ILLUSION
AND TRUTH
There
are two ways of looking at
The
origins of the Universe according to
The Big
Bang theory: either as
An
extrapolation from Judaic monotheism or as
An
extrapolation from the superconscious in deference
To
contemporary transcendental requirement,
So that
its origins are conceived
As being
of nobler provenance
Than
perhaps they actually were.
In the
first instance, we have
A Judaic
abstraction; in the second ...
An
example of pseudo-scientific subjectivity.
A Big
Bang, just imagine it!
A divine
oneness to begin with!
But we
ought to know by now
That
evil is never solitary,
Always
acts in competition with others,
Against
others, whether on the stellar level
Of
absolute evil, or on the organic level
Of
relative evil - an evil, in other words,
Between
disparate life forms,
Or
between two or more racial variations on
The same
life form, as in the case of man.
Absolute
evil reacts in the guise of stars,
Which
diverge from one another.
Why
should they have begun in unity
And duly
become many?
If the
emergence in the void
Of
inflammable gases was possible,
Why
should it only have been so
In one
part of the void?
What was
there to prevent simultaneous or successive
Emergences
of star embryos?
And if
they subsequently grew into flaming stars,
What was
there to prevent the birth of smaller stars
From the
reactive frictions and clashes of
The
larger primal ones - some of which
Would
eventually cool and harden into planets,
To bring
about the rudiments of
A
galactic order, and so halt
The
everywhichway divergence of anarchic stars?
We know
that polytheism preceded monotheism,
Since
the Jews were once pagan.
They
thought-up the idea of
A
monotheistic Creator, from which
All the
other stars 'fell',
In a
'fallen-angel' revolt against
The
'heavenly unity' of the primary star.
No
doubt, most small stars
Did emerge from a larger
source,
But not
necessarily from only one larger source!
And
today, when the Big Bang theory
Is so
fashionable, we are induced to believe,
Compliments
of pseudo-scientific subjectivity,
That the
galactic universe is expanding (!)
Away
from a central void
Which is
assumed to be its place of origin,
Much as
though an explosion
Once
took place there
And the
consequence, many millennia later,
Is an
expanding universe of fully-formed galaxies,
Replete,
we may suppose, with
Advanced
life on certain planets!
Ah, how
very neat from a mystical viewpoint,
But
(quite apart from the fact that galaxies
Are
never born fully-formed), somewhat baffling
From a
rational or factual one!
For what
is there about a central void
That
should induce galaxies to tend away from it?
And why
should such a divergence
Be
regarded as an expansion?
And how
do millions of galaxies
All
diverge in the same way from a central source?
Ah, we
should not be so churlish!
They no
longer react against one another,
As stars
used to do in the bad old days
Of
Newtonian objectivity; on the contrary,
They
expand mystically outward
Towards
some as-yet-unglimpsed horizon
Which -
though space is supposed to be curved -
They
will never reach,
Since
that would halt their expansion,
And an
expanding universe
Cannot
suddenly cease to expand.
Our sun,
too, is apparently expanding outwards,
And must
continue to expand until ... bah!
You know
my views by now, and I won't conceive of
The
diabolic universe in divine terms,
Lest I
end-up regarding
The
divine one diabolically,
Or
altogether overlook
The
existence and possibility of a divine universe!
Regarding
the diabolic as though
it
were divine
Is a
poor substitute for a truly divine orientation,
And
indicates an inability or unwillingness
To
abandon evil for the realm of grace.
Those of
us capable of a higher allegiance
Should
never confound
That
which contracts and diverges
With
that which expands and converges.
We shall
reserve the former tendencies
For
the flaming stars
And the
latter ones for pure spirit.
And we
shall know that it is the destiny of
The
expanding/converging universe to tend towards
The
divine unity of Point Omega.
