Transcendentalist, but a Materialist, a
Realist, a Naturalist, or an Idealist, all the latter of whom take their cue
from inorganic primacy and live the death-life, the life-killing death of competitive
malevolence.
16. Truly, if 'the dead' are to be resurrected,
much will have to be done to overcome primacy and institute a new and superior
order of supremacy ... as germane to 'Kingdom Come', that people may live to
the maximum of their respective organic capacities. Then and only then will co-operative
benevolence become the rule!
CYCLE TWENTY-FOUR
1. The competitive 'nature' of Antinature is
such that competition obtains on every basis, from the noumenal objectivity of
metachemical anti-unnature to the noumenal subjectivity of metaphysical
anti-subnature via the phenomenal objectivity of chemical anti-supernature and
the phenomenal subjectivity of physical antinature.
2. Thus competition is the inorganic norm, or
organic abnormality, from the space-time devolution of materialism to the
time-space evolution of idealism via the volume-mass devolution of realism and
the mass-volume evolution of naturalism.
3. Contrariwise, the co-operative 'nature' of
Nature is such that co-operation obtains on every basis, from the noumenal
objectivity of metachemical unnature to the noumenal subjectivity of
metaphysical subnature via the phenomenal objectivity of chemical supernature
and the phenomenal subjectivity of physical nature.
4. Thus co-operation is the organic norm from
the space-time devolution of fundamentalism to the time-space evolution of
transcendentalism via the volume-mass devolution of nonconformism and the
mass-volume evolution of humanism.
5. No more than we can categorically maintain
that primacy is evil and supremacy good, can it be maintained that competition
is evil and co-operation good. Good and
evil are not applicable except in relation to the metachemical and chemical
modes of competition and co-operation, where we can distinguish competitive
evil and good from co-operative evil and good, and further distinguish each of
these objective orders of competition and co-operation from their subjective
counterparts, which have less to do with evil and good than with folly and
wisdom, whether negatively, as in the case of primacy, or positively, as in the
case of supremacy.
6. Hence even where organic supremacy is
concerned, we need to distinguish co-operative evil from good, and each of
these from the co-operative modes of folly and wisdom.
7. Thus one will avoid the error of assuming
that because competition is malevolent and co-operation benevolent, all
competition is evil and all co-operation good.
There is evil malevolence (anti-unnatural) and good malevolence (anti-supernatural),
evil benevolence (unnatural) and good benevolence (supernatural).
8. There is also, on the other (subjective and
male) side of the gender fence, foolish malevolence (antinatural) and wise
malevolence (anti-subnatural), foolish benevolence (natural) and wise
benevolence (subnatural).
9. Of course, it is better to be good than evil
in both malevolent and benevolent, primal and supreme contexts, just as it is
better to be wise than foolish in both malevolent and benevolent contexts, since
whereas in the former case goodness is a rejection of evil, in the latter case
wisdom is a rejection or, more correctly, a transcendence of folly.
10. Yet it is still better to be benevolent than
malevolent, and thus organically co-operative rather than inorganically
competitive, whether or not one is co-operative on evil, good, foolish, or wise
terms.
11. Certainly it is better to be chemically
co-operative than metachemically co-operative, organically good than
organically evil, just as it is better to be metaphysically co-operative than
physically co-operative, organically wise than organically foolish.
12. But these distinctions are still subject to
innate factors of class and gender to such an extent that there will always be
people whose principal lifestyle is evil rather than good or foolish rather
than wise, whether in relation to competition or to co-operation.
13. Drawing logical distinctions in philosophy is
not the same as expecting people to rigorously adhere to them. I know what is logically best in a given
situation, but I would not make the mistake of advising everyone to adopt such
a position. On the contrary, good and
folly will always be for the mass/volume Many, evil and wisdom for the time/space
Few - albeit, in each case, for antithetical types of Many and Few.
14. But even with such distinctions, it is still
the case that primacy will exist at the expense of supremacy in those
individuals or societies which have 'gone to the dogs' of materialism (negative
evil), realism (negative good), naturalism (negative folly), and idealism
(negative wisdom), thereby indulging in competitive malevolence within a
broadly Antinatural (inorganic) framework.
CYCLE TWENTY-FIVE
1. To contrast the individualism of the Few
with the collectivism of the Many, as one would contrast the noumenal with the
phenomenal, the abstract, or non-representational, with the concrete, or
representational, whether in terms of metachemistry vis-à-vis chemistry or of
metaphysics vis-à-vis physics.
2. The individualism of the metachemical Few is
always apparent, since based in an elemental-particle equation, with especial
reference to photons in sensuality and to photinos in sensibility.
3. The collectivism of the chemical Many is
always quantitative, since based in a molecular-particle equation, with
especial reference to electrons in sensuality and to electrinos in sensibility.
4. The collectivism of the physical Many is
always qualitative, since centred in a molecular-wavicle equation, with especial
reference to neutrons in sensuality and to neutrinos in sensibility.
5. The individualism of the metaphysical Few is
always essential, since centred in an elemental-wavicle equation, with especial
reference to protons in sensuality and to protinos in sensibility.
6. Thus individualism can be evil or wise,
metachemical or metaphysical, of a scientific persuasion in the noumenal
objectivity of space-time devolution or of a religious persuasion in the
noumenal subjectivity of time-space evolution.
7. Thus collectivism can be good or foolish,
chemical or physical, of a political persuasion in the phenomenal objectivity
of volume-mass devolution or of an economic persuasion in the phenomenal
subjectivity of mass-volume evolution.
8. Both the objective modes of individualism
(metachemical) and collectivism (chemical) are female, having reference to the
primary side of life, whereas both the subjective modes of individualism
(metaphysical) and collectivism (physical) are male, having reference to the secondary
side of life.
9. Hence female-biased societies will be
characterised by either evil individualism or good collectivism, if not a
combination, to varying extents, of both.
10. Hence male-biased societies will be
characterised by either wise individualism or foolish collectivism, if not a
combination, to varying extents, of both.
11. This applies as much to primal contexts as to
supreme ones, since both individualism and collectivism can be inorganic or
organic, and thus either competitively malevolent or co-operatively benevolent.
12. In a society led by wisdom rather than ruled
by evil, the individualism of gods will take precedence over the collectivism
of both men and women, who will be less vulnerable to the individualism of
devils than would otherwise be the case
13. A society led by religion rather than ruled
by science would be one in which godly truth had superseded manly knowledge and
delivered both men and women (given to strength) from the domination of beauty
- thereby extending essence at the expense of appearance.
14. The primal or inorganic equivalent of such a
supreme society would be one in which antigodly falsity had superseded
antimanly ignorance and delivered both antimen and antiwomen (given to
weakness) from the domination of ugliness - thereby extending anti-essence at
the expense of anti-appearance.
15. I do not advocate such a society but one, on
the contrary, in which organic factors are hegemonic, and truth can accordingly
lead knowledge and strength away from the truth-excluding or, at any rate,
belittling rule of beauty, whereof scientific appearances are sovereign.
16. Obviously the kind of organic society that I
advocate in relation to 'Kingdom Come' can only come to pass in those countries
within the British Isles which are not so far gone in primacy as to be
incapable of taking supremacy seriously.
I allude, in particular, to Ireland and, by cultural extrapolation, to
other such predominantly Gaelic countries as Scotland and Wales.
17. It was with these countries in mind that I
first conceived the notion of a Gaelic Federation presided over by a
'God-King', a Second-Coming equivalence and Messianic Redeemer who would
deliver such peoples from worldly sin and/or punishment, were they to vote on a
majority basis for religious sovereignty and the rights that would accrue to
such an ultimate sovereignty in relation to the triadic Beyond.
18. It is for the peoples of these countries to
judge for themselves whether or not they would be better off, culturally and
morally speaking, in 'Kingdom Come' than in the worldly societies in which,
whether as parliamentarians or republicans, Protestants or Catholics, unionists
or nationalists, they currently exist, to the detriment, more often than not, of
their souls.
19. I also happen to believe that a united
Ireland could come to pass within the framework of a Gaelic Federation, since
there would be a new basis for compromise between unionists and nationalists
which ensured that both sides got what they deserved, providing they were
prepared to break with tradition, both political and, above all, religious.
20. I bring the judgement, but it is for others
to judge me and determine whether or not they wish to be delivered from
sensuality to sensibility within the triadic structures of 'Kingdom Come', and
achieve salvation or damnation according to their gender-oriented deserts.
APPENDIX
1. Few things are more paradoxical but
nonetheless incontrovertible than the co-existence, within any given individual
or type of society, of a predominant sensuality with a subordinate sensibility
or, conversely, of a predominant sensibility with a subordinate sensuality.
2. Let me attempt to clarify. There are, be it remembered, four planes,
viz. the plane of mass, volume, time, and space, with the planes of mass and
volume standing in an inferior position to those of time and space, pretty much
as phenomenal to noumenal, lower class to upper class.
3. Movement between planes tends to be
diagonally up or down, depending on the gender, from phenomenal to phenomenal,
as from mass to volume or volume to mass, or from noumenal to noumenal, as from
time to space or space to time.
4. Let us therefore distinguish the upper-class
diagonal descent from space to time from the upper-class diagonal ascent from
time to space, as one would distinguish the noumenal objectivity of
metachemical absolutism, corresponding to fiery abstractionism, from the
noumenal subjectivity of metaphysical absolutism, corresponding to airy
abstractionism, and further distinguish the lower-class diagonal descent from
volume to mass from the lower-class diagonal ascent from mass to volume, as one
would distinguish the phenomenal objectivity of chemical relativity,
corresponding to watery concretism, from the phenomenal subjectivity of
physical relativity, corresponding to vegetative concretism.
5. Thus a distinction, in gender terms, between
the noumenal descent of metachemical absolutism from spatial space to
repetitive time, as in organic terms from eyes to heart, and the noumenal
ascent of metaphysical absolutism from sequential time to spaced space, as from
ears to lungs, with a further distinction 'down below' between the phenomenal
descent of chemical relativity from volumetric volume to massed mass, as in
organic terms from tongue to womb, and the phenomenal ascent of physical
relativity from massive mass to voluminous volume, as from penis (focus of the
flesh) to brain.
6. None of this is new to my philosophy, so the
reader (if there is one) should have no difficulty in recognising well-trodden
paths of logical direction, being mindful of the fact that fire and water,
corresponding to the metachemical and the chemical, are 'female' elements in
their diagonal descent from sensuality to sensibility, whereas vegetation
(earth, more conventionally) and air, corresponding to the physical and the
metaphysical, are 'male' elements in their diagonal ascent from sensuality to
sensibility.
7. What is new is this: that a predominant
phenomenal sensuality tends to co-exist in people with a subordinate noumenal
sensibility, and vice versa, while a predominant phenomenal sensibility tends
to co-exist with a subordinate noumenal sensuality, and vice versa.
8. In other words, there is a kind of 'shadow' to
the prevailing sensuality or sensibility, whether phenomenal or noumenal, which
is the paradoxical corollary of that sensuality's or sensibility's prominent
status, and this 'shadow' is always sensual when the predominant factor is
sensible and, conversely, sensible when the predominant factor is sensual.
9. Thus a predominant sensuality in volumetric
volume, which is chemical, will co-exist with a subordinate sensibility in
repetitive time, which is metachemical, as in the case of those lower-class people
- typically blessed women - whose principal not-self, the tongue, tends to
encourage an upper-class 'shadow' in the guise of the heart, while, conversely,
a predominant sensibility in repetitive time will co-exist with a subordinate
sensuality in volumetric volume, as in the case of those upper-class people -
typically damned devils - whose principal not-self, the heart, tends to
encourage a lower-class 'shadow' in the guise of the tongue.
10. Thus a predominant sensibility in voluminous
volume, which is physical, will co-exist with a subordinate sensuality in
sequential time, which is metaphysical, as in the case of those lower-class
people - typically saved men - whose principal not-self, the brain, tends to
encourage an upper-class 'shadow' in the guise of the ears, while, conversely,
a predominant sensuality in sequential time will co-exist with a subordinate
sensibility in voluminous volume, as in the case of those upper-class people -
typically cursed gods - whose principal not-self, the ears, tends to encourage
a lower-class 'shadow' in the guise of the brain.
11. Having dealt with the two intermediate
planes, the planes of volume and time, let us now turn to the top and bottom
planes - the planes, namely, of mass and space - and see how this paradox of
'shadow' noumenal to predominant phenomenal or, conversely, of 'shadow'
phenomenal to predominant noumenal works out there.
12. Clearly a predominant sensuality in massive
mass, which is physical, will co-exist with a subordinate sensibility in spaced
space, which is metaphysical, as in the case of those lower-class people -
typically cursed men - whose principal not-self, the penis, tends to encourage
an upper-class 'shadow' in the guise of the lungs, while, conversely, a
predominant sensibility in spaced space will co-exist with a subordinate
sensuality in massive mass, as in the case of those upper-class people -
typically saved gods - whose principal not-self, the lungs, tends to encourage
a lower-class 'shadow' in the guise of the penis.
13. Likewise a predominant sensibility in massed
mass, which is chemical, will co-exist with a subordinate sensuality in spatial
space, which is metachemical, as in the case of those lower-class people -
typically damned women - whose principal not-self, the womb, tends to encourage
an upper-class 'shadow' in the guise of the eyes, while, conversely, a
predominant sensuality in spatial space will co-exist with a subordinate
sensibility in massed mass, as in the case of those upper-class people -
typically blessed devils - whose principal not-self, the eyes, tends to
encourage a lower-class 'shadow' in the guise of the womb.
14. Thus just as the lower-class person, given to
a phenomenal mean, tends to have his/her upper-class 'shadow', sensible if
sensual or sensual if sensible, within the parameters of his/her gender bias,
so the upper-class person, given to a noumenal mean, tends to have his/her
lower-class 'shadow', sensual if sensible or sensible if sensual, within those
same gender-oriented parameters.
15. The sensual woman gets to be a sensible devil
and the sensible devil a sensual woman on a subordinate basis, while the
sensual man gets to be a sensible god and the sensible god a sensual man on a
subordinate basis.
16. Conversely, the sensible woman gets to be a
sensual devil and the sensual devil a sensible woman on a subordinate basis,
while the sensible man gets to be a sensual god and the sensual god a sensible
man on a subordinate basis.
17. Such are the sensual/sensible paradoxes of
life, whether in the individual or in particular types of society, and it just
goes to prove that one is never wholly one thing or another, neither in
phenomenal and lower-class terms, nor in noumenal and upper-class terms, but a
paradoxical alternation between mean and 'shadow'.
18. Were all men equal there would not be a
distinction, often socially institutionalized, between sensuality and
sensibility, as between, say, phallic Heathens and cerebral Christians
(Catholics), and what applies to men in the vegetative context of mass-volume
physics applies no less to women in the watery context of volume-mass
chemistry, where the distinction between sensuality and sensibility is rather
more of the tongue and the womb than of the penis and the brain.
19. Were all gods equal there would not be a
distinction, often socially institutionalized, between sensuality and
sensibility, as between, say, aural Judaists and respiratory Buddhists, and
what applies to gods in the airy context of time-space metaphysics applies no
less to devils in the fiery context of space-time metachemistry, where the
distinction between sensuality and sensibility is rather more of the eyes and
the heart than of the ears and the lungs.
20. None of this precludes the possibility, for
males, of salvation from sensuality to sensibility or, in the case of females,
of damnation from sensuality to sensibility on either a phenomenal or a
noumenal basis, depending on their class, though it is still incontrovertibly
the case that 'shadows' will persist in existing on a sensual basis where
sensibility is the mean and that, notwithstanding this, there are still people
and even, in some sense, peoples for whom sensuality must be accounted the
predominant mean and sensibility the subordinate 'shadow'.
LONDON 2000 (Revised 2012)
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